SNL: Final Debate Cold Open

[Rhiannon12866]

Kristen Welker (Maya Rudolph) hosts the last presidential debate of the 2020 election between Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) and Joe Biden (Jim Carrey).

[TDale313]

1. I laughed... but Jim Carrey's really just doing Jim Carrey.

Baldwin’s great. The skit was funny. I just find Carrey’s energy to be not a great match.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Same here, I couldn't agree more

It was funny, but Carrey turns Joe Biden into more of a cartoon figure than Alec Baldwin's Trump. Joe Biden doesn't make faces and jump all over - Jim Carrey is still doing Fire Marshal Bill from "In Living Color."

[SunSeeker]

5. Exactly. nt

[brer cat]

9. I agree.

I cringed a few times as it was so not Joe.

[underpants]

10. The Trump part was very well written.

His misnaming her were funny and mostly the only really funny part of this.

I think Carrey is getting into the subtleties more. When he was cast I thought - uh oh, it’s impossible to not lose a scene to him. I thought this was his best performance so far.

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[My Pet Orangutan]

2. I know everyone else is saying it

but Jim Carrey does a good Jim Carrey, and that's about it. This is a special kind of fail.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. I guess Woody Harrelson and Jason Sudeikis were busy, I thought they both did a better Joe Biden

[My Pet Orangutan]

7. Yes. I know.

[PatSeg]

8. I never really cared for Sudeikis's Biden

It was too needy and dopey. Carrey's needs some work, but it is getting better. Loved the "Eastwooding it" and ""I kick ass and I take trains and I don't see any trains in sight."

[True Blue American]

4. They toned Carrey down a little

But he is a lousy Joe Biden making him full of repressed anger. That is Trump, not Biden. The Rudy was great.