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Farewell to an Easy ‘SNL’ Target

Farewell to an Easy ‘SNL’ Target

The now-former Republican representative George Santos was a perfect fit for the show’s satire. Will Heath / NBC December 3, 2023, 12:23 PM ET Saturday Night Live loves to put a politician in front of a piano. Most famously, Kate McKinnon, playing Hillary Clinton, sat down in front of the keys and earnestly belted Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” following Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. It felt like a moment of contrition for the program that had invited Trump on as host during his campaign, to much criticism. Last night’s episode had another political piano bit, but this time it was a lot less solemn. As George Santos, the now-former Republican representative who was expelled from the House this past week, Bowen Yang made like Elton John and crooned his own version of “Candle in the Wind,” retitled “Scandal in the Wind.” “They’ll think of me as the modern Princess Diana and the modern Marilyn Monroe,” Yang explained before bursting into the song most commonly associated with both of those women and …