BAD BUNNY IS THE PERFECT HOST TO INTRODUCE Snl‘S New Look AFTER ALL OF THE OFFSEASON TURNOVER.
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The Last Time Musician Bad Bunny Hosted Saturday Night Livehe was dressed as Shrek, Requesting please don’t destroy to write a shrek sketch for Him. That was two years ago, and as a funny and charismatic performer, it makes sense that he crushed. For the premiere of season 51, he hosting for a second time, consistent as Ever, if the show’s gone through Big Changes During the hiatus. For one thing, no more please don’t destroy on the show (though they’ll Still as a sketch Group), with Marshall Bumpti to Featured Player, Martin Herlihy As Writer, and John Higgins Gone to Grueling WorkPlace. A Chunk of Last Season’s Cast Is Gone, Including Heavy Hitters Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim. Based on this first episode, it seames like marcello Hernandez, Sarah Sherman, and Chloe finesse are poised to filance the gap by Heidi and Ego’s Departure. (Hopphully, SO Will Bowen Yang in Future Episodes.) The Four New Featured Players, in Addition to Marshall, Include Tiktok Veronika Slowikowska, Dropout’s Jeremy Culhane, Kill Tony’s I have patterson, and stand-up Comedian Tommy Brennan.
Talked About But Genuinely Thrling Are the New Writers: Jack Bensinger, Maddie Wiener, Rachel Pegram, No Sunday, and Claire McFadden Are SO, SO Funny. Bensinger’s absurdity, Wiener’s Cutting Joke Writing, and McFadden’s Sketches have Been Making with Laugh Since They Were All In Chicago Nearly A Decade Ago. Sunday’s Brooklyn Alt Whimsy is Captivating, and Pegra is equally gifted as a performer and writer. I don’t know the two lampoon hires, but you know what? Sura. If the Show Molds to Their Younger, Alt-Eyer Sensibillies, Rather than the Other Way AROUND, THIS SEASON COULD BE REALLY, Really Good.
It is with the recent changes to the show, bad bunny is a constant. With the love cat as musical guest, he was doing doable duty this time, and he also ha more acting experiences his belt now. He was in HAPPY GILMORE 2 This Summer Alongside Marcello Hernandez, and you see that chemistry would be the two ouncescreen here, too. The Premiere’s best moments were bad Bunny and Marcello Hernandez Workhed Together as a dynamic team, as evidenced in the standard sketches of the Night, Including Chatgptío and Parent-Teacher Conferences. I wish we had seen say in a sabado gigante sketch.
As for the premiere over, it felt on par with the average Snl Episode, which was up and down. The Cold Open Featured a Tooo-Convincing Colin Jost As Pete Hegseth, Parodying HIS Anti-Deei Speech-Slash-Talk to Soldiers, with James Austin Johnson’s Trump on Soon AFTER to Recap His Summer. The Jeopardy Sketch Felt One-Note, and the inventing Spanish Sketch, which Occupied the Same Universe as Night Bargatze’s Washington’s Dream Series, didn’t reach the level of it is culd have (this did not have many sharp lines). The El Chavo de Ocho sketch didn’t quite hit if you weren’t already family with the original.
When the Writing Wasn’t Its Sharpest, Bad Bunny’s Performance Still Carried Through Every Sketch. Being a good chomedic actor taks Him Far, but he also so intentional about Playing Each Character with Such an Earnest Conviction. You’re Laughing, but you Also really Want His Characters to Win. At the core, his characters are all sweeties. And to make the audience believe that that is a creepy aspiring sperm donor is a sweetie? That’s a Gift. With How Frequently he’s been at 30 rock for a newcomer, spreads we’ll see him come in as a more regular drop-in?
Here are the highlights:
Bad Bunny Solidifies Why’s the Perfect First Host to Start the SEASON with his monologue, where he’s so funny, charismatic, and at that on that Stage. (The Week’s promo About Him Being Supreme Comfortable at Snl wasn’t a joke, and you good.) During the monologue, he gave us a rundown of his puerto rico residency, Making fun of Himself with a clip of his “complicated choreography” and ion hamm (or yuan jamón) al The attvenance. (And you know he was in the Snl audience too, bucket hat and all.) Bad bunny joked about the maga backlash, saying that fox news was excited by hosting the Super Bowl, followed by Clips of Fox News Talking Heads to Say, “Bad Bunny is My Favorite Music, and Our Next President. ” He switches to Spanish towards the end, and ends by reminding us that if we didn’t understand, we have four months to Learn. HOSTS TO HAVE MORE MORE Room to be political (at the stands for the standards of this show), and it was refreshing to see BUNNY SO SEAMlessly stand in his element, Both defiant and unbothered by the bad-faith conservative points à la fox News. I HOPE THAT HAVING HIM ON AN INDEARENTLY POLITICAL GUEST ISN’T A QUID PRO QUO FOR Potentially Having, Like, Tony Hinchcliffe on Later.
