SNL opens with 'Macho Man' Trump's loss and Biden-Harris victory speeches

Jim Carrey’s president-elect makes an Ace Ventura cameo as Alec Baldwin gets behind the piano

Hours after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris delivered their victory remarks following the results of the 2020 presidential election, the first post-election Saturday Night Live episode opened with Jim Carrey and Maya Rudolph parodying the president-elect and vice-president-elect making their own speeches.

“We did it,” he said as the new president-elect. “Can you believe it? I honestly kind of can’t. It’s been so long since something good happened. … I’ve never felt so alive, which is ironic because I’m not that alive."

The actor, as president-elect Biden, also revived his Ace Ventura character to send a message to Donald Trump: “There are situations in life, and this is one of them, where there must be a winner and – a loser.”

Ms Rudolph, as the California senator, listed her diverse background: first female, Black, Indian-American vice president, along with her Jewish first-ever First Husband.

“Between us we check more boxes than a disqualified ballot,” she said.

Alec Baldwin, who has portrayed the president on the sketch series since 2016, pointed to a “red wave” across the US – for coronavirus cases – after declaring that “as anyone who died halfway through Tuesday knows, I was re-elected president of the United States" then walked to an off-stage piano for a somber rendition of the Village People’s “Macho Man."

Following the 2016 election, Kate McKinnon, as Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, sat behind a piano at Studio 8H to sing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

Comedian Dave Chappelle also returned to host the show for the first time since that previous post-election episode four years ago.

The sketch comedy series’ 46th season has returned to the studio following an abbreviated 15-episode season that carried into a three-episode, remotely produced Saturday Night Live at Home series to round out the season.