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If a whole Oscars ceremony filled with Barbenheimer jokes and a killer Ryan Gosling efficiency of “I’m Just Ken” didn’t provide you with adequate alternative to say goodbye to the pop cultural phenomenon of “Barbie,” “Saturday Night Live” is right here to just remember to’ve had Kenough.
Gosling, who hosted “S.N.L.” this weekend with the musical visitor Chris Stapleton, started his monologue by vowing that he was there to advertise his coming film “The Fall Guy.”
“So don’t fear, I’m not going to make any jokes about Ken,” he mentioned. “Because it’s not humorous. Ken and I, we needed to break up. We went too deep and it’s over. So I’m not going to speak about it.”
Gosling paused and added, “I really am going to speak about it a bit of bit. I’ve to, as a result of whenever you play a personality that onerous, that lengthy, letting go simply seems like a breakup. And for processing a breakup, there’s actually just one factor that may assist: the music of the good Taylor Swift.”
Taking a seat at a piano, Gosling started to sing a variation on Swift’s “All Too Well” that started like this:
I shredded Venice Beach, it’s true.
My garments had been tight,
But one thing about that spandex felt so proper.
I left my Rollerblades in that huge pink home,
But I’ve nonetheless obtained that fur coat and I’ll put on it proper now.
As Gosling placed on his well-known furs, he was joined onstage by Emily Blunt, his “Fall Guy” co-star, who chided him for persevering with to sing about “Barbie.” “You’re Kenning proper, and I hate that it’s even a verb,” she mentioned.
Gosling reminded her that, she, too, had starred in one other hit film from the summer season of 2023, “Oppenheimer,” by which she performed the title character’s spouse Kitty.
“I do know it was an inferior film …” Gosling started to say.
“It wasn’t,” Blunt mentioned. “We, like, received all the pieces.”
“But did you win individuals’s hearts?” he requested.
They concluded the monologue by buying and selling strains on a verse that ran, partly:
[together] We had been Kitty and Ken,
[Blunt] and I want you possibly can have seen us.
[Gosling] You had been loyal to the tip,
[Blunt] And your man had no penis.
Country music video of the week
The “girl will get revenge on her dishonest man” tune is a longstanding class in nation music, one which will get a welcome replace right here with assists from Stapleton and, particularly, from Chloe Troast.
The tune’s title, “Get That Boy Back,” isn’t her expression of her want to reunite with a seemingly untrue boyfriend (Stapleton) — it’s a warning about her comically byzantine schemes for payback, like camouflaging herself to mix in with the bed room wallpaper so she will freak out his mom (Heidi Gardner). You’ll chuckle and you then’ll examine to verify nobody’s hiding in your bed room both.
Self-amused sketches of the week
Given the present state of, effectively, all the pieces, it’s comprehensible that “S.N.L.” averted a topical opening this week. Instead it started the present with a brand new installment of a long-running sketch franchise about victims of alien abduction.
Gosling has appeared on this section earlier than, however it’s actually a highlight for the “S.N.L.” alumnus and “Barbie” co-star Kate McKinnon (who returned this week to seem within the sketch) to get her fellow performers to chuckle on digital camera — a light sketch comedy fake pas often known as breaking.
For a extra fulsome demonstration of the phenomenon, you may confer with this sketch from later within the night, by which Gardner just about loses it on the sight of Gosling and Mikey Day taking part in two viewers members at a TV debate who simply occur to appear like Beavis and Butt-Head. She would possibly nonetheless be laughing about it now.
Weekend Update jokes of the week
Over on the Weekend Update desk, the anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che riffed on the reinstatement of an 160-year-old abortion regulation in Arizona.
Jost started:
The Arizona Supreme Court has reinstated a regulation from 1864 banning docs from performing abortions. Now, reinstating legal guidelines from 1864 isn’t the worst factor for me, as a result of I’m a white landowner. And a proud Freemason. But it’s most likely not nice to undertake well being care guidelines from a time the place the one two issues docs prescribed had been prayer and cocaine. Saturday and Sunday. Back then when you didn’t need to preserve your child, your solely possibility was to provide it to Rumpelstiltskin. President Biden criticized the abortion regulation, calling it merciless, which is similar factor Biden mentioned when he voted towards it in 1864.
Che continued:
This week Donald Trump mentioned that he helps abortion legal guidelines being determined by the states as an alternative of the federal authorities. But why cease there? Why not go even smaller and go away it as much as the counties, or town? Or even higher, take the federal government out of it utterly and go away the selection about what ladies can do with their our bodies to the one that is aware of what they will do with them the most effective: their husbands.
And the place would Weekend Update be with no closing farewell to O.J. Simpson? As Che joked: “O.J. Simpson died this week on the age of 76 after a battle with prostate most cancers that was planted on him by the L.A.P.D.”
Weekend Update cameo of the week
Whatever different accomplishments await Caitlin Clark in her basketball profession, she has now gotten to dunk on Michael Che.
After Che learn a joke about Clark, the University of Iowa star who’s coming into the W.N.B.A. draft this week — he mentioned the varsity would have “her jersey retired and changed with an apron” — she appeared alongside him on the Weekend Update desk. After Jost performed clips of previous jokes that Che had made about ladies’s basketball, Clark made Che learn a few new jokes about himself. (For instance: “A reminder that Indiana Fever is a W.N.B.A. group and never what Michael Che gave to dozens of ladies at Purdue University.”) Clark concluded by giving Che a memento that she had autographed for him: an apron.
