John Mulaney Hosts SNL for 7th Time, Driving Tech Satire and New York Musical Numbers
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Updated · The Guardian · Nov 15
John Mulaney Hosts SNL for 7th Time, Driving Tech Satire and New York Musical Numbers
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Nov 15
Summary
Seven-time host John Mulaney led a Saturday Night Live episode built around sharp satire, opening with a CIA sketch mocking tech billionaires after a fictionalized Jensen Huang scandal.
Mulaney’s monologue mixed family material with a direct jab at Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., while later sketches targeted cosmetic-surgery tourism, gendered elder care and baby boomer hypocrisy.
A centerpiece New York musical followed Mulaney’s soon-to-be-jobless carriage driver through Central Park after the city’s horse-carriage ban, packing in recurring characters and Broadway parodies.
Phoebe Bridgers performed two songs, and the episode’s other standout set pieces included a faux travel show kiss at a Rhode Island microbrewery and a Woodstock sketch predicting the greed of the 1980s.
The review cast the episode as the season’s strongest so far, arguing Mulaney’s return again lifted the show’s writing and large-scale musical comedy.