Kim Kardashian West hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time last night and just…DAMN. From the moment Kim took the Studio 8H stage to deliver her monologue, the tone was set and that tone was best described as “LOL NO ONE IS SAFE AND ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN.”
Topics covered in Kim’s no-holds-barred monologue included her family:
“I’m excited to be here tonight to show you guys that I’m so much more than just a pretty face and good hair and great makeup and amazing boobs and a perfect butt—basically, I’m just so much more than that reference photo my sisters showed their plastic surgeons.…But the one thing I’m really proud of is that no one can ever call me a gold digger. Honestly, I’m not even sure how you become one. So I asked my mom’s boyfriend, Corey [Gamble].”
And her own divorce:
“I’ve been very blessed in this life, and I’m grateful for everything, honestly, all the ups, all the downs. I mean, I married the best rapper of all time. Not only that, he’s the richest Black man in America, a talented, legit genius who gave me four incredible kids. So when I divorced him, you have to know it came down to just one thing: his personality. I know it sounds mean, but people keep telling me that comedy comes from truth. And if there’s one thing that I always strive to be, it’s genuine.”
And SNL’s ratings:
“I just want to say how incredibly excited I am to be up here on this stage tonight. I mean, I’m so used to having 360 million followers watching my every move and, I mean, how many people watch SNL—like 10 million? So tonight, tonight is just a chill, intimate night for me.”
Naturally, jaws dropped multiple times throughout the roughly four-and-a-half-minute monologue. After several seats were taken and the ability to tweet returned, the reactions started pouring in and honestly just haven’t stopped. Here are some of the best, broken down by category of reaction:
The enthusiastic YES, KIM reactions:
Reactions with GIFs that were truly worth a thousand words:
The people who can’t believe she went *there*:
The obligatory haters:
And the people who expertly defended against the hate:
Now, can we please get an announcement on the next KKW x SNL collab, STAT?
