Move over, Alec Baldwin. Saturday Night Live has a new must-see impression, and it comes courtesy of—who else—Kate McKinnon. On Saturday’s episode, the actress revived her brilliant take on Attorney General Jeff Sessions for a third time. Once again, she stole the show.
This time, she appeared as Sessions during Weekend Update alongside senator and SNL alum Al Franken (played by Alex Moffat), who became irrevocably linked to Sessions after it was revealed that the attorney general had lied under oath to Franken about his connections to Russia.
McKinnon played the Alabama Senator as a Southern gadfly who’s had a few extra bourbons and is feeling pretty good about it. That might explain why he thanked Franken for teaching him about “Jew stuff,” and why he used a mannequin hand when it came to swearing under oath. “You did not specify my biological hand” he tells Franken.
When Franken asked Sessions why he lied about meeting with Russian officials, his answer was quite simple. “I was all distracted,” Sessions answered. “I was trying to evade these dastardly accusations of being a racist, which I’m not. Where I live, racism is simply part of the landscape.”
And where does Sessions live?
“The 1950s.”
Watch the clip above.
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