Adam Driver is completed together with your “Star Wars” complaints.
Because the host of the Dec. 9 episode of “Saturday Night time Stay,” he carried out his monologue whereas taking part in the piano and reciting a letter of Christmas needs to Santa.
“I would really like folks to cease coming as much as me on the road saying, ‘You killed Han Solo!’,” he mentioned. “I didn’t kill him. Wokeness killed Han Solo.”
The joke is a reference to his position as villain Kylo Ren within the “Star Wars” movies “The Drive Awakens,” “The Final Jedi” and “The Rise of Skywalker.” Kylo kills Han Solo in “The Drive Awakens,” a broadly controversial storyline among the many “Star Wars” fandom.
He started the Christmas record saying, “Hey, Santa. It’s me, Adam Driver, from the great record. And likewise ‘Women.’ I turned 40 this yr, Santa, so I would really like 5 pairs of chinos. I additionally need a kind of big metallic Tesla vehicles. I believe it will pair completely with my teeny tiny micropenis.”
“Oh, these TikToks, like these {couples} that do pranks on one another? Are you able to kill these folks?” he continued. “What I would like for Christmas is a gingerbread home. Do you assume a gingerbread man will get scared when he realizes the home is manufactured from his personal pores and skin? That’s a cute one. You may inform your youngsters that one.”
The episode marks Adam Driver’s fourth time because the host of “Saturday Night time Stay,” helming the episode alongside musical visitor Olivia Rodrigo. Driver first led “SNL” in 2016, when he was joined by Chris Stapleton as musical visitor, and returned in 2018 with Kanye West and 2020 with Halsey.
Driver will quickly be seen taking part in motor racing driver and businessman Enzo Ferrari in “Ferrari,” a biographical movie directed by Michael Mann that additionally stars Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Sarah Gadon, Gabriel Leone, Jack O’Connell, and Patrick Dempsey. The movie premiered earlier this yr on the Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant and can hit theaters on Christmas Day.
Season 49 of “Saturday Night time Stay” has additionally been hosted by Jason Momoa, Pete Davidson, Nate Bargatze and Timothée Chalamet, plus musical visitors Tate McRae, Ice Spice, Foo Fighters and Boygenius — and on Oct. 21, Unhealthy Bunny stuffed each roles himself.
See Driver’s monologue beneath.
