{"id":199129,"date":"2026-03-01T08:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199129\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T08:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:51:19","slug":"connor-storrie-hosts-snl-with-olympians-and-hudson-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199129\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor Storrie hosts ‘SNL’ with Olympians and Hudson Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a rare case of \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d bringing on a guest host at the exact right moment, Connor Storrie of the hit Canadian hockey romance \u201cHeated Rivalry<\/a>\u201d brought sexy charisma to the show, even if a lot of the sketch material didn\u2019t rise to occasion.<\/p>\n

\u201cSNL\u201d parodied the show last month<\/a> by mixing it with \u201cHarry Potter,\u201d but with Storrie, and all the attention hockey got with Team USA\u2019s gold medal wins at the Winter Olympics, this hosting appearance felt especially well-planned. And that was even before members of the men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams dropped by, as did Storrie\u2019s co-star on \u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d Hudson Williams, who showed up to a raucous audience reaction for a sketch, showing that a lot of people have caught up with the series since it debuted on HBO Max in November.<\/p>\n

As for Storrie\u2019s performance, it was perhaps the best thing on the show, which had a lot of weak sketches, from a fairly obvious cold open to an early piece that seemed like an excuse for Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez to play a goofy teacher<\/a> with an exaggerated accent.<\/p>\n

Things got a little better with a pre-taped period piece about gentlemen giving glove slaps and Williams\u2019 appearance in a sketch about a man\u2019s marriage proposal going sideways because he keeps getting distracted by a group of happy men ice skating at Rockefeller Center<\/a>. Storrie also played a cool teen trying to extend kindness<\/a> to his extremely dorky tutor (Ben Marshall) and his equally dorky parents (Ashley Padilla and James Austin Johnson), a man who helped his friend out with his absurd leg-lengthening surgery<\/a>, and an office worker who proposes a romantic office dance<\/a>. Best of the night for Storrie, perhaps, was one in which he played a very injured stripper at a Las Vegas bachelorette party.<\/p>\n

What was clear was that across a pretty broad range of character types, Storrie held his own and brought some smoldering looks and playfulness that the show, for the most part, didn\u2019t know what to do with.<\/p>\n

Musical guests Mumford & Sons, along with Aaron Dessner from the National, performed \u201cRubber Band Man<\/a>\u201d with Hozier and \u201cHere<\/a>\u201d with Sierra Ferrell.<\/p>\n

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This week\u2019s cold open tackled the very recent attack on Iran<\/a> with President Trump (Johnson) addressing why he acted at 2 a.m. on a Saturday: \u201cIt\u2019s after the stock market closes for the weekend and it\u2019s to cause immeasurable fear, rage and chaos in the \u2018SNL\u2019 writers\u2019 room,\u201d he explained. Trump sang, \u201cWar! What is it good for? Distracting from the Epstein Files!\u201d before introducing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (Colin Jost), who chugged a non-alcoholic Four Loco and showed off his knuckle tattoos for \u201cEPIC FURY.\u201d After a brief aside for Trump and Hegseth to complement the underappreciated Nintendo GameCube console (on which Hegseth said he played the game \u201cPrince of Persia: Sands of Time\u201d), Hegseth said, \u201cWe took out a horrendous, horrible leader who was opposing his own people.\u201d Trump cut in: \u201cBut don\u2019t get any ideas!\u201d<\/p>\n

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In his monologue, Storrie joked about the cultural appeal of \u201cHeated Rivalry,\u201d which he said, \u201ctaught a lot of people about hockey\u2026 and taught a lot of straight women that their sexuality is actually gay guy.\u201d Storrie discussed growing up in Texas, working as a waiter before he was cast in the series, and how little time he had to prepare to play a Russian hockey player for the show. He was then joined by Jack and Quinn Hughes of the men\u2019s Olympic hockey team. But the reaction to the Hughes brothers was topped considerably in audience reaction by women\u2019s team players Hilary Knight and Megan Keller, who came on stage. \u201cIt was just gonna be us, but we thought we\u2019d invite the guys, too,\u201d Knight said. \u201cWe thought we\u2019d give them a little moment to shine,\u201d Keller added.<\/p>\n

Best sketch of the night: How dare they save the best jokes for a video sketch! \"\" <\/p>\n

At a posh London gathering in 1892, things get out of hand (literally) when two men (Mikey Day and Storrie) engage in a war of words that escalates to cries of \u201cHow dare you!\u201d followed by slaps with a glove. Others get involved, but it really gets out of hand when one man violates the so-called \u201cgentleman\u2019s code\u201d by using a fist. Soon, a dog and a baby are involved in the increasingly silly slapping. Storrie\u2019s comedic timing is particularly good in this one and the sketch resists the \u201cSNL\u201d trope of going straight to hardcore violence and bloodshed that it\u2019s been doing in a lot of video sketches of late.<\/p>\n

Also good: Tipping is appreciated for dancing while hurt \"\" <\/p>\n

At this point, \u201cSNL\u201d has probably done 100 bachelorette party sketches, but none of them had Storrie showing off his abs or getting his tearaway pants pulled off. Apart from the eye candy for those seeking it, the sketch offered some solid physical comedy with Storrie playing a stripper who shows up at a hotel suite severely injured after getting hit by a car. He pushes on to fulfill his job duties, but can barely stand. Storrie does a nice job flailing and flopping, throwing his bloodied-up body around the stage and around the bachelorettes (Padilla, Sarah Sherman, Veronika Slowikowska and Jane Wickline), who don\u2019t know whether to be repulsed or turned on.<\/p>\n

\u2018Weekend Update\u2019 winner: Advice to future maids of honor \u2014 avoid headlines \"\" <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, both \u201cWeekend Update\u201d character segments felt underbaked this week. Sherman played another oversexualized pop-culture meme in an elaborate costume \u2014 the negligent mother of Punch, the baby monkey<\/a> \u2014 hitting on Jost in hopes of getting pregnant. A little better, but still rough, was Slowikowska as Katie, the maid of honor at a wedding who makes jokes about the proceedings that play off of major news headlines, like cartel violence in Mexico, the Epstein files or the ongoing war in Ukraine. This one feels like it probably sounded really funny and smart at the table read, but it landed with a thud for the audience because the premise was so muddled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a rare case of \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d bringing on a guest host at the exact right moment,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[92594,21607,65291,5411,92593,48,52,51,47,50,49,1741,1555,592,3020,1860,92592,11393,92591,2664,1557],"class_list":["post-199129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-connor-storrie-host","tag-good-thing","tag-heated-rivalry","tag-hegseth","tag-hudson-williams","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-lot","tag-man","tag-people","tag-president-trump","tag-show","tag-sketch-material","tag-snl","tag-storrie","tag-war","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}