
India Navarrette makes Shane Gillis joke about ‘SNL’ opening monologue
After her debut in “Scream Queen” in ObsessionInde Navarrette flexed her comedic muscles with her Saturday evening live hosting debut.
On this weekend’s episode of the sketch series, the actress revealed her upcoming MCU role as Rogue in X-Mennoting that she needs to get in shape at Marvel while making a joke about Shane Gillis’ sexist opening monologue last episode.
“So, every morning, I put on my little whore outfit and go to the gym,” Navarrette joked to the laughter of the audience.
Navarrette also insisted she had “nothing to do with Nikki” from Curry Barker’s. Obsessionbefore revealing her boyfriend, who was glued to the audience chair in her studio.
Also during Navarrette’s opening monologue, Marcello Hernandez showed off his sexy TSA agent costume; Kam Patterson was Elizabeth Holmes; and Jeremy Culhane was Wolverine, lining up for the role in the upcoming Jake Schreier-directed film. Veronika Slowikowska and Grace Reiter nailed the role of Kelly Clarkson and the mechanical songbird in Clarkson’s online feud with a Brooklyn gift shop.

From left to right: Inde Navarrette, Grace Reiter and Veronika Slowikowska on “Saturday Night Live”
In his first sketch, Navarrette and Hernandez play the ghosts of two children from the 1930s on the Queen Mary who keep distracting a tourist and preventing him from hearing where another ghost’s treasure is hidden.
In a fake Delta ad, they introduced “Delta Disruptive,” a new section exclusively for crazy people. “This plane is made in Israel,” Mikey Day says as he tries to open the exit door. Navarrette does a hilarious impersonation of the famous social media woman who insisted, “She’s not real!”
For The dating show for uninterested womenNavarrette hilariously played Dane, one of the f*ckboy contestants, along with Jane Wickline and Sarah Sherman.

From left: Ashley Padilla, Saidah Belo-Osagie, Inde Navarrette, Jane Wickline and Sarah Sherman on “Saturday Night Live”
In The inventorNavarrette plays an inventor’s wife returning home with all of his inventions after his funeral, finding a robot he made for her named PD-44. When she brings home a date (Ben Marshall) six years later, the robot rips off her penis and explodes it, as she realizes its name means “Penis Destroyer”.
“He loved me. My husband loved me after all,” she said, covered in blood.
Teaming up for another sketch, Navarrette and Hernandez play Spanish soap opera stars who are asked to do product placement for Sprite Cherry Lime Habanero in their scene, which is disastrous for the brand. It ultimately ends with him asking her to drink soda to kill her unborn baby, conceived by her brother.

From left: Jeremy Culhane, Inde Navarrette and Marcello Hernandez on “Saturday Night Live”
In the sketch PAW Patrol: Special Victims UnitNavarrette plays Ryder as a pragmatic investigator trying to get to the bottom of a gruesome murder.
In addition to marking the first time that Navarrette hosts Saturday evening liveThis weekend’s episode also served as Gracie Abrams’ second time as a musical guest following her 2024 debut.
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