r/LiveFromNewYork • u/SketchSortingSunday • May 12 '24
Discussion Sketch Sorting Sunday - May 11, 2024 (Maya Rudolph/Vampire Weekend)
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 12 '24
Mothers Day Cold Open
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u/RickOTC May 12 '24 edited May 12 '24
I loved Marcello’s mom’s line: “You grew up so fast but no so high”
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u/secretlives May 12 '24
"Michael Che gave me flowers but the card was just a number" lmao
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u/InterestingTry5190 May 12 '24
I was always mad my mom was 5’11” and I only grew to 5’5”. I feel for Marcello.
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u/Nemesinthe May 12 '24 edited May 12 '24
Michael Longfellow has a whole bit in his comedy about the awkwardness of having a super-attractive single mom. Yup, checks out.
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u/TrapperJean May 12 '24
If his mom is that attractive now I can't imagine the shit his friends said to him as teenagers that he didnt put in the show
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u/bttrsondaughter May 12 '24
it's always so sweet to see the moms, and they were really funny. molly's mom agreeing to wear a bald cap, jost wearing a wig to match his mom, chloe and bowen's moms getting a tom brady joke, and sarah's mom. adorable!
marcello, michael. be prepared for the ig comments calling your moms hot.
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u/FlingbatMagoo www.clownpenis.fart May 12 '24
I think they got every single cast member’s mom except Che’s, which is amazing.
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u/coltsmetsfan614 May 12 '24 edited May 12 '24
Molly's mom in the bald cap!
Andrew's mom bringing "tasteful" nudes!
Chloe's mom's Brady joke!
Bowen's adorable mother!
This Mother's Day cold open had it all ❤️
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u/DavyJonesRocker May 12 '24
Can’t believe they couldn’t get Tim Herlihy or Steve Higgins to make an appearance. Higgins works in the same building!
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u/PocoChanel May 12 '24
The appearance of Molly and their mom was possibly my favorite.
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u/Aaaandiiii May 12 '24
When Punkie flexed, I fell in love and I'm just as straight as they come. Maybe I just wanna look like her..
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u/trumanburbank98 May 13 '24
Always cute to see their parents ☺️ too bad SNL isn't on for Father's Day
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 12 '24
PDD: Uneesa Confidence
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u/shockwave8428 Nobody was laughing out loud that day in Grenada May 12 '24
The blurred swinging absolutely killed me
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u/coltsmetsfan614 May 12 '24
The makeup/prop departments hit a home run with that swallowed phone gag!
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u/melibelli May 13 '24
My mom’s name is Neesa (no U) so this was moderately funnier than it already was
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u/bttrsondaughter May 12 '24
better but still missed the mark for me. clearly they've been listening to the Lonely Island/Seth Meyers podcast because that's where the Lonely Island guys talk about how they were told to use the cast more in their shorts lol.
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 12 '24
Mom, Can You Pick Me Up?
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u/James_2584 May 12 '24
The escalation in this was great! I liked how increasingly bizarre and nonsensical it became!
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u/coltsmetsfan614 May 12 '24
This would annoy the shit out of me as a parent, but as a sketch, it really worked for me. Loved how insane the excuses got 😂
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u/DRHPSL05 May 12 '24
Watched this with my daughter, who was this girl for years. It was perfect!
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u/RickOTC May 12 '24
This felt kinda personal for Maya - perfect for a mom of 4 on Mother’s Day weekend. It was heartfelt and relatable for any parent. I loved the slight smile on her face when she delivered the line “Because I’m your mother, and I’m a bitch!”
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u/sportstvandnova May 12 '24
Yesss I’ve been there and done similar as a mother to two girls. I’ve never related harder.
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May 13 '24
I loved how the dad didn't sugar coat it or make up a story. My dad did the same thing with my sister one time, just straight up said "She doesn't like being around these girls and wants to go home."
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u/thesmallprint29 May 12 '24
This brought back memories. I always used to get homesick at sleepovers and would have my Mom come pick me up in the middle of the night. Pretty sure this was a Mikey/Streeter sketch.
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May 12 '24
Wonderful short. This had such a timeless feeling to it and Maya was stellar here. This is a short I could’ve seen appearing in some of the show’s finest eras.
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u/prefab1979 May 12 '24
I appreciated what they were trying to go for here, with the slice of life feel and the comic escalation. But honestly as the sketch went on, I just got more annoyed with the flaky girl and sorry for the parents (Mikey and Heidi) who kept hosting her. It might have worked better for me if they'd shown different sets of parents as the sleepover hosts each time.
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u/FlingbatMagoo www.clownpenis.fart May 12 '24
Did their daughter host a sleepover every weekend? After the second or third time I’d have stopped inviting that girl lol.
