“SNL” star Bowen Yang bid farewell to expelled Rep. George Santos in a swan music and dance crammed with lies on Saturday evening.
Holding a press convention exterior of the Capitol constructing following his expulsion, Santos, performed by Yang, insisted he was being assaulted and bullied by the whole nation as a result of he was a “proud, homosexual thief.”
“For the reason that day I used to be elected, it’s been a witch hunt, but when I’m responsible of something it’s for loving too much- slash- fraud,” he mentioned with an overcoat draped over his shoulders, throughout the present’s “Chilly Open.”
“Now I’m positive you bloodthirsty jackals within the media have a thousand imply, nasty questions you’re dying to ask me, go,” Santos says earlier than a reporter responds “You referred to as this press convention, nobody requested you to do that”
As he referred to as on reporters for questions, Santos tried to trick them by asking for his or her banking private data comparable to their financial institution routing quantity, mom’s maiden title, and childhood pet, the latter of which acquired a solution.
Now stripped of his congressional duties, Santos referred to himself by his new title of “Professor, Main, Common, Reverend, Astronaut Santos, Protector of the Realm and Princess of Genovia,” the fictional nation from “The Princess Diaries” movie collection.
When he’s requested how he’d wish to be remembered later in historical past, Santos answered together with his parody of Elton John’s hit music “Candle within the Wind.”
Santos, showing in a darkish room alongside a grand piano for his last efficiency, started singing his ballad by saying goodbye to the “Congress Queens” though they didn’t know him as a result of he lied about his complete life to them.
He goes on to sing concerning the many accusations which were made in opposition to him together with utilizing donation funds for botox, utilizing a pretend title, and the way he lied about all the faculties he attended and the roles he held.
“It appears to me I lived my life like a Scandal within 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 throughout the hit “NBC” sketch present, showing because the politician within the chilly open and “Weekend Replace” 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 man,” Yang instructed Seth Meyers about how he got here to reprise Santos.
The true George Santos confronted months of investigations after he gained his Nov. 2022 election regardless of fabricating a majority of his background together with the place
On Friday, the US Home of Representatives voted for the third time to expel Santos, and did so efficiently, kicking the indicted lawmaker from his elected place, solely the sixth time ever.
The decrease chamber voted 311-114 with eight no votes and two Democrat lawmakers voting current.
Within the late hours of Friday and into Saturday, Santos went “scorched earth” on a number of of his former co-congress members, by saying he could be submitting ethics complaints in opposition to them to the Workplace of Congressional Ethics.
The disgraced politician mentioned he was focusing on his complaints in opposition to New York Reps. Nicole Malliotakis, Mike Lawler, Nick LaLota and New Jersey Rep. Rob Menendez.