Saturday Evening Stay‘s remaining episode of 2023 featured a number of alums of the sketch comedy present.
Not solely did Kate McKinnon, who departed the present final yr, return to host, however fellow alums Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph additionally made a particular look throughout her monologue.
As McKinnon took to the Studio 8H stage, she began by saying it was bizarre to come back again to her “outdated job” and do the monologue: “I don’t actually like to speak in my very own voice. That’s sort of why I acquired into this racket within the first place.”
The comic proceeded to quip that she left SNL as a result of “my pores and skin was reacting poorly to the prosthetics” from all of the characters she performed over 10 years.
“I’ve by no means been myself in a monologue earlier than,” she stated, including that she normally performs “the position of freak subsequent to sizzling particular person” throughout previous monologues with different hosts.
McKinnon additionally acknowledged the “massive yr” she has had after showing as “bizarre Barbie” in Greta Gerwig’s summer season blockbuster Barbie.
“I walked in on the primary day they usually have been like, ‘Oh my God, you look excellent,’ and I used to be like, ‘These are my garments,’” she joked.
The comic went on to carry out a spin on the traditional vacation track “I’ll Be House for Christmas” for SNL exec producer Lorne Michaels, singing, “Feed me figs and make me wigs/reactivate my ID.” However shortly after, Wiig and Rudolph stunned McKinnon on stage for an emotional second, the place they sang one other track to shut out the monologue: “We got here residence for Christmas/It’s time to begin the present.”
McKinnon was a castmember on SNL from 2012 to 2022, Wiig was on the present from 2005 to 2012 and Rudolph served as a castmember from 2000 to 2007.
Earlier, in the course of the chilly open, SNL castmembers spoofed Hollywood award exhibits, solely this time it was the ninety fifth annual Christmas Awards honoring vacation excellence.
Billie Eilish returned to SNL for the third time on Saturday after beforehand serving because the musical visitor in 2019 in addition to internet hosting and being the musical visitor in 2021.
Earlier than she carried out “What Was I Made For?”, a track from the Barbie soundtrack, Gerwig made a shock look on the present, alongside McKinnon, to introduce the singer.
