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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Monday, March 6, 2017
By Bethonie Butler March 5 at 1:00 AM“Saturday Night Live” took a departure with its cold open this week, taking us out of the Trump White House — and into the universe of the 1994 movie “Forrest Gump.” Instead of Tom Hanks, it was Attorney General Jeff Sessions (Kate McKinnon) at the bus stop, eating chocolates and confiding in strangers about a rather momentous week.
“I’m the attorney general of the whole United States,” Sessions
said, introducing himself to a woman (Leslie Jones) in Gump’s pronounced
Southern drawl. “He shook my hand like this,” Sessions added, before
imitating President Trump’s forceful (and oft-discussed) handshake.
"Being in the government is so fun." #SNL pic.twitter.com/EW3zNiMO6A— Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) 5 March 2017
"Being in the government is so fun." #SNL
“Being in the government is so fun,” Sessions continued, eventually
pulling out a photo of his “best good friend Kellyanne.” The photo, of
course, was the infamous image of White House adviser Kellyanne Conway kneeling on a couchin
the Oval Office during Trump’s meeting this week with representatives
from historically black colleges and universities. “She ain’t got no
legs.”
The sketch managed to reference several of the week’s most prominent
headlines, while also closely mirroring the dialogue from Robert
Zemeckis’s Oscar-winning film. In “Forrest Gump,” the protagonist noted
that his friend and commanding Army officer, Lieutenant Dan, had no legs
— the result of an injury suffered during the Vietnam War.
The sketch also riffed on Gump’s most famous line, with Sessions noting:
“I always say life is like a box of chocolates. Sure are a lot of brown
ones in there.”
The bus came, and another stranger sat next to Sessions on the bench. It
was time to address the controversy surrounding revelations by The
Washington Post that the attorney general had spoken twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States but neglected to disclose those discussions during his confirmation hearing.
After Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from any ongoing investigations of the Trump administration's relationship with Russia, late-night hosts Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert and others chimed in. (The Washington Post)
After Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from any ongoing investigations of the Trump administration's relationship with Russia, late-night hosts Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert and others chimed in. (The Washington Post)
“I was on the cover of the New York Times. You wanna see?” Sessions asked.
“It says you might have committed perjury,” the stranger said.
“Yeah, I had a bad week. Started out real good,” Sessions said recalling
Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress. He continued:
“The president made a great speech. Folks were thrilled on account of it
was real words in a row for a whole hour. We was all as happy as a
monkey with a peanut machine. Then I want to bed. I got 800 messages and
phone alerts, saying I was a sneaky little liar. I didn’t know what to
do. So my lawyer said: Run, Jeffrey, run! I started running and running.
I ended all the way sitting at this bus stop with you.”
After telling yet another stranger that he had to prove that he “had no
ties to the Russians whatsoever,” Russian President Vladimir Putin (a
once-again shirtless Beck Bennett) popped up to say, simply, “This
meeting never happened.”
A familiar face followed. It was SNL host Octavia Spencer, reprising her
Oscar-winning role as Minny Jackson in “The Help.” After asking if
Sessions was indeed the one whom Coretta Scott King wrote a letter about back
in 1986, she introduced herself. “I’m Minny. You don’t know me. I’m
from a different movie.” She then gave him a pie that was immediately
familiar to anyone who has seen the 2011 film, adapted from the novel by
Kathryn Stockett.
Minny Jackson has a special delivery for Jeff Sessions. #SNL pic.twitter.com/cB3ak6U9mm— Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) 5 March 2017
Minny Jackson has a special delivery for Jeff Sessions. #SNL
It’s presented as a chocolate pie but contains a special ingredient, adding new meaning to the phrase “You never know what you’re gonna get.”

