Music star Billie Eilish made her second appearance on Saturday Night Live on December 11, this time both hosting and serving as the musical guest. Her opening monologue was about the
scrutiny she gets as a young artist, saying that her birthday is coming up.
“I’m turning 20 or as the internet likes to call that: middle-aged,” she joked. She also took the opportunity to poke fun at head writer Colin Jost.
“The scary thing about growing up in the public eye, is that people decide that everything you say, and do, and look like, is who you are forever,” said Eilish. “That’s not fair.”
She continued, “Would you want to be judged by the way you presented yourself at 16? Uh, no. Imagine being current-day Colin Jost! And the first thing that comes up when you Google yourself is 16-year old Colin Jost.”
She then pointed a photo of Jost as a teen, saying, “Seen here, watching other people go to prom.”
After nailing the monologue, Eilish held her own in her sketches with the SNL team. She and Kate McKinnon played hotel Kathlyn and Kathreen in a bizarre advertisement for a chain called Business Garden Inn & Suites & Hotel Room Inn.
Eilish got to sing and be comedic at the same time, in this sketch where she is backed up by McKinnon and Ego Nwodim. The Christmas themed sketch is all about the awkwardness of meeting a famous person, except this time it's Santa.
One of the funniest sketches of the night explored how TikTok is stealing all of our lives, which is too real for anyone who has an account. The pre-recorded sketch explains why it's more fun to watch a total stranger talk to you from your phone screen than take out the trash.
Though maybe we all understood that already.