Who is Hosting Saturday Night Live Tonight: March 13, 2021

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While Saturday Night Live is out of the office, please enjoy this SNL repeat hosted by “Office” star John Krasinski!

The Saturday Night Live cast and crew are some of the few grown-ass adults that get a spring break vacation. And they’re part of an even lesser few who get an entire month off for spring break. Children only get a week off. But that could be because kids don’t have rerun episodes to take their place like SNL does.

Saturday Night Live will return from its spring break on Saturday, March 27th on NBC. Until then, we’ve got SNL repeats and tonight’s is hosted by the popular star of the American version of “The Office” and “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” on Amazon Prime as well as films like “A Quiet Place” and “A Quiet Place Part II“. It’s Primetime Emmy Award nominee, John Krasinski.

Going into tonight’s SNL repeat, John Krasinski was owed a debt, and one that he obviously was going to collect. Big John as he’s known by absolutely no one, was penciled in on the SNL hosting schedule last season. Unfortunately, the John Krasinski episode of Saturday Night Live was the first SNL victim of the Great Coronavirus Television & Movie Shutdown of 2020. His chance to host SNL last season was gone. But it was not forgotten by SNL Executive Producer Lorne Michaels who provided another opportunity for Krasinski to not only host the show, but to host the Saturday Night Live Mid-Season Premiere.

What you’re seeing for the second time tonight is just that. It’s John Krasinski’s SNL hosting debut and the SNL Mid-Season Premiere which originally aired on January 30, 2021. It’s a repeat that’s going to require some context before you watch it.

In order for tonight’s sketches to make any sense to you, remember, this was not just the Saturday Night Live Mid-Season Premiere, but also the first SNL of 2021, making it the first show since the attempted coup and seditious attack on our federal government at the United States Capitol. It was also the first Saturday Night Live to take place with Joe Biden as President. Turns out that as Donald Trump’s ample orange ass was headed out the door of the White House, he certainly left Saturday Night Live a lot of material to work with.

SNL wasted no time getting up to speed with everything the show had missed during its mid-season break in January. That was evident with the SNL Cold Open you’ll see in tonight’s repeat which crammed all the big January news into one opening sketch. Saturday Night Live opens with cast member Kate McKinnon hosting a news issues and affairs talk show called “What Still Works.” The show examines different facets of American life to see if anything in this country is still working anymore. Kate goes over a lot of the different aspects of American life from politics to the economy to social media and sports, looking for anything that still works.

After talking to QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (cast member Cecily Strong), GameStop majority share holder Derrick Boner (cast member Pete Davidson), Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (cast member Mikey Day), Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (cast member Alex Moffat), and OJ Simpson (cast member Kenan Thompson), Kate realizes that the government, the stock market, online social platforms, and the Covid19 vaccine rollout do not work.

The only thing she found that does still work in a country with so many problems, is Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady. Tonight’s SNL repeat aired the weekend before Super Bowl LV. Brady is played by host John Krasinski and the soon-to-be 7 time Super Bowl winner isn’t on stage for very long before Kate McKinnon finds out even Tom Brady has his own flaws.

After tonight’s SNL Cold Open, host John Krasinski is introduced and takes the stage for his SNL monologue. The Saturday Night Live writers use two tired SNL tropes for Krasinski’s monologue. First, the host takes questions he wasn’t expecting from the audience. And then, the climax of tonight’s monologue is a big gay kiss. Normally, we wouldn’t do a spoiler like that, but it’s such a hack gimmick that we couldn’t possibly spoil it any worse than it already is.

And BTW, note to John Krasinski and Pete Davidson. The kiss is pathetic. If you’re going to try to “shock us” with man-on-man kissing comedy, have the damn balls to do it right and make it a real kiss, not just two faces pressed together like a little girl making her stuffed animals kiss. Nothing brave, or even shocking to see here. In fact, the monologue punchline tonight is just a cowardly cop-out for SNL.

The first half of the sketches you’ll see in this evening’s Saturday Night Live repeat hosted by John Krasinski are all inspired by recent headlines in the news. Krasinski plays a local county sheriff in a sketch about how the state of Georgia turned blue on the political map during the last elections held in the Peach State. On this trip to Georgia, don’t pack your MAGA hat. You won’t need it.

Host John Krasinski also plays a financial expert doing a TV interview from home on a business network trying to explain the GameStop stock market mess. He’s having trouble concentrating because his twins keep interrupting him. Plus, they’re scaring the hell out of everyone else at the network. The twins are played to perfection by cast members Kate McKinnon and Mikey Day and hopefully, we won’t have to wait too long to see McKinnon and Day in another SNL “Twins” sketch because these characters are instant classics.

