Dua Lipa disses Young Spicy while falling in love with ‘The Anomalous Man’
Did pulling double duty as host and musical guest pull Lipa away from sketches?
Despite being off for the past few weekends, the shockwaves from Ryan Gosling’s break-filled Saturday Night Live episode have continued to ripple through pop culture. There were in-depth interviews with Heidi Gardner about breaking during the now-infamous “Beavis and Butt-Head” sketch. Then Gosling and Mikey Day showed up to a Fall Guy premiere as their SNL characters. And people were still talking about the sequel to the iconic “Papyrus” sketch.
It was easy to lose track of a new episode of SNL on the way. (If the Gosling episode was the season premiere, it would’ve been the perfect close to Season 49.)
But SNL stormed back for its final three-episode run of this season, with a very capableDua Lipa performing double duty as both host and musical guest.
Over the past few months, I’ve come to realize that Lipa knows her way around comedy thanks to her going day drinking with Seth Meyers (and then getting a tattoo with him). I’m not sure if the SNL writers realized this, though …
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