Saturday Night Live Season 47 / Funny

The 47th season of Saturday Night Live started on October 2, 2021. Beck Bennett and Lauren Holt both left the show, while Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang were promoted to the repertory cast. New feature players are Aristotle Athari, James Austin Johnson, and Sarah Sherman.

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Owen Wilson/Kacey Musgraves:
- A new Star Trek series is premiering, called Star Trek: Ego Quest, featuring Jeff Bezos (Owen Wilson) using his billions to joyride in space for no practical reason.
- EVERYTHING about the School board meeting sketch, from Cecily Strong playing the conspiracy theorist who neither has children nor lives in the district, to Owen Wilson's science teacher misunderstanding the district's pandemic protocols, to Kenan Thompson wanting to host a haunted house in a poorly ventilated space.
- Andrew Dismukes and Sarah Sherman play a husband-and-wife doctor team filming an ad offering mail-in stool testing, but they give a very Suspiciously Specific Denial they they will not mess with the samples once testing is done on them.
- Wilson plays himself recording lines for a fourth Cars film. It's early enough in the writing process that he's only given a few lines out of context, which increasingly give the impression that Lightning has suddenly been turned into a despicable sexual predator. James Austin Johnson joins in as a spot-on Larry the Cable Guy, with Lightning calling Mater "the R word," which the Pixar representative says is just "rusty," even though the word itself appears numerous times. Finally, he has enough and threatens to walk out, only to be instantly shut up with a look at his paycheck.
- Weekend Update begins the new season with Colin acknowledging how the last season premiere's top stories involved coronavirus raging with no vaccine, the 2020 election, and that then-President Trump caught the virus while this season premiere's top story was the infrastructure bill, which is an improvement overall but not so great for TV. Despite this, Colin and Michael still have plenty of material.
  Michael: Singer R. Kelly was found guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking this week but he won't be sentenced to prison until next May after R. Kelly's lawyer negotiated for one more school year. (Cue uneasy laughter from the audience)
  - Tonight's commentator is "A Black Woman Who’s Been Missing for Ten Years" (Ego Nwodim) who points out the glaring differences in how she and a white woman who went missing at the same time. The white woman got a flattering photo, while she got one that made her look like, in her words, "Ol' Dirty Bastard's dirtier sister"^note. The white woman's reward was $10,000 while her reward was a $15 gift card to a Chili's Too. The bit ends with a Brick Joke with the woman calling out Che for posting "What did R. Kelly even do?" and that no one even asks for her real name.
  - Other highlights include:
  Michael: The NBA announced that unvaccinated players will not be paid for any games missed due to local vaccine mandates but that won't matter. NBA players have long, proud history of losing money because they refuse to use protection.
  Colin: Purdue University researchers have created the whitest paint on record. The paint is so white, I'm its favorite part of "SNL".
Kim Kardashian West/Halsey:
- Kardashian's notorious Dull Surprise persona is actually put to perfect use as she and Cecily Strong play a local news station's lottery announcers, whose results become increasingly absurd and disturbing (such as the winning numbers being "3, 4000, a blank ball, and 'Milwaukee Bucks'") even as they refuse to acknowledge anything weird is going on, to the hosts' increasing confusion. The sketch is all the better for resisting any kind of explanation for why it's happening and just letting the insanity stand on its own, including when a repairman for the lotto tubes gets horribly injured and his body parts become just another set of results. This causes Diana Ross (played by Ego Nwodim, being interviewed on the news station) to win the lottery with "screwdriver, moustache, finger, blood" as her numbers.
- Weekend Update features Alex Moffat as Terry Fink, a film critic who watched every movie of 2021...by microdosing LSD while watching multiple films at once. Highlights include calling Colin "Jamal" and "Satan" and hallucinating that the latter has no mouth, describing PAW Patrol: The Movie as an ode to fascism directed by Charles Manson, and stating that in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Jeb Bush plays "a Times Square Elsa shoving me through the window of an M&M store".
Rami Malek/Young Thug:
- In the opening monologue, Rami claims his identical twin brother (well known for cheating on his college exams by having Rami take them for him) will be taking his place in one sketch, and they'll never reveal which one.
