It wouldn’t be a Saturday Night Live fiftieth anniversary celebration with no John Mulaney musical sketch.
As soon as once more joined by Pete Davidson, Sunday evening’s iteration had some refined political undertones because it took viewers on a journey via New York Metropolis’s personal historical past over the previous 5 a long time.
The sketch started with Mulaney promoting scorching canine and heroin in 1973 Occasions Sq., when he’s approached by Davidson and David Spade as two transplants with “goals of constructing it massive” within the metropolis.
Mulaney’s scorching canine salesman is shocked, explaining that “New York is dying. It’s a bankrupt hellhole.”
However regardless, the lads plan to persevere. Cue Adam Driver and Maya Rudolph as stated scorching canine and heroin, respectively, to kick off the musical numbers, which are supposed to present the 2 newcomers “what New York is all about.”
Naturally, a part of New York Metropolis’s historical past is its mayors, the great and the dangerous. The sketch took some obscure swipes at a couple of of them, beginning with Kate McKinnon as Rudy Giuliani. McKinnon spoofed the Broadway present Hamilton with assist from the creator himself, Lin-Manuel Miranda, singing “I Am Throwing Away My Shot.”
Lyrics included, “Election conspiracy is gonna stand up” and “I’m identical to my metropolis, I’m drunk, corrupt and loopy.”
Because the sketch arrived in present-day, Mulaney launched the lads to Devon Walker as Eric Adams, who Mulaney stated “introduced the swagger again to NYC.” Joked Walker: “Homeless dudes who need to push individuals onto the subway tracks? They obtained that swagger again!”
After, Mulaney lamented how “One way or the other New York in the present day feels prefer it’s again within the ’70s. Again on skid row.”
The sketch ended with an look from Scarlett Johansson and Paul Rudd complaining about e-bikes within the metropolis to the tune of “All of the sudden, Seymour” from Little Store of Horrors.
Different iconic Mulaney musical sketch characters that reappeared for the prolonged quantity had been Kristen Wiig’s Inexperienced M&M, Taran Killam because the lifeless child bear that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. left in Central Park, and Rudolph because the Statue of Liberty.
Watch the total sketch under.
