'Morning Joe' Gets The SNL Treatment & Kate McKinnon Is Brilliant As Mika Brzezinski

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This weekend's 'Saturday Night Live' took aim at the American Health Care Act; President Donald Trump -- voiced by Alex Baldwin -- posing via phone as his own mythical PR agent John Miller; and this week's news that 'Morning Joe' hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are engaged. 

The shows's cold open skit featured comedians Kate McKinnon doing a great Brzezinski with Alex Moffat playing Scarborough. The duo got racy and more than once -- much to the horror of regular 'Morning Joe' panelists also in the skit. 

“Well, guys, they did it, ok. The House has passed their health care plan which might take health insurance away from 24 million Americans. Many of them are swing voters in 2018. If morality doesn’t matter to them, I mean, maybe just pure politics should?” announced Scarborough.

“It’s crazy! I’m up it, I’m over it, I’m past it, I’m in the driveway, the car is running,” added McKinnon’s panicky, hilariously spot-on Brzezinski. She then turned to Joe: “This party—your party, the Republican Party—is completely morally bankrupt at this point.”

“Oh, Mika! That’s enough, ok?” he fired back, before turning to her and gazing at her seductively. “You’re being snickety because you know it pushes my buttons.”

“Does it? Push your buttons?” Brzezinski replied, moving closer to Scarborough and caressing his hair.

“It does,” he offered, gazing deeply into her eyes.

Taking up the AHCA amendment that would allow states to waive Obamacare's pre-existing conditions requirement if they meet certain criteria, McKinnon said: "A C-section is a pre-existing condition. And you know what's not a pre-existing condition? Erectile dysfunction," she continued.

"Well, hold on," Moffat said, appearing to get irritated. "Now, here we go, all right, Mika, you're being dramatic," he added. 

The two hosts continued engaging in suggestive behavior throughout the skit — Moffat's Scarborough called McKinnon's Brzezinski "Mika mouse" and repeatedly said, "You're being naughty" — and in front of the show's panelists, who all looked confused and uncomfortable. 

"Willie Geist, what are you seeing here?" Moffat asked, seeking panelists' thoughts on the AHCA. 

"Uh, what am I seeing here? I have no idea, I have so many unanswered questions," said Willie Geist, who was played by SNL regular Mikey Day.

For those of us who watch 'Morning Joe', Kate McKInnon perfectly nailed Mika Brzezinski. Simply stated, I couldn't stop laughing, and I just wonder what the engaged duo will have to say tomorrow. 

Morning Joe Hosts Joe Scarborough & Mika Brzezinski Confirm Engagement

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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are engaged to be married, cementing their relationship at a weekend proposal at the scenic Bar Bellini at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes. Brzezinski celebrated her 50th birthday on the romantic trip to the south of France and Monaco. 

Scarborough remarked to The Hollywood Reporter last month that he and Brzezinski "have a crackling on-air chemistry, and a crackling off-air chemistry, too." Scarborough divorced his second wife in 2013 and Brzezinski divorced her husband in 2016. In the same interview, Scarborough made it clear that even their pets were co-mingling. 

 For Scarborough, that's a dog named Scout and a Maine Coon cat named Oliver Meatball Scarborough. Brzezinski's brood includes two dogs (Hobson and Cajun), two rabbits (Melania and Donald), two cats (Emma and Elle) and three chickens (Gina, Donna and Nugget).

"They get along great," Scarborough says. "They will always sort of spar with each other and…" Brzezinski cuts him off: "And he lets the cat get on the kitchen counter, which is just gross."

"I do not," Scarborough replies.

"We all understand that Meatball runs the house," he adds. "Even the dogs."