SEASON 46 of Saturday Night Live is nearly finished, but not without some hilarious additional guests gracing the iconic stage.
Tonight’s May 15 episode will air at 11:30 p.m. ET on NBC.
Who is hosting SNL tonight?
Comedian Keegan Michael-Key is hosting SNL tonight, May 15.
Key is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. He co-created and co-starred alongside Jordan Peele in Comedy Central’s sketch series Key & Peele and co-starred in USA Network’s Playing House.
Tonight’s show is the the second to last episode of season 46 before the cast and crew wrap up for the summer.
Who is performing on SNL tonight?
Olivia Rodrigo will perform on May 15’s episode.
Rodrigo, 18, is an American actress and singer.
She began acting in theater productions during her elementary and middle school years and then moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting.
Rodrigo has appeared in two separate Disney series during her young career.
Rodrigo’s Driver’s License single became part of a Saturday Night Live skit on the episode that aired on February 20.
Bridgerton’s Regé-Jean plays the single – which he calls “my song” – on the jukebox to his buddies at the pool hall.
His gang of “manly men”, including Pete Davidson, Mikey Day, Alex Moffat and Bowen Yang, are confused as to what the tune is about.
Alex Mofatt says: “I think I overheard on the news or something that it’s actually about the kids from High School Musica. I don’t know.”
Pete Davidson replies: “Oh, who? Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron, Sharpay -that whole crew?”
Regé-Jean then insists: “Nah, man. Olivia wrote it about Joshua Bassett who’s allegedly now with Sabrina Carpenter.”
Who hosted last week’s show?
Tesla CEO Elon Musk hosted Saturday Night Live on May 8, and the episode was the third highest rated only behind Chris Rock and Dave Chapelle.
He made headlines after he revealed he has Asperger’s syndrome.
The billionaire said he was the “first person” with Asperger’s syndrome to host the live sketch comedy show “or at least the first person to admit it.”
The 49-year-old CEO said in his SNL monologue, “So I won’t make a lot of eye contact with the cast tonight.
“But don’t worry, I’m pretty good at running ‘human’ in emulation mode,” he said to the audience.
SNL fans were initially disappointed when it was announced that Musk would host the episode.
One of the skits that Musk starred in titled Gen Z Hospital has been accused of cultural appropriation.
The skit, written by Che, starred Kate McKinnon, Mikey Day, Heidi Gardner, Ego Nwodim, Bowen Yang, and SNL host Elon Musk.
In the skit, the cast used words and phrases including bestie, no cap, go off, king, sis, gang gang, and it’s the…. for me.
While the skit was meant to joke about the slang used in Gen. Z, many of those phrases are used in African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Many viewers believe that the use of those phrases is considered cultural appropriation.
