Ryan Gosling is ending an period!
On Saturday, the Barbie star returned to host Saturday Night time Stay, and he kicked off the present by bidding one very particular character farewell: Ken.
Taking the stage in a relaxed black go well with, the 43-year-old actor knew what the viewers needed, however he wasn’t going to present it to them simply but.
“I am not gonna make any jokes about Ken as a result of it isn’t humorous,” he stated. “Ken and I, we needed to break up. We went too deep and it is over, so I am not gonna discuss it.”
However Gosling could not hold his phrase.
“I truly am gonna discuss it a little bit bit,” he stated with a little bit chuckle. “You already know whenever you play a personality that tough, that lengthy, it is simply… letting go simply appears like a breakup, and for processing a breakup, there’s just one factor that may assist, the music of the good Taylor Swift.”
As Gosling took a seat at a piano, the lights went pink as he mirrored on his bleach blonde hair, rollerblades and the Kenergy that swept the nation by singing his personal model of Taylor Swift’s breakup anthem, “All Too Properly.”
“Trigger I used to be simply Ken and now I am simply Ryan,” the star sang as he spun the lyrics to the music in order that it was “Ryan’s Model.”
Earlier than going into the second act of the music, Gosling was stopped by his The Fall Man co-star, Emily Blunt, who tried to persuade him to finish his Barbie period and concentrate on being the stuntman from their newest movie.
In a final ditch effort, Blunt smashed a bottle over Gosling’s head and hit him with a chair to get him to snap out of it, nevertheless it did not work.
Gosling then reminded Blunt of her Oppenheimer character, Kitty, and all of the success she noticed throughout the epic “Barbenheimer” run, the place each Barbie and Oppenheimer had simultaneous releases.
Collectively, Blunt and Gosling closed the monologue by bidding farewell to Kitty and Ken. Blowing out a Ken candle, Gosling stated, “Farewell, my candy prince.”
Nonetheless, when the candle was relit, Gosling reassured Blunt and the viewers that “Ken won’t ever die,” earlier than launching into the present.
Swift didn’t be a part of the sing-along as she was busy along with her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, on the Coachella Valley Music Pageant.
Gosling, in the meantime, held his personal as he returned to Studio 8H. Breaking character earlier than the present began, Gosling was joined by Kate McKinnon as they reprised the hilarious “Shut Encounter” sketch, the place they play a gaggle of individuals kidnapped by aliens.
Gosling — who performs Todd — giggled his manner via the sketch as they recounted their assembly with aliens. Gosling additionally appeared in a Beavis and Butt-Head sketch and alongside Bowen Yang as a health care provider who could not hold it collectively.
School basketball phenom Caitlin Clark additionally made a shock look and Chris Stapleton was the musical visitor. Gosling’s return comes every week after he crashed host Kristen Wiig’s SNL five-timers membership opening monologue.
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