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Jan. 24, 2026 <\/span>11:56 PM PT <\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n\nAlthough the goal of \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d week after week is comedy (\u201cAllegedly!\u201d yells a heckler from the back row), not all guests hosts show up just to prove they can be hilarious.<\/p>\nInstead, some do the show to not only promote their latest project, but to introduce additional parts of themselves to what may be the biggest audience they\u2019ve had to date.<\/p>\nThat felt like the case with Teyana Taylor, who was nominated this week<\/u><\/a> for a lead actress Oscar for \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d after walking away with a Golden Globe<\/u><\/a> earlier this month. In her first time hosting \u201cSNL,\u201d the goal seemed less to make her the funniest host than to show people who only know her from the Paul Thomas Anderson film that she\u2019s incredibly talented in more ways than just acting.<\/p>\nAfter a charming monologue that included her young children, Taylor sang with cast member Kenan Thompson in an airport terminal sketch featuring Shrimp \u2018n\u2019 Grits, two gate agents who make their flight delay announcements as R&B songs<\/u><\/a>. Sure, cast member James Austin Johnson may have come in and stolen the sketch as a pilot who\u2019s been drinking, but it was the first indication that Taylor could hold her own vocally with the longest-running cast member in \u201cSNL\u201d history, Thompson.<\/p>\nLater in the show, she dazzled in a dance performance as a surprisingly limber 87-year-old grandpa<\/u><\/a> who\u2019s brought to life by Earth, Wind & Fire songs at his grandson\u2019s wedding. She co-hosted a news panel show<\/u><\/a> in which the two Black hosts (Taylor and Thompson) wordlessly hum judgment on opinions spouted by their white panelists (Mikey Day and Chloe Fineman) and played her \u201cOne Battle\u201d character Perfidia Beverly Hills in a pitch-perfect Mattel toy commercial parody<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\nTaylor played smaller supporting parts such as sideline reporter Lisa Salters in an NFL report<\/u><\/a> that turns into an extended promo for a lesbian culinary show called \u201cQuefs.\u201d \u201cQueer Chefs?\u201d Sportscasters Troy Aikman (Andrew Dismukes) and Joe Buck (Johnson) were afraid to guess. She also portrayed a confused contestant<\/a> who is<\/i> there to make friends on a \u201cSurvivor\u201d\/\u201dTraitors\u201d-style reality competition show and a student in a confidence class<\/a> taught by a wreck of a teacher (a fantastic Ashley Padilla).<\/p>\nWas Taylor the funniest host \u201cSNL\u201d has had this season? Not by a long shot. But she proved to be one of the most multi-talented.<\/p>\nMusical guests Geese performed \u201cAu Pays du Cocaine<\/u><\/a>\u201d and \u201cTrinidad<\/a>.\u201d Please Don\u2019t Destroy\u2019s Martin Herlihy wrote and directed a short film<\/a> that closed the episode about techniques to get someone to break up with you.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nIn what may have been a missed opportunity, \u201cSNL\u201d wasn\u2019t able to pivot on short notice to address the day\u2019s biggest national news in its cold open: the killing of an ICU nurse by federal agents<\/u><\/a> in Minneapolis. The incident was alluded to on \u201cWeekend Update,\u201d and egregiously missing from a news panel sketch that specifically talked about incidents in Minneapolis. Instead, perhaps to the show\u2019s detriment, it was another week of Johnson\u2019s President Trump impression, this time as host of the Trumps, an award show for the president and members of his administration. There were jokes at the expense of J.D. Vance (Jeremy Culhane) and Kristi Noem (Padilla); for the former it was a dig on his sexuality while Noem was honored for sucking up to Trump before the president stole her award, Kanye West-style. Mike Myers returned as twitchy, unfunny Elon Musk, there to introduce a memorial segment and accompanying song eulogizing the things the Trump administration has taken down including the East Wing, D.E.I., civil rights and Marjorie Taylor Greene.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nTaylor\u2019s monologue focused on the other interests and pursuits she has apart from acting in Oscar-nominated films, like directing and going to culinary school. She showed a clip of herself dancing in MTV\u2019s \u201cMy Super Sweet 16,\u201d a real thing that happened in her life<\/u><\/a>, and mentioned winning \u201cThe Masked Singer\u201d (also true<\/u><\/a>). But the monologue ended with Taylor discussing being a mother and how her big moment at the Golden Globes was undercut by her kids playing on their phones during her speech. Cut to her kids in the \u201cSNL\u201d audience, looking at their phones. Any parent could relate.<\/p>\nBest sketch of the night: This could be better than Mattel\u2019s \u2018Boogie Nights\u2019 playsets<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nYou may think that the only movie kids care about at the Academy Awards this year is \u201cKPop Demon Hunters<\/u><\/a>,\u201d but according to this ad from Mattel, it\u2019s toys based on \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d that they really want. The movie\u2019s main characters get action figures with accessories like a battle robe for Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s character Bob and a pregnant belly add-on for Taylor\u2019s. The parents in the ad (Padilla and Mikey Day) don\u2019t love their kids acting out the lives of toys with names like Junglepussy or reenacting a motel sex scene between Taylor and Sean Penn\u2019s characters. Great conclusion to the piece: the promise of toys based on other Anderson films including \u201cThere Will Be Blood.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve abandoned my boy!