  "It might even be right now. No, I'm kidding. It's me, Rami. Or is it?"
- "Bug Assembly" involves a middle school class doing a presentation on bugs, complete with costumes. Bowen Yang's character (whose two dads are a Bravo producer and a Fox News conservative) steals the show as a Camp Gay Daddy Long Legs, strutting around the stage and starting petty drama with his praying mantis classmate. To top it off, he was actually assigned the cockroach, not the daddy long legs, but didn't vibe with it.
- In the "Celeb School" sketch, Rami impersonates Pete Davidson, while Pete impersonates Rami, leading to Self-Deprecation as they make fun of each other.
- A sketch parodying Squid Game was expected at some point, given the show's success. The parody turned out to be a country song of all things sung by Pete and Rami. Pete is declared the winner and wins 45.6 billion won. How does he spend his earnings? By blowing all of it through betting on the New York Jets, who lost handily to the Denver Broncos. Cue Pete getting sent back to South Korea to play "Squid Game" again and gets killed by a guard.
- "Prince Auditions" has Rami and Kenan compete for the role of Prince in a movie, both of them performing dance moves based on scenes from the script. It seemed like Kenan landed the role... until Daniel Craig made a surprise cameo and was dressed as a literal prince, only to reminded that it's for the musician Prince. Craig tried out anyway, and while the director (Chris Redd) thought his moves were bad, he gives him the part simply because he's James Bond. At one point, Craig nearly fell on Kenan after a dance move.
  Kenan: (saves Daniel Craig from falling) Hey! Get off me, Double-O-Ugly!
- Aristotle Athari gets his time to shine as a new cast member in the "Angelo" sketch, where he plays an improve artist named Angelo who sings about a word requested to him. Lance (Daniel Craig) suggests random words after being urged by his partner (Cecily Strong), only for Angelo to not understand the requested word and sings anyway, resulting in Lance becoming increasingly frustrated. Later on, Angelo's improv partner (Rami) appears and is described as "what's next in dance", but he just stands there and turns slightly instead.
- During the good nights, we get the Funny Background Event of Malek outright leaping into Craig's arms.
Jason Sudeikis/Brandi Carlile:
- Sudeikis reprises his role as Vice President Biden, giving a pep talk to the current Biden which includes assuming Hilary Clinton was the next President, and giving one of his notorious shoulder rubs. The show also jabs at its notorious difficulty in pinning down an actor for the role as Alex Moffat's short-lived Biden from March 2021 wanders in, and no one knows what to make of him.
- We return to the "Science Room" where Sudeikis takes over as the host. Once again, he goes steadily insane with rage over the sheer stupidity of Loni and Josh, only this time he takes it up a notch; he actually invites Josh's father and Loni's mother on the set and calls them out for being terrible parents.
  - When Melissa Villasenor accidentally uses the wrong pronunciation of her character's daughter's name (she calls her Low-ni instead of Loni), Sudeikis improvises around it with "Low-ni?! I've been calling her Lon-nee this whole damn time! (To Loni) You're not going to speak up for yourself?!", causing both Cecily Strong and Mikey Day to fully break character.
- Kyle Mooney and Ego Nwodim play parents going to a parent-teacher conference run by Sudeikis, which starts out alright and turns out increasingly sexual after the mom and the teacher start flirting with each other. By the end of the sketch, they're fully making out on the teacher's desk with Mooney holding Sudeikis's glasses while watching them.
  - Even better when it was revealed that Nwodim wrote the sketch.
- After being absent for several years, Jason returns as the Devil on Weekend Update, revealing he was busy being the mastermind behind many events such as climate change, the Astros cheating scandal, Bitcoin, vaping, and Instagram Kids, as well as describing Florida as "pre-Hell". And true to character, he takes offense to Colin's question about Qanon, believing them to be too crazy for him. And apparently Colin made a deal with him to marry Scarlett Johansson.
  The Devil: I don't know who screwed her more, you or Disney.
