Nikki Glaser has become a big name in stand-up comedy after her fiery performance on The Roast of Tom Brady and her hit comedy show Someday You Will Die made a big splash last year. But did that success carry over to her debut as a host on Saturday Night Live?
Nikki Glaser Comedic Side in Sketches:
Unsurprisingly, Nikki Glaser did quite well — especially since her greatest strength for this kind of gig is her sharp comedic timing and her fearless approach to pushing the boundaries of taste. That makes her a perfect fit for the current version of SNL, which usually includes at least one raunchy, scatological sketch and plenty of Weekend Update jokes that fall into the categories of either just dirty enough or way too much.
In addition to her powerful monologue, Nikki Glaser showed her comedic side in sketches about a family getting too close during karaoke, a fake ad about grown men who are crazy about life-sized American Girl dolls, and a strange musical number in which Glaser and Sarah Sherman are sucked into a mechanical bull.
These sketches — along with a funny ad spoof for a Jennifer Hudson “Spirit Tunnel” drug and another parody ad about children’s book characters — played perfectly to Nikki Glaser’s comedic strengths and were executed brilliantly.
The best thing about the sketch about a plane that was late and a chatty pilot (played by James Austin Johnson) was how well Johnson could imitate airline intercom talk.
Less successful were a confused mashup called Beauty and MrBeast (a spoof about the famous YouTuber) and a sorority sketch in which Mikey Day appeared as a creepy intruder wearing a terrible disguise.
Nikki Glaser’s lengthy monologue may not have been a perfect fit for the SNL stage, but her sketch performances were spot-on.
Nikki Glaser’s lengthy harangue may not have been a perfect fit for the SNL stage, but her sketch performances were spot- on.
Like numerous stand- up jesters who host the show, her harangue was basically a condensed interpretation of her regular act. It included bits about race, politics, coitus, and — in one uncomfortably funny member — the idea of someone suddenly realizing they might be a pedophile(not Glaser herself, but “ perhaps someone ”).
She opened by calling New York City Epstein’s original islet. also joked about white women spray- tanning as artistic appropriation, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I’m not a health expert but neither is he dating a short joe with wrathfulness issues, and those PSA adverts about mortal trafficking in public bathrooms.
Nikki Glaser also fooled that when she was 20, her biggest fear was “ old- fashioned rape. ” The jokes came presto and hard — just the kind of humor Nikki Glaser’s suckers anticipate but a many punchlines did n’t land relatively as well on SNL’s stage as they do in her repasts or stand- up specials.
One particularly funny marketable parody took end at The Jennifer Hudson Show’s hand bit where guests dance down a hallway while the staff cheers them on. The squib shows Glaser, playing herself, suffering from extreme anxiety about her dancing chops. Calling herself an “ awkward white woman, ” she jokes that her bad cotillion moves could end her career. “ I indeed tried to shake my hips, ” she laments. “ But I do n’t have any! ” Thankfully, there’s a fake drug called Hudsassilin, which makes you so sick that the celebrity you’re upset about meeting has to cancel their appearance. The announcement humorously asks, “ What’s the volition? Just loosen up and have fun? ”
With all the recent airline detainments and cancellations, another topical sketch centered on a couple( Sarah Sherman and Andrew Dismukes) staying on the runway while their airman Johnson announces yet another detention — and shares particular updates about a woman he met on a courting app.
The sketch really clicked thanks to Johnson’s ridiculous delivery as the airman, Glaser’s impeccably bothered performance as the flight attendant, and the silent but suggestive responses from the passengers( Kenan Thompson and Bowen Yang) mooting whether to get involved.
This week’s Weekend Update had just one guest spot — Pete Davidson, who jokingly checked in about the Staten Island Ferry he and Colin Jost bought a many times agone . Commonly, it was a megahit. Davidson substantiated a New York Times composition about their floundering business adventure but fooled, “ I ca n’t go$ 5 for the paywall when I’ve got a baby on the way. He promised to give parenthood “ all the energy I noway gave this show. ”
Davidson said his new plan for the ferry is to turn it into a floating megacity called New Staten Island, featuring everything that makes Staten Island great — “ pizza, ” which he admits is principally the only thing. He could n’t repel taking a poke at his old master, closing with If Lorne Michaels tutored us anything, it’s noway give up — indeed when everyone says your time is over and Tina Fey is ready to take over.