SNL breaks Trump, Clinton characters mid-sketch to encourage voting

It wasthe last time Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon got to poke fun atDonald Trump and Hillary Clinton live before the Nov. 8 electionand the actors took the opportunity to push Americans to vote.

InSaturday Night Live's opening sketch, the two, who have entertained audiences for weeks with their renditions of the presidential candidates,did something unexpected: theymade peace.

"I just feel gross all the time," Baldwin told the audience, dropping his Republican Trump persona. "Don't you guys feel gross all the time about this?"

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The two headed outside the building holding handsfor a hokey but nevertheless cute montage of each candidate embracing their detractors.

Before the actors broke character, the sketch itself took aim at both candidates, though the show has not hidden which side it favours.

Interviewer Erin Burnett, played by Cecily Strong,prodded Clinton about the ongoing email scandal andBaldwin/Trump responded that he doesn't use emailat all.

"Instead I use a very private, very secure site, where one can write whatever they want to and no one will read it. It's called Twitter."

The interviewer continuedto harp on Clinton's emailsdespite Baldwin/Trump giving goodbye kisses to an FBI agent, aVladmir Putin look-alike and a man dressed as aKu Klux Klan member. The KKK's official newspaper endorsed Trump for president earlier this week.

"What is happening?" McKinnon/Clinton asks when the interviewer continually ignores Trump and keeps returning to the emails. "Is the whole world insane?"

SNL is planning an election specialMonday night, which will be a mix of previous political skewerings that aired over the course of the 2016 campaign.

"None of this will have mattered if you don't vote," saidBaldwin, who joined the cast to play Trump at the beginning of the seasonlast month,in his own voice near the end of the sketch.