John Mulaney SNL Sketches Ranked: Kamala Harris, Tim Kaine & Pete Davidson for Another NYC Musical

John Mulaney brings a calm consistency to all of his appearances on Saturday Night Live, but if you're one of those people who thinks these sketches drag on way too long, this is not the episode for you. If you exclude Weekend Update and the monologue, this bad boy only has six sketches. One of those is the inevitable political cold open, with the SNL election players getting their final curtain calls before the election (though we suspect we'll still see them in the weeks to come). Another is John's signature New York musical, which continued with more quintessential and nonsensical New York-isms from Port Authority. He even brought back Pete Davidson -- looking less tatted than ever! -- to witness yet another of these crazy sketches. The big surprise of the episode wound up not a surprise at all to anyone paying close enough attention to entertainment media as they absolutely spoiled that the real Kamala Harris was poised to take the stage opposite Maya Rudolph's Harris as they gave one another a pep talk ahead of their final campaign appearance. It was definitely a night of memorable impressions, from the political regulars to Kenan Thompson's Little Richard and a totally unhinged take on Reba McEntire by Heidi Gardner, offering her take on the election for Weekend Update. What a weird and strange election cycle this has been, so we guess this episode was a pretty appropriate way to wrap it up (until we spend the next weeks/months/years arguing over who really won). Even Chappell Roan managed to generate some headlines of her own by debuting a brand-new lesbian country single, "The Giver" (which is not available on her or SNL's YouTube pages. While she was certainly giving all the stereotypical country imagery and sounds, we'll have to wait and see if the industry embraces this any better than they did Beyonce. As usual, we're ranking all the sketches from worst to first, including the Monologue, Cold Open, "Weekend Update" and any sketches that were cut for time but made their way online. We'll skip the musical guests, because they're not usually funny -- unless Ashlee Simpson shows up. We wrap up with a look at the cast-member who had the strongest week. The almost-ending was a little too obvious, but still pretty funny. The actual ending we got a lot less so. There were some logical inconsistencies in the characterizations where this could have been funnier. In fact, there were some genuinely funny moments mixed throughout the maudlin -- which created an amusing juxtaposition -- but we just weren't at all on board with how the whole sketch ended. We also expected a lot more from Ego Nwodim's appearance as a Black coder in the early days of NASA, but they just kind of ignored all of the potential with that one. As expected, John delivered some of his signature-style standup material for his monologue, touching base on being a family man -- with a very short family -- as well as his 1902-born grandfather and is own struggles ash his body starts to give out now that he's in his 40s. It was all very mellow and charming, but either it got funnier as it went along, or we got pulled into his unique worldview and started seeing things more and more the way he does in his material. Either way, we ended with a smile and a chuckle, which is all we could aks for. What a different tone from James Austin Johnson's Trump, running out of gas with spoofs of Trump railing about the microphone (with a yikes! joke about Mike Pence), a dangerous callback to his "grab 'em by the" comment, this time tied with his vow to protect women whether they like it or not. It was kind of fun seeing this gassed version of his iconic take on the former president, before the sketch shifted gears to the surprise spoiled in the hours leading up to the live broadcast. That's right, after all the political players made their (last?) exits from the scene, Maya Rudolph's Kamala Harris had a moment in the mirror with the real deal, who had to delver her opening line twice due to the crowd reaction. It was a fun appearance from Harris, who did a capable job of portraying herself, even with all the "-ala" additions to basically all the words as they pepped one another up for this final push before election day. The New York musical has become a staple of John Mulaney appearances, but has it run its course? Pete Davidson was looking great -- and far less inked -- in his return for the sketch alongside Andrew Dismukes as John shared with them the wonders and glories of the Port Authority bus station. The pieces of this, though, felt even more random than usual, with very little connecting thread between them. And considering it all started with milk, Jane Wickline's random appearance toward the end as a carton of milk felt like a missed opportunity for ... something. The musical vignettes we did get were fun (and particularly Andy Samberg's dead bear Ham