Funny / Saturday Night Live Season 46

The 46th season of Saturday Night Live started on October 3, 2020, with a smaller live audience, but the same big laughs it had before the pandemic happened... especially since it's an election year (and even after that, the aftermath and ongoing problems are worth a few laughs).

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• Chris Rock/Megan Thee Stallion
  • The cold open took on the first debate between Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) and Joe Biden (Jim Carrey), with Biden hilariously attempting to restrain himself.
    Biden: (Literally pausing Trump with a remote a la "Click") "Sorry, but I think we all needed a break. Isn't that satisfying? Just not to hear his voice for a single goddamn second? Let's wallow in it. Let's bask in the Trumplessness."
  • Maya Rudolph as Kamala Harris scolding Trump for interrupting Biden like a mother defending her child, while Biden acts just like an embarrassed child.
  • During Chris Rock's monologue, he talks about how the pandemic means everyone has to do frequent health checks before they can perform:
    Rock: I haven’t had this much stuff up my nose since I shared a dressing room with Chris Farley!
  • Michael Che blows past the idea that they shouldn't be making jokes about Trump being revealed to have coronavirus just the day before, saying it literally has everything you'd want for a joke and if anything is too on the nose, like if he was mocking people who wear belts and suddenly his pants fell down.
• Bill Burr/Jack White:
  • Fans were demanding a Cold Open shout out to The Fly (1986) after a fly spent two minutes on Vice President Mike Pence's head during the Vice Presidential debate...but hopes for Jeff Goldblum to participate weren't attainable due to his being in England for the Jurassic World: Dominion shoot. What's a show to do? Have a bored Joe Biden (again played by Jim Carrey) go through telepods to disrupt the debate, get merged with a fly, and from there undergo a Slow Transformation via cutaways:
    Jill Biden (Heidi Gardner): Oh no, there must have been a fly in the teleportation machine! That's why Joe turned into a fly!
    Telepod Scientist (Kyle Mooney): Yeah, but that doesn't explain why he sounds like Jeff Goldblum...
    Joe Biden: (With dark, stringy hair and Milking the Giant Cow hand gestures) God created dinosaurs, dinosaurs became Republican, Republicans created Trump, Trump destroys God! Mmmmm... (Smiles strangely)
    Jill Biden: Oh no, now he's gone full Goldblum!
    Telepod Scientist: He even has the glasses!
    Joe Biden/Jeff Goldblum: (With Nerd Glasses) Apartments.com-mmmm, the most popular place to find a place! No no, yes yes, because life...finds a way!
  • Throughout all of Bill Burr's monologue, he talk about and sharply criticizes anti-maskers, cancel culture, woke white women all at once.
  • Weekend Update trots out what looks at first like an exceptionally lame one-note character for Kate McKinnon, only for her to break down in laughter causing Colin to break character and ask if she's okay. She replies "I'm obviously not" and goes on a rant about all the heavy stuff going on right now, in such a believable performance that a sizable amount of fans online actually thought they were seeing a genuine live Creator Breakdown.
• Issa Rae/Justin Bieber:
  • The regular appearance of Don Jr and Eric Trump (Mikey Day and Alex Moffat again) on Weekend Update takes an unexpected new direction, when they rope in Chloe Fineman as Tiffany Trump - whom Eric doesn't even recognize.
    Don Jr: Eric! Don't call her Not-vanka!
    Eric: But Dad does... [...]
    Colin: Tiffany, are you concerned that you might spread Covid to all your party guests, considering that your dad actually had Covid?
    Tiffany: Uhh no, Dad has always observed the six-feet distancing rule with me.
  • Heidi Gardner breaks out a new character, "famous 80s cocaine wife" Carla, whose classy if somewhat backdated garb belies the fact that she's on a borderline nervous breakdown the whole time, and her idea of "powdering her nose" is actually coking up in front of everybody.
    Heidi: Directed by David O. Russell!
• Adele/HER:
  • The Cold Open covers what Kristen Welker (Maya Rudolph) called the "second, and God help us, last presidential debate." It pretty much establishes the Running Gag of Joe Biden (Jim Carrey) going into one of his impressions (Clint Eastwood in this case) during the process.
