Kylo Ren, the antagonist in the latest “Star Wars” film, is already a popular subject of parody, with Twitter accounts like “Emo Kylo Ren” garnering hundreds of thousands of followers.
SNL took it one step further this weekend, when host Adam Driver, who plays Ren in the movie, reprised his role in a semi-official parody.
you know who would have been a great host for SNL? darth vader
— Emo Kylo Ren (@KyloR3n) January 17, 2016In the sketch, the neurotic, paranoid Ren goes undercover as a Starkiller Base radar technician named Matt to check up on his underlings, with predictably hilarious results.
After a few awkward encounters among the rank-and-file members of the First Order, Ren blows his cover by Force-choking a stormtrooper who trash talks Ren, not knowing that he’s sitting right across from him at the lunch table.
Near the end of the sketch, “Matt” reveals that he’s Kylo Ren, but everyone already knew that.
“I knew when you threw me into the soda machine,” said the stormtrooper who had insulted Ren to his face.
“I knew from, ‘Hi, I’m Matt,’” said Zack, a lieutenant colonel of the First Order.
