The Anora star is a little wooden in a laugh-light week which ended with musical guest Morgan Wallen storming off stageSaturday Night Live returns from hiatus with a send-up of the Trump administration’s shocking and humiliating Signal disaster. Secretary of defense Pete Hegseth (Andrew Dismukes), whipping boy Vice-President JD Vance (Bowen Yang), and frazzled secretary of state Marco Rubio (Marcello Hernández) discuss war plans, Trump’s imperialist goals, and the real JFK files in a group text chat that also includes Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg (Mikey Day) and three random teenage girls (Ego Nwodim, Sarah Sherman, and the night’s host Mikey Madison).The cold open includes a couple of good digs at fellow rightwing embarrassment Matt Gaetz’s predatory taste for young girls and Hegseth’s raging alcoholism, but this is woefully dull material for a scandal of this magnitude. Continue reading...