There was a slew of transformations last night on SNL as cast member Aidy Bryant transformed into White House press secretary Sarah Huckabees Sanders, who then transformed into Demi Lovato for a hilarious digital short.
The three-minute, pre-recorded sketch centered around Bryant-as-Sanders’ constant fielding of journalists’ questions regarding the Trump presidency and alleged Russian interference. (Given the ongoing investigation, there are indeed a lot of questions.) When one reporter begins their question with, “Sarah, you’ve continually denied any connection between the Trump campaign and the interference by the Russian government—” the short cuts in and out of an alternate epic reality, in which we learn how “Sanders” comes across so confidently in her answers (even when the answers are still incredibly vague).
In a disco-y take of a press room, “Sanders,” a.k.a. “The Huck,” as her pink jacket reads, parodies Lovato’s pop hit “Confident” as she dances, struts, and sings, “What’s wrong with being confident?” Truth.
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She sticks with Lovato’s original lyrics for most of the sequence, but toward the end she switches it up and adds in what she’s really thinking: “So you say that I’m a puppet/that I must be out of my mind/all your media can stuff it.” Sanders-as-Lovato then rips a New York Times newspaper in half.
This is Bryant’s first major skit as Sanders after brief appearances in previous episodes. And although we desperately miss Melissa McCarthy’s impersonations of former press secretary Sean Spicer, Bryant’s spot-on parody of Sanders is beginning to make us think she’s going to be giving Sanders the Spicey treatment more often.
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