By THR Staff. Kate McKinnon's Hillary Clinton impression has been widely praised this election year. The comedian did her first Saturday Night Live impersonation of Clinton in , but it really took off for her in the past year as Clinton became the Democratic nominee and the presidential election took center stage. McKinnon's Clinton uses a plethora of facial expressions to emulate Clinton, mixing in robotic gestures, awkward narration of her attempts to be natural and a dash of desperately wanting to appeal to millennials.
The comedian also adds charm, empathy and ambition to her impression, allowing her character some gleeful and joyous moments of celebration as well. Here's a look at some of McKinnon's best work as the former secretary of state.
McKinnon started out by mocking Clinton's stilted use of "trumped-up trickle-down economics" and then proceeded to use comical facial expressions to punctuate Trump's words. As Baldwin's Trump fuddled with his words and babbled on about Clinton and Obama breaking his microphone in Kenya, Clinton said, "I think I'm going to be president.
Later on after a different Trump tirade, when she was asked to respond she said, "Not a response, more of a request: Can America vote right now? The real Hillary Clinton made a cameo alongside McKinnon last season. The presidential candidate played a bartender named Val, serving drinks to a tired McKinnon as Clinton.
I've had a hard couple of 22 years," said McKinnon's Clinton. She joked that she had a one-year-old granddaughter that calls her Madam President and teased Clinton about taking a while to decide on her positions on the Keystone XL Pipeline and same-sex marriage. Darrell Hammond even makes a cameo as a horrified Bill Clinton. In this SNL campaign ad, fictional Clinton addresses millennials , of whom there are "so, so many" in the United States that they could help determine the election.
