If a whole Oscars ceremony filled with Barbenheimer jokes and a killer Ryan Gosling efficiency of “I’m Simply Ken” didn’t offer you ample alternative to say goodbye to the pop cultural phenomenon of “Barbie,” “Saturday Evening Stay” is right here to just remember to’ve had Kenough.
Gosling, who hosted “S.N.L.” this weekend with the musical visitor Chris Stapleton, started his monologue by vowing that he was there to advertise his coming film “The Fall Man.”
“So don’t fear, I’m not going to make any jokes about Ken,” he mentioned. “As a result of it’s not humorous. Ken and I, we needed to break up. We went too deep and it’s over. So I’m not going to speak about it.”
Gosling paused and added, “I really am going to speak about it slightly bit. I’ve to, as a result of whenever you play a personality that arduous, that lengthy, letting go simply seems like a breakup. And for processing a breakup, there’s actually just one factor that may assist: the music of the good Taylor Swift.”
Taking a seat at a piano, Gosling started to sing a variation on Swift’s “All Too Nicely” that started like this:
I shredded Venice Seashore, it’s true.
My garments had been tight,
However one thing about that spandex felt so proper.
I left my Rollerblades in that massive pink home,
However I’ve nonetheless obtained that fur coat and I’ll put on it proper now.
As Gosling placed on his well-known furs, he was joined onstage by Emily Blunt, his “Fall Man” co-star, who chided him for persevering with to sing about “Barbie.” “You’re Kenning proper, and I hate that it’s even a verb,” she mentioned.
Gosling reminded her that, she, too, had starred in one other hit film from the summer season of 2023, “Oppenheimer,” wherein she performed the title character’s spouse Kitty.
“I do know it was an inferior film …” Gosling started to say.
“It wasn’t,” Blunt mentioned. “We, like, gained every little thing.”
“However did you win folks’s hearts?” he requested.
They concluded the monologue by buying and selling strains on a verse that ran, partially:
[together] We had been Kitty and Ken,
[Blunt] and I want you possibly can have seen us.
[Gosling] You had been loyal to the tip,
[Blunt] And your man had no penis.
Nation music video of the week
The “girl will get revenge on her dishonest man” track is a longstanding class in nation music, one which will get a welcome replace right here with assists from Stapleton and, particularly, from Chloe Troast.
The track’s title, “Get That Boy Again,” isn’t her expression of her want to reunite with a seemingly untrue boyfriend (Stapleton) — it’s a warning about her comically byzantine schemes for payback, like camouflaging herself to mix in with the bed room wallpaper so she will be able to freak out his mom (Heidi Gardner). You’ll chortle and then you definitely’ll examine to verify nobody’s hiding in your bed room both.
Self-amused sketches of the week
Given the present state of, properly, every little thing, it’s comprehensible that “S.N.L.” prevented a topical opening this week. As a substitute it started the present with a brand new installment of a long-running sketch franchise about victims of alien abduction.
Gosling has appeared on this section earlier than, however it’s actually a highlight for the “S.N.L.” alumnus and “Barbie” co-star Kate McKinnon (who returned this week to seem within the sketch) to get her fellow performers to chortle on digital camera — a gentle sketch comedy fake pas generally known as breaking.
For a extra fulsome demonstration of the phenomenon, you may confer with this sketch from later within the night, wherein Gardner just about loses it on the sight of Gosling and Mikey Day taking part in two viewers members at a TV debate who simply occur to seem like Beavis and Butt-Head. She would possibly nonetheless be laughing about it now.
Weekend Replace jokes of the week
Over on the Weekend Replace desk, the anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che riffed on the reinstatement of an 160-year-old abortion regulation in Arizona.
Jost started:
The Arizona Supreme Courtroom has reinstated a regulation from 1864 banning medical doctors from performing abortions. Now, reinstating legal guidelines from 1864 isn’t the worst factor for me, as a result of I’m a white landowner. And a proud Freemason. But it surely’s in all probability not nice to undertake well being care guidelines from a time the place the one two issues medical doctors prescribed had been prayer and cocaine. Saturday and Sunday. Again then if you happen to didn’t wish to preserve your child, your solely possibility was to offer it to Rumpelstiltskin. President Biden criticized the abortion regulation, calling it merciless, which is identical factor Biden mentioned when he voted towards it in 1864.
Che continued:
This week Donald Trump mentioned that he helps abortion legal guidelines being determined by the states as an alternative of the federal authorities. However why cease there? Why not go even smaller and go away it as much as the counties, or town? And even higher, take the federal government out of it utterly and go away the selection about what ladies can do with their our bodies to the one that is aware of what they’ll do with them one of the best: their husbands.
And the place would Weekend Replace be with no remaining farewell to O.J. Simpson? As Che joked: “O.J. Simpson died this week on the age of 76 after a battle with prostate most cancers that was planted on him by the L.A.P.D.”
Weekend Replace cameo of the week
No matter different accomplishments await Caitlin Clark in her basketball profession, she has now gotten to dunk on Michael Che.
After Che learn a joke about Clark, the College of Iowa star who’s coming into the W.N.B.A. draft this week — he mentioned the college would have “her jersey retired and changed with an apron” — she appeared alongside him on the Weekend Replace desk. After Jost performed clips of previous jokes that Che had made about ladies’s basketball, Clark made Che learn a few new jokes about himself. (For instance: “A reminder that Indiana Fever is a W.N.B.A. group and never what Michael Che gave to dozens of girls at Purdue College.”) Clark concluded by giving Che a memento that she had autographed for him: an apron.