    Trump: We are making so many ventilators... If elected I promise that everyone in America will be on a big, beautiful ventilator.
    Welker: That segues to healthcare in a scary way...
  • In the monologue, Adele basically fesses up to her Sir Swears-a-Lot habit, complete with footage of her performance at Glastonbury that's pretty much a Cluster Bleep-Bomb. Apparently someone set her up with a swear jar... that's huge enough to dispose of a body with, and almost full.
    Kenan: This is just from when you said hi to me backstage!
    Adele: I'm sure that's all going to some charity.
    Kenan: Oh Adele... What'll we do without you Adele!
    Adele: (corpsing hard)
  • On Weekend Update, the Village People protesting Trump using their songs at his rallies is adressed by having The Village People (Kenan Thompson, Chris Redd, Bowen Yang, Mikey Day, and Beck Bennett) appear, explain their position, accuse Trump of pedophilia, and threaten to shave Ivanka's head...all to the tune of "YMCA", complete with dance moves and pelvic thrusting. The Native American isn't present though, as he has Covid-19. Alex Moffat cameos as Alan Dershowitz, jumping across the screen.
  • The showstopper of the week would be the tourism ad for Africa, which for some reason is headlined only by white women - until it's revealed that the entire pitch is about hooking up with black guys. The audience reaction proves to be the breaking point for Adele in a huge way... all while aforesaid black guys are strolling across the back with white women clinging on them, and Kate McKinnon is beaming with pride.
    Adele: Jungles. The mountains. The ranges.
    Heidi: The rhythm. The drums. The pounding (Adele melts down big time)
    Kate: The fanning yourself with a frond between rounds.
    Adele: I found (breaking) I found such a deep, deep connection there.
    Heidi: You can feel it in your stomach (Adele looks like she's in physical pain)
• John Mulaney/The Strokes:
  • With the episode airing just three days before the Presidential election, Joe Biden (Jim Carrey) notes that his polling numbers are incredibly high and could only go wrong "once in a blue moon." Then he's reminded that day actually did have a blue moon. "Well, that's a bit troubling."
  • The musical sketch this time around is "Souvenir Underwear," which sees Pete Davidson wanting to buy novelty underwear from a tourist shop at Times Square. Cue the Times Square Mascots, led by Kenan Thompson dressed as a Minion, trying to persuade Pete out of his bad decision.
• Dave Chappelle/Foo Fighters:
  • The Cold Opening, featuring Trump's "victory speech"—"As anyone who died halfway through Tuesday night knows, I was reelected president" and him playing a mournful version of "Macho Man" on the piano (obviously parodying Kate McKinnon's Hilary Clinton performing "Hallelujah" in the wake of her 2016 loss), and Jim Carrey as Joe Biden channeling Ace Ventura—"Luh-hoo seh-her!"
  • Chappelle somberly introduces a sketch about black people who have lost their jobs in the new climate...which turns out to be about racist advertising mascots being retired due to heightened concerns over systemic racism. The initial reveal as Maya Rudolph shouts "But I'm Aunt Jemima!" absolutely demolishes the audience, who even at reduced capacity force her to just sit there for a full fifteen seconds waiting for them to quiet down.
    • Chappelle breaks character twice to just laugh at the ridiculousness of the sketch. Not even any attempt to be subtle about it either, he pauses to have a good chuckle even before his first line. Worth noting is that by "character" we mean the Allstate guy, who's technically not a mascot and just Dennis Haysbert, meaning that Chappelle's reaction is partly due to hearing his own pitched-down voice.
    • Pete Davidson comes out as Count Chocula and loses it when Chappelle breaks the fourth wall by saying, "Look at Pete Davidson's lips!"
    • Alec Baldwin almost losing it (he's legendary for not Corpsing).
  • During Weekend Update, Michael Che reports that Trump has stated that they will have to drag him out of the White House kicking and screaming. Che, utterly casual, pulls out a glass of scotch and says, "Good" before giving the audience a shrug, resulting in the entire audience exploding with laughter.
