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Sorry, dads: Because your vacation doesn’t come till June, when “Saturday Night Live” is in reruns, you don’t get something particular from “S.N.L.” But mothers, since Mother’s Day arrives the morning after the second-to-last dwell episode of the season — when everybody on the present has a watch on the door and is saving these previous couple of drops of topical content material for the finale — you get a complete brunch-load of “S.N.L.” sketches devoted to motherhood, starting with a now-traditional section wherein the forged members commerce jokes with their real-life moms.
This week’s “S.N.L.” broadcast, which was hosted by Maya Rudolph and featured the musical visitor Vampire Weekend, used the event of Mother’s Day to take a break from opening sketches that satirize present occasions, a lot to the frustration of Kenan Thompson’s mom. “That’s too dangerous,” she stated, standing on the stage of Studio 8H together with her son. “I used to be excited to see who was going to play Stormy Daniels.”
Andrew Dismukes’s mother shared embarrassing photographs of her son within the bathtub, the moms of Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang informed jokes meant for the Netflix roast of Tom Brady, and Sarah Sherman’s mother pitched her daughter an concept: “R.F.Ok. Jr. stated they discovered a worm in his mind — you can be the worm,” she stated. (Stash that away in your personal brains for later.)
Rudolph, the “S.N.L.” alumna who returned to host for her third time, used her opening monologue to notice the truth that she not solely is a mom of 4 kids — she is mom. That ubiquitous little bit of web slang was the framework for a surprisingly synchronized dwell musical quantity (à la Madonna’s “Vogue”) the place Rudolph navigated some fast costume modifications, referenced her roles in motion pictures like “Bridesmaids” and her previous “S.N.L.” impersonations of Vice President Kamala Harris and Oprah Winfrey, whereas additionally shouting out different beloved feminine “S.N.L.” characters just like the Sweeney Sisters, Debbie Downer and Mary Katherine Gallagher.
If all of that wasn’t sufficient to make you O.D. on M-O-M, there was additionally a filmed section that includes Rudolph as a beleaguered mom repeatedly rescuing her daughter from slumber events, and Heidi Gardner providing Mother’s Day present ideas on Weekend Update because the character A Woman Who Says She’s Not Mad. Oh, mom.
Welcome rerun of the week
Yes, technically, “S.N.L.” did do a Beyoncé-goes-on-“Hot Ones” sketch the final time that Rudolph hosted, in 2021. But with that on-line superstar speak present again within the zeitgeist with some assist from one other “S.N.L.” alum, Conan O’Brien, it’s pretty much as good a time as any for Mikey Day to mud off the bald cap and play the “Hot Ones” host Sean Evans and for Rudolph to as soon as once more assume the position of Queen Bey.
This time, Day’s questions had been nominally about Beyoncé’s hit nation album “Cowboy Carter,” whereas Rudolph downed spicy hen wings and tried to assuage herself by ingesting cocoa butter.
Weekend Update jokes of the week
Over on the Weekend Update desk, the anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che riffed on Stormy Daniels’s testimony within the New York hush-money trial of former President Donald Trump.
Jost started:
This week in court docket, Stormy Daniels gave an in depth description of intercourse with Donald Trump, which was so disgusting, even the sky turned inexperienced. [His screen showed a picture of aurora borealis. It then showed a courtroom illustration of Daniels on the witness stand.] Stormy Daniels, seen right here as drawn by the creator of “Cathy,” was accused by Trump’s attorneys of mendacity about their affair for revenue. Which would make her the one individual to do enterprise with Trump and earn a living. It’s additionally been implied that Stormy Daniels bought into mattress with Trump and let him do no matter he needed simply to advance her profession. You know, like each Republican. [His screen showed pictures of Lindsey Graham, Tim Scott, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.]
Che continued:
Stormy Daniels testified that in their encounter, Donald Trump didn’t put on a condom. He tried to place one on however he was blocked by his tie. Stormy Daniels testified at Donald Trump’s hush cash trial and was requested to listing a number of the motion pictures she’s labored on. After she completed, the judge banged the gavel and opened oral arguments … had been the names of the films.
Weekend Update desk character of the week
Hey, keep in mind that pitch that Sarah Sherman’s mom gave her daughter on this weekend’s opening sketch? Well, hopefully mother bought a writing credit score or a pleasant little royalty, as a result of they used it within the episode.
Sherman returned to the Weekend Update desk wearing layers of wrinkly pink pores and skin whereas sipping from a large cup as a personality recognized as “R.F.Ok. Jr.’s Brain Worm.” “Look at this man,” Sherman stated, pointing to {a photograph} of a shirtless Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “What worm wouldn’t love this? He seems like a pack of hen thighs that somebody ignored within the solar.”
She went on to say that Kennedy’s physique was “a worm’s paradise, OK? Not a single drop of vaccine in sight.”
