An old friend of the show returned to Saturday Night Live this week to help it poke fun at another indicted member of Trump’s campaign and close circle of friends. Comedian Steve Martin, who has hosted SNL 15 times, made a cameo appearance in the show’s cold open sketch to portray the overbearing and unleashed persona of Roger Stone, whose home was raided during his arrest by the FBI on early Friday morning.
“The whole experience was so harrowing,” Martin’s Stone exclaims to SNL cast member Alex Moffat, playing Fox News primetime host, Tucker Carlson. “Afterwards I could only manage one radio interview, and a speech from the steps of the courthouse, and two appearances on television.”
Prior to Martin’s appearance, cast member Kate McKinnon had a memorable turn as billionaire Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose public lack of empathy for furloughed government workers earned him condemnation this past week. Peering through the tops of his glasses and speaking in a barely intelligible mumble, McKinnon’s Ross gives this advice to those federal employees who struggled with a lack of a paycheck during the shutdown: “They’ve could’ve liquidated some of their stocks or sold one of their paintings. Even if they sold a lesser Picasso, that’s still going to get you through a week or two of yacht maintenance.”
Watch the whole SNL cold open sketch below.
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