Sunday, November 15, 2026

A Perfect SNL: John Mulaney Eviscerates RFK Jr, Then Puts on a Clever Musical in Return to Form Episode, With a Spot-on Phoebe Bridgers

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Everything about tonight’s “Saturday Night Live” was perfect.

It mainly cascaded from John Mulaney’s hosting gig. He eviscerated Robert Kennedy Jr in an almost personal way. It was beautiful.

Mulaney later outdid himself with one of his special musical parodies. The video is at bottom. Bowen Yang was sensational as Mary Todd Lincoln from the Broadway show, “Oh Mary.”

The musical produced a rare moment on “SNL” as it reiterated a moment from an earlier very funny sketch with the great Ashley Padilla as an office co-worker who was being ignored by her colleagues. I guess it was a call back, again very rare, from the same episode. Brilliant stuff.

Also, the big reveal of this season is the amazing voice of Veronika Slowikowska. She needs to star in a Broadway musical immediately.

Jeremy Culhane’s impression of Elon Musk is getting even more sublime.

And Phoebe Bridgers hit the right notes with both of her songs. Her performances were spot on.

A return to form for “SNL” including Michael Che begging Lorne Michaels to be part of the main cast.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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