Press Converence

Sarah Huckabee Sanders… Aidy Bryant

Keith… Beck Bennett

Barbara… Cecily Strong

Katie… Heidi Gardner

[Starts with Sarah Huckabee Sanders walking to the press conference podium]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Okay, good morning, guys. Halloween’s over but I see some of you guys are still in your journalist costumes I thought you would love that one. So, um, in a minute, I’m gonna tell you guys a six-minute riddle about taxes. But first, I’m going to take some questions. So, yeah, Keith.

[Cut to Keith]

Keith: Sarah, you’ve continually denied any connection between the Trump campaign and the interference by the Russian government.

[Cut to Sarah Huckabee Sanders]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Wow, y’all are obsessed with this. It’s freaking lame.

[Cut to split screen with Keith and Sarah Huckabee Sanders]

Keith: However, Sarah, in light of indictments handed down this week. What I want to know is how you can continue to stand here day after day and maintain there is no connection to the president?

[Cut to Sarah Huckabee Sanders]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Well–

[Cut to the music video.]

[music playing]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: [singing] It’s time for me to take it
I’m the boss right now
I’m not going to fake it
not when you go down
Coz this is my game
and you better come to play

Uh-uh-uh

What’s wrong with being
What’s wrong with being
What’s wrong with being confident?
Oh-ho-ho

[Cut to reality]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Look, this has nothing to do with the White House. Okay? An we barely knew these guys. They were like interns or volunteers or carnies just making their way through town. One night only.

[Cut to Keith]

Keith: are you actually comparing the campaign manager to a Carnie passing through town?

[Cut to Sarah Huckabee Sanders]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Um, that’s gonna be a hell yeah from me, Keith. And I guess I would just add suck my–

[Cut to the music video]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: [singing] I used to hold the freak back
now I’m letting you go
I made my own choice
bitch I run this show
You can call them lies
but you can’t make me behave

[Cut back to reality. The journalists are raising hands for questions.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Barbara.

[Cut to Barbara]

Barbara: Sarah, this week John Kelly said that the civil war could have been avoided through compromise.

[Cut to Sarah Huckabee Sanders]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Look, history is a bottle of moments that is filled with time and horses and invention of the telephone, okay? But, if you don’t like that, you gotta take it up with father time, alright? Bruce.

[Cut to Barbara]

Barbara: There’s no Bruce here. Can you at least acknowledge how offensive those comments are to some people?

[Cut to Sarah Huckabee Sanders]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: No.

Barbara: No?

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: No

Barbara: Yeah, I got it.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: [mocking] Nooo!

[Cut to the music video]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: [singing] You say that I’m a puppet
that I must be out of my mind
all you media can stuff it
stuff it, stuff it

[Cut to reality]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Katie, come on. Give me a fun one.

[Cut to Katie]

Katie: No. Obviously, sexual harassment has been in the news. So, is the official White House position that the sixteen women that have accused the president?

[Cut to Sarah Huckabee Sanders]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Well, hang on, now. Coz it’s riddle time, y’all. And this is gonna help you understand the new tax plan, alright? Ten people have a bar tab of $100, right?

[Cut to the music video]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: [singing] What’s wrong with being
what’s wrong with being–

[Cut to reality]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: But the 8th man is a Polak. Okay? So, he’s dumb as a box of rocks.

[Cut to the music video]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: [singing] What’s wrong with being

[Cut to reality]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Milk. Milk. Lemonade. Round the back. That’s where the fudge is made.

[Cut to the music video]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: [singing] What’s wrong with being

[Cut to reality]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: And you end up at the McNugget. And that’s taxes.

[Cut to the music video]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: [singing] What’s wrong with being
what’s wrong with being
what’s wrong with being confident

[Cut to reality]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: [singing badly] Waaa! Alright.

[Cut to Alex]

Alex: Are you singing Demi Lovato song?

[Cut to Sarah Huckabee Sanders]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Hello, no. [winks]

Author: Don Roy King

Don Roy King has directed fourteen seasons of Saturday Night Live. That work has earned him ten Emmys and fourteen nominations. Additionally, he has been nominated for fifteen DGA Awards and won in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.

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