Inde Navarrette Takes Swipe at Shane Gillis During ‘SNL’ Monologue

Following a Trump-centric cold open that featured the return of Tom Hanks’ David S. Pumpkins, “Saturday Night Live” host Inde Navarrette took the stage at Studio 8H for her first opening monologue. It was a fitting choice to have the star of the year’s breakout horror hit “Obsession” (and the internet’s apparent obsession) make her hosting debut on Halloween night, and the 25-year-old rising star seemed more than up for the occasion, unlike a certain stand-up comedian.

“You probably know me from the movie ‘Obsession.’ And a lot of people ask me if I’m anything like my character Nikki and I’m like, ‘No… no, no, don’t do that!’” she joked, sliding into Nikki’s cadence. “But the thing is, is I’m nothing like my character in ‘Obsession.’ Like, my boyfriend is here tonight to support me and we have such a chill relationship, right?”

The camera then cut to Navarrette’s boyfriend, Nick Aiello, in the crowd bound and gagged to a chair. Then, the actress took a shot at Shane Gillis’ “SNL” monologue from earlier this month.

“I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m going to be in a Marvel movie,” said Navarrette, who will be playing Rogue in the new “X-Men” movie. “And I know it’s really important for Marvel that you get really fit, so I’ve been working out a lot, so every morning I put on my little whore outfit and I hit the gym.”

Gillis got a lot of flak for a lame, lazy joke about how women dress like “whores” now when they go to the gym in “neon, like, artificial bait”-colored shorts.