\u201d a kid cries, a clever shoutout to an all-but-forgotten Bill Hader sketch<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\nAlso good: Grandpa Jackson probably dances so well because he has no bones<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nWedding sketches are a staple on \u201cSNL,\u201d but there probably has never been a guest host who danced the hell out of one the way Taylor did as Grandpa Jackson, who takes to the dance floor to celebrate the bride and groom (Padilla and Kam Patterson). Even with the sketch threatening to go off the rails as Taylor\u2019s bald cap started peeling off, she never missed a step and her dance moves were astonishing. Johnson appeared as a sort-of doctor to help the grandfather after he finally collapses to put a nice capper on the basic, but very effective sketch.<\/p>\n\u2018Weekend Update\u2019 winner: That\u2019s a wrap for \u2018cap\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nNew featured cast member Culhane debuted on \u201cUpdate\u201d as Mr. On Blast<\/u><\/a>, a roasting commentator with very light roasts and a lot of body language. But it was Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez who won the week with helpful translations of Gen Z expressions including \u201cchopped,\u201d \u201cfahhh\u201d and \u201cglo-up.\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez teased \u201cUpdate\u201d co-host Colin Jost for being out of the loop, declaring terms such as \u201ccap\u201d dead the moment Jost used them (with a gravestone for emphasis). As Hern\u00e1ndez explained, Gen Z slang is just Black slang adopted by young people before it gets used by white people. \u201cOnce Elon Musk says it, it\u2019s dead,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Although the goal of \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d week after week is comedy (\u201cAllegedly!\u201d yells a heckler from the back row), not all guests hosts show up just to prove they can be hilarious.<\/p>\n
Instead, some do the show to not only promote their latest project, but to introduce additional parts of themselves to what may be the biggest audience they\u2019ve had to date.<\/p>\n
That felt like the case with Teyana Taylor, who was nominated this week<\/u><\/a> for a lead actress Oscar for \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d after walking away with a Golden Globe<\/u><\/a> earlier this month. In her first time hosting \u201cSNL,\u201d the goal seemed less to make her the funniest host than to show people who only know her from the Paul Thomas Anderson film that she\u2019s incredibly talented in more ways than just acting.<\/p>\nAfter a charming monologue that included her young children, Taylor sang with cast member Kenan Thompson in an airport terminal sketch featuring Shrimp \u2018n\u2019 Grits, two gate agents who make their flight delay announcements as R&B songs<\/u><\/a>. Sure, cast member James Austin Johnson may have come in and stolen the sketch as a pilot who\u2019s been drinking, but it was the first indication that Taylor could hold her own vocally with the longest-running cast member in \u201cSNL\u201d history, Thompson.<\/p>\nLater in the show, she dazzled in a dance performance as a surprisingly limber 87-year-old grandpa<\/u><\/a> who\u2019s brought to life by Earth, Wind & Fire songs at his grandson\u2019s wedding. She co-hosted a news panel show<\/u><\/a> in which the two Black hosts (Taylor and Thompson) wordlessly hum judgment on opinions spouted by their white panelists (Mikey Day and Chloe Fineman) and played her \u201cOne Battle\u201d character Perfidia Beverly Hills in a pitch-perfect Mattel toy commercial parody<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\nTaylor played smaller supporting parts such as sideline reporter Lisa Salters in an NFL report<\/u><\/a> that turns into an extended promo for a lesbian culinary show called \u201cQuefs.\u201d \u201cQueer Chefs?\u201d Sportscasters Troy Aikman (Andrew Dismukes) and Joe Buck (Johnson) were afraid to guess. She also portrayed a confused contestant<\/a> who is<\/i> there to make friends on a \u201cSurvivor\u201d\/\u201dTraitors\u201d-style reality competition show and a student in a confidence class<\/a> taught by a wreck of a teacher (a fantastic Ashley Padilla).<\/p>\nWas Taylor the funniest host \u201cSNL\u201d has had this season? Not by a long shot. But she proved to be one of the most multi-talented.<\/p>\nMusical guests Geese performed \u201cAu Pays du Cocaine<\/u><\/a>\u201d and \u201cTrinidad<\/a>.\u201d Please Don\u2019t Destroy\u2019s Martin Herlihy wrote and directed a short film<\/a> that closed the episode about techniques to get someone to break up with you.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nIn what may have been a missed opportunity, \u201cSNL\u201d wasn\u2019t able to pivot on short notice to address the day\u2019s biggest national news in its cold open: the killing of an ICU nurse by federal agents<\/u><\/a> in Minneapolis. The incident was alluded to on \u201cWeekend Update,\u201d and egregiously missing from a news panel sketch that specifically talked about incidents in Minneapolis. Instead, perhaps to the show\u2019s detriment, it was another week of Johnson\u2019s President Trump impression, this time as host of the Trumps, an award show for the president and members of his administration. There were jokes at the expense of J.D. Vance (Jeremy Culhane) and Kristi Noem (Padilla); for the former it was a dig on his sexuality while Noem was honored for sucking up to Trump before the president stole her award, Kanye West-style. Mike Myers returned as twitchy, unfunny Elon Musk, there to introduce a memorial segment and accompanying song eulogizing the things the Trump administration has taken down including the East Wing, D.E.I., civil rights and Marjorie Taylor Greene.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nTaylor\u2019s monologue focused on the other interests and pursuits she has apart from acting in Oscar-nominated films, like directing and going to culinary school. She showed a clip of herself dancing in MTV\u2019s \u201cMy Super Sweet 16,\u201d a real thing that happened in her life<\/u><\/a>, and mentioned winning \u201cThe Masked Singer\u201d (also true<\/u><\/a>). But the monologue ended with Taylor discussing being a mother and how her big moment at the Golden Globes was undercut by her kids playing on their phones during her speech. Cut to her kids in the \u201cSNL\u201d audience, looking at their phones. Any parent could relate.