It happened: Geese performed on SNL for the first time last night, a month after frontman Cameron Winter was parodied on the show. The Brooklyn rock band — which along with Winter includes drummer Max Bassin, guitarist Emily Green, bassist Dominic DiGesu, and touring keyboardist Sam Revaz — played "Au Pays Du Cocaine" and "Trinidad" from their album Getting Killed, the Best Album Of 2025.
The episode was hosted by Teyana Taylor, the newly Oscar-nominated actress from One Battle After Another. Beyond Geese's performance and the fact that Taylor is also an R&B star, there were a handful of music-related jokes: Junglepussy was referenced in a commercial parody about One Battle action figures; Reneé Rapp was namechecked in an ESPN on NFL sketch; Ashley Padilla played a "confidence class" instructor with a Dolly Parton impression; Martin Herlihy dressed like the Lumineers in his pre-taped "Blowing It" short; Veronika Slowikowska played Carrie Underwood and Tommy Brennan played the construction worker from the Village People during the Trump Awards cold open (which also saw guest Mike Myers reprising his Elon Musk impression); and Taylor played an airline agent delivering annoying travel updates via song and a frail, elderly man who can't help but dance to Earth, Wind, & Fire at his grandson's wedding;
Myers got a hug from DiGesu during the goodnights:
Thank you, @teyanataylor, @geese_band, and Mike Myers! Goodnight! pic.twitter.com/fSNrBCGPR4
— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) January 25, 2026
Here's a cut-for-time musical pre-tape that Taylor does some singing in:
And ICYMI Geese delivered some lines in the promos:
Next week is SNL's 1000th episode with host Alexander Skarsgård and musical guest Cardi B. (Skarsgård, incidentally, appears in Charli XCX's The Moment, which premiered at Sundance on Friday.)
