'SNL' recap: Cecily Strong returns, Jack Harlow's Halloween double duty, and a Tom Hanks cameo

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TV Recaps Saturday Night Live recap: Cecily Strong returns, Jack Harlow's Halloween treble duty, and Tom Hanks' cameo

Saturday Night Live recap: Cecily Strong returns, Jack Harlow's Halloween treble responsibility, and Tom Hanks' cameo Plus, Survivor's Jeff Probst's face-to-face with the Joker. By Andy Hoglund Updated October 30, 2022 astatine 01:forty 2 PM EDT Advertisement FB Tweet More Pinterest Email Send Text Message Print Comment Saturday Night Live - Season forty two

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Hi each — invited backmost connected your geared up and constant, EZ Bake Oven SNL successful Review. You request a little down load for the Jack Harlow occurrence — nicely, present it is!

Harlow is the state-of-the-art rap large sanction to beryllium fixed a changeable astatine hosting Saturday Night Live. Some rap purists presumption enactment up-Drake multi-hyphenate artists similar Harlow arsenic an affront to the artwork form. Yet, to an instauration similar SNL, helium is simply a gateway to younger fanatics. Let's spot if his charisma contains over.

Jack Harlow hosts 'Saturday Night Live' this nighttime by erstwhile SNL cast subordinate Siobhan Fallon Hogan, whose modern time movie, the upcoming Shelter successful Solitude, will show astatine Kevin Smith's first-ever SModCastle Film Festival adjacent period connected starting night. She says she reveals "rappers to beryllium notable actors arsenic they are assured, precise astatine easiness and consequently fantastic performers. In each of my movies, I coagulated rappers successful roles arsenic good arsenic utilized their tune: Fat Nick is successful both, and Miami sensation Robb Bank$ is successful Shelter successful Solitude, successful summation to Tophillfreddo. They are each high-quality."

Fallon Hogan's revel successful moving with rappers is going backmost to her Studio 8H days: "MC Hammer changed into connected SNL after I changed into connected helium go likewise astatine easiness and splendid. I accidental that rappers are specified fabulous performers that they without problems modulation to acting."

That's a superb array mounting for tonight's episode. It starts!

It's the PBS Newshour with Judy Woodruff (Heidi Gardner), and SNL is taking intent connected the atrocious GOP candidates. First, Kenan Thompson is revisiting his Herschel Walker impact. "Go Halloween!" helium says. Mikey Day plays Dr. Oz, who is jogging for Senate successful Pennsylvania. (Shout out Bill Hader's antique Dr. Oz sketch.)

And Cecily Strong is again connected the amusement — she's gambling Kari Lake. Classic relation for Cecily, adjacent though it is the position, isn't ever it? She's exceptional, but it's truthful acquainted and ripped from the headlines. This full acold unfastened objectives the ridiculous and albeit unsafe stances being espoused wrong the contiguous time predetermination cycle, but it lacks an inspired constituent of view. I don't request partisan balance, nevertheless a fewer laughs wouldn't harm. They're brainsick and mediocre — we instrumentality immoderate reasonably harmless potshots wrong the adjacent worn-out layout the amusement has embraced for years. Lame.

"This is… extraordinary," effuses Harlow. He's had a immense year. People measure him to the goat from Narnia and Justin Timberlake drawn from memory. He takes these insults successful strides.

Harlow (fantastically) talks plentifulness present — cracking jokes. He is going into the assemblage and speaks to an people marketplace member, Michaela. Pretty level and dreadful.

"People connected the Internet similar to roast me," helium says. Count maine among them!

My antheral Clint has the due idea! The first-rate antheral (Andrew Dismukes) is dressed similar the Joker astatine a marriage. In his defense, it is Halloween nighttime time. Dismukes leans into the Kentucky accessory dense — a large woody of the forged is honestly comic here, including Sarah Sherman's Gamma Judy.

Fun premise — uncertainty we needed a Jeff Probst cameo to onshore it, nevertheless I emotion the escalation and the energy. Performances are robust and speedy pacing makes it click.

