Aidy Bryant Jabs At Kieran Culkin Kissing ‘SNL’ Sketch That Was Cut, ‘The Brutalist’ Budget & More In Second Go-Round As Indie Spirits Host

Last year SNL album Aidy Bryant took on the dual strikes, AI, and her ex-boyfriends obsession with indie cinema, but this year she went less topical and more broad, chiefly serving up a memory from her days on Saturday Night Live .

At the top of her monologue, Bryant spoke about a sketch that was cut from SNL whereby she had to go in for a kiss with the Indie Spirit and Oscar nominated supporting actor, A Real Pain’s Kieran Culkin.

“The sketch was cut and it never made it to air,” said Bryant. It was hard to tell if she was telling the truth or joking.

“It’s a thing that I had to live with,” she continued, “I’m sorry to Kieran and Kieran’s wife.”

Then she went for the punchline: “I’m being told tha Kieran is not here.”

“Well, I guesss, I’ll say this, I didn’t go for the kiss. I was doing a normal nothing ass kiss. If I did go for it, his ass would be divorced!”

Culkin hosted SNL on Nov. 6, 2021, Season 46, episode 5. Bryant left SNL at the end of season 47 in May 2022.