During the run-up to the 2024 US Election, comedian Stephen Colbert had joked that since Kamala Harris was shopping for a male white running mate, she might as well pick Glenn Powell, arguing that the tagline could have been: Yes, we Glen. It certainly couldn’t have been worse than Tim Walz. For a while Glen Powell has been auditioning to be America’s next favourite leading man, probably a position that he is jousting with another Maverick co-star and SNL host Miles Teller and his SNL debut showed just why. Its host wasn’t just smooth, it was swagger wrapped in sincerity: a monologue that poked fun at his own myth-making, sketches that leaned into his charm and physical comedy, and a surprise UPS driver cameo that turned into the night’s most disarming moment. By the end of the epis

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