Scarlett Johansson and the forged of Saturday Evening Dwell paid tribute to the present’s fiftieth season with a musical opening monologue that riffed on Billy Joel’s basic hit “Piano Man.”
Again for her seventh time internet hosting, the Jurassic World Rebirth star kicked off the evening by proclaiming how “excited” she was “to be internet hosting the finale of season 50.”
“I’m so proud to be part of it.” she stated. “You understand, I first hosted the present once I was 21 years previous, so it’s loopy to be again right here, what, like 3 years later. Man, time actually flies.” After that, she launched into track.
“It’s 11:30 on a Saturday, finale of season 50,” she sang. “It’s chaotic and loopy, the entire week is hazy, however there’s no place I’d relatively be.”
Johansson began the monologue solo earlier than she was slowly joined by extra of the present’s forged members, starting with Bowen Yang. “Scarlett, that was lovely, you thoughts if I take the subsequent verse?” he requested. “Oh effectively, it’s type of my monologue,” she stated earlier than the Depraved star additionally launched right into a tune of his personal.
“Typically we play likable characters, different instances we play J.D. Vance,” he sang. “It’s not all the time humorous, we don’t do it for cash, or else Sarah would purchase higher pants,” they each sang as fellow comic Sarah Sherman joined them on-stage.
“La, la-la, di-dee-da, la-la, di-dee-da, da-dum,” all of them sang, parodying Joel’s track. “Sing us a track, it’s your monologue, sing us a track tonight, as we made 50 years of nice reminiscences, each Saturday Evening.”
Johansson then teased the viewers out with a shock Joel look by saying, “Girls and gentleman, Billy Joel… wrote this track.”
“I assumed Billy Joel was gonna come out,” Mikey Day stated, to which she responded, “Oh, Mikey, so cute, so easy.”
She then pivoted to answering questions from the viewers, to which the digicam panned to Kenan Thompson within the viewers. “Are you able to introduce me to a dinosaur?” he requested, referencing Johansson’s upcoming lead position within the new Jurassic movie. “I’m sorry that I referred to as on you,” she joked.
Johansson later sang a joke about Sherman leaving SNL: “It’s been an incredible season and Sarah is leaving, we’re all going miss you subsequent yr.”
“Wait, what? Did you guys hear one thing?” Sherman questioned earlier than the forged continued to hum the remainder of the tune. “What do you imply leaving?” Although the forged joked about her probably leaving the present, the subject wasn’t introduced up once more within the episode.
Earlier within the evening, the finale chilly open noticed James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump recount the president’s latest journey to the Center East with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, performed by Emil Wakim.
Johnson’s Trump famous that he’d “been having a good time” and “am a giant fan of all the things that Saudi Arabia has to supply, from the oil to the cash to finish of checklist.” They later poked enjoyable at Trump allegedly being offered a plane from the Qatari royal household.
“The Qataris gave me a $400 million airplane, are you able to consider that? And folks stated that was some type of bribe. Not true, not true, as a result of they haven’t requested for something in return,” he stated, which Wakim’s bin Salman responded with “Nicely, not but,” with Johnson’s Trump dubbing it right down to a “pre-bribe.”
Later, Johnson’s Trump riffed on Morgan Wallen’s abrupt SNL viral exit earlier within the season. After the present, the nation star shared a photograph of what gave the impression to be taken from a non-public jet to his Instagram Tales the place he wrote, “Get me to God’s nation.”
“I don’t need to go house, let me keep,” Johnson’s Trump began. “Get me to Allah’s nation.”
To conclude season 50’s closing chilly open, Johnson’s Trump famous that “because it’s the finale, meaning after tonight you gained’t be seeing me right here for some time. Nicely, not the pretend, enjoyable model of me that makes you smile.”
“The actual one can be omnipresent. You possibly can’t escape me, proper? I’m all over the place, even in your goals just like the late nice Freddy Krueger,” he stated. “So, see you once more within the fall, if we nonetheless have a rustic, proper?”
The Eleanor the Nice director closed out SNL‘s fiftieth season on Saturday evening alongside Dangerous Bunny. Johansson returned for her seventh internet hosting gig, whereas the three-time Grammy winner served because the musical visitor for the third time after notably doubling as host and musical visitor throughout his final look in October 2023.
Season 50 noticed an array of hosts and musical visitors, together with the likes of Ariana Grande, Charli xcx, Timothée Chalamet, Woman Gaga, Mikey Madison, Morgan Wallen, Jack Black, Jon Hamm, Quinta Brunson and Walton Goggins, amongst others.