- "What Up With That" returns for the first time in studio since 2012^note with Sudeikis as Vance and Fred Armisen making a return cameo as Giuseppe. However, instead of Bill Hader returning as Lindsey Buckingham, Nicholas Braun appears As Himself, but Diondre thinks it's Buckingham dressed up as Cousin Greg for Halloween and ignores Braun's attempts to correct him.
- One sketch has Thomas Jefferson (Sudeikis) working on drafting up the Declaration of Independence with several of the Founder Fathers, only for the meeting to get derailed when one of them (Andrew Dismukes) proposes adding a "sick-ass treasure map" to the back of the document. The others are unconvinced, but Dismukes pleads his case and is able to get Jefferson onboard and eventually everyone else starts pitching in ideas for the treasure hunt.
Kieran Culkin/Ed Sheeran:
- Culkin plays a guy trying to cancel his Spectrum cable subscription, only to deal with the company's very unhelpful customer service department that just keeps transferring him to another rep while ignoring what he wants. Eventually, he gets transferred to a local Domino's Pizza:
  Culkin: They transferred me to Domino's?!
  Domino's Employee (Andrew Dismukes): Who Spectrum? Oh yeah, they do this all the time. I'll transfer you to a cancellations rep.
  Culkin: Oh God, thank you. You're honestly the most competent person I've talked to today.
  Domino's Employee: Ha ha, that's crazy 'cause I'm high as hell.
- "The Heist", where Culkin, Redd and Day play a team of thieves attempting to steal a billionaire's expensive car for Gardner's Russian gangster and it seems to be successful..... until Redd's character's tries to drive out the garage and learns that the car is a stick-shift. The sketch then gradually reveals just how incompetent Redd's thief really is despite him maintaining an air of cool (and unearned) confidence. Even funnier is Kenan's security guard laughing hysterically at Redd's malapropisms and inability to even start the car as he sits in the garage tied up.
  Mastermind (Kieran Culkin): Turn the car on, and press the clutch.
  Ghost (Chris Redd): Stop. (beat) You said "cluck"?
  Guard (Kenan Thompson): (laughing heartily) The boy said "cluck"!
- Also, this bit from the same sketch:
  Ghost: Stop! You want me to drive with two feet?! Who do you think I am, Fred Flint stein?!
  Hacker (Mikey Day): (quietly, disbeliving of Ghost's stupidity) Filntstein?
  Ghost: Did I stutter?! Frederick! Flintstein!
- Another edition of The Dionne Warwick Talk Show continued the antics of the previous editions, featuring Chloe Fineman doing a rather exaggerated impression of Miley Cyrus, Culkin as Jason Mraz who leaves after Ego's Warwick asks him about his hat, and Ed Sheeran As Himself who was asked about getting Apple TV on a Dell computer. When Ego's Warwick thought she had learned her lesson of inviting Machine Gun Kelly, she invited someone who she believed she would be more comfortable with. Except that History Repeats as Post Malone (Pete) shows up and was immediately booted off because he was somehow worse than Machine Gun Kelly.
- "The Jockey," a Totally Radical music video about a 90s skater boy who rides a horse like a skateboard and wins the Kentucky Derby, complete with Stylistic Suck effects to make the horse flip around like a board.
- One Black Comedy bit stars a local weatherman celebrating the arrival of fall with a turkey costume and a Piss-Take Rap. Then a ticker comes on that a horrific hurricane is headed towards the area, which the weatherman failed to notice because he spent the night writing his rap. He then desperately tries to cover the deadly storm, despite his graphics being overrun with tiny cartoon turkeys and the fact he's still in the turkey costume.
Jonathan Majors/Taylor Swift:
- A crossover of Pete Davidson's comedic music videos and the Please Don't Destroy trio's digital shorts occurs with Davidson approaching the three about doing a digital sketch together. Said sketch turns out to be a music video called "Three Sad Virgins" where Davidson boasts about his celebrity life while continually mocking the trio as losers with no sex lives, much to their embarrassment. Even when they try to turn it into a Dune rap, Pete still humiliates them. It only gets worse for them when Taylor Swift is invited to sing the bridge of the song. The second they see her, all three break into a Big "NO!".
  - The guys vehemently protest every lyric of the song... until Taylor sings, "None of them have the guts to take their shirt off in front of a girl." They're forced to concede that that one's accurate.
