"Saturday Night Live" threw a curveball by taking a break from hammering President Donald Trump in this week's cold open and instead focusing on another powerful man who has been accused of wrongdoing: R. Kelly.
"SNL" took aim at the interview, recreating it with Leslie Jones as King and Kenan Thompson portraying an extremely stupid version of Kelly, who thinks that houseplants are cameras and believes the words "cult," "accountant" and "Big Mac" all begin with the letter Q.'😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂#SNL #RKelly #GayleKing #rkellymemes pic.twitter.
When confronted by King about allegations of keeping an harem of young girls in a sort of cult, Thompson's Kelly searches for empathy: "Look, I made a lot of mistakes in my life. Maybe I can't read or write or math, but I'm still a person. I put on my pants one sleeve at a time, just like everybody else."
"Do y'all just keep your camera out in the open like that?" a shocked Kelly responds. "Boy, y'all some freaks."
Brilliant