The singer made for a solid host of a mostly amusing episode which poked fun at influencers and featured cameos by Debbie Harry and Connor Storrie
Saturday Night Live returns for its final run of season 51 episodes with a press conference held by “the man, the myth, the liability” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (Colin Jost). He angrily “dogwalks” the dweeby members of the press pool over questions about his mistaking a Pulp Fiction quote for a real verse from the Bible, the actual cost of the war with Iran, and the number of American bases that have been hit (“More bases than you’ve ever hit, virgin”), before turning the podium over to the “almost certainly fired” director of the FBI, Kash Patel (Aziz Ansari).
The bulging-eyed Patel gives a useless update on the recent assassination attempt on Trump (“Another one!”) before bragging about how he’s “a trailblazer: the first Indian person to suck at their job.” He denies allegations about his alleged alcoholism – though not before Hegseth jumps in, thinking the question is directed at him – to make it clear that he has not only never “been drunk or hungover on the job”, but also “never used tax-payer dollars to take a private jet to fly him and his girlfriend to three different Buffalo Wild Wings locations across the country to see if they could tell the difference”.
