While filming the skit to promote this week’s episode of “Saturday Night Live,” host Bill Burr and cast member Marcello Hernandez faced a unique problem: How to handle the presidential election even though the spot would be shot before the results were known?

Their answer: audio jokes and Jeffrey Epstein jokes.

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As they discuss the election at the artisans’ table, Burr and Hernandez keep being interrupted by increasingly absurd loud noises that drown out their words.

Hernandez says, “Dude, I can’t believe… won” as a crew member makes a smoothie in a nearby blender, perfectly timed to obscure the winner’s name.

Burr replies, “Never in a million years – in a million years – have I thought that…” as someone behind them turns on a vacuum cleaner.

To keep the joke going, Burr then tells Hernandez he was “in a steam room with Giuliani” who told him “who actually killed Epstein” – referring to the convicted pedophile who was found dead in his prison cell in 2019. says the name, another crew member drills into a wall. Hernandez goes on to say that his “cousin who works at the Pentagon” told him who Epstein’s killer was when someone passed by with a leaf blower.

The piece ends with Hernandez going through a list of recreational drugs he has stashed away while one of the “SNL” band members blows a saxophone. Then Hernandez asks Burr who he voted for.

“I voted for everyone,” Burr said. “I just filled them in.”

“Me too, me too!” says Hernández.

“Whatever happens, I’m right!” says Burr. ‘It wasn’t us. We are on the sidelines.”

Burr’s episode of “SNL,” featuring musical guest Mk.gee, airs Nov. 9 at 8:30 PM PT / 11:30 PM ET on NBC.

Watch the full promo here:

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