Got yourself a dreaded case of the Mondays? Start your week off right by catching up on last week's episode of the Hell Gate Podcast. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts, or watch our beautiful faces on our YouTube channel.
Jalen Brunson, the "king of New York City," whose delivery of a Knicks championship effectively makes him the most beloved man in New York for the foreseeable future (if you thought there were too many Jalens in the NBA, get ready for how many Jalens there will be in 3-K in 2030), was back on primetime this weekend. But Brunson wasn't leading the Knicks on the court in their quest for another championship, he was playing the difficult role of "athlete trying to be funny on Saturday Night Live."
At his heart, Brunson is just a millennial bro from New Jersey, who grew up watching the same Will Ferrell movies everyone else of his ilk did. Perhaps the writers determined that his sense of humor skewed raunchy, with a side of jock, which is why they put him in a series of...really horny sketches?
Here's Brunson playing straight while a man next to him has an orgasm in an airport massage chair (that's the joke?), or Brunson playing one-third of a very strange threesome, Brunson on an ass-obsessed Shark Tank shark, and Brunson as a man whose wife was debauched onstage by Usher and Chris Brown.
Still, Brunson did probably the best that SNL could have hoped for, given that his general expression on the court and in interviews ranges from "Easter Island statue" to "shark biting down on seal."