January 29, 2022 - My personal highlight was the hilarious skit towards the end where he is presented as an author of "blowing yourself" instead of "knowing yourself". I also enjoyed his fun monologue (keep forgetting he is from Wisconsin). I give this episode a 9/10. ... How do you give Willem Dafoe, a thespian and well-regraded actor, such bad material to work with? I was initially excited when I heard that Willem Dafoe is going to host SNL.

January 30, 2022 - Bowen Yang and Ego Nwodim are a great team — they're cohosting a morning talk show. Dr. Bloom (Dafoe) has a feel-good book he's promoting, Knowing Yourself. But due to a teleprompter miscue, Yang announces it's Blowing Yourself. Har-har. Get ...

January 30, 2022 - Bowen Yang and Ego Nwodim then portrayed a pair of newscasters working out of Columbus, Ohio, who introduced an author, played by Dafoe, who wrote a book about finding happiness through 'blowing yourself.'

January 30, 2022 - Overall this episode was weak and ... Willem Dafoe well. Willem looked awkward reading his lines, and sketches where he had to play off himself didn’t do him any favors, like the Beauty and the Beast mirror sketch. And speaking of, did a fifth grader join the writing staff? Halfway through the “Blowing Yourself” sketch, ...

January 31, 2022 - Then Dafoe plays a self-help author being interviewed on a local morning news show. The show’s anchor mispronounces the title of his new book, Knowing Yourself, as Blowing Yourself, leading to the expected overload of double entendre (“It’s a feelgood book.

January 30, 2022 - That said, Willem Dafoe is not really built for comedy, with his performances a combination of stilted and exaggerated that was—I’ll say it—kind of unsettling. Onscreen, there’s precious little Dafoe hasn’t done, or won’t do, a fearlessness that carried over tonight into spanking himself with a riding crop, doing a couple of weird dances, and a whole lot of boner and blowjob jokes.

January 30, 2022 - When author Benjamin Bloom (Dafoe) writes a self-exploration book titled Knowing Yourself but the graphics team and teleprompter has told Langdon Lee (Bowen Yang) and Cheryl Worth (Ego Nwodim) that the book is titled Blowing Yourself...a book about self-exploration and self-help...Get it? ... RELATED: 'Saturday Night Live': Willem Dafoe’s Best Sketches, RankedWhat really works with this sketch happens when Lee and Worth try and switch over to sports to cut away from Bloom's methods (which look like he's teaching Scott Cott played by Mikey Day how to...well...go down on himself) and we're met with Andrew Dismukes holding a ball and telling them he'd rather see how it plays out.

Blowing Yourself Dafoe played a self-help author named Benjamin Bloom whose new book, Knowing Yourself, has had its title confused by a local news team and its graphics department.

January 30, 2022 - We’ve seen this basic sketch before, but it was still funny seeing all the clever ways Mikey Day -- who is such a good straight man -- and Willem Dafoe could say innocent things that immediately sound awful under the context of the wrong book title, “Blowing Yourself.” Honestly, we expected more interruptions from Bowen Yang and Ego Nwodim as the newscasters when the graphics kept making things worse.

January 31, 2022 - Yeah, Dafoe’s late-night soul patch will haunt you. Forever. Everyone remembers Belle’s father in Beauty and the Beast, the “crazy old” inventor named Maurice. But what does Maurice get up to while he’s by himself? On paper, this sketch is basically about an old guy getting ready to masturbate while he’s alone. And yet, Willem Dafoe turns this into art.

Willem Dafoe hosts Saturday Night Live on January 29, 2022, with musical guest Katy Perry.

January 30, 2022 - Day’s straight man routine was at its best here, against Thompson’s Frank Thomas, Kyle Mooney’s Doug Flutie, and Dafoe’s Willem Dafoe, acknowledging the weirdness of the Nugenix’s commercials without getting too big (no upsetting pun intended). Even funnier was how long it actually took for the fake ad to even say Nugenix, as it was so wrapped up in the “You can’t get hard anymore.” and “Oh, now he’s interested.” repeated bits. ... As tends to be the case, a Please Don’t Destroy sketch airing on “SNL” basically means a Please Don’t Destroy Sketch was one of the best sketches on that week’s “SNL.” Though, in this sketch’s case, it was clearly the star power of Connor that really drove things home.

January 30, 2022 - The entire night of sketches ranged from Dafoe talking about erectile dysfunction medication as himself alongside athletes, Dafoe's take on "Crazy Ole Maurice" from Beauty and the Beast, and now this: an intern. It was wonderful and started off with Dafoe simply talking about trying to just busy himself with work in his retirement.

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July 29, 2025 - William James "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, in addition to receiving nominations for four Academy Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a British Academy ...

January 31, 2022 - Good Morning Columbus — A morning news show chatting with an author about his book, Knowing Yourself, but there’s a lot of confusion because the book keeps being mistaken for Blowing Yourself. There’s a lot of double entendres. It’s dumb as hell, but still the best skit of the night and, appropriately, the Mat skit of the night, too! (Score: 7 out of 10) Office Song — Dafoe plays a temp who joins the office employees during an impromptu song.

January 30, 2022 - Nugenix, the aforementioned testosterone ad in which Dafoe plays himself flanked by the sublimely random duo of Frank Thomas (Kenan Thompson) and Doug Flutie (Kyle Mooney), was probably the closest we got to a signature sketch for the seasoned actor.