Ryan Gosling Sings a Version of Taylor Swift’s ‘All Too Well’ on ‘SNL’ as Emily Blunt and Caitlin Clark Cameo – Yahoo Canada Finance

The ‘Barbie’ star hosted the show on April 13 alongside musical guest Chris Stapleton

The third time is the charm!

Ryan Gosling returned to Saturday Night Live on April 13 for his third appearance as host of the late-night comedy show, which saw cameos from actress Emily Blunt and the University of Iowa basketball star , Caitlin Clark, and the actor revisiting one of his most beloved films. SNL sketch.

The 43-year-old actor led the show with a hilarious musical monologue in which he promised not to make “Ken jokes” and explained he had to “break up” with his character in Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster of 2023. barbie after they have “gone too far”.

However, shortly after, he admitted that he would indeed talk about his beloved character because “letting go feels like a breakup.”

Gosling then added that when it comes to “dealing with a breakup,” there’s “really only one thing that can help. The music of the great Taylor Swift!”

The actor then launched into a Ken-centric rendition of Swift’s “All Too Well,” much to the audience’s delight, including the lyrics, “’cause I was just Ken, and now I’m not than Ryan.”

However, it wasn’t long before Gosling was interrupted by his The guy who falls just in time his co-star Blunt, 41, who chastised him for singing “again” about Ken, instead of promoting their film and telling him to take off Ken’s fur coat, which he had put on.

“Ryan, you need to move on. It’s time,” Blunt told him before Gosling launched into the song again. This time, the actress went further by hitting him in the head with a (stunt) bottle. When this didn’t stop Gosling from raving about Ken, Blunt then hit him with a wooden board and proclaimed that “Ken is dead.”

Gosling reminded her that she had starred in Oppenheimer — nodding to the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon created by the two films in the summer of 2023 — and asked if he ever missed it.

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Blunt then began to sing wistfully about her role as Kitty in Oppenheimer to “All to Well” – joined by Gosling – as they sang about their respective films and characters, including that it was time to wish the characters “farewell”. However, Gosling managed to insert at the end that “Ken will never die!”

Elsewhere on the show, basketball star Clark appeared on “Weekend Update” and jokingly chastised Michael Che for his jokes about women’s sports. Meanwhile, Gosling revisited his famous “Close Encounter” sketch, including an appearance from the original sketch’s star, Kate McKinnon, who also starred alongside the actor in barbie.

Gosling is no stranger to SNL – having appeared as host and guest in various capacities in the past. In fact, it was one of his appearances on the show that led to him playing Ken.

In a “Weekend Update” segment in season 43, Gosling played the cousin of former cast member Alex Moffat, called “Guy Who Just Joined Soho House”. In an episode with Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett Without intelligence podcast, Gerwig said the “guy who just joined Soho House” was what sparked her interest in having Gosling appear in the barbie movie.

Gosling, 43, also appeared on the show last week during Kristen Wiig’s opening monologue, getting a coveted Five-Timers Club jacket from series creator Lorne Michaels — although he didn’t hosted only twice at that time.

“Are you sure? I mean, I haven’t even hosted three times yet,” said the dead Pool the star told SNL creator-producer, who playfully silenced him in return.

In a promo for this week’s episode, Gosling is seen working up the courage to get an autograph from country music icon Chris Stapleton, the evening’s musical guest.

Standing outside the “You Should Probably Leave” singer’s dressing room, Gosling offers the singer a few greetings, before deciding that “Master Stapleton, it’s me, Sir Gosling” beats “Yo Chris, one for the ‘gram?” for an acceptable introduction.

Gosling first hosted Saturday Night Live in 2015, where he notably played a father who finds himself the object of uncomfortable advances from his daughter’s 13-year-old friend. Two years later, in 2017, Gosling returned to the series as host and reprized his role as a man abducted by aliens in one of the episode’s sketches.

During two alien-themed sketches in 2015 and 2017, Gosling got instances of laughs from his scene partner Kate McKinnon.

Saturday Night Live airs Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET on NBC.

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