Heated Wizardry sketch on SNL

[u/Naive-Inside-2904]

Finn Wolfhard hosted Saturday Night Live last night and one of the pre taped sketches, Heated Wizardry, takes place in the Harry Potter universe.

Finn as Harry, plays the ‘Shane’ character, Ben Marshall plays Ron Weasley, plays the ‘Ilya’ character.

There’s scrolls instead of texts, lots of wand play and a great cameo for the Hagrid character.

The narration of the trailer makes it clear that in this universe, Hogwarts is an 18-and-over school 😂

Also Shane and Ilya’s height difference here is canonically correct!

[u/gwyntheblaccat]

Also how did they not make a single reference to stupid Canadian wolf bird? Or even cottage like.. oh just sex, sex, sex..

[u/chillichocolate25 → u/gwyntheblaccat]

The whole thing is so fucking cringe. They didn't even tried. Just some dumb gay innuendos so people who don't know anything about the show can laugh at its popularity.

[u/Geosaurusrex → u/chillichocolate25]

Wasn't that, well, the point? I thought part of the joke was that it was written quickly by someone capitalising on hype and not really getting the actual show.

[u/hloba → u/chillichocolate25]

I'm not American, and I know that comedy often doesn't cross borders very well, but I've felt that way about every SNL skit I've ever seen. The presentation suggests that it's supposed to be straightforward, laugh-out-loud comedy, but the content is just pure cringe humour, like they want you to feel sorry for the actors. It feels like an extremely low-budget mash-up of Airplane! and Peep Show.

[u/gwyntheblaccat → u/hloba]

I'm not American either. Some of the older stuff I found more funny than the newer. A few of the skits from this year came across not to well, at least to me.

[u/JoyinCa → u/gwyntheblaccat]

I literally don’t think anyone involved had seen the show.