Saturday Evening Stay’s landmark fiftieth season ended on Saturday, Might 17, with Scarlett Johansson internet hosting and Unhealthy Bunny performing.
And the internet hosting gig gave Johansson, who’s married to SNL author and star Colin Jost, an opportunity to get a “mea culpa” from Michael Che for a sure NSFW joke he made earlier within the season. Learn extra about that and different highlights from Saturday’s present beneath.
SNL chilly open riffs on Trump’s “private enrichment”
In Saturday’s chilly open, James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump mentioned his controversial journey to the Center East.
“I did this for the American folks and, in some ways, myself, my private enrichment,” he stated. “I did that, too. I did very properly on this journey. Bought a number of cool stuff. The Qataris gave me a $400 million airplane. Are you able to consider that? And folks stated that was some kind of bribe. Not true. Not true, as a result of they haven’t requested for something in return. … Alright, so it’s a pre-bribe. It’s a pre-bribe.”
Scarlett Johansson offers Season 50 a musical send-off
In her opening monologue, Johansson marked the tip of Season 50 with a reworked model of Billy Joel’s “Piano Man.”
“Marcello and Devon are buddies of mine / Andrew and James I maintain expensive,” she sang together with forged members from the present. “It’s been an amazing season / And Sarah is leaving / We’re all gonna miss you subsequent 12 months.”
Reduce to: a panicked Sarah Sherman. “Wait, what?” she stated. “Did you guys hear one thing? What do you imply ‘leaving’?”
Mike Myers has one other run-in with “Kanye West”
In a single sketch, visitor star Mike Myers bumped into Kanye West, performed by Kenan Thompson, and the duo recalled the 2005 hurricane reduction telethon by which West stated then-President George W. Bush didn’t care about Black folks, as Myers stood by. In fact, that was a very long time and lots of Kanye headlines in the past, and so the current-day Myers is a tad uncomfortable to be caught in an elevator with Thompson’s West.
Michael Che apologizes to Scarlett Johansson
Throughout Saturday’s “Weekend Replace,” Jost and Che as soon as once more swapped jokes, studying traces they scripted for each other — for the primary time — off the teleprompter. And Che, recited one thing Jost scripted for him, stated he wished to apologize to somebody he damage, and he requested Johansson to hitch them on the desk.
Che identified that, over the past joke swap, he in contrast a sure physique a part of Johansson’s to Costco roast beef.
“The very fact is, I used to be simply lashing out as a result of I’m jealous,” Che stated. “I’ve by no means even seen a human vagina. And see I stated human, as a result of I as soon as spent the summer time on a farm. You’re feeling me? Perhaps I’m simply embarrassed about my very own physique. I can’t even take my hoodie off throughout intercourse as a result of I’ve extra nipples than a pregnant canine.”
Johansson replied, “Sure, I’ve heard that about you.”
Please Don’t Destroy asks destiny to please don’t destroy their airplane
A Please Don’t Destroy digital quick had the comedy trio taking a flight in firstclass for the primary time on Johansson’s dime. The 4 of them rap concerning the luxurious facilities, however the flight doesn’t go as deliberate, and it’s as much as Unhealthy Buddy’s air visitors controller character to avoid wasting the day.
Unhealthy Bunny heats up Studio 8H
In fact, as Saturday’s musical visitor, Unhealthy Bunny had extra to do than simply land a airplane. The reggaeton star additionally carried out his track “Nuevayol” on a set that resembled the long-lasting “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” {photograph} (in a nod to the development of Rockefeller Heart, SNL’s residence base).
Later within the night time, Unhealthy Bunny sang “Perfumito Nuevo” — one other track from his newest album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos — with a particular visitor, fellow Puerto Rican music star RaiNao.
Saturday Evening Stay, Season 51, Fall 2025, NBC