![]() ![]() Or she would, if she wasn’t called away constantly to respond to – and defend – an escalating series of insane from the then-Republican candidate. In this sketch from early October, Conway finally receives a day off from work, which she gleefully uses to eat breakfast with her family, catch up on her yoga and cuddle with her husband. ![]() While Kellyanne Conway may not have won many friends in the mainstream media during this campaign season, Kate McKinnon’s take on her has been consistently sympathetic, portraying her as a woman who has aligned herself with Donald Trump and now, having made her bed, knows she must lie in it. But all of that political depth only worked because the jokes – “He says his dog doesn’t bite.” “What is, mmm, I don’t know, he got teeth, don’t he?” – were perfectly timed, expertly delivered and built to a beautiful “Final Jeopardy” reveal. In the past, Black Jeopardy sketches were a way of highlighting the cluelessness of liberal whites elites here, the show empathized with white Americans who are also overlooked by those same liberal elites. With Tom Hanks starring as a MAGA-supporting white contestant on Black Jeopardy, the sketch (written by Michael Che and Bryan Tucker) explored the similarities between a white, working-class Trump voter and mainstream black culture, without ever forgetting the profound differences that separate them. It’s been less than two months since this sketch aired, but naming it as the show’s finest of the year already feels obvious – in the week after it ran, it was the subject of a slew of lauditory pieces about its shrewd take on race and class relations in America. ![]()
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