<\/p>\nBest sketch of the night: This could be better than Mattel\u2019s \u2018Boogie Nights\u2019 playsets<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nYou may think that the only movie kids care about at the Academy Awards this year is \u201cKPop Demon Hunters<\/u><\/a>,\u201d but according to this ad from Mattel, it\u2019s toys based on \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d that they really want. The movie\u2019s main characters get action figures with accessories like a battle robe for Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s character Bob and a pregnant belly add-on for Taylor\u2019s. The parents in the ad (Padilla and Mikey Day) don\u2019t love their kids acting out the lives of toys with names like Junglepussy or reenacting a motel sex scene between Taylor and Sean Penn\u2019s characters. Great conclusion to the piece: the promise of toys based on other Anderson films including \u201cThere Will Be Blood.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve abandoned my boy!\u201d a kid cries, a clever shoutout to an all-but-forgotten Bill Hader sketch<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\nAlso good: Grandpa Jackson probably dances so well because he has no bones<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nWedding sketches are a staple on \u201cSNL,\u201d but there probably has never been a guest host who danced the hell out of one the way Taylor did as Grandpa Jackson, who takes to the dance floor to celebrate the bride and groom (Padilla and Kam Patterson). Even with the sketch threatening to go off the rails as Taylor\u2019s bald cap started peeling off, she never missed a step and her dance moves were astonishing. Johnson appeared as a sort-of doctor to help the grandfather after he finally collapses to put a nice capper on the basic, but very effective sketch.<\/p>\n\u2018Weekend Update\u2019 winner: That\u2019s a wrap for \u2018cap\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nNew featured cast member Culhane debuted on \u201cUpdate\u201d as Mr. On Blast<\/u><\/a>, a roasting commentator with very light roasts and a lot of body language. But it was Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez who won the week with helpful translations of Gen Z expressions including \u201cchopped,\u201d \u201cfahhh\u201d and \u201cglo-up.\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez teased \u201cUpdate\u201d co-host Colin Jost for being out of the loop, declaring terms such as \u201ccap\u201d dead the moment Jost used them (with a gravestone for emphasis). As Hern\u00e1ndez explained, Gen Z slang is just Black slang adopted by young people before it gets used by white people. \u201cOnce Elon Musk says it, it\u2019s dead,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
After a charming monologue that included her young children, Taylor sang with cast member Kenan Thompson in an airport terminal sketch featuring Shrimp \u2018n\u2019 Grits, two gate agents who make their flight delay announcements as R&B songs<\/u><\/a>. Sure, cast member James Austin Johnson may have come in and stolen the sketch as a pilot who\u2019s been drinking, but it was the first indication that Taylor could hold her own vocally with the longest-running cast member in \u201cSNL\u201d history, Thompson.<\/p>\nLater in the show, she dazzled in a dance performance as a surprisingly limber 87-year-old grandpa<\/u><\/a> who\u2019s brought to life by Earth, Wind & Fire songs at his grandson\u2019s wedding. She co-hosted a news panel show<\/u><\/a> in which the two Black hosts (Taylor and Thompson) wordlessly hum judgment on opinions spouted by their white panelists (Mikey Day and Chloe Fineman) and played her \u201cOne Battle\u201d character Perfidia Beverly Hills in a pitch-perfect Mattel toy commercial parody<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\nTaylor played smaller supporting parts such as sideline reporter Lisa Salters in an NFL report<\/u><\/a> that turns into an extended promo for a lesbian culinary show called \u201cQuefs.\u201d \u201cQueer Chefs?\u201d Sportscasters Troy Aikman (Andrew Dismukes) and Joe Buck (Johnson) were afraid to guess. She also portrayed a confused contestant<\/a> who is<\/i> there to make friends on a \u201cSurvivor\u201d\/\u201dTraitors\u201d-style reality competition show and a student in a confidence class<\/a> taught by a wreck of a teacher (a fantastic Ashley Padilla).<\/p>\nWas Taylor the funniest host \u201cSNL\u201d has had this season? Not by a long shot. But she proved to be one of the most multi-talented.<\/p>\nMusical guests Geese performed \u201cAu Pays du Cocaine<\/u><\/a>\u201d and \u201cTrinidad<\/a>.\u201d Please Don\u2019t Destroy\u2019s Martin Herlihy wrote and directed a short film<\/a> that closed the episode about techniques to get someone to break up with you.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nIn what may have been a missed opportunity, \u201cSNL\u201d wasn\u2019t able to pivot on short notice to address the day\u2019s biggest national news in its cold open: the killing of an ICU nurse by federal agents<\/u><\/a> in Minneapolis. The incident was alluded to on \u201cWeekend Update,\u201d and egregiously missing from a news panel sketch that specifically talked about incidents in Minneapolis. Instead, perhaps to the show\u2019s detriment, it was another week of Johnson\u2019s President Trump impression, this time as host of the Trumps, an award show for the president and members of his administration. There were jokes at the expense of J.D. Vance (Jeremy Culhane) and Kristi Noem (Padilla); for the former it was a dig on his sexuality while Noem was honored for sucking up to Trump before the president stole her award, Kanye West-style. Mike Myers returned as twitchy, unfunny Elon Musk, there to introduce a memorial segment and accompanying song eulogizing the things the Trump administration has taken down including the East Wing, D.E.I., civil rights and Marjorie Taylor Greene.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nTaylor\u2019s monologue focused on the other interests and pursuits she has apart from acting in Oscar-nominated films, like directing and going to culinary school. She showed a clip of herself dancing in MTV\u2019s \u201cMy Super Sweet 16,\u201d a real thing that happened in her life<\/u><\/a>, and mentioned winning \u201cThe Masked Singer\u201d (also true<\/u><\/a>). But the monologue ended with Taylor discussing being a mother and how her big moment at the Golden Globes was undercut by her kids playing on their phones during her speech. Cut to her kids in the \u201cSNL\u201d audience, looking at their phones. Any parent could relate.