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During Saturday’s Weekend Update, Chloe Fineman embodied our generation’s most iconic good girl gone bad: JoJo Siwa.
Donned in Siwa’s now-trademark black eye makeup and dazzling outfit, Fineman began the Saturday Night Live sketch by announcing: “I used to be rainbow sparkles and now I’m black sparkles!”
In case you aren’t familiar, the real-life Dance Moms alum has been making headlines in recent weeks for her dramatic transformation from a bow-wearing, rainbow-touting emblem of childhood to something not all that different, only now in black.
“I look like if a figure skater joined a street gang,” Fineman added. Colin Jost contended that Siwa’s new look was more like if “Mad Max was on Broadway.”
Fineman’s Siwa went on to do everything you’d expect from a young woman in her bad girl era. She smoked a cigarette (well, pretended to); she broke out into aggressive impromptu dances, complete with head thrashing and fist banging; and delivered a particularly cringeworthy “that’s what she said” joke. Does it get any badder than that?
After all the chaos that was Siwa’s Weekend Update spoof, you were probably wondering: How old is this girl? Well, Fineman confirmed, “From 2011-2023 I was eight, but now I’m 20 and gay! I’m the first gay girl in the world!”
Also during Weekend Update, an exhausted Jerry Seinfeld stopped by with an important message for Ryan Gosling.
Watch the full Siwa sketch above, then grade this week’s SNL with Dua Lipa pulling double duty as host and musical guest.
I feel like SNL doesn’t really have anything to say with any of these skits anymore. JoJo Siwa has had many controversies recently and they could have touched upon any of them to say something. Like, she was exploited as a child star by Dance Moms and it looks like she and her mom are doing something similar with the girl group they are producing, she even had an affair controversy and tried to make herself the victim, or even when her dance moves were ridiculed on TikTok (even Dua Lipa commented on her dance comments, which I thought was in good humour). Use any of those to make a point about something more important, instead of just regurgitating the same thing about child stars trying to grow up. I remember Miley being ridiculed endlessly back in the day and now we love her for it. Making fun of people for the sake of making fun of them does not age well.
Then don’t watch it. SNL will do just fine. I’m not sure how you came to the conclusion that the skits don’t have “anything to say” anymore, but it’s a comedy show, just like it’s always been, that you he’s on relevant current events by making fun of them. Maybe JoJo Siwa should be a little more relevant by doing something more than copying Gene Simmons stage costume. Then she can get made fun of proper and hopefully more to your liking.
Normally I wouldn’t reply to “then don’t watch it comments” but this doesn’t feel like a troll I wanted to clear something up. By making a point I don’t necessarily mean that they have to have a political or social message, I just mean that their jokes and sketches need a punchline, something that brings it all together, which I believe a lot of these lacked this week. It’s not always like this, Ryan Gosling episode was great, even his monologue had a clear point. That’s what I mean. Like him or not I think the best skit of the night was Seinfeld’s, it was clear, to the point and funny.
SNL is off if they think that the average viewer even knows who Jojo Siwa is. For a lot of us she is just another kid actor who flipped out as an adult, and it’s not that interesting . Chloe’s act is getting really old. She has the same bizarre cheerfulness for every character.