Dana Carvey previewed the 2024 presidential debates playing both Biden *and* Trump tonight. It was as brilliant as you hoped it would be.
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was already well established and his castmate Phil Hartman was playing challenger Bill Clinton. But when Ross Perot entered the race as a third-party candidate, Carvey ended up doing double duty in the show’s three-way debate sketch. While newcomer David Spade played Perot in the live wide shots, Carvey pre-taped the billionaire candidate’s lines for the close-ups.
As the camera cut back and forth, Carvey expertly transformed himself into each candidate using nothing but a bad wig and his impressive mimicry skills. He played Biden as a befuddled old man who mixes up Kamala Harris and Harrison Ford and Trump as a far more deranged madman who ranted about Kim Jong-un’s “tiny feet” and said, “I like my fro-yo like I like my voters: white and sloppy.”
Ultimately, Carvey presented a choice that few Americans are going to be happy with come 2024. While Biden seemed to embrace the slogan, “Monkeypox: It’s what’s for dinner,” Trump sent prospective voters off with the message, “God bless me and god bless my terrific penis.”