For its Mother's Day episode, SNL's “Saturday Night Live” welcomed a “mother” as its host.
Sure, she's an actual mother of four children herself, but Maya Rudolph, who was a cast member on SNL from 2000 to 2007, is also a “mom.” She is like a legendary woman who kills and serves people.
“You were the first to destroy the house, Queen of Boots!” Bowen Yang says. Rudolph agreed and began singing, “I am your mother.”
“Not now, kid. Mother's raising kids,” she told Punky Johnson, adding, “It's a message from a gay man. Monologue, it's giving a body dee dee o dee.” Ta.
This is Rudolph's third time hosting SNL, with her last appearance being in 2021. Her final night also featured musical guest Vampire Weekend.
The indie rock band from New York released their fifth studio album, “Only God Was Above Us,” last month. The band, led by lead singer Ezra Koenig, has won two Grammy Awards and been nominated four times.
cold open
Instead of a traditional cold open, the cast brought out their mothers to tell some jokes. But Kenan Thompson's mother was looking forward to this week's regular cold open to see who would face Stormy Daniels. Andrew Dismukes' mother brought a photo of her baby, and Chloe Fineman's mother prepared some jokes to taunt Tom Brady. Molly Carney and her mother appear in bald caps, and Ego Nwodim's mother has to find and thank Lorne Michaels. Without him, who would Nwodim be? Is he perhaps a successful doctor?
monologue
Maya Rudolph, a mother of four herself, is excited to be returning to SNL. Bowen Yang points out that she is more than just a mother. You were the first to destroy the house, Queen of Boots! ” cue a musical number with Thompson serving as his MC. “Ladies and gentlemen, gays and gays, I give you the mother of the Rockefellers!'' Rudolph, dressed in a body suit and with a crew of backup dancers, danced in a ballroom style. During her part, she sings about various movies and SNL skits to prove that she's a “mother.”
beyonce hot ones 2
Beyoncé returned to Hot Ones with Shaun Evans after a disastrous struggle with the Sauce three years ago. However, she returned for her second try. “This is the only thing I've tried that didn't kill me, and it bothered both me and my husband. My husband is Jay-Z.” But it works as expected. “I'm going to start speaking in tongues,” she said after eating some particularly spicy chicken wings, and asked her assistant, Thompson, if he could trade her bones for unburnt ones. “Why would the only thing Beyoncé can’t do be this junky hot wing show?”
Do not destroy — Explore page
The guys in Please Don't Destroy are out with their girlfriends and decide to turn their Instagram explore pages into a fun game of showing off to each other. But the men's algorithm is nothing more than a video of Unisa Confidence (Rudolph), an “online girlfriend for young men with self-esteem issues.”
PSA teacher
It's almost the end of the school year, but teachers are giving the kids a PSA that says, “Everyone wins.” Teachers are giving up because the coronavirus has broken things beyond repair. Rudolph's students said her neck was “funky,” and James Austin Johnson said he recently caught the kids cooking a rotisserie chicken over the urinal. “From all the teachers to the rude, clingy, illiterate kids, we give up.”
british caveman
Nat Geo is airing a special called “British Cavemen.” Because cavemen roamed all over the planet and even in unexpected places. The cavemen speak gibberish that bears a striking resemblance to modern British accents, and one of them even utters the first modern phrase, “Bloody, innit?!” while being roasted on fire. .
vampire weekend
Vampire Weekend performed “Generation X Cops” and “Capricorn” from their latest album, “Only God Was Above Us.”
weekend update
Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's top stories, including Stormy Daniels' court testimony, Northern Lights, RFK Jr.'s brainworm, the new Lord of the Rings movies, the Met Gala, and more. Heidi Gardner appears as “a woman who insists she's not mad,” and Sarah Sherman is, you guessed it, RFK Jr.'s brainworm.
coffee commercial
Rudolph is a famous diva-like actress who is filming a commercial for Tip Top Coffee. She loves this product, but she's never even had coffee before. She said, “The doctor said, 'Don't do it.'” As the recording progressed, she became more and more erratic, forcing staff to leave and drinking too much coffee.
Nurse's gratitude
Today is Nurse Appreciation Week, so nurses are sharing what they love about their jobs. Some people love watching babies be born or seeing patients overcome challenges. However, the two nurses (Nwodim and Rudolph) are not so excited. “Ninety percent of my job is cleaning up mischief from grown men,” Nwodim says. “Listen, if you can do another job, do it.”
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