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If you thought the “Barbie” trailer<\/a> was genius, simply wait till you see the American Girl doll film trailer that “Saturday Night Live<\/a>” cooked up with first time host Ana de Armas. The “Ghosted” star<\/a> hosted the April 15 episode, which additionally featured musical visitor Karol G. While de Armas kicked off the night time with a touching monologue that includes anecdotes about how she discovered English from the sitcom “Friends,” and the time Robert De Niro<\/a> visited her father at work, it was the night time’s bevy of surreal sketches that stole the present. <\/p>\n Over the course of the night, de Armas starred in skits with uncooperative (however lovable) canine, and performed the companion of each a person with a daunting variety of nipples (Mikey Day) and the Guinness World Records holder for the longest fingernails (Bowen Yang<\/a>). But the episode’s funniest sketch was a parody of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie”<\/a> trailer. <\/p>\n In the skit, de Armas’s Josefina is joined by fellow tragic American Girl dolls Kirsten (Heidi Gardner), Kit (Sarah Sherman), Molly (Molly Kearney), Samantha (Chloe Fineman), and Addy (Ego Nwodim) within the new movie “American Girls.” The film’s tagline says all of it, actually: “People cannot cease speaking concerning the trailer for the brand new ‘Barbie’ film, however not all dolls dwell in a dream home. Some are larger, youthful, sadder . . . some dolls are American Girls!”<\/p>\n Things solely get darker from there as Josefina reveals, “That’s OK! My mam\u00e1 is useless, and we buried her within the church graveyard.” Addy counters with, “That’s OK! I do not know my birthday as a result of I’m a runaway slave.” Add in sudden demise by cholera, a pantaloon vogue present, and a few butter churning and you’ve got the makings of a pitch-perfect parody. “SNL” even shared “Barbie”-style posters for every of the women on Instagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n Check out the American Girl dolls spoof film trailer, in addition to the remainder of de Armas’s “SNL” skits forward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n