History Funny / SaturdayNightLiveSeason44

** James gets to revert to his natural accent in a sketch about an American plane filled with Kylie Jenner's entourage that encounters problems over Scottish airspace - and the only person who can help them is James as the Scottish air traffic controller whose accent is somehow ''even more incomprehensible''. There's a brief HopeSpot when Kel enters the cockpit claiming to have spent some time in Scotland - but after hearing one sentence, says "[[NoJustNoReaction NOPE]]!" and tries to leave the cockpit. To their credit, the audience laughs when the twist at the end is revealed - the plane ends up in ''Welsh airspace.''

** James gets to revert to his natural accent in a sketch about an American plane filled with Kylie Jenner's entourage that encounters problems over Scottish airspace - and the only person who can help them is James as the Scottish air traffic controller whose accent is somehow ''even more incomprehensible''. There's a brief HopeSpot when Kel enters the cockpit claiming to have spent some time in Scotland - but after hearing one sentence, says "[[NoJustNoReaction NOPE]]!" and tries to leave the cockpit. To their credit, the audience laughs when the twist at the end is revealed - the plane ends up in ''[[AcceptableTargets Welsh airspace.]]''

** Rather than promote ''Film/{{Glass}}'' or even ''Film/DarkPhoenix'', they get really retro and have James reprise the role of [[Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Mr Tumnus]], who's apparently had more visitors in recent years - specifically of the lonely ''and very thirsty'' female variety which Tumnus referred to as "lazy Hermione". The twist: he's already shacked up with [[HoYay Edmund.]]

** Christmas is around the corner, so they start off with a sketch about the Elf on the Shelf - Beck is Santa Claus receiving reports from some elves delivered straight from their shelves. Ignoring the incredulousness of ''Jason freaking Momoa'' in an elf leotard, there's just the incredulousness of Jason Momoa looking visibly distressed as the kid he's watching has reached a certain age, and all his interests center on [[ADateWithRosiePalms one thing]]:

'''Colin:''' And really, you can tell a lot by how each of them prepared for this meeting. [[CriticalResearchFailure Kanye prepared by learning every fact in the world backwards;]] while [[UnfortunateImplications Trump prepared by clearing his desk of any valuables.]]\\

** The ColdOpen covers the Michael Cohen hearing, meaning that Ben Stiller is back in the role, but the real focus is on the few Republican representatives hoping to discredit him and his testimony before they can go to trial, including the real surprise guest, Creator/BillHader as Jim Jordan, who's "so angry I COULDN'T EVEN WEAR A JACKET TODAY!!", but is ultimately done in by his own CriticalResearchFailure.

** The only real MCU nod is a parody of ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'', except that with AngryBlackMan being harder to sell nowadays, Idris plays an alternate version of Bruce Banner that when angered by the slightest thing turns into something far more damaging than a huge green (or even black) man... [[TakeThat a white woman with a phone.]]

** The obligatory spoof of ''The Marvelous Mrs Maisel'' is about Midge "grooming" an apprentice of sorts, Leslie Jones as a ShrinkingViolet cleaning lady who's put in front of the mike up on the Gaslight... and immediately turns into Leslie Jones in her usual standup routine, with the insult comic dialed UpToEleven.

'''Michael:''' [[RantInducingSlight I mean,]] ''{{Series/Frasier}}'' is about Frasier. ''{{Series/Roseanne}}'' is about Roseanne, ''{{Series/Seinfeld}}'' is about Seinfeld...What if i told you ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'' was about a guy named ''Cliff Huxtable?'' Am I the only one bothered by this?! [[CrossesTheLineTwice Alright, fine, take the rapist's side.]]

'''Junior:''' (another beat) [[AccidentallyAccurate Okay. Yeah. That's weirdly right.]]

*** Finally, a story about pulling ads for bidets off the subway leads to a guest commentary ''[[SomethingCompletelyDifferent from Michael Che]]'' for some reason, meaning that Michael has to run across from Colin and enter in the same fashion that Leslie Jones usually does. And then it gets ''more'' ridiculous.

---->'''Colin:''' In the ongoing feud between Music/50Cent and Music/JaRule, 50 Cent bought 150 front row tickets to Ja Rule's concert so they would all be empty. (audience already laughing) Ironically, 150 Ja Rule concert tickets costs ''exactly 50 cents.''\\

** Still on the subject of ''Game of Thrones'', there's a digital short about a potential bunch of spinoffs ready to roll upon the series finale, in every genre imaginable, and one is a rom-com with Jon Snow (Kit) getting back together with Ygritte (not Rose but Heidi Gardner). Except, y'know, she was KilledOffForReal at some point, so... she's a wight now.

'''Colin:''' And really, Kanye, now, do you really think that Donald Trump is your friend? After the meeting he called you 'a very different kind of guy.' ''That is not a compliment, man.'' [[ValuesDissonance That's what you call someone when you want to call them a word you can't say anymore.]] Like "hey, that Film/ForrestGump sure is a very different kind of guy." [...] And really, look it's really pretty simple. Kanye wants to be Trump's famous friend because Obama called Kanye a jackass. And when the President of the United States called you a jackass you'd go "you know who I like? The next president". So in a way, Obama is to blame for all this the same way [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Seth is to blame for making fun of Trump so much he decided to become president.]]\\

-->'''Seth:''' So Donald Trump met with Kanye West this week... ''Really?!'' Don't you have anything better to do with your time? And when I say that I'm not sure ''which of you I'm talking to!'' The only place these two people should meet is in ''group (therapy)''. [...]\\
'''Colin:''' And really, you can tell a lot about them from how they prepared for this meeting. [[CriticalResearchFailure Kanye prepared by learning every fact of the world backwards;]] while [[UnfortunateImplications Trump prepared by clearing his desk of any valuables.]]\\
'''Michael:''' [[NWordPrivileges Yknow, I negotiated four N-words as part of my new contract - it's true]] - so all I gotta say is - how much does this nigga owe in taxes? (''screen shows a scratch card with four black N's on it and one crossed out, while Seth and Colin both end up corpsing'')\\

'''Seth:''' Probably for the best...\\
'''Colin:''' And really, Kanye, do you really think Trump is your friend now? After the meeting Trump called you 'a very different kind of guy.' ''That's not a compliment.'' [[ValuesDissonance That's what you say when you want to use a word you can't say anymore.]] Like "hey, that Film/ForrestGump is a different kind of guy." [...] And really, it's very simple. Kanye wants to be Trump's friend because Obama once called Kanye a jackass. And when the President of the United States called you a jackass you go "you know who I like? The next US president". So really, Obama is to blame for all this just as [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Seth is to blame for making fun of Trump so much he decided to run for president.]]\\

'''Kate:''' I got you this peach, because I'm from Georgia... and also this banana, because [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar if this goes well then I'll (mimes gobbling on banana)]]

** An awkward "Career Day" has been a recurring segment on SNL for many years, but few if any hosts have contributed as dedicated a performance to the bit as Adam Driver in full old-age makeup as a [[Film/ThereWillBeBlood Daniel Plainview]]-style oil baron trying to teach high school students the importance of crushing their enemies. Nearly all of the cast members and extras corpse, but Driver never breaks, even when he [[ThrowItIn inadvertently]] ''impales'' the prop crow with his cane.