Emma Thompson (and some other badass mothers) are trying to raise Saturday Night Live Mother's Day

For Thompson, a career as a British flagship (and Oscar nominee) has always accompanied his roots as a giant comedian / blunderer. In addition to her debut at Cambridge Footlights, her review skits alongside two types named Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, Thompson also had her own (ephemeral) sketch series in the 1980s, and she married Shakespeare. filmography of corsets with intermittent incursions in a stupidity always delicious. (Do yourself a favor and look for 1989 The big guywhere she and Jeff Goldblum are a surprisingly stupid and sexy couple.) SNL "It turned out to be some sort of nonsense, with the game and Thompson effortlessly showing that she could do that kind of thing when she wants, if she wants to."

Released for the monologue with striped pants and athletic sneakers (it's unclear if they're the same sneakers as at her recent lady's ceremony), Thompson was clearly ready to face the fast move. A singing teapot, a 1950s Hollywood lady, a royal etiquette expert, a television judge, a TV cooking judge, a television therapist, Maggie Smith-Thompson skillfully dressed every role with aplomb, even though the sketches themselves often pale in comparison to the commitment of his army. Once again, Emma Thompson can do almost anything, so standing out in the middle of a series of moderately decent sketches is not what made her lose her head.

Best / worst sketch of the night

Staying sweaty, although no sketch tonight suffers from apparent sweats, but none is particularly good either. As a dark horse, I'm going to take more skits based on ideas like Kate McKinnon's talk show. Tracy at any time. Nobody is more critical about SNL I did not use the TV series / game show, but this one managed to reverse the tired concept of "my daughter is out of control" smarter than most people. Ego Nwodim has got one of her best roles of the season as a rebellious teenager girl whose slogan "You do not know me!" Is repeatedly refuted by members of the audience (and Emma Thompson's therapist), who retranscribe just about every detail of her thinking process and her adolescence. travails. Better than that, it's that the sketch avoids just typing on the "Millennials, am I right?" Channel by making sure that every target audience guesses benevolently and understands the situation of the impetuous girl. She is looking for good teachers to inspire her. She also struggles to stick to a cardio regimen (a CrossFit is a bit cultured). In addition, Thompson reveals that his "Doctor" title comes from a funk band and that his medallion sharing relationship with the girl occurred after Nwodim's Rae Rae hit Thompson's car on a parking lot. and she is still looking for insurance information.

The top concept sketches yielded varied results. I'm all for letting Emma Thompson hit anyone else, and the royal label skit saw her hitting Leslie Jones shit realistically (and realistically). The improbable duo played well one for the other, while a family member of the American Markle, Jones (in England for the Royal Baptism), is taken aback by the idea that a British Englishman, Mary Poppins-esque, can not stand out perfectly from a little pedagogical story about stirring tea. in a (really shocking) slap of the offensive cup of tea to the right of Jones' hand and across the room. The incorporation into the royal clan of a commoner (which is also American and black) has brought to light all kinds of disturbing racial sub-currents (a straight royal bigot), but the sketch is primarily a contrast study. comic and play styles as well as cultural. Leslie makes the most of her comic strip, as she discovers that her American audacity is not up to the brutal and majestic acuity of Thompson's quick sticker. And Thompson faces his rude charge with an outdoor decorum that hides a short fuse and the tactics of intimidating a gangster. ("What, what, what are you going to do what?", Asks Thompson to Jones, who takes offense, leaning just close enough to be terrifying.) It's a joke skit, but Thompson and Jones say well.

On the other hand, the big musical number this week is not "Diner Lobster", but a The beauty and the Beast parody that suffers from a certain rhythm and a confused central principle. Thompson is a player who disguises herself as Mrs. Potts and sings in the company of the seemingly idyllic dance of Belle and the Beast. But the interruption of the Beast's anthropomorphized gymnastic equipment is a turning point that is not bearing fruit (the film would be partly funded by Disney and by a gay connection app?), Even though Kenan and Melissa Villaseñor find themselves in their words beautiful form. And it's to Emma Thompson that you talked about her affair with Beck Bennett's Beast with imperturbable dignity, even if the phrase "Dong gets in the beak, the baby cup is coming out" is not exactly Ashman-Menken. The biggest laugh was Cecily Strong, disappointed by Belle, who said, "I can not believe I fell in love with my kidnapper again!"

the Chopped Film sketch (see: Cricket TV game show) was not particularly promising, although the argument between the so-called Jones and Villaseñor chefs dropped more and more absurd details was a nice surprise. The resulting chef's dishes echoed the jokes about mandatory ingredients, including a bag full of loose sugar and a five pound horse's pound (a kilo of horse) (a kitten on a hamburger bun, a "raw" steak that uses the word "c" a salad dressed in a tuxedo), and the pun tells Alex Moffat's judge about the meaning of divorce papers rather than a meal. Like the sketch of Don Cheadle's pastry show, it's the strange strangeness that lifts the joke. Nothing is duplicated, but at any time SNL Penchanting writers for inventive stupidity, it's a welcome ingredient in the traditional recipe.

