Lately, Saturday Night time Dwell reimagined the Disney traditional Magnificence and the Beast with a twist. As an alternative of a monstrous beast, Belle, performed by host Nikki Glaser, falls in love with YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, identified extra extensively as Mr. Beast.
Mr. Beast first rose to fame in 2017, after a video of him counting to 100,000 went viral. Since then, he has amassed 450 million subscribers on account of his explicit model of challenge-based content material, and he has expanded into varied different media and enterprise ventures. His major demographic is viewers beneath 25 years of age, with a big portion of his viewers being male.
The SNL spoof opens with Mr. Beast, performed right here by Ben Marshall, locking Belle’s father in a dungeon for 30 days “for the prospect to win $300,000.” It then continues to make gentle of Mr. Beast’s challenges, which frequently put individuals in outlandish eventualities for money or different prizes. The skit doubles down on this by revealing that the fort’s enchanted servants are additionally collaborating, with Kenan Thompson’s Cogsworth quipping that he was supplied $2,500 if he may spend the yr as a clock.
Highlights of the skit embody Thompson and fellow forged member Bowen Yang singing parodies of “Be Our Visitor” and “Magnificence and the Beast.” It additionally options title playing cards teasing the fictional movie as “From the manager producers that thought, ‘No one sees films anymore, so eff it, Hail Mary?’ and the director of Kai Cenat’s Kai-sablanca,” a spoof of widespread streamer Kai Cenat. “I do not get it. – Each individual ovr 25,” one other card reads, poking enjoyable at Mr. Beast’s goal demographic.
Nearly all of the skit’s jokes riff off of his problem movies, together with the punchline of the whole spoof. Belle decides she does love Mr. Beast, however to stick with him, he challenges her to spend 30 days in a automobile with two sumo wrestlers. She agrees solely as a result of he’s a billionaire.
Whereas SNL’s trademark foolish, deprecating humor took intention on the YouTuber’s hyper-stylized content material, it additionally highlighted the generational divide between those that have interaction with it and those that do not. Mr. Beast himself has but to answer the skit.
Saturday Night time Dwell
8/10
- Launch Date
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October 11, 1975
- Showrunner
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Lorne Michaels
- Administrators
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Dave Wilson, Don Roy King, Liz Patrick, Andy Warhol, Linda Lee Cadwell, Matthew Meshekoff, Paul Miller, Robert Altman, Robert Smigel