'SNL' Asks 'What Even Matters Anymore?' with Host Jessica Chastain

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Jessica Chastain really commits to the scrap! I don't know why I'm surprised. Her whole career is based on accent work and representing extreme points of view. Just I never thought Chastain could exist intentionally silly. She has always struck me as some kind of porcelain egret, which mayhap Julio Torres could do something with, but isn't "funny" in the traditional sense. Does this make me a looks-ist and part of the problem? Almost certainly. This was the first time I was happy to be wrong in 2018, and I hope it isn't the last.

Common cold Open

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is back to tell u.s.a. everything is fine and hey look over in that location! Today's distraction: our healthy and virile prez. "Information technology'south my expert medical opinion that the president's got a rockin' bod," says Brook Bennett as the improbably named Dr. Ronny Jackson, "with the perfect amount of cushion for the pushin'. And if given the risk, I would." Jackson fielded questions from disbelieving members of the press, including Pete Davidson from the respected news source, Saturday Nighttime Alive. Although I respected this sketch'southward brevity, I would have liked more questions from Davidson, only request every question the press pool won't.

Monologue

I'm glad we've had more songologues this year. I'm also glad the two songs we've gotten thus far have been certified bops. Last week it was the just good Elvis song, and this week it's queer icon Lesley Gore'southward "You Don't Own Me." Kate McKinnon truly got her Diane Keaton on , which was delightful.

Car Hunk

I love these Bachelor sketches then much . Like the Real Housewives series and Mad Men, The Available is something I've only consumed through podcasts and online criticism. I tried to watch one episode and got too many Manson vibes and had to bounce. The diverse "Hunk" sketches dissect this televised love competition and show me all the yucky bits so I don't accept to go my easily muddied. And Chastain'south tiny drawing mouse vox was very skillful. Yet, there was a Tide pod joke in the Cold Open, and some other in this. Yous only get one, guys. If in that location's a Tide pod joke on Update, I'g gonna puke up all the pencil protectors I had for dinner.

Fresh Prince

That took some twists and turns, huh? Chris Redd plays our favorite son of West Philadelphia (born and raised), who encounters more some more than dire consequences for interrupting gang basketball game than Will Smith ever did. Jessica Chastain raps without making information technology a big deal, and Uncle Phil kicks some serious ass. Hey, I take a question: What was Method Man doing there? Some more questions: Why did nobody "woo" in recognition of Method Homo? Was that Sam Jay playing Carlton? And can both SNL and Drunk History stop using fake CGI blood spurts? I get that they don't want to ruin rented costumes, just the CGI looks worse than people simply falling down and sticking their tongue out to signify deadness.

Google Talk

A word on bullying gets derailed past a homo who looks just like Bart Simpson. The blocking of Bart during the intro to the sketch was so well done. I also appreciated how the residue of the audience was dressed in the millennial muted palette of navy blue/mustard yellow/maroon, and and so Bart just popped in his cartoonish red shirt. I couldn't tell whether Pete Davidson almost breaking was part of the sketch or not, but sometimes a little mystery adds to the art.

What Even Matters Anymore?

Tonight I learned that Jessica Chastain tin can chug wine like a pro, which is something I look for in prestige actresses. A game show to determine what, if anything, the president does that could possibly have any repercussions ever. Chastain's performance is extremely gif-able, as her sanity slowly erodes with the rest of America.

Weekend Update

Update covered the shutdown, Stormy Daniels, and Trump's concrete. Cecily Potent also stopped by the Update desk as Daniels, explaining that she is what we deserve as Americans. "Things are so bad right now, at that place and so many women desperately trying to effigy out how to be empowered by me," she says as she points at herself with French tip-manicured easily (love the attention to detail). "The all-time they can say is I'm a female director."

William and Harry also came by to discuss … Suits? The point of the bit was that the two bros got distracted from their message past inter-sibling bickering, but I felt like the whole thing lagged. I appreciated Mikey Day's fervent belief that Prince Harry is the kind of dude who is e'er air drumming, but the endless bald jokes were whatever.

Finally, Kate McKinnon comes through, playing Max Headroom playing Robert Mueller. She brought fun energy to the piece, simply I couldn't get lost in the goofs because of the very distracting prosthetics.

New Amazon HQ

Everyone gets an accent in this formless mess! Sketches like this, the endless parade of weirdos, practise nothing for me. Good goofs go lost in the "and now Pitbull is here" of information technology all. Information technology was similar at that place were ii hats, an accent lid and a #spon lid. Everyone picked a place to be from and a brand proper name to mention. And then the Atlanta folks hold up a bag of Chick-fil-A and it gets a huge scream of approving. Fine.

Taco Math

Two women declare that their New Year's resolutions are to become smarter, then cannot empathise how purchase-one-get-1 offers work. One wants chicken, the other beef. They cannot wrap their minds around a BOGO where you lot tin can order ii different kinds of taco, which to exist off-white to them, isn't exactly how BOGOs usually work. Heidi Gardner'south character would normally eat a beef taco only she ate a ton of raw beef final calendar week and got really sick. Why? "I was like, being funny," she explains. Then Aidy Bryant comes forth to explicate/demonstrate that in the world of this sketch, not all women are idiots. It'southward simply these two.

Doctor's Orders

Chad! Republic of chad Republic of chad Republic of chad! I savour Chad. Not just is his flat touch on a perfect fit for Pete Davidson, Chad is a surprisingly expert example of affirmative consent. A woman mentions wanting to fuck him, Chad is downward. The adult female expresses doubts, Chad stops and is fine with that too. This is probably why and then many accomplished and beautiful people have fallen for him . Go Chad.

Moving picture Set

Kenan Thompson wears a slightly different wig than his last effete weirdo in this x-to-1. Seriously, Kenan has played a riff on this Andre Leon Talley-looking motherfucker in the Sam Rockwell's fashion panel sketch, and the live-activity Republic of chad slice when Saoirse Ronan hosted. Maybe this sketch fully devoted to Thompson bugging his eyes out and doing triple- and quadruple-takes will get it out of his system.

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