A footwear enactment is taking a basal against anti-Semitism and peculiarly Kanye West. Of path, they privation it each ways. It's "insanely fulfilling" they were fixed to notation "no" first.

Their employees speech thru each facets of their mouths — they whitethorn beryllium flattered and attracted to the "cool" issue. A batch of institution hedging, which tracks.

We are enactment from the sidewalk! (I privation really — who recalls The Rocket Report? Let's see the NYC mounting greater. Discord service upward thrust!) Cecily Strong is Tina Lefey, the crimson-carpet host. Wasted achromatic miss who tin not observe her Uber (Chloe Fineman) is being interviewed till she receives racist. Devon Walker is gambling the Chris Rock slap — oregon is that the Chris Redd sucker punch? Pretty humorous and relatable. Bowen Yang is simply a subordinate of the Village People who misplaced his buddies truthful helium simply seems similar a cop.

Harlow is simply a frat bro with a tampon formal — becoming relation for him. He has a beardown Lil Dicky vibe. This is benignant of a darkish Brandon exemplary of the "Bring It connected Down to Wrappinville" Timberlake individual.

Another close caricature that utilizes Harlow's constrained talents well.

Jesse (Harlow) has by nary means shared successful his addiction radical earlier than, nevertheless contiguous helium speaks: helium has the perfect conception for a Pixar film. "I drank recently," helium slips successful for the duration of his lengthy spiel astir his remedy. Everyone is spilling their guts retired and, successful a way, helium is too. Great stuff.

The characters speculate astir which suitcase Jason Bateman could voice, and inquire whether oregon not the wellness nine container idiosyncratic could beryllium named "Jim." Funny spoof of Pixar films.

The crippled thickens. Cecily Strong's idiosyncratic busts retired a gap-on parody of the obligatory Pixar Oscar bait song. (She seems similar Cathy Anne, does not she?)

Could this beryllium the consequent Mulaney sing-along stand-in?

The instauration asks: who would play the everyman protagonist's suitcase? The Woody? "Tom H" emerges — it's large that during 2022 Tom Hanks would cameo successful Jack Harlow's episode. My lordy.

This captures the existent hostility nicely-which means (but successful the agelong tally silly) liberals and progressives consciousness astir voting for Joe Biden erstwhile much successful 2024. But if it is nary longer BIden, past who? Beto and Hillary

They adjacent nail the font these modern fearfulness films similar Smile and Barbarian utilize. Clever! Compare this to the god-awful acold unfastened — it's similar nighttime clip and day. I bash not see the premise, nevertheless it's a beauteous humorous intestine instrumentality a look astatine connected wherefore Democratic voters thrust implicit themselves.

Friends bid liquids astatine a marque caller eating place, Casita, for tacos. Bartenders Duke and Earl (Bowen Yang and Harlow) look to determination the cocktails. After a fewer tremendously amusing, borderline accepted sketches, this doesn't rather clasp up arsenic lots.

Is Chet Hanks buddies with Jack Harlow? Why is Tom introducing Jack? (Wait, IS Jack truely Chet Hanks? That's the lone rationalization…)

We get a snippet from "Lil Secret" earlier helium jumps into "First Class," which intimately samples the 2006 Fergie way "Glamorous". This changed into a ample deed successful beforehand this twelvemonth — and I get it. But it is hard nary longer to rotation your eyes astatine Harlow's solipsism oregon the consciousness helium is simply a plant, the mode helium lifts blatantly from Drake. He's similar a placeholder for Mac Miller (RIP), nevertheless not 1 of the evolving endowment oregon philharmonic interest.

Colin Jost begins disconnected things with jokes astir erstwhile big Elon Musk. This is simply a chiefly biting conception — jokes astir John Fetterman, Kanye West, and the onslaught connected Paul Pelosi. (There's a humorous shaggy canine communicative astir Goodwill not accepting Yeezy products.)

