\n<\/p>\n
Glen Powell\u2019s Saturday Night Live debut hasn\u2019t even aired yet, but the internet has already declared him a winner. All it took was one promo, one cleaning cart, and one very committed attempt at \u201cwalking like Walken.\u201d The result? A viral moment that has fans delighted, confused and ready to vote Powell into the Five-Timers Club before he\u2019s even hosted once.<\/p>\n
In the now-viral SNL promo, Powell hears a tune drifting out of a cleaning cart. Most actors would glance over politely. Glen Powell, however, chooses chaos. Channeling Christopher Walken\u2019s legendary \u201cWeapon of Choice\u201d dance, he slides, struts and swagger-steps across Studio 8H as if gravity has simply resigned out of respect.The suit, the tie, the strangely weightless hip-shimmy \u2014 all straight out of Walken\u2019s playbook. At one point Powell even attempts a flip that seems to terrify everyone except Powell himself.Somewhere, Lorne Michaels clutched his pearls.<\/p>\n
Why Walken? Because Walken is foreverChristopher Walken isn\u2019t just an actor; he\u2019s a cultural category. He\u2019s hosted SNL seven times, gifted the world the \u201cMore Cowbell\u201d sketch, and once pronounced \u201cFoo Fighters\u201d with enough swagger to fuel a thousand TikToks.But the true Walken lore lives in that 2001 Spike Jonze\u2013directed music video where Walken dances through a hotel lobby, levitates over furniture, and generally behaves like physics is something that happens to other people. Powell\u2019s promo pays direct homage to that fever-dream of brilliance \u2014 right down to the shiny floors and quiet menace.It\u2019s not imitation; it\u2019s devotion.<\/p>\n
Once the promo dropped, social media rose as one. Fans declared that Powell had \u201cachieved Walken energy,\u201d which is normally only attainable at birth or by bargain with eldritch forces. Others reposted the clip side-by-side with the original Walken dance, noting that Powell\u2019s footwork was shockingly accurate considering he was not, in fact, possessed by Walken\u2019s ghost.One viewer wrote: \u201cThis is the most important cultural moment since the cowbell sketch.\u201dAnother added: \u201cDid Glen Powell just soft-launch himself as America\u2019s next weird-sexy uncle?\u201dThe consensus: hosting SNL was already exciting news \u2014 but walking like Walken is what made him immortal.<\/p>\n
Powell is hosting the 15 November episode with musical guest Olivia Dean, and expectations are now borderline unreasonable. Fans want impressions. They want dancing. They want Walken references sprinkled throughout the night like comedy confetti.And Powell himself seems ready. Posting the promo, he wrote: \u201cSpy Kids 3D finally paid off,\u201d a reminder that his career started in a movie where everyone wore shiny plastic goggles and pretended to float through cyberspace. If he survived that, SNL is practically a spa day.<\/div>\n
var _mfq = window._mfq || [];
\n_mfq.push([“setVariable”, “toi_titan”, window.location.href]);<\/p>\n
!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {
\n function loadFBEvents(isFBCampaignActive) {
\n if (!isFBCampaignActive) {
\n return;
\n }
\n (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {
\n if (f.fbq) return;
\n n = f.fbq = function() {
\n n.callMethod ? n.callMethod(…arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);
\n };
\n if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;
\n n.push = n;
\n n.loaded = !0;
\n n.version = ‘2.0’;
\n n.queue = [];
\n t = b.createElement(e);
\n t.async = !0;
\n t.defer = !0;
\n t.src = v;
\n s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];
\n s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);
\n })(f, b, e, ‘https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js’, n, t, s);
\n fbq(‘init’, ‘593671331875494’);
\n fbq(‘track’, ‘PageView’);
\n };<\/p>\n
function loadGtagEvents(isGoogleCampaignActive) {\n if (!isGoogleCampaignActive) {\n return;\n }\n var id = document.getElementById('toi-plus-google-campaign');\n if (id) {\n return;\n }\n (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n t = b.createElement(e);\n t.async = !0;\n t.defer = !0;\n t.src = v;\n t.id = 'toi-plus-google-campaign';\n s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n })(f, b, e, 'https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=AW-877820074', n, t, s);\n};\n\nfunction loadSurvicateJs(allowedSurvicateSections = []){\n const section = window.location.pathname.split('\/')[1]\n const isHomePageAllowed = window.location.pathname === '\/' && allowedSurvicateSections.includes('homepage')\n const ifAllowedOnAllPages = allowedSurvicateSections && allowedSurvicateSections.includes('all');\n\n if(allowedSurvicateSections.includes(section) || isHomePageAllowed || ifAllowedOnAllPages){\n (function(w) {\n\n function setAttributes() {\n var prime_user_status = window.isPrime ? 'paid' : 'free' ;\n var geoLocation = window?.geoinfo?.CountryCode ? window?.geoinfo?.CountryCode : 'IN' ;\n w._sva.setVisitorTraits({\n toi_user_subscription_status : prime_user_status,\n toi_user_geolocation : geoLocation\n });\n }\n\n if (w._sva && w._sva.setVisitorTraits) {\n setAttributes();\n } else {\n w.addEventListener(\"SurvicateReady\", setAttributes);\n }\n\n var s = document.createElement('script');\n s.src=\"https:\/\/survey.survicate.com\/workspaces\/0be6ae9845d14a7c8ff08a7a00bd9b21\/web_surveys.js\";\n s.async = true;\n var e = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];\n e.parentNode.insertBefore(s, e);\n })(window);\n }\n\n}\n\nwindow.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || {};\nvar TimesApps = window.TimesApps;\nTimesApps.toiPlusEvents = function(config) {\n var isConfigAvailable = \"toiplus_site_settings\" in f && \"isFBCampaignActive\" in f.toiplus_site_settings && \"isGoogleCampaignActive\" in f.toiplus_site_settings;\n var isPrimeUser = window.isPrime;\n var isPrimeUserLayout = window.isPrimeUserLayout;\n if (isConfigAvailable && !isPrimeUser) {\n loadGtagEvents(f.toiplus_site_settings.isGoogleCampaignActive);\n loadFBEvents(f.toiplus_site_settings.isFBCampaignActive);\n loadSurvicateJs(f.toiplus_site_settings.allowedSurvicateSections);\n } else {\n var JarvisUrl=\"https:\/\/jarvis.indiatimes.com\/v1\/feeds\/toi_plus\/site_settings\/643526e21443833f0c454615?db_env=published\";\n window.getFromClient(JarvisUrl, function(config){\n if (config) {\n const allowedSectionSuricate = (isPrimeUserLayout) ? config?.allowedSurvicatePrimeSections : config?.allowedSurvicateSections\n loadGtagEvents(config?.isGoogleCampaignActive);\n loadFBEvents(config?.isFBCampaignActive);\n loadSurvicateJs(allowedSectionSuricate);\n }\n })\n }\n};\n<\/code><\/pre>\n})(
\n window,
\n document,
\n ‘script’,
\n );<\/p>\n
\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glen Powell\u2019s Saturday Night Live debut hasn\u2019t even aired yet, but the internet has already declared him a winner. All it took was one promo, one cleaning cart, and one very committed attempt at \u201cwalking like Walken.\u201d The result? A viral moment that has fans delighted, confused and ready to vote Powell into the Five-Timers … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Glen-Powell-set-to-host-SNL-this-week-Promo-goes.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9678,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9676\/revisions\/9678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}