“Saturday Night Live” was extra reflective than festive within the remaining episode of its fiftieth season.
Scarlett Johansson, who set a document for a girl along with her seventh look as host, used her monologue to guide a lot of the present solid of the NBC sketch establishment in a track sung to the tune of Billy Joel’s “Piano Man.”
The efficiency seemed again on an eventful yr that included an election, an epic anniversary particular and a star-studded live performance.
“Sing us a song, it’s your monologue, the 50th season is through,” Johansson sang, together with Bowen Yang, Ego Nwodim, Mikey Day, Heidi Gardner and others. “It’s lasting without end, we did it collectively, and we received to spend it with you.”
Johansson teased, then took again, a visitor look that will have been in step with the season’s extra of visitor stars.
“Ladies and gentlemen, Billy Joel!” she shouted, earlier than including, “wrote this song.”
No post-season solid departures have been introduced, so no emotional farewells had been crucial, however Johansson and the solid joked within the track that Sarah Sherman can be gone.
“It’s been a great season and Sarah is leaving, we’re all gonna miss you next year!” they sang. A stunned Sherman replied, “Wait, what? Did you guys hear something?”
Johansson’s husband, Colin Jost, is a author on the present and anchor of the “Weekend Update” phase.
Jost and co-anchor Michael Che returned to their annual season-finale custom of writing and being pressured to ship wildly inappropriate jokes for one another.
Johansson is the topic of lots of the Che-written jokes, so this yr Jost compelled Che to carry her out and apologize for as soon as evaluating a part of her physique to “Costco roast beef.”
Scarlett Johansson just isn’t holding again whereas sharing her trustworthy ideas on husband Colin Jost’s jokes about her.
The fiftieth season introduced a lot media dialogue of who may run the present ought to 80-year-old creator Lorne Michaels ever step down.
Some have recommended Jost may change Michaels and Che pressured Jost to deal with the difficulty with one of many jokes written for him.
“It’s SNL’s 50th season, so I want to take a moment to say something to our boss,” Jost mentioned. “Lorne, retire, bitch! let me run the show.”
Jost additionally appeared in a pre-recorded, behind-the-scenes bit the place Johansson has torrid intercourse with Yang after she confesses to Nwodim and Gardner that she has a crush on him, and learns he has solely been publicly pretending to be homosexual “for the clout.”
Johansson has her coronary heart damaged when she learns Yang additionally has been hooking up with Nwodim, Gardner and visitor star Emily Ratajkowski.
In one other behind-the-scenes digital brief made by the three members of comedy group Please Do not Destroy, Johansson treats the trio to a first-class flight that turns into a luxe hip-hop video till the lads panic once they study they’re touchdown on the troubled airport of Newark, New Jersey.
Musical visitor Unhealthy Bunny seems as an air visitors controller, working alone on his first day.
As in almost each episode of this season, James Austin Johnson did his impression of President Donald Trump within the chilly open phase, which had him “finding love” with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Johnson’s Trump broke the fourth wall and walked into the viewers on the finish of the bit.
“It’s the ‘SNL’ finale, season 50 — worst one yet!” he mentioned. “See you again in the fall if we still have a country. It’s a coin toss.”
