What a joke! Hillary decides to go on SNL and make it one big campaign commercial bashing Republicans and promoting herself. Not one mention of the e-mail scandal! That s pretty interesting and shows she s thin-skinned and SNL did everything to put her in the best light. Reminds me of the Palin bashing but I doubt Americans are buying this unfunny attempt at bashing candidates.The front-runner for the Democratic nomination appeared on the season opener of  Saturday Night Live  as a wise bartender named Val who pours a drink or two for, ahem, Hillary Clinton (played by  SNL  regular Kate McKinnon).Most political candidates play themselves on  SNL,  often for just a cameo in a sketch or to declare the show s famous tag line,  Live from New York   it s Saturday night!  Seldom do they go all-out thespian and play a character in a sketch. So, Hillary,  Clinton asks McKinnon,  what brings you here tonight? Well, I needed to blow off some steam,  McKinnon says.  I ve had a hard couple of 22 years. Asked what she does for a living, McKinnon says in imitation of Clinton s earnest monotone:  First, I am a grandmother. Second, I am a human, entrusted with this one green Earth. Oh,  Clinton says,  you re a politician. And just who is Val? Clinton deadpans,  I m just an ordinary citizen who believes the Keystone pipeline will destroy our environment.  Republicans didn t fare nearly as well as  SNL  began its 41st season. The opening sketch made fun of Trump and his wife, Melania, and a faux commercial pitched a pill that cures people of thinking they can be president   specifically low-polling GOP candidates Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee and Jim Gilmore. 