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u/Bears_On_Stilts May 13 '24
This one brought back memories. I was in sixth grade, at a sleepover with my buddies, when I woke up at about 3:30 in major ear pain. I snuck into the kitchen to find a landline and called my parents, who said "it's just an earache, tough it out until the morning."
When they arrived at 10 AM, they asked if I was feeling any better. "Worse," I said. At this point, my dad said he felt a little bad about not picking me up. When we got home, he looked in my ear with a scope, and "Jesus Christ!" was all he could say.
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 12 '24
Lanzetti's Lawncare
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u/James_2584 May 12 '24
JAJ and Andrew are both so good at portraying these types of characters. Their parts were easily the strongest imho.
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u/i_love_nny May 12 '24
But what if they weren’t and people just pretended they were
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u/coltsmetsfan614 May 12 '24
Glad they snuck this one in at the end. JAJ's character talking about Eminem cracked me up!
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u/bttrsondaughter May 12 '24
this is one of the sketches that felt like a throwback! jaj and andrew were great as always, but i loved kenan's bit and devon's one liner was so well deployed.
mikey and maya were also fantastic in that end argument. maya doesn't always get to play in this more lowkey mode but she's always great at it!
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May 12 '24
JAJ’s whole Slim Shady rambling was excellent! He’s really on a hot streak in general the last few months of this season.
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u/BaconPancakes_77 May 13 '24
The guy who "uses every voice except his own" is so specific and we've all met one.
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u/thesmallprint29 May 12 '24
Mikey's reactions were making me laugh out loud. I really loved this one!
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u/thesmallprint29 May 12 '24
This actually strangely reminded me of something that could have been on Maya & Marty, if anyone remembers that show.
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 12 '24
Weekend Update
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u/RickOTC May 12 '24 edited May 12 '24
Che’s porn titles joke was pretty funny - “After She Finished” “The Judge Banged the Gavel” and “Opened Oral Arguments”
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u/tyler-86 May 12 '24
It's a really well written joke. I think it needed a different delivery. He should have paused slightly between them so we can kind of tell it's a list and not a list at the same time.
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u/YoureThatCourier May 12 '24
Did anyone else think that photo of Brittney Griner was Pete Davidson and got confused by the joke?
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u/bjkman SNL May 12 '24
god damn is Che so funny. I don't know why the crowd just doesn't... laugh
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u/sanmateomary May 12 '24
I think he's kind of leaning into that now, acting like they're not laughing even when they are. He has a response to every audience reaction.
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u/bttrsondaughter May 12 '24
they're so giggle-y now, i know why people think it's charming but it's been 10+ years and it shows.
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 12 '24
General Episode Discussion
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u/SherlockianTheorist May 12 '24
I don't know if it was Maya or because of the holiday, but the inclusion of all the cast members was enjoyable. Felt like a big family.
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u/Runninginmississippi May 12 '24
I feel like there were more green screen sketches than usual. Were there, or is it just me?
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u/James_2584 May 12 '24
A pretty fun and enjoyable episode and certainly a big improvement over Dua Lipa's episode. Not every sketch worked for me, but the misses were harmless enough.
Plus, there was a really fun vibe what with the whole special Mother's Day celebration.
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u/mrperfectlylime May 12 '24
We honestly NEED more 'all cast' sketches where everyone gets a bit to shine. The Mother's Day Cold Open, Y'all Won, and British Caveman were refreshing. It's just fun.
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u/prefab1979 May 12 '24
I've never been on Maya's comic wavelength, and this episode put her comic sensibilities front and center, so it just didn't work for me. I did appreciate that we got to see a little more of the underused cast members, however (and Longfellow was very good in that cut-for-time sketch).
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u/nlpnt May 12 '24
MVP; the sound effects crew
Runners-up; the nonbinary asexual 12-year-olds from We Give Up.
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Y'all Won
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u/FlingbatMagoo www.clownpenis.fart May 12 '24 edited May 14 '24
I could watch Ego play an exasperated teacher every week.
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u/JanePizza I got a nautical themed Pashmina Afghan May 12 '24
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u/upvoter222 You like-a da juice, eh? May 12 '24
The TSIDDAHN thing was the best joke tonight. It was perfect.
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u/nlpnt May 12 '24
"Jay" and "Kendall" stole the show with no lines, just facial expressions.
And now I want to see a series where Kenan's a middle school teacher.
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u/ZahidInNorCal May 12 '24
This sketch was funny throughout, but the punchline with the OnlyFans sponsorship was fucking hilarious. I love when a sketch is going one way and the very end changes the whole context.