<\/p>\nBest sketch of the night: This could be better than Mattel\u2019s \u2018Boogie Nights\u2019 playsets<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nYou may think that the only movie kids care about at the Academy Awards this year is \u201cKPop Demon Hunters<\/u><\/a>,\u201d but according to this ad from Mattel, it\u2019s toys based on \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d that they really want. The movie\u2019s main characters get action figures with accessories like a battle robe for Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s character Bob and a pregnant belly add-on for Taylor\u2019s. The parents in the ad (Padilla and Mikey Day) don\u2019t love their kids acting out the lives of toys with names like Junglepussy or reenacting a motel sex scene between Taylor and Sean Penn\u2019s characters. Great conclusion to the piece: the promise of toys based on other Anderson films including \u201cThere Will Be Blood.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve abandoned my boy!\u201d a kid cries, a clever shoutout to an all-but-forgotten Bill Hader sketch<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\nAlso good: Grandpa Jackson probably dances so well because he has no bones<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nWedding sketches are a staple on \u201cSNL,\u201d but there probably has never been a guest host who danced the hell out of one the way Taylor did as Grandpa Jackson, who takes to the dance floor to celebrate the bride and groom (Padilla and Kam Patterson). Even with the sketch threatening to go off the rails as Taylor\u2019s bald cap started peeling off, she never missed a step and her dance moves were astonishing. Johnson appeared as a sort-of doctor to help the grandfather after he finally collapses to put a nice capper on the basic, but very effective sketch.<\/p>\n\u2018Weekend Update\u2019 winner: That\u2019s a wrap for \u2018cap\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nNew featured cast member Culhane debuted on \u201cUpdate\u201d as Mr. On Blast<\/u><\/a>, a roasting commentator with very light roasts and a lot of body language. But it was Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez who won the week with helpful translations of Gen Z expressions including \u201cchopped,\u201d \u201cfahhh\u201d and \u201cglo-up.\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez teased \u201cUpdate\u201d co-host Colin Jost for being out of the loop, declaring terms such as \u201ccap\u201d dead the moment Jost used them (with a gravestone for emphasis). As Hern\u00e1ndez explained, Gen Z slang is just Black slang adopted by young people before it gets used by white people. \u201cOnce Elon Musk says it, it\u2019s dead,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Later in the show, she dazzled in a dance performance as a surprisingly limber 87-year-old grandpa<\/u><\/a> who\u2019s brought to life by Earth, Wind & Fire songs at his grandson\u2019s wedding. She co-hosted a news panel show<\/u><\/a> in which the two Black hosts (Taylor and Thompson) wordlessly hum judgment on opinions spouted by their white panelists (Mikey Day and Chloe Fineman) and played her \u201cOne Battle\u201d character Perfidia Beverly Hills in a pitch-perfect Mattel toy commercial parody<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\nTaylor played smaller supporting parts such as sideline reporter Lisa Salters in an NFL report<\/u><\/a> that turns into an extended promo for a lesbian culinary show called \u201cQuefs.\u201d \u201cQueer Chefs?\u201d Sportscasters Troy Aikman (Andrew Dismukes) and Joe Buck (Johnson) were afraid to guess. She also portrayed a confused contestant<\/a> who is<\/i> there to make friends on a \u201cSurvivor\u201d\/\u201dTraitors\u201d-style reality competition show and a student in a confidence class<\/a> taught by a wreck of a teacher (a fantastic Ashley Padilla).<\/p>\nWas Taylor the funniest host \u201cSNL\u201d has had this season? Not by a long shot. But she proved to be one of the most multi-talented.<\/p>\nMusical guests Geese performed \u201cAu Pays du Cocaine<\/u><\/a>\u201d and \u201cTrinidad<\/a>.\u201d Please Don\u2019t Destroy\u2019s Martin Herlihy wrote and directed a short film<\/a> that closed the episode about techniques to get someone to break up with you.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nIn what may have been a missed opportunity, \u201cSNL\u201d wasn\u2019t able to pivot on short notice to address the day\u2019s biggest national news in its cold open: the killing of an ICU nurse by federal agents<\/u><\/a> in Minneapolis. The incident was alluded to on \u201cWeekend Update,\u201d and egregiously missing from a news panel sketch that specifically talked about incidents in Minneapolis. Instead, perhaps to the show\u2019s detriment, it was another week of Johnson\u2019s President Trump impression, this time as host of the Trumps, an award show for the president and members of his administration. There were jokes at the expense of J.D. Vance (Jeremy Culhane) and Kristi Noem (Padilla); for the former it was a dig on his sexuality while Noem was honored for sucking up to Trump before the president stole her award, Kanye West-style. Mike Myers returned as twitchy, unfunny Elon Musk, there to introduce a memorial segment and accompanying song eulogizing the things the Trump administration has taken down including the East Wing, D.E.I., civil rights and Marjorie Taylor Greene.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nTaylor\u2019s monologue focused on the other interests and pursuits she has apart from acting in Oscar-nominated films, like directing and going to culinary school. She showed a clip of herself dancing in MTV\u2019s \u201cMy Super Sweet 16,\u201d a real thing that happened in her life<\/u><\/a>, and mentioned winning \u201cThe Masked Singer\u201d (also true<\/u><\/a>). But the monologue ended with Taylor discussing being a mother and how her big moment at the Golden Globes was undercut by her kids playing on their phones during her speech. Cut to her kids in the \u201cSNL\u201d audience, looking at their phones. Any parent could relate.