November 1, 2026
โ€˜SNLโ€™: Inde Navarrette Takes Swipe at Shane Gillis During Monologue


Following a Trump-centric cold open that featured the return of Tom Hanksโ€™ David S. Pumpkins, โ€œSaturday Night Liveโ€ host Inde Navarrette took the stage at Studio 8H for her first opening monologue. It was a fitting choice to have the star of the yearโ€™s breakout horror hit โ€œObsessionโ€ (and the internetโ€™s apparent obsession) make her hosting debut on Halloween night, and the 25-year-old rising star seemed more than up for the occasion, unlike a certain stand-up comedian.

โ€œYou probably know me from the movie โ€˜Obsession.โ€™ And a lot of people ask me if Iโ€™m anything like my character Nikki and Iโ€™m like, โ€˜Noโ€ฆ no, no, donโ€™t do that!โ€™โ€ she joked, sliding into Nikkiโ€™s cadence. โ€œBut the thing is, is Iโ€™m nothing like my character in โ€˜Obsession.โ€™ Like, my boyfriend is here tonight to support me and we have such a chill relationship, right?โ€

The camera then cut to Navarretteโ€™s boyfriend, Nick Aiello, in the crowd bound and gagged to a chair. Then, the actress took a shot at Shane Gillisโ€™ โ€œSNLโ€ monologue from earlier this month.

โ€œI canโ€™t believe Iโ€™m saying this, but Iโ€™m going to be in a Marvel movie,โ€ said Navarrette, who will be playing Rogue in the new โ€œX-Menโ€ movie. โ€œAnd I know itโ€™s really important for Marvel that you get really fit, so Iโ€™ve been working out a lot, so every morning I put on my little whore outfit and I hit the gym.โ€

Gillis got a lot of flak for a lame, lazy joke about how women dress like โ€œwhoresโ€ now when they go to the gym in โ€œneon, like, artificial baitโ€-colored shorts.

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