It's Mother's Day, which means today is dedicated to celebrating the moms of the world and telling them how much we love them and couldn't live without them. Don't forget to call your mom, by the way.
There are many reasons why moms deserve their very own holiday. They carried us in their wombs for nine months and then had to go through childbirth. They feed us, clothe us, provide for us and generally ensure our well-being.
However, probably the biggest reason why moms deserve as many props as possible is because of all of the shenanigans they put up with from their children. We all do some pretty crazy stuff when we're young, and somehow our mothers still manage to love us.
If you want proof of that, look no further than the May 9 episode of Saturday Night Live, which just happened to honor Mother's Day. With guest host Reese Witherspoon in tow, the opening monologue of the show found each SNL cast member apologizing to his or her real mom for the really awful things they did when they were kids, and boy, were they bad.
Jay Pharoah threw out all of the wonderfully prepared sandwiches his mom made him for lunch at school, Kate McKinnon used to pretend to be Joey Buttafuoco when she re-enacted the shooting of his wife with her friends and wetting the bed was such a problem for Vanessa Bayer, she would end up peeing all over her room — and the house. You know, typical kid stuff.
Amid all of this, the SNL moms played it pretty cool and didn't seem to bothered by the atrocities their children committed. Maybe that's because they have really embarrassing home movies of their kids that they can always use to blackmail them.
We got to see some of these during the episode's opening monologue, which included Aidy Bryant giving a glorious rendition of Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle," blond wig and all, Kenan Thompson palling around with a young Joshua Jackson in D2: The Mighty Ducks, which wasn't a home movie but an actual movie, and a 13-year-old Cecily Strong searching for cocaine in what looked like a very strange acting scene. Moms, am I right?
Check out the full opening monologue below. It's sure to make you laugh, cry and feel warm and fuzzy all over.
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