Only a month and alter after Bowen Yang impersonated her in a viral sketch on Saturday Night time Stay, English electropop star Charli XCX pulled double responsibility has host and musical visitor of Saturday’s episode in her newest look on the NBC sketch comedy present.
And talking of triumphant comebacks, SNL’s November 16 installment additionally featured the return of fan-favorite lothario Domingo (Marcello Hernández).
Trump and Biden meet within the chilly open
As soon as once more, Dana Carvey performed President Joe Biden and James Austin Johnson performed President-elect Donald Trump in Saturday’s chilly open, as the 2 actors spoofed Biden and Trump’s hearth chat on the White Home final week.
“Get a load of me,” Johnson’s Trump mentioned. “As an alternative of being impolite and loopy like normal, I’m doing quiet and serene, which, in some ways, is quite a bit scarier.”
Carvey’s Biden, in the meantime, likened himself to the canine within the “This Is Superb” meme. (And keep tuned for Sarah Sherman as Matt Gaetz and Alec Baldwin as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)
Domingo returns at a babymoon
After SNL’s “Bridesmaid Speech” went viral final month, the present supplied a sequel on Saturday evening with “Babymoon,” as a good friend group’s off-key riff on Chappell Roan’s “Sizzling To Go” reveals that newlywed Kelsey (Chloe Fineman) is anticipating a child out of wedlock with Domingo. (“H-O-T-T-O-G-O” turns into “D-O-M-I-N-G-O.”)
Depraved auditions function depraved celeb impressions
Forward of the discharge of the Depraved movie adaptation, SNL imagined numerous celebrities auditioning for the big-screen musical, with impressions together with Fineman as JoJo Siwa, Charli XCX as Adele, Yang as Fran Lebowitz, Sherman as Bernie Sanders, Carvey as Al Pacino, Hernández as Dangerous Bunny, and Yang taking part in Charli XCX once more.
Julia Fox introduces a Charli XCX efficiency
Julia Fox made a cameo on Friday’s SNL to introduce good friend Charli XCX’s efficiency of “360,” a track during which the pop star name-drops the Uncut Gems actor. Later within the present, Charli carried out “Sympathy Is a Knife,” one other reduce from her Grammy-nominated album Brat.
Bowen Yang goes full Tiger King
In the course of the “Weekend Replace” sketch, anchor Michael Che talked about that Tiger King topic Joe Unique wrote one other letter asking Trump for a pardon. Cue Yang taking part in the previous big-cat proprietor.
“I’m not imagined to be [in prison], Che,” Yang’s model of Joe Unique mentioned. “All I did was take care of my cats, make like to my two straight husbands, and attempt to kill Carole Baskin a number of occasions.”