This week, an episode promo entitled ‘The Saturday Nights of Our Lives’ featuring the host Jon Hamm has just been released by Saturday Night Live, and let’s just say… people have thoughts about this. The teaser shows Hamm in full soap opera mode with the tagline ‘everyone gets pregnant’ – which immediately sent Twitter in a frenzy of reactions, running everything from hype to total confusion.
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About all this is absurdity peaked, or more correctly, parody that daytime dramas seem to have every character end up pregnant. That is the kind of unhinged energy that brings us late night sketch comedy, and nothing surprising about it. Now, the real story, however, is that people are so split on this. Some of the audience members already called it an instant classic while others…. well, let’s say, not everyone buys what SNL is trying to sell this time.
It had turned into a battlefield in just minutes. User @johnchatt1 summed that side perfectly with ‘Holy crap that’s funny,’ while @IAMKENDOIT countered with ‘SO UNTALENTED SO UNFUNNY really bad 👎.’ Classic Twitter dichotomy-you either love SNL’s sense of humor or feel it jumped the shark somewhere during the Obama administration.
Then, however, there was the interesting form of Jon Hamm’s involvement. @wegslift said, ‘I would let Jon hamm get me pregnant (I’m a man)’ which honestly? Mood. Meanwhile, @MissBuknows offered, ‘I’ll volunteer to get pregnant 🥰😍’ which just goes to show Hamm’s charms still run deep, decades after Mad Men. The man would run a show by having paint dry before half the world would be climbing up the walls.
All but one barely cheers on the musical guest, though. @O7426 was all ‘I was hyped till i saw the musical guest…’ but offered no name, though Lizzo discourse was elsewhere. @TrumpCokeHabit asked, “I thought Lizzo was canceled for being rude toward her dancers or something,” which prompted a whole thread on cancel culture and whether or not SNL was even supposed to snatch her. @timms_cameron shot back by saying, ‘Morgan wallen had an n word scandal and he got invited back two weeks ago so i dont think they care if lizzo was rude’ – and honestly that’s the most coherent take on celebrity scandals we’ve seen in weeks.
Plus, they also ripped off the creative decisions. ‘Another classic case of “Who needs a plot when you can just throw in a pregnancy?”… Jon Hamm really knows how to keep it mid huh?’ pointed out @dairy_mateo. Ouch. @Tezkiya, on the other hand, had demands: ‘If there is not a saxophonist sketch I riot.’ Fair.
And then some highlights of the chaos include:
– “@wokesweetie declaring ‘jon hamm mpreg is cannon’” (whatever that means)
– @Blancoh17 screaming about pizza farts of the writers room (???)
– @Cocolicquot hitting us with French “Haha tu es enceinte” (translation: “Haha you’re pregnant”)
– @GregHall26 ‘That was about three bastards too long.’ (specific)
And best of all? This is for about a 30-second promo. Guess how much a nuclear bomb Twitter will blow up when the show airs. Either you’re here for soap-opera parody or watching the social media dumpster fire, one thing’s for sure- SNL still knows how to get people talking. Even if half those people are just hollering about how much they hate it.
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To some, indeed, this entire pregnant story is brilliant satire; to others, lazy writing. But like all such sketch shows throughout history, it will probably find a point stuck somewhere in-between-in this case, more or less, at about one Jonas weekend from now when we learn who gets knocked up (our money’s on at least one Weekend Update anchor).