To tackle such a whirlwind week, the show’s cold open decided to play on the traditional movie spoof, casting Kate McKinnon’s take on Jeff Sessions as the simple-minded, chocolate-munching character of Forrest Gump.
“Yeah, I had a bad week,” McKinnon’s Sessions says.
Then I went to bed, I got 800 messages and phone alerts, saying I was a sneaky little liar.”
The sketch even saw Sessions’ own, uncomfortable take on a famous Forrest Gump quote: “I always say, life is like a box of chocolates, sure are a whole lot of brown ones in there.”