Last night Miley Cyrus was the host and musical guest of Saturday Night Live. As one might expect, she did not disappoint. Check out our recap with videos from last night’s show.
After her controversial MTV Video Music Awards performance put her front and center of media critics around the world, it was announced that the former Hannah Montana would be hosting and performing as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. Many people expected SNL to be yet another avenue for Miley to “show off” her newly formed image – and that it was.
Backstage at the VMAs Cold Open
Miley helped open the show with a sketch about the downfall of America where her former self tried to stop her from doing the VMAs (played by the popular Vanessa Bayer).
‘We Did Stop (The Government)’ digital short
Miley lent her vocals to a parody of her own song “We Can’t Stop” when she and Taran Killam played John Boehner and Michele Bachman respectively. The duo change up the words to the song in context of the recent government shut down and includes all kinds of hilarious poses taken from Miley’s own music video.
Miley Cyrus performs ‘Wrecking Ball’ and ‘We Can’t Stop’
Of course everyone was tuning in to see if Miley would do something controversial during her performances. Miley kept things a little more under wraps for these performances than the VMAs.
Did you catch last night’s Saturday Night Live hosted by Miley Cyrus? What was your favorite sketch of the night?
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Watch the entire episode of Saturday Night Live with host and musical guest Miley Cyrus on Hulu.com.