It was the premiere of perhaps the most anticipated “Saturday Night Live” season in almost 20 years – the show’s first live broadcast in more than six months, hosted by Chris Rock, and produced under the guidance of the first coronavirus era.
“SNL.” The last live episode of was aired on March 7; It was hosted by Daniel Craig and featured several segments in which the show tried to figure out what humor it could find in a blooming epidemic. The show then announced that it was postponing its season altogether, only to return with three episodes of remotely produced sketches, mostly filmed at the homes of its cast members.
“SNL.” Produces its largest audience in the years leading up to the presidential election, and the series’s creator, Lorne Michaels, is pushing expectations by tapping Jim Carrey to play the Democratic candidate, former Vice President J J Biden.
But the show also opposes new health and safety regulations, and just a few days ago Michaels wasn’t sure he and his cast and crew could stick to landing: “We’re going to be as surprised as anyone when it really moves forward.” He told the New York Times in an interview. And questions Delayed questions before Saturday about whether the live audience will attend. (It did under visible restrictions.)
That would all be challenging enough. But then “SNL.” Had to start its season by resuming a week in which President Trump was hospitalized for treatment of Covid-19 and in which First Lady Melania Trump tested positive with several Republican senators and high-ranking Republican officials. For coronavirus.
Maybe “SNL.” The closest comparable moment in history is Sept. 29, was the 2001 season opener, the show’s first new broadcast since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The episode begins with Rudolf W., the mayor of New York. Giulini’s solidarity was marked by the presence of police officers and firefighters, who told the audience, “Even as we express our grief for our loved ones, it is ours to face the future with a new resolve. Paul played Simon “The Box Xer”, and Mike Els famously asked Giuliani, “Can we be funny?” Giuliani replied, “Why start now?”
At this point, “SNL.” Only Tuesday opened with a message of chaotic debate between President Trump and Vice President Biden.
Parody of the weekend presidential debate
The segment opened with a promise of a re-lay discussion of the discussion with the voice-over, “although it looks like Tuesday 100 days ago.” Stantage, Beck Bennett played the role of Chris Valace Les, the hapless moderator of Focus News, while Alec Baldwin returned to the role of President Trump.
Bennett began to explain the rules. “Every candidate will have 2 minutes, uninterrupted,” he said, just to block immediately by Baldwin.
“Boring!” Baldwin revealed. He said to Bennett, “My Aderel, tell Chris that, now let’s get this show on the road and off the train.”
Asked if he had been tested for coronavirus, Baldwin replied: “Absolutely. Respect to the scout. ”
Playing Biden for the first time, Kerr went on stage in spectacles while making finger guns on the audience. He produced a tape measure, widened the distance between himself and Baldwin, then chose his lecturer and moved him farther.
Asked if he was willing to discuss, Carey replied: “Certainly not. But I’ve found the beginning of 46 weird ideas that I may or may not have access to. Let’s do this now. I hold my bladder. “
Throughout the segment, Carey (as Biden) tried to exercise some restraint: “Don’t let your inner white bulgar out,” he told himself. “Flash the smile they taught you in cross-management.”
Bennett, meanwhile, emphasized the inactivity of lace lace. At one point he told Baldwin, “Mr. President, if you keep interrupting this discussion, I will not do anything about it. “
Maya Rudolph, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, soon appeared in her recurring role as Senator Kamala Harris. He told both presidential candidates, “America needs WAP: a woman as president. But for now, I’ll settle for HVPIC: Hot Vice President of Charge. “
After Baldwin (like Trump) squabbled over the issue of white supremacy, Carrie created a remote control and stopped Baldwin midway. “Sorry, but I think we all needed a break,” Carey said. “Isn’t that satisfactory?”
Speaking directly to the camera, Carey added: “You can trust me. Because I believe in science and karma. Now, just think that science and karma can form a team to send us all the message about how dangerous this virus can be. “
He looked over his shoulder at Baldwin, and then continued: “I’m not saying I should. Imagine if that happened. “
Earlier, before Baldwin and Rudolph finished the sketch, Carrie Biden introduced her campaign slogan: “Don’t actively set America on fire again.”
