The Church Lady returns to SNL to judge Donald Trump and Ted Cruz
If you tuned in to last night’s Saturday Night Live and felt a little confused, then sad, then grateful, you probably weren’t alone. Seeing the “Church Chat” logo might’ve made you assume that the scheduled Brie Larson-hosted episode had been preempted for a repeat. Or that you’d had a stroke. Or that you’d been transported back to 1987 in some sort of wacky, body-switch time-travel plot. Hearing the late Phil Hartman’s voice introducing Dana Carvey’s endlessly judgmental Church Lady—that’d bum anyone out. But, when Carvey—still filling out that matronly purple ensemble and iron gray wig with prim superiority—started making peerlessly passive-aggressive jabs at the recent Met Ball and the ripe-for-judging 2016 presidential election, all of that was swept away in a welcome wave of recognition.