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Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim on ‘Challenging’ Environment at ‘SNL’

by jummy84 October 29, 2025

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After leaving “Saturday Night Live” before Season 51, Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim got candid about the work culture at the iconic late-night sketch show.

While hosting Gardner on her “Thanks Dad” podcast, Nwodim said the “SNL” cast has to spend a lot of “intimate” time together writing and rehearsing, which can either bring everyone together or breed contempt within the group.

“To have to share such an intimate space together for hours on end on Saturdays and Thursdays and Fridays, whenever we were rehearsing, yeah, it made us close quick,” Nwodim explained. “But it doesn’t have to work that way. It could also not make you close. It can make you not like each other. It can make you feel whatever mutually, ‘I’m sharing a space with this person.’ But I’m so grateful we got so close.”

Gardner added that she was grateful for the friendship she and Nwodim built while on the show and was thankful that egos never got in the way.

“I’m so honored that we worked so hard there, and then we also worked on our friendship so hard, which wasn’t hard, by the way,” Gardner said. “I just mean we’re human, so we have egos, we want things for ourselves, we want to succeed. There weren’t a lot of times we were able to succeed the way we wanted at the exact same time.”

Later in the discussion, Nwodim said it can be challenging to feel like the “SNL” cast is “winning together,” which, among other reasons, makes the show “not the easiest place to work.” However, she praised Gardner for being “such a light in what can be such a challenging place.”

She added, “But I’m like, if you can leave — in a place where it can get so competitive and you can become so self involved, if you can leave and be still remarkably lovely and such a light and still pouring into other people like you, I think you succeeded.”

Gardner unveiled her exit from “SNL” on Aug. 28 after being on the show for eight seasons, while Nwodim left on Sept. 12 after her seventh. The “SNL” cast experienced a major shakeup before Season 51, with Devon Walker, Emil Wakim and Michael Longfellow all leaving the show. Please Don’t Destroy member Ben Marshall was pulled up to the main cast, while Martin Herlihy moved to the writing staff and John Higgins left the show.

October 29, 2025 0 comments

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Rina Sawayama sends “big love” to Sabrina Carpenter but calls out “cultural insensitivity” of ‘SNL’ performance

by jummy84 October 22, 2025

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Rina Sawayama has shared her thoughts on Sabrina Carpenter’s Saturday Night Live performance, praising the star but commenting on the performance’s martial arts theme.

READ MORE: Sabrina Carpenter – ‘Man’s Best Friend’ review: pop’s bawdy troubadour hits the melodic G-spot

Carpenter performed the song ‘Nobody’s Son’ from her latest album ‘Man’s Best Friend’ on SNL on October 18. The performance had a martial arts theme, with Carpenter herself wearing a short white robe and black belt and dancers acting out a fight sequence.

The singer was making her hosting debut on the long-running show, serving as her own musical guest, and also performed her single ‘Manchild’, made reference to the controversy over the ‘Man’s Best Friend’ album cover, and poked fun at her friend Taylor Swift’s song ‘The Fate Of Ophelia’.

The following day, Sawayama posted a clip of the performance on her Instagram Stories, and wrote, “Big love to Sabrina but fellow artists creative teams … if we are clearly referencing a culture, please can you do so with the research, respect and care it deserves. Shoes on tatami is jail.”

Tatami are soft mats used in traditional Japanese rooms, and etiquette dictates that people shouldn’t wear shoes on them.

Sawayama was born in the Japanese city of Niigata and moved to London with her family when she was five years old. While adjusting to life in the UK, she tried to “preserve” her Japanese culture, in part by listening to Japanese artists, and in 2019 Vogue Japan named her one of its women of the year.

At Glastonbury Festival two years ago, she spoke out against The 1975 frontman Matty Healy, previously a director at her record label Dirty Hit, following a controversial podcast appearance on which he mocked the appearance of rapper Ice Spice and said that he watched a racially charged pornography series.

Introducing her song ‘STFU!’, she said: “I wrote this next song because I was sick and tired of microaggressions. So, tonight, this song goes out to a white man who watches [pornography series] Ghetto Gaggers and mocks Asian people on a podcast. He also owns my masters. I’ve had enough.”

She then seemed to call Healy out again during her set at NOS Alive in Portugal a couple of weeks later.

Not long after, former collaborator Charli XCX unfollowed Sawayama, with fans speculating that it was related because Charli was dating, and is now married to, Healy’s bandmate George Daniel.

