For some episodes of “Saturday Night Live”, the promise of a host for the first time brings excitement and anticipation, as a few weeks ago Mikey Madison, winner of an Oscar.
Other times, it is nice to expect an episode of restoration where you probably know what is served. In his fourth outing as a host, the star of “Mad Men” Jon Hamm (promoting his new Apple TV +program, “Your friends and neighbors») Did not have to prove anything; He just had to be as solid as he was in past stays, not to mention the 14 (!) The cameo he made since he organized for the last time in 2010, as he discussed in the monologue before being joined by the winner of Oscar, Kieran Culkin.
The show started strong with a sketch of play show with a father and a successful dentist (Hamm) who is terrified to kiss, which Of course, it is in a short time. Hamm also played the co-host in a song on a Financial Information Channel for those of us who are broke; A policeman Who just wants pizza In a video please, don't destroy the video; half a gay couple that will not explain How they got a newborn girl overnight (or why she has Lizzo's face); A new employee whose parents were on “Jackass”; and a spokesman For herpes medication.
But the show of the episode was the one in which Hamm only presented briefly: a long Video parody of “The White Lotus”.
Although Hamm was always solid, a large part of the material in the middle of the show did not reach his talents.
Musical guest Lizzo made statements with two t-shirts: one read “Tarrified”, the other “black women were right”. She interpreted a mixture of “Love in real life / always bad” And “Don't make me love you. “”
Cold Open this week was a reminder for a Last sketch of supper two years ago In which President Trump arrested a biblical sketch featuring Mikey Day as Jesus to deliver a disjointed monologue while the rest of the distribution remained frozen. This time, Trump (James Austin Johnson) discussed the state of the economy while comparing himself to the Messiah, “because of the Mess -a made the economy”. Trump said the stock market has died, resurrected from the dead on the third day and that the fourth died again. “Jesus Christ is a name that we have said a lot lately,” said Trump, “” looks at my 401 (K), Jesus Christ, where everything went!? “” As in the previous sketch, he reprimanded the members of the individually frozen distribution, including Day, Emil Wakim, Sarah Sherman, Ego Nwodim and Kenan Thompson, the latter said: “Yes, I leave”, and I did it before receiving a ridiculous of Trump.
In his monologue, Hamm has played a self-obeyed version of himself who spoke of his own Wikipedia entrance, which quotes 14 cameos on “SNL” since 2010. A brief clip played with these appearances, and Hamm said: “Every time they call me to come in the series, I do it. I love to look at me.” Hamm said the cameos can animate a sketch or support a flat monologue, and at that time, he was joined by Kieren Culkin, who recently won an Oscar for “real pain”. They clashed if the “madmen” are better than the “succession”, Hamm asked Everything more than a decade ago.
Best sketch of the night: abundant cameos on “The White Potus”
The pre-tape of “SNL” of the third season of “The White Lotus” of HBO included former distribution members and another dose of Trump, with Johnson as president playing the role of the patriarch of Ratliff (in a spiral thanks to a self-inflicted economic crisis) and to Chloe Fineman as Melania Trump making a thick North Caroline. Trump's sons, Don Jr. (Day) and Eric (Alex Moffat), make a mixed Shake from a Rolex (Eric: “You said it was time”), and – in an apparent wink to the recently announced relationship of the Golfer with the ex -wife of Don Jr. Vanessa – The Sketch ends with Tiger Woods (Thompson). The other stars of the sketch included Scarlett Johansson, the former members of the Punkee Johnson and Beck Bennett distribution (who returned as Vladimir Putin Pourse naked) and Hamm, playing a madman Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The best surprise of the sketch? A cameo of the real casting member of “White Lotus”, Jon Gries, who played Greg Hunt in the series. Did the sketch have a lot of points? Not really, but it did a good job by capturing the visual vocabulary and the tone of the show.
So good: in this economy, the candy bars have gone from “of course, baby” to “put it back”
On the news channel on the check, two hosts (Hamm and Nwodim), one of which carries a Kohl costume, analyzing the news of the world's financial crisis, but they really don't understand it. “It looks like charabia for me,” said Nwodim about 500 Standard & Poor's statistics. Instead, they discuss the increase in the price of macaroni with a box cheese, a “big ass box of bisquick” and candy bars, which are no longer viable to buy for children. Thompson appears as a correspondent discussing means to replace foreign imports like Perrier with American versions like “Uncle Bubble”, made from tap water in Tennessee. And Andrew Dismukes is a collector of Funko pop figures who is holding for a big salary. Better joke of the sketch: Laughter hosts at the idea of repaying student loans. “I'm never going to understand it, I'm never going to understand it,” they sing in unison.
Winner of the “weekend update”: Chen Biao is back with “Paysan Elegy”
This week's “update” had three guest segments, including Wakim chatting If the Americans should feel a certain guilt as to their privilege and Sherman Playing the wacky accountant of Colin Jost. But it is Bowen Yang's return as Chinese Minister of Commerce Chen Biao who won the night, repressing the Americans during the Trump's current commercial war. “145%, cool number, brother,” he said. “What side is the most willing to endure the difficulties for the glory of their nation?” The one who has been for about thousands of years or the one who sends Katy Perry in space? “Biao said that Americans cannot live without Chinese technology, but China will go well without American exports like Newman's own vinaigrette.
