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Of course Maya Rudolph brought her Beyoncé impression back to Saturday Night Live this week… and of course she had to go back on Hot Ones.
Rudolph once again played the pop icon during her SNL hosting gig this week and tried to eat more painfully hot chicken wings as a guest on the talk show Hot Ones. (Rudolph’s Beyoncé previously visited Hot Ones in a March 2021 SNL sketch.) This time, Beyoncé — decked out in full Cowboy Carter gear with a cowboy hat — let host Sean Evans (played by Mikey Day) know right away: “It’s a pleasure for you to have me.”
Evans asked her why she would come back after such a horrible experience last time, and Beyoncé admitted: “This is the only thing I have attempted that I did not slay.” This deeply troubled her, so she came back to take another crack at it. But from the first taste of Sergeant Sphincter’s Volcanopeño hot sauce, Beyoncé was in trouble: She went cross-eyed before complaining that “my bones are hot” and then speaking in tongues like she was possessed by a demon.
After an even hotter wing, it went downhill fast: Beyoncé let out an inhuman belch and then broke down in tears, throwing a glass of milk in Evans’ face in anger. (“You need to kill yourself, Gollum! That’s what you get for giving the world’s baddest bitch swamp ass on YouTube!”) To extinguish the flames, she even called over an assistant played by Kenan Thompson and had him pump very expensive cocoa butter into her mouth. Guess there are some things even Queen Bey can’t slay.
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Maybe I was just in the wrong mood or something, but none of the sketches really landed for me. I usually love Maya Rudolph too, but it just missed the mark this time
Last night’s episode
was horrible!
Not funny or entertaining!
This episode was so meh. I expected more from Maya. And why is still Kenan still on the show?
Kenan is still on SNL because his show got canceled and his movies aren’t funny. SNL is his comfort zone. Also Maya always been unfunny and not talented.
Ooh… you seem fun!
I agree!
I deduce that JYT and Robbie are the same person.
Maya does no wrong
At this point SNL should just do an audience reaction shot after every Michael Che joke since he now looks at them (and comments) the entire time. It’s an extremely distracting and unprofessional habit that has worsened over time.
This made me laugh out loud! I think Maya Rudolph did an excellent job portraying Beyonce in this skit. It’s all in fun and it was done well!
Boring