<\/p>\nBest sketch of the night: This could be better than Mattel\u2019s \u2018Boogie Nights\u2019 playsets<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nYou may think that the only movie kids care about at the Academy Awards this year is \u201cKPop Demon Hunters<\/u><\/a>,\u201d but according to this ad from Mattel, it\u2019s toys based on \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d that they really want. The movie\u2019s main characters get action figures with accessories like a battle robe for Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s character Bob and a pregnant belly add-on for Taylor\u2019s. The parents in the ad (Padilla and Mikey Day) don\u2019t love their kids acting out the lives of toys with names like Junglepussy or reenacting a motel sex scene between Taylor and Sean Penn\u2019s characters. Great conclusion to the piece: the promise of toys based on other Anderson films including \u201cThere Will Be Blood.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve abandoned my boy!\u201d a kid cries, a clever shoutout to an all-but-forgotten Bill Hader sketch<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\nAlso good: Grandpa Jackson probably dances so well because he has no bones<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nWedding sketches are a staple on \u201cSNL,\u201d but there probably has never been a guest host who danced the hell out of one the way Taylor did as Grandpa Jackson, who takes to the dance floor to celebrate the bride and groom (Padilla and Kam Patterson). Even with the sketch threatening to go off the rails as Taylor\u2019s bald cap started peeling off, she never missed a step and her dance moves were astonishing. Johnson appeared as a sort-of doctor to help the grandfather after he finally collapses to put a nice capper on the basic, but very effective sketch.<\/p>\n\u2018Weekend Update\u2019 winner: That\u2019s a wrap for \u2018cap\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nNew featured cast member Culhane debuted on \u201cUpdate\u201d as Mr. On Blast<\/u><\/a>, a roasting commentator with very light roasts and a lot of body language. But it was Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez who won the week with helpful translations of Gen Z expressions including \u201cchopped,\u201d \u201cfahhh\u201d and \u201cglo-up.\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez teased \u201cUpdate\u201d co-host Colin Jost for being out of the loop, declaring terms such as \u201ccap\u201d dead the moment Jost used them (with a gravestone for emphasis). As Hern\u00e1ndez explained, Gen Z slang is just Black slang adopted by young people before it gets used by white people. \u201cOnce Elon Musk says it, it\u2019s dead,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Taylor played smaller supporting parts such as sideline reporter Lisa Salters in an NFL report<\/u><\/a> that turns into an extended promo for a lesbian culinary show called \u201cQuefs.\u201d \u201cQueer Chefs?\u201d Sportscasters Troy Aikman (Andrew Dismukes) and Joe Buck (Johnson) were afraid to guess. She also portrayed a confused contestant<\/a> who is<\/i> there to make friends on a \u201cSurvivor\u201d\/\u201dTraitors\u201d-style reality competition show and a student in a confidence class<\/a> taught by a wreck of a teacher (a fantastic Ashley Padilla).<\/p>\nWas Taylor the funniest host \u201cSNL\u201d has had this season? Not by a long shot. But she proved to be one of the most multi-talented.<\/p>\nMusical guests Geese performed \u201cAu Pays du Cocaine<\/u><\/a>\u201d and \u201cTrinidad<\/a>.\u201d Please Don\u2019t Destroy\u2019s Martin Herlihy wrote and directed a short film<\/a> that closed the episode about techniques to get someone to break up with you.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nIn what may have been a missed opportunity, \u201cSNL\u201d wasn\u2019t able to pivot on short notice to address the day\u2019s biggest national news in its cold open: the killing of an ICU nurse by federal agents<\/u><\/a> in Minneapolis. The incident was alluded to on \u201cWeekend Update,\u201d and egregiously missing from a news panel sketch that specifically talked about incidents in Minneapolis. Instead, perhaps to the show\u2019s detriment, it was another week of Johnson\u2019s President Trump impression, this time as host of the Trumps, an award show for the president and members of his administration. There were jokes at the expense of J.D. Vance (Jeremy Culhane) and Kristi Noem (Padilla); for the former it was a dig on his sexuality while Noem was honored for sucking up to Trump before the president stole her award, Kanye West-style. Mike Myers returned as twitchy, unfunny Elon Musk, there to introduce a memorial segment and accompanying song eulogizing the things the Trump administration has taken down including the East Wing, D.E.I., civil rights and Marjorie Taylor Greene.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nTaylor\u2019s monologue focused on the other interests and pursuits she has apart from acting in Oscar-nominated films, like directing and going to culinary school. She showed a clip of herself dancing in MTV\u2019s \u201cMy Super Sweet 16,\u201d a real thing that happened in her life<\/u><\/a>, and mentioned winning \u201cThe Masked Singer\u201d (also true<\/u><\/a>). But the monologue ended with Taylor discussing being a mother and how her big moment at the Golden Globes was undercut by her kids playing on their phones during her speech. Cut to her kids in the \u201cSNL\u201d audience, looking at their phones. Any parent could relate.<\/p>\nBest sketch of the night: This could be better than Mattel\u2019s \u2018Boogie Nights\u2019 playsets<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nYou may think that the only movie kids care about at the Academy Awards this year is \u201cKPop Demon Hunters<\/u><\/a>,\u201d but according to this ad from Mattel, it\u2019s toys based on \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d that they really want. The movie\u2019s main characters get action figures with accessories like a battle robe for Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s character Bob and a pregnant belly add-on for Taylor\u2019s. The parents in the ad (Padilla and Mikey Day) don\u2019t love their kids acting out the lives of toys with names like Junglepussy or reenacting a motel sex scene between Taylor and Sean Penn\u2019s characters. Great conclusion to the piece: the promise of toys based on other Anderson films including \u201cThere Will Be Blood.