Christine O’Donnell tried to get one thing straight in her first official televised campaign advertisement of the year—“I am not a witch.”
By Saturday, a second televised advertisement of the candidate was aired, but not with the approval of the infamous Tea Party candidate.
The advertisement was on the air again, but with a Saturday Night Live twist. The SNL pseudo-campaign ad — played by Kristin Wiig — stuck to the original advertisement scrip, but added a few embellishments.
O’Donnell is currently running as the Republican candidate in the senate race in Delaware.
She has been trying to play down comments that she said in 1999 on the HBO show, Real Time with Bill Maher.
On the show she claimed to “have dabbled in witchcraft” and that “one of [her] first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar.”
The SNL version played up her actual advertisement. “Isn’t that what the people of Delaware deserve?” Wiig said. “A candidate who promises first and foremost that she is not a witch.”
The spoof continued to play with the idea of O’Donnell being a witch and it closed with the Wiig, playing O’Donnell, saying, “I am not a witch, and if I am, do you really want to cross me?”
The mocking of politicians on Saturday Night Live is not new. Many of its earlier classic skits include Chevy Chase playing President Gerald Ford falling down the Air Force One steps, to a series of Tina Fey skits as Sarah Palin in the 2008 presidential election.
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Ryan Aves, a freshmen a prospective business major, said people shouldn’t get worked up about political skits.
“Political views are meant to be offended,” Aves said. “If you are offended by a comedy show like Saturday Night Live, then you are the wrong audience for the show.”
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