JLD on 'SNL': The good (Jonas' arms) and the bad (a heroin commercial)
One of Saturday Night Live's best sketches from the weekend actually never made air. A cut-for-time Paul Ryan ad (in which Taran Killam's Ryan promises he's not running for president) was shared on YouTube.
As for the sketches that aired Saturday with host Julia Louis-Dreyfus, it was a mixed bag.
The good
God is a boob man
SNL parodies God's Not Dead 2 with a fake trailer for a film about a baker (Vanessa Bayer) who won't make a cake for two grooms who want her to admit that "God is gay." The trailer turns hysterical once Fight Song starts playing as Bayer walks into the courthouse. Bayer says, on top of the dramatic music, "If God is gay, then why aren't there any gay priests? God is... a boob man!" The movie is "from the makers of God on the Run and Angel in Demin: A Kim Davis Story."
Pool boy
An emotional housewife (Louis-Dreyfus) tells her distracted young pool boy (Pete Davidson) that she can no longer sleep with him, because it's wrong. He's fine, either way. So Louis-Dreyfus tearfully gives him a farewell note and is ready to stop secretly hooking up with twenty-somethings... until a guy with a lawn mower, played by musical guest Nick Jonas, shows up in a sleeveless shirt to say, "I'm going to be doing your house now. I'm Tobey."
"I wanna (bleep) that kid," says Louis-Dreyfus.
The joke lands, even as Jonas' arm muscles almost steal the show. (Jonas also appears in this sketch.)
The bad
Heroin AM
Is it possible to make a good joke about heroin? Probably. But this commercial that makes light of the heroin epidemic and promotes "the only non-drowsy heroin on the market," Heroin AM, is more offensive than it is funny.
"I wanna use heroin, but I also wanna get stuff done... now available in gummy bears you can melt down and inject," Louis-Dreyfus says in the parody ad.
Many viewers have shared their disgust with the sketch on Twitter:
Who works here
When you're shopping at a CVS, it's often hard to tell who actually works at the store. So yes, that's a relatable concept. But turning that singular idea into an entire gameshow called "Who Works Here?" doesn't make for a humorous five minutes.