The 41st season opener of SNL gave plenty of air time to featured player Leslie Jones. Host and musical guest Miley Cyrus also was a fulltime participant, delivering her opening monologue in what may have been a 1968 Lilly Pulitzer shower curtain and, later, performing an excellent pair of numbers in a wig composed of…well, who the heck knows what it wasn’t composed of? Both of them showed up for a sketch set at Katz’s Delicatessen, in a recreation of the immortal fake-orgasm scene from When Harry Met Sally, which was mildly funny while giving full expression to Jones’ vocal gifts (and showing her, for once, in a wig that didn’t have her looking as though she was plugged into an electrical outlet 24/7).
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