Thompson, Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant threw an absurdity on the wall of Court of judges sketch, too, with slightly amusing result. The joke that the three TV judges are all ice-cold iced pals who graduated from their law school class gives these three very funny women a chance to become big, coppery and buffoon. The three judges dispense rushed justice according to rules that they only know ("It's too young, you go to jail," they say about a 30-year-old landlord in litigation on rent), and overlooked moreover the strange details of their dependent lives (Thompson saved Aidy's life once through an intimate, uncomfortably intimate mouth-to-mouth) and absurd slogans. ("Ding-dong, bitch.") That's good, but since these three characters are filled with such awesome characters to play, the skit really should have taken longer than it did.

Update of the weekend update

Che and Jost each broke a handful of good lines, which is solid, as far as Update Go these days. For Jost, the harshest is a joke about Georgia's draconian and specific restrictions on fanciful abortion, where it says Georgia celebrates Mother's Day by making motherhood mandatory. Second place (in laughter and harshness) returns in line with Facebook's new frightening "secret secret" feature, which, he says, will be the basis of a future Dateline episode titled "The murders on Facebook".

Che, referring to the revelations about Donald Trump's calamitous business practices over the years, noted that Trump's failed airline lasted "33 years less than the Spirit," for Christ's sake. He also found a sharp angle on an apparently harmless article on the most popular American names (Emma and Liam), illustrating with the following sentence: "As in" No, we will not vaccinate Emma and Liam this year ". , delivered net. If criticism has to be formulated, it is my long-standing criticism that UpdateThe potential power of SNLThe satirical centerpiece deflates rather than building as the piece moves forward. With a social and political landscape so loaded and frankly ridiculous, there is a surplus of material that Jost and Che usually only make.

Mother's Day saw Pete Davidson bring his current mother, Amy, for a sweet and brief visit. Davidson's position as a SNLThe target of his own tabloid was dubiously exploited by the series, but it was about as attractive and innocent as it was, as the often reported fact that Davidson was living in trouble with his mother (he bought them a house) saw Davidson joking about masturbating, and the fact that his mother's national television appearance counted for his Mother's Day gift. Besides, it was really funny when Jon Hamm – called by Pete the fantasy of his mother – appeared later in the night, a small extension without comment of the joke that made me smile, anyway.

And Heidi Gardner has brought back his teenage film critic, Bailey Gismert, for another series of distracted conversation and clumsy adolescent girlishness. As with all Update Bailey's schtick does not change with the films she judges (barely), so that's all for Gardner, who continues to show that she is the best actress in the series so far. As with his Goop-thirsty representative character, Gardner makes sure that Bailey's privileged but unfathomable anxiety is surprisingly superimposed, finding a real-if idiotic-person in the details of his life. His tears of protests against Che about his lasts life (club of spirits, stroking his horse) end with the extremely detailed and breathless anecdote of a classmate whose step injury ( she has "fallen into a slit!") means that while the unfortunate one has not missed. Do not die, "she is, like, do not go to college."

"What do you call this act?" "Californians!" –Recurring sketch report

Reusing the model of a Matt Damon-Cecily Strong skit on Christmas parenting, "The Perfect Mother" shows the gap between the well-meaning platitudes of the holidays and the messy reality of children's education. Thompson and Heidi Gardner have great chemistry as a girl (and new mom) and mother, whose whiteness sentimentality from Hallmark's commercial class about their mutual maternal admiration is interspersed with fast flashback flashes of eating pencils, destroying television, throwing projectiles, irreversibly horrible diaper changes and other joys of motherhood in real life. Like the Christmas version, the joke is simple, carried by a pair of beautiful performances lived and ending with a nice little break from an end. If there is room for absurdity on SNLthere is also room for a well-executed sentimentality.

The classics of cinema Thompson and McKinnon had the opportunity to block it, which I will sign for each time. Yet speaking of crutches, SNL can not get tired of explaining the premise of a sketch, huh? Reese De'What, Kenan's always fun and digressive animator, explained that the night's regression function, Always be sisters, suffered its ignominious failure thanks to the two leading actresses who asked to be told the last word of the scene. The skit shows McKinnon's actress with very sharp strings saying at one point: "If I did not know better, I would say try to get the last word. Yes, that's the joke. We had it the first time. And the way McKinnon and Thompson's actresses continue to do exactly that throughout their stage. Seeing two very funny actresses funny in such a place is undeniably a fun thing that would spark a little brighter if someone had not decided to slow things down for the slowest and the least insightful viewer possible. Nevertheless, McKinnon and Thompson find inventive and stupid ways to continue to extend the scene, culminating at various times, trying to cut the film, and pushing random chains of nonsense ("Fart, foreskin, tarentulasaurus rex" ) to steal the show.