A Lesbian Couple (Sarah Sherman and Chloe Fineman) Asks Theyir Good Friend (Mikey Day) to be a sperm donor, but he has to think about it. But it is not a problem; There’s Another Restaurant Patron Named Elviro (Bad Bunny), a Weird Guy with a Bowl Cut Who Extremely Eager to be a Father. Kenan Thompson is also randomly there as a restaurant patron who have free semen. The logic doesn’t quite work for me, but i appreciate the silliness. The whole sketch is Worth for the Camera pan to see BAD BUNNY COMICALLY HIS Intro Line: “Uuuuuuuuh … I will it!”
Do Strong, Simple Premise That Answers The Question: What If Chatgt Were Your Latino Uncle? Well, its tagline would be, “Call your abuela. She’s missing you and she has not.” Marcello Hernandez Leads This Digital Short as the titular tío, assisted by Bad Bunny in a Costum That’s Kind of Walter Goggins Coded. I love me together, and i Hope Bad Bunny Will Appear More Frequently During The Season. Snl is fun it is culturally specific, Which, Based on how the cast has gotten, Feels like it to savhen it does happy. An added bonus is that get a glympse of the fide of the five new featured players in this one.
When A Group of Friends is at Brunch, Catching Up About Recent Media they’ve Liked, Thomas (Bad Bunny) Gets Really Defensive About Loving Demon Hunter, Which is Technically A Movie for Children. When the rest of the Group Moves on from the Conversation, Thomas is Still off; He sides sideways, poised and cross-armed, his internal monologue both indignant at his peers and also bopping to the movie’s songs in his head. To be funny while playing a character who’s sweeet and endearing (tan benhen calling his friends idiots) is a skill, and bad bunny has it. I ALSO LOVE THAT THIS SKETCH FELT LIKE IT HAD THREE ACTS, with Bowen Coming in AS Demon, before an actual huntr/x performance. Bonus Points for Sarah Sherman’s Dowdy Character, WHO ACCIDENTALLY GOT ON THE EPSTEIN LIST.
Easily The Best Sketch of the Night. Crey a principal (Ashley padilla) and a teacher (Andrew Dismukes) reprimand a student (Hernandez) for Disturbing Drawings of Him Attacking the Principal, The Student’s Father (Bad Bunny) Comes in, and Padillas Principal, Immediately Smitten, Changes to Hitting. Student’s Father. IT’S DELIGHTFUL TO SEE HER SWITCH TO WHAT HER CHARACTER BELIESS IS A full-blown rom-com heroin, Only to elicit no reaction from Badny and Frustration from Teacher, who’s actually in love with her. AFTER BAD BUNNY’S CHARACTER TELLS HER TO Call Him by His First Name, She Marvels, “Have You Ever Let Anyone Call You That Before?” Bad Bunny Simply Says, “Yes.” When Padilla Calls HIS Late Wife a bitch before realizing she died and then doing a hard pivot to “then the bitch is I,” was my favorite line read of the episode.
• I wanted cat… that Woman is a performer performer. I’m Surprised She was in any sketches.
• In the end credits, i love seeing the Bowen Dancing with the Huntr/x Girls. Becusee i’ve finally aged into Snl‘s demographic, i can’t telt the extent to what they’e’re a real band or just in the movie, but i thought it was cute!
• I did Miss Having a please don’t destroy sketch.
• slime coming out of sarah sherman’s mouth in the kpop demon hunters sketch… i love that girl gets to go back to her body horror roots.
• Pre-Emptivly Looking forward to More Veronika Slowikowska and Jeremy Culhane This Season. I do’t know a lot about me, other than that they have fanbases from tiktok and dropout, respectively. Seeing their fans buzz with excitement Feels really tender.
• Benicio del Toro Cameo? Is Everyone JUST FREE?