Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | November 6, 2025
The Jennifer Lawrence episode of “Las Culturistas” is the episode that keeps on giving. Among other things, Lawrence revealed that she and Emma Stone were producing a Miss Piggy movie, that she didn’t need an intimacy coordinator with Robert Pattinson because he’s “not pervy”, that she regretted not getting Botox before filming No Hard Feelings, and that she somehow even compared the Boleyn sisters to Ashlee and Jessica Simpson.
But since Bowen Yang co-hosts the show, there was also a little SNL talk. For instance, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang said that their friend Sudi Green (a former writer on SNL) came up with the perfect riposte to waiters and other strangers who insist on pitching them SNL sketch ideas. If they persist, they simply tell them, “Even if we did take your idea, it would be a huge legal problem because the waiter could sue us later.” That apparently always shuts them down.
Lawrence, however, admitted that when she met Mark Ronson, she couldn’t resist pitching him her song about a street sweeper, and she began singing it to him. “I don’t know what I was expecting, but he was just like, ‘Nice to meet you.’”
Meanwhile, Bowen asked her about hosting SNL. She did it once, back in 2013, when she was 22 (it was not a good episode, through no fault of Lawrence’s own), and Bowen told her that she was great in it.
“No, I wasn’t,” Lawrence insisted. “I’m not good at it,” before explaining why she’s not good at hosting SNL.
“You know why,” she said. “Because the great ones, they’re not being funny. They’re like… they’re like Alec Baldwin. He’s so serious. He’s serious as a f***ing heart attack, and like, he’s really performing.” In other words, the effectiveness of the performance comes from being fully committed and playing the character with a straight face, no matter how absurd the material is. “I don’t do that,” Lawrence said. “I can’t get out of my head.”
She’s not wrong, either. Other than Alec Baldwin, I can think of two other SNL greats who are brilliant on the show because of how seriously they take their characters: Adam Driver (see his Undercover Boss pre-tape, for example) and, of course, Christopher Walken in the cowbell sketch. You really have to commit, unless you’re Ryan Gosling, in which case you’re great because you can’t commit.
