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SNL Recap: Timothée Chalamet is an Ideal Ambassador for SNL’s Future
Timothée Chalamet looks like he’s having a blast hosting, and the cast seems to mirror his energy.
It gave viewers elite bits like Melissa McCarthy playing Sean Spicer — a name that now feels so distant, it might as well be from the bible — and plenty of other scathing impressions that did not involve Alec Baldwin. Much as the first episode after November’s election started out overly earnest before its mid-cold open rug-pull, this one barely let Miranda cough out one syllable before James Austin Johnson’s Trump commandeered the sketch, dragging it into a hilarious new direction. “A bald-headed pickle.”) Beyond Nwodim’s reliably crisp delivery, her playful antagonism of Michael Che here recalls the ongoing Update dynamic between Sarah Sherman and Colin Jost.
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