Charli then addressed the drama on X (Twitter), writing: “Look – this all got a bit crazy – me and Rina spoke about things on the phone just now. My unfollowing (which happened a couple of weeks ago) was over a personal disagreement between friends which we’ve now spoken about.”

In 2024, Sawayama – who released her most recent album ‘Hold The Girl’ in 2022 – said that she couldn’t release her next album “under my current conditions”, admitting: “I feel really trapped and don’t know what to do.”

She told The Independent that, since the previous summer, she had “felt intense racist misogyny in a way that I’ve never felt before,” adding: “In public and private I feel as though I’ve been repeatedly gaslit, disrespected, ignored, even cyber-bullied for calling out blatant racist and sexist behaviour.”

October 22, 2025 0 comments

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Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘SNL’ Sketches Ranked (Oct. 18, 2025 Episode)

by jummy84 October 20, 2025

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Here’s a breakdown of every ‘SNL’ sketch with Carpenter on Oct. 18.

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Host and musical guest Sabrina Carpenter and Veronika Slowikowska appear during the ‘Appliance Store’ sketch on ‘SNL’ on Oct. 18, 2025.

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Sabrina Carpenter hosted SNL for the first time and starred in eight sketches that made it to air Saturday night (Oct. 18) in an episode that seamlessly paired with the pop star’s brand of humor.

With a background in comedy television — a decade ago, a then-teenaged Carpenter was the lead on the Boy Meets World spinoff Girl Meets World — and with some familiarity with the SNL stage (as a music performer twice, and with one “Domingo” sketch in her pocket), the singer/actress was poised for success pulling double duty as host and musical guest Saturday night.

And she delivered, from the cold opening all the way through her final sketch of the night — with two playful performances sandwiched into the schedule (a youthfully staged “Manchild,” plus an uncensored “Nobody’s Son”).

With a short and sweet monologue, Carpenter poked fun at her Man’s Best Friend album cover and her “horn-dog pop star” persona — “I’m not just horny, I’m also turned on, and I’m sexually charged, and I love to read; my favorite book is the encyclopedia… it’s so big and it’s hard” — and throughout the episode portrayed roles ranging from a singing washing machine to a tween boy podcaster to an entrepreneur peddling a pillow that looks like a vagina. (Audience reports from the dress rehearsal say there were also a couple sketches with Carpenter that didn’t make it to broadcast, including one about the “perfect man” and a Salem witch-themed bit.)

Here’s a ranking of every sketch Carpenter was in on the show that aired Saturday night. Watch all eight sketches from the Oct. 18 episode of SNL below.

“Domingo” Cold Open
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Previous SNL sketches about Domingo (Marcello Hernández), the suave guy ladies love, have seemingly been a hit — but with a big cast refresh, last season’s go-to was a stale opener for Carpenter’s Oct. 18 episode. Her performance in the friend group making Domingo’s reveal again (by way of bad singing) was on point. But as a cold open, the sketch felt like it was a missing a twist to reel viewers in. Still, pop fans will appreciate the song parodies set to Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” and Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra.”
“Girlboss Seminar”
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Carpenter confidently fills the role of “girlboss” in this satirical sketch that has a motivational figure going through the motions — even through a concussion. Silly physical humor and good comedic timing make her character’s cringe funny, even through the period-themed quips.
“Surprise”
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The “Surprise” sketch would rank much higher on this list, if it had been Carpenter who carried it. But she’s just a supporting player to Ashley Padilla’s scene-stealing performance as the colleague who can’t vibe with an office birthday surprise. If there’s one line to take way from the episode, it’s this one: “Farted and demoted.”
“Grind Song”
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Sabrina Carpenter and Bowen Yang have no qualms playing awkward 13-year-olds who’ve apparently heard about grinding somewhere. The two attempt some questionable moves on the middle school dance floor in this pre-taped musical sketch with lyrics like “We could get PG-13, if you know what I mean.” Stick around ’til the end to see what the scene really looks like from the principal’s (Kenan Thompson) POV.
“Appliance Store”
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Carpenter’s musical talent comes in play again in this whimsical sketch set in a P.C. Richard store where washers and dryers have human heads that can carry a tune. Here, instead of a buzz or a jingle, your washer/dryer duo will perform a little ditty when the load is “almost totally dry” and a perhaps a tap number if you go for the “permanent press” cycle. SNL newcomer Veronika Slowikowska impresses, holding her own harmonizing and playing showgirl with Carpenter.
“Shop TV: Pillow”
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The video thumbnail might tell you all you need to know about this one, but press play to catch an always-funny “Shop TV” sketch — this one’s got Carpenter perfectly portraying a naive guest seller who’s unaware the neck pillow she designed for flight comfort unmistakably resembles a particular part of the female anatomy. Especially when she adds on the faux-fur lining, available in two varieties.
“Plans”
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Introverts assemble: This is the scary movie of your nightmares. Carpenter and Ben Marshall star in a Blumhouse parody about the horror in realizing months ago you politely made plans with distant relatives that you hoped they wouldn’t follow through on — but they did. And those plans are for today. “Which cousin is it?” Marshall asks in a panic, to which Carpenter reveals — eyes wide in terror — that it’s “the one who runs marathons.” It gets more frightening. “Her husband is coming too” — the one known for making people watch 11-minute YouTube videos with him. So much for the weekend.
“Boys Podcast”
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The top moment of Carpenter’s episode of Saturday Night Live is an ensemble sketch that puts her on a podcast about snacks with three other annoying young boys (Chloe Fineman, Jane Wickline and Veronika Slowikowska). Littered with insufferable slang (“fire,” “cooked,” et al.) as they snicker over Halloween candy and “goated” vegetables, something about it sounds so accurate in the time of TikTok that it’s almost real. The four of them, led by Carpenter, pull off the uncomfortable modern tween vibe almost too well. As one of the top comments on YouTube voices, “My heartfelt sympathies to all middle and high school teachers during this difficult time.”

