Melissa McCarthy got Saturday Night Live in the holiday spirit with a festive opening monologue, where she was toppled by a huge faux snowstorm.<\/p>\n
After a few weeks off air, the two-time Oscar nominee began the episode by celebrating how \u201cgreat\u201d it was to be back for her sixth time hosting the sketch comedy series. Marking the first episode to air in the month of December, McCarthy also commemorated it being \u201ca special time of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s about family and friends and classic Christmas music. Come on, set the mood, gang,\u201d she said as music began playing in the background. The actress then went on to show off her talents as a musician, one that plays the \u201cmouth horn.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSpeaking of music, there\u2019s something most people don\u2019t know about me, and it\u2019s that I am a musician. And my instrument is the mouth horn. That\u2019s right, it\u2019s the mouth horn,\u201d she said before she began humming the tune of \u201cCarol of the Bells.\u201d<\/p>\n
McCarthy continued to rave about the holiday season, noting that she \u201clove[s] this time of year,\u201d going on to list a few reasons why: \u201cThe tree is lit, and Santa\u2019s checking his lists. He\u2019s got naughty and nice, and Epstein.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could all use a little Christmas magic. So how about we put a little bit of snow to get us in the holiday mood?\u201d she said as a string of flurries fell down around her on-set. \u201cThis is SNL, Don\u2019t be stingy with the snow!\u201d<\/p>\n
The snowfall began lightly, but quickly picked up, as a wave of snow fell on top of the Little Mermaid star, engulfing her with a faux snowstorm. \u201cOkay, that was way too much,\u201d she exclaimed as she went on to continue the monologue, where Marcello Hernandez joined her on-stage to prompt a \u201cpiano duet.\u201d<\/p>\n
The SNL cast member wheeled a piano into the frame, where he accidentally pushed McCarthy out of said frame as the two bickered back and forth. Hernandez set the piano into place, as the actress joked that he dropped it on her fingers.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow I\u2019ve ruined Christmas,\u201d she said, though Kenan Thompson assured her she did not sour the occasion.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, nonsense, Melissa McCarthy. Come on, you haven\u2019t ruined Christmas at all. Everyone here loves you,\u201d he said. \u201cNow why don\u2019t we do one of your favorite Christmas songs?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want me to sing?\u201d the actress asked, as Thompson responded, \u201cNo, no. I want you to blow that sweet horn.\u201d McCarthy then mumbled the melody of \u201cChristmas (Baby Please Come Home)\u201d while a few additional SNL cast members joined her to sing and dance.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the night, Colin Jost began the cold open by portraying Pete Hegseth, who was asked by a journalist if there was \u201cany truth to the allegations that after an initial strike on a drug smuggling boat, you ordered a second strike to kill the survivors?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst of all, that kind of cruel, heartless act has no place in operation Kill Everybody,\u201d he replied. \u201cSecond, I wasn\u2019t in the room when it happened, okay? I was so jacked up after the first strike I had to make an emergency call to my sponsor \u2014 I\u2019m sorry, a guy at an anonymous meeting \u2014 so I don\u2019t drink something that I like and I want but I can\u2019t have, but I want it, and I need it and I want it right now. It\u2019s booze.\u201d<\/p>\n
James Austin Johnson joined the cold open as Trump, who showed his support for Hegseth.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe love Pete. He\u2019s a great guy. He\u2019s just fog of war, right? Fog of war. It\u2019s a thing you only say after doing war crime, right? You never hear a general go, \u2018Everything went according to plan in fog of war.\u2019 It\u2019s like when you go into the sauna at Equinox and suddenly you\u2019re doing stuff you never did before,\u201d Johnson\u2019s Trump said. \u201cFog of War, we love it. It\u2019s a great new excuse, we love it. So I stand by Pete, and nothing can change my mind less. Unless of course, it could hurt me in any way, in which case, I\u2019ll throw him under one of Mamdani\u2019s free buses.\u201d<\/p>\n
McCarthy served as the first SNL host<\/a> of December, alongside Dijon as musical guest. Saturday night marked her sixth time leading the show, though she\u2019s made several cameos over the years.<\/p>\n There are two more SNL shows left for 2025, with Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery<\/a> star Josh O\u2019Connor set to make his hosting debut on Dec. 13, with Lily Allen as musical guest. Ariana Grande will be the final host of the year, with none other than Cher as the Dec. 20 musical guest, making her first appearance on the sketch comedy show since 1987.<\/p>\n Season 51 has already aired six episodes, as Bad Bunny<\/a>, Amy Poehler<\/a>, Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>,\u00a0Miles Teller<\/a>, Nikki Glaser<\/a> and\u00a0Glen Powell<\/a> all took turns in the leading role.<\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melissa McCarthy got Saturday Night Live in the holiday spirit with a festive opening monologue, where she was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,10579,107362,145058,132463,28306,28371,145569,101732,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-330123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hollywood-reporter","12":"tag-kenan-thompson","13":"tag-marcello-hernandez","14":"tag-melissa-mccarthy","15":"tag-pete-hegseth","16":"tag-saturday-night-live","17":"tag-sketch-comedy-series","18":"tag-snl-cast-member","19":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}