This sketch from last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live takes place in an alternative universe, where, a) groups of friends can shoot at a bar indoors in 2021 and, b) the kind of brothers who would meet indoors in a bar in 2021 are in enough contact with their emotions to shout to “Driver’s License” by Olivia Rodrigo. In this hilarious piece of short-form speculative fiction, host Regé-Jean Page puts the teen break song on a dive bar on the jukebox, and his buddies immediately go from skeptical (“wait, what am I listening to?”) To completely sold out (“She has’ a healthy belt ”). Alex Moffat does the task of explaining that the lyrics are actually about “the children of High School Musical, ” and Page explains that he refers to “High School Musical the Series, ” to break down the drama between Rodrigo, Joshua Bassett and Sabrina Carpenter. Something about the songwriting and the raw emotion really speaks to these brothers, including the old man in the corner played by Kate McKinnon, and it does not take long before they argue about Taylor Swift’s influence on the artwork and to sing along and to swing. to the bridge.
Last night’s episode happened to be on Olivia Rodrigo’s birthday, and she took to Twitter to respond to the sketch and wrote in excited capital letters, “DRIVER LICENSE SNL SKETCH IS THE BEST BIRTHDAY ACCEPT EVER IM SHAKE.” The trumpet and hollow live studio audience at Saturday Night Live last night sounded like they agreed.