Ace Ventura made a surprise cameo on SNL this weekend

Can we all just spare a thought for the Saturday Night Live writers? After it was announced Saturday morning that former Vice President Joe Biden had won Pennsylvania's electoral college votes, pushing him over the 270 needed to win the Presidency, the SNL comedy writers had to scramble to rewrite some of their sketches and skits for that evening. And they pulled out a pretty memorable cold open with Alec Baldwin returning as Donald Trump, Jim Carrey as Biden and Maya Rudolph as Senator Kamala Harris (AKA the first female, first Black, first Indian and first biracial veep in U.S. history).“Unlike President Trump, we do accept the results of this election,” Maya as Kamala Harris said (in a white suit that was the spitting image of the one Harris wore just a mere two hours prior during a press conference! Dang, that wardrobe team works fast!).

 

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The election results are in…

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“We're not mad at them,” Carrey as Biden jumped in with his signature impression that has been a regular at SNL for weeks now. “We have to act graciously in victory, though we need to go forward together. Unfortunately there are situations in life, and this is one of them, where there must be a winner and..."“Uhhhhh LOOOOOSERRR!” he said whipping out his infamous Ace Ventura: Pet Detective catch phrase. Who knew that a '90s Jim Carrey reference would be uniquely accurate following the 2020 U.S. presidential election? But here we are.Even Maya Rudolph couldn’t contain herself, clearly holding back the giggles as they both put an L to their foreheads. Seriously though, Jim Carrey as Joe Biden as Ace Ventura? You have to laugh.Alec Baldwin’s turn as President Trump might be winding down now that Donald Trump only has a couple more months in office, so again, the SNL writers pulled out all the stops to make his swan song funny and also, kind of familiar.[video_embed id='2072932']RELATED: ‘Your Morning’ hosts share what Kamala Harris' speech meant to them [/video_embed]Four years ago when Trump won the Presidency, Kate McKinnon in character as Hillary Clinton sat at a grand piano during the first cold open after the election and sang Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” adding, “I’m not going to give up, and neither should you.”Baldwin’s Trump called back to this iconic (and slightly corny) moment, saying, “I vow to all my supporters I will fight this thing to the bitter end. I will never give up and neither should you,” before sitting at a grand piano and singing, er, “Macho Man” by The Village People. SNL, we see what you did there.Guest host Dave Chappelle also had a joke or two to add to the current situation. He gave a 16+ minute monologue that split viewers—some finding it therapeutic, some saying it crossed a line and others saying it came off as sexist (a common theme among SNL monologues and stand-up in general).“Now Trump is gone,” he said to cheers. “You know a lot of people don't like him but I thought the guy was at least an optimist. I am not as optimistic as he was. I look at it like there's bad people on both sides.”“He called the coronavirus the kung flu,” Chappelle continued. “I said ‘You racist, hilarious son of a b***h! I'm supposed to say that, not you!'”

 

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Chappelle went on to joke that the leading female virologist standing next to Trump during a COVID-19 press conference said nothing when Trump inferred injecting bleach and light into the veins might stop the virus. “It's crazy, her face was looking like he might be right! That's why women make half [of what men make]. I don't know what it is—half, maybe 70. Whatever it is, it’s too much.” He went on to question if this was meant to be a comedy show or a "woke meeting" after the audience groaned.He finished the monologue by striking a similar tone to that in his "8:46" Netflix special released two weeks after George Floyd was killed by police officer Derek Chauvin. In the special, Chappelle set jokes and punchlines aside to instead speak hard truths about racism in America.[video_embed id='-1']BEFORE YOU GO: Sweet baby can't stop giggling when dad reads stories [/video_embed]