Blog 8

Hillary SNL

I chose to show Hillary acting on Saturday Night Live. In this episode she is a bartender named Val, serving Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential elections. Kate McKinnon who plays Hillary for this skit explains her concerns and stance on political issues during the campaign as Hillary herself sits and listens to the complaining done by her counterpart.  Kate brought up most of Hillary’s supporting characteristics like how she supported gay marriage or how she was trying to stay “hip” with the younger generations. She also added in some small jabs at Hillary about how she should have chosen her sides sooner than she had. Things like the pipeline where Hillary didn’t make a decision quickly on. I did really enjoy the little shot at Donald Trump or the impression Val tried to make of him. I mean she’s not a real good actress or anything I just thought it was funny and didn’t really expect Hillary herself to make fun of Trump out in public away from politics. I feel as if Hillary doing this show was just another way for her to get attention. Like what we talked about in class it was just another political ad. In the skit it expressed all of her stances on some key political issues as well as gave a brief little background about how she had been a politician for 22 years and so on about how she has worked hard in what she does. I also think this was a huge jump into pop culture with the younger generation she was trying to reach. This episode or skip really help portray Hillary as a good person, so back to the ads bit. It was all about showing the viewers what she had planned to accomplish as well as show a down to Earth, normal person. This of course instead of the typical politician with no emotions as people like to view her as. Which in turn came out to be a very good political ad because it has the touch of pop culture as well as the comedy relief I think a lot of people were looking for in Hillary Clinton.

Although there have been many skits on SNL about Hillary, this one was definitely all about making her look good. I guess that’s only because she was actually there. Most of the time I feel as if SNL has a main goal of just bluntly making fun of people using their ever extending cast. But this is Hillary Clinton we are talking about. There’s no way she’d let anyone get away with making fun over her without a drastic attempt to seem like a perfectly normal and relatable human being. I personally like when Kate plays here and tries to imitate Hillary’s emotionless features or when she tries to make her eyes wide and alert almost scary to perfect her impression of Mrs. Clinton. All in all I’m not a real big fan of the show itself but I did actually enjoy watching this episode and I encourage others to see it minus the musical portion. (Not a big Miley Cyrus fan since she left Disney Channel)