The “Saturday Night Live” Season 47 premiere kicked off the night by tackling the NFL scandal involving former Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden’s emails.

The episode was hosted by actor Rami Malek and featured musical guest Young Thug.

Aside from the NFL controversy, the NBC sketch comedy show also joked about the Netflix series “Squid Game,” and the upcoming movie “Wonka.”

Here are some of the notable sketches from the third episode of “SNL” Season 47.

Cold Open

“Saturday Night Live’s” cold open took aim at the disgraced coach who resigned after it was discovered that he made racist, sexist, and homophobic comments in past emails.

Gruden, who was played by James Austin Johnson, insisted he “never meant to hurt anyone” following the exposure of his emails. Instead, he claimed he meant to “hurt them secretly, behind their backs.”

However, Gruden wasn’t the only person in the NFL to resign. The sketch featured several people accepting the position as the new Raiders coach but immediately resigning due to controversial statements they made in the past.

Colin Kaepernick, who was played by Chris Redd, also made an appearance. The quarterback began taking a knee during the national anthem in 2016 in protest of police brutality against Black men and was later ousted from the NFL.

“Wow, so much stuff coming out about the NFL is maybe racist,” Redd said. “I wonder if anyone tried to warn people about this before.”

Weekend Update

The fake news segment was expected to discuss the viral photo of Timothee Chalamet as the fictional character Willy Wonka until co-anchor Colin Jost introduced Bowen Yang as a “proud gay Oompa Loompa.”

​​“Oh, my God,” said Yang’s Oompa Loompa. “You just outed me on national television.”

After Jost apologized, Yang’s character attempted to explain the unsafe working conditions at the chocolate factory but was still distracted by the introduction.

“Now I guess I have got to call my parents,” Yang said. “They live in Loompa-land. It’s not as progressive as here. They like just got ‘Will & Grace.’ So yeah, it’s gonna be a conversation.”

Yang later admitted he felt somewhat relieved about Jost’s mistake and opened up about his experience working for Wonka.

“You know what, Colin? You did me a huge favor because now I can be honest — about everything. Point blank: the man doesn’t know how to make chocolate! He’s an ideas man who’s never touched a machine,” he explained.

“He just tumbles into the inventing room and says something like, ‘What about a gumdrop that makes children dream silly dreams?’”

“Weekend Update” also touched on the Gruden scandal as well as the recent announcement from DC Comics that the new Superman will be bisexual.

“They also announced that The Riddler has always been down for whatever,” Jost joked.

“Squid Game”

“SNL” put a country music spin on the popular Netflix series with a hilarious cover of Branchez & Big Wet song “Turn Up On the Weekend.” Similar to the original characters from “Squid Game,” Malek and Pete Davidson had some major money problems.

The music video, which also featured the original artists, mirrored the storyline of the Netflix series, including Cho Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo) pushing another player to his death and Gi-hun’s (Lee Jung-jae) win.

“I just won the Squid Game, killed all of my friends to win the Squid Game,” Davidson sings.

However, unlike Gi-hun, who wanted answers after winning the game, Davidson squandered all of his money and ended up returning to the "Squid Game."

Actor Jason Sudeikis will host the next episode of “Saturday Night Live” with Brandi Carlile as the musical guest.

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Pictured [L-R]: Bowen Yang as an Oompa Loompa and anchor Colin Jost during Weekend Update on “Saturday Night Live.” Will Heath/NBC
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