News Summary

• Alas, this week’s roast on Southwest Airlines is pretty much a copy-and-paste of that Spectrum-focused sketch from the Kieran Culkin edition back in season 47, though the Culkin version was spikier in humor and the Bowen Yang reveal at the end more hilariously dramatic.
• All in all, it ends up a pitchy swan song for season 49.Our hopes were dashed with Ego Nwodim tweeted out on Saturday afternoon: “Devastated to announce I will not be playing Rep. Jasmine Crockett tonight.
• We did it, folks—another season of Saturday Night Live has officially come to an end, with some real highs (Ryan Gosling!
• Except the group’s usual villain demasking took a gory turn when the bad guy’s entire face came flying off.
• “It’s definitely one of the top 48 seasons, season 49!” That about sums things up.
• Instead, we got yet another one of James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump appearances, this time with the former POTUS speaking at the barricades of a Manhattan courthouse.