With the cost of toilet paper and other imported items on the rise due to Trump’s tariffs, Quinta Brunson reveals she has a solution in a new promo for this weekend’s Saturday Night Live. In fact, SNL is an integral part of Brunson’s plan.
In the clip, the Abbott Elementary creator and star admits to being nervous—but not because she’s hosting SNL this week.
Explaining that it’s Trump’s tariffs that have her worried, Brunson runs an idea past Andrew Dismukes: “What if we did sketches centered around the items affected by the tariffs,” she suggests, “and then we can keep the items after the show?”
And with that, we learn Brunson has already put her plan into action as a skeptical Heidi Gardner enters the scene as as “Toilet Paper Mama,” dressed in a gown made of toilet paper
“It could be your new original character,” Brunson tells Gardner. “You know how Rachel Dratch plays Debbie Downer… or Sarah Sherman plays herself?”
After Gardner protests, Brunson relents on one condition: that she leave the toilet paper roll dress in Brunson’s dressing room.
Though her faux tariff sketches idea was for promo purposes only, Brunson has said she planned to go into her second SNL hosting gig with ideas in mind. “I didn’t [bring material] the first time,” she said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last week. “I really just wanted to go in for my first time and let them do their thing, but now I feel like I have a better understanding of the engine. My goal is always to become part of the machine, and now I understand how to do that. So any ideas I have will be things I know already work on that kind of show.”
Brunson hosts SNL with musical guest Benson Boone this Saturday, May 3 on NBC.
