Saturday Night Live Recap - Ryan Gosling & Leon Bridges

Tonight’s cold open was Donald and Melania Trump’s naughty and nice list. It was really weak and made me depressed that we have at least another year of sketches like this.

In his monologue Ryan tried to say he wasn’t from Canada because of America’s feelings towards immigrants, but Cornwall Ontario got a shoutout (heeeeey), and Mike Myers came out to support him and show what a Canadian Christmas was all about.

Next up was a commercial parody for a dating website called Settl, where women can settle so they can get married right away.

Then they had a sketch where Kate, Ryan and Cecily were characters who had been abducted by UFOs, and Ryan and Cecily had beautiful experiences while Kate had a very disturbing experience.

They had a digital short called Santa Baby, where Ryan and Vanessa were a couple at a Christmas party who truly believed in Santa. This was probably the best sketch of the night.

Next up Ryan played a dorky dad at his daughters birthday party, and Aidy is the only one who thinks he’s a hot dad and tries to unsuccessfully flirt with him.

After Weekend Update, Ryan was taking Cecily on a tour of his hometown for an interview. As someone who has family in Cornwall, I can assure you there is no bar with that many people in it there.

They had another commercial parody, this time making fun of the George Clooney and Danny DeVito Nespresso commercials and how little sense they make.

Of course there was a cut-for-time scene from the Wiz Live show that was on NBC earlier this week, touching on race.

Finally there was a sketch where Ryan, Vanessa and Keenan played elves who weirdly flirted with Santa.

Ryan seemed nervous throughout and the whole cast was giggly, but it made it endearing. Leon Bridges was great. And it was the most Canadian episode ever, which is nice for us up here.
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Tune in next weekend for host Chris Hemsworth and musical guest Chance the Rapper.