Author: Therese Odell

Saturday Night Live
Colman Domingo & Anitta
April 11, 2026

You might not know who Colman Domingo is — no judgment! My husband had no idea, for instance. But as Domingo points out in his monologue, Dhemingo has been in the business since the 90s (one of his first credits is as an extra in Friends), and he genuinely deserves to be more famous than he is. I first came across him in Fear the Walking Dead, where he was honestly the best thing on the show, and I walked away from that series a huge fan of his. Like his Fear the Walking Dead character, Victor Strand, Colman Domingo just oozes coolness and sophistication (you should definitely Google “Colman Domingo red carpet looks”) and intelligence.

However, aside from his role in Netflix’s The Four Seasons, there’s not a lot of comedy in his CV. I wasn’t sure if Domingo could tackle comedy, much less broad sketch comedy that might require him to drop the cool act — this is a man who was in Lincoln, Selma, and Sing Sing, hardly yuck fests. But it also turns out one of his early recurring roles was in the cast of an early 2000s sketch comedy show, The Big Gay Sketch Show, where he was cast members with the likes of Kate McKinnon. And that experience shone through in last night’s performance: Domingo was goofy, game, and genuinely funny on his own, helming one of the best episodes of the season, all without losing a shred of his effortless cool. Bring him back, Lorne; he’s a gift.

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