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‘SNL’ revives ‘MacGruber’, in Will Forte’s hosting debut


Former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Will Forte returned to host the show for the first time on Saturday, enlisting familiar faces to reprise his character MacGruber on a night when James Austin Johnson’s incoherent Donald Trump appeared outdoors. .

Kate McKinnon kicked off the NBC show by parodying Fox News host Laura Ingraham in an open coolness that misled Trump, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, tennis star Novak Djokovic and conservative author Candace Owens.

“The Ingraham Angle,” sponsored by a Paula Dean hummus substitute and a COVID-19 test that always comes back negative, even if you have it, opens with McKinnon complaining about President Joe Biden’s first year in office.

“Inflation is out of control, gas is $19 a gallon, and the Green M&M has been canceled just for being a whore,” she deadpanned.

He then welcomed Aidy Bryant as Cruz, who has vowed to demote herself to remain in Trump’s good graces.

Former Saturday Night Live cast member Will Forte returned to the show showing a familiar face as MacGruber.
Former Saturday Night Live cast member Will Forte returned to the show showing a familiar face as MacGruber.
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“My beard is like January 6: shocking at first, but it has normalized,” said the fake senator from Texas.

Pete Davidson played anti-vaccine athlete Djokovic, who was asked about his COVID-19 related expulsion from the Australian Open.

“I never thought I would hear myself get deported in a bad way, but what happened?” the fake Ingraham asked, drooling at the Serbian-accented response.

“I’m a fan of your sport, because in tennis love is bad,” she deadpanned.

McKinnon’s character also fawned over Owens, played by Ego Nwodim.

“It is my greatest honor to fight for African Americans, no matter how many times they ask me to stop,” Nwodim said.

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Johnson-as-Trump then delivered a free association rant that touched on booster shots, John Mayer, “How I Met Your Father,” Jason Momoa, Prada and his ambition for another White House run in 2024.

From left to right: Damiano David and Ethan Torchio of musical guest Måneskin, host Will Forte, Kenan Thompson, Thomas Raggi and Victoria De Angelis pose for a group photo on the set of Saturday Night Live on January 20, 2022.
From left to right: Damiano David and Ethan Torchio, host Will Forte, Kenan Thompson, Thomas Raggi and Victoria De Angelis pose for a group photo on the set of Saturday Night Live on January 20, 2022.
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In his monologue, Forte, 51, who left “SNL” in 2010, complained that he hadn’t been asked to host before, unlike his contemporaries Kristen Wiig, Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Myers, Adam Samberg and John Mulaney, a writer for the show who had taken center stage four times.

“Save the best for last, right? Save the best for looooong last!” said Forte. “But tonight it’s all about me,” he promised, as Wiig came out to steal the spotlight and get “more applause.”

Executive producer Lorne Michaels then appeared with next week’s scheduled guest host, Willem Dafoe, and said there had been a mistake and he intended to host the dramatic actor on Saturday, but his phone’s automatic correction sent a message. of text “Will”.

Various pre-recorded MacGruber snippets reunited Forte with Wiig and Ryan Phillipe as assistants to the MacGyver-esque character. MacGruber was more interested in burning masks and using unauthorized COVID-19 treatments than defusing bombs. He also dressed up as the “QAnon shaman” and confused the terms “asymptomatic” and “anti-Semitic.”

“I feel like you’ve gone down some kind of alt-right disinformation rabbit hole,” Phillipe said, as his cache exploded.

Will Forte, reunited with Kristen Wiig and Ryan Phillipe, was more interested in burning masks and using unauthorized COVID-19 treatments than defusing bombs, playing his part as MacGruber.
Will Forte, reunited with Kristen Wiig and Ryan Phillipe, was more interested in burning masks and using unauthorized COVID-19 treatments than defusing bombs, playing his part as MacGruber.
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In a Nickelodeon game show spoof, Forte played a sadistic host who delighted in insisting that Bryant (playing a little girl) dig a miniature flag out of an oversized, spinning cream pie.

“The whipped cream is adversity and the flag is your unfulfilled potential,” he told her.

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Kenan Thompson’s pretentious pipe-smoking classic film critic returned with a remake of Ingrid Bergman’s classic “Gaslight,” as Forte and Wiig updated scenes from the 1944 psychological thriller.

Mikey Day and Heidi Gardner played a couple who set up a threesome with a sleazy Forte character who takes Cialis, only to discover that the intruder was only interested in Gardner.

In his monologue, Will Forte, who left
In his monologue, Will Forte, who left “SNL” in 2010, complained that he hadn’t been asked to host before, unlike his contemporaries like Kristen Wiig and Fred Armisen.
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“Remember it’s a trio, not one,” the creepy character said to Gardner’s delight and Day’s dismay.

In “Weekend Update,” Davidson joined Colin Jost in poking fun at their new purchase: a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry that they planned to turn into a performance venue.

“Even the mayor tweeted about it and that’s how I found out we had a new mayor,” Davidson said. “What happened to Bloomberg?”

Sarah Sherman also drew huge laughs by accusing Jost of being an elitist pervert who was out of touch with the younger comedians.

Additional “Update” jokes poked fun at Biden’s two-hour press conference (“that’s how long it took to list everything that went wrong”) and other recent current events.

“The oldest person in the United States has died at the age of 115. It’s a powerful reminder to always test cocaine for fentanyl,” fake co-host Michael Che joked.

Forte and Wiig teamed up again to play a cheesy country-western duo whose songs became increasingly edgy as their infomercial continued.

Italian glam rockers Måneskin livened up Studio 8H with spirited performances of the Four Seasons song “I’m Begging” and their hit “I Wanna Be Your Slave.”

“SNL” was scheduled to return to the airwaves next week with Dafoe as host and musical guest Katy Perry rounding out the season’s 12th episode.

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