Despite Kate McKinnon’s best efforts as Jeff Sessions and Kellyanne Conway, the show delivered a dud.
The actress scored with jokes about her long career of playing nurses and the inevitableHidden Fencesreference.
“I get it, there were three black movies at the Oscars this year,” she said.
Credit: Will Heath/NBC
“And that’s a lot for America.”
Because that was gold and so much better than a full sketch on the infamous photo would have been.
Unfortunately, that says a lot about the strength of the episode’s sketches.
By default, I think it’s the cold open, almost solely on the pure greatness of McKinnon.
The range that McKinnon continues to show, going from Hillary Clinton to Conway to Sessions, is astounding.
Every time I thought I had finally settled on one, they’d play “Mambo No.
5,” and I’d realize that any sketch featuring Lou Bega can’t be all bad.
So instead, let’s go with whatever was happening with Bennett here.
The other actors might have broke, but the audience was dead straight.
“Can I ask you a question since we both love Hillary?”
asks Mikey Day’s character.
“Would you want to look at my balls?”
“He’s like that crazy dude on the subway, yelling, ‘They’re tapping my phone.
I can lick my own elbow.'”
Best Musical Moment: “Pure Comedy”
Who is Father John Misty?
That was the question I asked myself before this episode.
I mean, look at the moves he makes in this performance.
Move over,Elaine Benes!
