After a brief absence, Alec Baldwin returned to Saturday night with his now infamous impression of Donald Trump, but Melissa McCarthy's unexpected arrival of the White House press secretary Shawn Spicer, this is the best irony of irony this week.
McCarthy's Spicer came out to shout assembled newsgroups, cracked gum and abandoned the threat to reporters while admitting "I do not speak so well." This is an inspiring cast; McCarthy, who has become a reliable SNL host in recent years, excels at the character who is on the edge of reason.
Together with Spicer, she discovered a perfect real-world example that one could hardly keep together - to solve Trump's Supreme Court nominee's prime-time announcement, and he assured the media: "Everyone is smiling and everyone is Happy, men are erect, every woman is ovulation.
Spicer even turned to support the comedy at a point that explained the president's struggle with the radical, it feels like a cold opening - it even ended up with a fake "life from New York" - probably supposed to be.
Instead, the real cold opening focused on the president's catastrophic foreign phone call of the week, and a death Stephen Bannon encouraged Trump to tell Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that "your reef is failing" to cheat the President Mexico pays his borders wall and boast about the number of his inauguration Angela Merkel, who answered the call optimistically, "Is this my beloved Ballack?"
It ended a call to Zimbabwe, an angry Robert Mugabe put Trump back in his place, perhaps Trevor Noah's finest daily show section so far.
The tape-front video from Border Control is now roughly re-edited to cover seven countries and now requires additional immigration review, "Maybe Australia, we'll see." The new dub voice cut commitment to "someone - not! - help you" as a visitor to the navigation is now crazy complex process of entering the United States.
A seemingly innocent little football ad, a complacent wife (Vanessa Bayer), promises to bake some frozen food for "her hungry guy", becoming sexy and rather sweet when she is sister to her husband's friend. "What's your name?" Sister, guest host Kristen Stewart. "I've never had one," Bayer replied quietly.
Although there are several tips for reading flubs, the weekend update has a strong performance. Colin Jost responded to the president's Muslim-banned judiciary, stating that "being temporarily prevented is just foreplay," while Michael Kay reflected the implications for radical Muslims: "I have a Muslim friend who does not eat Pork He has no sex with white women. To me, it's crazy.