- Weekend Update has Colin Jost bring in new cast member Sarah Sherman to tell about her SNL experience so far... which resulted in Sherman going all out in roasting Jost on live television, breaking hilariously fake news reports that throw major shade at him, which gets more ridiculous as it goes on. Even Michael Che joins in on the fun.
  Sarah: Noted white feminist Michael Che protects innocent Jewish girl from gorgeous fascist Colin Jost.
Simu Liu/Saweetie:
- One sketch brings back the thing where one of the actors hides in a shirt and lends his hands to a genuine dog. Never Work with Children or Animals finally takes effect when the dog suddenly puts its head right below the table, and Mikey Day has problems getting it - and his own corpsing - under control.
  "He's investigating his own body, it happens!"
- Liu and Ego compete on a game show called "Republican Or Not" where the host (Kenan) brings out random people who give vague statements as clues and the contestants have to guess whether they are Republicans or not:
  Brady (Kyle): God, I hate cops.
  Ego: (buzzes in) Okay. He is not a Republican (wrong answer buzzer)
  Kenan: Oh sorry. So close, but, no, Brady is indeed a Republican.
  Ego: But he says he hates cops!
  Kenan: Yes, but he was referring to these cops. (shows picture of the Capitol Police clashing with the January 6 insurrectionists)
  - The skit ends with actual Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney (Cecily Strong) coming out to get quizzed, and even with her openly declaring she is, Kenan points out her own state's Republican organization threw her out for her opposition to Donald Trump's "fake votes" campaign to overturn the 2020 election results. He then compares her to Rachel Dozeal and notes "We'll be seeing you on MSNBC in about a week."
- Weekend Update had Michael Che give an interesting take on the possibility of Queen Elizabeth not making a public appearance for some tiem, which drew major laughter from the audience and poor Colin Jost is struggling to keep it together:
  Michael: Royal experts are saying that Queen Elizabeth's health has entered a different phase and the public may not see her until February. So you know what that means: New titties! (long audience laughter)
Billie Eilish:
- One sketch is a screencap of a teenager's phone as they scroll TikTok while repeatedly ignoring their dad's texts and phone calls asking them to take out the trash. The sketch is a surprisingly accurate parody of TikTok content, including Kenan as a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of the infamous self defense guru, Billie and Sarah as oncology nurses doing TikTok dances at the expense of actually saving their patients' lives, Billie's brother Finneas introducing "Old Town Road" as a throwback song, a Homer Simpson ASMR Video, Pete Davidson as the Island Boys, and a guy doing acoustic covers of Flo Rida and Lil Wayne. The user's father eventually makes a TikTok about his frustration with his kid's refusal to take out the trash.
  Ego, as a user doing a fit check: Check the Moana Sketchers, ooh!
- The entirety of the Hotel Ad sketch. Billie and Kate with similar names, Aidy's excessively emotional concierge, Finneas's overall sketchiness, and the minimal accommodations and perks.
  - Standouts are the Stefon-like description of the location and Kate's attempts to make Billie break.
    Billie: You wanted yogurt? Wake up at four, bitch.
Paul Rudd/Charli XCX:
- Due to the COVID-19 reflaring with an Omicron variant, the live skits had been cancelled... But the prerecorded skit for a "Homegoods Ad" where Paul Rudd as the ad director tries to get two middle-aged women - Bryant and McKinnon - quickly revealing what they want for Christmas: Grandkids. With Bryant's emphasizing the word as grandchildren over and over, even as Rudd tries to get them to declare other gift ideas to promote in the ad. It gets weirder when the two women talk Rudd - who starts off disliking the idea of having kids - into getting kids for his mother to enjoy as grandchildren. The skit ends with Bryant's daughter Kelsey calling with good news that she's pregnant... and the Homegoods Ad flashes a "Attagirl, Kelsey!" on the bumper.
