'SNL' celebrates Mother's Day 2025

Happy Mother's Day! I'm celebrating with highlights of last night's Saturday Night Live, beginning with Trump Mother's Day Cold Open.

A mother's day message from Kenan Thompson, Bowen Yang and Marcello Hernández gets interrupted by President Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson).

Of course Donald "Hoover Cleveland" Trump would make it about himself. At least the viewers got the return of Cecily Strong to play Jeanine Pirro. As I wrote two days ago, "Break out the w(h)ine!"

The Mother's Day celebration continued with Walton Goggins Monologue.

First-time host Walton Goggins talks about his character in The White Lotus and becoming a sex symbol in his 50s before dancing with his mom for Mother's Day.

That was fun, sweet, and short. I like all three!

Follow over the jump for Weekend Update and selected skits.

Weekend Update: Catholic Church Elects First American Pope, Trump Wants to Reopen Alcatraz resumed the filtering of the week's top stories through comedy.

Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like air traffic controllers at Newark Airport losing contact with planes trying to land.

Yeah, we can keep Harry and Meghan, who is my favorite Royal, especially since Hoover Cleveland seems to dislike her. That works for me.

I'm a former Park Naturalist, so I think reopening Alcatraz as a prison instead of a museum in a National Park Service (NPS) property (Golden Gate National Recreation Area) is a stupid idea that works better as symbolism than substance. There was a reason the Federal Bureau of Prisons closed it and the NPS eventually took it over; it was too expensive to maintain.

I'm recycling what I wrote in Meyers, Lydic, and Kimmel take closer looks at meeting with Canadian Prime Minister on Throwback Thursday for Hoover Cleveland's next hare-brained idea.

Donald "Hoover Cleveland" Trump's proposal to assess 100% tariffs on movies produced overseas will hurt Canada, especially Vancouver, who benefits from American studios shooting films and TV shows there, as I described in Vox explains 'Why your favorite movies fake their locations' plus the Leo Awards. That might not work out the way Hoover Cleveland thinks it will. I might get to that later.

That's still on my agenda. So is Kash Patel. As for that image of Hoover Cleveland as a force user for 1978 Madison Scouts for Star Wars Day, the red light saber blade marks him as a Sith, not a Jedi. Way to tell on yourself!

Weekend Update continued with Weekend Update: Lamborghini Yacht Sinks in Miami, US Navy Loses Second Fighter Jet.

Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like K-Pop star Lisa of Blackpink wearing an outfit that featured images of Rosa Parks on her bodysuit at the Met Gala.

It didn't take long for weight loss drugs like Ozempic to drive Weight Watchers into bankruptcy. Since they operate brick-and-mortar locations, they're now another candidate for my Retail Apocalypse coverage. Add that to my to-do list.

Walton Goggins' monologue, the news about a jury not yet being seated in the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs in the first Weekend Update segment, Lisa of Blackpink at the Met Gala and the yacht carrying influencers sinking in the second, and Kanye being mentioned in both qualifies this entry as the Sunday entertainment feature, but The Movie Guy on Upcoming Summer Blockbusters cements it.

The Movie Guy (Marcello Hernández) stops by Weekend Update to talk about upcoming summer blockbusters.

Of course the first upcoming release "The Movie Guy" mentioned was Jurassic World Rebirth. It's a Universal movie and SNL is an NBC show, so it doubles as self-promotion. As I wrote most recently in HBO declines to renew contract with 'Sesame Street', "It's not just news value that's driving it." Or comedy value, for that matter.

Unlike The Movie Guy, A Guy Who Just Walked Into a Spiderweb on Trump's Tariffs turned out to be a MacGuffin.

A Guy Who Just Walked Into a Spiderweb (Mikey Day) stops by Weekend Update to discuss how Trump's tariffs will affect consumers.

"Get out of here!" That's what I wish would happen to both Hoover Cleveland and his tariffs!

Weekend Update closed with Dianne, The Mom Who's Only Read About New York on Facebook, Gives Tourists Tips.

Dianne, the mom who's only read about New York on Facebook (Heidi Gardner), stops by Weekend Update to give tips on how to survive The Big Apple.

I've been hearing tourist horror stories about New York City for 60 years, when I visited the World's Fair with my parents. Some things haven't changed.

Goggins returns in The Second Amendment.

A group of congressmen (Walton Goggins, Mikey Day, Andrew Dismukes, James Austin Johnson, Michael Longfellow) propose amendments for the Constitution.

Of course, "Matt" and the rest of the Founding Fathers forgot all about the "well-regulated militia" part, which turns the Second Amendment into the "Second Ammoment." As I wrote in Celebrate Bill of Rights Day with cupcakes on Cupcake Day! "A well-regulated militia — what's that?"

I close with one last skit at least tangentially about motherhood, Tiny Baby Shoe.

A woman (Jane Wickline) tries to find the rightful owner of the tiny baby shoe she found on the ground.

I've been wondering if any of Wickline's songs would be eligible for an Emmy nomination in Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics. and this looks like the best candidate. If so, it would face stiff competition, just from other SNL songs. Good luck, Jane, you'll need it!

With that, it's time for me to call my mom. See you tomorrow!