Brendan Gleeson hosted the iconic show for the first time over the weekend and there were certainly some highs and lows.
As it usually is with SNL, which tries to cram a weeks-worth of skits in one hour-long show, there will be some that land and some that you'd rather look away from.
It was pretty much par for the course for the 67-year-old's weekend in the spotlight as Gleeson started off with the opening monologue.
Gleeson is no comedian, but he managed to rattle off a few one liners to decent effect (playing up the Oirish-ness a bit, who can blame him?). As he rambled on, tuning his mandolin, Colin Farrell jumped in to pick up the pace and begin the show.
Staying with Farrell, Gleeson's 'Banshees of Inisherin' co-star, the two appeared in the skit 'Headshots' together. Gleeson plays an old grandad taking his grandson to get headshots. The photographer, however, sees something special in the old man and makes him do model poses for the rest of the skit.
Farrell also jumps into the scene and the two pose like the power couple they are. While there's diminishing returns on the iconic duo, this is SNL and there absolutely going to milk it.
The highlight of the Dubliner's involvement in the show came from the likely source of Please Don't Destroy, the comedy trio that have taken SNL by storm.
In their skit 'Tommy', the group play high-schoolers looking ahead to their senior year and talking about college. But something's a bit off about their friend Tommy. Turns out, he's not a 17-year-old from New Jersey..
Another classic is 'Blood Oath', where Gleeson plays the head of a tribe who forges an alliance with, you guessed it, a blood oathe. However, things don't go exactly to plan. Queue a whole load of fake blood.
Alas, there are always some sketches that don't land and this week was no exception. Poor old Brendan had to involve himself in this pretty awful scene about a woman who gets a googly eye transplant.
Luckily for Gleeson, he was just a bit-part in this sketch and largely just sat around making reactionary faces. Fair play to him for sticking it out to be honest.
There was also some questionable scenes where he plays an old woman who reads fan-mail for Marilyn Monroe in a strange mockery of 'Blonde' and a very current news segment about the Try Guys cheating scandal where Gleeson impersonates both a CNN interviewer and someone who knows who the Try Guys are.
But, overall, our Brendan did an admirable enough job at a pretty daunting challenge. He managed to keep up for the most part and got some genuine laughs in, which is pretty much above expectations for an SNL hosting gig.
You can see Gleeson star alongside Colin Farrell in 'The Banshees of Inisherin' coming to cinemas October 21.
