Shortly after joking that he couldn’t promise Saturday evening live he would do “no white face,” 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 starred as himself in the sketch “Dru Can See Everything,” which imagines Holmes (Jane Wickline) and her husband Billy Evans (Ben Marshall) traveling to Druski to make their documentary before landing on Nathan Fielder.
“I just want people to see me as a regular person. Can you do that, Druski?” Wickline asks, to which Druski responds, “From what I’ve seen so far, I’m going to go ahead and say no. You all have the strangest, weirdest vibe I’ve ever seen.”
Reenacting Fielder and Holmes’ close, memorized conversation, Druski asks, “Are you trying to fuck me?”
When it comes time to give the role of Holmes to an actress, Dru decides not to call (SPOILER) and just play the role himself, donning his iconic white face to get inside the head of the Theranos founder.
Druski’s debut as a host began with “Washington in Focus,” a predominantly black news show, featuring Druski, Kenan Thompson, Andrew Dismukes and new cast member Saidah Belo-Osagie joking about recent white politicians with black names winning the midterm elections.
In “Two Men Try to Make a Purchase at a Dominican Phone Store,” Druski engages in hilarious antics with Marcello Hernandez as two Dominican clerks serving Mikey Day and Jeremy Culhane.
Druski played a nightmarish birthday girl in another skit lashing out at 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 who hangs out on your street corner and objectifies you based on your progress.
Druski shows off his vocal abilities in a skit by Sarah Sherman and Culhane on a date, in which he proposes to her, only to be rejected while Druski continues his celebratory performance, complete with backup singers, dancers, a marching band, and a rap verse from Dismukes as Sherman’s ex-father, plus Wickline on bagpipes and Marshall as an ASL interpreter.
A wedding sketch starring Hernandez as the groom and Belo-Osagie as the bride, sees Druski and new actress Grace Reiter playing 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, with their single “Gangs Ain’t Good (Free Your Mind)” and a nonchalantly homophobic track, as well as his apology track.
For his goodnights, Druski was joined not only by Stone and James Talarico — who made a cold, open appearance after his midterm victory — but also by Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Walton Goggins, Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler.
In addition to Druski SNL its hosting debut – marking the first content creator without a current film or TV show to host the sketch show – The Strokes served as musical guests for the fifth time.
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