“Saturday Night time Dwell” has undergone a number of retooling over the summer season — with a number of castmembers exiting the present and 4 new actors signing on. So that they made positive to deal with the slew of variations with a self-referential cold-open that includes the evening’s host, Miles Teller.
Teller performed Peyton Manning, joined by his brother Eli Manning (Andrew Dismukes), as they live-commented on the “Saturday Night time Dwell” cold-open sketch, and brutally criticized the sketch.
The bit acquired much more meta when Jon Hamm joined Peyton and Eli as a particular visitor commentator and all three of them acquired in on the enjoyable of creating enjoyable of the solid’s gaffes within the sketch-within-a-sketch.
At one level, Shawn White confirmed up for a one-line cameo and Hamm joked, “Effectively, you understand, typically they want to herald an actual celeb when the host isn’t that well-known… I imply, they couldn’t get the star of the large summer season film, like, Tom Cruise or John Hamm, they needed to get the costar.”
Peyton (once more, performed by Teller, the evening’s host) indignantly replied, “Effectively, I heard they not often put the hosts in chilly open, so after they do, it’s particular.”
“Particular? Or is it determined?” Hamm shot again.
By utilizing the sketch-within-a-sketch conceit, the present managed to not solely poke enjoyable at themselves, they acquired an opportunity to introduce all the brand new castmembers whereas additionally ingratiating themselves to new audiences with a little bit of self-deprecation.
Now solely time will inform how the brand new, remarkably smaller solid will gel over the course of the season.
“Saturday Night time Dwell” airs dwell, coast-to-coast, at 11:30 p.m. ET, 8:30 p.m. PT on International.
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