Dangerous Bunny pulled double obligation on Saturday Night time Reside — internet hosting and serving as musical visitor in the identical episode — and enlisted a slew of star-studded cameos to assist pull it off.
Dangerous Bunny, 29, kicked off his opening monologue on Saturday, October 21, by sharing his pleasure about becoming a member of the ranks of SNL hosts.
“My identify is Benito and I’m so excited to be right here on sábado, sorry SNL,” the rapper started, referring to his full identify, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio. “Folks [are] questioning if I can host this present as a result of English just isn’t my first language. I don’t know in the event that they know, [but] I do no matter I need. So, I can host this present in English, I can order McDonald’s in English [and] I can have intercourse in English, however I favor intercourse in Spanish as a result of it’s higher. I simply favor Spanish.”
Dangerous Bunny then switched up his monologue, addressing the SNL crowd in his native Spanish. After getting upset that the present solely positioned a “talking in non-English” subtitle on the display screen as he spoke, Dangerous Bunny enlisted some help from shock visitor Pedro Pascal.
“I wish to deliver up my pal to assist. Pedro?” Dangerous Bunny stated.
Pascal, 48, then requested if the “Celebration” musician needed him to “translate” the remainder of his monologue.
“He says, ‘I’m blessed to be right here with my favourite actor, Pedro Pascal,’” the Final of Us star, who hosted an episode of SNL season 48 earlier this yr, translated earlier than giving Dangerous Bunny some recommendation to wrap up the monologue. “I discover it’s at all times charming whenever you make a self-deprecating joke, the place you make a joke about part of your physique or your face that’s unflattering. … You already know what additionally works? Audiences like it whenever you present an embarrassing photograph of your self.”
Pedro Pascal and Dangerous Bunny in the course of the SNL Monologue on October 21, 2023. Will Heath/NBC
Dangerous Bunny didn’t have both of these additions available as a result of, in line with Pascal, “There’s clearly nothing about you to make enjoyable of.”
After Dangerous Bunny teased the “superb present,” Pascal caught round for a sketch. He reprised his position of solid member Marcello Hernandez’s “Protecting Mom” — which he debuted throughout his February internet hosting debut — whereas Dangerous Bunny performed Hernandez’s aunt.
Dangerous Bunny as Tia and Pedro Pascal as Mama in the course of the ‘Protecting Mother 2’ SNL sketch on October 21, 2023. Will Heath/NBC
The cameos didn’t cease there as Woman Gaga, who final appeared on SNL as musical visitor in 2016, stopped by to introduce Dangerous Bunny’s first singing efficiency.
“Girls and gents, Dangerous Bunny,” Gaga, 37, exclaimed earlier than the rap star kicked his new music “Un Preview.”
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Saturday additionally featured a shock look by Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger throughout Dangerous Bunny and Hernandez’s SNL sketch about filming a telenovela. After the duo filmed a take — full with plenty of pretend slaps — costar Punkie Johnson tried to grasp her traces regardless of not figuring out a phrase of Spanish.
The sketch was punctuated by the arrival of a mustached Jagger, 80, who portrayed Dangerous Bunny and Hernandez’s onscreen father — and fake-slapped them each.
Dangerous Bunny, Mick Jagger, and Marcello Hernandez on ‘Saturday Night time Reside.’ NBC
Pascal, Gaga and Jagger all reunited alongside Dangerous Bunny for Saturday’s goodnights on the finish of the present.
Saturday Night time Reside airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET.
