Lady Gaga, Heidi Gardner sing about bedbugs in ‘SNL’ promo; Gaga hosts, performs Saturday
A promo for this weekend’s episode of “Saturday Night Live” features host and musical guest Lady Gaga trolling some of the show’s castmates, including Kansas City native Heidi Gardner.
The 14-time Grammy winner sits at a piano in the show’s break room and musically riffs on cast members as they wander in.
“Andrew Dismukes is ordering a breakfast sandwich at 2 p.m.,” Gaga sings as Dismukes asks an assistant to get him food.
When Devon Walker saunters in wearing a camouflage cowboy hat, Gaga croons, “Devon Walker’s taking a big swing with a new hat.”
“OK, what?” a confused Walker says to Dismukes, who replies, “This is her process.”
Gardner enters the room from her office in pajamas and full bed-head.
Gaga sings that Gardner is “trying to pretend she isn’t sleeping here, but we all know she is, yeah. And the question is why?’”
“And the answer is bedbugs!” Gardner sings in response.
“She has bedbugs!” Gaga belts as Heidi turns and leaves the room.
Gaga will be host and musical guest on Saturday, her sixth appearance on the show. She pulled similar double-duty once before in 2013.
Her seventh album “Mayhem” — her first solo album in five years — drops on Friday featuring the singles “Disease,” “Abracadabra” and “Die With a Smile” (her hit collaboration with Bruno Mars).
Another track on the album, “Garden of Eden,” will serve as the official anthem of this year’s Formula One season.
It’s not know what songs she’ll perform on “SNL.”
Gardner recently boasted about some of her favorite local haunts to Travel + Leisure magazine. The KC native is a passionate cheerleader for her hometown and co-hosts the annual Big Slick fundraiser for Children’s Mercy. She has brought several of her “SNL” castmates to the event.
Her barbecue picks:
LC’s Bar-B-Q: burnt ends
Arthur Bryant’s: Ribs.
Gates BBQ: “most nostalgic sauce.”
Slap’s BBQ: sausage that “legit melts in your mouth, like butter.”
She mentioned the boutique hotel No Vacancy at 1717 Wyandotte St., and its lobby bar, Le Lounge, as one of her favorite places to stay while in Kansas City. She celebrated her birthday there last summer and said the space “feels like Kansas City, but also Moroccan and European.”
Gardner said when she was growing up her mom was a travel agent, so “travel was all around me. But she was a single parent and had two kids that she was running around all the time, so when she got to travel, she traveled alone. But I heard a lot of good stories!”
But the family did make road trips to Branson — “sober Vegas,” Gardner called it.
Last year she made a pre-Thanksgiving trip to California, grateful to have been there just a couple of months before the devastating fires.
She said she rode horses on the beach and stayed at San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara and Nobu Hotel Ryokan Malibu, where it was “really peaceful to go to sleep next to the water listening to the waves,” she said. “It was a really special trip.”
This story was originally published March 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM.
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