The information that a number of Oscar nominee Michelle Williams was the reader for the audiobook of Britney Spears‘ memoir “The Woman in Me” was too pleasant for “Saturday Night Live” to cross up. In a pre-taped sketch for the Nov. 11 episode hosted by Timothée Chalamet, Chloe Fineman as Spears launched a cavalcade of celebrities (or, relatively, superstar impressions) auditioning to be the reader of Britney’s ebook.
Fineman was all over the place within the sketch: She additionally performed idiosyncratic actress and mannequin Julia Fox, and a manic, borderline illiterate model of Chalamet, whereas the actor himself performed Martin Scorsese (who lately directed Chalamet in a fragrance business for Blue de Chanel).
Other highlights included Sarah Sherman as comic John Mulaney, referencing his most up-to-date stand-up particular, “Baby J,” about his drug dependancy (however in a humorous method); Molly Kearney as actor Kevin James, however as a substitute of studying from the memoir, Kearney simply recreates the ever present meme of James hanging an aw-shucks pose; James Austin Johnson breaking out his Werner Herzog impression, remarking after studying a few of Spears’ prose, “I’m entranced by this Floridian vernacular”; and Ego Nwodim enjoying Jada Pinkett Smith, however as a substitute of studying from Spears’ ebook, she reads from her personal memoir, earlier than yelling out, “Tupac has alopecia!”
Allison Janney, Steve-O, Fred Schneider from the B-52s, Ice Spice, Dame Maggie Smith, Bill Hader and Neil deGrasse Tyson all made appearances in the course of the sketch as nicely. None of them, nonetheless, got here near the perfection of Williams’ studying of Spears’ memoir.
