SNL Casting Jim Carrey as Joe Biden Finally Pays Off

Saturday Night Live happening on the day Joe Biden won the presidency was bound to be something to see, and the cold open made us all finally realize why exactly they cast Jim Carrey as the new President-Elect.

After having a little fun with CNN and Wolf Blitzer's "weird, stubbly beard," Carrey's Biden took the podium, saying "We did it! Can you believe it? I honestly kinda can't. It's been so long since something good happened. Sure, it took forever. We kept edging closer and closer. It was like having sex with Sting. But what a release man. I've never felt so alive, which is ironic because I'm not that alive."

Maya Rudolph came next as Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, who helped encourage Biden to gloat just a little bit, busting out a dance to the viral hit "You About To Lose Your Job" from several of the spontaneous worldwide street Biden celebrations that were all over social media on Saturday, making the real world feel like the end of Return of the Jedi.

Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump mocked the real Trump's rambling non-concession speech, but then he went to a piano, in a callback to the heartbreaking 2016 SNL cold open after Trump's shocking victory, when Kate McKinnon's Hillary Clinton played a mournful version of "Hallelujah" to express the profound sadness of Americans who understood the nightmares that would and did follow that election. This time, though, Baldwin's Trump played a silly, slow version of his unintentionally ironic campaign staple, "Macho Man" by the Village People. 

Then came the final payoff of casting Carrey as Biden. At the end of the sketch, Carrey busted out his old Ace Ventura schtick in dubbing Trump a "loo-hoo-ze-herrrr!" 

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