Saturday Evening Live’s last episode of 2023 included a number of alums of the illustration funny program.
Not just did Kate McKinnon, that left the program in 2015, go back to host, however fellow alums Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph likewise made an unique look throughout her talk.
As McKinnon required to the Workshop 8H phase, she began by stating it was odd to find back to her “old job” and do the talk: “I don’t really like to talk in my own voice. That’s kind of why I got into this racket in the first place.”
The comic continued to quip that she left SNL since “my skin was reacting poorly to the prosthetics” from all the personalities she repeated one decade.
“I’ve never been myself in a monologue before,” she stated, including that she typically plays “the role of freak next to hot person” throughout previous talks with various other hosts.
McKinnon likewise recognized the “big year” she has actually had after showing up as “weird Barbie” in Greta Gerwig’s summer season smash hit Barbie.
“I walked in on the first day and they were like, ‘Oh my God, you look perfect,’ and I was like, ‘These are my clothes,’” she joked.
The comic took place to do a spin on the timeless vacation tune “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” for SNL officer manufacturer Lorne Michaels, vocal singing, “Feed me figs and make me wigs/reactivate my ID.” Yet soon after, Wiig and Rudolph shocked McKinnon on phase for a psychological minute, where they sang an additional tune to liquidate the talk: “We came home for Christmas/It’s time to start the show.”
McKinnon was a castmember on SNL from 2012 to 2022, Wiig got on the program from 2005 to 2012 and Rudolph offered as a castmember from 2000 to 2007.
Previously, throughout the chilly open, SNL castmembers spoofed Hollywood honor reveals, just this moment it was the 95th yearly Xmas Honors recognizing vacation quality.
Billie Eilish went back to SNL for the 3rd time on Saturday after formerly offering as the music visitor in 2019 as well as organizing and being the music visitor in 2021.
Prior to she did “What Was I Made For?”, a track from the Barbie soundtrack, Gerwig made a shock look on the program, along with McKinnon, to present the vocalist.