India, Oct. 11 -- Saturday Night Live aimed US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr in its latest cold open, using dark humour, celebrity impressions and exaggerated scenarios to poke fun at the Trump administration's handling of military conditions, public health and food safety.

In the sketch, Colin Jost portrayed Hegseth, while James Austin Johnson played RFK Jr. The two characters addressed sailors returning from a lengthy deployment aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, turning what should have been a welcome-home speech into a series of uncomfortable and absurd jokes.

From Hegseth's whiskey-bottle ammunition belt to RFK Jr.'s bizarre health claims, the segment delivered several pointe...