  • Colin Jost earlier showing actual footage of New York, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Atlanta, and even London and Paris celebrating Trump losing to Joe Biden and pointing out that you have to be really hated for Paris, France to ring church bells when you lose an election.
  • The "DC Morning" sketch which has Trump and Don Jr. fleeing the White House in a white bronco, invoking the infamous white bronco chase involving O.J. Simpson and the police. Don Jr. is at the wheel playing the role of A.C. Cowlings to Trump's O.J. The Dialogue is absolute gold.
    Lisa Anderson: Why don’t they just pull him over?
    Howard Gayle: This is a volatile situation. If they spook the president, he could unleash an army of proud boys in flag waving trucks. He’s like Aquaman but instead of fish, he can summon the entire parking lot of a Cracker Barrel.
    Lisa Anderson: I’m sorry to interrupt, Howard, but I’ve been told there was a 911 call placed moments ago from inside the car. Let’s listen to that call.

    Operator: 9-1-1, what are you reporting?
    Don Jr.: This is Don Jr., I have the president in the car.
    Trump: Oh, give me the hamburger.
    Operator: Is everyone alright, sir? You sound frantic. Are you under the influence?
    Don Jr.: This is not about me, okay? Right now, we’re okay. But you gotta tell the police to just back off. Tell them to stand down or dad officially starts the campaign for 2024. My father has the announcement tweet ready to go, he just has to push one button.
    Operator: Alright sir. And what’s your name?
    Don Jr.: This is Don-- You know who the hell this is, goddammit!
• Jason Bateman/Morgan Wallen:
  • After days of Twitter demanding that Cecily Strong apply her performance as The Woman You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation With at a Party to election fraud conspiracy theorist Melissa Carone^note who, according to some YouTube comments, was mistaken for former SNL cast member, Victoria Jackson, who actually does wear her blond hair up like that and has, in her post-SNL life, become a hardcore political conservative, we get just that and it fits like a glove.
  • We get a parody of Eminem's "Stan"^note the song about an increasingly unhinged fan named Stan who writes letters to Eminem and ends up committing a murder-suicide by driving drunk off a bridge with his pregnant girlfriend locked in the trunk of the car — and when Eminem does write back to Stan, he discovers that his biggest fan was the one who killed himself and his girlfriend, with "Stu", a young man (played by Pete Davidson) angrily writing Santa Claus (played by host Jason Bateman) hoping to get a PlayStation 5. Capped off with Kate McKinnon in Dido's role as the long-suffering girlfriend from the music video version of "Stan", Bowen Yang as Sir Elton John, and a cameo from the actual Slim Shady getting Stu's PS5.
  • After inviting Morgan Wallen back as the musical guest two months after he got caught violating COVID safety protocols at a party and got replaced by Jack White, the show addresses the elephant in the room head-on with a sketch where Wallen plays himself at that party, and future versions of himself played by Jason Bateman and Bowen Yang try to convince him to leave, only to get sucked back in themselves. Plus, Pete Davidson joins in, but turns out to just be another random partygoer emerging from a cloud of weed rather than the smoke associated with time travel.
  • A sketch where parents (Mikey Day and Melissa Villasenor) take their daughter to visit the mall Santa, which, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, has to be changed to minimize an already-increasing number of infections. The elf (played by Kyle Mooney) is a robot that dispenses hand sanitizer, and Santa and Mrs. Claus (episode host Jason Bateman and Cecily Strong^note who's back after being absent for most of the season due to filming a new show for Apple TV in Vancouver) are in Zorb balls^note those oversized plastic bubbles that were popular in the late-2000s into the 2010s that people got inside and rolled around in.
• Timothée Chalamet/Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band:
  • The show applies a severe deconstruction to the regular holiday commercials of a man (Beck Bennett) surprising his wife (Heidi Gardner) with a Lexus for Christmas, as she's outraged he'd make such a huge purchase without her input, and it just goes downhill from there as it turns out he's completely ignorant about down payments and APR, and borrowed all the money for the car from his neighbor (Mikey Day) because he lost his job in March...of 2019 (which was a year before the COVID-19 pandemic upended a lot of non-essential jobs for people).
