Daniel Kaluuya made his Saturday Night Live presented the debut tonight, and his funny monologue brought up a serious topic, mocked a Golden Globes issue and thanked a longtime member of the cast for NBC’s late night show.
The London-born actor began by saying: ‘First, I know you hear my accent and think,’ Oh no, he’s not black – he’s a Briton. “After confirming that he was indeed both, he said, ‘I’m actually the royal family who were worried the baby would look like.’
Kaluuya agreed with the topic and said people ask him which is worse – British racism or American racism. “Let me put it this way,” he said. ‘British racism is so bad that white people are gone. They wanted to be free – free to create their own own kind of racism. That’s why they created Australia, South Africa and Boston. ”
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He then talks about his Oscar-nominated supporting role as Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in Judas and the Black Messiah, and a track was played from his Zoomed acceptance speech.
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‘I’m muted – can you believe it? I told the best joke of my life, and I was muted. I felt like I was in a sunken place, ‘a reference to his other Oscar-nominated role in 2017 Go out.
Kaluuya became semi-serious and said he was grateful to have hosted a certain Nickelodeon series from the nineties.
‘When I was 9,’ he said, ‘I wrote a play that was staged at the Hampshire Theater with real actors and everything. This is a true story – on which the play is based Kenan & Kel. And that play led me on a path that brought me to this point tonight with Kenan [Thompson] now behind the scenes. And I want to take this moment just in front of Kenan and the whole world to say: Thank you, Mom. Thank you, God. And thank you Kel. ”
Oh, here it goes.
You can see Kaluuya’s monologue above.