By Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter
NBC
"Saturday Night Live" spoofs "The Walking Dead."
"Saturday Night Live"?host?Kevin Hart?was at his best when attempting to join the crew of "The Walking Dead," all while playing the race card to disguise the fact he?d been bitten by a zombie.
In the sketch, Hart plays a man who comes across Rick (Taran Killam) and other characters from the AMC hit. When the group turns its back to decide if they?ll let him into their camp, Hart is bitten by a zombie unbeknownst to them.
When Hart starts displaying some decidedly zombie characteristics (walking with a bum leg, moaning), Rick charges Hart with being "one of them."
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What did he mean by ?one of them?? Hart demands.
?When someone comes from a different cultural background, they?re automatically a zombie,? Hart says, which prompts Rick and the rest of the group to apologize and insist they?re not racists.
Hart eventually bites and kills Maggie (Kate McKinnon),?and when the group protests, he says ?Would you rather I eat some fried chicken or watermelon??
Again, they feel bad, until Carl (Nasim Pedrad) ends Hart?s zombie ways with a bullet.
During Hart's opening monologue, he recounted auditioning for "SNL"?more than a decade ago. He showed the audience three impressions he did back then, and two of them were pretty terrible (as Hart seemed to know).?
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His take on NBA legend?Avery Johnson?didn't work because "white people don't know" who that is. Hart's?Denzel Washington?consisted of him saying "it's Training Day, bitch," and his?Robert De Niro?was good, though it just consisted of him looking skeptical.
When invited to host "SNL," Hart was asked if he did impressions.
?You bet your ass I do impressions,? he said.
Speaking of which,?Quvenzhane Wallis?probably wasn?t on anyone?s radar for whom Hart might impersonate , but the comedian donned a little girl's dress for a sketch in which the Oscar nominee is made Pope.
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As?Wolf Blitzer?(Jason Sudeikis) points out, she?s "the first African-American, the first female, and the first child Pope.? Wallis, a media darling since her "Beasts of the Southern Wild?Oscar nom, does her trademark muscle flexing and other adorable things, all of which assures Blitzer she?ll make a great Pope.
In its cold open, "SNL"?tackled the big talk this week in Washington, the $85 million sequester.
President?Barack Obama?(Jay Pharoah), admitting to knowing nothing about budgets, brings some public sector workers onstage to talk about what the cuts would mean for their services. Among them is an astronaut who says space helmets would no longer have glass, and an air traffic controller who says she would have to watch Doritos ads before being able to access her screen. (Read a more detailed description of the cold open?here.)
Hart lost his way in a few places, most notably during a Weekend Update segment where he and?Seth Meyers?dismissed talk in the Supreme Court this week that the Voting Rights Act was no longer needed.
During ?Really with Seth and Kevin,? Hart repeatedly stumbled over his lines, at one point chiding himself by saying ?God damn it Kevin."
He got back on track to slam the argument that the act is unconstitutional, saying ?Black people don?t like saying something is unconstitutional.? The Constitution used to say I?m three fifths of a person. I?m short. But not that short.?
It?s unclear why, but the episode went past its usual ending time, wrapping at 1:04 a.m. ET. After a commercial break, Hart returned to say a brief thank you to the cast and musical guest Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, then NBC New York went to commercial without the traditional play out from the band and shots of the cast embracing.
"SNL"?is new next week with host and musical guest?Justin Timberlake. It will mark his fifth time hosting the show.
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