  • The bizarre, line-crossing family drama A Rona Family Christmas, with Timothée Chalamet as the rebellious teenage son who swigs Purell like it's booze and upsets his parents (played by Cecily Strong and Beck Bennett) by getting the vaccine when it becomes more readily available and "joining the Antibo".
  • Ego Nwodim headlines a new recurring sketch, the Dionne Warwick Talk Show, which immediately indulges in some Refuge in Audacity - the guests include Timothée as Harry Styles, and later on, Chloe Fineman as Timothée.
  • Apparently Timothée was assigned Pete Davidson for a wingman this week, and the payoff comes in the XXL Roundtable sketch, when both the guys play a typical white rap duo that only blew up online, with their streaming hit "YEET". At one point Timothée just covers his face with both hands because he's clearly corpsing at Pete's goofy dance.
  • The show satirizes Newsmax TV's continuing reports that Joe Biden's election win was invalid with a sketch centering around a fictional spinoff network focusing on sports called "Sportsmax". Cue several analysts, experts, and fans reporting how the New York Jets, who at this point had lost all twelve games they played in the 2020 season, are actually undefeated in the same manner as the real life network.
    Deluca (Chalamet): Listen! I have in my hand right here sworn affidavits from 500 Jets fans who swear they witnessed the Jets win [against the Miami Dolphins]!
    Delvechio (Pete Davidson): Let me tell you something! There’s eight million Jets fans out there! Eight million! They have nothing to gain by lying about this!
• Kristen Wiig/Dua Lipa:
  • It's the last episode for a particularly stressful year, and the monologue has Kristen lighten things up by serenading everyone with "My Favourite Things" - and then the lyrics start to go progressively further and further Off the Rails. Maya Rudolph (who just played Kamala Harris in the Cold Open) steps in to help her out, only to go even further off script, leading to Kate McKinnon, who says she used to be in a "lederhosen choir", to sing the correct version. Apparently the real point of their song is to sing about their own favorite things, so Kate shifts gears and sings instead about nothing but Mexican food, as if she's channeling Deadpool.
    Maya: I'm sorry, are you hungry?
    Kate: No. I am very full. I'm singing about all the things I just ate.
  • They bring back Secret Word, that game show taking place in the '60s, with Kristen as Mindy Elise Grayson, that Broadway star who's never really learned how to actually play this game - but with a twist this time. They have Kenan in Bill Hader's usual role as the host, but there's also this:
    Mindy: Maybe I'm a scrooge but I don't know why anyone would do this to a tree... maybe for practice, you'd just get splinters in your mouth... Oh sorry, my thumb was covering the first letter. Trimming the tree. (buzzed out)
    Kenan: (Stunned Silence at first) Uhh... this is the Christmas show. It's Christmas.
  • Mindy goes on to tout one of her Broadway productions, which basically sounds like the racist parts of Anything Goes were applied to India instead of China.
    Kenan: NO! That is NOT okay! Not even for the time we're supposed to be in!
  • One sketch is a music video where a family wakes up on Christmas morning and the father (Beck Bennett), son (Kyle Mooney) and daughter (Chloe Fineman) excitedly show off all their new, expensive gifts. Meanwhile the mother (Kristin Wiig) receives a bath robe (that was on sale) and nothing else, not even any stocking stuffers. She also burns herself making breakfast and is forced to take a family photo against her wishes, while everyone remains oblivious to how left out she is.
  • Michael Che ups his game in the year-end tradition of him and Colin Jost writing jokes for each other, as after the usual naked racism, Jost is also forced to say his wife Scarlett Johansson (notorious in the past couple years for her blasé attitude toward whitewashed casting) is playing Sammy Davis Jr. in an upcoming film.
• John Krasinski/Machine Gun Kelly:
  • The episode opens up with Kate McKinnon playing herself hosting a show called "What Still Works?", where she tries to find things that still work in American society. After concluding the government (thanks to the election of conspiracy theorists like Marjorie Taylor Greene), stock market (due to the recent rise in GameStop stock despite the company's dire straits), social media (after Facebook and Twitter's recent efforts to curb alt-right misinformation failed) , the COVID-19 vaccine rollout (since O. J. Simpson got the vaccine before essential workers such as teachers) don't work, Kate learns the only thing that still works is Tom Brady, as he's playing in his tenth Super Bowl.
