Dan Levy hosted Saturday Night Live's second episode of 2021 this weekend, with musical guest Phoebe Bridgers (who confused one Brooklyn dad by smashing a guitar). Unsurprisingly — given the masterwork that is Schitt's Creek — it was one of the best episodes of recent memory.
The Super Bowl Pre-game Show Cold Open featured host James "No, Not That One" Brown (Kenan Thompson) alongside four other hosts (because that's how sports shows do it!) reacting to this year's big ads, which were all reacting to the past year's big moments ("We must always strive for equality and we must always reach for Cheez-Its"). Aidy Bryant also shows up, playing both Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid and Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians.
For his first ever SNL Monologue, host Dan Levy gave a tour of SNL’s COVID-safe backstage space, before spotting his dad Eugene supporting him from the sidelines in a special quarantine box. Fun fact from HuffPo: "Eugene Levy was to be a co-host with John Candy in a 1985 episode that was pulled because of a writers strike. He and Candy did a quick promo with Billy Crystal at the time plugging the episode that was never made."
Levy's mom, Deborah Divine, fired off this perfect tweet in support of her son:
In Universal Tram, a tour guide (Mikey Day) works alongside his new caffeine-fueled trainee (Dan Levy) and things get awkward quick:
In Zillow — the best and most relatable sketch of the night — a commercial advertises the sexiest website on the internet, Zillow.com.
On Weekend Update, anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che go over the week's news, and welcome Lowell Fitzroy (Mikey Day) and Janet Noonan (Heidi Gardner) to talk about some children they cancelled. The TwinsTheNewTrend twins (Kenan Thompson, Chris Redd) also drop by to react to some popular tunes they've somehow never heard.
In Hot Damn, two Broadway-loving bartenders (Dan Levy, Cecily Strong) put on a production of a football song for customers (Kenan Thompson, Beck Bennett, Alex Moffat, Ego Nwodim).
In Wedding Friends, two pals (Dan Levy, Kate McKinnon) try to stop a bride (Ego Nwodim) from saying "I do."
It Gets Better brings together some voices of the LGBTQ+ community (portrayed by Dan Levy, Kate McKinnon, Bowen Yang, Punkie Johnson) to talk about how it (mostly) gets better (unless there's an iguana).
In Super Bowl Pod, a group of unmasked friends (Dan Levy, Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney, Chris Redd, Heidi Gardner) hang out indoors and wonder why cases are spreading. Watch til the end for a McKinnon-as-Fauci appearance.
A BET show, Lifting Our Voices hosted by Dr. Jeremiah Thibodeau (Kenan Thompson), dives into the Black community’s "white allies."
Men's Cosmetics, a commercial for an EXTREME line of men's makeup products, was cut for time:
Phoebe Bridgers performed "Kyoto" and "I Know The End."
We didn't get a Schitt's Creek sketch, but this is spot on: