Saturday Night Live recap: Claire Foy and Alec Baldwin welcome guest stars galore

Saturday Night Live recap: Claire Foy and Alec Baldwin welcome guest stars galore:

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Rosalind O'Connor/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images  Cold open Alec Baldwin returns as a sullen Donald Trump, who mulls legal woes on a balcony at the Park Hyatt in Argentina after he and First Lady Melania (Cecily Strong) unwind after a taxing day of diplomatic relations at the G20 Summit. Though Baldwin lands a few moderately funny quips (“There are a bunch of old German guys who are really into what I’m saying here,” he says of the South American country) and Kate McKinnon makes a laugh-out-loud appearance as Rudy Giuliani (who literally sprouts bat wings and flies off the balcony), the intro wastes a surprise appearance by Ben Stiller as Michael Cohen. Though Stiller has little to work with, former SNL actor Fred Armisen picks up the slack as Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who enters the scene alongside Vladimir Putin (Beck Bennett) for an overt display of bromantic affections (over-the-top high-five, anyone?) that sends Trump into a jealous fit before the whole group returns to sing a rendition of signature Evita track “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” in the wake of the Mueller probe. “It’s just a witch hunt,” the group sings to close out the number (and the sketch). “And we’re all witches!”  Monologue As her home country is currently embroiled in Brexit drama, English actress Claire Foy kicked off her first SNL monologue by giving thanks for being “in a country that’s more chaotic than Britain,” which she likened to being drunk and nervous at a party until “you see someone who’s much more drunk than you are.”  Foy admits she knows being a “foreigner” might cause Americans to panic, but she reassures the masses by joking that she’s “only taking the jobs that Americans don’t want.” Such as, Ms. Foy? “In First Man, I had to play Ryan Gosling’s wife because nobody else wanted to do it! I had to!”  The Girl in the Spider’s Web star then wrapped up her brief monologue by championing the increasing number of female officials being elected to office (“Hopefully I can get even more roles [now]” she says) and a silly anecdote about meeting Queen Elizabeth II, whom she played across two seasons of the Netflix drama The Crown: “She said absolutely nothing about The Crown, not a single word!” Foy said to nervous audience laughter before delivering the awkward punch: “Of course this was three years before I did The Crown.”  Best sketch Admit it: You’ve always thought it was weird that Charlie’s grandparents all slept in the same bed in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. In a blissfully juvenile sketch based on the classic movie, Charlie (Foy) approaches his grandparents (Heidi Gardner, Pete Davidson, Kyle Mooney, Aidy Bryant) to bid them goodnight as the foursome settles into bed — well, except for Mooney and Bryant, who proceed to have sex with everyone still in the room. Things escalate quickly, with the couple’s actions rocking the giant bed — and eventually the whole house — before the scene ends. Though
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