SNL cold open mocks Pam Bondis Senate hearing
Saturday evening live continues its 51st season with an in-depth look at the bizarre and circuitous Senate Judiciary Committee hearing featuring President Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Bondi, played by this week’s host Amy Poehler, sits before Congress to confront an avalanche of alleged transgressions by the Trump administration, including the Epstein files, the deployment of troops to American cities and the indictment of former FBI chief James Comey.
Unsurprisingly, like in real life, SNL’s Pam Bondi doesn’t have any answers.
“Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?” asks Senator Grassley, played by James Austin Johnson. Bondi responds with a resounding “no”.
Instead, the Attorney General shows up armed with insults aimed at every member of the Committee. When that fails, she calls in backup: former SNL stalwart Tina Fey, almost unrecognizable under layers of MAGA makeup, as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
