“Brat” summer season is likely to be over, however nothing is really useless till “Saturday Night Live” will get its fingers on it.
On Saturday’s season opener of the NBC sketch comedy sequence, Bowen Yang remodeled into Charli XCX to host a fictional sequence referred to as “The Speak Speak Present,” in a nod to one of many British pop star’s music titles.
Within the phase, Yang welcomed “Australian dingo twink Troye Sivan,” with whom Charli XCX is at present on the Sweat Tour. Enjoying the “Rush” singer was Sarah Sherman, who lifted up her shirt to disclose faux washboard abs.
“Troye, are you cheerful to be right here?” requested Yang, to which Sherman responded, “Naur!”
Yang then ran via latest occasions and deemed them both “brat or nat.” The decision: Hunter Biden’s laptop computer is “brat,” and Mark Robinson’s search historical past is “nat.” Barron Trump going to NYU is “brat,” however NYU itself is “nat.” Amy Adams in “Nightbitch”? “Brat.” Eric Adams’ indictment? “Nat.”
Yang then introduced on the visitors of “The Speak Speak Present”: “queer nightlife icon Susanne Bartsch and hetero CNN icon Kaitlan Collins,” performed by “SNL” host Jean Sensible and Chloe Fineman, respectively.
Yang then proceeded to direct political inquiries to Sensible’s Susanne Bartsch and questions like, “Have you ever ever accomplished ketamine?” to Fineman’s CNN anchor.
Subsequent launched was the “unhealthy woman of C-SPAN,” aka U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett from Texas, performed by Ego Nwodim. The congresswoman then gave her unfiltered ideas on all the things from JD Vance (“smoky-eyed sofa-sexual can’t order donuts however has donut physique”) to gerrymandering (“crazy-shaped crooked bitch”).
“Brat,” Charli XCX’s sixth studio album, was launched on June 7 and rapidly captured the cultural (and, in some methods, the political) zeitgeist. With its hyperpop-influenced membership bangers and slime-green aesthetic, it grew to become the album of the summer season. It additionally grew to become fodder for TikTok dances and memes, which went so far as the Kamala Harris marketing campaign briefly adopting the “brat” moniker.
Charli XCX introduced “Brat” to New York every week earlier than “SNL,” acting at Madison Sq. Backyard with Troye Sivan and particular visitors Lorde and Addison Rae. She is ready to launch a “Brat” remix album on Oct. 11.
“Saturday Evening Dwell” kicked off its fiftieth season on Sept. 28 with host Jean Sensible and musical visitor Jelly Roll. The enduring sketch comedy sequence will have fun its huge anniversary with a reside primetime particular on Feb. 16. The sequence airs on NBC at 11:30 p.m. ET and streams on Peacock.
