Kate gets huge applause for walking into the room. Speaking of a harder edge, Biden says the r-word in the dress version, apparently. There are several glimpses of the harder edge the characterization will take during Woody Harrelson’s brief appearances in the role-namely, “I’m a hugger, I’m a kisser…I’m a little bit of a sniffer,” as well as his tone deaf attitude toward Kenan’s character. Jason was a live wire while in the cast, in the best of all ways-it just does not sit right with the man he is impersonating by this point in time. To Jason’s credit, I do think he tries to mix things up a little, and it’s not as if SNL has ever demanded stringently accurate impressions, but they are caught in a difficult bind, because he is technically trying for the impression (rather than just doing like Chevy Chase used to do with no wigs or voice, only bumbling), which just points out how different he is. We also have, right off the bat, the central problem with Jason attempting to play Joe Biden in 2019-Biden was a very different person to the man Jason had played a decade earlier (even that version was not quite the same, but was closer than what we get here). I just sort of resent that the two are so intertwined, when this impression, while fine, was never something I saw as the best use of his talents. Perhaps this is because he never had the big breakout moments the others in “the four” (Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Andy Samberg) had, I don’t know. Jason is one of my favorite cast members of all time, but I feel like way too much attention tends to go to his Biden impression rather than his whole body of work on the show. His buoyancy puts a big smile on my face immediately.
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