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve abandoned my boy!\u201d a kid cries, a clever shoutout to an all-but-forgotten Bill Hader sketch<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\nAlso good: Grandpa Jackson probably dances so well because he has no bones<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nWedding sketches are a staple on \u201cSNL,\u201d but there probably has never been a guest host who danced the hell out of one the way Taylor did as Grandpa Jackson, who takes to the dance floor to celebrate the bride and groom (Padilla and Kam Patterson). Even with the sketch threatening to go off the rails as Taylor\u2019s bald cap started peeling off, she never missed a step and her dance moves were astonishing. Johnson appeared as a sort-of doctor to help the grandfather after he finally collapses to put a nice capper on the basic, but very effective sketch.<\/p>\n\u2018Weekend Update\u2019 winner: That\u2019s a wrap for \u2018cap\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nNew featured cast member Culhane debuted on \u201cUpdate\u201d as Mr. On Blast<\/u><\/a>, a roasting commentator with very light roasts and a lot of body language. But it was Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez who won the week with helpful translations of Gen Z expressions including \u201cchopped,\u201d \u201cfahhh\u201d and \u201cglo-up.\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez teased \u201cUpdate\u201d co-host Colin Jost for being out of the loop, declaring terms such as \u201ccap\u201d dead the moment Jost used them (with a gravestone for emphasis). As Hern\u00e1ndez explained, Gen Z slang is just Black slang adopted by young people before it gets used by white people. \u201cOnce Elon Musk says it, it\u2019s dead,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Was Taylor the funniest host \u201cSNL\u201d has had this season? Not by a long shot. But she proved to be one of the most multi-talented.<\/p>\n
Musical guests Geese performed \u201cAu Pays du Cocaine<\/u><\/a>\u201d and \u201cTrinidad<\/a>.\u201d Please Don\u2019t Destroy\u2019s Martin Herlihy wrote and directed a short film<\/a> that closed the episode about techniques to get someone to break up with you.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nIn what may have been a missed opportunity, \u201cSNL\u201d wasn\u2019t able to pivot on short notice to address the day\u2019s biggest national news in its cold open: the killing of an ICU nurse by federal agents<\/u><\/a> in Minneapolis. The incident was alluded to on \u201cWeekend Update,\u201d and egregiously missing from a news panel sketch that specifically talked about incidents in Minneapolis. Instead, perhaps to the show\u2019s detriment, it was another week of Johnson\u2019s President Trump impression, this time as host of the Trumps, an award show for the president and members of his administration. There were jokes at the expense of J.D. Vance (Jeremy Culhane) and Kristi Noem (Padilla); for the former it was a dig on his sexuality while Noem was honored for sucking up to Trump before the president stole her award, Kanye West-style. Mike Myers returned as twitchy, unfunny Elon Musk, there to introduce a memorial segment and accompanying song eulogizing the things the Trump administration has taken down including the East Wing, D.E.I., civil rights and Marjorie Taylor Greene.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nTaylor\u2019s monologue focused on the other interests and pursuits she has apart from acting in Oscar-nominated films, like directing and going to culinary school. She showed a clip of herself dancing in MTV\u2019s \u201cMy Super Sweet 16,\u201d a real thing that happened in her life<\/u><\/a>, and mentioned winning \u201cThe Masked Singer\u201d (also true<\/u><\/a>). But the monologue ended with Taylor discussing being a mother and how her big moment at the Golden Globes was undercut by her kids playing on their phones during her speech. Cut to her kids in the \u201cSNL\u201d audience, looking at their phones. Any parent could relate.<\/p>\nBest sketch of the night: This could be better than Mattel\u2019s \u2018Boogie Nights\u2019 playsets<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nYou may think that the only movie kids care about at the Academy Awards this year is \u201cKPop Demon Hunters<\/u><\/a>,\u201d but according to this ad from Mattel, it\u2019s toys based on \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d that they really want. The movie\u2019s main characters get action figures with accessories like a battle robe for Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s character Bob and a pregnant belly add-on for Taylor\u2019s. The parents in the ad (Padilla and Mikey Day) don\u2019t love their kids acting out the lives of toys with names like Junglepussy or reenacting a motel sex scene between Taylor and Sean Penn\u2019s characters. Great conclusion to the piece: the promise of toys based on other Anderson films including \u201cThere Will Be Blood.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve abandoned my boy!\u201d a kid cries, a clever shoutout to an all-but-forgotten Bill Hader sketch<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\nAlso good: Grandpa Jackson probably dances so well because he has no bones<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nWedding sketches are a staple on \u201cSNL,\u201d but there probably has never been a guest host who danced the hell out of one the way Taylor did as Grandpa Jackson, who takes to the dance floor to celebrate the bride and groom (Padilla and Kam Patterson). Even with the sketch threatening to go off the rails as Taylor\u2019s bald cap started peeling off, she never missed a step and her dance moves were astonishing. Johnson appeared as a sort-of doctor to help the grandfather after he finally collapses to put a nice capper on the basic, but very effective sketch.<\/p>\n\u2018Weekend Update\u2019 winner: That\u2019s a wrap for \u2018cap\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nNew featured cast member Culhane debuted on \u201cUpdate\u201d as Mr. On Blast<\/u><\/a>, a roasting commentator with very light roasts and a lot of body language. But it was Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez who won the week with helpful translations of Gen Z expressions including \u201cchopped,\u201d \u201cfahhh\u201d and \u201cglo-up.\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez teased \u201cUpdate\u201d co-host Colin Jost for being out of the loop, declaring terms such as \u201ccap\u201d dead the moment Jost used them (with a gravestone for emphasis). As Hern\u00e1ndez explained, Gen Z slang is just Black slang adopted by young people before it gets used by white people. \u201cOnce Elon Musk says it, it\u2019s dead,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
