Sydney Sweeney is a game Saturday Night Live host, but sketch comedy just isn’t her thing this early in her career.
hosting gig, I’m going to have to go ahead and agree. The episode certainly gave the game Sweeney plenty of airtime to prove herself, but overall, the actor came off as one of those hosts who was capable at everything and excellent in nothing. Sweeney took a shot at her recent mega-flopcan’t find a comedy diamond amongst the stretches of beautiful movie stars it has to choose from.
And let’s revisit commitment. The wedding sketch is the sort of loud, brash character bit the show traditionally loves, giving as it does cast members an opportunity to go big with their favorite ethnic/cultural stereotype. Here, Sweeney and Sarah Sherman are a pair of New York-ish makeup artists whose pre-wedding efforts on behalf of blushing bride Heidi Gardner are put on the back burner by a note from the groom stating that the wedding is off.
Sticking to film, the Please Don’t Destroy Guys’ stuff hasn’t been as fresh this year as it was in their debut season, I’m sad to say. Maybe it’s just that—backstage outcasts schtick doesn’t play as well. Regardless, this was another good, not great outing as the visiting Sweeney stumbles across the guys mourning the death of a friend and unwisely assumes they’re doing a bit just because the deceased name turns out to have been Reverend Buttcheek P.
The guys are good at being funny. They’re not so good at playing fake news anchors, which is, you know, sort of their job. Their only job, I’d add. I see comments from those who claim that Update is their favorite part ofthese days, and, sure, some nights, it’s the only reliable oasis of laughs going. The thing is, it’sfunny. That sounds petty, but Update has, for all its many precipitous ups and downs, at least been the place where the show has let its hair down, politically speaking.
Tonight’s cold open asserts that Joe Biden is old. With various real-life Democratic talking heads impersonated as assuring the TV world that President Biden “behind closed doors” is alert, ready, and competent, the show-opener muddles along without a single identifiable wrinkle or additional shading.
Heidi and Ego felt like the most important players in the mix tonight, again even if nothing they got to do was truly memorable.
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