We won’t until tomorrow how “Saturday Night Live” did in the ratings last night. It was either a huge success or a bust.
That’s because the show did something unusual: most of it was in Spanish. Except for the excellent cold opening mocking Jim Jordan’s failure to become Speaker of the House, the show was not spoken in English.
Host and musical guest Bad Bunny, who announced in his monologue that he’d rather speak Spanish, pushed “SNL” into a new territory. To boost attention, producer Lorne Michaels added actor Pedro Pascal from the start — he’s American and very popular. He also surprised the audience with Mick Jagger in two spots, and Lady Gaga — currently associated with Jagger because of her Rolling Stones song — to introduce Bad Bunny.
Pascal got away with appearing, even though he’s a member of SAG — because “SNL” is under a different contract. Maybe.
Will Bad Bunny bring Good Ratings? We’ll see. But it was a brave move, and something that “SNL” can afford to do after 48 years.
