“Saturday Night Live” finally took the plunge, fully parodying a primetime GOP debate, a challenge given the bulging Republican field.
The Donald Trump character got it going fast.
“Wolf Blitzer looks like Papa Smurf,” Darrell Hammond’s Trump said. “Debates are stupid. You should be paying me.”
Jeb Bush, played by Beck Bennett, then interjects, “Um, Wolf, may I take a desperate swing at Donald, now?”
“This is what he does! He says these offensive things, then he bullies anyone who challenges him. Well, guess what? You can’t insult your way to the presidency,” Bush says, mirroring a line the real Jeb used last week.
The Trump character responds by calling Bush a “jughead.”
“I know for a fact, you pee sitting down,” Trump adds.
Ben Carson jumps in later, with Jay Pharaoh continuing his popular portrayal of the neurosurgeon as lethargic.
“I had to tell people things they didn’t want to hear. Not that they had to have brain surgery, but that it would be performed by me, a man who they believed to be asleep,” Pharoh’s Carson says.
