SNL Mocks Biden’s Classified Documents Scandal by Joking Not Harris With Secret Documents
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SNL mocks the scandal of classified Biden documents by joking that Vice President Kamala Harris has avoided the investigation because the president doesn’t TRUST her enough to give him secret documents
- ‘[He] I won’t even give this woman a pen. Do you think she has classified documents?
- The sketch brought up the recent controversy over classified documents.
- He ended with a bizarre attempt to get serious and comment on Tire Nichols.
Saturday Night Live featured a parody of the Joe Biden classified documents scandal to open this weekend’s show, with missed shots at Vice President Kamala Harris and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The sketch began with a Hollywood trailer-style introduction for the Attorney General. Merrick Garland, played by Mikey Day, explains the status of the investigation after classified documents were found at the home of former Vice President Mike Pence.
He then went with prop Kenan Thompson as an FBI agent who jokes about the investigation, followed by his character introducing a ‘special agent’ who was asked to discuss whether anything was found at the residence of current Vice President Harris.
Ego Nwodim’s agent character said deadpan: ‘Come on. Joe Biden won’t even give this woman a pen. Do you think she has classified documents? Please.’
Ego Nwodim’s agent character said deadpan: ‘Come on. Joe Biden won’t even give this woman a pen. Do you think she has classified documents? Please.’
Saturday Night Live featured a parody of the Joe Biden classified documents scandal to open this weekend’s show, with missed shots at Vice President Kamala Harris and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Day’s Garland said again, ‘Well, we had to at least check it out.’
He then introduced an agent played by Bowen Yang to discuss what, if anything, was found at the home of former President Barack Obama.
Yang’s character broke down: ‘I don’t mean to brag, but I was at Barack Obama’s house. Yes. It’s not a big deal. But it was very Funny. Mr. Obama opened the door and said, ‘Are you selling Girl Scout cookies?’ Which made us all laugh, like completely dead.
He then joked that Obama’s house did not contain classified documents but “175 letters from Lin Manuel begging the president to play Hamilton.”
Earlier in the sketch, the Garland impersonator lamented the fact that so many political figures had classified documents and wondered the point of it all.
“Some have said that the federal government classifies too many documents,” he said. ‘About 50 million a year. This has led people to ask, ‘does it matter to get these documents back?’ To which I say I don’t know.
The skit ended with a bizarre attempt to get serious and comment on the video of the Tire Nichols murder, with Thompson’s agent asking Garland if they planned to “make sure justice is done there, too.”
The sketch began with mainstay Kenan Thompson as an FBI agent explaining the status of the investigation after classified documents were found at the home of former Vice President Mike Pence.
A ‘special agent’ was then introduced by Merrick Garland, played by Mikey Day, who was asked to discuss whether anything was found at the residence of current Vice President Harris.
The sketch was a take on the recent controversy over the discovery of classified documents in the homes of several key Washington politicians.
The sketch began with a Hollywood trailer-style introduction for Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The sketch ended with a bizarre attempt to get serious and comment on the video of the Tire Nichols murder, with Thompson’s agent asking Garland if they planned to “make sure justice is done there, too.”
Day’s Garland responded “I sincerely hope so” before they broke with the show’s catchphrase of “Live from New York, it’s Saturday night.”
It comes after former Vice President Mike Pence took charge of the document mess that has suddenly dumped him in the company of former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden following the discovery of classified documents at their Indiana home.
With two special attorneys investigating Trump and Biden, Pence said Friday he was unaware there were classified documents at his Indiana home and took “full responsibility” for the security breach.
“Let me be clear: Those classified documents should not have been in my personal residence,” Pence said. “Mistakes were made and I take full responsibility,” he added.
Pence, speaking at Florida International University in Miami, said a review of his personal records was conducted after classified documents were found at President Joe Biden’s home in Delaware. The public relations move comes as top Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee demanded that the director of national intelligence provide information about the contents of documents found at the homes of Trump and Biden.