"It was my understanding there would be no maths"-Report of political comedy

Hey, open politics is back, after a false head and a week off. And although it's nice to see that SNL– Once again, a show that prides itself on its political satire – can find something to joke in this constitutional crisis undergoing a ridiculous shitshow, the Meet the press Sketch highlighted the weaknesses of the series, even when it deigns to dig the political world. First of all, there is a serious shortage of impressionists on SNL these days. It's funny (and apparently maddening for Donald Trump) to see Kate McKinnon put on the big suits and suits like all the other male members of the Republican Party and White House staff, but here she does not make a loud mouth. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). ), as much as to make a southern accent without description in a human suit. The same goes for Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Beck Bennett's impressive turtle, and Kyle Mooney's animator, Chuck Todd (unaffiliated, with a fringe). This is not in itself a disabling fact – Will Ferrell had a sound quite different from that of George W. Bush – but it should be that writing fills the void comic, which is not the case.

In fact, the only good thing about the design came from Cecily Strong, who makes an exceptionally well-made impression of her target, in this case, Maine Republican Susan Collins. It may be because I have had to listen to Collins's evening news since he was elected to my post in my country, but Strong Collins is strange at the same time for his dismal deliveries and even less stable stances. on The supposed "moderate Republican" has repeatedly abandoned by engaging in the most cruel and cruel actions of Donald Trump and his party. Graham and McConnell have made their total absence of principles so obvious is a joke so clear that it goes beyond parody, but Strong Collins, in his song to the camera, makes it clear to the complete surrender of Senator Maine's opportunism policy. especially and extremely dishonorable. The skit suggests that Todd poses hypothetical and worst hypothetical scenarios to see how much Trump's sycophant servants will cover him (everything goes as far as marrying Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Fox News reporter), but Strong succeeds Collins' performative performance of the spine (she promises to send "a highly formulated e-mail directly into my drafts folder") lands with a certain bite.

I'm hip to the music of today

According to their biography, the Jonas Brothers, Disney breed, have come together (as singers) after a six-year break on creative differences. You have to be tough, be brothers and all, but you have to wonder what amazing discovery trips had to be made to return to a lucrative, remarkably forgettable pop-pop career. Scalloped with enough balloons to fill a theme park parade, the brothers' show was the kind of packed show whose fist hooks might or might not have all been performed live, so someone was careful to check . The fact that the brothers played "Sucker" right after NBC aired an advertisement for a reality show starring the Jonas Brothers and the guy who co-wrote "Sucker" was also a hit. The boys also arose in the Court of judges sketch, being professionally adorable, and here is Emma Thompson for pretending to be blown away with joy every time she introduced the band.

More / less useful Not ready for the player in prime time

Well, Pete's mom is not in the cast, so let's pay tribute to Mother's Day show to Ego Nwodim, Heidi Gardner and Cecily Strong, both of whom took their demos and accompanied them.

Chris Redd is an artist too interesting to languish as he was recently.

"What is going on is This thing? "- The Ten-To-Oneland Report

In the second dose of old movie-parody of the night, the continuity bloopers of the TCM show Wait a second, it should not be here! I've exhausted it fast enough. On the one hand, the Game of thrones thing cup of coffee rolled. I know it's only once a week SNL We mix with the hot hashtag and already irrelevant Twitter, but the jokes were made. As much as this sketch is both a joke and that it features enough product placement to meet the product integration goals defined by Lorne Michaels. (It does not help that most anachronisms on the screen play more like intentional placement than accidental gaffes.) [national fast food chain’s] lunch box meal in the background of the Roots remake. And wait, Shakespeare in love did not have a wanderer [prominently displayed brand of snack chip] bag in! At least Thompson managed to get out a fair Maggie (drinking a beer helmet and ordering at [national pizza chain]) sure Downton Abbey. (And, in the strong line, Kyle Mooney's host claims that no one on the Shakespeare Set noticed the blunders because outlaw producer Harvey Weinstein was masturbating in a potted plant just outside the screen.) It's slightly cute, but the skit behaves like an ultimate strategy for erase promised announcements before the final next week. -a-sketch.

Observations lost

• Strong Collins, Susan Collins, speculates on her response if Trump were to divorce his wife and marry Stormy Daniels: "I would show up at the wedding, but not before mumbling a loud rebuke in my skinny kitchen."
• Translations of Thompson, Fey and Poehler's mother: "Can not we talk about politics" is tantamount to "Do not waste on me Joe Biden, that's what I represent." And "My son, you know that I love you as you are "translated by" I'm tired of waiting for you to tell me you're gay. Just do it so I can buy rainbow stuff!
• Jost says Mitch McConnell always looks like "always watching a man drown slowly", which is a better shot than all the turtles.
• Che, after announcing that most of the black players of world champion Red Sox (and Puerto Rican manager Alex Cora) had refused to go to the White House, joked that Trump's response was a " Perfect laconic.
• Next week: Finale of the season, with Paul Rudd (four timekeepers) and DJ Khaled, musical guest.