  • At curtain call, Pete Davidson goes in hard for a hug with Machine Gun Kelly (who is his friend in real life), causing both men to tumble off the stage! Davidson later revealed that Kelly was going to lift him up, but he had forgotten about an injury he previously suffered and couldn't lift him.
  • A COVID bubble party goes off the rails as it turns out everyone was part of the January 6th attack on the Capitol, and are arrested one by one. What really makes the bit is that they all instantly drop the facade and turn into raving lunatics upon getting caught, which then turns just as quickly into childish whining as they're taken away. The kicker is the ending, when only two people are left in the bubble, with one of them arresting the other for being involved in the riot!
  • A sketch about TV characters singing their own theme songs culminates in Krasinski singing his own theme song for The Office (US), which sounds like a clumsy Literal Music Video despite his confidence.
• Dan Levy/Phoebe Bridgers:
  • The show opens with a Super Bowl pregame show hosted by James Brown ("no, not that one") (Kenan), Boomer Esiason (Beck), Bill Cowher (Alex), Nate Burleson (Chris), and Phil Simms (Mikey). At one point they begin to discuss how the ads this year will be affected by 2020's political and social turmoil. Cue an advertisement consisting of a montage of Civil Rights events that ends by encouraging everyone to buy Cheeze-Its.
    Phil: Wow, that was totally inspiring.
    Nate: What the hell?
    James: That was a commercial for Cheeze-Its?
    Boomer: Really makes you think.
  • Special shout-out to Aidy, who plays both teams' head coaches via quick changes^note while it would have been easier to use Lauren Holt and Aidy Bryant, since a lot of fans online have pointed out how they look alike, Aidy playing both coaches at the same time was probably funnier and riper for a possible slip-up due to how quick the quick change is.
  • The monologue turns into a walk through the studio to show how SNL has adhered to COVID-19 protocol (which means that the two showgirls that are always backstage are in bubble suits, the real llama that they have backstage has been replaced by a life-sized dummy, and the man playing Abraham Lincoln isn't there anymore). Special mention goes to surprise guest, Dan's dad Eugene Levy, who got there in such short notice he hadn't been cleared for COVID-19 quarantine properly, and spends the whole time in a glass cabinet.
  • Dan plays a Universal Studios tour guide trainee who's had too much coffee and keeps veering off into incredibly dirty personal stories and disturbing fan theories about certain movies, while his supervisor (Mikey Day) desperately tries to rein him in and apologizes to the kids on the tram. Plus, Keenan plays an especially trollish tourist who gleefully eggs him on. "Let the man speak!"
  • The fake commercial that treats Zillow.com (a real estate website) like a sex website.
  • The BET talk show, Lifting Our Voices, where their latest episode is about white allies who are all trying way too hard to show that they support African-Americans continuing the fight for equality in America.
  • Weekend Update addresses the elephant in the living room, about past musical guest Morgan Wallen, who'd gotten around his brief ban from the show for flouting COVID-19 restrictions (Morgan Wallen was originally going to be the musical guest for Bill Burr, but was bumped and replaced with Jack White), only to get blacklisted for a different reason:
    Michael: It was announced that country music star Morgan Wallen had his recoding contract suspended after video surfaced of the singer using the N-word. Hmm, wonder where he learned that from.
    (picture shows Morgan on the set of SNL from the goodnight section of the Jason Bateman episode...next to Colin.)
  • The ten-to-one sketch has several gay people (all played by the show's three gay cast members [Kate, Bowen, and Punkie] and the host, since all of them are gay and lesbian in real life) honor the 10-year anniversary of the "It Gets Better" project (the project showing that LGBT youth shouldn't give up hope just because they're being bullied and harassed for their sexuality and gender identity), while noting that their lives didn't necessarily get easier even when society became more accepting of the LGBT community. For example, Bowen's character talks about how terrifying it is when other gay people bully you for your music tastes because they're more "organized," while Kate's character is glad to have children and visit her wife in the hospital, but isn't glad that they have a giant, terrifying iguana as a pet. And it can use doorknobs. And the reason her wife is in the hospital is because the iguana attacked her.
