What happens when Saturday Night Live‘s host and musical guest turn out to be — cue ominous music — the same person? In the last few years, at least, the results have been pretty good. Billie Eilish’s episode as host worked well, and Adele’s guest host-only episode featured one of the show’s most bizarre and inspired sketches. This week, it was Lizzo’s turn to show off both her comedic and her musical skills — which, in a very meta touch, served as the premise for one of the evening’s sketches.
The sketch paired her with Please Don’t Destroy, and the premise was simple: she was grappling with writer’s block, and needed assistance writing two new songs in the span of around ten minutes.
The escalating tension — including an unexpected reference to a beloved television series and the revelation that one of SNL‘s cast members might be a serial killer — works well, and Lizzo’s energy meshes well with the Please Don’t Destroy trio. And it does an excellent job of working from an understandable premise — writer’s block — and taking it to increasingly bizarre places. Where does it end up? You’ll just have to watch it and see.
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