You might have done something cool for your mom for Mother’s Day. But it probably wasn’t as cool as bringing her onstage for a dance during your “Saturday Night Live” monologue.

Walton Goggins’ debut as “SNL” host featured that touching, celebratory moment with Janet Long.

The “Righteous Gemstones” and “White Lotus” star led up to it by telling the audience a little bit about his upbringing. “I was raised in Atlanta, Georgia, by my mother with the help of her three sisters and my grandmother,” said Goggins, who was born in Birmingham. “And my momma is the most important person in my life. Growing up, my momma, whenever she couldn’t afford a babysitter, she would take me with her to honky tonks. My mother taught me how to clog, taught me how to two-step, and luckily enough for me, my momma is here tonight. We’ve come a really long way, haven’t we momma?”

“Absolutely,” replied Long.

They started with a few fairly sedate moves, then he asked the band to kick it up a notch. He delivered his “we’ve got a great show for you tonight” bit while showing off some footwork fit for a hoedown.

While relatively short, Goggins’ monologue also covered one other topic: The weird sex-symbol status that he seemed to win with his role in the latest season of “White Lotus.” “Some of my friends have asked me, ‘Walton, what’s it like to become a sex symbol at 53 years old?’ And you know what? If I’m being honest, it feels fantastic. At least it did until I Googled myself and read some of the headlines.

He shared a few that read like extremely backhanded compliments, such as “Hollywood’s newest heartthrob is a greasy, depressing little man whom no one saw coming.”

“Thank you?” he said. He fussed that some of the criticism was un-justified: “I’ve had the same hairline since I was 7. It’s not receding. It’s holding its ground.”

Goggins’ roles on the show included an aggressively flirtatious waiter serving two women attending a Mother’s Day brunch with their adult sons; a character in a Southern Gothic play so over-the-top that trainee service dogs couldn’t stand it; and the father of a family having dinner at a cheesy horror-themed restaurant.

If that wasn’t silly enough, he also took care of business in a demented skit in which a boss’s toilet preferences drove a young associate mad; brought a surreal hipster/surfer/ vibe to a founding father obsessed with making guns the focus of America’s second constitutional amendment; and starred in a mini-musical about a man whose baby-size feet thwarted his romantic ambitions.

Goggins and “SNL” didn’t trade on his roles in “The Righteous Gemstones,” “Justified” or even “Fallout.” But they made his momma happy, and that’s what counts.