• Regina King/Nathaniel Rateliff:
  • In "The Negotiator," Regina King plays a police officer called to resolve a hostage situation but she ate a bag of gummy bears in a bag marked "EVIDENCE". Cue a Mushroom Samba of Pete Davidson and Aidy Bryant as weed gummies singing about the effects, Melissa Villasenor doing a frighteningly spot-on Marge Simpson, and Beck Bennett as the sun baby from The Teletubbies.
  • A group of women friends all provide gifts of novelty signs that make jokes about drinking, which gradually devolve into stark, depressing statements about alcoholism. Capped off by Regina inexplicably declaring every single one her favorite.
  • The fake commercial for Peloton's newest exercise bike, Pelotaunt, for people who are sick of the Peloton cycling instructor's corny inspirational speeches and words of encouragement. Pelotaunt uses emotional manipulation, verbal abuse, insincere praise, and the theme song to Curb Your Enthusiasm to get people into shape.
• Regé-Jean Page/Bad Bunny:
  • The Job Interview sketch has Page meeting with an ad executive (Beck Bennett) about joining the company. The company's work in advertising is hilariously ridiculous, with them finding a new ad for Netflix in Pagge's profolio:
  "Netflix: we have porn now."
  • Weekend Update, in between turning Ted Cruz into their personal whipping boy, delivers this golden bit of Self-Deprecation from Pete Davidson:
  "They released a photo of me shirtless, and I look like a toddler who went to prison. I look like I carry a shiv, but to open a Capri-Sun."
  • The same Weekend Update features a food bank owner (Heidi) who is blissfully unaware that her various work accoutrements have turned her into a dead ringer for Freddy Kruger. Until she threatens to kill Michael for constantly bringing it up.
• Nick Jonas:
  • The Cold Open involves Dr Anthony Fauci (Kate) streamlining the process of getting the COVID19 vaccine by turning it into a game show, So You Think You Can Get The Vaccine, because "Americans don't want something unless they're taking it from someone else." There's an easily missed moment with Heidi playing an essential worker, by which we mean she's the maintenance staff for OnlyFans. And the show has actual sponsors like CVS, which in this case stands for Chex Mix, Vodka and So much Plan B.
  • The Dionne Warwick Talk Show. Dionne is immediately freaked out by the sight of Machine Gun Kelly (Pete), who barely gets a line in, and later on, Andrew Dismukes as an animal expert ends up completely speechless as he waits for the parrot they brought in to stop crawling randomly all over him.
  • Kenan as LaVar Ball returns to Weekend Update to talk about his son and rising star LaMelo, who plays for "the most storied franchise in all of basketball" Charlotte Hornets ^note Ironically, the Hornets are historically one of the worst franchises in the NBA, already declaring him not only rookie of the year but also MVP. He also says that once LaMelo wins all of those awards he would unite both North and South Carolina into a "Super Carolina" known as Carolossus. LaVar also introduces a new shoe line known as the CaraMelos, a chocolate shoe that has actual caramel inside as well as having Alexa. And just like a previous appearance of LaVar on Weekend Update, Kenan himself comes close to Corpsing due to the ridiculousness of the chocolate shoe.
  • The women of SNL join forces once more with "Murder Show", a hilarious song about them enjoying increasingly violent true crime documentaries as they relax and perform mundane tasks. It gets better when Nick Jonas (as a boyfriend) joins in with something better: cult shows.
• Maya Rudolph/Jack Harlow:
• Daniel Kaluuya/St. Vincent:
  • The Cold Open is another edition of "Oops, You Did It Again," with Britney Spears (Chloe Fineman) welcoming Lil Nas X (Chris Redd), Pepe le Pew (Kate McKinnon in a skunk costume with a cigarette), and Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz (Pete Davidson). Things get awkward when Gaetz tries to compare himself to Lil Nas X and Pepe le Pew.
