Saturday night LiveThis week’s monologue was more “cold open” than cold open, with host Josh Brolin taking the opportunity to take a cold plunge on the air. But before they took her out the tub of icy water, Brolin addressed the viral poem he wrote for her dune Co-star Timothée Chalamet defended himself, explaining that he writes poems for the people he works with. Of course this now also includes snl The cast, especially Kenan Thompson, was awestruck when Brolin watched offstage (holding Lorne’s signature wine glass) while reading a poem about him. “I look at you with your familiar face and bend towards the sultry eyes with wrinkles. Then jumping from beneath your sugar cookie cheeks into your lines of laughter awakens me in a symphony of desire to which I can only say, What happened to that? He presented beautifully. We can only assume that Marcelo Hernández’s poem was too long to be broadcast. Brolin explained that this was his third time hosting, and said that the only thing that compares is doing the cold plunge (which he has been doing for 20 years). “Hosting is like jumping into an ice bath. It’s scary, it’s exciting, your penis is in your stomach. There’s no way to prepare for this,” he said, stripping down to his underwear and jumping into a bath of ice water on stage.
