Eilish's performance of “Happier Than Ever” was the best musical number of the season to date
All to say there was true cheer to the evening, even if several of the sketches felt undercooked or overly chaotic. The Christmas cards on the fridge bit didn’t ever catch flame; the Tik Tok parody was depressingly on point; the freeform hip hop nativity rehearsal was a mess, though yes please toin a sparkly TJ Maxx jacket and black bike shorts dancing on a candy cane stripper pole.
Dismukes was put to better work during Weekend Update, with his face painted up like a birthday party tiger, being told by an octopus and a dog who refused to face the audience that he had seven days to live. Andwas given her first real chance to shine in her description of family Christmas. Describing forhow she’d ensure her future daughter would be gay, she said “Age one to five, my baby going to wear nothing but Jordans, a diaper, gold chains, and a sports bra.
The best sketch of the night was a riff on those holiday ads that celebrate some magnanimous person reaching out to her less fortunate fellow man. Here, Eilish is struck by McKinnon’s lonely old woman sitting painfully alone in an opposite apartment window and invites her to join her family for Christmas dinner. “Are there any Black people there?” McKinnon’s doleful neighbor writes in response. “Jews?” She wonders if she can bring her psychotic looking son, played by, along.
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