Lena Dunham Meets Olivia Pope in SNL’s Scandal Spoof

Television watchers will rejoice with the collision of two pop culture phenomenons on Saturday Night Live: it’s essentially a sketch where Girls’s Hannah Horvath stumbles into the political TV drama Scandal.

Lena Dunham, playing an overwhelmed political fixer, is tasked with placing a bug on the Mexican ambassador’s wife, an assignment made harder due to the fact that she can’t measure up to the other people in the room — especially when the flawless-looking Olivia Pope (played by Sasheer Zamata) has a steamy romantic encounter with President Fitz (Taram Killam). “I’m really sorry your boyfriend’s the President,” Dunham stammers.

Watch below, via SNL:

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