Shaboozey had his SNL debut final evening (Dec. 7) and carried out one in every of his iconic hits and one in every of his newer ones.
First, he took the stage for “Good Information” — one in every of his newer nation ballads that speaks to needing a glimmer of sunshine when every thing round you is darkish. Carrying a pair of stonewashed denims and a virtually ragged brown blazer, he captured the essence of “worn down” that the tune suggests. The gold lighting and mist on the underside of the stage added one other stylistic degree to the expertise.
In a while throughout the present, he returned to the stage to carry out “A Bar Music (Tipsy)”— his smash hit single that ties “Previous City Street” because the longest-running number-one tune of all time on the US Billboard Sizzling 100 with 19 weeks on the high of the chart. Shaboozey switched up his type for this one, placing on all black and bathing the stage in purple lighting. On the finish of the efficiency, he launched himself to the viewers and thanked them for getting tipsy with him.
Shaboozey’s SNL debut got here on the identical day that actor Paul Mescal had his personal. The star of the brand new Gladiator II movie had enjoyable in a sketch that reimagined the film as a musical impressed by the success of Depraved and Moana 2. Mescal, enjoying his character Lucius Verus Aurelius, belted out the parody tune, “There’s no place like Rome,” to the laughter of the viewers.
On the very finish of the sketch, Mescal channeled his personal Elphaba from Depraved by flying away from the Colosseum on a broomstick whereas sporting his personal witch hat and singing “Defying Gravity” (from Depraved).
Mescal additionally starred in a few different hilarious sketches resembling one the place he turns into a pirate stripper at a bachelorette celebration, one other the place he’s a school pupil who shocks his mother and father with a brand new earring, and an especially humorous one the place he’s filming a business for an Italian restaurant that repeatedly goes off script.
Chris Rock is ready to host SNL subsequent week with Gracie Abrams because the musical visitor.
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