Vanessa Bayer Now Officially the Most Hardcore Saturday Night Live Cast Member

I somehow never put it together that former Alternative Press editor and current United Nations guitarist Jonah Bayer is related to Saturday Night Live‘s Vanessa Bayer until we premiered UN’s “United Nations Vs. United Nations” this past July, at which point Ms. Bayer sent out a tweet linking back to us and I went “Ooooooohhhhh! How did I not know that?!” Turns out, they’re siblings, and Vanessa is apparently a very supportive sister — not only did she tweet out those links, but she also “roasted” the band prior to the recent record release show for their new album, The Next Four Years, at Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus Bar. I put “roasted” in quotes not because her jokes are unfunny — on the contrary, they’re funny as hell — but because they’re (deliberately) cheesy and really not all that mean-spirited. Rob at Metal Injection compares the gags to those of one of Bayer’s most famous SNL creations, Jacob the Bar Mitzvah boy, which is pretty accurate. (Andy Samberg’s recent non-roast of James Franco might be another apt point of comparison.)

You can watch Vanessa Bayer’s loving insults below. What are the odds she can pull some strings and get United Nations on SNL this season?

http://youtu.be/JPhyNif42nw