Kate McKinnon got here again to Saturday Night Live to host for the primary time since her exit as a solid member — and she wasn’t the one one to return to Studio 8H.
“The best part of coming back here is definitely running into old friends,” McKinnon, 39, mentioned in the course of her opening monologue on Saturday, December 16. “Maya [Rudolph and] Kristen [Wiig]! Wow, what are you doing here?”
Former solid members Rudolph, 51, and Wiig, 50, wearing matching sparkly clothes, quipped that they “were just walking by” the set throughout the broadcast.
“It’s so good to see you and it’s so great to be back. [We have] so many memories,” Wiig chimed in. “You know, I looked myself up on Wikipedia the other day, as I do every day, and it said I was in over 38,000 sketches here.”
McKinnon shortly identified that Wikipedia “isn’t the most reliable” for sure details, however Wiig asserted that it was appropriate since her entry famous that she has 12 Grammy wins and is courting NFL star Travis Kelce. (Wiig was seemingly referencing Taylor Swift, whom she beforehand spoofed on SNL. Kelce, 34, has been courting Swift, additionally 34, since this summer time, a number of months earlier than they made cameos on the SNL season 49 premiere in October.)
Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon and Kristen Wiig on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ NBC
Later within the episode, McKinnon enlisted Wiig and Rudolph for a number of musical sketches. The trio (and present solid member Bowen Yang) portrayed the members of ABBA and sang rejected vacation songs. In a second skit, McKinnon, Wiig and Rudolph crooned about engaged on a tampon farm alongside actress Paula Pell.
McKinnon joined the SNL solid in 2012 and went on to be nominated for 10 Emmy Awards for the present, profitable Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2016 and 2017. She departed in May 2022 on the conclusion of season 47. Several different longtime solid members — together with Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant, Alex Moffat, Kyle Mooney, Chris Redd and Melissa Villaseñor — left the collection on the identical time, resulting in a artistic reset.
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In her farewell sketch, McKinnon portrayed certainly one of her recurring characters, alien abductee Colleen Rafferty, as she mentioned goodbye to the present. “Well, Earth, I love you, thanks for letting me stay awhile,” she mentioned within the chilly open. “Live from New York, it’s Saturday night!”
McKinnon later acquired candid about why she determined to depart SNL. “I thought about it for a very long time and it was very, very hard,” she defined on Live With Kelly and Ryan in July 2022. “All I ever wanted to do in my whole life was be on Saturday Night Live. And so, I did, I loved it, I had the best decade and then I was just, like, my body was tired, and I felt like it was time.”
While the Barbie star wasn’t certain on the time if she’d maintain watching SNL, she was wanting to return as host on Saturday. It was her first time emceeing the range present.
Saturday’s episode additionally featured musical performances by Billie Eilish. The 21-year-old singer even carried out “What I Was Made For?” from the Barbie soundtrack after an introduction by McKinnon (who performed Weird Barbie) and director Greta Gerwig.
Saturday Night Live airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET.
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