Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge hosted a typically forgettable episode of Saturday Night Live last week. Check out our review.
creator and recent Emmy winner hosted this past weekend’s episode, andmade sure to pull out what have apparently become standard sketches whenever a Brit hosts the show. If you were hoping Waller-Bridge’s sharp eye for character-based comedy would somehow rub off onThe first Brit skit was a repeat of a sketch from last season’s Claire Foy episode. It’s the one where Mikey Day plays a British soldier at the front line writing letters back home to his wife.
The other British standard was a sketch about the Royal Family. Fortunately it wasn’t a repeat of the lazy “home video” sketch the show has done about them a few times, where multiple cast members trot out their hit-or-miss accents in a sketch that’s usually aimless. This time the sketch was framed as a documentary about a scandal that rocked the family in the ‘70s, as a low-ranking member married an American who happened to be a Rudy Ray Moore parody played by Kenan Thompson.
Waller-Bridge was just a bit player in the episode’s standout sketch. Local news sketches are so common oncuts through the mass of similar concepts by focusing on the country’s current racial climate in a way that’s neither uncomfortable nor overly preachy. The local news parody is hosted by two white anchors and two black anchors, who report a series of local crimes and turn it into a contest over which race commits more of them.
The show felt a little light this week, with only six sketches, one pretape, and Weekend Update. NBC’s posted two unaired pieces from it to YouTube this week, which is one more than usual—clearly something ran long and they had to cut more than expected. That was noticeable while watching it live, and added to the general lifelessness of the episode.
’s interminable Trump impression, we got Matthew Broderick showing up as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in another pointless bit of political stunt-casting that had more than one reference to the 33-year-old movie. The cold opens have been so bad for so long that something that’s merely boring feels like an improvement, and that’s the case with this sketch.
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