SNL Season Premiere: Jay Pharoah Swears In as Obama, MacFarlane Makes a Splash as Ryan Lochte

Seth MacFarlane | Photo Credits: Dana Edelson/NBC

Saturday Night Live returned for its season premiere in full election mode. The exits of high-profile cast members Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg and Abby Elliott weren’t immediately felt thanks to strong impressions from the likes of Jay Pharoah as President Barack Obama and Bill Hader as Republican National Convention speaker, and chair enthusiast, Clint Eastwood.

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In the show’s cold open, Fred Armisen officially passed the baton of impersonating the President to Pharoah…


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