“Saturday Night Live” combined the biggest news stories in politics and pop culture from the last week with its Mar. 10 cold open that saw Robert Mueller (Kate McKinnon) as “The Bachelor.”
In a sketch that parodied the real-life events of Arie Luyendyk Jr.’s recent proposal on the ABC reality show, McKinnon as Mueller sat down with contestant Becca K. (Cecily Strong) to tell her he couldn’t give her everything she wanted right now.
“So what, you don’t have Trump on collusion?” she replied.
McKinnon’s Mueller said that he, instead, had to explore some other options for which he felt he had a stronger case. Strong’s Becca grilled him on the Seychelles meeting, Stormy Daniels and the Russians.
“The more time that goes by, the more I keep thinking about obstruction,” McKinnon’s Mueller said.
“This is f–ing embarrassing,” Strong’s Becca said.
The two went back and forth about being “half-in” on the charges before Strong’s Becca got up in a huff and cried behind a door for a few seconds before returning to say, “So that’s it? He’s just going to be president?”
“I let my walls down for you,” Strong’s Becca said. “So I have to wait two more years until he’s out of office?”
“Honestly, probably six,” McKinnon’s Mueller said.
The events of this sketch drew up on the dramatic events of the Mar. 5 finale of “The Bachelor” in which Luyendyk was shown to have first proposed to Becca K., only to have a change of heart after the season wrapped. He went on to break up with Becca K. and instead declare his love for original runner-up Lauren.
With “This Is Us” star Sterling K. Brown hosting the episode, “SNL” also got a chance to parody its fellow NBC series.
In a commercial for a new NBC drama called “This Is U.S.,” which “SNL” said critics were calling “like ‘This Is Us’ but without the parts that feel good,” Brown played Ben Carson, Leslie Jones was his wife, Pete Davidson was Jared Kushner, Aidy Bryant was Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kate McKinnon was Kellyanne Conway.
True to “This Is Us” form, this political version also had tributes to those who were lost — namely those who were ousted from the White House. Bryant as Sanders cried on a couch next to urns with labels including Sean Spicer’s name as well as Hope Hicks’ name.
“Of course, there’s hella crying,” the narrator said of the series.
In his monologue, Brown also mentioned how “This Is Us” is the saddest show on television — “other than the news” — and joked about the show’s success spurring after shows and spinoffs “That Was Them” and “This Us.”
“Saturday Night Live” airs live coast-to-coast at 11:30 p.m. ET / 8:30 p.m. PT on NBC.
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