The first “Saturday evening live” since Donald Trump’s election victory began on the somber note as a group of simply dressed cast members, mostly women and minorities, described their new reality.

“For many people, including many people watching now, the results were shocking and even horrifying,” Ego Nwodim said matter-of-factly.

“Donald Trump, who violently tried to overturn the results of the last election, was put back in office,” Heidi Gardner said.

“And now,” Bowen Yang added, “thanks to the Supreme Court, there are no guardrails.”

Then came the swerve of the liberal-leaning show.

“That’s why we at ‘SNL’ want to say to Donald Trump: We’ve always been with you,” Keenan Thompson said.

Yang said, “We have never wavered in our support for you, even when others doubted you.”

“Everyone on this stage believed in you,” Sarah Sherman said.

Marcello Hernández added: “Everyone on this stage voted for you.”

The cast members then profusely expressed their respect and obedience to the former and future president, introducing a new character: “Hot, Jacked Trump.”

Cast member James Austin Johnson, who plays a deadly Trump and was all but guaranteed a long-term job by the election, emerged as a president-elect with the body of Adonis.

“From now on, we’re going to portray Trump in a very flattering way because, quite frankly, he’s my hero,” Johnson said, using his Trump voice but speaking as himself. “He is going to be an incredible president and ultimately king.”

The episode, hosted by stand-up comedian and actor Bill Burr, was the first episode in the entire season not to open with a former cast member Maya Rudolfwhich played Vice President Kamala Harris in a dizzying five-week run, culminating in an appearance last week by Harris himself, kicking off the show’s 50th season and triggering a ratings spike.

Burr, host after stand-up Dave Chappelle, hosted the final two episodes after the presidential election, did his own feint in his monologue by saying, “I don’t watch politics” and did some standard stand-up, including an airplane bit, before returning to the elephant in the studio, the election.

“Alright, let’s get to whatever you all want to talk about. Okay ladies, you’re 0-and-2 against this guy,” he said. “But you learn more from your losses than from your wins. So let’s take a look at the game tape. Ladies, enough with the pantsuit. Okay, it doesn’t work. Stop trying to respect yourself.”

He introduced candidates who were at least a little more scantily clad, saying: “I know a lot of ugly women – feminists, I mean – don’t want to hear this message.”

Burr was “so excited that this stupid election is finally over. Four years ago, everyone knew who they would vote for. Then they dragged us through this stuff for a year and a half,” he said.

After Trump’s first election victory in 2016, the show opening was and remained serious Kate McKinnonwho played Hillary Clinton on the show, appeared as the losing candidate, sitting at the piano and singing a somber version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” changing only one verse from the best-known versions of the song.

“And even though it all went wrong, I’ll stand before the lord of the song with nothing on my tongue but ‘Hallelujah,’” McKinnon sang in what became a national moment of catharsis for those on the losing side.

After finishing, McKinnon said in a shaking voice, “I’m not giving up and neither are you” before delivering the obligatory “live from New York, it’s Saturday night!” pronounced!

Rudolph didn’t appear as Harris this Saturday night, but former cast member Dana Carvey, who has played President Joe Biden all season, appeared as a leaping Elon Musk after the cast said they loved him too.

After the opening, the sketches reverted to standard, non-election fare of “SNL,” except of course for the fake news “Weekend Update.”

“On Tuesday we learned that Democrats don’t actually know how to rig elections,” said fake co-host Colin Jost.

He later added: “Knowing the Democrats, they will take a long look in the mirror, learn from their mistakes and lead Biden again in 2028.”

Co-host Michael Che, who is Black, drank throughout the segment, saying he couldn’t believe people convinced him Harris could win over Pennsylvania’s rural population.

“Obviously I’ve spent too much time with you white liberals and your idiotic optimism,” Che said.