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(And onhis birthday, no less!)
Its anyones guess what wasnt clicking.
The host was a yoked and stoked Jason Momoa, who came ready to play.
The show arrived at the end of a week heavy on topical sketch fodder.
And it followed atriumphant Timothee Chalamet outinglast week, priming expectations for comedic momentum.
Instead, this Thanksgiving episode, whose thematic possibilities were relegated toone sketch, was a real turkey.
Several essential ingredients seemed to be missing.
More than one sketchflirted with the ideaof having adiscernible comedic engineand ended before ever revving up.
Maybe everyone involved was checked out with the Thanksgiving break equivalent of senioritis.
It should be a low bar to clear.
(Did you know that ancient Rome pioneered a central heating and air system called the hypocaust?
I do now afterfact-checkingthe songs lyrics.)
Fortunately, her inclusion in the airport parade barely diminishes it.
Also, few distinctions have ever been better earned than Newark Airport being described as everybodys third choice.
This parody of Netflix sports documentaries, though, takes the opposite approach.
So isthe episode ofBaywatchthat Momoa mentions having appeared in once upon a time.
The crowd cheers louder when Dismukes takes his shirt offthe Castaway sketchthan when Momoa takes his off.
Between all the puns in theclosing cab-driver sketchand Yangs How do I Panda Express this?
in the cold open, it was a big night for wordplay.
