In the nearly 30 years she’s walked this earth, Selena Gomez has lived many lives: pre-tween friend to a large purple dinosaur; Disney sitcom witch; pop star; amateur chef. And now there’s a large segment of her fandom—let’s call them baby boomers—who have only ever known her as the adorable young neighbor to a couple of quirky older New Yorkers (played by Steve Martin and Martin Short) in the Hulu sitcom Only Murders In The Building. Just the very hippest of those will have stayed up to watch Gomez make her début last night as the host of Saturday Night Live, but it was kind of Gomez to use her opening monologue not just to shout out her SNL-veteran co-stars, but to walk through some of her many pre-Only Murders credits.
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“Did you know that cutie from the building murders show used to be on Sesame Street?” these fans will ask their grandchildren at Father’s Day brunch. Close enough!
Martin did not content himself with a mere mention in Gomez’s episode: he also makes a key cameo in a filmed segment, “American Inventor.” Gomez hosts a profile of Arthur Gizmo (Martin), the innovative engineer behind the whoopee cushion. Arthur has the idea of a device that would make a funny sound when an unfortunate dupe sat on it, but what would the funniest sound possibly be? Inspiration strikes when Arthur meets Dina Beans (Aidy Bryant), a young woman who passes gas every time she sits. Watch the segment to find out all the other novelties Dina leads Arthur to create when he takes her as his muse.
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Body humor also animates a sketch about A Storm Within, a new play from an acclaimed Irish playwright. Perhaps you’ve read recent real-life reports about prurient audience members sneaking creep shots of Jesse Williams in his nude scene in the Broadway play Take Me Out? Well, there’s also a penis in A Storm Within, but it doesn’t appear until Act II, so attendees may forget about it amid the disastrous production: the whole cast has Covid; the stage manager (Kenan Thompson) decided not to cancel so that he could avoid the husband he’s fighting with; none of the understudies is off-book; their grasp of their characters’ Irish accents range from “loose” to “non-existent.”
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Gomez is gamely goofy in A Storm Within, as demanded by the premise—earlier in the episode, “A Peek At Pico” demonstrates that she can do comedy in accents other than her own.
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But her funniest moments come in pre-taped bits. First up is a new take on Old Enough, the Japanese reality show that follows real toddlers as they embark upon very grown-up errands, alone, out in the world. The real show (now streaming on Netflix) may convince you that preschool-aged children are perfectly capable of running out to the store for a few groceries, but Old Enough: Longterm Boyfriends will only confirm how helpless millennial men are when they’ve become dependent on their girlfriends’ general life competence. Kelsey (Gomez) gently asks Matt (Mikey Day) to get her a particular brand of eyeliner and two shallots from the deli; can Matt get through it without a breakdown in Sephora?
In a later filmed segment, Gomez and Chris Redd play a couple sitting down to a movie when suddenly Redd decides he needs to pick up paper towels right now. Gomez tries not to worry, but then a tiny red devil (Punkie Johnson) appears on her shoulder to stoke her suspicions about Redd, singing “She At That Bitch House” and methodically walking her through all the steps she needs to take to snoop on his online activities. When Redd catches Gomez getting out of hand and gets a visit from his own devil…well, you didn’t think they’d only use Post Malone as a musical guest, did you?
When I recapped Jonathan Majors’s first SNL hosting gig back in November, the standout sketch did not include him at all: it was a Weekend Update segment in which new cast member Sarah Sherman used her camera time to attack Update co-host and SNL head writer Colin Jost. So I was absolutely delighted not only to see Sherman return to Update as herself, but also to re-roast Jost. She singles out Michael Che for compliments, giving none to Jost. When called on it, she essentially tells Jost to stop talking. And the backstage tour that is the ostensible purpose of the segment focuses almost almost exclusively on Jost’s dressing room. Come for the digs at Jost’s million self-affirming mirror Post-Its; stay for…well, you’ll see.
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