SNL takes us inside the GOP Kavanaugh locker room beer bash
While Matt Damon’s hysterically entitled Brett Kavanaugh was nowhere to be seen, last night Saturday Night Live cold open saw the show’s cast impersonating the Republican senators who rammed through their favorite, accused rapist frat bro justice living it up, Kavanaugh-style. For Heidi Gardner’s CNN reporter Dana Bash, that meant enduring the beery breath of Kyle Mooney’s fist pumping John Kennedy (R-LA) cheering on a now-confirmed Supreme Court justice who lied repeatedly under oath by chanting, “Let’s ralph ’til we boof!” And Beck Bennett’s nigh-unrecognizable Mitch McConnell (R-KY), extolling the wisdom of the GOP pushing through a hyper-partisan conspiracy theorist as the will of everyone from “white men over 60 to white men over 70.” Then there was Kate McKinnon’s gleeful Lindsey Graham (R-SC), drawling in defense of a man credibly accused of multiple sexual assaults and who now stands poised to undermine women’s reproductive rights, “We made a lot of women real worried today, but I’m not getting pregnant, so I don’t care!”