I’ve been thinking about the Saturday Night Live cast lately, and how the show has low-key assembled one of the strongest squads of performers it’s had in years. Sketches like this one prove it.
The latest episode, hosted by Willem Dafoe, delivered a sketch featuring New York City apartment tenant meeting where pretty much every member of the cast not named Colin Jost or Michael Che got a moment to show off their comedy chops. (No Cecily Strong either, sadly.) There’s no one highlight to pull out here because everyone brings a little something different to their moment.
Newcomer Sarah Sherman makes her saltiness over an unexpected bill hilariously and loudly clear. Veterans Kate McKinnon and Kenan Thompson get big laughs from subdued moments as an elderly cat-hoarder and a very sexually active ladies man. Pete Davidson and Aristotle Athari both put on funny accents and find the comedy in their unique brands of weirdness. Even Dafoe gets in on the fun as the building’s resident “pain in the ass” who longs for the days of a more dangerous and chaotic NYC.