Beginning of the monologue of the week
Rock, stand-up star and “SNL.” The alumnus wasted no time in addressing the elephant in the room: “President Trump has been in the hospital since Kovid,” he said, “and I just want to say, my heart goes out to Kovid. He added that this was a unique show for “SNL” and that, like everyone else around, it was frequently tested.
He said, “I haven’t had so much stuff in my nose since sharing in the dressing room with Chris Furley.
“SNL.” Pointing to members of the studio audience that he described as the first response, Roke said, “They’re so good, we’ll kill people tonight so they can watch a good show.”
Assuming Biden would be chosen, Rock said he should become the last president of the United States so far and establish a new system of government after him. “What job have you had for four years, even if it works?” Rock asked. “If you hired a cook and he was omitting people every day, you would just sit there and say, ‘Well, he’s got a four-year deal; Have we been vultures for another four years? ‘
More faithfully, Roke concludes his solitary statement with James Baldwin’s quote: “‘Everything that is faced cannot be changed,'” he said, “but nothing can be changed until it is confronted.”
Music number of the week
“SNL.” Making her first appearance on, Megan The Stalin used her influence “Savage” to create a powerful and pointed interval.
During the song, Megan The Stallion, shot in the leg during the summer, stopped in the middle of the stage. (She says she was shot by musician Tori Lanez, who denies responsibility.)
Many gunshots were heard and the digital screens behind it were filled with simulated bullet holes. Malcolm X’s voice was heard saying, “America’s most respected, insecure, neglected person is the Black Woman,” because the same words appeared on the screens. “Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair, the color of your skin and the shape of your nose?” The recording, edited version of the 1962 speech, continued. “Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?”
Activist Tamica Mallory’s voice was heard after she criticized Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron in a recent speech, following an announcement in September that only one former officer would be put at risk after the assassination of Brenno Taylor. In a police shooting in Louisville.
“Daniel Cameron is no different from the neglected sellers who sold our people into slavery,” said Mall Larry’s voice.
Speaking further to the audience, Megan The Stallion said: “We need to save our black women and love black women because at the end of the day we need our black women. We need to protect our black men and stand up for black men because at the end of the day, we are tired of seeing the hashtags of our black men. “
Weekend update jokes of the week
Returning to the weekend update desk, anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che continued to speculate loudly about whether it was permissible to make jokes about President Trump’s hospitalization.
Here’s how Jost started:
Well, say what you will do about 2020, but its a move. The news was too much for us to process one day before we returned to the air after a four month holiday. And it all happened so fast. I woke up yesterday and heard that the president had mild symptoms. And then four hours later he was being mediated at a hospital that looked like the last helicopter outside of Vietnam. I mean, it’s a bad sign for America that when Trump said he tested positive for the virus, 60 percent were like, “Prove it.” And it was very strange to see all these people who hate Trump come out and say, “We wish them well.” I think many of them are just guilty that their first wish came true.
After the joke that Trump will “SNL” next week. After assuming he would host, Che continued to laugh and riff:
Well, serious sound. The president is not allowed to see any guests while he is in hospital, but he is expected to be visited by three ghosts. Probably one of his pasts, one of his – well, look, this is weird. Because a lot of people on both sides are saying there’s nothing funny about Trump being hospitalized with a coronavirus. Yet he mocked safety precautions for coronavirus. And those people are obviously wrong. There’s a lot of fun about this – maybe not from a moral standpoint. But mathematically, if you’re making a joke, these are all the ingredients you need. The problem is, it’s almost Also Funny. Like, it’s on the nose. It would happen if I was making fun of people who wear belts and then my pants immediately fell off.
The segment concludes that, in one camera, Kate McKinnon was spotted in the audience, dressed by Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg, whom she often referred to as “SNL.” MK touches Kinnon heartily and she bows her head while displaying the image of the robe on the screen. With a familiar neck collar and pair of glasses and the words “rest in power”.
