Shortly after joking that he couldn’t promise Saturday Night Live he’d do “no whiteface,” Druski channeled Elizabeth Holmes.
On Saturday’s episode of the NBC sketch comedy show, the content creator quickly delivered one of the funniest sketches of the season as he played himself in the sketch “Dru Can See Everything,” which imagines Holmes (Jane Wickline) and husband Billy Evans (Ben Marshall) going to Druski to make their documentary before landing on Nathan Fielder.
“I just want people to see me as an ordinary person. Can you do that, Druski?” asks Wickline, to which Druski says, “Based on what I’ve seen so far, I’m gonna go ahead and say no. Y’all have got some of the weirdest, freakiest vibe I’ve ever seen.”
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Reenacting Fielder and Holmes’ much meme-ified, up-close conversation, Druski asks, “You trying to f*ck me?”
When it comes time to have an actress portray Holmes, Dru decides not to call [SPOILER] and just play the part himself, donning his signature whiteface to get into the Theranos founder’s head.
Druski’s hosting debut kicked off with “Washington in Focus,” a predominantly Black news panel show, featuring Druski, Kenan Thompson, Andrew Dismukes and new cast member Saidah Belo-Osagie, joking about recent white politicians with Black names who won the midterm elections.
In “Two Men Attempt to Make a Purchase at a Dominican Phone Store,” Druski gets into some hilarious antics with Marcello Hernandez as two Dominican employees serving Mikey Day and Jeremy Culhane.
Druski played a nightmare birthday girl in another sketch going off on her friend Tina (Veronika Slowikowska) for eating fajitas and wearing a black bodycon dress.
In a commercial for “My Corner Guy,” Druski plays the titular fitness service, a guy that hangs out on your local street corner and objectifies you according to your progress.
Druski shows off his vocal chops in one sketch of Sarah Sherman and Culhane on a date, in which he proposes to her, only to be rejected while Druski continues with his celebration performance, complete with backup singers, dancers, a marching band and a rap verse by Dismukes as Sherman’s estranged father, plus Wickline on bagpipes and Marshall as the ASL interpreter.
A wedding sketch featuring Hernandez as the groom and Belo-Osagie as the bride, sees Druski and new cast member Grace Reiter plays incredibly committed wedding photographers who get a little too close for comfort.
In “Golden Age of Hip Hop,” Druski plays a member of the ’80s hip-hop group Lenny and the Street-Smart Crew with Johnson, Marshall, Kam Patterson and Tommy Brennan, featuring their single “Gangs Ain’t Good (Free Your Mind)” and a casually homophobic track, along with its apology track.
For his goodnights, Druski was joined not only by Stone and James Talarico—who made a cold open appearance after his midterms victory—but also Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Walton Goggins, Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler.
In addition to Druski’s SNL hosting debut—marking the first content creator without a current movie or TV show to host the sketch comedy show—The Strokes served as musical guest for their fifth time.