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A skit from the episode, titled “Gen Z Hospital,” is creating controversy online. It revolves around a group of friends waiting to hear updates about their seriously injured “bestie.” The sketch is written near-exclusively in “Gen Z internet slang,” which has much of its roots in African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Slang used in the sketch like “bruh,” “pressed” “catch hands,” “cuh,” and “tea” are all considered AAVE terms. It features Musk and cast members Kate McKinnon, Mikey Day, Heidi Gardner, Ego Nwodim, and Bowen Yang.
Saturday Night Live with a song dedicated to all the mums out there.
Taking place the night before Mother s Day, this episode has historically been treated as a Mother s Day episode, with special songs and sketches dedicated to and often featuring cast members mothers. This cold open was no different.
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Standing on stage at Studio 8H, she sang part of Dolly Parton s Light of a Clear Blue Morning before bringing out some of the NBC late-night sketch comedy series cast members and their real-life mothers, including Kate McKinnon and Laura Campbell, who did a quick impression of Molly Shannon s Mary Catherine Gallagher, and Aidy Bryant and Georganne Vinall, the latter of whom plugged her daughter s show. When Bryant noted that