In what may have been a missed opportunity, \u201cSNL\u201d wasn\u2019t able to pivot on short notice to address the day\u2019s biggest national news in its cold open: the killing of an ICU nurse by federal agents<\/u><\/a> in Minneapolis. The incident was alluded to on \u201cWeekend Update,\u201d and egregiously missing from a news panel sketch that specifically talked about incidents in Minneapolis. Instead, perhaps to the show\u2019s detriment, it was another week of Johnson\u2019s President Trump impression, this time as host of the Trumps, an award show for the president and members of his administration. There were jokes at the expense of J.D. Vance (Jeremy Culhane) and Kristi Noem (Padilla); for the former it was a dig on his sexuality while Noem was honored for sucking up to Trump before the president stole her award, Kanye West-style. Mike Myers returned as twitchy, unfunny Elon Musk, there to introduce a memorial segment and accompanying song eulogizing the things the Trump administration has taken down including the East Wing, D.E.I., civil rights and Marjorie Taylor Greene.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nTaylor\u2019s monologue focused on the other interests and pursuits she has apart from acting in Oscar-nominated films, like directing and going to culinary school. She showed a clip of herself dancing in MTV\u2019s \u201cMy Super Sweet 16,\u201d a real thing that happened in her life<\/u><\/a>, and mentioned winning \u201cThe Masked Singer\u201d (also true<\/u><\/a>). But the monologue ended with Taylor discussing being a mother and how her big moment at the Golden Globes was undercut by her kids playing on their phones during her speech. Cut to her kids in the \u201cSNL\u201d audience, looking at their phones. Any parent could relate.<\/p>\nBest sketch of the night: This could be better than Mattel\u2019s \u2018Boogie Nights\u2019 playsets<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nYou may think that the only movie kids care about at the Academy Awards this year is \u201cKPop Demon Hunters<\/u><\/a>,\u201d but according to this ad from Mattel, it\u2019s toys based on \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d that they really want. The movie\u2019s main characters get action figures with accessories like a battle robe for Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s character Bob and a pregnant belly add-on for Taylor\u2019s. The parents in the ad (Padilla and Mikey Day) don\u2019t love their kids acting out the lives of toys with names like Junglepussy or reenacting a motel sex scene between Taylor and Sean Penn\u2019s characters. Great conclusion to the piece: the promise of toys based on other Anderson films including \u201cThere Will Be Blood.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve abandoned my boy!\u201d a kid cries, a clever shoutout to an all-but-forgotten Bill Hader sketch<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\nAlso good: Grandpa Jackson probably dances so well because he has no bones<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nWedding sketches are a staple on \u201cSNL,\u201d but there probably has never been a guest host who danced the hell out of one the way Taylor did as Grandpa Jackson, who takes to the dance floor to celebrate the bride and groom (Padilla and Kam Patterson). Even with the sketch threatening to go off the rails as Taylor\u2019s bald cap started peeling off, she never missed a step and her dance moves were astonishing. Johnson appeared as a sort-of doctor to help the grandfather after he finally collapses to put a nice capper on the basic, but very effective sketch.<\/p>\n\u2018Weekend Update\u2019 winner: That\u2019s a wrap for \u2018cap\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nNew featured cast member Culhane debuted on \u201cUpdate\u201d as Mr. On Blast<\/u><\/a>, a roasting commentator with very light roasts and a lot of body language. But it was Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez who won the week with helpful translations of Gen Z expressions including \u201cchopped,\u201d \u201cfahhh\u201d and \u201cglo-up.\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez teased \u201cUpdate\u201d co-host Colin Jost for being out of the loop, declaring terms such as \u201ccap\u201d dead the moment Jost used them (with a gravestone for emphasis). As Hern\u00e1ndez explained, Gen Z slang is just Black slang adopted by young people before it gets used by white people. \u201cOnce Elon Musk says it, it\u2019s dead,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Taylor\u2019s monologue focused on the other interests and pursuits she has apart from acting in Oscar-nominated films, like directing and going to culinary school. She showed a clip of herself dancing in MTV\u2019s \u201cMy Super Sweet 16,\u201d a real thing that happened in her life<\/u><\/a>, and mentioned winning \u201cThe Masked Singer\u201d (also true<\/u><\/a>). But the monologue ended with Taylor discussing being a mother and how her big moment at the Golden Globes was undercut by her kids playing on their phones during her speech. Cut to her kids in the \u201cSNL\u201d audience, looking at their phones. Any parent could relate.