‘SNL’ Imagines Bob Dylan & The Pope’s Conversation in Cut-for-Time Sketch

Saturday Night Live released a cut-for-time sketch imagining what Bob Dylan and Pope Leo XIV might have discussed during their private Vatican meeting earlier this month. The parody features host John Mulaney as the Pope and James Austin Johnson as Dylan, offering a comic take on an encounter whose conversation was not publicly detailed.

In the sketch, Dylan says his fans are his least favourite people and jokes that he has “complete Alzheimer’s” about anything interesting in his life, leaving the Pope to carry the conversation. Dylan also describes his outfit as looking like he is about to “deejay my own funeral”. The sketch was left out of Saturday’s broadcast, which included Mulaney’s lengthy monologue and a nine-minute musical comedy segment, and was later posted to SNL’s YouTube channel.