Oscar nominee Daniel Kaluuya tackles lag in ‘SNL’ monologue

April 4 (UPI) — Judas and the Shadowy Messiah Oscar nominee Daniel Kaluuya hosted this weekend’s edition of Saturday Evening Are residing.

“I know you are listening to my accent and thinking: ‘Oh, no. He’s no longer Shadowy. He’s British.’ Let me reassure you that I’m Shadowy. I’m Shadowy and I’m British. Most continuously, I’m what the royal household changed into disturbed the shrimp one would fancy,” the actor joked about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s son Archie sometime of his opening monologue.

He went on to surprise if British or U.S. racism is worse.

“Let me set aside it this form: British racism is so unhealthy, White folks left. They desired to be free. Free to manufacture their have more or less racism. For that reason the invented Australia, South Africa and Boston,” he mentioned.

Kaluuya moreover printed it has been a lifelong dream for him to host an episode of SNL featuring Kenan Thompson due to the when Kaluuya changed into a baby he wrote a play in accordance to Thompson’s historical sitcom, Kenan & Kel.

“I appropriate are attempting to capture this moment in front of Kenan and your total world, to bid thanks, Mum, thanks, God and thanks, Kel,” he mentioned.

Kaluuya, 32, moreover played a health care provider attempting to convince his have household to build up the COVID-19 vaccine in a single sketch and, in every other, he portrayed a father whose son declares at a dinner party that he has modified his school main from treatment to inventive writing.

The actor’s other credit encompass Derive Out, Shadowy Panther and Queen & Slim.