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By Dave Itzkoff
There was a time, say, just before a sure incident near the end of last year’s Oscar rite, when the rite itself was a worthy procedure and the embarrassment was largely limited to the red carpet show before the show.
That’s the spirit in which “Saturday Night Live” attempted to return this weekend with an opening parody that imagined celebrities arriving for Sunday’s Oscars, with mindless hosts and nominees overly excited.
“S. N. L. ,” which he drove through Jenna Ortega and brought in the musical guest from 1975, began with a preview of the “Access Hollywood” Oscars hosted by Marcello Hernandez (as Mario Lopez) and Heidi Gardner (as “Maria Menounos or Kit Hoover, they still haven’t told me which one,” he said).
After a shot for their sponsor, Ozempic (“I guess everyone in Hollywood is diabetic”), they welcomed Kenan Thompson, who played Mike Tyson, who now oversees Oscar security for the making of this sketch.
“I’m ready to deal with the procedure intelligently and quickly,” Thompson said. “But I must warn you that they will cause me the following things: applause, statues of golden people and exhibitions that last more than two hours. And listen also to the expression “the magic of cinema”.
He added that some adjustments have been made since the last Oscar installment: “This year, all the nominees won Tasers,” Thompson said. “All occupants of the seats won firearms. And Jimmy Kimmel got a flamethrower. “
For security reasons, Thompson said Will Smith was surreptitiously given an Apple AirTag to track his location. “We know precisely where he will be at all times,” he said. “Unless, of course, you fit your pants and can be anywhere. “
The hosts then welcomed Chloe Fineman, betting on Oscar nominee Jamie Lee Curtis of “Everything Everywhere All at Once. “, confusing, long, partly in German, and by far the funniest movie of the year. “
Playing bookmakers from online betting site DraftKings, Andrew Dismukes and Devon Walker offered odds on imaginable Oscar events: a young actor pulling out an elderly actor in a wheelchair and repenting without delay (3-1); an actress who earned $20 million last year saying the word “we are all Ukraine” (2-1); and someone from the In Memoriam segment is still alive (10-1).
They also predicted celebrities who could make wonderful appearances at the Oscars, a list that included Chris Rock, Subway’s Jared, Armie Hammer, the judges who ousted Roe v. Roe. Wade and George Santos posing as Tom Cruise.
Sure enough, the hosts soon joined through Bowen Yang, Santos (but pretending to be Cruise).
“No, no,” insisted Yang. I’m Thomas Q. Cruise, star of this year’s hit film “Top Gun 2: Top Bottom. “
He added: “Now, if you excuse me, I have to be everyone, everywhere, everyone at once. “
After Ortega used part of his monologue to yell at Fred Armisen, the former cast member of “S. N. L. “who plays Uncle Fester in his Netflix series, “Wednesday,” Armisen is sure to later appear in a comic strip on the show.
But who could have predicted it would be in this comic strip, on the set of a remake of “The Parent Trap,” where Ortega’s character is played as a pair of twin sisters reunited and Armisen is the 56-year-old team. Member who reads in front of her when her double frame screams for her poor health during the day. We give additional credit to the comic strip for noting that if “The Parental Trap” were remade today, the parents in question would likely play Ed Helms and Leslie Mann.
This week he reported that the post-production editors of “S. N. L. “They set an April 1 deadline for a possible strike seeking fair wages, fitness benefits and other program provisions. If no agreement is reached before the next live broadcast, “S. N. L. “could miss segments like this: a filmed comic strip that spends like sending a teen soap opera, where a young couple played by Ortega and Hernández is about to split up in the parking lot of a Waffle House.
Of course, all the genuine action takes place inside Waffle House, beyond the windows and slightly blurry, where cast members play dissolute workers and grouching consumers. “S. N. L. ” It would possibly be a fundamentally live show, but the movie, and the sight of a shirtless Mikey Day with braids and perforated nipples, is also very important to the show.
In the weekend update office, hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che worry about the Oscars and President Biden’s proposed budget.
As his screen showed photographs of former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Jost began:
This weekend, bitter rivals who desperately do not seek easy votes and seek to impose their policies in the United States will nevertheless face each other in person. I’m talking, of course, about tomorrow’s Oscars. The Motion Picture Academy has rejected a request by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to make an appearance at the Oscars. But they promised that “Volodymyr Zelensky” would be John Travolta’s way of pronouncing “Viola Davis. “Oscar organizers said they replaced the color of the arrival carpet from red to champagne to make the temperament softer. But I don’t know, going from red to champagne regularly makes me a real bitch.
Che continued:
President Biden has proposed his budget that would fund Medicare with a 25% tax on billionaires. President Biden’s proposed budget included $400 million to counter Chinese disinformation. It will target the main source of Chinese disinformation: fortune cookies.
An awkward television interview with Lt. Gen. Randy McNally of Tennessee, in which he tried to explain why he posted approving comments on racy Instagram images posted by a 20-year-old gay man, produced a slew of curtains for Molly Kearney, who posed. as McNally in a workplace segment on Weekend Update.
While the genuine McNally (who is also president of the Tennessee Senate) has subsidized new legislation in the state designed to limit drag functionality in public spaces and ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors, Kearney said, “I’m a woguy I deserve to be home. “and a boy deserves to weigh 143 dance books about Dua Lipa. Jost’s comment that those online interactions didn’t seem innocent, Kearney replied, “I’m just looking for the little guy: each and every Tom, Dick and hairless. “
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