The first “Saturday Night Live" since Donald Trump's election victory began with the most somber of tones as a group of plainly dressed cast members, primarily women and minorities, described their new reality. “To many people, including many people watching right now, the results were shocking and even horrifying,” Ego Nwodim soberly said.

Saturday Night Live has a vaunted tradition of handing over the keys of its first post-election episode to a comedian whose fan base spans the entire political spectrum. Dave Ch