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Jim Carrey, as Biden, mocks Trump loss on ‘Saturday Night Live’

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LOS ANGELES — It didn’t take long for “Saturday Night Live” to come up with its comedic take on the presidenti­al election results — complete with Maya Rudolph donning a white suit like Vice President-elect Kamala Harris wore for her acceptance speech.

Jim Carrey played President-elect Joe Biden, taking the stage and poking fun at the five-day wait for results. He even offered a throwback to one of his infamous ’90s-era lines, calling President Donald Trump a “Looooossee­r!” to laughs and applause.

Carrey and Rudolph each made an L out of their hands and held them to their foreheads and were joined by Alec Baldwin, reprising his role as Trump.

At one point, Baldwin sat at a piano and sang a few lines from Village People’s “Macho Man,“a favorite of the president’s late campaign rallies.

Host Dave Chappelle opened his monologue by lighting a cigarette and calling it “a pretty incredible day.”

He quickly got serious, saying he was thinking about his great-grandfathe­r, who was born a slave in South Carolina and after being freed, devoted his life to three things: “education, freedom of Black people and Jesus Christ.”

“I wish I could see him now, I wish he could see me,” Chappelle said before launching into a joke about how his popular Comedy Central series was on two streaming services and he wasn’t being paid for it.

“Now Trump is gone,” Chappelle said, before joking about Trump’s response to the coronaviru­s.

He cited Trump’s use of a racist name for the virus before saying, “I’m supposed to say that, not you.”

“Saturday Night Live” aired a little over 12 hours after networks and the Associated Press declared Biden the winner of the 2020 election. The show quickly incorporat­ed Harris’ look from

 ?? Associated Press file photos ?? It didn’t take long for “Saturday Night Live” to come up with its comedic take on the presidenti­al election results — complete with Maya Rudolph donning a white suit like Vice President-elect Kamala Harris wore for her acceptance speech. Jim Carrey played President-elect Joe Biden, taking the stage and poking fun at the five-day wait for results. They were joined by Alec Baldwin, reprising his role as President Donald Trump.
Associated Press file photos It didn’t take long for “Saturday Night Live” to come up with its comedic take on the presidenti­al election results — complete with Maya Rudolph donning a white suit like Vice President-elect Kamala Harris wore for her acceptance speech. Jim Carrey played President-elect Joe Biden, taking the stage and poking fun at the five-day wait for results. They were joined by Alec Baldwin, reprising his role as President Donald Trump.

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