Easter is a period of rebirth and renewal – and also an opportunity for Saturday Night Live to bring together as many imitations of celebrities in one sketch.
SNL this weekend, which included Lizo as its host and musical guest, opened with cast members filling the bag with impressions, starting with Bowen Young as the Easter Bunny.
He explained that although it may not be the most popular holiday mascot, “I’m the strangest: a bunny the size of a man without a story.
Young added that, unlike Santa Claus, “I don’t use enslaved elves to make my Easter baskets. I’m taking them to Etsy. Because I support women. ”
Young was followed by Kate McKinnon in the recurring role of Dr. Anthony C. Fauci. “Believe me, I’m not here to give you more guidance on Covid,” McKinnon said. “I’m not stupid enough to think you’re going to follow him. All I will say is that Covid’s cases are many like Jesus’s: they have risen again.
Cecily Strong played Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Green, who said she aggressively wished a happy Easter to her Jewish and Muslim counterparts. Chris Red plays New York Mayor Eric Adams, who shared some good news with the audience:
“We caught him: we caught the shooter,” Red said, referring to the man accused of setting fire to a Brooklyn subway car on Tuesday. “Of course, it took 30 hours and the suspect surrendered, but we caught him. The case is closed. The subway is fixed. Drive without fear. ”
Mikey Day appeared as billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and announced that he plans to buy Easter. “I’m offering 43 billion Peeps,” he said. After a laugh, Day added, “It was a joke. Hahaha. Do you get it? That’s why I say, “It was a joke.”
Chloe Feynman played Britney Spears, who was celebrating her recent release from a longtime conservatory. “Do not worry; “I am finally free and I will have a baby,” she said. “I just pray that my baby is born happy, healthy and empowered.
Kyle Mooney then appeared with long hair and a beard, identifying himself as Jesus Christ. “I’m kidding – I’m Jared Leto,” he said. He added that his Easter message this year is to promote positivity. “So if you go to see my new movie Morbius, please don’t watch it,” he said.
Just as Ian seems to be finishing the sketch, he was interrupted by James Austin Johnson, who plays former President Donald J. Trump. Johnson, like Trump, complained that his omission was “another example of how whites are being treated terribly in this country.”
He continued to deliver a jumbled, discursive monologue about Cap’n Crunch, Seabiscuit, and Little Caesar (which Johnson claims taught him to say “Pizza, Pizza”). He then celebrated the holiday, noting, “I told America Covid will be done by Easter. I just didn’t say which one. “
Nostalgic plays of the week
It was the week that SNL realized it had the perfect cast to play Black Eyed Peas for a sketch in which two producers in 2008 (played by Lizo and Eddie Bryant) helped their colleagues (Kenan Thompson, Strong, Redd and Yang) turned their not-so-complicated insights and emotions into hit singles such as “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling”.
And if that sketch wasn’t enough to satisfy your desire to move back to a more innocent time than 13 or 14 years ago, there was this segment where several performers played Mr. Six, the inexplicably agile former mascot of Six Flags theme parks.
Lisa performances of the week
Lizzo’s musical talents have been used productively in several sketches this week, most notably in this film segment, where she and Please Don’t Destroy are frantically trying to come up with a new hit single for her in 10 minutes, leading to a fun catastrophic song (and music video) “Horny Zookeeper.” In second place will be this sketch, which presents Lizo as a flutist whose non-traditional methods inspire an entire orchestra.)
Lizo was also quite successful when it came time to be a legitimate, non-comedian musician: her rendition of her new song “About Damn Time” is perhaps the first time we’ve seen SNL audiences go crazy on the flute solo.
Weekend Update Jokes of the Week
At the Weekend Update, presenters Colin Jost and Michael Che spoke about President Biden’s political problems and Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter.
Yost began:
A new poll shows that President Biden’s approval rating has fallen to its lowest all-time high of 33 percent. In the long run, this is less than half of the approval rating of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. “Sonic 2” includes the characters Tails and Knuckles, who are also the names of two members of the band that Joe Biden claims fought in the 1960s. There was also a video of President Biden concluding a speech in North Carolina, after which he apparently turned to shake hands with an invisible man. Hey, her name is Kamala.
What happened:
President Biden, seen here trying to remember where he left his mask, announced new federal regulations on ghost weapons. I mean, look, I don’t like the idea of people having ghost weapons. But if there is something strange in your neighborhood, who will you call? [His screen showed the cast of “Ghostbusters.”] Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for more than $ 40 billion so he can loosen the rules on free speech. Here’s how much white boys want to use the N-word.
Jost added to this topic:
Honestly, I don’t understand why Elon wants to own Twitter at all. It used to be something that seemed important and even fun, but now you look at it and it’s confusing and depressing. This is Giuliani’s app. And come on, Elon built electric cars, he’s going to Mars. Why join Twitter at all? It would be like the Prince of England giving up everything just to marry a Costume Actor. Besides, I have to say that Twitter is no longer even profitable. It just feels like a bad business decision. And I say that as someone who bought a ferry on Staten Island with Pete.
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