Timothée Chalamet Retains Breaking Character As ‘SNL’ Host

Timothée Chalamet adopted in Ryan Gosling’s footsteps by struggling to not giggle by way of sketches throughout his third time internet hosting Saturday Night time Dwell. The writers of the NBC late-night program didn’t do him any favors with characters and conditions that had been fairly on the market. There was no Beavis & Butt-Head-magnitude breakdown however there have been quite a lot of smiles and chuckles.

In his first sketch, Chalamet performed a bungee exercise teacher. He stayed in character by way of a lot of the skit, wherein he led a gaggle of ladies in numerous workout routines, together with swimming, froggy strolling in addition to hanging on the bungee cords immobile doing a “Jimmy Carter” to groans from the viewers.

However when the time got here to rejoice the birthday of one of many girls, performed by Chloe Fineman, with a Cinnabon frosted cake, it was an excessive amount of for Chalamet as the ladies had been flying in to seize a chunk of the cake, typically with their mouths, adopted by some cake throwing. Chalamet could possibly be heard chuckling.

Chalamet subsequent performed Benny, a barista in coaching who was requested to recommend coffee-themed puns for the espresso store’s black board out entrance.

He stored arising with standup-style jokes about man’s girlfriend that obtained rejected as a result of they A: didn’t point out espresso and B: made enjoyable of the girl’s weight.

Benny’s act turned increasingly more elaborate as he added a nickname, Huge Benny, and a dance routine. In his third try, he even made a espresso pun.

“Simply the opposite day my girl mentioned, Huge Benny, how a lot weight you suppose I gained? Lady, a latte.”

Benny then launched one other wannabe comedian, performed by Keenan Thompson, and it was the duo’s dance quantity and SNL veteran’s supply that cracked Chalamet up.

Within the subsequent sketch, Chalamet and Bowen Yang performed AI-generated characters in an academic podcast designed to assist college students be taught completely different faculty topics. The 2 held awkward discussions about historical past and science, with Chalamet getting a chance to indicate off his fluent French, whereas additionally happening pff-topic tangents a couple of lady named Trish.

It was when Chalamet’s character introduced that Trish had proposed and he and his co-host raised their fingers with six fingers every that the A Full Unknown star misplaced it and began laughing.

Chalamet’s hardest take a look at was a sketch the place he performed a high heart specialist who saved his girlfriend’s grandmother after she had a coronary heart assault with a CPR that concerned him farting in her face. Sure, it was as foolish because it sounds. Chalamet barely held it collectively by way of that half. He was then seen laughing when Thompson’s character shared his response having been the closest to the life-saving operation.