Bowen Yang has virtually made a profession out of enjoying objects and bugs (the iceberg that sank the Titanic, the noticed lantern fly) and this week he returned to the SNL stage as a very notorious inflatable. Final night time’s chilly open poked enjoyable on the hullabaloo over the Chinese language spy balloon shot down earlier this week by the Biden administration. Yang seems because the balloon, groaning about the whole lot from his reported measurement (round three busses large) to being “Joe’s Osama.” It seems that, like all of us, the balloon simply needs to be understood (and watch Yellowstone).
Chloe Fineman stories on the saga as MSNBC’s host Katy Tur, interviewing a straight-laced Pentagon official performed by SNL vet Kenan Thompson. This week’s host, Pedro Pascal, was noticeably absent, however appeared in various glorious sketches, together with one which imagines HBO’s dystopian tackle the Mari Kart franchise.
