Silke Jasso
Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney need to leave “Saturday Night Live.”
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The duo has become integral to the cast, yes, but when given their Lonely Island-esque space and a film crew, each sketch becomes a world of its own. Here, Bennett becomes Slav D, the most woke artist on Slavic Jam Records, with his “Song for Peace.”
“The world today,” Slav ruminates, leather jacket-clad, stalking about a cemetery aimlessly pointing at air and kicking it with his hype man (Mooney). “So much war. So much injustice.” But then “Martin Luther King” for some reason.
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Cut to Chris Pine crooning like a Slavic Michael Bolton, “So much pain in the USA, so much pain in the world today.” And it’s actually catchy — catchy in that way that pop radio was in the early ’90s, kind of nonsensical and ready for a middle school formal.
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But there’s another theme in Slav’s rap: his own addiction to internet porn, which finally becomes apparent to him in the third verse, because when you’ve porned up the family desktop, that’s when it’s a problem.
