Reprising his role as Trump’s former lawyer Micheal Cohen, comedian Ben Stiller starred in this week’s cold open sketch of Saturday Night Live, mocking what was already an surreal Congressional hearing from earlier in the week.
Stiller’s Cohen played up the lawyer’s hangdog demeanor, perplexing inability to locate his questioner, and habitual lying. But, at other times, the show’s dialogue didn’t bother with embellishing reality, as parts of the SNL Cohen’s opening statement copied verbatim the real Cohen’s testimony, like when he called President Trump a “racist,” a “liar,” and a “con man.”
The show saved most of mockery for the Republicans on the House Committee for Oversight and Reform, who went out of their way to discredit the convicted-liar Cohen on Wednesday.
“You’ve been working in some of the sleaziest circles of America for years. What other criminals and low lifes have you worked for?!” an incensed Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, played by Bill Hader, demands of Cohen at one point.
“I was the deputy finance chairman for the Republican Party,” Stiller’s Cohen deadpans, in yet another instance of truth being stranger—and funnier—than fiction.
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