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October 20, 2025 0 comments

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Sabrina Carpenter Nailed the Art of Showgirl Style on SNL

by jummy84 October 19, 2025

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As the show progressed, Carpenter’s promo photos—because every host gets a full-on SNL photo shoot—continued her high-fashion takeover. She sported pieces such as a vintage Dolce & Gabbana rose coat, a vintage Emanuel Ungaro black and white polka dot frock from spring 2003, and even a shimmering blue Dior lace dress from the recent spring 2026 collection. In a promo clip with SNL co-star Marcello Hernandez, the singer also donned a vintage canine-themed Vivienne Westwood dress from fall 1992—a tie-in to her album name, Man’s Best Friend, obviously.

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Across several sketches, she also wore a pink check Love Shack Fancy twin set, a turtleneck mini-dress from Theory, and a sparkling Princess Polly halter mini-dress.

The epic leading lady wardrobe concluded with her two musical performances of the night. For her live rendition of “Nobody’s Son,” Carpenter sported a crystal-covered black and white karate robe, while her backup dancers performed choreographed fights. She was not barefoot, though: For a glamorous pop star touch, she accessorized with a staggering pair of Christian Louboutin platforms. To perform “Manchild,” Carpenter then rocked a “Live From New York” baby tee, while the back of her pink briefs read, “It’s Saturday Night!”—a cheeky homage to the famous SNL tagline. Her SNL looks had all the makings of greatness: Campy, fun, yet chic!

October 19, 2025 0 comments

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Domingo Returns to SNL with Sketch Spoofing Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia”

by jummy84 October 19, 2025

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With Sabrina Carpenter pulling double duty as host and musical guest on this week’s episode, SNL wasted no time bringing back Domingo, Kelsey, and crew. One of the show’s most popular recurring sketches returned for its fourth installment during the cold open, as the Kelsquad crashed Matt’s 30th birthday party to share stories from a recent trip his wife took to Nashville in search of “the most magical birthday present.”

As fate would have it — and as the Kelsquad recounted in song, set to spoofs of Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” and Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra” — Marcello Hernandez’s Domingo just so happened to be in Nashville at the very same time.

October 19, 2025 0 comments

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Bowen Yang Present On Sabrina Carpenter-Hosted ‘SNL’ Despite Missing Live Taping

by jummy84 October 19, 2025

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Bowen Yang was still featured on Saturday Night Live on multiple occasions despite missing the live taping of the late-night sketch show.

Earlier today, Deadline reported that Yang was going to miss SNL tonight as he was set to receive the Vantage Award at the Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles.

Yang’s first mention on the Lorne Michaels-produced show was during Sabrina Carpenter‘s monologue.

The “Please Please Please” singer addressed the controversy surrounding her album cover, where she is seen kneeling in front of a man who is holding her by the hair. Carpenter joked that the man standing in front of her was actually Yang, showing him in a zoomed-out version of the album cover for Man’s Best Friend.

RELATED: Sabrina Carpenter On Controversial ‘Man’s Best Friend’ Album Cover Art: “The Reaction Is Fascinating To Me”

Yang’s bigger role on this week’s SNL was during a pre-taped sketch for the music video “Middle School Lovin’.” In the pop video, Yang and Carpenter play middle schoolers going to a school-sponsored dance where they “break the rules” and “grind” on each other.

