SNL Recap: Colman Domingo Hosts And Melania Trump Plans Her Speech

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Colman Domingo hosts a brand-new, but underwhelming, Saturday Night Live episode this week.

Saturday Night Live had a great start to the year with several really strong episodes in a row. But the most recent show wasn’t as good as the ones before it, though it still had some bright spots. Here’s a look at what worked and what didn’t on SNL this week.

SNL Cold Open Trolls Melania Trump

The show opened with James Austin Johnson brilliantly impersonating Donald Trump again, this time struggling to write a social media post about Iran. It was hilarious watching him try to get the wording just right! Then the sketch cleverly shifted to a series of phone calls he was making – Kenan Thompson was spot-on as Tiger Woods. And things got even more interesting when Chloe Fineman, as Melania Trump, called him to talk about her upcoming press conference regarding Jeffrey Epstein. It was a really bold and funny cold open.

SNL’s Fashion Students Witness A Crime

Wesley Welch (also known as Johnson) is hosting a live news broadcast about a recent bank robbery that happened close to the studio. The broadcast cuts to Ashley Padilla, who is reporting live from the scene and detailing the ongoing investigation. Elsewhere, D’Artagnan Meringue (Domingo) plays a professor at a local fashion school. He and his students are interviewed, and their funny, superficial, and critical comments about the suspect quickly become a highlight of the broadcast.

Honestly, this week’s Saturday Night Live didn’t really deliver. There were a couple of moments that stood out, but overall, it was a bit of a letdown. I’m going to run through some of the sketches that just didn’t quite land for me.

Weekend Update Grows Stale Once More

Weekend Update hasn’t been great lately, feeling repetitive with jokes about the usual suspects. However, Colin Jost did get a good reaction when he pretended to reveal a fabricated Trump social media post and playfully admitted the audience initially thought it was real.

SNL’s Parody Of Animorphs Degrades Itself

The sketch starts as a funny take on the show Animorphs, with kids turning into animals to fight aliens, then back into humans. But things go wrong when Sarah Sherman’s character, Lizzie, gets stuck halfway through changing – becoming a bizarre mix of human and frog. The sketch then relies heavily on over-the-top, crude humor, with Lizzie struggling to finish the transformation and punctuating the scene with burps and farts, which ultimately ruins any potential the sketch had.

Saturday Night Live airs new episodes on Saturdays at 11:30 PM ET and 8:30 PM PT on NBC.

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2026-04-12 11:38