For SNL's Cold Open, Tears, Not Laughs, From Kate McKinnon
Dressed in character as Clinton, she plays Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
Saturday Night Live’s cold open began with the camera focused on hands at a piano, pressing keys into familiar chords. It zoomed out to reveal Kate McKinnon, dressed, once more, as Hillary Clinton, playing and singing Hallelujah, the enduring hit from Leonard Cohen, who passed away on Monday.
A week ago, the idea of Clinton sitting at a piano in a white pantsuit would have been funny. Nearing the end of this long week, it was an elegy to what was lost.
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