Pete sings a farewell song that is both terrible and sweet in equal measure. The pair share laughs and regale people with old SNL war stories as the black and white sketch becomes full color. Naturally, this all doesn’t get too sappy the gift is an enormous bag of weed. Pete opens the present and decides to reconnect with his old friend. It’s like the Good Book says: Charm is deceptive and BDE is fleeting. Pete throws him out into the snow, but soon realizes how empty his life is doing old jokes and trying to impress people at the bar. Rudd plays Pete’s old estranged writing partner, Eddie Corbin, who gives Pete a Christmas gift. He does a Warren Beatty-themed parody of Eminem’s “My Name Is” complete with showgirls carrying cutouts of the Oscar-winning star, prompting a server to remark, “Who exactly is the audience for this?” A bored patron heckles him to “Do Chad!” his most well-known recurring character. Like a lounge singer working a dingy club decades past his prime, old Pete does a faux Weekend Update with a robot Colin Jost. Shot in black and white, “An Evening With Pete” imagines a sad, washed-up Pete Davidson 33 years in the future. New Amsterdam Boss Previews Max and Helen's New Life in London SNL: Tina Fey Returns to Co-Anchor Weekend Update, Filling In for Absent Colin Jost in Final Episode of 2021 SNL: Tom Hanks, Tina Fey, Steve Martin Welcome Paul Rudd to '4 1/2-Timers Club,' in COVID-Impacted Episode And maybe it was the melancholy tone hanging over the entire jury-rigged episode or the somber image of a plucky little show trying its best to struggle on despite adversity, but the standout of the three may have been the least straightforwardly funny. But even with all that, SNL did manage to present three new pieces, all shot earlier in the week. That meant no live sketches, a very stripped-down Weekend Update segment with Che and former cast member Tina Fey, and a lot of old holiday sketches being re-aired.
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