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Shane Gillis brings 'SNL' back down to Earth in post-anniversary episode
The comedian returned for a second stint as guest host on "Saturday Night Live" and Mike Meyers made a cameo in the cold open as Elon Musk.
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If youâre âSaturday Night Liveâ and you just spent multiple weeks celebrating 50 years of comedy and music with star-studded live events, how do you follow all those festivities for your first regular episode back?
âSNLâ counter-intuitively brought expectations back down to sea level by inviting Shane Gillis, the once-hired-then-fired comic who hosted last year, to return. Now that the novelty of seeing the comic on the show that once shunned him (and hearing him talk about it) has worn off, it was time to see what Gillis, the star of the ill-received streaming show âTires,â could do.
Not a whole lot, it turns out. Though he had plenty of opportunities to play a variety of different characters in live sketches, a commercial parody, and a âPlease Donât Destroyâ video, Gillis rarely broke out of playing a low-energy version of himself. But unlike another successful comic whoâs hosted twice, Nate Bargatze, Gillis doesnât seem to favor smart and surprising material. The sketches written for him (and which he presumably helped choose) were mostly premised around sexual acts or boorish, clueless men, like the depressing, divorced father in a PBS Kids show called âDadâs Houseâ or an ex-boyfriend who crashes a womanâs wedding to demand an open-eyed sexual act he was promised in a coupon from her.
Gillis appeared in a sketch about a local TV news show in which the hosts get into a competition figuring out whether the subjects of crime stories are Black or white, a put-upon boyfriend taking photos of his demanding girlfriend (Heidi Gardner), a spokesperson in a commercial for antidepressants that are simply beer and cocaine, and a man who wants to know if his doctor (Emil Wakim) can still fellate himself like he did when they were kids.
Oof. The sketches werenât all terrible; cast members including Gardner, Wakim, and the duo of Kenan Thompson and Ego Nwodim saved some of them, but nobody could really save GIllis from an episode that overall felt crude and gross.
Musical guest Tate McRae appeared in the âPlease Donât Destroyâ video and performed âSports Carâ and âDear God.â A tribute card for New York Dolls frontman David Johansen, who died this week, appeared before the close of the show. Another âSNLâ tie-in commercial featured Sarah Sherman and Bowen Yang in a punk band celebrating CeraVe anti-dandruff shampoo.
This weekâs cold open tackled the disastrous Oval Office meeting between President Trump (James Austin Johnson), Vice President J.D. Vance (Bowen Yang), and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky (Mikey Day). With Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Marcello HernĂĄndez) disassociating nearby, Trump and Vance sprung their âbig, beautiful trap,â criticizing Zelenskyâs attire (âcasual âStar Trekââ) and berating him for not thanking the United States and not calling the U.S. leaders âhandsome.â Yang had the opportunity to really lock into his Vance impression, which has evolved into something like a âReal Housewives of Potomacâ hopeful. Johnsonâs impression of a scattered, ornery Trump was as accurate as ever, but the big surprise was a new Elon Musk: âSNLâ vet Mike Myers took over from Dana Carvey. Myers looks the part and played Musk as a giggly, hopping, hyperactive South African toddler and/or glitchy robot.
For the monologue, Gillis pushed his luck early, starting with some jokes about how hilarious Trump has been in office, and how former President Biden was also funny. âIn between teleprompters, his face would go back to being dead,â Gillis joked. It didnât get the reaction he expected, perhaps, because he followed that with, âI get it⌠you guys are pretty liberal hereâŚ. Now Iâm gonna lose you even more.â The rest of the monologue mostly centered on something Gillis acknowledged was racist. He said white men ask women on first dates if theyâve ever had sex with a Black guy. âItâs a shameful thing to ask. Itâs weird. Iâve done it. Iâm not proud,â he said. The monologue, which also included a Bill Cosby âtip,â did not get any better from there.
In a sketch about a midday news show on local TV, four roundtable hosts (Gardner, Gillis, Nwodim and Thompson) start speculating on whether the criminals featured in the news stories theyâre reading are Black or white. Meth ring? Itâs a guy who looks like Walter White from âBreaking Bad.â Looters? Gillisâs character bets itâs Black perpetrators. Mayhem at a barbershop? Shaboozey-related story? TSA agents? The sketch escalates quickly and Nwodim and Thompson keep the sketch from derailing with their spot-on energy.
The showâs opening sketch featured Gardner and Gillis as a couple on a winery tour with his parents (Andrew Dismukes and Ashley Padilla). The young woman insists that her boyfriend take pictures of her in front of an orange tree and proceeds to humiliate him in front of his parents with her photography demands and her insistence that he not take pictures that make her look like Michael Cera. For Gardner, itâs the type of character she might otherwise play on âWeekend Updateâ: weird, specific and very unlikable. Her commitment to the bit makes the sketch.
Hernandez played a âMovie Guyâ who actually hasnât seen most of the Oscar-nominated movies heâs talking about, but it was Jane Wickline who charmed with her awkward dating advice in the form of romantic songs about the trolley problem, the ethical puzzle in which someone must choose between saving one person on a train track or saving five people on a separate track from a runaway trolley. Wickline pivots midway through when âUpdateâ host Colin Jost tells her the song isnât romantic enough, which leads to a creepy domestic detour that ends up coming right back to the trolley tracks. Wicklineâs songs are always clever, but sheâs also good at selling the emotional beats behind them, even when itâs as ridiculous as a love song themed to the trolley problem.
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