SNL's Savage Portrayal Of A Biglaw Partner

Saturday Night Live skewers Biglaw.

onJanuary 17, 2017 at 12:18 PMJanuary 17, 2017 at 1:41 PM

Sheri Dillon

Hello, yes, hi. My name is Sheri Dillon, I’m his lawyer. And this right here is all the papers that prove that Mr. Trump is really divesting. I mean, look at all these papers. If he wasn’t divesting, how could there be so many dang papers? There’s papers here, there’s papers here. I mean it’s like, ‘Help! Help! Lifeguard! I’m practically drowning in papers.’ If you still don’t believe me I’ll read every paper out loud right now starting with this one. Oh, that’s right they’re fake.

—Cecily Strong’s satirical portrayal of Morgan Lewis partner Sheri Dillon, who made headlines after appearing at President-elect Trump’s latest news conference. Dillon tried to explain away Trump’s conflicts of interest, but really, the prop file folders got all the attention. Watch the full bit below (Dillon around 4:25).

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