For some episodes of “Saturday Night Live”, the promise of a host for the first time brings emotion and anticipation, as he did a few weeks ago with Oscar Winner Mikey Madison.
Other times, it is good to wait for a convenience episode in which you know that you will probably like what is being served. In her fourth departure as presenter, the star of “Mad Men” Jon Hamm (promoting her new Apple TV+ “program,”Your friends and neighbors“) He did not have to prove anything; he just had to be as solid as it has been in past periods, not to mention the 14 (!) Cameos he has made since the last time he was the host in 2010, as he discussed in the monologue before being united by the winner of Oscar Kieran Culkin.
The program began with a sketch of games games with a family man and a successful dentist (Hamm) who is terrified of embarrassing himself, than Of course he does it in a short time. Hamm also touched the coanfrerion in a piece on a financial news channel For those of us who are bankrupt; A police officer who only wants pizza In a video it does not destroy; Half of a gay couple who will not explain how they got a newborn daughter during the night (or why he has Lizzo's face); A new employee whose parents were in “Jackass”; and a spokesman For a medication for herpes.
But the leading episode was one in which Hamm appeared only briefly: a long “The White Lotus” video parody.
Although Hamm was solid as always, much of the material beyond the midpoint of the program did not rise to fulfill its talents.
The musical guest Lizzo made statements with two t -shirts: a “Tarrified” reading, the other “black women were right.” She made a mixture of “Love in real life / still bad” and “Don't make me love. “
This week's Cold Open was a call to a Sketch from the last dinner two years ago in which President Trump stopped a biblical sketch with Mikey Day as Jesus to deliver a ruling monologue, while the rest of the cast remained frozen. This time, Trump (James Austin Johnson) discussed the state of the economy while comparing with the Messiah, “due to the disorder made of the economy.” Trump said the stock market died, between the dead came the third day and the fourth died again. “Jesus Christ is a name that we have been saying a lot lately,” Trump said, “Look Mi 401 (K), Jesus Christ, where was everything?” “As in the previous sketch, it rebuked the members of the Frozant cast individually, including Day, Emil Wakim, Sarah Sherman, Ego Nwodim and Kenan Thompson, the last of which they said:” Yes, I leave, and did it before receiving Trump's ridiculous.
In his monologue, Hamm interpreted a version of himself, which brought his own Wikipedia entry, which cites 14 cameos in “SNL” since 2010. A brief clip played of those appearances, and Hamm said: “Every time they call me to come to the program, I do it. I love seeing me.” Hamm said the cameos can encourage a sketch or underpin a flat monologue, and at that time Kieren Culkin joined, who recently won an Oscar for “real pain.” They spilled if “Mad Men” is better than “succession”, he asked Hamm to Culkin to give him his Oscar and Culkin referred to Hamm's paparazzi photos with tracksuit pants, which was a everything that has been more than a decade.
Best sketch of the night: cameos in abundance in “The White Potus”
“SNL”, the pre-faced version of the third season of “The White Lotus” of HBO included former distribution members and another Trump dose, with Johnson as president assuming the role of the Ratliff's patriarch (spiral thanks to a self-inflicted economic crisis) and Chloe Fineman as Melania Trump making a thick accent of North Carolina as Parker posse and. Trump's children, Don Jr. (day) and Eric (Alex Moffat), make a combined shaking of a rolex (Eric: “You said it is the moment”), and, in an apparent note to the recently announced relationship of the golfer with the ex -wife of Don Jr., Vanessa, the sketch ends with Tiger Woods (Thompson) with a sexual hand in the bed. Other stars in the sketch included Scarlett Johansson, former members of the Punkee Johnson and Beck Bennett cast (who returned as a Vladimir Putin without a shirt) and Hamm, playing a madman Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the best surprise of the sketch? A Cameo of the real member of the “White Lotus” cast, Jon Gries, who played Greg Hunt in the program. Did the sketch have a lot of point? Not really, but he did a good job capturing the visual vocabulary and the tone of the program.
It is also good: in this economy, the caramel bars passed from 'Segura, baby', to 'put that back'
In the check -up business channel to check, two hosts (Hamm and Nwodim), one of which wears a Kohl's suit, analyzes news about the world's financial crisis, but they really don't understand it. “It sounds like Gibberish for me,” says Nwodim about Standard & Poor's 500 stats. Instead, they discuss the growing price of Mac and Cheese in box, a “bisquick box” and caramel bars, which are no longer viable to buy for children. Thompson appears as a correspondent that discusses ways to replace foreign imports such as Perrier with US versions such as “Uncle Bubble”, made of water from the Tennessee tap. And Andrew DiSmukes is a Funko pop figures collector who is waiting for a great payment day. The best sketch joke: the hosts laugh at laugh at the idea of paying student loans. “I will never get it, I will never get it,” they sing in unison.
Winner of the 'Weekend Update': Chen Biao is back with 'Pesant Elegory'
This week's “update” had three guest segments, including Wakim arguing If Americans should feel a guilt for their privilege and sherman Play the Loco Contador of Colin Jost. But it was Bowen Yang's return as Chinese Minister Chen Biao, who won the night, reprimanding Americans for Trump's current trade war. “145%, great number, brother,” he said. “Which side is more willing to endure the difficulties for the glory of your nation? The one that has been around thousands of years or the one who is sending Katy Perry to Space? “Biao said Americans cannot live without Chinese technology, but China will be well without US exports such as Newman salad dressing.