Wow! Another cameo — Drunk Uncle is back! "This is Halloween, Halloween / Marjorie Taylor Greene!" Former forged subordinate Bobby Moynihan presently launched his archetypal children's e book, "Not All Sheep Are Boring!" We haven't seen Drunk Uncle successful astir 7 years, truthful this is simply a amusing wonder. I americium conscionable stunned quality beings stepped up for Jack Harlow of each and sundry. This idiosyncratic transports maine returned to a bonzer procreation of SNL — apparently, Drunk Uncle has the aforesaid opinion, calling retired Seth [Meyers] astatine 1 factor. I judge arsenic existent with Jost co-created Drunk Uncle little backmost wrong the time erstwhile helium turned into a lowly author, by the way.

Several friends walk instrumentality a look astatine retired a haunted residence. We get to adjacent Michael Myers and Annabelle.

Suddenly, the return: David S Pumpkins. Should person disposable this coming! Bobby is close here, Tom — boom! (Funny — the David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special came retired 5 years successful the past the erstwhile day.) Great make-up enactment connected Freddy Krueger with the assistance of the mode kudos there.

This is fundamentally a shot-for-shot remake of the original, truthful manifestly diminishing returns. The assemblage loves it adjacent though, and the energy continues to beryllium there. Personally, I was ever a portion impressed the show kept distant from bringing this 1 again, oring the Kevin Roberts retread with Larry David. Why not present this returned but power up the ground a small bit? It's been spot you later, they may've been hardly modern. It's conscionable condescending to the lovers, similar they could not instrumentality attraction of immoderate playbook changes if this had to appear. Demand extra.

I accidental that is the past opus disconnected Come Home the Kids Miss You. He's reflecting connected fame here, nevertheless however the aforesaid guy. Trite — nevertheless astatine slightest an effort to beryllium an existent tune.

Ego Nwodim is gambling Whoopi Goldberg, with Sarah Sherman arsenic Joy Behar and a brace individuals of the b-crew. They invited Jack Harlow to the display. He compliments Whoopi quietly, seductively. "No, I americium a lifeless miss strolling," she pushes again. Apparently, that is the gist here, oldsters. Weak.

Love Sherman's blatantly anserine tackle Behar, and her again-and-forth with Goldberg.

-What a restoration. After a prototypically susceptible acold unfastened and monologue, the show fired disconnected respective successful world sharp, hilarious sketches. Best occurrence of the play truthful far.

-Well, what did YOU assume? Jump in, fto your dependable beryllium heard. Vote oregon die!

-I volition say, I've heard tons of remarks concerning the Megan Thee Stallion episode. I person to mention, compared to this (which explicitly caters to UMC liberals, millennials, and Gen Z Harlow fanatics) it is disappointing to adjacent immoderate components of the bottommost can't clasp portion the show focuses connected a much divers constituency.

-One critique: it is the Halloween show; I wanted immoderate Sarah Sherman weirdness. The cameos and callbacks crushed that accidental I conjecture — astatine slightest we got the Dismukes Joker amusement off.

-Thank you to Siobhan Fallon Hogan for her feedback tonight. Her lad Peter shared with me: "All the artists I've worked with are successful exclusive genres of hip-hop, truthful it is pugnacious to compare. I presume Jack Harlow is doing the entirety close due present career-clever. He's having a laughter with it too. He works with a clump of antithetic styles of artists and gets brainsick emblem offers. He strikes a chord successful my representation of Lil Yachty's assemblage to day wrong the concern component. Music astute he's huffy talented. Right present helium is doing his origin captivating the woman people assemblage with his benignant of dependable he's rockin nevertheless I'm jacking that 'What's Poppin (Remix)' benignant implicit that stuff."

-One greater from Peter: "I emotion operating with hip-hop artists due to the fact that they whitethorn beryllium already a idiosyncratic archetypal of each and mostly a herbal. I callback Fat Nick successful examination appearing to the adjacent happening arsenic performing connected degree. Because you're placing connected an enactment then, simply successful a distinctive way. My artist, tophillfreddo, agreed with that announcement. I additionally carnivore successful caput Robb Bank$ astatine the acceptable of Shelter successful Solitude simply going disconnected the information that T-1000 (Robert Patrick) stated helium 'killed it'. That was each helium needed to hear. So really it is the information that those guys person already got a fantastic magnitude of assurance and are prepared for that consequent measurement successful their profession."

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