Bill Murray emerges as Steve Bannon on SNL
Saturday Night Live returned on Saturday and viewers got quite the surprise during the opening sketch when Bill Murray emerged from the Grim Reaper’s black cloak playing Steve Bannon.
In the sketch, Fred Armisen is playing Michael Wolff, author of Fire and Fury, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe when he is joined by Murray’s Bannon.
“My God, Steve, I always thought you looked like death but this is death warmed over,” said Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski, played by Kate McKinnon.
Murray’s Bannon and Armisen’s Wolff then argue about whether Wolff got Bannon fired as Trump’s White House chief strategist.
“I never said Don Jr. was treasonous,” said Murray’s Bannon. “Well I certainly never said he cracked like an egg on TV.”
“Uh yeah, that sounds exactly like you,” shoots back Armisen’s Wolff.
“Yeah, that does sound like me. OK, good reporting,” said Murray’s Bannon.
SNL’s return from a month-long hiatus was also marked by host Sam Rockwell dropping the ‘F-bomb’ during the show’s live broadcast.
The actor seems to have accidentally sworn while playing a science teacher trying to explain a chemical reaction to a student during a sketch with Cecily Strong and Mikey Day.
“It isn’t true or false, Josh,” Rockwell said to him. “You can’t be this f---ing stupid.” He immediately put his hand up to his mouth as audience members gasp and laugh.
“I’m sorry, kids are stupid,” he then said to the audience. “I’m just saying what you see, OK?” Brennan Doherty and Alanna Rizza