Video taking off 12x its usual first day

SNL's defeated candidates want forgiveness without saying sorry

Druski joins a cut-for-time campaign-ad parody that has passed two million views, with fictional Republicans asking everyone to forget the smears.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,809,061 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (156,630).

Post-Election Ad - SNL

What happens to a vicious campaign ad after its candidate loses? In Saturday Night Live's "Post-Election Ad - SNL", the people who approved it would prefer everyone stopped bringing it up.

Druski, Andrew Dismukes, Ashley Padilla and Jeremy Culhane appear in the cut-for-time sketch, playing defeated Republican candidates ready to embrace national healing. Accountability is a less attractive prospect. These are fictional politicians in a parody, not actual candidates delivering concession speeches.

Their old attack ads supply the evidence against this sudden change of tone. A montage accuses opponents of being secret werewolves or having terrorist connections. When challenged about inventing claims, Phil Miller offers a remarkably economical defense: "Sure, but I did that to win."

The sketch has passed two million views, with an estimated first-day audience more than eleven times the channel's usual for Shorts. Its comments also arrived at roughly ten times the usual first-day pace.

The joke rests on the distance between asking for forgiveness and offering an apology. The candidates acknowledge what they said, then treat the election result as a reason everyone else should move on.

Dismukes and Padilla also appear in the separate "Weekend Update: Two People Who Just Hooked Up on the Midterms - SNL", which has passed a million views too. There, election analysis comes from a different kind of awkward pairing.

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