bits

Springfield noodles on a small guitar with “the unimportant bits ... removed. It’s a travel guitar. A fan gave me this, and I’ve had it for years. I’ve written tons of songs on it. I take it everywhere.”

“You have a London wardrobe, an Orkney wardrobe, and then a crossover of a few bits that bounce around,” Snell says.

The temporary twitcher had been walking his dog when he spotted the crowds and decided to join them, declaring that he would be "chuffed to bits" to see the American visitor.

By the time “Weekend Update” came along, with two non-election related character bits that missed the mark, the sketches began to feel exhausted and rote, with bad premises and weak writing.

Through it all, though, the focus of Terhune’s Alpha Male bits will stay on Trump and what he has shaped.