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,
00:40"...nobody's going to find out about our illegal side dealings with the Ukraine."
00:45"...Rudy, where are you right now?"
00:46"...I'm on CNN right now."
00:49To Eddie Bryant's Attorney General William Barr, who suggests Trump needs a patsy to blame things on.
00:54"...don't worry, I've got the perfect stooge."
00:59"...hello? Big 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.
01:11"...Kanye, how you been my man?"
01:13Baldwin's Trump even calls up his pal Kim Jong-un, played by newest cast member
01:17Bowen Yang, in hopes of giving him some sound advice on how to handle a whistleblower.
01:22"...Oh, that's easy. You have a big ocean in your country?"
01:27"...Yes."
01:28"...Okay, send whistleblower to the bottom of there."
01:31"...Oh, 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.
01:44"...But now that I'm a fashionista, all that's forgotten."
01:47The actor, now super comfortable in a fancy set of silk pajamas, also couldn't resist
01:52taking a jab at Melania Trump while pointing fingers at Fox News over immigration coverage.
01:57"...If what I just said offended Fox News viewers, I apologize.
02:02And if I hurt the one Fox viewer who is also an immigrant,
02:07well, I apologize to you, Madam First Lady."
02:10As host, Harrelson definitely brought on the laughs, taking on numerous characters throughout the night,
02:15including a 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
02:25commercial parody, and a Downton Abbey sketch among others.
02:29Still, it was mostly a politics-heavy episode featuring many sketches dedicated to the current administration.
02:34One sketch involved Bryant, Harrelson, and Cecily Strong playing political talk show anchors
02:39and Kenan Thompson starring as a pundit that insists nothing will actually come of Trump's
02:44impeachment inquiry.
02:46"...Ain't nothing gonna happen."
02:47The sketch also saw a brief technical glitch when a stagehand was hilariously caught on
02:52camera trying to do a quick costume change for Bryant thinking they had already cut to tape.
03:01Bryant and basically everyone else broke character, barely making it through the
03:05rest of the segment.
03:07"...I believe that the arc of the whole universe is wrong."
03:17And yet another impeachment-driven sketch features Democratic candidates doing a town
03:21hall meeting about the president's impeachment probe with Moffat playing Beto O'Rourke,
03:25Yang taking on Andrew Yang, Chris Redd playing Cory Booker, new cast member Khloe Fineman
03:31playing Marianne Williamson, and Weekend Update host Colin Jost even making a rare
03:35sketch appearance playing Pete Buttigieg.
03:37But the sketch was a star-studded affair with cameos from Maya Rudolph's crowd-pleasing take
03:42on Kamala Harris.
03:43"...I'm also America's cool aunt. A fun aunt. I call that a funt."
03:51To Larry David, always giving his best Bernie Sanders.
03:54"...I'm so excited to be back and to ruin things a second time."
03:59Kate McKinnon brought back her Elizabeth Warren impression.
04:02"...I hope you guys enjoyed Hot Girl Summer, because now it's school librarian fall."
04:09Ann Harrelson took on current Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden.
04:12"...There's no need to worry anymore. Daddy's here, America."
04:17Elsewhere in the episode, although there was no mention of recently booted
04:20almost cast member Shane Gillis, the premiere did feature many appearances from the newest
04:24hires Feynman and Yang, the 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 and until next time
04:40for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.
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