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Jack Black hosts Saturday evening live for the fifth time this week in a star-studded episode.
Black returns to the sketch comedy show to host again. And his monologue was filled with surprise appearances from other quintuples Saturday evening live hosts such as Melissa McCarthy, Jonah Hill and Candice Bergen. The group is joined by former actress Tina Fey and this week’s episode’s musical guest, Jack White.
As usual, there were many highlights and a few failures. Check out the best and worst of the latest episode of SNL.
SNL musical monologue by Jack Black
Black came back to Saturday evening live and joined the show’s Five-Timer Club during his monologue. Hill surprised the actor on stage, leading him to the iconic club where Fey, Bergen, McCarthy and White were located. To the cheers of the audience, Black took center stage and performed “Seven Nations Army” with White. The combination of returning cast members, celebrity cameos and an epic number made Black’s monologue one of the highlights of the evening.
Professor Snape Makes Some Positive Points in Weekend Update
Professor Snape (Kam Patterson) joins Colin Jost and Michael Che during the show’s iconic Weekend Update segment. As Jost discussed the mixed reactions to the recent post HBO trailer Harry Potter seriesSnape decided to join the conversation and pointed out how racist the franchise was.
While it was played for laughs, SNL Snape’s iteration made some good points about the JK Rowling’s series is a little tone deaf when it came to people of color. And, after Patterson’s comments, Jost joked that he had never thought of the wizarding world or the controversial author as problematic until that very moment.
SNL gets emotional with a country song
Black, James Austin Johnson and Andrew Dismukes delivered a remarkable musical sketch. The trio performed a country ballad. While Black and Johnson sang sentimental messages they couldn’t remember, Dismukes sang shout-outs at his son when he tried to offer him some words of wisdom.
Saturday Night Live’s flops of the week
SNL husbands sing
A group of husbands (Black, Dismukes, Johnson, Kenan Thompson and Tommy Brennan) are stuck together in a living room while their wives hang out in the kitchen. What started as pure awkwardness somehow turned into a Kansas cover.Carry on, wayward sonAlthough the segment was well written and the performances were excellent, it still fell flat. Despite the musical number, the sketch did not hold up against the other sketches of the evening.
Saturday evening live airs every Saturday at 11:30 p.m. ET and 8:30 p.m. PT on NBC.
- Release date
- October 11, 1975
- Network
- BNC
- Showrunner
- Lorne Michaels
- Directors
- Dave Wilson, Don Roy King, Liz Patrick, Andy Warhol, Linda Lee Cadwell, Matthew Meshekoff, Paul Miller, Robert Altman, Robert Smigel
- Writers
- Will Forte, Bill HaderTina Fey, Kristen Wiig, Chris ParnellAsa Taccone, John Lutz, Tom Schiller, Simon Rich, Michael Patrick O’Brien, Nicki MinajHerbert Sargent, Matt Piedmont, John Solomon, Chris Kelly, Alan Zweibel, Kent Sublette, Ari Katcher, Marika Sawyer, Sarah Schnedier, Scott Jung, Justin Franks, Jerrod Bettis, Rhiannon Bryan