SNL Recap: Ryan Gosling Reworks Taylor Swift Song About Barbie and Ken

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Ryan Gosling is no for a longer time “just Ken” and is completely ready to cling up his rollerblades for great.

“It’s wonderful to be back here internet hosting SNL. I’m right here simply because of my new movie, The Drop Person with Emily Blunt. So, really don’t stress: I’m not going to make any jokes about Ken since it is not amusing,” Gosling, 43, quipped in his Saturday Evening Reside monologue on Saturday, April 13. “Ken and I, we had to break up [because] we went much too deep and it is more than, so I’m not going to discuss about it.”

He ongoing, “I in fact am going to communicate about it a minor little bit. I have to simply because, you know, when you play a character that challenging [for] that prolonged, just permitting go feels like a break up. And for processing a separation, there’s genuinely only 1 detail that can enable: the songs of the terrific Taylor Swift.”

Gosling, whose job of Ken in 2023’s Barbie scored him an Oscar nomination earlier this 12 months, sat down at a grand piano and started participating in a Ken-centric rendition of Swift’s “All As well Effectively.”

“I shredded Venice Seaside, it is real / My garments have been tight but some thing about that spandex felt so appropriate,” Gosling sang, tweaking the authentic lyrics to in shape Barbie storylines. “I left my rollerblades in that large pink house / But I however obtained that fur coat and I’ll wear it suitable now.”

He even further belted out: “Oh that sweet definition of my washboard abs / Singing into Indigo Women in the car or truck with Babs. If I said I was likely wonderful, you know I’d be lying / ‘Cause I was just Ken and now I’m just Ryan.”

Gosling’s musical soliloquy was quickly interrupted by Blunt, 41, herself, who questioned why her Fall Person costar was fixated on Barbie instead of marketing their future motion flick.

“We experienced a whole Tumble Dude monologue planned with a bunch of stunts, it was going to be epic,” Blunt reported. “I was gonna hit you with items and instead you’re singing about Ken — yet again.”

Gosling, even so, posited that the two had been not “totally unrelated” because he listened to “All Also Well” by Swift, 34, when he filmed The Fall Dude. “In a way, I’m accomplishing specifically what we talked about,” he additional.

Blunt tried out to shut down Gosling’s track, but he just could not transfer on.

“Because below we are once again, on that technicolor seashore / I did not gain the Oscar / It was just out of reach,” Gosling sang. “I was there, bleach-blond hair / Now it is time to would like Match Ken farewell.”

Blunt reluctantly joined in to say goodbye to her role in Oppenheimer, the 2023 Oscar-successful epic about the earning of the nuclear bomb.

“Father of the atom bomb and a bottle of Jack / I employed to be the alcoholic wife of a dude in the hat,” Blunt crooned of her character, Kitty Oppenheimer. “Talkin’ to Albert Einstein, sipping a margarita / With Sir Christopher Nolan in the back of a Kia.”

The two actors then sang alongside one another, totally ending any lingering rivalry amongst Barbie and Oppenheimer pursuing its shared July 2023 theatrical launch day.

“You truly should see the Slide Male,” they sang in unison. “But I just just cannot seem to let Ken go. ‘Cause below we are again back again in 2023 / With the Barbenheimer summertime, it was just you and me. Drunk on beer / No system hair / Now it’s time to desire it all farewell. We have been Kitty and Ken. And I desire you could have viewed us / You ended up faithful to the close and your male had no penis.”

They conclude, “Must confess / We’re a mess carrying out press. Now it’s time to wish Ken and Kitty / Both equally of them / Farewell.”

Gosling then tried to blow out a memorial candle to Ken, but the flame reignited. “That’s suitable because Ken will by no means die,” the actor proclaimed.

Blunt wasn’t the only shock visitor to seem on Saturday’s episode. Former SNL solid member and Gosling’s Barbie costar Kate McKinnon returned for the cold open, reprising her “Close Encounter” character, before college or university basketball star Caitlin Clark appeared on “Weekend Update” to talk about the WNBA Draft. Chris Stapleton, who was the episode’s musical visitor, also appeared in a region-influenced lyrical sketch with Gosling and the rest of the SNL forged.

Saturday Night Stay airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET.