‘Saturday Night Live’ Rcap: John Goodman Hosts For 13th Time

John Goodman hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend – his 13th time overall and first since 2001, when Ja Rule served as the sketch show’s musical guest.

Obama On Mandela Funeral

Jay Pharoah reprised his impersonation of Barack Obama in Saturday Night Live’s cold open, while Kenan Thompson played the now infamous fake sign language interpreter from Nelson Mandela’s funeral. Kate McKinnon joined him at the podium as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and asked for a selfie with the president, saying, “I feel like you kind of owe me after that wiretapping mein cell phone thing.”

Dearborn Community Playhouse Holiday Pageant

Donning a Midwestern accent, Goodman played a doctor who moonlights as a snowflake in the Dearborn Community Playhouse Holiday Pageant. As he teetered back in forth, he was joined by Aidy Bryant, Vanessa Bayer and Thompson. All of the snowflake dancers were heard in voiceover cursing themselves forever thinking it was a good idea.

Shallon

Shallon returned this week, with Nasim Pedrad playing the boisterous student who’s the ringleader of her classroom. Goodman played a firefighter making a fire safety presentation in the weeks before Christmas. The sketch’s one joke was Shallon convincing the rest of the class to sacrifice themselves for Santa by throwing themselves into the fireplace on Christmas Eve.

Too Hot

Goodman got outfitted in drag for Too Hot, playing a woman who got fired for being too distractingly attractive and is suing her former employers. Taran Killam played the employers’ lawyer, countering the prosecution’s claims with “Say, what?” When on the stand, Goodman giggled like a school girl and won the attention of Thompson’s judge.

Three Wise Guys With Stalone And DeNiro

Sylvester Stalone and Robert De Niro joined Goodman onstage for a “Three Wise Guys” sketch. Sitting on camels and wearing turbans, the Staten Island and New Jersey guys sported tracksuits and gold chains and complained about the slow ride to see Jesus. “Do we even know this guy’s last name, Jesus?” “Christ, I don’t know.” “His father’s in construction.” “I hear that the kid, might not be his.”

H&M

Pharoah took on another musical sketch on SNL this week with an H&M-themed music video about the retail chain. Jokes in the lyrics targeted the store’s impossibly low prices, impossibly small sizes and the general disarray in the stores. Goodman played a distressed customer in the video, struggling to get the skinny jeans over his thighs.

Guy Fieri Christmas Special

Bobby Moynihan played Food Network cook Guy Fieri in a fake commercial, nailing his signature cackle. Listing off the guests for his holiday party, he named “godfather to my children, Kid Rock ” and “90 percent plastic, 10 percent HPV” Brett Michaels, and there were performances by Doug the Bounty Hunter (Goodman) and Big Ang from Mob Wives (an unrecognizeable McKinnon). Kings of Leon also joined in, playing the Duck Dynasty men and quacking the tune of “Jingle Bells.” Among the menu items was a fruit cake turned into a “straight cake – just bacon and cars.”

Last Call

Goodman and McKinnon played two sad sacks getting drunk at a dive bar that find they’re the only ones available. Their off-putting barstool flirtation draws the ire and disgust of Thompson. It didn’t look like it could get any worse after McKinnon devoured whipped cream out of Goodman’s bead – but then he motor boated her while she made “cat orgasm noises.”

Kings of Leon was Saturday Night Live’s musical guest, singing “Temple” and “Wait for Me.” –Chelsea Regan

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