Harry Styles Parodies MAHA, Sebastian Maniscalco, And His Own Queerbaiting On SNL

Harry Styles, fresh off the release of his new album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally, was the host and musical guest on SNL last night. It was his second time having pulled double duty on the show, having previously done so in 2019 (he teased his latest appearance last week by crashing Ryan Gosling's monologue). During Styles' monologue, the pop star talked about his love of fruit, addressed past accusations of queerbaiting, discovering he's actually “tremendously boring,” and his love of running. (Fans spotted him jogging to and from rehearsals this week.) Lastly, Styles kissed cast member Ben Marshall after passing on Chloe Fineman and Sarah Sherman.

Throughout the sketches, Styles played a prosecutor in a trial where the public defender was the comedian Sebastian Maniscalco (Marcello Hernández). It ended with Styles' character doing his own Maniscalco impression. A pre-taped "MAHAspital" commercial was a parody of HBO's The Pitt by way of Trump's HHS. Styles and Fineman starred as spokespeople of Scandinavian cruise ship Sparkle Of The Sea and introduced its entertainers, including the duo City Vogue Machine (Tommy Brennan and Veronika Slowikowska), who did a version of Styles' "Watermelon Sugar."

Styles also played a Best Buy employee named Christopher who defended an amorous coworker, Mr. Pooty (Kenan Thompson), and a high school quarterback and White Castle drive-thru worker whose nerdy classmates (Jane Wickline and Veronika Slowikowska) kept returning to ask him to a dance. Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, he did some stepdancing in a pre-taped Irish-themed R&B music video. Styles also played himself in a commercial for Harry For Him, a clothing line available exclusively at Target and "the men's section at Claire's." The sketch saw a bunch of the male cast members trying some of Styles' past looks. (Not this one, though, which went viral a few weeks ago.)

The cold open about spiking gas prices didn't physically include Styles, but James Austin Johnson's Donald Trump once again broke the fourth wall by acknowledging cast members standing behind him. "Trump" referenced Styles along with Timothée Chalamet's recent opera controversy. Colin Jost, reprising his Pete Hegseth impersonation, sang "blame it on the Ayatollah" to the tune of Jamie Foxx's "Blame It."

As for the music, Gosling introduced Styles' first musical performance, "Dance No More." Paul Simon introduced the second song, "Coming Up Roses," which saw Styles playing piano alongside a string section. (Simon was the first person to host and perform music on the same SNL episode, the series' second one ever back in 1975, though that was basically an entirely musical episode with other performers too).

Per TikToks recorded on the scene, Styles generously sent pizza to the SNL standby ticket line. Finally, the show announced the next new episode will pair host Jack Black with musical guest Jack White — finally. (A few hours before that news broke, White announced the death of his mother Teresa Gilis at age 95.) Black recently featured on the new CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso single.