SNL Video: Jason Sudeikis Is the Ghost of Biden Past in Cold Open

Oh, what a big difference 8 yrs tends to make.

Jason Sudeikis hosted Saturday Night time Reside this 7 days for the to start with time considering the fact that his 10-12 months operate (like two as a author), and he introduced with him his signature choose on then-Vice President Joe Biden to haunt now-President Biden (performed by new solid member James Austin Johnson).

The sketch opened with Jen Psaki (Chloe Fineman) &#x2013 most likely the only member of the White Residence with a constructive acceptance score &#x2013 offering undesirable information to POTUS. Immediately after she leaves, Biden laments the times when folks employed to like him. Cue the smoke and Xmas Carol-design lightning&#x2026.

Sudeikis’ model of Biden bursts onstage with all the vigor and enthusiasm we keep in mind. The handsiness that was creepy when he was VP is pretty much (pretty much) charming now. This sort of as when 2013 Biden rubs President Biden’s shoulders and usually takes a extensive, deep inhale of his hair.

The finest line of the sketch will come when 2021 Biden laments how the final president built a mess of anything by hanging out with porn stars, serving McDonald’s in the White Residence, and receiving into a combat with the Pope. Understandably, the Biden who understands almost nothing about the final 9 years’ reaction is: Wow, Hillary acquired wonderful!

It really is pretty much unfair to new solid member Johnson, who is nevertheless acquiring his choose on Joe Biden and now is now remaining in comparison on-display with a substantially extra pleasurable model of himself. Sudeikis acquired to portray the male when he was Vice President to a single of the most well known commander-in-chiefs in modern memory. Johnson, in distinction, is undertaking an impact of a substantially grimmer &#x2013 dare we say extra monotonous &#x2013 model? Probably a happier information cycle will direct to a extra pleasurable spin.

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