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The Puerto Rican prima hosted the play 51 premiere of SNL connected Oct. 4.
Bad Bunny delivers his monologue during "Saturday Night Live" connected October 4, 2025. Will Heath/NBC via Getty Images
Bad Bunny is addressing the backlash surrounding his enactment arsenic the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show headliner.
The 31-year-old Puerto Rican superstar hosted the play 51 premiere of Saturday Night Live connected Oct. 4, with Doja Cat arsenic the philharmonic guest. During his opening monologue, helium touched connected immoderate of the disapproval he’s received since the announcement.
“You mightiness not cognize this, but I’m doing the Super Bowl halftime amusement and I’m precise happy,” Bad Bunny told viewers. “I deliberation everyone is blessed astir it — adjacent Fox News.”
The conception past chopped to a satirical montage of Fox News clips edited to marque it dependable similar the hosts were praising the “DTMF” hitmaker and declaring, “Bad Bunny is my favourite musician, and helium should beryllium the adjacent president.”
“I’m truly excited to beryllium doing the Super Bowl. I cognize that radical each astir the satellite who emotion my euphony are besides happy,” helium continued, earlier switching to Spanish to talk straight to his community.
“Especially each of the Latinos and Latinas successful the satellite present successful the United States who person worked to unfastened doors,” helium said. “It’s much than a triumph for myself, it’s a triumph for each of us. Our footprints and our publication successful this country, nary 1 volition ever beryllium capable to instrumentality that distant oregon erase it.”
He closed the monologue with a playful enactment successful English, saying, “And, if you didn’t recognize cognize what I conscionable said, you person 4 months to learn!”
The comments travel a question of mixed reactions to past week’s announcement that Bad Bunny volition header Super Bowl LX, which is acceptable for Feb. 8, 2026, astatine Levi’s Stadium successful Santa Clara, California.
Among the critics is Corey Lewandowski, a erstwhile Trump advisor presently moving with the Department of Homeland Security, who warned that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents volition beryllium contiguous astatine the game.
“There is obscurity you tin supply harmless haven to radical who are successful this state illegally,” Lewandowski said connected The Benny Show. “Not the Super Bowl and obscurity else. We volition find you and apprehend you and enactment you successful a detention installation and deport you.” He added, “Know that is simply a precise existent concern nether this administration, which is contrary to however it utilized to be.”
Looking ahead, SNL’s October lineup includes Amy Poehler hosting the Oct. 11 occurrence with first-time philharmonic impermanent Role Model, and Sabrina Carpenter pulling treble work arsenic big and philharmonic impermanent connected Oct. 18. While it’ll beryllium Carpenter’s hosting debut, she antecedently performed connected SNL successful 2024 and appeared connected SNL50: The Anniversary Special earlier this year.
Watch Bad Bunny’s SNL monologue below.