Timothée Chalamet will host SNL for the third time, appearing in six sketches airing Saturday night (January 25) and also appearing as a musical guest.
Double-duty as host and musical actor, Chalamet seamlessly shifts between embracing aspects of himself in monologues and Bob Dylan in musical performances, portraying himself as a bungee class icon and as a stand-up comedian. He played sketch characters on SNL, such as a barista who thinks he is. , an AI creation, a small dog, an animated version of God, and a gassy cardiologist. (Fans in the live rehearsal audience report that there were sketches that were cut for time reasons, such as the Grammys roundtable skit in which Chalamet resurrected SNL personality SmokeCheddaDaAssGetta. Later on SNL Fingers crossed that it surfaced on the YouTube channel of ).
Chalamet, who plays Dylan in the biopic “Completely Unknown,” said during his monologue, “I’m so grateful that Saturday Night Live is still doing weird things like this 50 years later.” joked to the audience. “Either they were really nice to let me do this or they were incredibly mean, this is all a big prank. I can’t really say. We’ll find out. ”
Chalamet appeared to have overcome the nerves that come with appearing on SNL, which was taped in front of a live audience in New York. Although some sketches were pre-recorded, all of the actors’ parts airing this weekend were live, except for their voice-over role as God. Perhaps Chalamet has his alter ego, high-profile rapper Timmy Tim, who attended Performing Arts High School, to thank for preparing him for this moment. .
One highlight of Saturday night’s episode not listed here is the cold open, which unfortunately didn’t feature Chalamet. The film featured a surprise cameo by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who reprized his role as Hamilton in a post-Trump sketch about America’s Founding Fathers.
Here’s a ranking of all the sketches Chalamet appeared in when the Jan. 25 episode of SNL aired Saturday night. Check out all six sketches below.
“Dog run”
The sketch features Chalamet and Mikey Day going through a typical day at the park as “stupid little dogs” who happen to talk like humans, but they talk a little too much and start out slow. Topics include peeing in your mailbox and bumps in your shoes. Physical comedy involves laughter. Especially Bowen Yang’s dog, who runs around in circles with a case of “Zoomy.” Be careful, cats.
“Grandma’s Birthday”
Go over there, McDreamy and McSteamy. We’ll call this handsome and promising young heart doctor, played by Chalamet, “McGathy.” To see why “The Youngest Cardiologist in History of Johns Hopkins University” is worthy of his early Grey’s Anatomy nickname, you need to take a look at his groundbreaking new cardiopulmonary resuscitation technique. “I’m just doing my job. Somebody buy this woman a glass of water and an Altoid,” he says with a cheeky glare after saving grandma in this ensemble sketch.
“AI software”
Adding Bowen Yang to the sketch promises to be interesting. Chalamet and Yang star as an AI podcaster who recites random educational facts, but the students are too distracted by their phones to pay attention to the human teacher during class, so He calls her “Bay” and gets caught up in a relationship drama. As with all AI, the voice sounds suspiciously robotic and then glitches occur. Notice Chalamet’s extra fingers all the way to the dance break.
“Bungee”
With neon yellow and luscious hair, Chalamet transforms into a fitness instructor that women love. The self-proclaimed “Bungee Queen” literally brings the class to life by hoisting students up on bungee cords and making them fly, swim, froggy, troll walk, jumping jacks, Jimmy Carter, and whatever moves he calls them. “This workout is not for the faint of heart,” he warns a novice (Michael Longfellow), the only male in the bungee class. To keep the women entertained, Chalamet makes several harsh comments about Longfellow’s sexual behavior and rewards them with a frosted cinnabon cake after he burns a total of five calories.
“God”
Props to the creators of this animated short about “The Creator” voiced by Chalamet. The comic parodies a group of angels (played by Mikey Day, Heidi Gardner, Michael Longfellow, Emile Wakim, and Jane Wickline) who are tasked with helping God create the world. Chalamet’s God assigns them tasks such as creating an “exploding mountain”, aka a volcano. It’s disgusting,” he said, reacting to the first kangaroo and shooing them away. Chalamet has exquisite comedic timing in commanding humans to “go straight to hell, forever” after making human bodies self-satisfying, and how the angels’ carefully constructed model of the solar system is as bizarre as he is. I shed tears when it wasn’t. I wish that was the case. On-screen credits include Lee McG and Studio Showoff as animators, and Streeter Seidel and Mikey Day as screenwriters.
“New barista training”
Chalamet puts his impressionistic and comedic skills to work in this sketch about onboarding a new employee, who might expect the employee to never quit. Because you never know what will happen when you try to fulfill that role. Looking for a new barista? You might meet this guy who imitates Chris Rock’s delivery and turns his cafe into his own personal comedy club. Watch what happens and how quickly things escalate when his bosses (Mikey Day and Heidi Gardner) encourage him to come up with “witty jokes” in front of the blackboard .
