Two shows into its new season, Saturday Night Live is making Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker a regular focus of its roasts.
During its latest program, several jokes were pointed at Walker over allegations that he paid one woman to have an abortion more than a decade ago, which would clash with his own strict anti-abortion stance during his campaign. Walker has pushed back on the allegations, including that he urged the former girlfriend to get a second abortion, which she says she declined to go through with and led to the end of their relationship.
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In its cold open, Chloe Fineman played a character who was a mother of four driven to punch a fellow cast member after hearing the news that Walker went on to fundraise a record amount of money, even following the reports. The skit was part of a satirical game show called, “So You Think You Won’t Snap.”
Later in the NBC show, during the “Weekend Update” segment, cast member Michael Che took a shot at Walker, poking fun at the former NFL player with a focus on revelations during the campaign that Walker has fathered at least three other children beyond his adult son, Christian, whom the candidate had with his first wife, Cindy DeAngelis Grossman. Walker has been critical of absentee fathers.
“After the news broke that Walker paid for his ex-girlfriend’s abortion, he raised more than $500,000, because dollars are the only thing Walker is willing to raise,” Che said.
This happened after cast member Kenan Thompson entered the stage impersonating Walker in last week’s episode of the sketch comedy show. During his performance, he called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) by the wrong name and couldn’t find which camera to look at.
“Hi of America. My name is Herschel Berschel, and I play football for the U.S. Senate,” Thompson said. “Whenever I’m in hard times, I think of the strength of our founding fathers: George Carver Washington, the Jeffersons, and Benjamin Frankenstein. They changed the world when they got together and wrote the Bible. And when I’m the government, we gone see.”
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Walker is running against incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA).