  Pepe: Dude, non. I am a cartoon skunk, you're a United States Congressman. Be better, okay?
  Lil Nas X: If you come anywhere near me just remember that I have both country friends and hip-hop friends, the two populations guaranteed to own guns.
  • Kaluuya plays licensed physician Dr. Tevin Jones who hosts a game show called "Will You Take It?", which is really just a show where he tries to bribe his skeptical family members (Kenan, Ego, Chris, and Punkie) into getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
  Cousin Donald (Chris): I’ll take it when white people start taking it!
  Jones: They are taking it.
  Cousin Donald: You can't trust white people!
• Carey Mulligan/Kid Cudi:
  • The Cold Open is a newscast from Minnesota that has the white anchors (Kate McKinnon and Alex Moffatt) discussing the Derek Chauvin trial with the Black anchors (Ego Nwodim and Kenan Thompson), agreeing on Chauvin's guilt but not agreeing on what the outcome of the trial will be. They even get the weatherman (Chris Redd) involved. His weather forecast for the state, though, is painfully and hilariously accurate:
  Calvin (Redd): We're in Minnesota, so: April, cold; May, cold; June, cold; July, hot as Hell for some reason!
  • The show mocks the current hot trend of Award Bait period lesbian romances with a trailer for a film titled just that, a dialogue-sparse, two-and-a-half-hour bore that suddenly ends with a wild lesbian sex scene that reminds you a man directed the film.
• Elon Musk/Miley Cyrus:
  • During the Mother's Day Cold Open, we cut to Colin Jost and his mom, who is holding a bunch of index cards. She explains to Colin that Michael Che had given them to her to read out loud for the first time live on TV, adding that it was such a nice gesture on his part. Colin quickly tells her not to read them because "she'll get their whole family cancelled".
• Keegan-Michael Key/Olivia Rodrigo:
  • The new venue for The Muppet Show turns out to include a security duo (Keegan-Michael Key and Kenan Thompson) who have zero tolerance for Waldorf (Mikey Day) and Statler's (Beck Bennett) heckling and eventually beat the crap out of them (aided by some disturbingly realistic quivery hand puppeteering). Then they discover the puppets don't actually have lower halves, and immediately change their tune and apologize, assuming they're veterans. Highly experienced sketch performer Keegan even comes close to cracking up as Statler's swollen eyes are revealed.
• Anya Taylor-Joy/Lil Nas X:
  • In the "Picture With Dad" sketch, a father (Beck Bennett) tries to get a picture with his daughter (Heidi Gardner) and boyfriend (Andrew Dismukes) while holding a shotgun. When they along with the mother (Aidy Bryant), the father accidentally shoots his own penis off.
  • After years of usually getting the short end of the stick during their semi-annual "Weekend Update joke swap", Colin Jost finally hits Michael Che with a joke just as outrageous as the ones he usually gets.
    Che: San Diego police are being investigated for after video surfaced of them using excessive force on a homeless black man accused of urinating in public. But I say great work keeping our streets clean boys! Yes sir, anything the police do is okay with ol' Mikey Che! I know I'm probably the only black man brave enough to say this on live TV, but Blue Lives Matter even more!
    • That isn't to say that Michael didn't still hit hard - the jokes about a black Superman are hilariously atrocious.
      Colin: A black Superman actually makes a lot of sense when you remember that Superman was abandoned by his parents as a baby. (Breaking character) There's more?! Well, I knew you'd like that one, so here's another one. In this version, Superman's kryptonite is an honest day's work.
      (Later, after a Hip-Hop Museum joke)
      Colin: I just thought of another punchline for that black Superman joke. Black Superman will be referred to as "The Man of Steal" - spelled "S-T-E-A-L"
  • In one sketch, Anya and Aidy Bryant play two reporters who interview the cast of a popular TV show. Pete Davidson’s heartthrob character gets the most softball questions imaginable (such as “do you like dogs?”), while the rest of the cast, who are either women, people of color or not straight, get incredibly politically-charged questions like “why weren’t you at Standing Rock”?

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