Ariana DeBose/Bleachers:
- The "Winter Formal" sketch stars Pete Davidson and Sarah Sherman as the proprietors of a formalwear store, offering dresses, photos, and their pathetically awkward son Donovan (Andrew Dismukes), for those parents worried about their daughter having sex after the dance, because he "wouldn't know where to start!" Ariana DeBose gives a testimonial:
  Ariana: I rented Donovan, and on the way there he, like, sat up front with the driver. And he had crumbs on his lips the whole night. He, like, didn't dance the whole night, but then he went nuts to "Get Low". And then he got too hot and changed into, like, a Los Pollos Hermanos t-shirt? Like, what even is that?
  Donovan: I told you a million times, it's the restaurant from Breaking Bad!
- Weekend Update brings Elmo (Chloe Fineman) to the desk to discuss his longtime feud with his friend Zoe's pet rock Rocco recently going viral on social media. Initially, Elmo, who is excited to be on the show and asks Michael Che if he can host one day, assures the audience he has apologized and moved on from the feud. But then things take a turn when Che brings Rocco onstage, which predictably causes Elmo to lose it after he learns Rocco had to take a COVID-19 test despite being a rock. Then Elmo jumps off the deep end when he learns Rocco is appearing on the show the next month as both the host and musical guest and decides to kill Rocco with a piece of paper.
Will Forte/Måneskin:
- Will opens his monologue by bitterly noting how most of his SNL co-stars had gotten to host the show in the 12 years since he left before he did, including John Mulaney getting to host four times even though he was only a writer who made cameos. Kristen Wiig then comes onstage for a cameo and Will immediately orders her off the stage, not caring that she flew in, and bitterly lampshades how the audience applauded louder for her than him. Lorne Michaels then appears and tells Will that there was actually a mix-up. Willem Dafoe (the announced host for 1/29) was actually the one he wanted to host this week and he had texted Will by accident, much to Will's dismay.
- With Will hosting, it was unsurprising that MacGruber would return. While trying and failing to defuse the bombs, MacGruber has become an alt-right, QAnon supporting anti-vaxxer who burns Wiig's and Ryan Phillippe's masks, reveals that he has "Coviphilis" (a mix of Covid and Syphilis, along with Herpes and horse worms), and soon begins wearing a horned helmet and face paint.
- Forte plays Mark Zazz, the host of a Double Dare-like kids' game show called "Kid Klash", with a contestant named Tatum (Aidy Bryant) who must find a flag in a giant cream pie. Things take a turn when she fails to find the flag within the time limit and starts to leave:
  Mark: (sternly) Where do you think you're going?
  Tatum: Well, I guess to get cleaned up and go back to Indiana?
  Mark: You’re not going anywhere. Not until you find that flag.
  Tatum: ... But the time ended.
  Mark: I didn’t start this game show to encourage children to quit like whiny little babies! Now, I was very clear you get out of the pie when you find the flag.
  Tatum: What? Mom!
  Tatum's Mom (Heidi): (arms folded) We agree with him, Tatum. She never sees anything through, Mr. Zazz!
- "Cinema Classics" returns, with a clip from the film Gaslight. Aside from telling Paula that he isn't dimming the gaslights, Gregory also convinces her that books are rats, a rock with googly eyes is a puppy, a pineapple is a steak, and that he kissed her instead of the maid. And then there's this:
  Paula: Well, at least I know the truth now. I can't believe you told me it was nine inches and I said, "Oh, lucky me!"
  Gregory: It is!
  Paula: Eehh...
- Weekend Update has the Guy who Just Bought a Boat (Moffat) return to give tailgating tips. It then takes a left turn when Moffat mentions that both Jost and Pete Davidson were among a few people that a bought Staten Island ferry^note. Pete then shows up with a termie^note to discuss the purchase.
Willem Dafoe/Katy Perry:
- Weekend Update brings in surprise guest Peyton Manning As Himself to discuss the NFL Divisional playoff games... except he was binge watching the second season of Emily in Paris instead of watching playoff football. Even when he was asked about Tom Brady potentially retiring, he would rather talk passionately about Emily in Paris instead, to the point where he describes the show's plot as a football play and wears a beret later in the segment.
- The "Now I'm Up" music video, which probably had everyone not only laughing, but nodding in agreement.
