There was perhaps no better presenter for this weekend’s Mother’s Day edition of Saturday night live than Maya Rudolph. The mother of four killed it, hyped it up, and delivered some of the most memorable comments of the season so far.
In her third time as host, the SNL alum revived one of his most beloved characters — an exasperated Beyoncé — while also delivering a tour-de-force monologue that set the standard for the rest of the episode. Some of the cast, including Kenan Thompson, found it difficult to stay in character at some points. That’s how you know she did her job.
Here are some of the highlights from last night’s episode.
Cold open: It’s raining moms
With Mother’s Day just minutes away, the cast showed off their moms and offered heartwarming stories and silly jokes instead of the traditional cold open on the week’s hottest topics. “That’s a shame,” Thompson’s mother, Ann, joked about the schedule change. “I was excited to see who would play Stormy Daniels.”
Monologue: Maya is the Mother of House Rockefeller
In a musical performance dedicated to mothers, Rudolph rocked the stage with a Poseball style. Fans snapped and hands waved when Thompson’s character, Mr. Infinity Decor, proclaimed, “This is Maya’s house now. Ladies and gentlemen, gays and them, I give you the mother of the House of Rockefeller.” And boy, did she deliver.
Hottest sketch: Beyoncé joins ‘Hot Ones’
Rodolfo Season 46 Beyoncé parody warm, the popular YouTube show where celebrities are interviewed while eating increasingly spicy chicken wings was already iconic. But last night, she returned with a fully edited version by Cowboy Carter that rivaled the original.
When presenter Sean Evans (played by Mikey’s Day) welcomed him back to the fake Hot set, Rudolph-as-Beyoncé said, “Well, this is the only thing I’ve tried and not killed, and it bothered me and my husband. My husband is Jay-Z.”
Most repeatable moments
‘Uneesa Trust’
In a pre-recorded sketch, three couples are enjoying a group date night when one person suggests they all share the type of content that Instagram’s algorithm has selected for them on their “Explore Page.” For women, it’s mostly recipes, lifestyle influencers, and puppies. But the men reluctantly reveal that the social media platform has exclusively been running videos posted by Uneesa Confidence, “an online girlfriend for young people with self-esteem issues,” played by Rudolph.
‘Professor PSA’
Congratulations, COVID-era kids: “You won,” said Rudolph, playing a public school teacher, in a “special message” to America’s youth. “You are rude and unpleasant. Not only do you not know how to read, but you also talk about drugs and spectrums that didn’t even exist in 2006.”
‘Can you come and get me?’
In a very relatable mom moment, Rudolph is forced (over and over again) to make up excuses to pick up his anxious daughter from a sleepover after she keeps calling home in the middle of the night.
What didn’t land
‘Coffee Commercial’
Rudolph paid tribute to the infamous food poisoning scene from his 2011 film Bridesmaids with a sketch about an actress who experiences a similar digestive emergency while filming. Unlike the Bridesmaids scene, the sketch didn’t sit well with some critics.
Reviewers at AV Club I thought the sketch relied too much on “cheap fart jokes” instead of delivering a stronger joke to match Rudolph’s comedic potential.
Ripped from the Headlines: RFK Jr.’s Brain Worm, Trump’s Secret Money Trial, and put onnew mandate
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made headlines last week after revealing that doctors found a dead worm in your brain in 2010. Now the worm, played by Sarah Sherman, is telling her story. When asked by “Weekend Update” host Colin Jost how they got into Kennedy’s brain, Sherman responded, “The same way you get into Carnegie Hall. Through the anus!
Jost also criticized Trump’s hush money trial. “This week in court, Stormy Daniels gave a detailed description of sex with Donald Trump that was so disgusting that even the sky turned green,” Jost said in reference to the northern lights that were on full display across the country on Friday. fair.
“Weekend Update” co-anchor Michael Che continued with a little about Vladimir Putin. “During a ceremony in Russia, Vladimir Putin was sworn in for his fifth term as president, placing his hand on the Russian Constitution,” he said, “which is just a label on a bottle of vodka.”
Musical performances: Vampire Weekend
The rock band took the stage with performances of “Gen-X Cops” and “Capricorn” from their latest album Only God was above us.
