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It was a star-studded episode, with cameos from Maya Rudolph, Larry David and Liev Schreiber.

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00:00"...I'm being impeached. It's the greatest presidential harassment of all time I would

00:06know. I'm like the president of harassment."

00:09Saturday Night Live is back for its 45th season and wasted no time by diving right back

00:14into politics, taking on the latest President Trump issues for its season premiere.

00:18Of course, since late night comedy has been covering this hot button issue all week,

00:22it came as no surprise that SNL's cold open was going to be dedicated to the recent

00:26news of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi beginning a formal impeachment inquiry into alleged

00:31corruption by Trump. Alec Baldwin was on deck to reprise his longtime Trump impression,

00:36seeking impeachment advice calling up everyone from Kate McKinnon's Rudy Giuliani.

00:40Nobody's going to find out about our illegal side dealings with the Ukraine.

00:45Rudy, where are you right now?

00:46I'm on CNN right now.

00:49To Eddie Bryant's Attorney General William Barr, who suggests Trump needs a patsy to blame things on.

00:54Don't worry, I've got the perfect stooge.

00:56Hello?

01:00Big Mike!

01:01Beck Bennett takes on Mike Pence in the sketch, meanwhile Alex Moffat and Mikey Day reprise

01:06their impressions of Eric and Donald Jr., and Chris Redd playing Trump's new bestie.

01:10Kanye, how you been, my man?

01:12Baldwin's Trump even calls up his pal Kim Jong Un, played by newest cast member Bowen Yang,

01:18in hopes of giving him some sound advice on how to handle a whistleblower.

01:22Oh, that's easy. You have a big ocean in your country?

01:27Yes.

01:28Okay, send whistleblower to the bottom of there.

01:31Oh, wow.

01:32Elsewhere, Woody Harrelson kicked off hosting duties for this season,

01:35and dedicated his opening monologue to coming to terms with his new life as a fashionista,

01:40saying he used to care about more important things like, say, climate change.

01:44But now that I'm a fashionista, all that's forgotten.

01:48The actor, now super comfortable in a fancy set of silk pajamas, also couldn't resist taking a jab at Melania Trump

01:54while pointing fingers at Fox News over immigration coverage.

01:57If what I just said offended Fox News viewers, I apologize.

02:02And if I hurt the one Fox viewer who is also an immigrant, well, I apologize to you, Madam First Lady.

02:11As host Harrelson definitely brought on the laughs, taking on numerous characters throughout the night, including

02:16a man that owns the world's biggest Cheeto, a football coach reminiscing his glory days

02:21but keeps getting interrupted by his wife, a shaggy-haired apple farm promoter for a local commercial parody,

02:27and a Downton Abbey sketch, among others.

02:29Still, it was mostly a politics-heavy episode featuring many sketches dedicated to the current administration.

02:35One sketch involved Bryant, Harrelson and Cecily Strong playing political talk show anchors,

02:40and Kenan Thompson starring as a pundit that insists nothing will actually come of Trump's impeachment inquiry.

02:46Ain't nothing gonna happen.

02:48The sketch also saw a brief technical glitch when a stagehand was hilariously caught on camera

02:53trying to do a quick costume change for Bryant, thinking they had already cut to tape.

02:57Mm-hmm.

02:58He gonna win.

03:00Bryant and basically everyone else broke character, barely making it through the rest of the segment.

03:06I believe that the arc of the moral universe is wrong.

03:17And yet another impeachment-driven sketch features Democratic candidates doing a town hall meeting

03:22about the president's impeachment probe with Moffat playing Beto O'Rourke, Yang taking on Andrew Yang,

03:27Chris Redd playing Cory Booker, new cast member Chloe Fineman playing Marianne Williamson,

03:32and Weekend Update host Colin Jost even making a rare sketch appearance playing Pete Buttigieg.

03:37But the sketch was a star-studded affair with cameos from Maya Rudolph's crowd-pleasing take on Kamala Harris.

03:43I'm also America's cool aunt. A fun aunt. I call that a funt.

03:51To Larry David always giving his best Bernie Sanders.

03:54I'm so excited to be back and to ruin things a second time.

03:59Kate McKinnon brought back her Elizabeth Warren impression.

04:02I hope you guys enjoyed Hot Girl Summer cause now it's school librarian fall.

04:09Anne Harrelson took on current Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden.

04:12There's no need to worry anymore. Daddy's here, America.

04:17Elsewhere in the episode, although there was no mention of recently booted almost cast member Shane Gillis,

04:22the premiere did feature many appearances from the newest hires Feynman and Yang,

04:26the show's first ever Chinese-American cast member.

04:29And on the musical front, Billie Eilish literally turned the stage upside down,

04:33performing her hits Bad Guy and I Love You to an energetic crowd.

04:37Alright, for more SNL updates head over to THR.com.

04:40Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News I'm Neha Joy.

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