'SNL': Will Forte's MacGruber Becomes an Anti-Vaxxer Conspiracy Theorist in New Trio of Sketches
Will Forte returned to over the weekend for his first time as host and, as expected, he brought MacGruber with him.The character — who first was created on as a parody of MacGyver, then went on to have his own movie, and just dropped the first season of a TV show on Peacock last month — is famously bad at everything he does, and ends up getting everybody blown up.However, Forte managed to breathe fresh life into the still-funny sketch, with a little help from his co-stars Kristen Wiig and Ryan Phillippe.The first sketch of the night (because they almost always comes in threes), sees the trio trying to defuse a bomb in a bank, inside a sealed vault. All three are wearing protective face masks, before MacGruber asks them to take them off, so he can use them to create some elaborate contraption to defuse the explosive.«Now both of you, hand me your masks!» MacGruber declares. «No time to explain, masks now!»As MacGruber lights the masks on fire in a tin can, Wiig's Vicki St.