SNL GAVE DRUSKI TWO RULES AND HE BROKE BOTH IN ONE SKETCH

SNL handed the keys to a guy from your Explore page. Druski, born Drew Desbordes, hosted the Nov. 7 episode and became the first digital content creator to front the show in 52 seasons. Production gave him two rules going in: no cussing and no whiteface. In the monologue he said he couldn't promise the second one. He finished the night 0 for 2. The payoff was "Dru Can See Everything," a pretaped spoof of Nathan Fielder's Theranos documentary. Druski played Fielder first, then flipped and played Elizabeth Holmes himself, blond wig, black turtleneck, the voice, with an f-bomb on the way through. Jane Wickline and Ben Marshall played Holmes and her partner Billy Evans. Pajiba called it the best sketch of the night. Emma Stone turned up in the monologue because the two just shot a rom-com called "The Catch." Druski announced he plays her love interest. Stone corrected him live on NBC, then noted it explained how he'd been looking at her for the entire shoot. Critics were less charitable. The A.V. Club filed the night as "a classic middling-to-bad episode of SNL" while allowing that Druski was "almost immediately likable." LateNighter called it the worst episode of the season so far. Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock and Michael B. Jordan all showed up anyway, and The Strokes played their fifth time out.

Why you should give a shit: The gatekeepers just gave the chair to a guy who built his audience on your phone, and the reviews make the real point: the host was never SNL's problem.