First-time ‘Saturday Night Live’ host Pedro Pascal couldn’t keep a straight face during the “Lisa from Temecula” sketch on Feb. 4, and he wasn’t the only one.
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“Lisa from Temecula” was too much for everyone.
Studio 8H welcomed the internet’s favorite zaddy on Saturday, Feb. 4. Pedro Pascal made his Saturday Night Live debut, hosting an episode that also featured musical guest Coldplay. The “Last of Us” star was “so excited” to be there, he shared during his monologue, and he looked like he enjoyed every minute of the experience. In fact, he broke multiple times as the night progressed, especially during the hilarious “Lisa from Temecula” sketch.
A favorite for many people on YouTube and Twitter, the sketch brought together Pascal, Ego Nwodim, Punkie Johnson, Bowen Yang, and Molly Kearney as a group of friends having a birthday dinner for Johnson’s character, Shayna. The titular “Lisa from Temecula” was her sister, hilariously played by Nwodim, whose absurd antics ultimately made them all lose it. As a commenter on YouTube put it, “There were NO survivors. This sketch broke everyone!”
Lisa, “who flew all the way from Temecula” to support her sister, immediately established herself as an unorthodox character.
