The Easter holiday is a period of rebirth and renewal—and also an opportunity to pack more and more celebrity impersonations into a single sketch for “Saturday Night Live.”
This weekend’s “SNL”, which featured Lizzo as its host and musical guest, performed a bag-bag of impressions with its cast members, starting with Bowen Yang as the Easter Bunny. Happened.
He explained that although he may not be the most popular holiday mascot, “I am the weirdest: a man-shaped bunny with no story.”
Yang said that, unlike Santa Claus, “I don’t use slave elves to make my Easter baskets. I get them on Etsy. Because I support women.”
After Yang, Kate McKinnon met Dr. Anthony S. Fauci in his recurring role. “Trust me, I’m not here to give you any more COVID guidance,” McKinnon said. “I am not foolish enough to think that you are actually going to follow up. I will just say that the cases of covid are very much like jesus: they have increased again.”
Cecily Strong played Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who said she was aggressively wishing her Jewish and Muslim allies a happy Easter. Chris Redd plays New York Mayor Eric Adams, who shared some good news with audiences:
“We got him: We got the shooter,” Redd said, in reference to the man accused of setting a subway car on fire in Brooklyn on Tuesday. “Sure, it took 30 hours, and the suspect locked himself in, but we caught him. Case over. Subway is fine. Ride without fear.”
Mickey Day appeared as billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and announced that he planned to buy Easter. “I’m offering 43 billion pips,” he said. After some paused laughter, Day said: “It was a joke. Hahaha. Did you understand? So, later, I say, ‘It was a joke.’
Chloe Fineman portrays Britney Spears, celebrating her recent release from a year of stereotypes. “Don’t worry; I’m finally free, and I have a baby,” she said. “I just pray that my baby is born happy, healthy and with a power of attorney.
Subsequently, Kyle Mooney appeared in long hair and a beard, identifying himself as Jesus Christ. “Just kidding – I’m Jared Leto,” he said. He said his Easter message this year was to encourage positivity. “So if you go to see my new movie ‘Morbius,’ please don’t review it,” he said.
As Yang appeared to wrap up the sketch, he was greeted by James Austin Johnson, former President Donald J. Interrupted playing the role of Trump. Johnson, as Trump, complained that his omission was “another example of how whites are being treated in this country.”
He delivered a combative, discreet monologue about Cap’n Crunch, Seabiscuit, and Little Caesar (whom Johnson claimed he had taught him to say “pizza, pizza”). He then marked the holiday by observing: “I have told America that by Easter the Covid will be over. I haven’t said which one yet.
nostalgia drama of the week
This was the week when “SNL” realized it had the ideal delivery of the cast to play the members of the Black Eyed Peas for a sketch that featured two producer (played by Lizzo and Eddie Bryant) bandmates (Kennon) in 2008. Thompson). Strong, Redd and Yang) spin their non-complicated insights and emotions into hit singles like “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling.”
And if that sketch wasn’t enough to satisfy your wish, like, 13 or 14 years ago, to take you back to a more innocent time, there was also a segment in which several actors played Mr. Who was the inexplicably fickle former mascot. Six Flags Theme Park.
Lizzo Performance of the Week
Lizzo’s musical talent was put to productive use in some sketches this week, most notably in this filmed segment in which she and the Please Don’t Destroy team try to brainstorm a new hit single for her in 10 minutes, whose The result is the hilariously devastating song (and music video) of “Horny Zookeeper.” (A close runner-up would be this sketch that casts Lizzo as a twerking flautist whose unorthodox methods inspire an entire orchestra.)
Lizzo was also very successful when it was time to be a legitimate, non-comedic musician: her performance of her new song “About Demon Time” is probably the first time we’ve seen “SNL” audiences go crazy. single flute.
Weekend Update Jokes of the Week
At the Weekend Update desk, anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che expressed outrage over President Biden’s political woes and Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter.
Jost started:
President Biden’s approval rating has dropped to an all-time low of 33 percent, a new poll shows. For a perspective, that’s half the approval rating of “Sonic the Hedgehog 2”. “Sonic 2” stars Tails and Knuckles, which are also the names of two gang members that Biden claims they fought in the 1960s. A video has also gone viral in which President Biden ends a speech in North Carolina, then turns to shake hands with an apparently invisible man. Hey, her name is Kamala.
What continued:
President Biden, here trying to remember where he left his mask, announced new federal rules for ghost guns. I mean, look, I don’t like the idea of people having ghost guns. But if something strange happens in your neighborhood, who will you call? [His screen showed the cast of “Ghostbusters.”] Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for more than $40 billion to loosen its free speech rules. This is why white people want to use the n-word.
Jost added to this thread:
To be honest, I don’t understand why Elon even wants to own Twitter. It used to be something that seemed important and even fun, and now you look at it and it’s confusing and frustrating. This is the Giuliani of apps. And come on, Elon built electric cars, he’s going to Mars. Why is he linking himself to Twitter? It would be as if the Prince of England dropped everything to marry an actor from “Suits”. Also, I must say, Twitter is no longer profitable either. It just seems like a bad business decision. And I say that as someone who bought the Staten Island Ferry with Pete.
