Last year SNL album Aidy Bryant took on the dual strikes, AI, and her ex-boyfriends obsession with indie cinema, but this year she went less topical and more broad, chiefly serving up a memory from her days on Saturday Night Live .
At the top of her monologue, Bryant spoke about a sketch that was cut from SNL whereby she had to go in for a kiss with the Indie Spirit and Oscar nominated supporting actor, A Real Pain’s Kieran Culkin.
“The sketch was cut and it never made it to air,” said Bryant. It was hard to tell if she was telling the truth or joking.
“It’s a thing that I had to live with,” she continued, “I’m sorry to Kieran and Kieran’s wife.”
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Then she went for the punchline: “I’m being told tha Kieran is not here.”
“Well, I guesss, I’ll say this, I didn’t go for the kiss. I was doing a normal nothing ass kiss. If I did go for it, his ass would be divorced!”
Culkin hosted SNL on Nov. 6, 2021, Season 46, episode 5. Bryant left SNL at the end of season 47 in May 2022.
“It has been a great year for film, a bad year for human life,” joked Bryant.
“All the films here were made for less than $30M,” she continued, “I know that might feel like a lot of money. Imagine my whole body is the budget for Wicked — your film is just my tit!” exclaimed Bryant.
She then made aim at The Brutalist which is up for ten Oscar noms, making known that the pic was made for $10M.
“That works out to about $1 per minute,” she dinged about the three-hour-plus epic with intermission.
Bryant then went around the room, poking fun at nomineess.
“Amy Adams is nominated for best lead performance in Night Bitch. Yet, I know Amy played a night bitch, in real life, but she’s a regular day old day drunk!”
Barreling to the point, Bryant emphasized, “‘Night Bitch’ is what my husband and I saw to each other before we go to bed.”
Bryant then went after her fellow Phoenix, AZ amiga, 2x Oscar winner Emma Stone who was in the room with four Spirits nominated movies.
Sniping at the La La Land actress’ new short hairdo, Bryant said, “Emma, you look you, so good,, you’re starting to piss me off.”
Turning to the Spirits nominated A24 movie Sing Sing: “Many of the actors in Sing Sing are formerly incarcerated men!” remarked Bryant.
“In bigger Hollywood movies, there are men that should be incarcerated,” zinged Bryant, “Whatever actor springs to mind for you – you’re right!”
So far the Indie Spirits is running at a fast click. Peg that to its new destination on YouTube streaming versus airing on cable linear IFC.
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