“You know it girl, it’s finally time. I see you eyeing me at school. It’s been on both of our minds, and I’m feelin’ grown, twelve sprays of my dad’s cologne,” Yang sings in the pop video.

As the duo arrives at school, they sing, “We’re breaking the rules and I know that it’s wrong, but it’s feeling so right. We’re thirteen, but tonight is the night — we’re going to grind.”

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October 19, 2025 0 comments

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‘SNL’ Domingo Skit Returns While Sabrina Carpenter Hosts

by jummy84 October 19, 2025

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Sabrina Carpenter‘s Saturday Night Live hosting debut kicked off with a fun callback to none other than the viral Domingo skit — with a modern pop twist.

The “Manchild” singer returned to the late night show on Saturday, where she doubled up as the night’s host and musical guest. The cold open kicked off with another homecoming of Chloe Fineman‘s Kelsey character and her group of best friends, including Carpenter.

True to the original skit, Kelsey’s girl squad recounted their Nashville night out in front of her husband Matt (Andrew Dismukes) in full song form, set to the tune of some of the most popular modern tracks. They recalled their festivities by singing along to the backtrack of Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” and Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra,” before Marcello Hernández‘s beloved Domingo character made his grand entrance (and return) to profess his love to Fineman’s Kelsey, set to Alex Warren’s track “Ordinary.”

The original Domingo skit instantly went viral, originally featuring Carpenter’s “Espresso” as Kelsey’s bridesmaids confessed that she had cheated on her husband-to-be with Domingo. The Grammy winner wasn’t actually featured in the original bit, though fellow pop star Ariana Grande was. (Carpenter did star in the SNL 50 Domingo sequel, though.)

Later in Carpenter’s opening monologue, she lightly addressed the controversy surrounding the cover art for her latest album, Man’s Best Friend. Pointing back to her last appearance on the show during SNL 50, she noted that “since then, my new album Man’s Best Friend came out, which I’m so excited about. But some people got a little freaked out by the cover.”

“I’m not sure why. It was just this: me on all fours with an unseen figure pulling my hair. But what people don’t realize is, that’s just how they cropped it. If you zoom out, it’s clearly a picture from the 50th anniversary special of Bowen helping me up by the hair,” she said, as the shot of the album cover zoomed out, continuing, “After Martin Short shoved me out of the buffet line.”

The “Bed Chem” singer used the rest of her monologue to “clear up some misconceptions people have about me,” joking that “everyone thinks of me as this horndog pop star, but there’s really so much more to me.”

“I’m not just horny, I’m also turned on, and I’m sexually charged. And I love to read. My favorite book is the encyclopedia. It’s so big and it’s hard…” she said, before continuing, “There is a real person underneath all the sparkles and the wigs and the corsets, and another thing you might not know about me is that I love to interact with the audience during my show, so I’d like to do that right now.”

She went on to touch base with a few audience members before returning to the stage, where she continued another one of her concert traditions: “The last fun thing I like to do at my concerts is arrest someone for being hot. So, who here can I arrest tonight?”

Kenan Thompson then hit the stage, where he joked that he was arresting the singer “for falsely impersonating an officer 200 times at your concerts. And you’re arresting innocent hot people.”

Saturday night marked Carpenter’s first SNL hosting gig, while it was the second time she served as the night’s musical guest. She, too, notably performed a rendition of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound” alongside Paul Simon at the 50th anniversary special.

Ahead of the show, Bowen Yang took to his Instagram Stories to note that he was missing the taping. The Wicked star skipped episode three to attend the 2025 Academy Museum Gala, where he was honored with the Vantage Award.

The “Espresso” singer served as the third overall host of season 51, following in the footsteps of Bad Bunny and Amy Poehler. Earlier this week, the next wave of SNL guests were announced. Miles Teller will host on Nov. 1, while Nikki Glaser and Glen Powell are set to make their hosting debuts on the Nov. 8 and Nov. 15 shows, respectively.

Last Saturday’s show was full of star-studded cameos, as former cast member Poehler brought back fellow SNL alumni Tina Fey and Seth Meyers throughout the episode. Fey also made a cameo to impersonate Kristi Noem in the cold open, while Poehler portrayed Pam Bondi.

