Wilson is joined by musical guest Kacey Musgraves to kick off a new season of SNL.
Greetings and salutations, fellow Coneheads (and perpetual hate-watchers.)
The season 47 opener is being hosted byOwen Wilsonwith musical guestKacey Musgraves.
‘Saturday Night Live’ musical guest Kasey Musgraves, host Owen Wilson, and cast member Kenan Thompson.NBC
And you could see that tension in the cast itself.
Pete Davidson and Kate McKinnon in another era would be full fledged movie stars at this point.
(Hint: he also has a pitch perfect Biden!
That appears to have been scrubbed from his social platforms!
He will be missed.
It is now available on all streaming platforms.
On the recent cast departures, Fallon Hogan advises: “Be grateful you had your time onSNL.
It’s a fabulous chapter in your career.
There are all kinds of opportunities ahead of you, and enjoy the ride.”
He sticks to the reality of the scene and character he is playing.
He stays right in the lane, and often that anchors the humor."
That’s enough table setting.
Lets' see what our favorite late night live sketch show has in store!
Cold Open
Biden unites the Democrats!
Anyway, the president now played by new cast member James Austin Johnson!
jokes about his summer being bad at least he is excited for Broadway being back.
Some digs at Axios style reporting ensues.
(Taking easy cracks about children working in mines is… not ideal.)
Then the progressives are led by Ego Nwodim and Melissa Villasenor (as AOC!)
Pete Davidson inexplicably reprises his role as the disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
He’s plugging his new book,Whoops.
Obviously, the show isn’t going to let up on the vein of humor found in the ex-president.
My advice to any cast member is to enjoy staying up late.
The work gets done, the characters get chosen long after dinner."
And now, the show has given him the ball on Biden, bringing in a ringer essentially.
Their coverage/take on the current president was all over the place last season.
Opening Monologue
In the year of our lord, Owen Wilson hostsSNL.
I would’ve expected him to host during his Frat Pack heyday in the early 2000s, but nope.
His brother Luke has even hosted.
I wonder whynow does it have to do with his participation in the Disney/MCU publicity machine?
He also hasThe French Dispatchout.
Anyway, love Owen and glad he’s finally here!
He jokes about the vaccine coming out for everyone except Florida.
His two brothers, Luke and Andrew, are in attendance to watch.
He compares hostingSNLto performing live music and questions the poor souls writing reviews of the show in real time.
(Huh!Whowould do that!?)
He says he felt incredible pressure when Daniel Day Lewis retired, and that’s why he didCars 3.
He then questions whether tonight’s show will be good.
“Chill out for the next 90 minutes,” he offers.
Fallon Hogan says: “I love Owen Wilson.
He has had a brilliant career.
Starting withBottle Rocket,he is amazing in every movie.
My very favorite isThe Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, beyond hilarious!”
Kroeger adds: “I love Owen Wilson for the same reason everybody loves Owen Wilson.
He delivers such an honest performance even though his method is a bit quirky.
He has his own look, voice, mannerisms, and yet what comes together is always someone relatable.
There is an unavoidable sincerity to every performance.”
‘The Talking’ Women’s Talk Show
Here we have a spoof ofThe View.
Ego Nwodim, Cecily Strong, Aidy Bryant, and Heidi Gardner get to squabble.
They have opinions at 11 in the morning!
Owen Wilson appears as a doctor he must tell Gardner about her positive breakthrough COVID-19 test.
Their first guest is “Da” Pope.
Or is it just Pope?
Owen Wilson returns for some contact testing.
Billionaire Star Trek
Paramount+ presents a new crew!
Jeff Bezos is on an ego quest - good to see Luke Wilson back on the show!
Alex Moffat is Richard Branson.
“A midlife crisis of cosmic proportions!”
This is OK, despite Wilson being nothing like Jeff Bezos really.
Chunks of dialogue are being sent over for animators to sneakily stitch together the latest Pixar sequel.
So Wilson has to say a bunch of things out of context.
Turns out Lightning McQueen is going after someone’s daughter, creeping on girl cars.
“Grow up man your sister sure did!”
“Oh you’re in high school, could’ve fooled me!”
James Austin Johnson gets another good impression in!
