{"id":161854,"date":"2025-04-13T07:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T07:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/saturday-night-live-has-a-winner-spoof-with-the-white-potus\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T07:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T07:03:12","slug":"saturday-night-live-has-a-winner-spoof-with-the-white-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/saturday-night-live-has-a-winner-spoof-with-the-white-potus\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night Live Has a Winner Spoof with The White Potus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">Whatever your take on <em>The White Lotus<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/story\/white-lotus-season-three-finale-recap-review?srsltid=AfmBOoopPJ0mmTz84ByAHHJ3q6dJhsKMpxW2uQQBZsmlDYTSZ-f8Lql1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finale<\/a>, I guarantee you&#8217;ll love the <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> spinoff. <em>The White Potus: An American Horror Story<\/em> had it all. <strong>Chloe Fineman<\/strong> luxuriating in all of <strong>Parkey Posey<\/strong>&#8216;s vowels as <strong>Melania Trump<\/strong>. <strong>James Austin Johnson<\/strong> with the rare chance to play a reflective <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>, bleary-eyed and terrified of the criminal avalanche he&#8217;s brought down on his family and country. (&#8220;Trump Triggers Worldwide Recession,&#8221; his contraband phone warns.) <strong>Mikey Day<\/strong> as blowhard big brother <strong>Don, Jr<\/strong> and the great <strong>Alex Moffatt<\/strong> returned to play human pool noodle Eric. <strong>Scarlett Johansson<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Ivanka Trump<\/strong> looking for redemption at the temple but, alas, like our profane Piper, wedded to her corrupt genes when asked \u201cAm I willing to give up greed and material possessions in order to live an honest and ethical life?\u201d <em>The White Lotus<\/em>&#8216;s own <strong>Jon Gries<\/strong> glowered in the background as kinky voyeur Commerce secretary <strong>Howard Lutnick<\/strong>. Host <strong>Jon Hamm<\/strong> in unkempt and top buttons of his Hawaiian shirt undone. \u201cI have this syringe full of active measles virus, I just want to stab somebody with it,\u201d his jittery <strong>RFK Jr.<\/strong> told <strong>Sarah Sherman<\/strong>, who stared at him with doe eyes. \u201cI&#8217;m having all these insane ideas. What if we took all the fluoride out of drinking water. What would that do to people&#8217;s teeth?\u201d At that, Sherman smiled, her dentures splayed out like the Candy Land board. (You were too good for this world, Chelsea!) The fever dream ended with Trump threatening to shoot Uncle Sam, good old <strong>Beck Bennett<\/strong> as a shirtless <strong>Vladimir Putin<\/strong> murmuring in the President&#8217;s addled ear, and Don, Jr. looking to fondle the club of <strong>Kenan Thompson<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Tiger Woods<\/strong>. It doesn&#8217;t get better than this, folks.<\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-dRedg hZcniq iframe-embed\"\/>\n<p class=\"paywall\">It&#8217;s been 15 years since Hamm last hosted the show, which doesn&#8217;t seem right somehow (though doesn&#8217;t count his 14 cameos in the meantime). Time away has only fueled his enthusiasm for the gig. His monologue was perfectly fine, though his wriggly retriever energy felt a little manic. At the mention of how <em>SNL<\/em> likes to call in reinforcements when \u201ca monologue is feeling aimless and it needs a jolt of energy,\u201d <strong>Kieran Culkin<\/strong> joined him on stage, looking like he himself wasn&#8217;t sure of what he was doing there. (And this makes two weeks in a row after his crowd shot during Jack Black&#8217;s monologue.) Hamm covets Culkin&#8217;s Oscar; Culkin called out Hamm&#8217;s package. \u201cWhatever dude,&#8221; said Hamm, &#8220;<em>Mad Men<\/em> was better than <em>Succession<\/em>.\u201d Take that debate to Reddit.<\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-dRedg hZcniq iframe-embed\"\/>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Hamm&#8217;s best moment came in the Please Don&#8217;t Destroy sketch, in which he played a detective working a missing persons case overcome with excitement for office pizza. \u201cYou know, I don&#8217;t even deserve pizza,&#8221; he sulked after being called out for losing the plot. &#8220;Maybe I&#8217;ll get a soda, maybe I&#8217;ll have <em>a<\/em> soda, and that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ll have from the pizza party.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-dRedg hZcniq iframe-embed\"\/>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In \u201cGuess! The Correct Answer!,\u201d Hamm&#8217;s suburban dentist was desperate not to let his gameshow appearance unravel his otherwise successful everyday life. But when Day fed him \u201csomething that&#8217;s racist\u201d as a clue for micro-agressions, Hamm&#8217;s contestant started shooting off self-incriminations. \u201cMe? My whole family? My groomsmen? My funny accents?\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-dRedg hZcniq iframe-embed\"\/>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Musical guest Lizzo has been off the scene for a minute. She returned with two tracks from her new album \u201cLove in Real Life,&#8221; rocking out on a guitar and wearing an excellent \u201cTariffied\u201d t-shirt. Her t-shirt game stayed strong through goodnights, as she made sure the audience crying about their 401(k) plans could see her \u201cBlack Women Were Right\u201d message across her chest.<\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-dRedg hZcniq iframe-embed\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/story\/saturday-night-live-jon-hamm-the-white-potus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever your take on The White Lotus finale, I guarantee you&#8217;ll love the Saturday Night Live spinoff. The White Potus: An American Horror Story had it all. Chloe Fineman luxuriating in all of Parkey Posey&#8216;s vowels as Melania Trump. James Austin Johnson with the rare chance to play a reflective Donald Trump, bleary-eyed and terrified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3772,179,26,4329],"class_list":{"0":"post-161854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-jon-hamm","9":"tag-lizzo","10":"tag-saturday-night-live","11":"tag-snl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}