Cardi B brought both music and laughs to Saturday Night Live.
In addition to performing as the musical guest on the Jan. 31 episode, the 33-year-old rap star made a surprise cameo in the latest installment of the “Immigrant Dad Talk Show” sketch, joining Marcello Hernández as he complained about his children (mostly sons) alongside other immigrant fathers.
The skit opens with the lively, cigarette-smoking host Joaquin Antonio Gonzalez Suarez (played by Hernández) reassuring his white viewers not to worry about immigrants being deported in the U.S. “Don’t worry, we’ll be back,” he says with an exaggerated laugh.
He then welcomes his stoic Finnish neighbor Heikki, played by SNL host Alexander Skarsgård, who shows little emotion while coldly explaining how he would punish his son if caught smoking marijuana at school. “I’d kneel down, look into his soul, and say, ‘The shame is yours to live with,’” he says. Hernández’s character immediately contrasts with a completely different parenting style. “So you talk to him?” he asks. “I don’t talk, buddy. I shoot.”
Later, in a segment called “Arguing With Your Wife,” Hernández explains that he and his spouse “scream and scream and scream,” before it goes quiet and he asks, “You want to have sex with me, baby?” He usually receives a no. The host adds that he and his wife have a “beautiful relationship” and that he does whatever he wants because “it’s my house and it’s my rules.”
Just then, Cardi — wearing a colorful nightgown and hair curlers — bursts in, yelling at her husband and scaring off his guests. She sits down, snatches his cigarette and threatens to whack him with her pink sandal, scolding him for bringing unwanted visitors into their home.
The sketch closes with Hernández advising viewers to “do whatever your wife says,” while Cardi takes an angry puff from a cigarette.
Elsewhere during the episode, the Bronx rapper performed “Bodega Baddie” and “ErrTime” from her Billboard 200 chart-topping album, Am I the Drama? Check out the performances here.
Watch SNL’s “Immigrant Dad Talk Show 3” sketch featuring Cardi B below.
