John Mulaney’s seventh turn hosting Saturday Night Live on Nov. 14, 2026, came with an RFK Jr. roast and a surprise return from Bowen Yang as Jensen Huang. The cold open cast Mulaney as a CIA instructor trying to teach tech-billionaire caricatures to recognize an espionage honeytrap. SourceSourceSource
Phoebe Bridgers was the musical guest, according to Gold Derby’s recap. Mulaney previously worked as a writer on the show. SourceSource
“One of the only difficult things about working here was dealing with hosts,” he said, as quoted by Deadline. “So, it’s fun when I host, because it’s like there’s no host.” Source
RFK Jr. gets the monologue treatment
Mulaney impersonated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. health and human services secretary, and mocked his vaccine skepticism, Variety reported. “You dumbass, your thing can’t be the measles,” he said. SourceSource
According to Deadline, Mulaney also said he’d known Kennedy for over a decade, then offered a qualification test that flattered neither of them: “You shouldn’t be part of the government if I’ve known you for over a decade.” Source
Bowen Yang joins the billionaire class
The cold open cast Ben Marshall as Sam Altman, James Austin Johnson as Peter Thiel, Jeremy Culhane as Elon Musk, Andrew Dismukes as Mark Zuckerberg and Jane Wickline as Dario Amodei. Mulaney’s CIA agent used Venn diagrams to explain the difference between genuine romantic interest and an espionage trap, according to Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. SourceSource
Johnson’s Thiel picked a risky argument: name a time technology had let people down. Mulaney’s CIA agent answered with references to grounded planes and Microsoft Outlook going dark. SourceSource
“When you invite Jensen over, you know what is about to go down — the S&P 500,” Yang’s Huang said, as quoted by Deadline. Source
The Hollywood Reporter described the cameo as Yang’s first appearance on the show since leaving the cast the previous December. Source
On the fake brewery show Gettin It Done, Mulaney and Jeremy Culhane’s characters drank autumn IPAs and repeatedly made out, Deadline reported. “We hung out sober one day, and it was like, nothing,” Culhane’s character said. Tough tasting notes. Source
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