Timothée Chalamet celebrates the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike in SNL monologue

Timothée Chalamet returned to Saturday Night Live last night for the show’s first episode since the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, meaning hosts no longer have to dance around who they are and why they’re there so they don’t look like scabs, and Chalamet celebrated the opportunity to get back to normal in a heavily promotional monologue that featured the Wonka star singing a new version of “Pure Imagination” about “shameless self-promotion” that shouted out, yes, Wonka, but also Dune, Killers Of The Flower Moon (which he’s not even in), and the Chanel ad that he filmed with Martin Scorsese. It was a cute gag, but, ironically, he and some of the cast followed it up with a less-cute rap about baby-faced boys that seemed like something the writers had come up with before the strike and didn’t want to throw away:

Chalamet’s breakout sketch of the night was one where Sarah Squirm played a woman suffering from a reoccurring dream about some mysterious figure, with Bowen Yang playing a doctor who can create a visualization of the man. It turns out to be Chalamet as Troye Sivan, introducing himself as an “Australian YouTube twink turned indie pop star and model turned HBO actor Troye Sivan being played by an American actor who can’t do an Australian accent” (with the crowd whooping and hollering throughout), and he proceeded to do Sivan’s various viral dances and pull down his pants to shake his butt. Then the members of musical guest Boygenius showed up as other Troye Sivans and everybody danced.