Keke Palmer Announces Pregnancy in 'SNL' Monologue - Variety

“Saturday Night Live” returned aft the vacation interruption with big Keke Palmer making a large announcement: She is having a baby!

“People person been successful my comments, saying, ‘Keke’s having a baby,’ ‘Keke’s pregnant,’ and I privation to acceptable the grounds straight,” Palmer said successful her opening monologue. “I am!”

Palmer revealed the immense quality by unveiling her babe bump during her animated and hysterical monologue talking astir her large twelvemonth starring successful “Nope” and being nominated for an Academy Award –which she joked didn’t really happen.

“I was trying truthful hard to support it connected the down-low ’cause I got a batch of worldly going on,” she said. “You know, radical kept coming up to me, ‘Congratulations,’ and I’m like, ‘Shh, tin y’all stop? I got a liquor sponsorship connected the line.”

All joking aside, Palmer couldn’t incorporate her excitement.

“But honestly this is the biggest blessing, and I americium truthful excited,” she said. “Guys, I americium going to beryllium a mom.”

She wrapped up connected a reflective note.

“When I archetypal got into comedy, and I dreamed of lasting connected this stage, I asked myself, ‘Keke, who volition you be?,” she said. “Will you beryllium similar Maya Rudolph? Eddie Murphy? A Kristen Wiig-Type?’ And present I tin archer you precisely who I am: Baby, I’m Keke Palmer.”

Also successful the monologue, Palmer flashed backed to her clip starring successful “Akeelah and the Bee” back successful 2006.

“It was specified a large experience. I had truthful overmuch fun, but for erstwhile I got yelled astatine by Laurence Fishburne,” she said.

Palmer was precise crippled successful an opening sketch spoofing the soap opera network, getting hurled into wrestling positions and thrown into furnishings by Cecily Strong. It was revealed astatine the extremity of the sketch stunt doubles were utilized. She besides poked amusive astatine Drake successful a sketch focusing connected women –“United Tingz of Aubrey” –who antecedently dated singer. She aboriginal spoofed her gestation successful an ultrasound sketch with her babies tipping a doorway dash operator from the womb. She besides appeared successful a sketch exploring the origins of “Hello, Kitty” (with a astonishment cameo from “Russian Doll” prima Natasha Lyonne) and showed disconnected her philharmonic chops successful a video with SZA extolling the virtues of “Big Boys” and rocked “O, Holy Night” successful a choir sketch.

Palmer, 29, is expecting with her fellow Darius Daulton, the member of “Insecure” prima Sarunas Jackson.

The amusement opened with a sketch taking purpose astatine Herschel Walker and the run-off election.

“My ex-wife says each I bash is tally off,” quipped Kenan Thompson arsenic Walker.

When asked astir immoderate scandals successful his past, the timepiece runs for an hr with adjacent much Walker gaffes.

“I consciousness precise assured successful this erection,” helium said.

“Saturday Night Live” stars Kenan Thompson, Cecily Strong, Mikey Day, Heidi Gardner, Ego Nwodim, Bowen Yang, Chloe Fineman, Punkie Johnson, Andrew Dismukes and Michael Che and Colin Jost arsenic the hosts of Weekend Update. The formed besides includes James Austin Johnson, Sarah Sherman, Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker arsenic featured players. Kent Sublette, Alison Gates and Streeter Seidell service arsenic the caput writers for the show, portion Liz Patrick directs.