Will Ferrell’s ‘SNL’ Episode Includes a Star-Studded Lineup
Written by SOURCE on November 24, 2019
Latest Five-Timers Club inductee Will Ferrell pulled out all the stops for his star-studded Saturday Night Live episode.
During his opening monologue, after Ferrell recognizes Ryan Reynolds in the audience, Ferrell starts to act really scatterbrained. “Can you just pretend I’m not here?” Reynolds asks, to which Ferrell responds, “No way. It’s too late—I’m locked in. It’s like the rest of the audience has disappeared.”
Ferrell is so nervous, he begins to impersonate his former castmate Tracy Morgan, who then appears on stage to tell Ferrell to never impersonate him again.
There was also the standard political cold open, where Ferrell played American diplomat Gordon Sondland, opposite Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump. Here, Baldwin answered questions from reporters at the White House about “this impeachment nonsense” and his relationship with Sondland, the ambassador to the EU.
In another sketch, SNL makes fun of the Democratic debate with a line-up of Ferrell as billionaire Tom Steyer, Maya Rudolph as Kamala Harris, Woody Harrelson as Joe Biden, Larry David as Bernie Sanders, as well as SNL alum Fred Armisen, who played newly announced candidate Michael Bloomberg, and Rachel Dratch as Amy Klobuchar.