- The "Nugenix" ad parody has some celebrity endorsers (including Willem Dafoe As Himself) pitching the titular erectile dysfunction drug to a man (who repeatedly denies suffering from erectile dysfunction). The drug does work...but it also causes loud, unsettling machine noises to be emitted from the bodies of the endorsers as they all become erect, due to being aroused by the presence of the man's wife (Melissa Villasenor). The Nugenix then causes them to all crumple over painfully, giving Willem Dafoe the opportunity to display some of his trademark dramatic facial contortions, while the husband and wife wisely decide to leave.
- "Jail Ad": An ad for an alternative to jail called "Nice Jail" in an abandoned Marriott Hotel, run by a man named Abby Pudd. He founded it because he went to regular jail, and "frankly, people were mean." His cellmate took one look at him and said "Oh, hell no, I ain't sharing no cell with your vampire headass." and Abby is still hung up on it, constantly bringing it up.
John Mulaney/LCD Soundsystem:
- John's monologue spends a lot of time talking about his recovery from drug addiction and his newborn son Malcolm.
  - John describes the moment he first identified with his son. Shortly after Malcolm was born, while resting in the hospital, he stared into the light and grimaced, then just covered up his face. As John describes, he was clearly uncomfortable but didn't want to cry and make a fuss about it. Being a self-described Extreme Doormat, John knew in that moment, "That's my kid."
  - The final joke he tells is about how Malcolm's favorite pacifier was recalled, and how Malcolm wanted it so badly despite it being bad for him. John's response? "Welcome to my world, homie."
- Two words: Monkey Judge. Playing a judge who's also a monkey, John Mulaney's serious, formal voice gets put to great use when delivering absurd lines, such as calling the plaintiff's lawyer "the shape in the blue with the grey", or "You are baby. Judge love baby. Bring judge baby. Judge love you. Judge favour defence".
- "Subway Churro" is the musical sketch this time around, with Mulaney as a subway station newsstand operator, and Andrew Dismukes as the hapless fool who wants to make an unfortunate purchase.
  - Special mention to Kate McKinnon as the Mystery Puddle on the train, which is represented by Kate's face sticking out of a giant plastic blob.
- The sketch about how Nickelodeon developed its fondness for dousing people in slime in the 1980s has a couple of great moments, such as the hosts of the show uncomfortably noting how the kids' insults to each other are wildly inappropriate by modern standards, the slime effects absolutely drenching the cast members, with their reactions of disgust likely being genuine, or how Chris Redd rolls with the fact that his fake moustache comes loose halfway through the sketch, taking off and reattaching the moustache as it continues.
- The "Fisher Price Podcast Set for White Guys." A man is fired from his job after it was discovered he had a podcast in which he used racial slurs. The play set doesn't record anything, allowing him to spew all the crazy things in his head. Then his wife finds him, and sees that he was actually live-streaming it.
Oscar Isaac/Charli XCX:
- A pre-taped sketch features Chloe Fineman, who has been watching Inventing Anna in her dressing room, deciding to adopt Anna Delvey's persona so she can get VIP treatment behind the scenes of the show. Cue her walking around 30 Rock wearing designer clothes and speaking with a vaguely Russian/German accent while demanding her colleagues give her whatever it is she wants, whether it's getting meals from Nobu or taking over the other cast members' parts:
  Chloe: (approaching the Weekend Update desk) Lorne says I host ''Update'' now.
  Michael Che: (beat) All right, bye. (gets up and leaves with a suitcase)
- Sarah Sherman gets to show off some of her infamous Body Horror-related comedy with a sketch about Sam, a young woman who has sentient "meatballs" growing out of her extremities. The meatballs proceed to freak out her date (Chris Redd) by singing, playing instruments, and munching on cheese in time to the beat, with the song being a bizarre Ear Worm tune.
  Sam: (after one of the meatballs spits black goo on Redd's character): Oh, don't worry about that, it's not poisonous or anything, it'll just stain your clothes. And it's poisonous.
Zoë Kravitz/Rosalía:
- One sketch is a commercial for Amazon Go, showing off it's advanced technology that allows shoppers to just pick up the items they want and leave while their Amazon account is charged. The white customers love the convenience... while the black customers are convinced it's a trap.
