“Brat” summertime may be over, however absolutely nothing is genuinely dead up until “Saturday Night Live” gets its hands on it.
On Saturday’s season opener of the NBC sketch funny series, Bowen Yang changed into Charli XCX to host an imaginary series called “The Talk Show,” in a nod to among the British pop star’s tune titles.
In the sector, Yang invited “Australian dingo twink Troye Sivan,” with whom Charli XCX is presently on the Sweat Tour. Playing the “Rush” vocalist was Sarah Sherman, who raised her t-shirt to expose phony washboard abs.
“Troye, are you delighted to be here?” asked Yang, to which Sherman reacted, “Naur!”
Yang then went through current occasions and considered them either “brat or nat.” The decision: Hunter Biden’s laptop computer is “brat,” and Mark Robinson’s search history is “nat.” Barron Trump going to NYU is “brat,” however NYU itself is “nat.” Amy Adams in “Nightbitch”? “Brat.” Eric Adams’ indictment? “Nat.”
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Yang then induced the visitors of “The Talk Show”: “queer night life icon Susanne Bartsch and hetero CNN icon Kaitlan Collins,” played by “SNL” host Jean Smart and Chloe Fineman, respectively.
Yang then continued to direct political concerns to Smart’s Susanne Bartsch and concerns like, “Have you ever done ketamine?” to Fineman’s CNN anchor.
Next presented was the “bad woman of C-SPAN,” aka U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett from Texas, played by Ego Nwodim. The congresswoman then provided her unfiltered ideas on whatever from JD Vance (“smoky-eyed sofa-sexual can’t buy donuts however has donut body”) to gerrymandering (“crazy-shaped jagged bitch”).
“Brat,” Charli XCX’s 6th studio album, was launched on June 7 and rapidly recorded the cultural (and, in some methods, the political) zeitgeist. With its hyperpop-influenced club bangers and slime-green visual, it ended up being the album of the summer season. It likewise ended up being fodder for TikTok dances and memes, which reached the Kamala Harris project briefly embracing the “brat” name.
Charli XCX brought “Brat” to New York a week before “SNL,” carrying out at Madison Square Garden with Troye Sivan and unique visitors Lorde and Addison Rae. She is set to launch a “Brat” remix album on Oct. 11.
“Saturday Night Live” began its 50th season on Sept. 28 with host Jean Smart and musical visitor Jelly Roll. The renowned sketch funny series will commemorate its huge anniversary with a live primetime unique on Feb. 16. The series airs on NBC at 11:30 p.m. ET and streams on Peacock.