Well, I just got surprised. Barack Obama appeared in the opening sketch of Saturday Night Live.

The cast portrayed Bill and Hillary Clinton hosting a Halloween party at their home, with all her rivals invited, because, as she tells the faux John Edwards, “we have to come together and support the Democratic nominee next year, no matter who she turns out to be.”

John Edwards: Great costume, Hillary, you make a great witch.

Hillary: (icy) I’m a bride.

Bill Richardson, played by Horatio Sanz, has come to the party as Al Gore. “Pretty weird to see me as a vice president, huh, Hillary? But not that weird.” Joe Biden and Chris Dodd appear, both as Spongebob Squarepants, and complain that they make each other redundant. Mike Gravel appears in a straitjacket, and is unaware that it is a costume party.

After asking, “who’s that little kid making out with the hot chick?”, Bill Clinton admires Dennis Kucinich’s wife. And then finally, one of the Clintons asks, “who’s that in the Barack Obama mask?”

The figure in the Obama mask takes it off to reveal… Barack Obama. He says, “I don’t believe in putting on masks, and pretending to be something that I’m not, in being phony, even on Halloween.” (paraphrased) Then, having made exactly the kind of tough jab he failed to make in last week’s debate, he says, “by the way, Hillary, that’s a great bride costume.”

“She’s a witch,” the faux Bill Clinton says.