Saturday Night Live Returns For 47th Season, With Host Owen Wilson Joking About the Covid Vaccine Coming Out ‘Everywhere Except Florida’

Saturday Night Live returned to screens this weekend, marking its 47th season with guest host Owen Wilson.

The French Dispatch actor started his monologue by joking, “The vaccine came out everywhere except Florida, and the rest of the country went back to normal for about a week and a half.”

He remarked that he will be getting instant reviews for the show, instead of having to wait as he usually does, for movie reviews.

“I just read the good ones,” he said. “I really find that the bad ones, they don’t really speak to me in the same way. Although, every once in a while a bad one will make it passed my radar. I remember one bad years ago said ‘Owen Wilson’s on screen persona has all the ambition of an old golden retriever laying next to a fire.’ And it just kind of got worse from there.”

Wilson then said he probably has coasted a little, but “when Daniel Day-Lewis retired and all that pressure landed on my shoulders, everything changed.”

“And that’s when I knew I had to do Cars 3,” he added. (Wilson would later go on to parody doing the voice-over Mater, the rusty tow-truck from the movie and being offended by the script but persuaded by the pay).

“And really that’s what tonight is about, taking chances, spreading your wings as an artist,” Wilson said. But, you know, you don’t want to go crazy. You got to pace yourself. And is it the worst thing in the world being a golden retriever laying next to a fire?”

The episode marks Wilson’s first time guest-hosting the show. The musical guest, Kacey Musgraves, is making her second appearance.

Watch above, via SNL