Per week after Morgan Wallen precipitated a stir with an ungainly, abrupt exit from Studio 8H on the finish of Saturday Evening Reside, the NBC sketch-comedy present mocked the nation singer’s antics in its April 5 episode.
In case you missed it, Wallen began striding off set earlier than the top credit began rolling throughout SNL’s March 29 taping. He later posted a photograph of a non-public airplane and the caption “Get me to God’s nation” (after which capitalized on the controversy with merchandise).
Within the chilly open of this Saturday’s episode, James Austin Johnson quoted Wallen as his Donald Trump character introduced his tariffs. “I even put tariffs on an island uninhabited by people. It’s known as Heard and McDonald Island,” Johnson’s Trump stated. “McDonald Island. I’d love to go to there, proper? McDonald Island. Are you able to think about that? A Massive Mac and a hula skirt, oh la la … Get me to God’s nation, proper? Keep in mind that? Wow.”
And through Saturday’s “Weekend Replace” sketch, Colin Jost referenced the Wallen flap — once more, throughout a dialogue of Trump’s tariffs. “This was the worst week for the inventory market because the summer season of 2020. However you need to keep in mind — again then, the president was additionally Trump,” Jost stated. “Simply up to now two days, traders have misplaced over $6 trillion. Cash is leaving the inventory market quicker than Morgan Wallen at goodnights.”
Final week, SNL solid member Kenan Thompson informed Leisure Weekly he “positively noticed” Wallen bounce. “I don’t know what goes by means of folks’s minds once they determine to do stuff like that,” he stated. “I don’t know if he understood the project or not, or if he was actually feeling a sure form of means. … You see someone earlier than you get an opportunity to say hello or say good job or something like that, they simply dipping. I assumed possibly he needed to go to the potty or one thing.”
Thompson added: “Looks like a sophisticated particular person, I assume. … It simply felt so abrupt. And it was already such a small grouping on the stage anyway. So it was similar to, oh wow, that was fairly seen.”
Saturday Evening Reside, Saturdays, 11:30/10:30c, NBC