Saturday night live opens with CBS’s coverage of the AFC Championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens. The team’s mood at halftime was somber – after today, they had nothing left to live for, because football was truly over (the Superbowl is for “commercials, and Usher, and those who never now watching football asks how much a touchdown is worth”) and “no other live TV program can be viewed remotely”.
The conversation turned to how American men are culturally lost right now — not only is football coming to an end, but so is the TV series Blue Bloods, while Yellowstone (“Barbie” ours”) loved by dads was once again snubbed by the Emmys. This prompted the troupe to sing Wiz Khalifa’s rendition of See You Again.
The end of football season sending men into an existential crisis is a premise with a lot of promise, but unfortunately the movie doesn’t do anything with it. As is the case with several sketches in this and many previous seasons, they would rather end things with a cheap and laughable musical number than attempt any truly clever or earned conclusions. any.
Dakota Johnson returns to host the show. The actor reflected on her final appearance on the show, during the 40th anniversary episode, when she sat in front of Donald Trump and next to “the man who would become the most powerful person in America,” Taylor Swift. She was interrupted by the night’s musical guest – and her Social Media co-star – Justin Timberlake, who mistakenly thought he was hosting, as well as Jimmy Fallon in his Barry Gibb costume that.A reunion dinner between members of the Mason family goes awry when their high-ranking waitresses misunderstand everything, including their names (calling them “the Manson family”), their orders, and their orders. them and finally the basics of English. Sarah Sherman brings the right amount of manic energy to the proceedings, but Johnson seems confused and stiff. Like the cold open, this one ends too abruptly.
Next, a young man enjoying a good time with his parents and grandmother discovers a box of home movies. The family sits and watches and reminisces, until they come across a tape labeled ‘Important Announcement’, which the father says is a recording of the day he found out he was about to become a father. What he didn’t mention was that said discovery appeared during a paternity test episode of a trashy Maury-like talk show. A clever idea, even if it never really went beyond its initial reveal.As hinted in the monologue, Timberlake and Fallon reunite as Beegees members Barry and Robin Gibb in a new edition of the Barry Gibb Talk Show.
Their guests are political reporter Elie Mystal (Kenan Thompson), political pest Andrew Yang (Bowen Yang), and political activist Joanne Carducci (Johnson). A mentally ill, drunken Barry berates and threatens his guests – he tells Mystal that he looks like “if Don King ate another Don King”, and threatens to untie his corpse. Yang and “used his chest as a trap” – while Robin spaced out the timing but had nothing to add. Even though both Fallon and Timberlake have seen their public stocks decline (for good reason) over the past decade, there’s no denying how good their chemistry is. Fallon is especially good as the unhinged Gibb. This is the funniest he’s been since appearing on 30 Rock.
In the new Please Don’t Destroy, the guys pitch some ideas to Johnson, who throws them off balance by immediately admitting that their video is “really… not for me.” Things escalate from there, as she calls them “The Lonely Island,” and they hurl criticism at her acting: “What are [Madame Webb’s] superpowers? Is it whispering monotonously?” The enemies continue to fly, with both sides learning about each other’s recent failures (including the truly terrible Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain). They declare a “truce” when the subject of their famous parents comes up (minus Ben Marshall, the only non-nepo child in the group). The admission of John Higgins and Martin Herlihy’s parental relationship was a long time coming, but was a stand-in for all concerned, including and especially Johnson, for its shockingly sharp self-deprecation. surprised. This is the best PDD has been in a while.
