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Saturday Night Live Recap: Lady Gaga Returns
Lady Gaga’s easy charm and commitment make for one of the more animated episodes of season 50.
And, of course, Gaga killed the episode’s actual musical performances, between the cramped glass-house choreography of the catchy single “Abracadabra” and the epic production of “Killah” beginning backstage and ending with a show-stopping tear-away dress moment. The first green screen-heavy skit relies on the humor of “ridable luggage,” with Gaga torn between the boyfriend she loves and her ambitions of moving to Paris and becoming a chef — but the joke mainly keeps reverting back to her and her fellow suitcase-riders screaming “go around!” at the cars speeding past them on the highway. There’s little here as cutting as in the appropriately dark post-inauguration episode, but Kenan Thompson did his thing as Kendrick Perkins(at one point removing his own beard to pat the sweat on his face), and Jost and Che landed a few good ones, including the blood donor joke ending with a delightfully grotesque straw sound effect.
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