Saturday Night time Dwell tackled the viral Roman Empire pattern in a hilarious rap tune.
In the course of the Saturday, November 18, episode of SNL, a gaggle of girls (performed by Ego Nwodim, Punkie Johnson and Chloe Troast) questioned what their husbands (portrayed by episode host Jason Momoa, Mikey Day and Kenan Thompson) usually take into consideration.
“Lately it seems like the magic is gone / He’s the love of my life, but something is wrong,” Nwodim, 35, sings as Momoa, 44, appears to be like off into the space. “Would he be happier on his own?”
After Nwodim pointedly requested Momoa about his latest ideas, he launched right into a full-scale rap (in a interval gladiator costume) to clarify.
“Me? I’m just thinking about the Roman Empire / Ancient Rome / 5 times a day it pops into my dome,” he raps. “Which reminds me, they invited the dome. That’s one of the reasons I think about Rome!”
Momoa provides: “[Julius] Caesar straight didn’t give a f–k / Drank ice cold water from an aqueduct / But it’s the eternal city / Here’s him and his twin [Remus] sucking on a wolf’s titty. What!”
Troast, 26, and Johnson, 38, had related revelations about their onscreen husbands (Day and Thompson, respectively) appearing distanced and never expressing curiosity of their households.
“Rome, Rome in the year Double M, Double X, Triple I / Did you know that their statues weren’t white?” Day, 43, chimes in. “They painted them in colors bold and bright. Emperor Nero killed his own mother / When they took a s–t, they sat next to each other.”
The Roman Empire pattern began circulating on TikTok in September earlier than SNL kicked off season 49. In varied social media movies, many ladies have been fully shocked to seek out out that their companions contemplated the historic matter a minimum of as soon as every week. Momoa and the SNL males took to the Studio 8H stage on Saturday to focus on the Roman Empire’s achievements.
“It’s Rome, Rome, Ancient Rome. They have central air and heat in the home,” Momoa provides earlier than Nwodim fake-slaps him for dwelling in his creativeness — and passing that trait onto their dinosaur-obsessed son.
“I said, you’re acting like the Visigoths right now,” he retorts, kicking off the ultimate verse of his chant. “[Dinosaurs are] kind of like Rome, Rome, Ancient Rome / Kind of like London, Paris, Zurich and Cologne! In terms of religion …”
Nwodim lower off Momoa, telling him he wants “to be thinking about things that matter today” like astrology.
“Astrology, astrology and reading stars / And how they determine who we are,” she sings alongside Troast and Johnson. “See, a Scorpio I know he’s gon’ cheat all day / And if you are triple Gemini, stay the hell away / ‘Cause astrology!”
Momoa, nonetheless, made a counterpoint that the Historical Romans have been “actually into” astrology too. Nwodim wasn’t listening to his rebuttal. “I said, ‘You’re done,’” she provides with one other pretend slap.
Saturday Night time Dwell airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET.