Jeanine Pirro Cold Open - SNL

Jeanine Pirro (Cecily Strong) discusses the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict and welcomes Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) to discuss Biden’s Build Back Better infrastructure bill.

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[cardiabardia]

if you close your eyes, you can tell this person has spent hours perfecting that voice tone, cadence, and absolutely heinous brain track. Easily one of the best impressions ive ever seen!

[MarcKloos]

Cecily's vocal cords must've hurt after this skit!

[drakesessions]

Cecily got everything about Judge Jeanie correct from her booming voice to her constant iconic hair shake and the guy impersonating the former president has nailed it to the point you think its actually him

[kenna]

I love how accurately he got the "never finishing a thought"
And I agree about Gossip Girl

[djnkosi]

Cecily's Pirro and James's Trump are two of the best impressions you're ever going to see. Bravo!

[JordanDoww]

oh my god, the trump impression is major

[bakermateo]

He does such a great Trump I'm actually annoyed listening to it.

[generalZee]

The new Trump has got such a great impression, and I love the way he's redirected Trump jokes to be about the way his brain works. Just fantastic character work.

[shannong]

Trump voice literally gave me chills with how on point it was 🤯

[digits]

“Meeple are saying, and you know what, meeple of course, are people that are me” lmaoooo

[jfox]

“If you take wall and lay it across a river, frankly Janeane we’re doing bridge.” Hahaha 🤣 priceless

[BrianGengaBSide]

"Poor Chris, I mean we love him, he's a wonderful person, but we don't like him so much, I think we hate him"

[zachwelch]

Jesus Christ he’s better than Alec. This was the most spot on imitation impression of trump I’ve ever heard. His speech patterns down to his mannerism and vocal dialect like. Alec does a kind of character of him exaggerated even more than trump already does but he nailed it. He got it exactly 100% if I didn’t know this was SNL I would have thought someone made a funny video of trump clips and made him say all this shit lmao. It’s so perfect. 100%

[DaddyTre]

The exchange between Sandra Cummings (Chloe Fineman) and Samuel Fields (Chris Redd) was brilliant! It very cleverly showed how two people who likely share the same political views can see a legal/societal issue so differently.

[littlebitbrooks]

Cecily is one of the best SNL cast members ever!! Her impression is amazing and perfect!! The best Donald trump impression as well .. the cast this year is spot on!

[davidphillips]

James Austin Johnson has the best Trump impression in town, because he understands the man’s thought patterns as well as his speech patterns.

[zacharias]

Not sure I've seen a new SNL cast member be as impactful as quickly as James Austin Johnson. He's been the standout role in multiple cold opens already (including his first episode ever). You can't compare his Trump with Baldwin's, because Baldwin was doing more of a caricature while this is a much more realistic impression of Trump. But his Trump really is amazing... the voice, the mannerisms, the cadence, etc. He also riffs so much doing the Trump run-on sentences that I can't imagine it's all 100% scripted/on cue cards. There has to be some amount of improv in there.

[binsabose]

holy crap-- he sounds just like Trump. close your eyes and listen. brah. amazing

[SportsBetter]

"Can I get 60 seconds please" becoming one of my favorite lines

[_polyavien_]

4:45 “And meople are saying- and you know what, meople, of course, are people who are me.” 😂