'SNL' did not kick off Saturday's show with the Slap, which was a bit of a surprise.
over Rock’s joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, it seemed as sure a bet as could be placed on Earth that some sort of recreation cum reckoning would be forthcoming from the kids of Studio 8H at 30 Rock.addressed head on in Saturday’s cold open; instead, there was a “Fox & Friends” bit that included a throwaway reference.
“I’m not going to talk about it,” he began. “I want to be clear up top. I talked about it enough. Kept talking about it. Kept thinking about it. I don’t want to talk about it. And you can’t make me talk about it. But I’ve got a question: Do you want to talk about it? Like, aren’t you sick of talking about it?
Eventually, things got specific. In the evening’s designed Oscars sketch, Chris Redd, as Will Smith, alternated abruptly between chummy banter with Carmichael as a starstruck seat filler and his verbal and physical attacks on Rock. It made no discernible point, but was rather a turn on the evergreen split personality sketch — something you might have seen on Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows” or in an old Danny Kaye movie.
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