12/10/2023 0 Comments John mullaney demented gameshow host![]() First, host Vince Blake (Hader) shows them pictures of Chrissy Teigen and Lil Xan- easy enough, five bucks for each of them. In another beat of this sadistic game show, contestants Doug (Mulaney) and Courtney (Cecily Strong) are simply asked to identify people by name. ![]() The new “funky” ones make the comic feel like there’s a DJ in the back of the car the classic ones (as heard in classic films) sound like “an old gay cat was dying.” No, no, not in a bad way - the cat “lived a full life, surrounded by loved ones, holding hands with a rabbi.” The entire set is worthwhile, but this very silly bit kills. The set reaches its crescendo when Mulaney talks about (and does impressions of) different sorts of police sirens. It’s Mulaney, so the observations are playful and the jokes are crisp. Mulaney brings some of his own really solid material to this monologue, which includes bits about cocaine, subway announcements, convincing your Jewish fiancée to convert to Catholicism, and what it means to run into Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn in New York while pushing a bulldog in a stroller. Stiller is good, but Hader and Mooney both shine here. While it’s overstuffed, it does feel a bit more focused than past weeks. And everybody just waits for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Melissa Villaseñor) to take the stage. ![]() Meanwhile, Jackie Speier (Heidi Gardner) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Kate McKinnon) just prank Jordan. Chairman Elijah Cummings (Thompson) prepares everyone for Republicans to “get mad at everybody but the president.” Ohio’s Jim Jordan (Bill Hader) fumes and flubs all of his good material Arizona’s Paul Gosar (Kyle Mooney) stumbles over words and renders himself nearly incomprehensible North Carolina’s Mark Meadows (Moffat) drags out a Trump employee he calls Omarosa (Ego Nwodim) to prove the president isn’t racist. “Wow, I thought that would get a bigger reaction,” he says upon hearing a distinct lack of gasps. Michael Cohen (Ben Stiller) arrives in Congress to testify before representatives about Trump, whom he characterizes as a racist, a cheat and a con man. Since when does a megamusical sketch parody get a second beat? This could become Mulaney’s SNL signature: megamusical mashups based on observations of very specific New York phenomena. “What about Fla-a-a-an?” the ensemble wants to know. The whole thing climaxes with a “Seasons of Love” parody that lists all of the things one might find in the bodega. There’s a version of “The Candy Man” strictly for the bodega guy, a take on “Memory” sung by a lifesize Virgin Mary votive (McKinnon), and very Oompa Loompa-like Sour Patch Kids (Aidy Bryant, Mikey Day, Kyle Mooney) singing about the swine HPV one will get from the toilet seat. From there, a pair of singing cockroaches (Strong, Villaseñor) and a Audrey II-like toilet (Beck Bennett) start belting, too. The bodega cat (Thompson) directs the guy to the toilet while singing a ditty called “Zero Sanitation” - sung to the tune of “Pure Imagination,” from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. A guy (Davidson) asks the bodega owner (Mulaney) for a key while the guy’s pal (Redd) looks on in horror. In Big Nick’s Bodega, they’ve got water, snacks and, if you require it in an emergency, a terrible, terrible bathroom.
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