John Mulaney returned home to Studio 8H for his seventh time hosting Saturday Night Live.
In his opening monologue, the 4x Emmy winner and former SNL writer recalled his time working on the NBC sketch comedy show from 2008 to 2013.
“One of the only difficult things about working here was dealing with hosts,” said Mulaney. “So, it’s fun when I host, because it’s like there’s no host.”
During his quick stand-up set, Mulaney noted how everything made sense after finding out his boomer dad was on the autism spectrum. “He doesn’t know he’s autistic. He’ll find out right at this airs,” he quipped.
The comedian also called out Boomers’ hypocritical complaints about Gen Z and joked about about his son’s toddler friends, which transitioned into a roast of RFK Jr., complete with a brutal impression.
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“You dumbass, your thing can’t be the measles,” said Mulaney, adding: “Yeah, I called him Bobby. I’ve known him for over a decade. You shouldn’t be part of the government if I’ve known you for over a decade.”
In a news report sketch of a plane crash on a flight from Turkey to Newark, Mulaney played a survivor who attempted to play off his hair transplant bandages as injuries from the accident. Ben Marshall played another survivor with similar bandages, plus some very plump lip injections. “Unfortunately, some bees swarmed the plane, Sully style,” he claimed.
“I think those were geese,” noted Ashley Padilla’s reporter character as Marcello Hernandez played a pilot who got penile enlargement surgery.
The sketch ended with Kam Patterson as NYC’s former Mayor Eric Adams, who was also on the flight.
The next sketch was a fake pharmaceutical commercial for “Sister,” which is just Mulaney, Andrew Dismukes and Kenan Thompson relying on their sisters to take care of their sick parents.
In another sketch, Padilla played Kathy, the “worst person on earth” who crashes her co-workers’ happy hour, where she’s nursing a fishbowl. Mulaney tries to make his colleagues Day, Thompson and Sarah Sherman to ignore her, despite her hilariously awkward demeanor.
As Jeremy Culhane hosted the fake brewery show Gettin It Done, he had a few autumn IPAs with Mulaney’s Brewmaster Kenny, which led to the pair drunkenly making out multiple times.
“Well, turns out it was the beer,” said Culhane after a steamy back-and-forth. “We hung out sober one day, and it was like, nothing.”
Marking Mulaney’s seventh time hosting Saturday Night Live, following his time as sketch writer from 2008 to 2013, Phoebe Bridgers joined him this weekend in her second gig as musical guest.
