Tom Hanks Returns as David S. Pumpkins on SNL

Tom Hanks returned as David S. Pumpkins in Saturday Night Live’s Halloween cold open, where James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump interrupted the haunted-house sketch with jokes about the midterm elections and men’s physiques. The segment opened with a couple on a Halloween attraction encountering Hanks’s orange-suited character, first introduced on the show in 2016. Mikey Day and returning cast member Bobby Moynihan appeared alongside him as dancing skeletons. Johnson then entered as Trump, stopping the scene and teasing the audience about the recurring character’s appearances. The Trump character compared himself with David S. Pumpkins, saying both had appeared in 2016 and were loud, orange and annoying. While the other performers remained frozen, he praised Hanks’s appearance and joked that he had recently been admiring men’s physiques. The sketch called the supposed fixation “gay dementia,” a phrase used as part of the character’s comic routine. The cold open also turned to the approaching midterm elections and Republican prospects in Texas. Johnson’s Trump said the polls were going badly and compared the state’s political shift to the bruising on his hand. He urged viewers...