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On SNL tonight, Kenan Thompson portrayed Senate Chaplain Barry Black, who provided up a collection of prayers for the federal government shutdown, each and every one escalating in violent imagery as he became increasingly more disenchanted with the reality at hand.
“Lord,” he started out, “Please smack ‘em throughout the face with a sack stuffed with quarters. Now that’s change I will consider in.”
However as “Weekend Update” anchor Seth Meyers explained to him Ted Cruz‘s position in the persevered shutdown, Black obtained even more serious: “Bless these braying jackasses,” he commenced his subsequent prayer. “May just they in finding themselves in a restroom stall, devoid of toilet paper.”
When Meyers knowledgeable “Black” that there’s a compromise thought on the desk presently, however literally no one, including the president, helps it, the chaplain outright gave up: “Ship a flood to Washington and simply drown everybody.”
Watch beneath, by means of NBC:
