Druski Hosts ‘SNL’ With The Strokes: A Singing Proposal Gone Wrong and a Hip-Hop Parody

Druski’s first night hosting Saturday Night Live turned on four minutes of very committed singing. On Saturday (Nov. 7), with The Strokes as musical guest, the comedian led the musical finale to a marriage proposal that did not land, Billboard reports. In “Proposal,” Jeremy Culhane asks his girlfriend, played by Sarah Sherman, to marry him, and the production goes on after she says no. “I don’t really know how to tell you this, but the next four minutes are about to be really tough,” Culhane says. Druski, the hired entertainment, belts “She said yes, oh, she said yes” over an ensemble that keeps growing. Watch it below.

The last sketch of the night was “Golden Age of Hip-Hop,” a documentary-style parody about a “socially conscious hip-hop” group, Lenny & The Street Smart Crew. Druski, James Austin Johnson, Ben Marshall, Kam Patterson and Tommy Brennan perform songs like “Gangs Ain’t Good (Free Yo Mind)” and “You Can Be My Brother, Friend.”

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The other standout was a spoof of You Can See Everything, the A24 documentary about Elizabeth Holmes. Complex says Druski played both Nathan Fielder and Holmes, and calls it “quite literally Druski’s bag.” In Rolling Stone’s account, he turns skeptical of Holmes right away and tells himself in the mirror, “I just need to find somebody who can truly embody her character,” before the cut to him as Holmes.

Complex says he is the first digital creator to host the show, and that over the 90-minute episode he felt like a regular cast member. His monologue included Emma Stone, his castmate in the 2027 baseball comedy The Catch, and his grandmother, and Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock showed up during the end credits. When the booking was announced, Drake, Travis Scott, Quavo and Wheezy sent congratulations, Billboard notes, and the show follows his TIME100 Next cover.

The music came from The Strokes, who played “Lonely in the Future” and “Going Shopping” from their July album Reality Awaits. For the second song, Walton Goggins, in an all-black suit and sunglasses, joined on bongos, reprising his role from the song’s video, Billboard reports. It was the band’s fourth turn as musical guest, after 2002, 2006 and 2011. Afterward they released the official video for “Lonely in the Future,” which stars handcrafted puppets made with the team behind Spitting Image. Watch “Going Shopping” below.

SNL returns Nov. 14 with John Mulaney hosting and Phoebe Bridgers as musical guest.