He’s Larry the Cable Guy.
This is a strong first episode.
Oh man, laying into Owen’s Pixar money a few times tonight.
They’re the straight people in this sketch.
Robert E. Lee Middle School is now Robert E. Lee Was Bad Middle School.
It’s a school board meeting, and Cecily Strong is a crazy, concerned participant.
She does not have a child and isn’t from the town.
Punkie Johnson gave her kid (Chris Redd) a bootleg vaccine.
Heidi Gardner is pissed about critical race theory and doesn’t know why.
Owen Wilson is Mr. Dodd, a science teacher at the school.
He has confused the word “separating” the students by six feet with “segregating.”
Ugh, Kyle Mooney as a teenager needs to stop.
Andrew Dismukes can pull it off; Mooney hasn’t for a very long time.
Remarkably, Pete Davidson is doing another very basic impression tonight.
He’s Dog the Bounty Hunter.
More compellingly, Sarah Sherman pops up!
I guess the whole cast is joining in here.
Goofy, overstuffed fun.
Kacey Musgraves “Justified”
Weekend Update
Here we go!
Another season with Colin Jost and Michael Che kicks off with wild applause.
As Jost points out, the topic of infrastructure isn’t as wild and insane as the Trump years.
Che takes a crack at Biden’s stutter a cheap shot.
Jost has a good joke about Eminem and Macklemore.
She calls out the photo of her used in the media, and the money reward for her recovery.
This is a sharp take on huge discrepancies in media coverage and racial justice.
“Even in movies, black women can’t get attention.”
“Ya’ll haven’t even asked my name!”
Pete Davidson shows up to discuss the “elitist” Met Gala.
He is wearing a Norm Macdonald T-shirt.RIP Norm.
(He also asks Jost if people hated him after makingTom & Jerry.)
“I can’t believe I’m back!”
It is a bittersweet night for the show.
Jost points out the recently departed Norm Macdonald is why he wanted to do Update.
They turn the rest of the segment over to old clips of the former anchor telling jokes.
Hilarious, and touchy, and classy.
I admired him very much."
Funeral Song
Miriam Lewis (Heidi Gardner) has passed on.
Owen Wilson is her priest, saluting her free spirit.
The favorite thing Miriam did was play the slots at Atlantic City.
Her favorite performer was Levar B. Burton (Kenan Thompson).
Don’t forget the B, very important letter, legally.
He arrives to sing “I Believe I Can Fly.”
Her grandchildren Aidy Bryant and Cecily Strong are upset about an R. Kelly song being performed.
Seems their nan also hangs out with Donald Trump and Bill Cosby.
Nana’s favorite song?
“Ignition (the Remix).”
I like Kenan singing songs from the ’90s!
Kacey Musgraves “Camera Roll”
Another moving ballad off Musgrave’s last album.
After a break-up, you “go through your camera roll” romanticizing a failed relationship.
But you also do not want to completely dispose of those images.
So this song is about reconciling those feelings in a healthy way.
NFL on Fox
It’s James Austin Johnson again!
What an incredible debut.
He’s co-hosting NFL on Fox with Owen Wilson.
I love the Crazy House commercial pop-ups.
“I just read what they give me,” says Johnson.
The monster puppet appears with Stacey Abrams.
Mail-in Testing
It’s a commercial set for a pair of eccentric, married doctors.
Andrew Dismukes and Sarah Sherman are the Robinsons, doctors who are peddling mail-in stool testing.
They are emphatic they will NOT play with excrement sent to them, it is suspicious.
So, this is out 10-to-1, ha.
I agree with Owen, Sarah and Andrew have a fun and strange chemistry.
Aristotle Athari has a small part here.
I would not have guessed he would be used the least tonight!
But I love what I saw of Sarah and James, folks.
Final Thoughts
-Folks!
I am so excited to join you on this season’s journey.
What did you think?Vote hereand let me know your thoughts!
-Thank you to Siobhan Fallon Hogan!
Once again: check outRushed!
-And thank you to Gary Kroeger!
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I asked Gary and Siobhan what it was like working with previous director Dave Wilson.
I loved him."
Fallon Hogan describes Wilson as “the salt of the earth.”
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