The 1946 movie is a holiday classic about a man who contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve, only to be stopped by a guardian angel who shows him how beautiful life is while also showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born. YouĬan follow his adventures on Twitter, GeekyGeekyWays.Saturday Night Live ended 2018 with a special parody of It's a Wonderful Life, which imagined the world without Trump as president. What little spare time he has isĭevoted towards acting, role-playing, movie-riffing and sarcasm. Which hosts his extensive episode guide for the television seriesĬomedic Let’s Play videos. Work for Screen Rant, Matt is currently the Editor In Chief ofįlying, No Tights – a graphic literature and anime review siteĪimed at teachers and librarians. History trivia, he has delivered lectures on the history of AmericanĬomic Books, Japanese Manga, Doctor Who, and Cosplay at over a dozen conventionsĪnd served as an Expert In-Residence for a course on Graphic Novelsįor Librarians at the University of North Texas. Science from the University of North Texas and a BFA from the To write for over a dozen websites, including 411 Legendary DC Comics digital fanzine Fanzing,īefore receiving his own column, The Mount. Matt Morrison has been writing about comics since before the word More: Saturday Night Live Trolls Netflix Originals With Parody Commercial The skit ends on an ironic note, with President Trump taking the lesson of It's A Wonderful Life to heart and wishing to have his old life back despite all his problems, as Clarence loudly protests that was not the message he was supposed to take from the vision. When Trump asks why he didn't become president in this reality, Clarence replies that in this world Clinton made one stop in Wisconsin while on the campaign trail. Everything."ĭespite taking a number of jabs at Trump's policies as president, the Saturday Night Live sketch gets in a few digs at Hillary Clinton as well. He goes on to speak happily about how much time he has to spend with his family since he isn't investigating " some idiot for treason." When Trump says it seems like Mueller knows he used to be president, Mueller replies ominously, " Oh, I know everything.
The sketch also features Robert De Niro as Robert Mueller - the chief investigator into the allegations leveled against the Trump campaign following the 2016 election.Ĭuriously, Mueller seems to recognize that Trump used to be president, as he shows him a picture of his grandson. Among these were Matt Damon as Justice Brett Kavanaugh (whom Damon played as a drunken fraternity dude-bro that never grew up) and Ben Stiller as Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. The sketch brought back several celebrities who had cameos earlier in the season as key players in the ongoing investigation of Trump. It's a wish Clarence is all too happy to grant, before taking Trump to see how the world has changed for the better without a Trump Presidency. Trump is depressed by the mounting criminal investigations into his administration and is wishing that he had never become President of the United States. The Saturday Night Live sketch turns this concept on its ear, with an angel named Clarence ( Kenan Thompson) appearing to Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) on the White House balcony. Related: Best Christmas Movies of All Time Clarence goes on to show George Bailey the value of his life and his generous nature, by taking him to a world where he had never been born and showing him how much worse Bailey's hometown of Bedford Falls would be without him. As he contemplates jumping off a bridge, he is stopped by a man named Clarence (Henry Travers), who claims to be his guardian angel. The film's story centers upon George Bailey (James Stewart) - a good man pushed to suicide on Christmas Eve. Though It's A Wonderful Life was originally a box office bomb when it was first released in theaters in 1946, the movie would go on to become a holiday standard in the United States and one of the most popular Christmas movies of all time. The sketch also served as something of a curtain call for the season so far, bringing back celebrities who had cameos as key members of the Trump Administration in sketches from earlier in 2018. The final Saturday Night Live episode of 2018 opened with a parody of It's A Wonderful Lifeand more than a few satirical jabs at the Trump Presidency.
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