  Chris Redd: Alexa, search "Amazon Go store black man trapped"!
- "Word Crunch", a game show in which contestants have to find words in word search. Unfortunately, due to a writer's strike, the word searches have been written by the show's sound engineer, Sarah Sherman. Zoe Kravitz keeps finding the word "Momhole" and refuses to accept that it's not a legitimate word, and then as the sketch goes on she finds more and more words like "Titty", "Himhole", "Gay4hole", "Myhole", "Cornhole" and so on, to the increasing despair of host Gene Baby (Andrew Dismukes). When the final word search comes up it's just a sea of the letter "B" with "Dadhole" in the middle.
  Gene: Okay, that is not "Mmmhole"! It's just three m's and then "hole"! What is "Mmmhole"?
  Zoe: You know! "Mmm!" like "Yummy!" Like, "I'm excited for that ...hole!"
Jerrod Carmichael/Gunna:
- The "Shop TV" sketch has Carmichael playing a dollmaker advertising a doll which has regrowing rainbow-colored hair...only for it to be revealed that the other end of the hair is anchored at the doll's crotch, which a character describes as looking like a "thick-ass rainbow vajafro". And then Carmichael tries to adjust the hair anchoring, which he does by bending the doll over and shoving his entire hand up her skirt.
- Weekend Update opens up by addressing the incident between Will Smith and Chris Rock at the 94th Oscars ceremony:
Colin Jost: For those of you who don't know, Will Smith walked on stage during the Academy Awards and slapped Chris Rock after he made a joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith, which I think was a disgraceful act that sets a terrible precedent for having to defend your wife at award shows.
- Another sketch has Carmichael and Dismukes playing morticians who are helping a family scatter their relative's remains off a cliff. Unfortunately, the morticians didn't realize that said relative needed to be cremated, with the sketch playing the family's horrified reactions off the morticians' nonchalance about having just hurled the corpse of the grandfather off the cliff.
Jake Gyllenhaal/Camila Cabello:
- Why'd You Like It?, a game show in which the contestants revealed that they liked Instagram posts so they potentially have sex with the users.
- "Chucky" has three womee (Nwodim, Fineman, Villaseñor) gossiping about their coworker Janet by comparing her to Chucky from Child's Play. all of a sudden Chucky (Sherman) pops out of the bathroom and, angry being compared to her Janet, stabs the three women in the legs, prompting an HR meeting where even her boss (Gyllenhaal) bullies Janet (Bryant) and downplays Chucky's violent tendencies.
Lizzo:
- In the Guess That! sketch, Lizzo plays a contestant who rebels against the host (Kenan Thompson), accusing him of being the "Mayor of Gametown," and soon her fellow constants join in.
- One sketch has Lizzo play a woman whose grandfather (Sarah Sherman) is the Six Flags guy, who breaks into dances at ridiculously inconvenient times. Even crazier, her grandmother (Ego Nwodim) is also a Six Flags guy, and they have poker nights with other dancing Six Flags guys. At the end, Lizzo gives a speech celebrating Six Flags guys as her culture.
- One sketch has Lizzo and Andrew Dismukes as a couple named Steve and Annette. Steve's just quit his job and they plan to cash in on his investments: Beanie Babies. Their friends have to break it to them that Beanie Babies aren't exactly the money-maker that Steve and Annette think they are.
Benedict Cumberbatch/Arcade Fire:
- A backstage sketch centers around Chloe Fineman being interviewed as she explains how she's the understudy for the female cast members should they not be able to perform on that week's show.
  - The sketch then shows her doing spot on impressions of all of them, including when she fills in for Melissa Villaseñor as she breaks up with someone over the phone. The exception is Ego, who just says "Pass" when Chloe offers to do her impression of her (since Ego's black and Chloe's white).
    Chloe: And I thank you for that!
  - "Understudies have a very strict code of ethics. Like, no matter how good my Elizabeth Olsen impression is, I would never use it to trick Benedict." Cut to Chloe doing just that in an attempt to get herself cast in Doctor Strange 3. Which almost works, until Olsen herself appears.
