Harry Styles Cosplayed As Fresh Fruit In Funktastic 'Watermelon Sugar' Debut On SNL

Last night on Saturday Night Live (November 16), Harry Styles pulled out all of the hilarious, soulful, and sugary helps stop as host, actor, and performer. For the second triple-duty appearance of the season following Chance The Rapper's hilarious turn in October, Styles commandeered a unforgettable night. It was his first time hosting the show. Hopefully, it won't be his last.


Styles was in rare form from the get-go. His monologue began with him acknowledging his love and familiarity with the show in a creative way. "It feels like any time someone likes you more than as a friend," he joked. "Me and Saturday Night Live have taken things to the next level." He then hopped in back of a piano to show how "serious" of a musician he was, giving the rest of the monologue from his seat.


Being that One Direction was (and still is, retrospectively) such a big piece of Styles's career, he included some hilarious jokes that poked fun at his bandmates, first teasing that they were there whenever they actually weren't. "I love those guys, they're my brothers," he mentioned. "Niall, Liam, Louie, and, uh, Ringo," he joked."


from there on, Styles hopped into the skits headfirst, showing a unprecedented quantity of charm. In the musical number, "Joan,"  He played a dog that, thanks to his owner's imagination, gets transformed into a human. He sings about loving the way that she eats him garbage and hating while she turns on that scary vacuum cleaner.


In another, "Airline Pilots," Styles plays one who forgets that the intercom is on. He along with a colleague get into a X-rated conversation about Scooby-Doo characters that unsettles the passengers. In what becomes a constant struggle to create the attendees feel better, the two pilots find more and more wild ways to prepare each person uncomfortable.


Another highlight is "Sara Lee" which finds Styles getting reprimanded for accidentally posting some pretty wild, un-businesslike content from the Instagram account of the bread firm of the same name. It's hilarious to see Sara Lee thirsting over Nick Jonas (though we visualize why). Because of Styles, the organization also shoots its shot at random guys and freaks out as soon as it doesn't get a response, and it captions its bread selfies with uncensored questions at four in the morning. The skit ends with him getting another chance to tidy up his act.


Around these skits, Styles gave tv debut performances of "Lights Up" and "Watermelon Sugar" from his forthcoming album The Fine Line.  "Lights Up" was mellow, smooth, and dark. Wearing a shimmering black suit, Styles serenaded the microphone with an awesome vibrato. It was an epic, calming, and chilling performance.


"Watermelon Sugar" came next which was a fully new reveal. He cosplayed the fruit's innards by wearing a bright red suit. The surrounding stage was bathed in a warm pink glow. Styles embraced the feel-good energy of the colorful, upbeat new record, feeling the groove in his bones as he danced to the roaring guitars and crashing cymbals around him. It was the ideal way to put a cap on the legendary night.


Check out Harry's performances and skits from his Saturday Night Live appearance up above.


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