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Sorry, dads: Because your holiday doesn\u2019t come until June, when \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d is in reruns, you don\u2019t get anything special from \u201cS.N.L.\u201d But moms, since Mother\u2019s Day arrives the morning after the second-to-last live episode of the season \u2014 when everyone at the show has an eye on the door and is saving those last few drops of topical content for the finale \u2014 you get a whole brunch-load of \u201cS.N.L.\u201d sketches dedicated to motherhood, beginning with a now-traditional segment in which the cast members trade jokes with their real-life mothers.<\/p>\n
This week\u2019s \u201cS.N.L.\u201d broadcast, which was hosted by Maya Rudolph and featured the musical guest Vampire Weekend, used the occasion of Mother\u2019s Day to take a break from opening sketches that satirize current events, much to the disappointment of Kenan Thompson\u2019s mother. \u201cThat\u2019s too bad,\u201d she said, standing on the stage of Studio 8H with her son. \u201cI was excited to see who was going to play Stormy Daniels.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Andrew Dismukes\u2019s mom shared embarrassing photos of her son in the bathtub, the mothers of Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang told jokes intended for the Netflix roast of Tom Brady, and Sarah Sherman\u2019s mom pitched her daughter an idea: \u201cR.F.K. Jr. said they found a worm in his brain<\/a> \u2014 you could be the worm,\u201d she said. (Stash that away in your own brains for later.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Rudolph, the \u201cS.N.L.\u201d alumna who returned to host for her third time, used her opening monologue to note the fact that she not only is a mother of four children \u2014 she is mother<\/a>. That ubiquitous bit of internet slang was the framework for a surprisingly synchronized live musical number<\/a> (\u00e0 la Madonna\u2019s \u201cVogue\u201d) where Rudolph navigated some quick costume changes, referenced her roles in movies like \u201cBridesmaids\u201d and her past \u201cS.N.L.\u201d impersonations of Vice President Kamala Harris and Oprah Winfrey, while also shouting out other beloved female \u201cS.N.L.\u201d characters like the Sweeney Sisters, Debbie Downer and Mary Katherine Gallagher.<\/p>\n If all of that wasn\u2019t enough to make you O.D. on M-O-M, there was also a filmed segment<\/a> featuring Rudolph as a beleaguered mother repeatedly rescuing her daughter from slumber parties, and Heidi Gardner offering Mother\u2019s Day gift suggestions<\/a> on Weekend Update as the character A Woman Who Says She\u2019s Not Mad. Oh, mother.<\/p>\n Yes, technically, \u201cS.N.L.\u201d did do a Beyonc\u00e9-goes-on-\u201cHot Ones\u201d sketch<\/a> the last time that Rudolph hosted, in 2021. But with that online celebrity talk show back in the zeitgeist with some help from another \u201cS.N.L.\u201d alum, Conan O\u2019Brien,<\/a> it\u2019s as good a time as any for Mikey Day to dust off the bald cap and play the \u201cHot Ones\u201d host Sean Evans and for Rudolph to once again assume the role of Queen Bey.<\/p>\n This time, Day\u2019s questions were nominally about Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s hit country album \u201cCowboy Carter,\u201d while Rudolph downed spicy chicken wings and tried to soothe herself by ingesting cocoa butter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Over at the Weekend Update desk, the anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che riffed on Stormy Daniels\u2019s testimony in the New York hush-money trial of former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n Jost began:<\/p>\n This week in court, Stormy Daniels gave a detailed description of sex with Donald Trump, which was so disgusting, even the sky turned green. [His screen showed a picture of aurora borealis. It then showed a courtroom illustration of Daniels on the witness stand.] Stormy Daniels, seen here as drawn by the creator of \u201cCathy,\u201d was accused by Trump\u2019s lawyers of lying about their affair for profit. Which would make her the only person to do business with Trump and make money. It\u2019s also been implied that Stormy Daniels got into bed with Trump and let him do whatever he wanted just to advance her career. You know, like every Republican. [His screen showed pictures of Lindsey Graham, Tim Scott, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Che continued:<\/p>\n Stormy Daniels testified that during their encounter, Donald Trump did not wear a condom. He tried to put one on but he was blocked by his tie. Stormy Daniels testified at Donald Trump\u2019s hush money trial and was asked to list some of the movies she\u2019s worked on. After she finished, the judge banged the gavel and opened oral arguments \u2026 were the names of the movies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Hey, remember that pitch that Sarah Sherman\u2019s mother gave her daughter in this weekend\u2019s opening sketch? Well, hopefully mom got a writing credit or a nice little royalty, because they used it in the episode.<\/p>\nWelcome rerun of the week<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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