#Saturday Night Live Lets Kim Kardashian West Try To Be Funny With Help From Family & Celebrity Cameos

Lotto Drawing – I always love a good absurd piece of comedy, and this news broadcast did the trick. At first I was frustrated by the fact that the news anchors themselves are a little off-kilter, but they’re aware enough to find the rest of the broadcast questionable. Then I realized that there’s actually some brilliance to be found in characters who are ludicrous in their own right, yet still register the silliness around them. This sketch made the best use of Kim Kardashian West since it required her to be completely vacant as a woman drawing increasingly bizarre lottery numbers. But even so, when you see Cecily Strong acting and actually creating that vacancy instead of merely having it as a personality, you see just how little performance there is in Kardashian’s appearance, and it’s something that made her not much more than a recognizable fashionable mannequin throughout most of the show.

Please Don’t Destroy – Hard Seltzer – We already called attention to the arrival of the sketch comedy group Please Don’t Destroy. In this sketch, they mock the inexplicable popularity of hard seltzer and how everyone seems to be making their own sparkling alcoholic beverage — even JC Penney and Jiffy Lube. Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, and Ben Marshall are the three friends starring in this sketch after being hired as “Saturday Night Live” writers before the new season began, and much like Andy Samberg, Akiva Shaffer, and Jorma Taccone before them, it’s clear they’ll be appearing in pre-recorded sketches like this throughout the season. If this sketch is any indicator, then there will be hopefully much more hilarity to come from them.

Ladies Night Song – There’s nothing like a ladies night when a trio of moms finally have the time to get away from their jobs and families to enjoy the club life yet again. Except things change as you get older, and the night club isn’t nearly as enjoyable as it used to be. Even though Kardashian sounds like she’s having a hard time speaking rhythmically, the sketch smartly makes her the mother who is constantly falling asleep at the club. The good news is that Ego Nwodim, Punkie Johnson, and Cecily Strong pick up the slack and make this a bright spot in an otherwise middling collection of comedy.