Since her breakout into the mainstream final 12 months for her scorched-Earth set on “The Roast of Tom Brady” and a top-notch comedy particular “Someday You’ll Die,” Nikki Glaser has change into an A-lister within the stand-up comedy world. However did that success translate for her first time as “Saturday Night Live” host?
Not too surprisingly, Glaser did nicely on condition that her finest {qualifications} for the gig are that she’s excellent at delivering jokes for a residing and that she’s not shy about pushing the boundaries of style in her comedy. That’s a great match for the present incarnation of “SNL,” which tends to have at the least one gross-out scatological sketch per episode and plenty of “Weekend Update” segments and jokes that both land within the “just dirty enough” or “way over the line” camp.
Aside from her go-for-broke monologue, Glaser’s sensibility locked in on sketches together with one about relations performing karaoke who appear manner too intimate with one another, a business about grown males obsessive about life-sized American Woman dolls, and a weird musical quantity a couple of mechanical bull that rides away with Glaser and Sarah Sherman. These, together with a humorous advert for a Jennifer Hudson spirit tunnel drug and one about characters in a youngsters’s ebook, have been items that aligned nicely with what Glaser does and that she carried out exceptionally nicely.
A sketch a couple of stalled aircraft and a chatty pilot (James Austin Johnson) was good, however solely due to Johnson’s excellent impression of flight intercom chatter.
Much less profitable have been a half-baked mashup, “Beauty and Mr. Beast,” concerning the common YouTuber, and a sorority sketch with Mikey Day as an interloping man carrying a foul facial disguise.
Glaser’s prolonged monologue might not have been as excellent a match because it ought to have been, however her sketch performances have been spot-on.
Musical visitor Sombr carried out “12 to 12” and “Back to Friends.” There was additionally a candy and humorous animated quick, “Brad and His Dad,” a couple of divorced father making an attempt to attach together with his video game-obsessed 11-year-old.
On this week’s chilly open, President Trump (James Austin Johnson) commented on the weird White Home incident the place a pharmaceutical consultant (Jeremy Culhane) collapsed within the Oval Workplace whereas Trump was captured on digital camera trying away. As Trump put it within the sketch, “Someone dying in my office, I stand there and stare like a sociopath.” “Each week I try to create a visual,” he stated, that represents what’s happening within the nation like final week’s White Home demolition. Trump walked over the fallen man to ship a monologue on the week’s occasions, beginning with the New York Metropolis mayoral election and concluding with SNAP profit cuts and rising meals costs. He supplied that the cancellation of flights brought on by the federal government shutdown will assist by retaining households aside for Thanksgiving. “Killing two birds with one bird. Can’t afford food? Have some cheap Ozempic,” he stated. Subsequent up: stealing Christmas. “We’re doing Grinch!” Trump stated.
Like plenty of “SNL” monologues from stand-up comics, Glaser’s was a microdose of her comedy act. As such, it was filled with jokes about race, politics, intercourse acts and, for one uncomfortable stretch, the concept that somebody (not Glaser, however possibly!) would possibly immediately understand they’re a pedophile. Glaser started by calling New York Metropolis “Epstein’s original island” earlier than discussing white ladies being cultural appropriators by spray tanning, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (“I’m no health expert, but neither is he”), relationship a brief man with anger points and PSAs in public bogs about human trafficking. In her 20s, Glaser joked, the one worry she had was “good old-fashioned rape.” The barrage of jokes was precisely what you count on from Glaser, however a number of the jokes didn’t appear to land as nicely on the “SNL” stage as they sometimes would on roasts or in her personal comedy specials.
Finest sketch of the evening: When declining a Jennifer Hudson spirit tunnel invite is the one choice 
“The Jennifer Hudson Show’s” signature bit, wherein friends dance by way of a hallway whereas staffers clap and cheer them on, has change into such an enormous deal that celebrities like Glaser, enjoying herself on this business, have main nervousness about their dancing. Glaser, a self-described “uncoordinated white woman” claims her dance strikes are so unhealthy they’re doubtlessly career-ending. “I even tried to put my ass into it. But I don’t have one,” she laments. However fortunately there’s a drug, Hudsacillin, that makes you so violently unwell that the superstar in query has to cancel their look. “What’s the alternative?” the advert asks, “lightening up and being fun?”
Additionally good: Possibly this pilot shouldn’t be texting, even on the tarmac 
With all of the flight delays and cancellations taking place, this topical sketch was a couple of couple (Sherman and Andrew Dismukes) sitting on an airport runway ready for his or her flight to take off whereas their pilot (Johnson) pronounces delays and in addition shares updates a couple of lady he’s texting that he met on a relationship app. What actually sells the piece is Johnson’s supply because the pilot, but in addition the humorous interactions he has with the co-pilot (Kam Patterson), Glaser because the disaffected flight attendant and a set of passengers who argue nonverbally about whether or not or to not get entangled (Kenan Thompson and Bowen Yang).
‘Weekend Update’ winner: A method to go to Staten Island with out going to Staten Island 
As the one visitor section on “Weekend Update” this week, Pete Davidson’s check-in on the Staten Island Ferry he bought just a few years in the past with Colin Jost wins by default. Davidson referenced a New York Occasions article about hassle with their enterprise enterprise, however stated, “I cant spend $5 on a paywall when I have a kid on the way.” He promised to present parenting, “all the enthusiasm I never had for this show.” Davidson revealed that the brand new plan for the ferry is to transform it to a metropolis on the water, New Staten Island, with all of the issues that make Staten Island nice: pizza (it seems it’s only one factor). Davidson couldn’t resist getting in a dig at his previous boss after saying he’s not giving up on the ferry. “If Lorne Michaels has taught us anything, it’s never give up even if everyone says the time has come and Tina Fey is ready to take over.”
