{"id":279023,"date":"2025-10-05T07:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T07:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279023\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T07:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T07:37:11","slug":"bad-bunny-kicks-off-snl-season-51-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279023\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Bunny kicks off \u2018SNL\u2019 season 51 \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bad Bunny kicked off the 51st season of \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d<\/a> with a few timely jokes about his next high-profile gig: the Super Bowl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think everybody is happy about it \u2014 even Fox News,” the music superstar quipped in his monologue, referring to opposition in some quarters to his being named headliner of the Super Bowl halftime show. <\/p>\n

He segued into a few sentences in Spanish, expressing Latino pride and joy over the achievement, after which he noted: “If you didn\u2019t understand what I just said, you have four months to learn!\u201d Bad Bunny will be making history by performing entirely in Spanish, a landmark moment for Latino culture. <\/p>\n

Launching a season that introduces some new faces in the cast, the show’s cold open featured a sketch mocking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s presentation to generals earlier this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWeekend Update\u201d host Colin Jost played Hegseth, highlighting the defense secretary’s remarks in which he said it\u2019s \u201ctiring to look out at combat formations or really any formation and see fat troops\u201d and said it was unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo fatties, no facial hair, no body hair,” Jost’s Hegseth said. “Just hot, shredded hairless men who are definitely not gay. … \u201cBecause this is serious, we are facing the greatest threat to freedom and democracy the world has ever known. And we all know what that threat is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLate night TV!” replied James Austin Johnson as President Donald Trump, bursting in. <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018SNL\u2019 51 off to a rough start,\u201d Johnson\u2019s Trump added. \u201cSeventeen new cast members and they got the \u2018Update\u2019 guy doing the open.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a fanfare-filled 50th season celebrating the past, \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d is looking to the future with a cast that includes five new featured players. Several cast members have departed the show.<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny is having what can only be described as an enormous week: in addition to hosting \u201cSNL,\u201d he’s coming off a historic residency in Puerto Rico<\/a>, and on Sunday came the Super Bowl news.<\/p>\n

His moment in the spotlight hasn’t come without some political discourse. The Puerto Rican artist has said one of the reasons his residency bypassed the continental U.S. was a concern that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials could target immigrants for deportation outside his shows. <\/p>\n

Asked Friday by a podcaster whether ICE officials would be conducting enforcement at the Super Bowl, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said they would, because DHS \u201cis responsible for keeping it safe.\u201d She didn’t specify whether the officials would be conducting immigration enforcement or other law enforcement duties that are typical at the event.<\/p>\n

The issue made for a key joke in the \u201cWeekend Update\u201d segment. \u201cA Trump adviser said ICE agents will attend the Super Bowl after Bad Bunny was announced as the halftime performer,\u201d noted co-host Michael Che, then quipping: \u201cYou know, to catch all those farmworkers who can afford Super Bowl tickets.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe White House said Friday there is \u201cno tangible plan\u201d to send ICE agents to the game, where Puerto Rican rap superstar Bad Bunny will perform the halftime show.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

In his second \u201cSNL\u201d hosting gig, Bad Bunny was joined by musical guest Doja Cat, making her debut in that role.<\/p>\n

He was featured in many of the show’s comedy segments, including a spinoff of the popular sketches in which George Washington attempts to educate soldiers about his new country’s language and customs. Here, Bad Bunny played a Spanish ruler in 900 A.D. explaining how the language would have both masculine and feminine nouns \u2014 with Benicio Del Toro making a surprise appearance.<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny will be followed as hosts in subsequent weeks by Amy Poehler and Sabrina Carpenter. All three were highlights of the 50th season celebrations, with Bad Bunny performing at the \u201cSNL50: The Homecoming Concert ” and also serving as the final musical guest last season.<\/p>\n

SNL alumna Poehler, in her second solo hosting gig, will front the Oct. 11 episode alongside first-time musical guest Role Model. Her episode will air 50 years to the day of the very first episode of \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d on Oct. 11, 1975.<\/p>\n

Carpenter, who was a major attraction of the anniversary celebrations, is pulling double duty as host and musical guest on Oct. 18.<\/p>\n

The revamped cast comes on the heels of several high-profile departures, including Ego Nwodim and Devon Walker. Ben Marshall, already an \u201cSNL\u201d writer, becomes a featured player, along with newcomers Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Culhane, Kam Patterson and Veronika Slowikowska.<\/p>\n

Nwodim, Walker, Emil Wakim and Michael Longfellow all confirmed last month on their social media accounts that they are leaving the show. <\/p>\n

The show picked up 12 Emmys last month for its 50th season and anniversary programming, including an award for outstanding variety special.<\/p>\n

\u201cI won this award for the first time 50 years ago, in 1975,\u201d Michaels said, accepting the Emmy, adding that he didn\u2019t dream of doing the same show for the next 50 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bad Bunny kicked off the 51st season of \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d with a few timely jokes about his…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":279024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,1747],"class_list":{"0":"post-279023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-saturday-night-live"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115320418855487895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}