The deluge of Saturday Evening Dwell Season 50 cameos continued on Saturday, March 1, with former forged member Mike Myers showing in his first sketch on the present in almost a decade.
Myers took on the function of Elon Musk, an impression his Wayne’s World costar Dana Carvey tried out earlier this season. Listed here are that sketch and different massive moments from Saturday’s episode.
Mike Myers returns to play Elon Musk
Saturday’s chilly open satirized the contentious Oval Workplace assembly between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with James Austin Johnson and Mikey Day enjoying the American and Ukrainian presidents, respectively.
Halfway by the sketch, a hyperactive, glitchy Musk crashes the social gathering, with Myers enjoying the billionaire businessman.
“Donald, what are you doing in my workplace?” Myers’ Musk says. “You recognize I’m the president now. I’m kidding! I’m kidding. OK. Possibly not, perhaps not.”
“I’m so snug with all of that,” Johnson’s Trump says. “I actually respect every part you’re doing with DOGE, Elon.”
“They’re saying I’m firing folks with no trigger,” Myers’ Musk responds. “However I do have trigger. It’s ’trigger I really feel prefer it!”
Please Don’t Destroy riffs on The Voice
Within the Please Don’t Destroy comedy workforce’s digital brief, the trio and SNL forged member Ego Nwodim performed the coaches on a present known as The Sound, which is The Voice in all however identify. And Shane Gillis, the host of Saturday’s episode, performed a contestant whose crass persona has the coaches regretting their chair turns.
A “Mid-Day” guessing sport will get a sequel
Gillis and Nwodim additionally joined SNL costars Kenan Thompson and Heidi Gardner in “Mid-Day Information 2,” a sequel to a 2019 sketch. In each installments, information anchors presume the race of the suspects within the crimes they’re reporting.
A meth ring? “That’s y’all for positive,” Nwodim’s character tells her white colleagues. However mayhem on the barbershop? “Oh, rattling,” Thompson’s anchor exclaims.
The Film Man predicts Oscar winners, sight unseen
Throughout “Weekend Replace,” Marcello Hernández may hardly preserve a straight face as he performed The Film Man, an opinionated movie critic dressed like an old-timey theater usher. The Film Man was there to make Oscar predictions, however he hadn’t truly screened the nominees.
“I wish to discuss A Full Unknown,” he says at one level within the bit. “This film is an entire unknown to me as a result of I didn’t see this film as effectively.”
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