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“'Cause These Men Ain't What?”: Ego Nwodim is Saturday Night Live's MVP

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...ight-lives-mvp

Nwodim strutted back and forth in front of an enchanted Jost and Michael Che, purse swinging from her arm as she went after the halibut on the menu and the vegetarians in the room. Jost didn't know who this Miss Eggy persona was and she didn't have time to explain it to him. “As if I didn't give that man five children and ten years of my life,” she said apropos of nothing. ("You don't have kids!" Jost reminded.) “Now listen here, sex is a little different after fifty.” ("You're not fifty!" Jost protested.) Complaining about all the scrubs out there, she was like a Pied Piper leading the crowd to network censors. “'Cause these men ain't what?” she demanded of the audience. And they universally responded, “####!” The anchors collapsed on the desk as a happily taken aback Nwodim warned of fines sure to follow. “Lorne going to be mad at ch'all,” she said.

Then unlikely couple Grant and Alyssa returned to comment on how to survive the spring relationship slump. Marcello Hernandez and Jane Wickline are perfect together. He bellows and throbs beneath his backwards hat and football jersey. She cowers into herself, heart simmering underneath her turtleneck. “If you ever come for my man, I'll break a bitch off like a Kit Kat bar,” she warned.