{"id":428,"date":"2026-03-08T19:27:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/?p=428"},"modified":"2026-03-08T19:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:27:59","slug":"saturday-night-live-recap-ryan-gosling-delivers-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night Live recap: Ryan Gosling delivers again"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Ryan Gosling hosts Saturday Night Live<\/em> now, you know what you\u2019re gonna get: good vibes and a whole lot of breaking. That might not be everyone\u2019s taste \u2014 a little goes a long way for me when it comes to performers bursting into laughter during a sketch, and sometimes here it obscured some well-written punchlines \u2014 but it does lead to a nice sense of cast camaraderie. Everyone seemed happy to lean into that looseness, which created an above-average show this week. And I respect the choice to eschew fan-favorite Gosling sketches like \u201cClose Encounter,\u201d \u201cPapyrus,\u201d and \u201cBeavis and Butt-Head.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s Gosling\u2019s fourth time hosting now, and he spent his monologue immediately decentering himself, instead building anticipation for next week\u2019s Harry Styles-hosted show. Styles popped in for a cameo tonight, sitting in the audience just to \u201cget a feel for\u201d the show and making Gosling nervous with his cool, serene presence. It\u2019s funny, especially whenever camera No. 2 inexplicably cuts back to Styles nodding thoughtfully along to Gosling\u2019s unconfident \u201cSign of the Times\u201d performance, but it also ensures that the monologue has barely anything to do with the current host. Some mentions of outer space for Project Hail Mary<\/em>, but otherwise this could\u2019ve happened any week preceding a Styles show.<\/p>\n

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Truth be told, Gosling didn\u2019t always try all that hard throughout this episode, bringing the same general energy to most of his characters. (One notable exception: his role as the whimsical baker Monty McTreat, a Willy Wonka analog. He employs a race of Oompa Loompa-esque doughy slaves who kill themselves every spring to free up resources for women and children. The first shot of the hanging corpse is worth the wait.) And sometimes a good premise didn\u2019t really go anywhere, as was the case with the hotel charges sketch. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I laughed out loud at the concept of the hotel having a \u201cgoo goo man,\u201d and there are some nice touches, like Jeremy Cuthane\u2019s fellow goo goo connoisseur. But there was something slightly missing.<\/p>\n

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Still, Gosling is a funny and lovable guy, and you can tell the cast has a ton of fun hanging out with him. It\u2019s hard not to be charmed \u2014 especially with that little birthday shoutout to Sarah Sherman at the very end.<\/p>\n

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Here are the highlights:<\/p>\n

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Wedding Tradition<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Gosling\u2019s role as a gold-suited wedding guest named Donathan was the first of many to provoke inopportune mid-joke snorts from the host, and in this case, his laughter only added to the proceedings. Donathan really likes making people kiss, whether it\u2019s the bride and groom or the bride\u2019s siblings, and there\u2019s something hilarious about the way he runs with the logic of the glass-clinking tradition \u2014 especially when \u201cpoozy\u201d and \u201cpoonis\u201d get involved. It sounds so dumb when I write the words out, but I was laughing.<\/p>\n

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Otezla<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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The only weird aspect of this one is the choice to actually use a real brand name rather than creating some other fake Skyrizi competitor. Otherwise, I really enjoyed this bit of weirdness, advertising Otezla as some otherworldly force that defies the laws of nature and our understanding of time. It looks like a pill, but transforms when humans look away; it cannot be created or destroyed; it shows up throughout human civilization. Gosling cheerfully notes, \u201cNine out of ten dermatologists recommend Otezla. The tenth dermatologist carved a bunch of numbers into a wall and then shot himself.\u201d This kind of thing always tends to work on me.<\/p>\n

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Cyclops<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Three cyclopes arrive at a locked door in search of a great treasure and face a test of the mind: a riddle delivered by two increasingly frustrated maidens. The best part of this one is how desperately Veronika Slowikowska and especially Ashley Padilla try<\/em> to give them the answers, throwing them bone after bone only to receive the same dead-eyed responses and requests (\u201cCan you open the door?\u201d). Padilla\u2019s breaking is also pretty understandable; you can imagine it\u2019d be hard to stop laughing when those guys just keep turning and shuffling back.<\/p>\n

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Weekend Update<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Not one of the best Updates of the season this time, but we get into the basics: Kristi Noem, Kalshi, Iran, and Heated Rivalry<\/em>. And RFK Jr. does<\/em> look like an air-fried Walton Goggins. There are some decent gross jokes, like the one about the dead deer, but nothing super standout. And the only guests this time are Kenan Thompson\u2019s Pastor Update and his bandleader, Teddy (James Austin Johnson). Thompson does good work as the pastor keeps getting sidetracked mid-\u201cunifying\u201d message, but I\u2019m partial to Teddy\u2019s nonsensical aphorisms \u2014 and Johnson\u2019s vivid, weirdo energy, conveyed with his consistent grin.<\/p>\n

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Passing Notes<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Padilla anchors another sketch, this time as a teacher who\u2019s trying to stop her students from passing notes in class. Of course, the notes turn out to mostly be about her as well as the principal (played by Gosling), detailing their most pathetic behaviors. There\u2019s a ton of breaking in this one, likely the result of the writers swapping out the notes and letting the performers organically react to jokes they\u2019re reading for the first time. I do appreciate the willingness to evoke Mulaney in that way. But it\u2019s just a tad too much laughing for my tastes, especially in this <\/em>episode, and especially when I wanted to focus on the pitiful imagery of the notes themselves. Still, hard not to giggle along when Padilla lets out an uncontrollable whimper-laugh upon finding a Ziploc bag full of spaghetti marked \u201clunch #2\u201d in her desk.<\/p>\n

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Cut for Time<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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\u2022 Jost leaned into alcoholic frat-boy smarm again to play Pete Hegseth for this week\u2019s political cold open, during which he answered questions about the military operation in Iran in the only way he knows how to talk. Padilla\u2019s Kristi Noem also popped by, of course, clarifying that she \u201cself-deported\u201d from her job at DHS. My biggest laugh, personally, came from Noem\u2019s piece of wisdom: \u201cYou miss 100 percent of the dogs you don\u2019t shoot.\u201d That\u2019s how she deserves to be remembered.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 \u201cI\u2019m not going to kiss my wife\u2019s poozy.\u201d \u201cWouldn\u2019t kill ya.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2022 \u201cThe rules are the rules!\u201d Nice work from Jane Wickline in this moment.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 \u201cThey should\u2019ve known something was up when Epstein\u2019s ranch was all ponies.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2022 \u201cThat\u2019s not what you told me. You said you wanted her to Sheryl on your Lee until you Ralphed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Truth be told, Martin Herlihy\u2019s weirdness only sometimes works for me, and \u201cLies\u201d never really exceeds \u201cmildly amusing.\u201d But it\u2019s a solid gag to see him go undercover as Jost and appear on Late Night with Seth Meyers<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Not much Ben Marshall this week, but we got tons<\/em> of Padilla and Mikey Day.<\/p>\n

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