John Mulaney returned home to Studio 8H for his seventh animation Saturday evening live.
In his opening monologue, the 4x Emmy winner and former SNL The writer recalled his time working on the NBC sketch comedy show from 2008 to 2013.
“One of the only difficult things about working here was dealing with the hosts,” Mulaney said. “So it’s fun when I host, because it’s like there’s no host.”
During his quick stand-up, Mulaney noted how everything made sense after discovering his baby boomer father was on the autism spectrum. “He doesn’t know he’s autistic. He’ll find out then,” he joked.
The comedian also called out baby boomers’ hypocritical complaints about Gen Z and joked about his son’s boyfriends, who turned into a roast of RFK Jr., with a brutal impression.
“You idiot, your thing can’t be measles,” Mulaney said, adding, “Yes, I called him Bobby. I’ve known him for over a decade. You shouldn’t be in government if I’ve known you for over a decade.”
In a report detailing a plane crash on a flight from Turkey to Newark, Mulaney played a survivor who tried to pass off his hair transplant bandages as injuries caused by the crash. Ben Marshall played another survivor with similar bandages, as well as very full lip injections. “Unfortunately, bees invaded the plane, Sully style,” he said.
“I think they were geese,” Ashley Padilla’s reporter character noted as Marcello Hernandez played a pilot who underwent penis enlargement surgery.
The sketch ended with Kam Patterson playing former New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who was also on the flight.
The next skit was a fake pharmaceutical commercial for “Sister”, which depicts only Mulaney, Andrew Dismukes and Kenan Thompson relying on their sisters to take care of their ailing parents.
In another sketch, Padilla plays Kathy, the “worst person on earth” who invites herself to her co-workers’ happy hour, where she tends to a fishbowl. Mulaney tries to convince his colleagues Day, Thompson and Sarah Sherman to ignore him, despite his hilariously awkward behavior.
While Jeremy Culhane hosted the fake brewery show Do ithe had a few fall IPAs with brewmaster Kenny of Mulaney, which led to the couple drunkenly kissing on several occasions.
“Well, turns out it was the beer,” Culhane host Chris Gut said after a steamy back-and-forth. “We got sober one day, and it was nothing.”
On “Weekend Update,” co-host Colin Jost commented on the FAA’s historic grounding of the planes on Friday. “Suddenly ferry transportation seems pretty reliable,” he joked.
Meanwhile, co-host Michael Che showed off his own impression of RFK Jr.. “Put me in the cast, Lorne!” he declared.
In “A Little Park of Horrors,” Mulaney plays a horse-drawn carriage driver mourning New York’s recent ban, “and for no reason except animal cruelty and human murder.”
In the musical sketch, it introduces a series of characters, including Veronika Slowikowska as a woman who still completes the marathon, singing a parody of “Don’t Rain on My Parade”. Tommy Brennan plays a pedicab driver coming to Mulaney’s job with a version of “Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)”.
Day played a homeless man ranting about God, while Thompson played a cloud of weed smoke, supported by Sherman, Grace Reiter and Saidah Belo-Osagie in a rendition of Cats“ “Mr. Mistoffelees.” James Austin Johnson performed “Park Slope Cuck” while singing his parody of “Maria” from West Side Historyentitled “Mamdani”.
In another Bowen Yang appearance, after the cold open, the SNL former played his current role on Broadway from O Mary! with a parody of the Dreamgirls song “And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going” about the MTA.
The sketch included an expert recall of Padilla’s Kathy character. “Are we talking about transportation? “” she asked with her fishbowl in hand.
In the final sketch, Day and several cast members played the role of the Boomers in Woodstock, planning to buy all the houses one day, keep all the money, scare their kids about weed, and make college more expensive.
This is Mulaney’s seventh time hosting Saturday evening liveafter working as a screenwriter from 2008 to 2013, Phoebe Bridgers joined him this weekend for her second gig as musical guest.
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