Adam Driver comes back on “Saturday Night Live” on December 9 for the fourth time, alongside the guest, Olivia Rodrigo. This time, Driver committed his time to the show even though his role in the iconic late night was as an infant baby in the airplane.
Driver has taken on many roles throughout the night of the show, the most intriguing one being where he plays the role of a baby, Eddie. Sarah Sherman played the role of the mother of this baby and traveled with him alone on the airplane.
Adam Driver’s fourth comeback on SNL.
Adam Driver, who has earlier also made his appearance three times on Saturday Night Live and has delivered outstanding humor sketches for the iconic night, made his fourth comeback on SNL on December 9 with Olivia Roderigo as the guest of the night, where she performed “Vampire.”
Driver, along with his acting, gave the viewers an insight into his piano skills. He ended the evening with his monologue and also did his annual ritual of sharing his Christmas wish list with Santa Claus in the presence of his audience.
His wish list had the essence of Driver’s humor, as he said he has a very special connection with Santa and heads forward to making wishes like he wants “five pairs of chinos” as a present for his just passed 40th birthday on November 19. The “House of Gucci” star also included “people to stop coming up to me on the street saying, ‘You killed Han Solo,’” in his list.
More Christmas wishes were shared by him, along which he also added his favorites from the holiday, which include gingerbread houses, on which the actor said, “A gingerbread man gets scared when he realizes that the house is made of his own skin.” driver also mentioned that egg nogs are his favorites and shared it as his “favorite way to have eggs.”
The “Airplane Baby”
The sketch of this iconic night show from December 9 begins with Sherman, where she is seen with other passengers on an airplane, which also includes Kenan Thompson and Heidi Gardner. Sherman apologizes to the passenger beforehand, as it’s her baby Eddie’s (Driver’s) first flight.
Gardner assured Sherman that it was absolutely fine because she’s been in the same situation and has gone through such scenarios as a mother of three. When Gardner asks her how old Eddie is, the screen shows Driver’s face above a baby doll’s body with a matching cap of the doll’s outfit on his head, shoved through the airplane seat. To which
Driver responds, “11 months,” then Gardner and Thompson give expressions of disbelief. Thompson gives a hilarious response: “You mean 11 months and like 15,000 days?” Eddie (Driver) starts getting annoyed with the present passengers, just like any other usual baby.
Driver starts feeling “strange,” and this can only be soothed by his “Peppa Pig Device,” which is actually an iPad in real life. The “airplane baby” gets more irritated when the flight attendant (Chloe Troast) comes for drink orders.
When Troast asked Sherman about the baby, Driver gave the response, in which he said, “Who is that woman? She’s not my mother. Now I’m feeling confused and uncomfortable, and frankly, I miss the womb!” and then he burst into hysterics.
Just like usual mothers, Sherman also tries to soothe Driver with his bottle, to which he confirms feeling better after promptly spitting it out. Sherman further humorlessly shares with Troast that she was pregnant with Eddie (Driver) for two years and was “worried he would come out overcooked.”
Later on, in the sketch we get to see, Sherman offers Eddie to play with a teddy bear, to which Driver reacts delightfully and, with excitement, wills to play with it until Sherman tries to hide it behind her back and Eddie (Driver) screams at the top of his lungs. Then Sherman pulls the bear out of her back to end Driver’s hysteria.
Eddie feels elevated and says, “Pookie has returned. I feel such elation!” This usual drama of child and mother continues in between, during which Driver says, “He’s gone! You killed him, you b—-!” to Sherman when she hides his “Pookie” again.
The airplane baby, after causing all the havoc, now wants to go to the bathroom and continuously maintains eye contact with Thompson. Before breaking into another unbearable baby scream, the driver says that he doesn’t “like the way it feels.”.
