Bowen Yang Brought His Oh, Mary! Hoop Skirt to SNL

Well, it’s that time of year again. John Mulaney is hosting Saturday Night Live, and so we’re all in for more hyperspecific New York jokes set to Broadway showtunes. This time, the musical was set in Central Park, with one of the soon-to-be unemployed carriage drivers and his horse that attacked a child. “Can you believe they passed a ban on horse-drawn carriages in New York City?” he says. “And for no reason at all except animal cruelty and human murder.” Tourists Marcello Hernández and Kam Patterson are shown the sights: a marathon runner (Veronika Slowikowska), the weed cloud that has subsumed Manhattan (Kenan Thompson), a pedicab driver (Tommy Brennan) beefing with Mulaney’s carriage driver, a weirdly hostile evangelist (Mikey Day), Kathy talkin’ transpo (Ashley Padilla) and two dudes with opposing views on Mamdani (James Austin Johnson and Jeremy Culhane). When they’ve had enough, the decide to take the Lincoln Tunnel back to Jersey. That’s when Bowen Yang comes in as Mary Todd Lincoln Tunnel. Diva sang a parody of “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going,” then hoofed it back to the Lyceum to get the dress dry cleaned before Sunday’s matinee. That’s commitment.

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