Girls star Lena Dunham hosted Saturday Night Live this week, predictably bringing her show’s sex, abortion and nudity to NBC.
During her opening monologue, Dunham acknowledged the overtly sexual nature of her show.
“Some people complain about the nudity on Girls,” she noted. “But every show has its thing. You know, like Seinfeld had the puffy shirt, Home Improvement had the neighbor talking over the fence and we have very graphic sex scenes. That’s our thing.”
But for the rest of her monologue, Dunham kept getting interrupted by SNL cast members who wanted her advice on their sex lives. Dunham tried to ward them off, but none of them would listen to her. Even Dunham’s 94-year-old grandma who was sitting in the audience got into the act, telling the actress more than she ever wanted to know about her younger years.
Things only got more explicit from there, as Dunham starred in a faux movie trailer for Girl, a film about the first woman, Eve, trying to navigate her 20s and convince Adam, played by Taran Killam, to be less sexist. Naturally, there was no clothing required in the Garden of Eden.
“Aren’t you going to put on some like fig leaves or something?” Adam asked of Eve after they commit original sin.
“I don’t feel that’s necessary at all,” she responded. “I’m going to, like, confirm to society’s demands for me.”
In another skit, Dunham hosted a jewelry party for her coworkers. Venezuelan beauty Marisol — played by Cecily Strong — brought along her boyfriend, Bruce. The women are welcoming of the lone, out of place male, until they find out Bruce is a men’s rights activist who shut down two Planned Parenthood centers.
And once Marisol actually finds out what Planned Parenthood is — “a place where women can go for low-cost medical advice and care,” according to Dunham’s character — she breaks up with Bruce.
Watch all three clips below:
