Timothée Chalamet hosted SNL for a 3rd time and starred in six sketches that made it to air Saturday evening (Jan. 25) in an episode that additionally had him on the invoice as musical visitor.
Pulling double obligation as host and music act, Chalamet seamlessly shifted between being himself in his monologue and embracing his Bob Dylan aspect in his music performances — and portraying SNL sketch characters together with a bungee class icon, a barista who thinks he’s a humorist, an AI creation, a small canine, an animated model of God and a gassy heart specialist. (Followers within the reside rehearsal viewers report there have been sketches lower for time, like a Grammys roundtable skit that had Chalamet bringing again his SNL character SmokeCheddaDaAssGetta. Fingers crossed it surfaces on SNL‘s YouTube channel later.)
“I’m so grateful Saturday Evening Stay continues to be doing bizarre stuff like this 50 years in,” Chalamet, who stars as Dylan within the biopic A Full Unknown, joked to the viewers throughout his monologue. “They’re both very nice for letting me do that or extremely imply, and that is all an enormous prank. I sincerely can’t inform. We’ll discover out.”
Chalamet appeared to beat any nerves that accompany main and acting on the SNL, which tapes in entrance of a reside viewers in New York. There are pre-taped sketches, as properly, however all the actor’s components broadcast this weekend had been reside, aside from his voiceover function as God. Maybe Chalamet has his performing arts highschool alter ego, the show-stealing rapper Timmy Tim, to thank for making ready him for this very second.
One spotlight of Saturday evening’s episode not listed right here is the chilly open, which sadly didn’t characteristic Chalamet. It did have a shock cameo by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who reprised his Hamilton function in a post-Trump inauguration sketch about America’s founding fathers.
Right here’s a rating of each sketch Chalamet was in Saturday evening, when SNL‘s Jan. 25 episode aired. Watch all six sketches under.
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“Canine Run”
This sketch, which has Chalamet and Mikey Day having a typical day on the park as “dumb little canine” who occur to speak like folks, begins off sluggish with slightly too a lot speak. Subjects embrace peeing on mailboxes and humping footwear. The laughs include the bodily comedy — particularly Bowen Yang’s canine, who runs in circles with a case of the “zoomies.” Be careful, Cats.
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“Grandma’s Birthday”
Transfer over, McDreamy and McSteamy. We’ll name this good-looking, promising younger coronary heart physician performed by Chalamet … “McGassy.” You’ll have to observe his groundbreaking new CPR method to see why “the youngest head of cardiology within the historical past of Johns Hopkins” deserves an early-era Gray’s Anatomy nickname. “Simply doing my job. Somebody get this girl a glass of water and an Altoid,” he says with a cocky gaze after saving Grandma on this ensemble sketch.
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“AI Software program”
Add Bowen Yang right into a sketch, and hopes are excessive that it’ll be hilarious. Chalamet and Yang star as AI podcasters who state random instructional info, however name one another “bae” and drop in relationship drama, for college students too distracted by their telephones to concentrate to their human instructor at school. As with all issues AI, the voices sound suspiciously robotic and glitches comply with. Preserve a watch out for Chalamet’s further finger and watch all through the dance break.
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“Bungee”
With neon yellow and luscious locks, Chalamet transforms right into a health teacher girls love. The self-professed “Bungee Queen” hypes his class up, actually, as they’re lifted with bungee cords and do no matter actions he calls out: fly, swim, froggy, troll stroll, leaping jacks, Jimmy Carter. “This exercise isn’t for the faint of coronary heart,” he warns a beginner (Michael Longfellow), the one male to hitch the bungee class. Chalamet hurls a pair zingers Longfellow’s means about his sexual efficiency to maintain the ladies entertained, and rewards them with a frosted Cinnabon cake after burning a collective 5 energy.
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“God”
Props to the creators of this animated quick about the “Creator,” voiced by Chalamet. The cartoon parodies a gaggle of angels (Mikey Day, Heidi Gardner, Michael Longfellow, Emil Wakim and Jane Wickline) tasked with serving to God create the world. Chalamet’s God assigns them to duties like making “exploding mountains,” aka volcanoes — “It’s gonna be like, fireplace and s—. It’s sick,” he says — and kicks them out in response to the primary kangaroo. Chalamet will get the comedic timing excellent as he orders people “straight to Hell, eternally” after making their our bodies able to self-pleasure, and is in tears when the angels’ fastidiously constructed mannequin of the photo voltaic system isn’t as bizarre as he wished it to be. Leigh McG and Studio Showoff get onscreen credit score as animators, and Streeter Seidell and Mikey Day as writers.
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“New Barista Coaching”
Chalamet will get to place his impressionist and comedic expertise to work on this sketch about coaching new hires that may go away you hoping your staff by no means stop — as a result of who is aware of what you’ll be coping with if you attempt to fill the function. Searching for a brand new barista? You simply may wind up with this man, who impersonates Chris Rock’s supply and turns the café into his personal private comedy membership. See what occurs, and the way rapidly issues escalate, when his supervisors (Mikey Day and Heidi Gardner) encourage him to provide you with a “quippy joke” for the chalkboard out entrance.