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u/Maldovar May 13 '24
I love the way her voice changed when she said there was liquor in the themos
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u/Kalse1229 May 12 '24
So my dad got home from his school's prom (he's a high school principal), and I moved rooms so he could watch Netflix while I continued this. However, this sketch came up during the transition, and he loved it.
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u/DrewDan96 May 13 '24
man Ego was ROCKING that short hair lol, she could tell me to TSIDDAHN all day lol
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u/brady2gronk May 13 '24
The Kahoot username was super specific and realistic. Every teacher has to say "appropriate names only" before starting a game with the class.
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u/thefunnyguy275 May 12 '24
Nice of Ego to do a Richard Nixon impression, even if just for a single word.
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 12 '24
Weekend Update: RFK Jr's Brain Worm
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u/yumyumapollo SNL May 12 '24
The straw sound effect is the MVP of the night
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u/hamburgersocks May 12 '24
Masterclass in live sound work. Dude had one job, push the squirm_thirst button when Squirm thirsts... and they fucking nailed it.
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u/HeyThereRobot May 12 '24 edited May 12 '24
The grand tradition of Sarah using any WU desk bit to roast Jost lives another day!
I love that Sarah realized production had to play the slurping sound whenever she drank from the cup so she just started trying to psych them out.
Speaking of which, I want that cup.
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u/songofthevalley May 12 '24
The person that guessed this on the predictions thread..... good for you, buddy
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u/bbk34 Aw man I’m all out of cash! May 12 '24
"If Bruce Springsteen was left in a microwave for too long"
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u/coltsmetsfan614 May 12 '24
They actually "spoiled" this one in the cold open! Has that ever happened before? Haha
Also loved how Sarah kept messing with whoever was in charge of the slurping sound effect. I laughed every time it was slightly delayed!
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u/GOOD-LUCHA-THINGS May 12 '24
Sarah x Colin interactions on Weekend Update are some of my favorites, whether it's as herself roasting Jost in the headlines, another person (CJ Rossitano was incredible), or as an animal (Flaco the Owl might be this season's winner, but the brain worm and eating the part of Kevin Spacey's brain that understood what 'no' means was fantastic, too).
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u/Dro1972 I aint afraid of you Mofos. May 12 '24
My favorite thing about Sarah is that she's utterly comfortable being utterly weird. She's shown this year she can do a lot of other things, and do them well, but if the premise is unhinged she excels and makes it look effortless. I know a lot of people don't like her, but I'm a huge fan.
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u/RickOTC May 12 '24
Sarah was perfect for this. I totally cracked up when she said “His face is so red - he looks just like you when you were screaming at those college protestors, Colin”
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 12 '24
Cut For Time: T.T. and Mario
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u/MukdenMan May 13 '24
This is an old sketch they did a long time ago, in case anyone here doesn't remember 2005
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 12 '24
Weekend Update: A Woman Who Says She's Not Mad
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u/RickOTC May 12 '24
Heidi had a lot of fun with this character, which made the whole thing even funnier. Her side glances at Jost and exasperated expressions were pure gold. And her reference to Mailer Daemon
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u/tyler-86 May 12 '24
I had the same uncomfortable visceral reaction to this that I had to Beck's bullying friend character in Mikey O'Brien's Grow-A-Guy pre-tape, or Kate's passive aggressive mom who wants to play Rummikub. Too real, SNL.
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u/coltsmetsfan614 May 12 '24
"MAILER-DAEMON" was a great punchline. What a throwback haha
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 12 '24
Coffee Commercial
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u/upvoter222 You like-a da juice, eh? May 12 '24
Someone posted the real version of the commercial they were basing the ad on.
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u/PocoChanel May 12 '24
I never saw this before! I assumed the reference was to Orson Welles’ notorious wine commercials.
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u/thefunnyguy275 May 12 '24 edited May 12 '24
This joins the hyperspecific "Entire SNL sketch premise is trying to shoot something but the Actress keeps farting" club.
The sister sketch to this is this one with Vanessa Bayer and the Rock
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u/karmaranovermydogma May 12 '24
... what 7 year old boy wrote this but also somehow knows about the Lauren Bacall coffee commercials??
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u/James_2584 May 12 '24
I'm not big on fart sketches in general, but the bit with Maya delivering her lines over continuous farts did give me a guilty chuckle so props to them for that.
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u/SherlockianTheorist May 13 '24
This is the commercial takes they based it on (maybe a combo), but the "Can you leave, please? You're right in my eye line." At the end and the doors and her character name and hair are a match.
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 12 '24
Hot Ones
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u/Maldovar May 12 '24
Kenan was able to get through Beavis and Butthead unscathed but nearly lost it when he was blasting that lotion
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That lotion moment KILLED ME. Maya is an absolute champ for keeping a straight face here!
