Sen. Amy Klobuchar Amy Klobuchar3 reasons why Biden is misreading the politics of court packing Social media platforms put muscle into National Voter Registration Day Battle lines drawn on precedent in Supreme Court fight MORE (D-Minn.) on Saturday praised comedian Rachel Dratch's depiction of her on "Saturday Night Live," saying it was "so good" that it "got my daughter to text me."

"OK [Rachel Dratch], you played a good me on @nbcsnl tonight," Klobuchar tweeted in response to a picture of Dratch playing her. "You were so good that you even got my daughter to text me on a Saturday night (a first)."

OK @TheRealDratch you played a good me on @nbcsnl tonight. You were so good that you even got my daughter to text me on a Saturday night (a first). https://t.co/z5qcFmSXdk — Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) September 30, 2018

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SNL opened its new season with a parody of last week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing during which Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testified after the woman accusing him of sexual assault, Christine Blasey Ford.

The skit zeroed in on the tense exchange between Kavanaugh and Klobuchar, imitating their back-and-forth over drinking alcohol.

"Judge Kavanaugh, would you say in high school that you were a frequent drinker?" Dratch, playing Klobuchar, asked Kavanaugh, who was played by Matt Damon.

"Look," Damon replied, imitating Kavanaugh's aggression. "I like beer, OK? I like beer. Boys like beer, girls like beer, I like beer. I like beer!"

Kavanaugh during the hearing noted repeatedly that he likes beer but does not have a problem with alcohol.

"Okay, so I asked if you drank in high school and you said, 'I like beer' 10 times," Dratch replied as Klobuchar. "That leads me to the next question — did you ever drink too many beers?"

"You mean was I cool?" Damon replied as Kavanaugh. "Yeah."

"Alright, then tell me this, judge, did you ever drink so much that you passed out?" she asked.

After a pause, Damon replied, "I don't know, did you?"

The skit riffed on the moment during the real hearing between Kavanaugh and Klobuchar in which he asked her if she had ever blacked out from drinking.

Kavanaugh after a break apologized to Klobuchar, who has spoken about her father's struggles with alcoholism.

"When you have a parent that's an alcoholic, you're pretty careful about drinking," she replied during the hearing.

Klobuchar later said of the exchange in an interview with CBS News that if she “was in his courtroom and acted like that, he would have thrown me out.”