@nbcsnl/Twitter(NEW YORK) — The first post-election Saturday Night Live didn’t open with a knee-slapping sketch spoofing the presidential candidates from the previous week, nor did it include Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump.
Instead, the show opened on a somber note: Cast member Kate McKinnon — in character as pantsuit-wearing Hillary Clinton — kicked off the cold open at a piano playing and singing “Hallelujah” by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, who died Monday at 82.
Tonight’s cold open with Kate McKinnon. #ChappelleOnSNL pic.twitter.com/zZhQOLhKXY
— Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) November 13, 2016
The lyrics of the song also seemed to speak to Clinton’s defeat:
I did my best, it wasn’t much I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you And even though It all went wrong I’ll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
After her performance, McKinnon’s Clinton said, “I’m not giving up and neither should you.”
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