that wiped out 20 million Europeans.“My body, my choice,” he said.Cumberbatch referenced his new movie “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” multiple times in his monologue.“They pitch me sketches everyday, most of them involving Doctor Strange,” the 45-year-old said, pointing out he was nominated for a best actor Academy Award for “”Power of the Dog,” a film “nobody saw.”Cumberbatch kicked off the Mother’s Day’s episode with a heartfelt tribute to his wife and mom, before joking that being a mother isn’t as hard as opening portals in Marvel’s multiverse.In the first post-monologue skit, Aidy Bryant played a mom who received a series of bric-à-brac wooden signs in bad taste from her extended family.Benedict Cumberbatch’s Monologue!
pic.twitter.com/4BOCqXDPQa“Having a mother-in-law is like having crabs,” one sign read.“Is there more on the back?,” Bryant’s character asked. “It feels like they didn’t finish the joke.”Other signs made jokes out of a supposed severe case of maternal alcoholism.“Oh God, it’s wine o’clock I just love watching the sun rise,” one read.“I only drink on days that end in Y and during hours that have numbers in them,” read another one.“I don’t drink that much,” a taken-aback Bryant scolded her kids, husband and in-laws.An ice cream-tasting focus group turned dramatic when two of the participants (Cumberbatch and Heidi Gardner) gave their feedback in the form of romantic soliloquies, before eventually falling in love.The Mother’s Day humor continued as Strong scolded 17-year-old daughter Chloe Fineman for coming home drunk, even though flashbacks showed her teenage years were spent throwing up at parties, driving drunk and having sex with football players to the soundtrack of Chumbawamba’s.
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