--- title: Rachel Dratch Plays Amy Klobuchar in SNL Skit w/ Matt Damon description: Senator Amy Klobuchar was happy with the impersonation that Rachel Dratch gave of her on Saturday Night Live this weekend. canonical: https://time.com/5411491/amy-klobuchar-on-snl/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-01T15:20:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:10.808Z og:title: This Senator Was Very Happy With Her SNL Impression og:description: "You played a good me" og:url: https://time.com/5411491/amy-klobuchar-on-snl/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9cf1825ae39ef8c/69893b8d22fb8526f8e26c9e/rachel-dratch-plays-senator-amy-klobuchar-on-snl.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Vote On Brett Kavanaugh Nomination og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Senator Was Very Happy With Her SNL Impression twitter:description: "You played a good me" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9cf1825ae39ef8c/69893b8d22fb8526f8e26c9e/rachel-dratch-plays-senator-amy-klobuchar-on-snl.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Senator Was More Than Pleased With Her _Saturday Night Live_ Impression  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 1, 2018 3:20 PM UTC  WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 28: Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) delivers remarks about Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh during a mark up hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 28, 2018 in Washington, DC. The committee agreed to an additional week of investigation into accusations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh before the full Senate votes on his confirmation. A day earlier the committee heard from Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor who who has accused Kavnaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 28: Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) delivers remarks about Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh during a mark up hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 28, 2018 in Washington, DC. The committee agreed to an additional week of investigation into accusations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh before the full Senate votes on his confirmation. A day earlier the committee heard from Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor who who has accused Kavnaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 1, 2018 3:20 PM UTC Minnesota [Sen. Amy Klobuchar](http://time.com/5409176/kavanaugh-apologizes-senator-klobuchar-black-out-drunk/) was more than pleased with her portrayal during the [_Saturday Night Live_ season premiere](http://time.com/5411117/trump-kanye-west-saturday-night-live/) on Sunday. In the [cold open skit](http://time.com/5411043/matt-damon-mocks-brett-kavanaugh-snl/) that kicked off the episode, the _SNL_ cast recreated Supreme Court nominee [Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee](http://time.com/5409246/christine-ford-brett-kavanaugh-politics/) during his confirmation hearings, along with some help from special guest stars. In the skit, Kavanaugh, played by a sniffling Matt Damon, is questioned about whether or not he got “blackout” drunk by Senator Klobuchar, who was portrayed by a very passionate Rachel Dratch, a beloved _SNL_ alum. Dratch’s spot-on impersonation of the senator during the testimony was so good that she garnered high praise from Klobuchar herself, who took to her Twitter to commend Dratch’s performance. “You played a good me,” Klobuchar wrote. “You were so good that you even got my daughter to text me on a Saturday night (a first).” > [](https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1046260227128139776) Dratch was quick to respond with a tweet. > [](https://twitter.com/TheRealDratch/status/1046310218945187840) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5411491/amy-klobuchar-on-snl/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5411491/amy-klobuchar-on-snl/"},"headline":"This Senator Was More Than Pleased With Her Saturday Night Live Impression","datePublished":"2018-10-01T15:20:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:10.808Z","description":"\"You played a good me\"","url":"https://time.com/5411491/amy-klobuchar-on-snl/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9cf1825ae39ef8c/69893b8d22fb8526f8e26c9e/rachel-dratch-plays-senator-amy-klobuchar-on-snl.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9cf1825ae39ef8c/69893b8d22fb8526f8e26c9e/rachel-dratch-plays-senator-amy-klobuchar-on-snl.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Vote On Brett Kavanaugh Nomination","caption":"Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Vote On Brett Kavanaugh Nomination","creditText":"Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5411491/amy-klobuchar-on-snl/","name":"This Senator Was More Than Pleased With Her Saturday Night Live Impression"}}]}] ```