{"id":918042,"date":"2026-11-15T09:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T09:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/918042\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T09:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T09:54:11","slug":"snl-john-mulaney-roasts-rfk-jr-in-opening-monologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/918042\/","title":{"rendered":"‘SNL’: John Mulaney Roasts RFK Jr. In Opening Monologue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJohn Mulaney<\/a> returned home to Studio 8H for his seventh time hosting Saturday Night Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his opening monologue, the 4x Emmy winner and former SNL<\/a> writer recalled his time working on the NBC sketch comedy show from 2008 to 2013.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOne of the only difficult things about working here was dealing with hosts,\u201d said Mulaney. \u201cSo, it\u2019s fun when I host, because it\u2019s like there\u2019s no host.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring his quick stand-up set, Mulaney noted how everything made sense after finding out his boomer dad was on the autism spectrum. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t know he\u2019s autistic. He\u2019ll find out right at this airs,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe comedian also called out Boomers\u2019 hypocritical complaints about Gen Z and joked about about his son\u2019s toddler friends, which transitioned into a roast of RFK Jr., complete with a brutal impression.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou dumbass, your thing can\u2019t be the measles,\u201d said Mulaney, adding: \u201cYeah, I called him Bobby. I\u2019ve known him for over a decade. You shouldn\u2019t be part of the government if I\u2019ve known you for over a decade.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a news report sketch of a plane crash on a flight from Turkey to Newark, Mulaney played a survivor who attempted to play off his hair transplant bandages as injuries from the accident. Ben Marshall played another survivor with similar bandages, plus some very plump lip injections. \u201cUnfortunately, some bees swarmed the plane, Sully style,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think those were geese,\u201d noted Ashley Padilla\u2019s reporter character as Marcello Hernandez played a pilot who got penile enlargement surgery.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe sketch ended with Kam Patterson as NYC\u2019s former Mayor Eric Adams, who was also on the flight.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe next sketch was a fake pharmaceutical commercial for \u201cSister,\u201d which is just Mulaney, Andrew Dismukes and Kenan Thompson relying on their sisters to take care of their sick parents.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn another sketch, Padilla played Kathy, the \u201cworst person on earth\u201d who crashes her co-workers\u2019 happy hour, where she\u2019s nursing a fishbowl. Mulaney tries to make his colleagues Day, Thompson and Sarah Sherman to ignore her, despite her hilariously awkward demeanor.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Jeremy Culhane hosted the fake brewery show Gettin It Done, he had a few autumn IPAs with Mulaney\u2019s Brewmaster Kenny, which led to the pair drunkenly making out multiple times.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWell, turns out it was the beer,\u201d said Culhane\u2019s host Chris Gut after a steamy back-and-forth. \u201cWe hung out sober one day, and it was like, nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn \u201cWeekend Update,\u201d co-host Colin Jost commented on the FAA\u2019s historic grounding of planes on Friday. \u201cSuddenly, ferry transportation is looking pretty reliable,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, co-host Michael Che showed off his own RFK Jr. impression. \u201cPut me in the cast, Lorne!\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn \u201cThe Little Park of Horrors,\u201d Mulaney played a horse-drawn carriage operator mourning NYC\u2019s recent ban, \u201cand for no reason at all, except animal cruelty and human murders.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the musical sketch, he introduces a series of characters, including Veronika Slowikowska as a woman still finishing the marathon, singing a parody of \u201cDon\u2019t Rain on My Parade.\u201d Tommy Brennan plays a pedicab driver coming for Mulaney\u2019s job with a take on \u201cAnything You Can Do (I Can Do Better).\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tDay played a homeless man ranting about God, while Thompson played a cloud of weed smoke, backed by Sherman, Grace Reiter and Saidah Belo-Osagie in a rendition of Cats\u2018 \u201cMr. Mistoffelees.\u201d James Austin Johnson played \u201cPark Slope Cuck\u201d singing his parody of \u201cMaria\u201d from West Side Story, entitled \u201cMamdani.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn another Bowen Yang appearance, following the cold open<\/a>, the SNL alum served his current Broadway role from Oh Mary! with a parody of the Dreamgirls song \u201cAnd I\u2019m Telling You I\u2019m Not Going\u201d about the MTA.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe sketch included an expert callback to Padilla\u2019s Kathy character. \u201cWe talking transpo?\u201d she asked with her fishbowl drink in hand.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the final sketch, Day and several of the cast members played Boomers at Woodstock, planning to buy all the houses one day, keep all the money, scare their kids about weed and make college more expensive.<\/p>\n

\n\tMarking Mulaney\u2019s seventh time hosting Saturday Night Live, following his time as sketch writer from 2008 to 2013, Phoebe Bridgers joined him this weekend in her second gig as musical guest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Mulaney returned home to Studio 8H for his seventh time hosting Saturday Night Live. In his opening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,38807,12015,12016],"class_list":["post-918042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-john-mulaney","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-snl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}