{"id":954290,"date":"2026-11-01T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954290\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:52:10","slug":"snl-inde-navarrette-takes-swipe-at-shane-gillis-during-monologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954290\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;SNL&#8217;: Inde Navarrette Takes Swipe at Shane Gillis During Monologue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFollowing a Trump-centric cold open that featured the return of Tom Hanks\u2019 David S. Pumpkins, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a>\u201d host <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/lists\/young-hollywood-impact-report-2026-inde-navarrette-connor-storrie-hudson-williams-ishowspeed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inde Navarrette<\/a> took the stage at Studio 8H for her first opening monologue. It was a fitting choice to have the star of the year\u2019s breakout horror hit \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/obsession\/\" id=\"auto-tag_obsession\" data-tag=\"obsession\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Obsession<\/a>\u201d (and the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/inde-navarrette-obsession-nikki-memes-curry-barker-tiff-talk-1236859203\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">internet\u2019s apparent obsession<\/a>) make her hosting debut on Halloween night, and the 25-year-old rising star seemed more than up for the occasion, unlike a <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/snl-shane-gillis-bombs-monologue-again-hitler-misogyny-1236907937\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">certain stand-up comedian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cYou probably know me from the movie \u2018Obsession.\u2019 And a lot of people ask me if I\u2019m anything like my character Nikki and I\u2019m like, \u2018No\u2026 no, no, don\u2019t do that!\u2019\u201d she joked, sliding into Nikki\u2019s cadence. \u201cBut the thing is, is I\u2019m nothing like my character in \u2018Obsession.\u2019 Like, my boyfriend is here tonight to support me and we have such a chill relationship, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe camera then cut to Navarrette\u2019s boyfriend, Nick Aiello, in the crowd bound and gagged to a chair. Then, the actress took a shot at <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/snl-shane-gillis-bombs-monologue-again-hitler-misogyny-1236907937\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shane Gillis\u2019 \u201cSNL\u201d monologue<\/a> from earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI can\u2019t believe I\u2019m saying this, but I\u2019m going to be in a Marvel movie,\u201d said Navarrette, who will be playing Rogue in the new \u201cX-Men\u201d movie. \u201cAnd I know it\u2019s really important for Marvel that you get really fit, so I\u2019ve been working out a lot, so every morning I put on my little whore outfit and I hit the gym.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tGillis got a lot of flak for a lame, lazy joke about how women dress like \u201cwhores\u201d now when they go to the gym in \u201cneon, like, artificial bait\u201d-colored shorts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a Trump-centric cold open that featured the return of Tom Hanks\u2019 David S. 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