SNL: Kate McKinnon & Alex Moffat Unveil Morning Joe Routine

[Amaryllis]

UPDATE With Video Saturday Night Live gave Morning Joe what it had coming tonight, with Kate McKinnon and Alex Moffat introducing cooing, note-perfect impressions of Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough – and Alec Baldwin literally phoning in his Donald Trump.

Moffat’s grouchy, exasperated “Oh, Mikaaaa” just might be a new SNL catchphrase.

Just days after the real-life Morning Joe cohosts announced their engagement, McKinnon and Moffat, who’ve clearly been doing their homework, unveiled a new SNL cold open bit, complete with classic-rock intro (a Morning Joe staple) and the MSNBC duo’s familiar talking-over-one-another style that soon devolved from political debate into heavy-breathing sweet nothings.

As Kate/Mika rambled on about the health care bill and Republican moral bankruptcy, Alex/Joe interrupted with “Oh, Mika, that’s enough, ok, you’re being sickening because you know it…pushes…my…buttons…”

Cut to a stunned Mike Barnicle (Bobby Moynihan), then Mark Halperin (Beck Bennett) and finally Willie Geist (Mikey Day).

Baldwin – live, on the phone – called into Morning Joe as “John Miller,” a White House spokesman who sounded suspiciously like Donald Trump, boasting about the “amazing” success of the health care bill. Reminded by Scarborough that the proposal still has to pass the Senate, “Miller” responded, “The what now?”

http://deadline.com/2017/05/snl-kate-mckinnon-alex-moffat-unveil-morning-joe-saturday-night-live-1202086131/

[UTUSN]

1. SNL reads DU? They used the name "Mika Mouse" - the first instance anywhere but here

I started calling her that several years ago because of her submissiveness to Scabs' verbal and emotional abuse of her and also for her waffling on supporting Dem positions despite her trading on speaking on the Left side.

I have never seen her called that by anybody else on DU or outside DU until last night's SNL. That said, they way they used it was as a term of endearment from Scabs to her, which was not my use.

[uponit7771]

5. I noticed that too !!

[UTUSN]

7. Ty

[Warren DeMontague]

8. My best material gets stolen, too.

I've learned to live with it.

[UTUSN]

9. From SNL I'm taking it as a compliment!1

[tblue37]

2. But McKinnon needs to squint a lot more. nt

[Ilsa]

3. JoScab will probably repeat the skit Monday morning. nt

[progressoid]

4. Third time I've seen it and it's still funny yet creepy.

[Scurrilous]

6. K&R