As promised, Bernie Sanders made an appearance on the Larry David-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live. However, instead of the Democratic hopeful simply acting as himself alongside David's perfect impression of the Vermont senator, Sanders was pulled into a sketch that highlighted his views on democratic socialism and the 1-percent. 
 
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 The sketch opens up with David and the cast of SNL aboard an "olden times" sinking steam ship. David's selfish, rich character questions why he must wait for women and children to board lifeboats first, then uses his wealth card to force his way off the ship. "Technically, my life is worth more than all of yours put together," the character says. "So if it's all the same to you, I'm going to pop down in that lifeboat." And on that cue, Sanders – or "Bernie Sanderswitzski" – appears as the voice of reason. 
 
 "I am so sick of the 1-percent getting this preferential treatment. Enough is enough," Sanders says. "We need to unite and work together if we're all going to get through this." "Sounds like socialism to me," David fires back. "Democratic socialism," Sanders clarifies. David asks, "What's the difference?" "Huge difference," Sanders responds, a nod to both Donald Trump and Curb Your Enthusiasm. 
 
 Despite bonding through the traumatic situation, when it's discovered that the ship crashed on Liberty Island, David's character quickly turns down an offer to share a cab with Sanderswitzski. 

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 But if you started watching SNL looking to #FeelTheBern, you might have had a moment of worry, at least at first. The Vermont senator did not appear in the show's cold open. He did not come on stage during David's monologue. He didn't even appear in a pre-taped sketch all about him, called "Bern Your Enthusiasm," where David, playing Sanders, loses the Iowa caucuses by annoying just enough voters in the way only Larry David (or Bernie Sanders, or Larry David — we're confused) can. It was smart, and with a cameo by a coughing, no-hand-wiping Leslie Jones, it touched on Sanders' lingering inability to attract widespread support from black voters. 
 
 In a pre-taped sketch, cleverly named "Bern Your Enthusiasm" a-la Larry David's show Curb Your Enthusiasm, we learn how Bernie Sanders lost in Iowa by a hair. SNL YouTube 
 
 But Sanders finally did appear, in a skit where he and David play two men on a distressed ship headed to America, arguing over who gets into lifeboats first during a storm. Sanders' character, Bernie Sanderswitzky, rails against Larry David's character when he tries to get preferential treatment because he's rich. "I'm so sick of the 1 percent getting this preferential treatment," Sanders says, alluding to one of his central campaign messages. David says that all sounds like socialism. Sanders corrects David, and replies, "democratic socialism." 
 
 In the bit, Sanders' character also makes light of his Jewish heritage, joking that he'd change his last name, Sanderswitzky, when he gets to America, "so it doesn't sound so Jewish." 
 
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 Sanders' campaign played up the senator's appearance on Twitter. Near the start of the show, he tweeted out a fundraising appeal, with a Curb Your Enthusiasm reference: "We need your vacuum pennies. Chip in a few," read the tweet, with a link to donate. 
 
 Overall, there wasn't a lot of Sanders' performance to judge. His cameo was definitely shorter than Donald Trump's a few months ago, and seemed to have even fewer lines than Hillary Clinton as Val back in October. After his appearance in the steamship skit, Sanders did return to the stage as David introduced musical guest The 1975. "It's pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good," Sanders said when David asked how his campaign is going. 
 
 And at the end of the show, when the band plays and all the cast hugs and shakes hands, Sanders appeared again, soaking it all in, smiling. No curmudgeonly "Bern Your Enthusiasm" Sanders present at all.
– Bernie Sanders came face to face with Larry David on Saturday Night Live, the latest presidential candidate to meet up with the actor who plays him or her on the show. "Bernie Sanderswitzski" found himself aboard a sinking ship as David's 1-percenter character tried to weasel his way onto a lifeboat, notes NPR. The encounter went a little something like this, reports Rolling Stone: "I am so sick of the 1% getting this preferential treatment. Enough is enough," Sanders says. "We need to unite and work together if we're all going to get through this." Responds David: "Sounds like socialism to me." "Democratic socialism," Sanders corrects. David asks, "What's the difference?" And in a nod to Donald Trump and David's Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sanders responds, "Huge difference." It wasn't the only nod to the show: David also starred in a sketch called "Bern Your Enthusiasm." Both clips are in the gallery. "Overall, there wasn't a lot of Sanders' performance to judge," writes Sam Sanders at NPR, noting that Sanders' cameo was shorter than both Trump and Hillary Clinton, but that he appeared at the end, "soaking it all in, smiling. No curmudgeonly 'Bern Your Enthusiasm' Sanders present at all."