'SNL' recaps the first week of Trump's second term plus Timothée Chalamet

I know I wrote that I would "switch from topical posts to evergreen and holiday entries until the end of the month," but I can't resist the highlights of last night's Saturday Night Live, which will still be good to share this coming Saturday. Like the show, I begin with Founding Fathers Cold Open.

The Founding Fathers (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mikey Day, Andrew Dismukes, Chloe Fineman, Sarah Sherman, Michael Longfellow, Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim) get interrupted by President Trump (James Austin Johnson) while signing the Declaration of Independence.

Just the remark about Lin-Manuel Miranda being within "sniffing distance of an EGOT" qualifies this as the Sunday entertainment feature, and so does the guest host, Oscar-nominated Timothée Chalamet. I'll get to him over the jump, but first Weekend Update: Trump Defends January 6 Pardons, Musk Criticized for Nazi Salute.

Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like Trump signing many executive orders on his first day in office.

Yes, Michael Che, it's a dark update. As I wrote in The horse is loose in the hospital again, "laughing hurts a lot less than crying, so laugh I will."

Weekend Update continued with Emilia Pérez Leads Oscar Nominations, JetBlue Accepts Venmo Payments.

Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like Ryan Seacrest getting tackled by a Wheel of Fortune contestant.

See, I told you I'd blog about the Oscar nominees, although Emilia Pérez deserves more than a joke equating its nominations with its viewership. I'll get to them in a future Sunday entertainment feature.

The interview segments began with a return to the horse loose in the hospital with Giselle, A Concerned Businesswoman on Trump's Executive Orders.

Giselle, a concerned businesswoman (Ego Nwodim), stops by Weekend Update to discuss Trump signing executive orders and [en]acting tariffs on imports.

It hadn't occurred to me, but Ego as Giselle is right; tariffs will make hair extensions more expensive. I'm treating this as a corollary to what I wrote most recently in 'You're Not Alone' and 'Now What?' Closer looks at Trump's re-election from Colbert, Meyers, 'The Daily Show,' and Kimmel, "the surest way to get Americans to act is to mess with their entertainm­ent. As I first wrote in 2011, 'America is quite clear about its screwed up priorities­.'" Appearance is one of them.

Follow over the jump for more of last night's episode.

Now, Oscar-nominated Timothée Chalamet Monologue.

Third-time host Timothée Chalamet talks about playing Willy Wonka and Bob Dylan before giving an awards acceptance speech he never had the chance to read.

And still didn't get a chance to read. I hope he got displaying his disappointment out of his system before the rest of this year's awards shows, where he's likely to keep losing to Adrien Brody — except at the Saturn Awards, where Brody isn't nominated but I would have voted for Ryan Reynolds.

I close with Oedipal Arrangements.

An Edible Arrangements commercial unveils a new Valentine's Day product just for mama's boys.

On the one hand, this is another demonstration of the commercial parodies being one of the best parts of SNL. On the other, yikes! I think I'll stop here before I get into any more trouble.