Did you take pleasure in your turkey and overbearing household? Saturday Night time Reside returned final evening after a short Thanksgiving break with first-time host Keke Palmer alongside musical visitor SZA. This episode marked the primary of the ultimate three new episodes of 2022 for the legendary sketch present, with each Martin Brief and Steve Martin internet hosting collectively subsequent week and Elvis star Austin Butler closing out the yr the week after. Final evening was stuffed with surprises! Within the monologue, Palmer addressed these rumors swirling round about her probably being pregnant and confirmed that… she is certainly pregnant! “I used to be making an attempt so onerous to maintain it on the down-low as a result of I acquired quite a lot of stuff happening!” She joked that the random “congratulations” from individuals put a few of her jobs on skinny ice. “Can y’all cease? I acquired a liquor sponsorship on the road. Let the verify clear, then we will get to the rattling child bathe!”
Palmer (born Lauren Keyana Palmer) is likely one of the most decided and pushed artists working, and that has at all times been the case. Rising up in Illinois, with a starvation for performing however no connections to assist her get into Hollywood, Palmer and her mom hustled to auditions always. Her mom has at all times been her largest cheerleader and believer, whether or not it’s within the audition room or on set. Palmer flew onto everybody’s radar in 2006’s Akeelah and the Bee, Doug Atchison’s movie about an exceptionally gifted younger woman decided to make it to the Nationwide Spelling Bee. Her efficiency within the titular position, in addition to her SAG-nominated efficiency in 2004’s The Wool Cap, led to a Disney Channel unique film Bounce In! after which the very fashionable Nickelodeon collection True Jackson, VP, during which she performed a part-time regular teenager, part-time designer.
The Emmy winner has efficiently shed her youngster star persona and has navigated extra mature roles with ease. She performed Coral within the hit collection Masters of Intercourse, Zayday Williams within the tragically short-lived Fox collection Scream Queens, and Mercedes within the stripper drama Hustlers. Most just lately, she charmed and scared audiences in Jordan Peele’s genre-bending Nope alongside onscreen brother Daniel Kaluuya, because the siblings did their greatest to find out the existence of a UFO. On high of all of that, Palmer is a profitable singer, host, producer, and entrepreneur. Her newest undertaking, her personal tv community known as KeyTV, is the massive subsequent step ahead in her mission of giving alternatives to marginalized teams.
Let’s revisit a few of the greatest moments from the December 3 episode of Saturday Night time Reside. Reside from New York, it’s Keke Palmer!
Kenan & Kelly
Kenan Thompson has been entertaining us for many years. He jumped into sketch comedy with Nickelodeon’s All That within the Nineteen Nineties, which led to the favored collection Kenan & Kel starring him and Kel Mitchell. Within the age of reboots and reunions, Palmer thought it will be a no brainer to revive the sitcom and provides it a little bit of a feminine twist (though she didn’t seek the advice of Kenan about it first). The studio appeared to like her Kenan & Kelly thought, however Kenan was visibly offended. Can Kelly’s love of orange soda and her mysterious being pregnant maintain the rankings afloat?
Whats up Kitty
Are you telling me that Whats up Kitty, the favored cartoon cat with a bow and for some motive no mouth, is definitely a human little woman? Blasphemy! What kind of weird language do you converse? Bowen Yang and Palmer play two keen staff of the primary Whats up Kitty retailer in New York Metropolis who’re having bother wrapping their heads round a number of issues within the coaching for his or her dream job. They thought they knew every little thing there was to know in regards to the pleasant feline: she bakes, she’s within the third grade, and he or she loves apple pie. However they start to query every little thing they thought they knew as soon as the trainers (Molly Kearney and Cecily Sturdy) reiterate the tough fact. Chairs are flipped, voices are raised, and issues get weirdly sexual. Additionally, who’s that movie star donning the Whats up Kitty costume?
Forceington’s Ridge
Ah, cleaning soap operas. There’s nearly at all times a mirror concerned, and their plotlines nearly by no means make sense. And the characters speak humorous and there’s a lot of alcohol. Have you ever seen this scandalous and traditional episode of the 1984 hit cleaning soap opera Forceington’s Ridge? It checks all of the containers on the cleaning soap opera necessities listing. Stuff will get actual bodily actual quick for Alexia (Cecily Sturdy). However not in a like horny and dramatic form of method. As she adjusts herself within the mirror, she’s confronted by none apart from Sandrine (Palmer), the daring and offended spouse of the well-dressed, double-entendre-loving man (Bowen Yang) Alexia is preoccupied with as of late. Not solely do these girls get right into a tussle over their mutual love, however their physique doubles find yourself getting much more display screen time than they anticipated. Watching Sturdy try and stifle her laughter on this over-the-top sketch is simply pleasant. Now off we go to the winery!