He’s a regular on daytime cable news shows, but Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vt.) finally hit the big time this weekend: He was featured on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.”
Or, at least, his name was.
The show’s opening segment parodied last week’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearings on the Benghazi attacks. The sketch featured an overzealous chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), calling as witnesses convicted boyfriend-killer Jodi Arias and accused Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro.
Which was kind of weird — and not all that funny.
Odder still, the two members of Congress sitting on either side of Issa — identified in the script and captions as Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) — sat behind name-plates reading “Rep. Doc Hastings” and “Rep. Peter Welch.”
Which was also kind of weird.
You can watch the sketch here:
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My boys I noted that. We were quick to note the VT reference and then when the dialogue started they used completely different names. It was kind of weird. Can’t be that complicated for the set dept to create accurate nameplates.