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Saturday Night Live Recap: Jack Black is Just What SNL Needed
Jack Black’s signature intensity is right at home in Studio 8H.
And during Big Ricky and the Minnows’ potluck jam performance of “Free Fallin’,” a one-joke skit about an overabundance of bass guitarists, he makes for a more than capable Tom Petty stand-in while undercutting his chill vibe with an increasing frustration at the musical imbalance. The humor comes not so much from watching her stick to food jokes as it does from her confusing, apparently over-50 “Miss Eggy” stand-up persona, which had everyone in the studio cracking up, including the Update anchors — and led to a great unexpected moment when the audience contributed a loud “shit!” to follow her “men ain’t what?” call. The idea of a new self-vandalizing model of Tesla with “self-smashing headlights, self-slashing tires, and AI-powered graffiti” doesn’t feel far off from a stunt Musk might actually pull to show how in-on-the-joke he apparently is, and “swastikas made out of penises” really does encapsulate his sense of humor.
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