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The 2016 Republican presidential field and pharmaceutical marketing are both topics ripe for parody—and Saturday Night Live has obliged, skewering both at the same time in this faux ad for the world's most narrowly targeted anti-dementia drug.
In the bit, which aired this weekend on SNL's season premiere, Kenan Thompson pitches Abilify (which is a real antipsychotic drug) as a pill just for politicians who are deluded in thinking they might someday actually be president.
Taran Killam plays Rick Santorum.
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