While a John Mulaney/David Byrne episode of “SNL” should’ve been an immediate home run, honestly, it only was on Byrne’s end. Mulaney was working at the network when Dave Chappelle abruptly left the network and left to South Africa.

But still… strange.“So I put in the work, became less interesting, and now they’re gonna put me on the cover of ‘SNL’ Magazine.”.“Kyle’s Transformation” is a Kyle Mooney sketch that surprisingly doesn’t have Mulaney play his dad, so it could’ve gone anywhere. After graduating from Georgetown in 2004, Mulaney moved to New York City with ambitions of a career in comedy, and was hired as an office assistant at Comedy Central. John Mulaney returns to host Saturday Night Live on February 29, 2020 with musical guest David Byrne.SATURDAYS | 11:30ET 10:30CT 9:30MT 8:30PT,Tags: SNL, Saturday Night Live, John Mulaney, david byrne,Weekend Update Rewind: Olya Povlatsky (Part 2 of 2),Weekend Update Rewind: Olya Povlatsky (Part 1 of 2),Weekend Update Rewind: Angel (Every Boxer’s Girlfriend),SNL Stories from the Show: Unreleased (Eddie Murphy, John Mulaney and More),Weekend Update Home Edition: Trump’s Valet Tests Positive for Coronavirus,Weekend Update Home Edition: Tina Fey on Mother’s Day,Weekend Update Home Edition: Panda Express & Tom Cruise in Space,What's Wrong with This Picture: Mother’s Day Edition,Weekend Update Home Edition: Jeanine Pirro on Coronavirus Lockdown Protests,Boyz II Men ft. Babyface: A Song for Mama (At Home),This Day in SNL History: Target Lady and “Classic Peg”,SNL Gets Ready for the At Home Season Finale,Weekend Update Rewind: Drunk Uncle (Part 2 of 2),Weekend Update Rewind: Drunk Uncle (Part 1 of 2),SNL Commercial Parodies: Feminine Products,Weekend Update Home Edition: Trump Suggests Injecting Disinfectant,Weekend Update Home Edition: Banksy Makes Bathroom Art,Weekend Update Home Edition: Pete Davidson on Hooking Up During Quarantine,Weekend Update Rewind: Garth and Kat (Part 3 of 3),Weekend Update Rewind: Garth and Kat (Part 2 of 3),Weekend Update Rewind: Garth and Kat (Part 1 of 3),Weekend Update Rewind: David "Big Papi" Ortiz (Part 2 of 2),Weekend Update Rewind: David "Big Papi" Ortiz (Part 1 of 2),Coldplay's Chris Martin: Shelter from the Storm (At Home),Weekend Update: President Trump Gives Coronavirus Update,Weekend Update: New Twinkies Cereal and Joe Exotic Movie,We and our partners use cookies on this site to improve our service, perform analytics, personalize advertising, measure advertising performance, and remember website preferences.
Having Mulaney play Biden was a strange choice, but maybe the show is turning this into a “guess who’ll play Biden THIS week” game that you can bet on through Draft Kings.
38 Sketches. Hal Willner Tribute.

The best sketches this week did what,Until the Democratic presidential candidate field winnows itself down, the blueprint is clear: Get as many celebrities and alums to play politicians as possible in an extremely long cold open that gives them all at least 30 seconds to shine. “SNL” is a 40-plus-year-old comedy institution, but a sketch like this would not suggest that at all. See our,Read a limited number of articles each month,You consent to the use of cookies and tracking by us and third parties to provide you with personalized ads,Unlimited access to washingtonpost.com on any device,Unlimited access to all Washington Post apps,No on-site advertising or third-party ad tracking. You know, on top of the Nazi thing.Honestly, it’s a… strange sketch about “statutory” (the sketch’s world), which then opens up another can of worms about Maria’s (played by McKinnon) age, as she sings “I’m old enough, but it’s still kind of dicey” to close out the sketch. We rely on readers like you to uphold a free press.The new European data protection law requires us to inform you of the following before you use our website:This content is currently not available in your region.Please enable cookies on your web browser in order to continue.We use cookies and other technologies to customize your experience, perform analytics and deliver personalized advertising on our sites, apps and newsletters and across the Internet based on your interests.

Not just the dated nature of the “Uncle Meme” sketch but the existence of sketches like “Sound of Music: Rolf & Liesl,” “The Admiral,” and even “Jackie Robinson” It would be one thing if the point were Mulaney’s general “Classic Hollywood” feel, but that only even comes into play in “Sound of Music: Rolf and Liesl.”,It’s not a component of “The Admiral” as much as it is for the actual cast members in the sketch — and again, sorry, but John Mulaney is not a twink — or in “Jackie Robinson,” where Mulaney is simply a supporting character to Kenan Thompson’s amusing Terence Washington. If you watch early footage of both, you’ll see someone with innate gifts but a slight lack of confidence in delivering them. A recap and ranking of Saturday … He has been married to Annamarie Tendler since July 5, 2014.