Lizzo got a workout not seen since Donald Glover did double-duty as host and musical guest on SNL four years ago, performing two songs from her forthcoming album and showing impressive comic timing and stamina by appearing in nearly every sketch.
” . Clad in a spangled, bright yellow ensemble, she even played a brief flute solo during the song’s instrumental break that paid tribute to Chic’s “Good Times,” one of several past hits that “About That Time” evokes .
For the second song, “Special,” she was introduced by her mother — who she shouted out in the audience during her opening monologue — which was a slower, ‘70s style ballad with self-referential lyrics:If it wasn’t me, would you even get offended, or/Famous, pretty, new, but I’ve been used to people judging meShe spent most of the rest of the show in a dizzying array of skits and costume-changes — she appeared in every segment in the 90-minute show except for the cold open and “Weekend Update.
The sketch that best showed her timing was “Please Don’t Destroy: Lizzo Has Writers Block,” in which she meets with three of the show’s writers and orders them to help her write songs for the show, with predictable results:
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