![]() As in the previous sketch in which she appeared, Kris Jenner is particularly terrible, completely flubbing her lines and delivery.Īlong with the three additional featured players added to the cast this season, SNL also brought on three new writers: John Higgins, Martin Herlihy and Ben Marshall, who comprise the newly popular internet sketch troupe Please Don’t Destroy. Fans of the Kardashian/Jenner media monster will probably enjoy – everyone else will find it unbearable. She settles claims between various members of the Kardashian/Jenner clan, as well as some of their hangers-on, including a returning Khloé Kardashian and Kris Jenner, Kylie and Kendall Jenner (Melissa Villaseñor, Halsey), Travis Barker (Mikey Day), Kanye West (Redd), Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly (Chloe Fineman, Davidson), and OJ Simpson (Kenan Thompson). Then, in the lowest point of the night, Kardashian West plays her sister Kourtney Kardashian, starring as the judge on a new version of The People’s Court – or, rather, The People’s Kourt. As such, you’d think the show would try to write around her, but unfortunately, that’s not the case. She’s not Elon Musk awful, but she’s not good. She also targets some of the people who have floated in her orbit, including, yes, Simpson (“It’s weird to remember the first black person you met, but OJ does leave a mark … or several”) and of course, her ex-husband Kanye West (“When I divorced him, you have to know it came down to just one thing: his personality!”).ĭespite being one of this era’s most famous personalities, Kardashian West is not, despite her best efforts, a performer in the traditional sense. Walking on stage in a skin-tight, pink velour jumpsuit, she switches between supposedly self-deprecating jokes (“I haven’t had a movie premiere in a really long time … I only had that one movie come out and no one even told me it was premiering …”) and insufferable self-aggrandizement over her social justice work and status as an influencer. I feel like on that level, it’s nice to connect with people.Said woman is Kim Kardashian West, who hosts for the first time. “That’s what I really like about doing stand-up, especially vulnerable emotional bits, where I talk about my insecurities or what makes me sad. “I think comedy is a place where we can work on connecting more as people,” Villaseñor says. ![]() Villaseñor’s heartfelt storytelling, along with her chameleon-like ability to morph into others, is really about connecting with them. So she could just be in the crowd like, ‘Yay!’ (perfect Silverman voice). If I run into her at a comedy club, she’s going to tell me, ‘Are you going to do me? Do me.’ And so I have to go on stage and open with Sarah. ![]() “Sarah Silverman, I’ve been doing her impression for a while. “All of them love it,” Villaseñor says of the feedback she’s received on occasion. Villaseñor has made the subjects of her impressions, whose mannerisms she studies in some cases and in others stumbles upon instinctually, happy, too. “They really help me feel confident and make me feel happy.” “Every impression I do learn, it’s because I love them so much,” Villaseñor says of the people she embodies. Over the last two seasons, she’s performed in sketches and brought her impersonations of Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga and Owen Wilson, among others, to the series. Villaseñor eventually landed a spot on “SNL,” a first for a Latina performer. Her sets led to comedy show appearances and a successful run on “America’s Got Talent.” So Villaseñor kept honing her act and sharing more of herself, performing a mix of impressions, singing and personal stories. She auditioned for “Saturday Night Live” in 2009 but wasn’t hired. “The first few years, it would crush my soul and crush my confidence. Villaseñor began performing impersonations of celebrities like Christina Aguilera, Barbara Walters and Ellen DeGeneres at open mic nights in comedy clubs around Los Angeles right after high school.īut success didn’t come as quickly as her comedy calling. I realized that I was going to be a comedian.” “I was always really shy growing up, so to find that one thing that made me feel alive, it felt so good. “I realized I could do singing impressions when I was 12 years old, first being Britney Spears,” Villaseñor recalls. These days, Villaseñor’s love for pop diva impersonations isn’t just something for her bedroom mirror or for the amusement of her high school friends: She’s turned it into a career. Melissa Villaseñor’s career in comedy started with three words that every teenage girl in the late ’90s sang at least once into a hairbrush: “Oh Baby, baby…”
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