Timothée Chalamet’s Funniest Moments, Fits, and Facial Hair on Saturday Night Live

It’s the third time that Timothée Chalamet has hosted Saturday Night Live—but the first for the 37 hairs on his upper lip and chin. In the midst of the week’s rehearsals, Chalamet received his second Oscar nomination for his part as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. And on Saturday night, he was truly game for anything thrown at him as both host and performer.

Here’s how it all went down.

In promo visuals posted earlier in the week, Chalamet wore a denim set by French designer Marine Serre: a laser-printed denim jacket with black cuffs and matching blue jeans, with his go-to sneakers: Nike Air Uptempos. Chalamet is styled by Taylor McNeill.

And in one of several sartorial odes to New York, Chalamet wore an It’s Like Our Mother t-shirt by Elizabeth Scholnick, Greg Moncada, and Claudia Gold, made to raise money for a documentary—currently in the works—about New York and gentrification. He also wore a vintage 2002 adidas velour jacket from New York vintage spot, Big Ash.

During the evening show, he forewent his current obsession with skinny scarves but kept up the logomania. For his monologue, Chalamet wore a Celine green leather jacket with a leopard print lining, a black T-shirt, blue jeans, a silver chain, and what appeared to be Ugg boots.

For his performance of Dylan’s “Outlaw Blues” and “Three Angels,” he wore a black parka with the furry hood pulled up and oversized, bug-eyed sunglasses. Then, for “Tomorrow Is a Long Time,” he changed into an Adidas tracksuit jacket and Dylan-esque paisley scarf.

Finally, for goodnights, Chalamet sported a black leather Yankees bomber—likely pulled from his own collection of merch for his home team.

Continuing the tone of his ongoing awards campaign, Chalamet kept things playful and light. He began his monologue by drawing attention to his sprouting chin hairs and lamenting his previous awards losses. This is the second chance at an Academy Award for Chalamet, who was previously nominated in the same category for Call Me by Your Name.

“It’s an enormous honor going to these award shows. It’s such a great experience,” Chalamet said. “But I just keep losing. And each time, it gets harder to pretend it doesn’t sting.” (Cue: a montage of Chalamet’s increasingly disappointed faces at the Golden Globes and Oscars ceremonies.) “Just another lonely night with my Dune popcorn bucket,” he quipped.

Chalamet then asked if the audience would indulge him as he narrated the winner’s speech that’s been gathering dust in his pocket. He reenacted the nail-biting moment leading up to the announcement, just for cast member Kenan Thompson’s name to be called.

“To my fellow nominees, you did beautiful work this year. Anyway, I love Bob Dylan. This is for you, Bob!” said Thompson. When Chalamet then asked if he could finish his intro, Thompson replied: “Oh, yeah, go ahead. Little bitch.”

Chalamet also made plenty of Dylan references himself, comparing the musician to Willy Wonka, another figure Chalamet recently played. “They’re both eccentric, they’re both innovators, and they both captured and enslaved hundreds of Oompa Loompas,” he said.

Chalamet really commits to his roles, as we know, but the SNL skits showed just how absurd his range is. First, he played a fitness instructor with Fabio-esque long hair and a neon aerobics get-up teaching a high-flying workout class. Demanding that the class of harness-encased women do increasingly wacky moves, like “the Jimmy Carter,” he calls Michael Longfellow a “twig-arm, Twilight-ass bitch” while lunging at him in his bungee.

Next, he played barista-in-training—and Chris Rock wannabe—Benny. As the Bungalow Cafe’s lead baristas (Mikey Day and Heidi Gardner) train up its newbies (Devon Walker, Ashley Padilla, and Chalamet), the latter are asked to come up with coffee puns for the chalkboard. An eager Chalamet turns the exercise into Def Comedy Jam.

“Man…You ever go to your lady, she got a yellow ring ’round the tub? I’m like, ‘Girl, who you been washing up in there? Homer Simpson?!’” Benny says, all gangly with physical comedy.

Met by his fellow baristas’ confusion, he adds: “We’re doing jokes, right?”

On his third attempt—tasked with finding a pun for the word “latte”—Benny offers: “Man, just the other day my lady said, ‘Big Benny, how much weight you think I gained?’ ‘Girl, a latte!’”

Later, Chalamet and Bowen Yang took on the ever-evolving world of Artificial Intelligence. As classroom of students learns about history through the now very established medium of filmed podcasts, they watch Chalamet and Yang (plus a few extra fingers) as AI bot friends. The two call each other “bae,” talk about hooking up with “Trish,” glitch a lot, and make nonsensical points about photosynthesis and American history.

With Chalamet fully strapped in for the ride, things went on to get a bit gross. For a skit in which a grandma (Sarah Sherman) collapses at her 96th birthday party, Chalamet, playing a cardiologist, performs a new CPR technique—by squatting and farting over her face. She rises. “I heard Gabriel’s horn calling me to heaven,” Sherman says.

The last of the sketches was the silliest, setting the cast as dogs (and one cat) in a New York dog park, where the canines chat like humans but keep up their animalistic tendencies. This meant that while Chalamet donned some nose and ear prosthetics and gave Mikey Day’s butt a sniff, Yang had a bad case of the zoomies, and Day took to humping another dog’s favorite toy. Canine chaos.

Like Ryan Gosling before him, Chalamet took a few moments to laugh during the skits—including when the bungee fitness class went haywire and Cinnabons were flying everywhere; Benny’s stand-up moments got more elaborate; and while waving with his extra digits as the AI chat bot.

During the first half of SNL, Chalamet performed two Dylan hits: “Outlaw Blues” and “Three Angels.” “Outlaw Blues” was featured on the 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home, and “Three Angels” was released in 1970 on Dylan’s 11th album, New Morning. James Blake joined him on stage as an unannounced guest, playing the piano.

Adam Sandler also made a surprise appearance to introduce Chalamet’s first performance. He pronounced Chalamet’s name as only Sandler would, recalling a joke from Nikki Glaser’s Golden Globes monologue. A worthwhile and funny long game.

In the latter half, Chalamet performed “Tomorrow Is a Long Time” from Bob Dylan’s 1971 Greatest Hits Volume II.

The obscure choices were charming, and Chalamet went all in on the performances.

“You might not know the Bob Dylan songs I’m performing, but they’re my personal favorites,” he told the audience during his monologue. “I’m so grateful Saturday Night Live is still doing weird stuff like this 50 years in. They’re either really nice for letting me do this or incredibly mean and this is all a big prank.”

Overall, a pretty positive response to Chalamet’s hosting and performance skills, with some conflicting opinions on how successful the sketches were. Still, a fine addition to his Academy Award campaign trail.