“SNL” star Bowen Yang bid farewell to expelled Rep. George Santos in a swan song and dance crammed with lies on Saturday night.
Holding a press conference outside of the Capitol constructing following his expulsion, Santos, played by Yang, insisted he was being assaulted and bullied by the complete country because he was a “proud, gay thief.”
“For the reason that day I used to be elected, it’s been a witch hunt, but when I’m guilty of anything it’s for loving too much- slash- fraud,” he said with an overcoat draped over his shoulders, through the show’s “Cold Open.”
“Now I’m sure you bloodthirsty jackals in the media have a thousand mean, nasty questions you’re dying to ask me, go,” Santos says before a reporter responds “You called this press conference, nobody asked you to do that”
As he called on reporters for questions, Santos attempted to trick them by asking for his or her banking personal information comparable to their bank routing number, mother’s maiden name, and childhood pet, the latter of which got a solution.
Now stripped of his congressional duties, Santos referred to himself by his latest title of “Professor, Major, General, Reverend, Astronaut Santos, Protector of the Realm and Princess of Genovia,” the fictional country from “The Princess Diaries” film series.
When he’s asked how he’d prefer to be remembered later in history, Santos answered together with his parody of Elton John’s hit song “Candle in the Wind.”
Santos, appearing in a dark room alongside a grand piano for his final performance, began singing his ballad by saying goodbye to the “Congress Queens” although they didn’t know him because he lied about his entire life to them.
He goes on to sing concerning the many accusations which were made against him including using donation funds for botox, using a fake name, and the way he lied about all the faculties he attended and the roles he held.
“It seems to me I lived my life like a Scandal in the Wind,” he sang. “…Congress stuff is hard. The hardest job I ever had. And I used to be a neurosurgeon at NYU.”
Yang has routinely portrayed Santos through the hit “NBC” sketch show, appearing because the politician in the cold open and “Weekend Update” segments since January.
“I used to be like, ‘Oh he has glasses and we each have a gross nasally voice so perhaps I’m the guy,” Yang told Seth Meyers about how he got here to reprise Santos.
The actual George Santos faced months of investigations after he won his Nov. 2022 election despite fabricating a majority of his background including where
On Friday, the US House of Representatives voted for the third time to expel Santos, and did so successfully, kicking the indicted lawmaker from his elected position, only the sixth time ever.
The lower chamber voted 311-114 with eight no votes and two Democrat lawmakers voting present.
Within the late hours of Friday and into Saturday, Santos went “scorched earth” on several of his former co-congress members, by saying he could be filing ethics complaints against them to the Office of Congressional Ethics.
The disgraced politician said he was targeting his complaints against Recent York Reps. Nicole Malliotakis, Mike Lawler, Nick LaLota and Recent Jersey Rep. Rob Menendez.