In an earlier segment, the show parodied David's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" with "Bern Your Enthusiasm," offering a humorous explanation for why Sanders lost the Iowa caucuses. 'Bernie Sanderswitzky' rocks 'Saturday Night Live'

Bernie Sanders channeled his inner Bernie Sanderswitzky in his "Saturday Night Live" close-up, appearing in a sketch with host Larry David that gently prodded at the democratic socialist's campaign message.

David's character, playing a man on a distressed ship a century ago, tried to finagle his way onto a lifeboat with the women and children, asserting that his father was "rich ... [and] from a wealthy family. Technically, my life is worth all of yours put together, especially these women and midgets. So if it's all the same to you, I'm going to pop down in that lifeboat."


"Hold on. Hold on. Wait a second. I am so sick of the 1 percent getting this preferential treatment. Enough is enough. We need to unite and work together if we're all going to get through this," Sanders' character says.

"Sounds like socialism to me," David's character remarked.

"Democratic socialism," Sanders' character corrected him.

"Eh, what's the difference?" David's character asked, to which Sanders responded, "Yooge difference."

"Yooge?" David asked.

"Yooooge!" Sanders responded.

"Yooge with a 'y,' eh? Who are you?"

"I am Bernie Sanderswitzky, but we're going to change it when we get to America so it doesn't sound quite so Jewish," he said. "Yeah, that'll trick 'em," David responded.

After it was revealed that the ship had crashed onto Liberty Island in New York City, the characters exit. Sanders (or Sanderswitzky) asks David's character if he wanted to split a cab.

"Eh, I think we've talked enough," David responded.

In an earlier segment, the show parodied David's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" with "Bern Your Enthusiasm," offering a humorous explanation for why Sanders lost the Iowa caucuses. In the pre-taped sketch mirroring a "Curb" episode, David, playing Sanders, declines to shake the hand of a woman in a small group on a ropeline after she coughed. He also declared himself "not a popper" when a woman gets in a car crash and asks Sanders to pop her shoulder back into place so that she can vote for him. The punchline: Both women and the ropeline group are later revealed to be the deciding factor in Sanders' Iowa loss.

To mark his appearance on the David-hosted show, Sanders changed his avatar to one of the comedian playing him during last October's episode. In that sketch, David-as-Sanders asked supporters to contribute their "vacuum pennies" to his campaign, a line the campaign capitalized on as David began his monologue.