October 19, 2025 0 comments

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Sabrina Carpenter Performs “Manchild” in Campy SNL Bedroom Set

by jummy84 October 19, 2025

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Pulling double duty as host and musical guest on this week’s Saturday Night Live, Sabrina Carpenter staged a pair of instantly iconic performances in support of her latest album, Man’s Best Friend.

Carpenter first performed “Manchild” on a bedroom-themed set, dressed in SNL-branded pajamas, and singing into a hairbrush like a microphone. Leaning into the song’s tongue-in-cheek spirit — a playful takedown of a man who looks grown but still acts like a boy — she fully embraced the camp, turning the stage into a sleepover fantasy complete with exaggerated choreography, dramatic camera winks, and tongue-in-cheek theatrics that brought the track’s biting humor and empowering message to life. There was even an homage to the Cameron Diaz’s mirror dance scene in Charlie’s Angels.

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Later in the episode, she delivered the live debut of “Nobody’s Son,” complete with choreography inspired by a karate dojo.

Elsewhere during her hosted episode of SNL, she reprised her role in Kelsey’s crew for a new Domino sketch, starred in a horror-themed movie trailer about a couple who suddenly found themselves with plans, interviewed Donald Trump as a host of the Snack Homies podcast, hocked a provocativew neck pillow on QVC, and was Bowen Yang’s date for a school dance. Check out the highlights below.

Sabrina Carpenter Teases Tonight’s ‘SNL’ in Behind-the-Scenes Photos

by jummy84 October 19, 2025

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With just hours to go until Sabrina Carpenter takes over SNL, the singer reminded fans to tune with an Instagram post full of backstage snapshots.

“TONIGHT,” Carpenter captioned her photo post, tagging @nbcsnl and topping it off with a red lips emoji.

The pics give viewers a glimpse at her dressing room and outfit options. There’s also a peek at what looks to be a table read or writing session, and at the actual cue card that was used filming this week’s promo spot — all at SNL‘s 30 Rock headquarters in New York City.

Saturday night (Oct. 18) marks Carpenter’s first time hosting SNL, and her return as musical guest. The “Manchild” hitmaker performed during a May 2024 episode and was featured on February 2025’s SNL50 special, for which she sang a duet with Paul Simon and co-starred in one of Marcello Hernandez’s “Domingo” sketches. (She’d already had a run-in with Domingo at one of her concerts on the Short n’ Sweet Tour, during her “Juno” bit; he was the crowd member arrested for being too hot at a Los Angeles stop.)

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With a background in sitcoms, plenty of experience on the live stage and a knack for penning punchy song lyrics, Carpenter is primed to let her comedic side shine Saturday night.

As musical guest she’s promoting her latest album, Man’s Best Friend, which made its debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in August.

Scroll through Carpenter’s Instagram snapshots from her SNL rehearsal week below.

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October 19, 2025 0 comments

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Pam Bondi & Kristi Noem React To ‘SNL’ Parody

by jummy84 October 12, 2025

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With two Saturday Night Live legends reuniting to give them the parody treatment this weekend, Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem have shared their reactions.

Following host Amy Poehler and special guest Tina Fey‘s cold-open impressions of the pair, they’ve since responded to the sketch, with one making light of the current militarization of Chicago and the other blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.

“Sec_Noem⁩, should we recreate this picture in Chicago? Loving Amy Poehler!” wrote Attorney General Bondi on X, sharing a screenshot of the comedians posing, with Fey’s Noem toting an assault rifle.

Homeland Security Secretary Noem commented on the sketch in a statement to Entertainment Weekly. “SNL is absolutely right — the Democrats’ shutdown does need to end!” she said.

Saturday’s cold open came after testimony took place on Capitol Hill this past week, with the former Sunshine State AG repeatedly rebuffing Democratic senators over citizen-accosting ICE and American troops in U.S. cities, Jeffrey Epstein, the indictment of ex-FBI director James Comey and the current shutdown. Or, as Poehler said in the opener, “the DOJ has many ongoing operations, and we’re moving like Kash Patel’s eyeballs very quickly in multiple directions at once.”

In one of the fastest-moving and leanest cold opens in many an SNL, Fey’s Noem exclaimed, after she tossed her machine gun aside: “I’m the rarest type of person in Washington D.C., a brunette that Donald Trump listens to.”

Harking back to Noem’s memoir referencing dog killing that likely saw ex-South Dakota governor dropped from Trump’s VP short list last year, tonight’s skit saw Fey declaring that the idea Democrats want the shutdown over “makes me laugh more than the end of Old Yeller. … Dogs don’t just get shot. Heroes shoot them.”

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