If you are going to celebrate the election of the new Pope, you may have some sacramental wines too.
Cecily Strong returned to Saturday Night Live with the guest appearance to recreate her role as Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro. Alcohol emanates directly from your mouth.
It takes time to explain when the opening sketch for this weekend's “SNL” broadcast (hosted by Walton Goggins and featuring musical guest arcade fire) arrives here.
The sketch began with what appeared to be a traditional Mother's Day tribute. Cast members Kenan Thompson, Bowen Jan and Marcello Hernandez sing a loving serenade to the real-life moms who joined them on stage.
But no: this was just a setup for James Austin Johnson to enter the field as President Trump, retaining his free association style in the news last week.
“There's a new Pope in Chicago,” Johnson said, noting that the Roman Catholic Church focused on the choice of Robert Francis Prevast.
“There's no American Pope, no Chicago style or ketchup,” Johnson said. “But we like Pope Leo. I hope he does what we want. That's what you want, what you want. Otherwise we have to send JD back.”
He added that Vice President Vance has a “Midas touch,” but for the bad things.” “He meets the Pope – he's dead,” Johnson said. “He's going to India – war. He'll join my campaign – Trump wins.”
Johnson announced that he appointed “one of the biggest people I know” to become an interim US lawyer in Washington. This was a clue to Strong's return as Pirro, a character he frequently played during his tenure in “SNL.”
Johnson noted the bag she was carrying and said, “Janine has brought her files and she's ready for work.”
“Oh, no, this is my Merrosee's cozy,” Strong said, taking a bottle of wine from his bag.
“I love hiring people from Fox News,” Johnson said. “They all do incredible jobs. Look at Pete Hegses. You're not wrong.”
“Yeah, I love Pete Hegses. He's my old drinking buddy,” Strong took a swig from her wine glass.
Jost made the unusual sketch appearance to play Secretary of Defense Hegses, slapping hard in the back and yelling, “Surprise!” When he came in. The strong turned towards him, spitting out an enlarged spit on the side of Jost's face.
As the sketch continues, she dyes him the wine again, holding the whiskey Jost had opened his mouth and swallowed it (after revealing that he accidentally added Kim Jong-un to one of the group chats).
“People, they're not A-team,” Johnson said. “They're an AA team.”
Open this week's monologue
After interrupting loving Mother's Day respects from several of the cast members, “SNL” allows Goggins, the star of “White Lotus” and “The Right Jewel Rock” to take his own mother out of the audience and dance with her on stage, first to a slow R&B jam and then to a country toon to a fast-paced folding interluder.
Goggins also humorously commented on a recent headline that sternly described his physical appearance (like what he called him “a greasy, melancholy little man who saw no one coming”).
“For some reason, some of that headlines that make me the most angry are the word 'Who',” Goggins said. “It just sounds whimsical.”
This week's Constitutional Treaty
It's a bit sweet to see the “SNL” sketch of America's founding that doesn't include Nate Burgatze as Lynn Manuel Miranda, like George Washington's Nate Burgatze and Alexander Hamilton, but Goggins highlighted the segment's slot set in Philadelphia in 1789. Become it.
Playing a fellow patriot known simply as Matt, a pair wearing period clothes and colored sunglasses, Goggins responded with a confident draw: “The Gun.” Bring those well-regulated militias.
This week's music video
From the moment this music video starring Jane Wickline begins to end, to the moment it ends, we can confidently assure you that you don't know where it is going. The number starts as a gentle ode of Wickline against what she believes to be the lost baby shoes she finds at the Central Park Zoo, but when she finds a real man with baby-sized legs (Goggin), the true owner of the shoes, it's heading in a very different direction.
It's not a spoiler to say that the video also includes a cameo of Goggins' friends and “White Lotus” co-star Sam Rockwell. He doesn't get much screen time here, but he certainly counts those precious seconds, as Rockwell did with “The White Lotus.”
Weekend Update Joke of the Week
At the weekend's update desk, Anchor Colin Jost and Michael Choi continued their riffs in the former president's recent Pope Leo XIV election on Washington's “views” as interim US lawyers and the choice of President Trump's Janin Pillo. Jost has begun:
Now, the Catholic Church has elected the first pope from America. And as an American Catholic, I couldn't be more proud. It's a sin and now it's embarrassing. The Vatican has chosen Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, from the south of Chicago, as his new Pope. And you can say that he is coming from the south side, as he is raising his hands. This pick was actually a welcome surprise to me. Because when I heard that the Pope was a very religious man from Chicago, in a funny robe, and he was worried that he was Kanye. I also love that conservatives are complaining that this Pope is already awake. How does a 69-year-old man from Chicago wake up? He came out and wasn't like, “Hey, I'm Pope Leo XIV, he/he.” In reality, no Catholics have awakened. If you're awakened Catholic, you're no longer Catholic.
Continue with Che:
Joe Biden appeared in “The View,” saying he wasn't surprised that Kamala Harris lost the election. The only thing that surprises Joe Biden is because the words come from his own mouth. President Trump has said he will appoint Fox News host Janine Pila as interim US lawyer for Washington, D.C. Pillo has celebrated the news with a bottle of wine every day for the past 50 years.