Other sketches on this evening’s SNL repeat include one called “Pandemic Game Night” where neighbors gathering for a night of fun don’t really know what’s going on in each other’s lives in this quiet neighborhood. There’s scarier things than the pandemic happening on this cul-de-sac.

Tonight’s repeat SNL episode also revisits the 90’s with a game show sketch that will make you love cast members Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant working together almost as much as they love each other. Why don’t we see things like this on the new Leslie Jones version of “Supermarket Sweep“!?

Ever wonder how Subway Sandwiches got the idea for the $5 footlong or using Jarod as a company spokesperson!? Yeah, us neither. But in an SNL sketch tonight called “Subway Pitch“, you’ll find out anyway. Subway, where the ideas are fresher than that stuff they call bread.

Then tonight’s repeat show closes with a sketch that takes a Pixar cartoon classic and twists this children’s favorite into an adult’s bedroom nightmare. Even if you hate cockroaches, you’ll love that cast member Aidy Bryant is back from filming her Hulu series “Shrill” and is on SNL full-time again.

The first SNL Short of the night is titled “The Loser.” Anyone with a big brother knows what it’s like to get tormented by him. But every now and then, a great big brother comes along who steps up to defend his younger sibling. This SNL Short proves that a big brother sticking up for you, might be even worse than his torment.

Then, if you love singing along to the opening credits of your favorite TV shows, there’s an SNL Short tonight that you just gotta hear. It’s a parody spot short called “Opening Credits Songs” and hearing John Krasinski sing his own lyrics to the opening theme of “The Office” will make you wonder why this wasn’t the actual series theme song.

In this evening’s repeat edition of Weekend Update with Colin Jost & Michael Che, anchorman Colin Jost runs through a whole list of things that have happened since he and Che were last on the air live. His first top story was the manipulation of the stock market which falsely pushed GameStop as the top selling stock in the United States. While Michael Che opens with the story about our then-new Commander-in-Chief, President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. signing an executive order telling federal agencies to buy American products. Michael Che’s list of things still made in America however, doesn’t make for a list we can all be proud of.

The real life news stories that you’ll see covered with a comedic twist by the SNL anchormen tonight include West Virginia beating the other 49 states in Covid19 vaccine distribution, Senator Rand Paul objecting to a second Trump impeachment, President Biden repealing Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military, a piece of California’s Highway 1 falling into the ocean, Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, the world’s tallest dog dying, the Super Bowl pre-game poem, a rise in shark attacks last year, adult model Belle Delphine selling her used bathwater, the new Coca-Cola with Coffee and spicy McNuggets returning to McDonald’s.

The recurring character guest list of folks you’ll see stopping by the Weekend Update news desk on tonight’s SNL repeat consists of cast member Beck Bennett as Mike Lindell, the screaming My Pillow guy. He’s there to complain to Colin Jost and Michael Che about his Twitter account being banned and his odd little side hustle as an insurrection advisor to former President Trump.

Also, featured player Bowen Yang and cast member Kyle Mooney introduce their two new celebrity impressions to Weekend Update tonight when they play New York literary raconteur Fran Lebowitz (Yang) and Academy Award winning film director Martin Scorsese (Mooney). Yang’s Lebowitz was impressive and Mooney’s Scorsese really enjoyed Yang’s Lebowitz. The two true NYC icons plug their new Netflix series “Pretend It’s a City” available for streaming now.

Finally, an old favorite recurring character wraps up tonight’s repeat edition of Weekend Update when cast member Cecily Strong brings back “Cathy Anne, the woman who yells outside Michael Che’s window” as your Weekend Update headliner for this evening. Cathy Anne has plenty to say about the attack on the Capitol and none of it makes sense.

We have the promos for this evening’s SNL repeat below for you to check out. It might even be fun to watch them and pretend that it’s brand new Saturday Night Live tonight. Just convince yourself that it’s January, 2021. In the promos, you’ll find tonight’s host John Krasinski wearing what appears to be his pajama top. He’s on stage along with this evening’s musical guest Machine Gun Kelly and cast member Heidi Gardner who is explaining the importance of tonight’s show. Plus, you’ll get the answer to a question about Machine Gun Kelly, that you’ve never asked.

The guy who used to play Jim Halpert on the American version of “The Office“, John Krasinski hosts a Saturday Night Live rerun tonight with musical guest Machine Gun Kelly. The repeat fun begins at 11:30pm et on NBC!

Saturday Night Live returns with a new show on Saturday, March 27th with your host Maya Rudolph and musical guest Jack Harlow!

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Ernie Tripper
Ernie Tripper