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Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt perform ‘Barbenheimer’ duet to Taylor Swift song on SNL

Saturday Night Live

Barbie star Ryan Gosling helmed Saturday Night Liveagain this week, as he gears up to promote his next film since the acclaimed Greta Gerwig movie from 2023 in the form of The Fall Guy – but it seems he wasn’t ready to let go of his time playing the love interest of the popular children’s toy just yet.

Giving his latest SNL monologue seven years after his last one, Gosling insisted he wasn’t “going to make any jokes about Ken” during the programme because him and the character “had to break up”.

“We went too deep,” he said, which is understandable as the track 'I’m Just Ken' from Barbie received widespread acclaim – being covered by Matt Hancock on TikTok (we wish we were joking) and performed at this year’s Oscars, to the delight of fans.

However, explaining he was moving on from the role, Gosling acknowledged: “When you play a character that hard, that long, just letting go, just feels like a breakup. And for processing a breakup, there’s only one thing that can help, the music of the great Taylor Swift.”

Cue the La La Land star performing a parody of the pop superstar’s track 'All Too Well' (though not the 10-minute version released in 2021, we hasten to add), in which he sings: “If I said that I was doing fine / You know I’d be lying / Because I was just Ken / But now I’m just Ryan.”

His singing is soon cut short though when his The Fall Guy co-star and Oppenheimer actress Emily Blunt shows up to tell Gosling he has to “move on” because “Ken is dead”.

Except her intervention doesn’t last long, as Gosling points out she was a part of last year’s “Barbenheimer” phenomenon – she played Kitty, the wife to Cillian Murphy’s Oppenheimer - and asks, “don’t you ever miss it?”

To which she chips in: “Father of the atom bomb / And a bottle of Jack / I used to be the alcoholic wife / Of a dude in the hat.”

Naturally, the combination of Barbenheimer and Swift has set social media ablaze:

\u201cAnd I miss Cillian Murphy\u2026\u201d \ud83d\ude2d\n\nEmily Blunt and Ryan Gosling parody Taylor Swift\u2019s \u2018All Too Well\u2019, Barbenheimer version on SNL\nBrilliant!! \ud83d\ude02\u2665\ufe0f
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emily blunt singing a barbenheimer all too well parody version live on snl we\u2019ve come so far
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so much taylor is happening today, that's how I know it's the 13th
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I am literally speechless. This has to be one of the most epic #SNL monologues in recent history. Give the writers all the awards for coming up with this hilariously epic, I don't even have the words for it. Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt were incredible! Barbenheimer for life!
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cancel snl after this episode it could never ever be better than this
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Tonight was a hall-of-fame SNL episode.\n\nRyan Gosling not only clearly has the time of his life every time he hosts SNL, but seems to bring out the best in the cast and writers.\n\nJoy in every sketch. Embodiment of comedy\u2019s true purpose. Etc.
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Ryan Gosling singing a parody of All Too Well to Ken\u2026 Pop star era WHEN!
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publicly announcing a breakup (with a fictional character) on live television saying he won\u2019t talk abt it (and then immediately proceeding to talk abt it) . there is no more ryan gosling that\u2019s just ken
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@DiscussingFilm Kentastic!
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@DiscussingFilm Let's just agree Ryan Gosling needs more stage performances in the future
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Never change, Ryan.

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