James Austin Johnson's Trump invades SNL UK
Saturday Night Live's hiatus allows JAJ's erratically insane head of state to wander into a new SNL studio.
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Akin to a restless, malign spirit deprived of his weekly fix of horrified/amused viewers, SNL‘s current two-week break saw James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump wander all the way across the Atlantic Ocean (as it’s called for now) to seek out new Saturday Night Lives to haunt. In Saturday’s SNL UK cold open, George Fouracres’ Northern-chipper British PM Andy Burnham assures Freddie Meredith’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy that English aid is coming, but that “They are being delivered by Evri, so if you’re not home, they’ll leave them with the country next door.” (From context, British private package delivery is substandard as well.)
But the Ukrainian President’ s complaint about the U.S. cutting off his beleaguered country’s access to Elon Musk’s Starlink internet makes the mistake of speaking the name of one Donald Trump, who appears, to surprised applause, in the form of original flavor Saturday Night Live‘s own James Austin Johnson. Claiming he got the “say my name and I appear” trick from his “good friend” Beetlejuice, JAJ’s Trump clocked the ghastly duo’s other similarity, “sex pest—allegedly. They can’t prove he did that stuff.”
The melding of fake heads of state saw Trump, typically, steamrolling the ensuing interaction, with Johnson’s pitch-perfect Trump revealing he’s come to see “his favorite comedian, currently performing at the High Court in the role of defendant.” He brushes off Zelenskyy by promising he and his other good pal Putin have been talking about him (“Not in a nice way”), and then pitches a job swap between himself and the flummoxed Burnham.
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