Jaleesa Jones

Special for USA TODAY

Saturday Night Live did not come to play this week. As part of Saturday’s cold open, the variety show immediately tackled the scandal involving Republican Alabama Senate nominee Roy Moore.

Moore (played by Mikey Day) appears alongside Vice President Mike Pence (Beck Bennett) and vehemently denies recent allegations that he made inappropriate advances toward teenagers during his time as an assistant district attorney in the early 1980s.

An unmoved Pence continues to try to nudge Moore to bow out of the race, insisting "voters in Alabama will never elect someone who had relationships with a minor."

“You sure about that?” Moore asks.

“No,” Pence says, though he maintains “it’s hard to convince people you’re not into teen girls when you’re dressed like Woody from Toy Story.”

Pence then draws parallels between the controversy surrounding Moore and the sexual harassment scandal engulfing comedian Louis C.K., who recently admitted to sexual misconduct, noting, “Even I heard about Louis C.K. and I’m not allowed to watch TV, I’m only allowed to listen to it.”

At one point, Kate McKinnon’s Jeff Sessions creeps out of a cabinet to chime in, agreeing Moore has "been doing some controversial stuff."

"You wave a gun around on stage, tell folks Muslims shouldn’t be allowed in Congress and that 9/11 was God’s punishment for sodomy," Session says. "I love it. You check a lot of boxes for me, Roy, but it was really bad. I’m usually the creepiest one in the room, but I look at you, and I’m like ‘Oh my God.' They say you even admitted to being with a couple of 16-year-olds? . . . I’m Alabama but, you sir, are too Alabama. Get out, get on, leave me to my gerrymandering."

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