Host Anya Taylor-Joy; Lil Nas X performs.Host Anya Taylor-Joy; Lil Nas X performs.Host Anya Taylor-Joy; Lil Nas X performs.
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- TriviaThis was Beck Bennett's last episode, after being on the show for eight years. This was also Lauren Holt's last episode, making this season her only appearance as a player.
- Quotes
Michael Che - Weekend Update Anchor: San Diego police are being investigated after video surfaced of them using excessive force on a homeless black man accused of urinating in public. But I say, great work keeping our streets clean, boys. Yes sir, anything the police do is alright with old Mikey Che. I know I'm probably the only black man brave enough to say this on live tv, but blue lives matter even more.
- ConnectionsEdited from Saturday Night Live: Elon Musk/Miley Cyrus (2021)
- SoundtracksMontero (Call Me by Your Name)
Written by Lil Nas X (as Montero Hill), Denzel Michael-Akil Baptiste, David Biral, Omer Fedi and Roy Lenzo
Performed by Lil Nas X
Featured review
A Solid Finale to an Otherwise Rocky Season
While I doubt anyone is putting SNL's 46th season in their top five or even top ten favorite seasons of all time, it's hard to put the entire blame on the show. For starters, the writers seemed to suffer from having too much material at their disposal. In the midst of a global pandemic, the largest threat in history to our nation's democracy, and the most controversial election season in the show's existence, it was probably difficult to parody a time that already felt so much like a satire. As a result, however, the season relied too heavily on the same source material, to the point at which we saw too many of the same characters and could predict the punchlines to many of the jokes.
The cast and crew also had to adhere to strict COVID-19 protocol which inevitably caused more rewrites and discarded ideas than we as viewers probably realized. What amounted, however, was a rather awkward season which (presumably due to COVID restrictions) featured episodes in which select cast members appeared too often while others were nowhere to be found.
Nevertheless, SNL sent this S46 off quite nicely. The intro was a refreshing reminder that this season came with its challenges, during which the cast was able to admit that some of the sketches were a little disorganized/not their best work.
The beautiful Anya Taylor-Joy did a standup job as host, most notably in her ability to deliver jokes in sketches that (again refreshingly) didn't consistently rely on Queen's Gambit parodies. Weekend Update was also great and Colin and Michael's jokes written for each other were once again hilarious. I was also so happy to see Pete make an appearance on WU as I think it's the platform on which he is funniest/most able to be himself. The AMC sketch went down as one of my favorites of the season, it rang true on so many levels and Beck did a great job as Vin Diesel. Lastly, Lil Nas X was amazing - his performance, though elaborate, was incredibly well choreographed and it was great to see how much fun he was clearly having on stage.
Overall, 9/10.
The cast and crew also had to adhere to strict COVID-19 protocol which inevitably caused more rewrites and discarded ideas than we as viewers probably realized. What amounted, however, was a rather awkward season which (presumably due to COVID restrictions) featured episodes in which select cast members appeared too often while others were nowhere to be found.
Nevertheless, SNL sent this S46 off quite nicely. The intro was a refreshing reminder that this season came with its challenges, during which the cast was able to admit that some of the sketches were a little disorganized/not their best work.
The beautiful Anya Taylor-Joy did a standup job as host, most notably in her ability to deliver jokes in sketches that (again refreshingly) didn't consistently rely on Queen's Gambit parodies. Weekend Update was also great and Colin and Michael's jokes written for each other were once again hilarious. I was also so happy to see Pete make an appearance on WU as I think it's the platform on which he is funniest/most able to be himself. The AMC sketch went down as one of my favorites of the season, it rang true on so many levels and Beck did a great job as Vin Diesel. Lastly, Lil Nas X was amazing - his performance, though elaborate, was incredibly well choreographed and it was great to see how much fun he was clearly having on stage.
Overall, 9/10.
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