Nate Bargatze acknowledged that he’s as “shocked” as viewers are that he’s hosting “SNL” before going full stand-up mode in his monologue on Saturday.
The comedian — who has a number of stand-up specials on Netflix, including “The Greatest Average American” — brought up his Tennessee roots before declaring that he’s “from the 1900s” as he began to discuss his place in the future during his first-ever “Saturday Night Live” hosting gig.
“The world is so future now and I feel in the way of it,” Bargatze said.
The comedian brought up memories of hotels having fully enclosed showers before noting that today’s hotels have “half a glass” to enclose them.
“And water gets on the floor, and that’s the future, that’s what the future — that’s what they want,” he quipped.
“They do half a glass because I’m still alive so they’re like — they don’t want to hear me going ‘where’s the glass at,’ so they do half a glass. And the future, the floors are always wet. Every floor.”
Bargatze, 44, later noted that it would be 2057 when his daughter, 11, turns his current age before he jokingly said he doesn’t believe “it’s a real year.”
“My movies didn’t go that high in fake years,” he quipped.
“How am I gonna’ talk to someone from 2057? I have more in common with a pilgrim.”
You can check out more from Bargatze’s monologue in the video below.