Saturday Night Live opened with some familiar faces, as Dana Carvey’s Church Lady returned to roast the “SATANIC” year that was, with help from David Spade as Hunter Biden and others.
Paul Mescal was the guest host on this week’s edition of Saturday Night Live. Shaboozy was the musical guest.
But before Mescal could begin his hosting stint, the cast of the long-running sketch show performed the cold open, a long-running gag in which the show performs a parody — usually related to current events — that ends with performers breaking character and exclaiming “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!”
This week’s cold open featured a throwback to catchphrases of yore, as Church Chat welcomed Matt Gaetz and Hunter Biden with some brutal references to their respective troubles:
CHURCH LADY: Now it’s time for my first guest. Please welcome Matt Gaetz. Hello. Dear.FAKE MATT GAETZ: Hello, church lady.CHURCH LADY: Are you okay, Matt? You look a little surprised to be here.FAKE MATT GAETZ: No, this is just how my face is.CHURCH LADY: I can see that. It looks like your forehead is trying to go to heaven without you. Well, I don’t want a puss what a puss. And I don’t want to cause any hubbub. But you do look a little like someone who could be some–.FAKE MATT GAETZ: Leonardo DiCaprio.CHURCH LADY: No, it’s not&
#8211;.FAKE MATT GAETZ: Brad Pitt.CHURCH LADY: No. Let’s just try to knock on my noggin. Could it be SATAN? Caught you off guard, didn’t I? Now, Matt, let’s see if I have this straight. You were involved in some little sexual peccadilloes, and I wrote a whole report about it, but somehow we never got to see it, did we? Isn’t that convenient?FAKE MATT GAETZ: For me, it is. Yes.CHURCH LADY: Poor little Matt Gaetz. You better repent, Matt. There’s only 17 days left on Christmas.FAKE MATT GAETZ: Ya had me at 17.CHURCH LADY: Okay. Off you go. Don’t let the door hit you on the forehead on your way out. By Matt Gates. Goodbye. Right. Moving right along.My next guest is someone who actually is a lot like Jesus because he also has a dad named Joseph, whose life is made way more complicated because of him. Please welcome the one and only Hunter Biden. Well.FAKE HUNTER BIDEN: Hi there. I certainly haven’t been here in a while. I’ve been laying low a little bit.CHURCH LADY: I think that’s okay. At least you haven’t been doing a podcast.FAKE HUNTER BIDEN: Easy church woman.CHURCH LADY: Hunter. It’s actually church lady.FAKE HUNTER BIDEN: Well, pardon me.CHURCH LADY: Pardon you. Who do you think I am? Yourdaddy.FAKE HUNTER BIDEN: All right. Yes, my father did. Pardon me, but I thought it was a good thing for the father to forgive the son. Right. Church lady.CHURCH LADY: Last time I checked, Jesus wasn’t walking around in a robe with no underwear hanging out with prostitutes.FAKE HUNTER BIDEN: I think he was.CHURCH LADY: Well, Jesus certainly didn’t turn water into crack.FAKE HUNTER BIDEN: What? You can do that?
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