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May 20 (UPI) -- This weekend's Season 43 finale of Saturday Night Live featured a sketch in which U.S. President Donald Trump and his legal team appear in the iconic last scene from The Sopranos. Like the HBO mob drama's infamous closer, the 5-minute, SNL version saw the story's central characters sitting in a diner talking about life and ended with the screen going to black, leaving it up to the audience to decide what happened to them. In case anyone missed the reference, it also featured Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" playing in the background and Alex Moffat as Eric Trump struggling to parallel park a child's toy bike outside the restaurant. Alec Baldwin reprised his role of Trump in the clip, which has gotten nearly 700,000 views on YouTube since it was posted Saturday evening. Th...

April 15 (UPI) -- This weekend's edition of Saturday Night Live included a parody of Les Miserables with a 40-year-old diner lobster standing in for the hunted hero Jean Valjean.It all started when Pete Davidson and Chris Redd sat down to eat and Davidson told the waiter -- played by guest host John Mulaney -- that he wanted to order the lobster.After the waiter and Redd expressed surprise that Davidson would order lobster in such a casual eatery, Mulaney shouted: "Alright, everyone. The time has come. We've got an order here for lobster."Kenan Thompson -- dressed as a lobster in 18th century attire and standing in a water tank -- is then pushed out into the restaurant. He proceeds to ponder his fate to the tune of "Who Am I?" from Les Miserables as the camera pans to Davidson, who can be ...

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'SNL' sketch puts President Trump, legal team in 'Sopranos' finale

'SNL' lampoons 'Les Miserables' with hilarious lobster sketch