<\/p>\nBest sketch of the night: This could be better than Mattel\u2019s \u2018Boogie Nights\u2019 playsets<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nYou may think that the only movie kids care about at the Academy Awards this year is \u201cKPop Demon Hunters<\/u><\/a>,\u201d but according to this ad from Mattel, it\u2019s toys based on \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d that they really want. The movie\u2019s main characters get action figures with accessories like a battle robe for Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s character Bob and a pregnant belly add-on for Taylor\u2019s. The parents in the ad (Padilla and Mikey Day) don\u2019t love their kids acting out the lives of toys with names like Junglepussy or reenacting a motel sex scene between Taylor and Sean Penn\u2019s characters. Great conclusion to the piece: the promise of toys based on other Anderson films including \u201cThere Will Be Blood.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve abandoned my boy!\u201d a kid cries, a clever shoutout to an all-but-forgotten Bill Hader sketch<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\nAlso good: Grandpa Jackson probably dances so well because he has no bones<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nWedding sketches are a staple on \u201cSNL,\u201d but there probably has never been a guest host who danced the hell out of one the way Taylor did as Grandpa Jackson, who takes to the dance floor to celebrate the bride and groom (Padilla and Kam Patterson). Even with the sketch threatening to go off the rails as Taylor\u2019s bald cap started peeling off, she never missed a step and her dance moves were astonishing. Johnson appeared as a sort-of doctor to help the grandfather after he finally collapses to put a nice capper on the basic, but very effective sketch.<\/p>\n\u2018Weekend Update\u2019 winner: That\u2019s a wrap for \u2018cap\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nNew featured cast member Culhane debuted on \u201cUpdate\u201d as Mr. On Blast<\/u><\/a>, a roasting commentator with very light roasts and a lot of body language. But it was Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez who won the week with helpful translations of Gen Z expressions including \u201cchopped,\u201d \u201cfahhh\u201d and \u201cglo-up.\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez teased \u201cUpdate\u201d co-host Colin Jost for being out of the loop, declaring terms such as \u201ccap\u201d dead the moment Jost used them (with a gravestone for emphasis). As Hern\u00e1ndez explained, Gen Z slang is just Black slang adopted by young people before it gets used by white people. \u201cOnce Elon Musk says it, it\u2019s dead,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
You may think that the only movie kids care about at the Academy Awards this year is \u201cKPop Demon Hunters<\/u><\/a>,\u201d but according to this ad from Mattel, it\u2019s toys based on \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d that they really want. The movie\u2019s main characters get action figures with accessories like a battle robe for Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s character Bob and a pregnant belly add-on for Taylor\u2019s. The parents in the ad (Padilla and Mikey Day) don\u2019t love their kids acting out the lives of toys with names like Junglepussy or reenacting a motel sex scene between Taylor and Sean Penn\u2019s characters. Great conclusion to the piece: the promise of toys based on other Anderson films including \u201cThere Will Be Blood.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve abandoned my boy!\u201d a kid cries, a clever shoutout to an all-but-forgotten Bill Hader sketch<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\nAlso good: Grandpa Jackson probably dances so well because he has no bones<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nWedding sketches are a staple on \u201cSNL,\u201d but there probably has never been a guest host who danced the hell out of one the way Taylor did as Grandpa Jackson, who takes to the dance floor to celebrate the bride and groom (Padilla and Kam Patterson). Even with the sketch threatening to go off the rails as Taylor\u2019s bald cap started peeling off, she never missed a step and her dance moves were astonishing. Johnson appeared as a sort-of doctor to help the grandfather after he finally collapses to put a nice capper on the basic, but very effective sketch.<\/p>\n\u2018Weekend Update\u2019 winner: That\u2019s a wrap for \u2018cap\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nNew featured cast member Culhane debuted on \u201cUpdate\u201d as Mr. On Blast<\/u><\/a>, a roasting commentator with very light roasts and a lot of body language. But it was Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez who won the week with helpful translations of Gen Z expressions including \u201cchopped,\u201d \u201cfahhh\u201d and \u201cglo-up.\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez teased \u201cUpdate\u201d co-host Colin Jost for being out of the loop, declaring terms such as \u201ccap\u201d dead the moment Jost used them (with a gravestone for emphasis). As Hern\u00e1ndez explained, Gen Z slang is just Black slang adopted by young people before it gets used by white people. \u201cOnce Elon Musk says it, it\u2019s dead,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Wedding sketches are a staple on \u201cSNL,\u201d but there probably has never been a guest host who danced the hell out of one the way Taylor did as Grandpa Jackson, who takes to the dance floor to celebrate the bride and groom (Padilla and Kam Patterson). Even with the sketch threatening to go off the rails as Taylor\u2019s bald cap started peeling off, she never missed a step and her dance moves were astonishing. Johnson appeared as a sort-of doctor to help the grandfather after he finally collapses to put a nice capper on the basic, but very effective sketch.<\/p>\n
New featured cast member Culhane debuted on \u201cUpdate\u201d as Mr. On Blast<\/u><\/a>, a roasting commentator with very light roasts and a lot of body language. But it was Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez who won the week with helpful translations of Gen Z expressions including \u201cchopped,\u201d \u201cfahhh\u201d and \u201cglo-up.\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez teased \u201cUpdate\u201d co-host Colin Jost for being out of the loop, declaring terms such as \u201ccap\u201d dead the moment Jost used them (with a gravestone for emphasis). As Hern\u00e1ndez explained, Gen Z slang is just Black slang adopted by young people before it gets used by white people. \u201cOnce Elon Musk says it, it\u2019s dead,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n