Saturday Night Live Mocks the Midterm Madness

For its last pre-election episode of the season, Saturday Night Live weighed in on the all-consuming conversations surrounding Tuesday's midterms by lampooning the two very distinct political perspectives in play right now: those on the right who are counting on the so-called "caravan" of would-be immigrants to stir up a voter frenzy and those on the left who are still quivering from the 2016 presidential election results and nervously eyeing those polls with wavering optimism.

The former was covered in the episode's cold open which parodied Fox News' The Ingraham Angle, with Kate McKinnon starring as the show's embattled host as she dug into the issue of the migrants' journey.

"Tonight, we're live from from the Arizona border where a vicious caravan of dozens, maybe millions of illegal immigrants is headed straight for you and your grandchildren. And that is not fear-mongering, that is just the truth," she said to open the segment before inviting Cecily Strong's Jeanine Pirro to provide an eye-witness account of the people participating, with footage from the World War Z zombie mob as proof of the supposed scourge.

"Everyone you've ever seen in your nightmares [is part of the caravan]," Strong's Pirro claimed with the real-life personality's signature snarl. "It's got Guatemalans, Mexicans, ISIS, the Menendez Brothers, the 1990 Detroit Pistons, Thanos, and several Babadooks."

Kenan Thompson then brought along his Sheriff David Clarke impression to add more fear factoring to the pile-on of these people, saying, "The caravan is only 800 miles from our border. If these immigrants walk at a normal pace of 300 miles a day, they could be here in time to vote on election day." If that pacing sounds ridiculous, well, it's probably because he admits to receiving his info from the birds in Dumbo and uses "aerial footage" of running crabs as visual confirmation of the same.

"I've also learned that all the women in the caravan are more than nine months pregnant, and they're holding the babies in until the exact moment they cross over the border, and then they are literally going to drop anchor" he added. "And the babies -- get this -- are pregnant."

Roasting of the other side of things commenced in a pre-taped segment featuring a group of enthusiastic democratic voters who feel confident in that long-discussed "Blue Wave" ... except they're literally shaking in their boots that the poll numbers showcasing the Democrats' clear path to taking control of the House of Representatives are way off and that they'll be deeply disappointed come Wednesday morning.

"I have never felt more confident," said one mom, as she raised a quivering thumbs up.

"Democrats are taking back the House. It's a win we need and a win we're going to get. I'm sure of it," said a man in business dress as he clenched his cup of coffee and spilled it all over the sidewalk and himself.

Between the florist driven to drink a vase full of booze, the doctor who sucked on oxygen in between claims of imminent success, the mom who slapped her adult son for telling people to vote on Thursday instead of Tuesday, and the cat who didn't buy it that the white women demographic will vote differently this time around, the tension was definitely palpable.

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