Saturday Night Live: Jake Gyllenhaal makes a surprise appearance as John Mulaney hosts SNL again – Daily Mail

He starred in an acclaimed Broadway production of Sunday In The Park With George.

Jake Gyllenhaal, 39, added some surprise star power to Saturday Night Live as comedian John Mulaney, 37, had a hilarious third time hosting. 

Mulaney played to his strengths in the monologue with a hilarious stand-up set featuring tangents about how terrible men are at making friends and the idiosyncrasies of the Bill of Rights.

The comedian was on screen from the opening sketch, about a press conference on the COVID-19 coronavirus that was derailed by the Democratic presidential primary candidates, in which he played a vaudeville-style Joe Biden.

Fred Armisen, Rachel Dratch and Larry David also guest-starred as former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Senator Amy Klobuchar and Senator Joe Biden.

After the break, John starred in a TCM segment of ‘Fiddler On The Roof for W.A.S.P.s, The Sound Of Music.’

He played the Nazi boyfriend of the eldest von Trapp daughter, played by Cicely Strong.

During a performance of Sixteen Going On Seventeen, he revealed he was actually in his forties, which seemed to worry her a bit more than the Nazi thing.

‘In a few months, this will be the least of your worries,’ he joked.

John was back for the next sketch, as the father of a daughter who was celebrating that she just got accepted into Stanford.

He lost his temper on his nephew (played by Pete Davidson) after he created a meme from his Facebook profile photo.

He put on a slideshow of the memes full of gratuitous self owns in front of his own family.

Beck Bennet and Kyle Mooney joined John in the next digital short playing themselves trying to write for this week’s episode.

Kyle tried to keep a smile on his face even as he was dying on the inside after John and Beck would only cast him as a ‘dork.’

He built a personal gym in his and Beck’s office, fully stocked with weight and his trainer Justin Theroux, playing himself.

Kyle showed up two days later with bulging biceps and a chiseled chin after putting on 37lbs of muscle — in two days — so that he could star in a male strip club sketch John was writing.

But after extensive rewrites, John only wanted dorks in the sketch, so beefcake Kyle was cut again, and then fired from SNL for good measure.

Next up, Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant starred as sisters in an old-timey black and white segment of the 1950s show Say, Those Two Don’t Seem To Like Each Other.

They were competing for the love of a visiting admiral who was going to choose one of them as a wife.

The two tried to sabotage each other with increasingly elaborate passive-aggressive moves.

‘Why, sister, your hair is a mess. Why don’t you put on this hat,’ said Aidy, slamming an anvil onto the table.

Kate tried to have Aidy sign her birthday card as a rejoinder.

‘Why, this is a suicide note!’ replied Aidy.

The two were ready to claim the affections of the admiral (Beck Bennett), until their pesky sailor brother (Mulaney) arrived and caught his eye.

Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne played one of his old band’s most popular song, Once In A Lifetime,  as he took to the stage.

The new version featured the musicians from his hit musical show American Utopia, which will return for a second run on Broadway in September.

The punk icon looked smart in a gray suit while showing off some of his anxious dance moves that dated back to the classic concert film Stop Making Sense (1984).

During Weekend Update, Chris Redd made an appearance to celebrate Black History Month, though he mostly bemoaned the lack of black people in the news.

He complained about a credit card illustration of Harriet Tubman making the Wakanda salute from Black Panther and a series of classic novel reissues, mostly about white characters, that had them drawn as black on the covers.

John was back in the next sketch as an airport convenience store cashier, while Chris and Pete played customers.

‘Yeah, I’ll get this Chobani Yogurt with no spoon to eat it please,’ said Chris.

‘And I’d like a bottle that will roll to the back of the plane as soon as we take off,’ Pete added.

But after Pete added the sushi, ‘the spicy tuna roll that’s sitting in the display case next to the ham and cheese panini,’ John seemed strangely concerned.

‘Oh, Phantom of LaGuardia, why don’t you tell this fine young man how he’ll feel after he eats our sushi!’ he cried out as Kenan Thompson appeared as a cross between the Phantom of the Opera and one of the geese that took down Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger’s plane.

The cast broke into a number of musical parodies from West Side Story and Annie as they complained about LaGuardia’s state of disrepair.

After John said the magic word, ‘security,’ Jake Gyllenhaal burst in out of nowhere as Guy Who Travels Everywhere in Pajamas

‘Did someone say “security?”‘ he asked, before explaining he was in his pajamas ‘so that TSA could have easy access to my body.’

The Sunday In The Park With George showed off his singing abilities as a pair of wires lifted him in the air for an emotional number about a pat down.

New castmember Bowen Yang appeared toward the end as Profiled Asian with a mask over his face, before David Byrne arrived to perform the Talking Heads classic Road To Nowhere, repurposed as Plane To Nowhere.

The songwriter was back with his massive ensemble after the break to perform Toe Jam, a 2008 collaboration with the electronic group The Brighton Port Authority.

John was featured in the next sketch, a compilation of vintage newsreel footage. He played a white fan of Jackie Robinson, while Kenan Thompson played Terrence Washington, ‘the first black man to boo Jackie Robinson at a baseball game.’

Kenan was a jealous spectator who ‘never actually played baseball due to his enlarged heart and many heart murmurs’ who had a ‘personal vendetta against Robinson ever since his ex-wife mentioned that Jackie was handsome.’