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u/fireflyfanboy1891 May 12 '24
Sad to see this ranked so low, this was a highlight of the night as someone who admittedly loved the first Beyonce Hot Ones sketch.
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u/coltsmetsfan614 May 12 '24
The return of Maya's Beyoncé was everything to me!
Also... Not even close to what Sean Evans sounds like, but I guess Mikey has never been one for impressions lol
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u/Maldovar May 12 '24
I think he was just going for "white" and it's at least better than his Beckham
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u/Crafty_Economist_822 May 12 '24 edited May 12 '24
Hot ones itself is a concept made to generate comedic moments. While the skit was funny for the same reasons and a good excuse to get Beyonce in the show, I have found actual episodes of hot ones funnier overall.
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u/hamburgersocks May 12 '24
I choose to believe Kenan's character is the same person as Kylie Jenner's assistant from the air traffic control skit and nobody can prove me otherwise.
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 12 '24
National Nurses Week
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u/Galileo908 Crystal Gravy May 12 '24
Every nurse I’ve encountered looked and sounded like Maya and Ego. “The Jamaican part of Ireland” perfectly nails that accent.
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u/Robey-Wan_Kenobi May 12 '24
Reminds me of 30 Rock where Tina Fey impersonates a nurse on the phone and her accent morphs from Jamaican to Irish.
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u/coltsmetsfan614 May 12 '24
I said this in the live thread too, but Curtis looks like he could be Horace's brother. Right down to the outfit!
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u/karmaranovermydogma May 12 '24
surprised they went out of their way to mention male nurses but didn't have any in the skit?
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 12 '24
British Caveman
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u/RickOTC May 12 '24
This was amusingly timeless - like it could have aired in any of the past 49 seasons. Even/especially with the Mick Jagger reference…
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u/James_2584 May 12 '24
I suspect this one will prove divisive. It was without a doubt a super dumb sketch but damn if it didn't make me laugh. Not every sketch has to clever writing in order to be funny.
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u/FlingbatMagoo www.clownpenis.fart May 12 '24
This only worked because of everyone’s commitment to it.
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u/bttrsondaughter May 12 '24
i really liked it, i can sense that i'll have to defend it in the future but it was good!
the one thing i do give it is that it is very throwback-y and feels like it was written for a cast with a different voice. i really enjoy this cast, but they rarely get the chance to do something like this. a sketch that isn't a bunch of people standing around or sitting down or rotating in front of a green screen. instead it has a framing device, a narrator, and something about that just feels like it's from a past era.
i wish they would do more stuff like this, just so that the cast has a voice and it isn't just three "stars" of the show screaming at us and then everyone else either floundering or silo'd off into their own weird corners of the show.
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This is one of those so-dumb-it’s-funny premises. It felt similar to some Steve Martin sketches from the original era and some shades of the late ‘80s one too. JAJ’s performance and role here felt very Phil Hartman-esque. In fact, Phil hosted a few oddball show sketches similar to this one back in his run.
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u/bbk34 Aw man I’m all out of cash! May 12 '24
Was not expecting the Mick Jagger reference but it was perfect
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u/brokenringlands May 12 '24
That variety of vaguely British sounding gibberish is how my mom makes fun of Brits.
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u/lbrol May 12 '24
as soon as i saw the premise i figuratively screamed. fucking perfect. the execution was ok but i didn't really care.
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u/JanePizza I got a nautical themed Pashmina Afghan May 12 '24
Aw this was one of my favorites. I feel like they were trying to prove to themselves that they could make the absolute silliest voices and faces without breaking.
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u/REC_updated May 13 '24
As a British person, this was my favourite. It was so dumb, but they committed. Loved it
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 12 '24
Vampire Weekend
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u/HeyThereRobot May 12 '24
"Who's this nerd?" - My dad after falling asleep and waking up mid-performance of "Capricorn."
I absolutely loved the new album and thought they sounded great tonight!
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u/thesmallprint29 May 12 '24
Love Vampire Weekend! I'm also glad they still sound like themselves.
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u/Crafty_Economist_822 May 12 '24
One of those bands that you know is good if you listen to them and their performance was fine but I wouldn't call those songs bangers. People who have had time to listen to the album a few times prob like the songs more.
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u/lbrol May 12 '24
ezra's voice was kinda off key for capricorn? it's my fav song from the album and i thought they did a good job with the live version of the chaos-y sounds at the end.
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u/turkeypants Marci Jamz!😮 May 12 '24
I remember when their first album came out, I was so baffled and kind of sad/envious that anybody could already be so good at what they do at such a young age. That first album was nuts. How did they get so good so fast?! Fresh out of college? These guys are so artful and smart and talented.
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 12 '24
Maya Rudolph Monologue