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Saturday Night Live: host Rami Malek gets upstaged by 007 himself - The Guardian

Saturday Night Live: host Rami Malek gets upstaged by 007 himself - The Guardian

Oct 17, 2021 2 mins, 35 secs

He then hands the mic over to a series of speakers, including Gruden himself (James Austin Johnson), who plays innocent (“I hope you won’t judge me on one email I sent ten years ago … or the 20 emails I sent last Tuesday”); Raiders owner Mark Davis (Alex Moffat), aka, “the botched circumcision”; new chairman of women’s relations for the NFL, a cheerleader from the Washington football team ([Heidi Gardner], “I, just like my team, don’t have a name”); a new, mascot, Giuseppe, the Stinky Italian (Mikey Day); Colin Kaepernick (Chris Redd), who sarcastically wonders if anyone had recently raised warnings about racism in the NFL; and, finally, the Raiders’ new head coach, LaVar Burton, who sings everyone off with a new, football-themed rendition of the Reading Rainbow theme.

Speaking of Bond: the last episode of Saturday Night Live before the Covid-19 pandemic went into full swing saw host Daniel Craig promoting his latest (and last) entry in the 007 franchise, No Time to Die.

If (like me), you’re one of the handful of people who hasn’t seen an episode, you’ll likely by lost by the highly specific jokes and visual references (so specific that they apparently spoil the entire arc of the series), but there’s some solid laughs to be mined from it regardless – particularly Malek and Davidson’s traumatized reactions to watching their teammates get gunned down by a giant robot schoolgirl and a closing stinger aimed at the New York Jets.

Ultimately, despite Malek looking way more like Prince, the job goes to Thompson, since he’s black.

The green haired, orange skinned munchkin, who planned to discuss an upcoming worker’s strike at Wonka’s candy factory, worries what his family will think of him (“They live in Loompa Land. It’s not as progressive as here, they, like, just got Will & Grace.”), while also using his newfound freedom to unload on his idiot boss: “Point blank, the man doesn’t know how to make chocolate!

He just tumbles into the inventing room and says something like, ‘Oh, what about a gumdrop that makes children dream silly dreams?’, and it’s like, yeah, bitch, what about it.

Next up, Chris Redd joins Michael Che to address his controversial comments during his last Very Important Unimportant News segment back in February of 2020, in which he signed off by saying “Black people can’t get coronavirus!” Redd defends himself by noting that “I was just saying something crazy.

A funny, inspired send-up of psychosexual stage dramas like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf – Yang’s horrified salesman even accuses the couple of “doing a little play” at one point – this sketch unfortunately loses the thread, devolving much less enjoyable slapstick mugging during its back end.

In the final sketch of the night, Craig and Cecily Strong play a couple out on a date at a nightclub.

After a bit of a rocky start, Malek ended up acquitted himself just fine as host, although the contrast between him and the far more charismatic and comedically inclined Craig didn’t do him any favors

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