    Elizabeth Olsen: Benedict, what's going on?
    Benedict Cumberbatch: Uh, I thought I was talking to you.
    Elizabeth Olsen: No, I'm me.
    Chloe: No, so am I.
    Elizabeth Olsen: I am me.
    Chloe: I am me too.
    Benedict Cumberbatch: Oh, my god, the Multiverse is real!
  - And what happens when Chloe is the one who needs to be replaced on the show? Turns out Punkie is Chloe's understudy, only her impression isn't quite as accurate:
    Punkie: (wearing a blonde wig) Yo, bitch! I'm Chloe Fineberg.
Selena Gomez/Post Malone:
- The monologue:
  - Selena includes her childhood gig on Barney the Dinosaur as one of her key credentials. Then at the end of her monologue, she shares an inspirational quote from one of her showbiz mentors: "I love you, you love me, we're a great big family..." And she gets the audience to sing along!
  - Selena admits that she's single and admittedly desperate for romance. Cue Kyle and James (both of whom are married) trying to hit her up, only for Punkie to push them aside and apologize for how annoying they're being. Then Punkie starts flirting with Selena, who considers it depending on how the afterparty goes.
- A sketch features Steve Martin playing the man who invented the whoopee cushion, revealing his inspiration was a woman (played by Aidy) who constantly passed gas when she sat down. The sketch spirals as Aidy's character turns out to be a massive Butt-Monkey who somehow inspired every other practical joke in existence: her can of peanuts is inexplicably full of multicolored venomous snakes (springy snakes!), she gets hit by lightning trying to shake a guy's hand (joy buzzer!), her eyeballs randomly fall out of her sockets (slinky eyeglasses!), and she gets hit by lighting again while taking a stick of gum (trick gum!).
- One sketch involves a girl's friends watching her baby siblings (played by Bowen and Sarah) on the baby monitor. The babies run around the crib, dance, and wrestle one another. And then Post Malone randomly shows up as a third baby, which the girl shrugs off as normal.
- Sarah Sherman returns to Weekend Update with a studio tour, which derails into a tour of Colin's dressing room specifically (she claims the women on the show call it "the Chamber of Secrets"), which she's filled with evidence to make Colin look horrible. She gives very hammy reactions to the embarrassing self-affirming sticky notes around the mirror (including ones that say "You are the real king of Staten Island!", "I'm good enough" and "I'm smart enough") and a shrine full of photos of Sarah. At one point, she flubs a bit by dropping a photo she was meant to show off, showing Sarah's head pasted onto a female bodybuilder in a bikini ^note, but recovers with a confident "What's this?! A thing I threw?!", cracking Colin up. Sarah also claims that Colin's been buying her used underwear, and reveals an intern trapped in a cage because he allegedly got Colin's coffee order wrong. Of course, Michael Che is right behind all of this.
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- They do a spoof of 9 to 5, which starts on the big twist as Dolly Parton (Heidi) takes out her gun and shoots Dabney Coleman (Natasha) like she threatened to in the original movie. Then it turns into literal corpsing when all three girls have to give their dead boss the Weekend at Bernie's treatment, leading to all of them, Natasha herself, and even surprise guest Fred Armisen cracking up big time.
- In "'50s Baseball Broadcast", Mikey Day and (a cross-dressing) Natasha Lyonne are baseball broadcasters Lyle O'Reilly and Dizz Newsome, reporting on a Yankees/White Sox game. Dizz was sick earlier that morning, so his doctor prescribed him a nifty medicine—methamphetamine, leading Lyle acting as the Cloudcuckoolander's Minder, trying to stop Dizz from talking about different players' drinking problems and insulting Italian-American Joe DiMaggio for not being white.
- In the "After High School" sketch, during a 2002 high school prom, Andrew Dismukes gives a "Where are they now?" narration. They are many Crosses the Line Twice moments, such as Kate McKinnon marrying a 16-year old coal miner, Cecily Strong attending the January 6th Capitol riot, and the several misdeeds committed by Rachel Finnster (played by Lyonne). This is all topped up with the narrator saying he was murdered by Rachel Finnster.

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