Saturday Night Live beamed into Dugdale Towns

Thanks to an iffy internet site this morning, I watched “Saturday Night Live” fresh from the United States of America I just had to wash the ITV Nighty Show out of my mind. Yes, it is an American show, the jokes are American, the sketches are American, but the host tonight was Scarlett Johansson I can live with that.

On the subject of the content if you are a news watcher like me most of it makes sense with President Trump, his family, his Cabinet members and even one of his canine supporters in this week’s politics-packed episode.

Alec Baldwin returned to Saturday Night Live as President Donald Trump in a cold opening designed to remark on his questionable sources. Set at a military base under alien attack, which is a spoof of the movie “Independence Day” with a less fortunate outcome than the film.

Alec Baldwin is very good being Donald Trump it must be said.

The aliens invaded from the planet "Zorblat-9" who are quickly taking control of the U.S. Trump does not give the kind of inspirational speech like President Thomas J. Whitmore (Independence Day) he uses his questionable sources again going off about coal at one point.

"Actually, I heard the aliens are already here”, Baldwin's Trump says. "They've been hiding in this country for hundreds of years. They are shape-shifters.”

He then points to a Black woman soldier and outs her as an alien and then her colleague next to her another Black woman soldier an easy joke but made me giddle. The aliens enter the tent looking for the President he quickly announces he is not the man they are looking for.

Recently Baldwin signalled that his time impersonating the president is numbered.

Host Scarlett Johansson joined in the fun portraying first daughter Ivanka Trump, spoofing a commercial for Ivanka's fictitious perfume, 'Complicit', in an attempt to question her values too. Later two scientists and Johansson, show a panel of judges that they had developed a technology that enabled Johannsson’s dog to talk. She is shock to find her dog was a Trump supporter.