It had to be the Academy Awards that were on fire tonight SNL cold open right? But did it have to be this rotting opening?
“Last year’s Oscars hit it, it was great, I mean bad, so bad,” Heidi Gardner said as “Maria Menounos or Kit Hoover, they didn’t tell me which” in the opening minutes of NBC’s late-night show. “To make sure nothing crazy happens, the academy hired a new head of security this year: the notoriously quiet and sensible person Mike Tyson,” she says of Kenan Thompson who came to the big screen as a former heavyweight champion .
At this point, Saturday night live should have realized that less is more. But the show wanted more.
“I have to warn you, the following things are going to upset me,” Tyson told Gardner of Thompson Access to Hollywood Hostess and her partner Mario Lopez (played by Marcello Hernandez). “Applause, statues of golden people and shows that last more than three hours and also hear the phrase ‘the magic of the movies,'” the fictional Tyson continued, referring to Oscar host Jimmy Kimmel, who with a ” Flamethrower” retrofitted as a safety measure.
“Seriously, how awesome is that?” exclaimed actress Chloe Fineman as Jamie Lee Curtis next in the longer-than-usual sketch. Was the fictional version of the Everything, everywhere, all at once Star and Best Supporting Actress nomination completely rhetorical? Funnily enough, a moderately cold on-screen opening by Draft Kings teased bets on “George Santos impersonating Tom Cruise,” “Chris Rock,” showing up, and the billion-to-one odds of “Harvey Weinstein meets Kanye West known,” which mocked how good this Oscar-centric sketch could have been.
Even the great Bowen Yang has emerged as a congressman who disputes the truth and asserts it Top Gun: Maverick “Thomas Q Cruise” star wasn’t the savior he was supposed to be. “Excuse me now, I have to be everywhere immediately” was an understatement.
Dive into the Oscars on Sunday, plus more episodes of the Dominion Voting System defamation case against Fox News and the self-cannibalism the 2024 GOP presidential nomination race is already gearing up for, the current one SNL There was no shortage of satire this week. A new document and prosecution site in the Dominion vs. The FNC legal war of the past few days could have been easily and blatantly fought Saturday night live with another cold open mockery from Fox News, like the week before.
But after the blow that was heard around the world when Will Smith was rocked live on stage for mocking his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, this week’s cold opener had to be a warm version of the 95.e Oscars and the banality of pre-ceremony red carpet shows.
But later in the cold ruined with comparisons between the 95the Academy Awards and “how racist and sexist your grandfather was at 95,” we should have seen where this was going from the start — and it wasn’t right.
“I think everybody in Hollywood has diabetes,” Gardner joked at the start of the cold, with a lame dig at Tineseltown’s new weight-loss love affair with the drug Ozempic. “We are so excited that we stood in front of the Dolby Theater for almost 153 hours,” added Lopez von Hernandez. “But it’s worth asking Angela Bassett if she really did.”
Yes.
Of Wednesday With Jenna Ortega as host and The 1975 as musical guest, the 15th episode of the 48th season takes place tonight SNL in the final straight for this year. In what may be EP Lorne Michaels’ last tenure at the helm, NBC’s late night is also facing a very strange work stoppage as the show’s post-production editors may strike on April 1st. While the rest of Hollywood is gearing up for the March 20 WGA meeting with the studios for likely contentious negotiations over a new three-year deal, the Editors Guild is having another virtual chat with representatives from NBCUniversal on March 13.
The 95the The Academy Awards begin Sunday at 8pm ET/5pm PT on ABC, with Kimmel returning for a third year as host. And they actually promised there would be no beatings — at least not literally this year.
Source: Deadline
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