 As of February 1, 2015, its advance sale of $13.5 million had broken records for a Broadway show.Since 2015, David made multiple guest appearances portraying 2016 and 2020 United States presidential election candidate Bernie Sanders on "Saturday Night Live"; he also hosted the show on February 6, 2016, with musical guest The 1975 and a cameo from Sanders himself, and on November 4, 2017, with musical guest Miley Cyrus.When appearing on the PBS show, "Finding Your Roots", host Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed to David that he and Bernie Sanders share a genetic bond as distant cousins.