Making his 2d look within the position of President Biden, Mikey Day was once temporarily overshadowed through a sassy panda performed through Bowen Yang in a “Saturday Night Live” comic strip that parodied a presidential news conference from previous this week.
Day, who turned into the display’s newest Biden impersonator on the finish of October, needed the target audience a contented Thanksgiving and stated he’d attempt to stay issues at the rails through sticking to his teleprompter.
“I had a great meeting with President Roman numeral 11,” Day stated. “Excuse me, President Xi. This meeting was a total win. Sure, we made agreements about communications, fentanyl, climate change. But most importantly we got the thing America really needs right now: more pandas.”
After dodging news newshounds’ questions on his age and the Mexican border, Day presented Bowen Yang as Tian Tian, a large panda that Washington returned to China previous this month.
Yang was once in fact correctly costumed for the position, regardless that he blanched at being referred to as a “giant panda.” “I think I’m really more slim thick,” he stated.
Following a reporter’s query about whether or not he had preferred his time in America, Yang spoke back, “There’s so much I’m going to miss. Legal weed. Anyway.” He went on to specific fear about making pals in China now that he’s an grownup. “How do I panda-express this?” Yang stated. “I just want to eat bamboo, sneeze in a cute way and not have sex, OK?”
Another reporter posed a query to Yang as he was once munching on some aforementioned bamboo. “Sorry, bear with me,” he stated. “Being cute. But as the rare person who identifies as Black, white and Chinese, I feel like I’m in the unique position to unite many peoples of the world.”
In that sense, he stated, “I’m just like another hot Blasian icon, Tiger Woods. Except for, again, I hate sex.”
Yang instructed some other reporter that the timing was once proper for him to depart America. “If Trump gets elected in 2024,” he stated, “that would be a disaster. He said he’ll round up immigrants and put them in camps. Democracy might end. There might be a civil war.”
So would he vote for Biden?, the reporter requested. “Mmmm,” Yang spoke back warily. “Maybe.” He added: “I’m kidding. I’m a bear. I can’t vote.”
Day however attempted to make the case that he and Yang had been alike. “We’re dads,” stated Day. “We’re cute. People love sharing videos of us falling down.”
History lesson of the week
This week’s host was once the muscular film megastar Jason Momoa and as charismatic as he’s, he most likely does no longer somewhat have compatibility as a person of the early 1900s wearing a porkpie hat, as he was once solid in a single comic strip this week. He appeared extra at house, then again, dressed in a Roman centurion’s helmet and armor on this filmed phase that riffs on viral movies about males’s obsessions with historical Rome.
As the phase starts, Ego Nwodim (who has a gorgeous making a song voice, through the best way) muses melodically about her far-off husband and what deep ideas may well be distracting him from their courting. Momoa raps his resolution:
“The Roman Empire, Ancient Rome,
Five times a day, it pops into my dome.
Which reminds me, they invented the dome,
Which is one of the reasons that I think about Rome.”
(The couple additionally has a kid who raps about his fixation at the juvenile an identical of historical Rome: dinosaurs.)
Seasonal vacation comic strip of the week
Thanksgiving at all times turns out to encourage no less than one memorable “S.N.L.” comic strip each and every season, whether or not it’s a phase about Ana Gasteyer playing Martha Stewart or a feuding family united by the Adele song “Hello.”
That annual custom is proudly upheld this yr through “The Hudson News Thanksgiving Week Airport Parade,” a cut-rate competition celebrating the determined characters who will all to find themselves looking to fly house within the days forward. Set at Gate 78 of Terminal C at Newark airport (“Everybody’s third choice”), the members come with a pair on their ultimate Thanksgiving shuttle in combination (Day and Heidi Gardner); a girl who took her Ambien a bit too early (Molly Kearney); and Chloe Fineman as a girl with carrier animals she obviously doesn’t want.
Explaining that she carries 3 canines to regard her rosacea, eczema and anxiousness, Fineman is requested why she has anxiousness. She in fact replies, “I’m traveling with three dogs!”
Weekend Update jokes of the week
Over on the Weekend Update table, the anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che persevered to riff on President Biden’s news convention, his re-election efforts and Representative George Santos, who was once the topic of a scathing House Ethics Committee file.
Possible George Santos send-off of the week
Yang’s last alternatives to play Santos on “S.N.L.” are unquestionably dwindling because the congressman faces some other vote to expel him from the House. If this look on Weekend Update was once Yang’s swan track within the position, he gave it his all as he defined — in standard over-the-top type — why he spent marketing campaign donations on Botox remedies and OnlyFans content material.
“Isn’t Congress kind of like OnlyFans anyway?” Yang stated. “People paying you to do nasty things on a sad, bad livestream?” He additionally parried Jost’s questions on his sexuality through claiming that he invented being homosexual. As Yang defined, “I was the one at Stonewall who said, ‘Here’s an idea: You guys should kiss.’”
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!