Episode 111 - Connor Storrie (Season 51)

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with your host, Brad Omen, featuring Ben Connowitz and Nate Laughs.

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Robert F. Kennedy, over here.

I appreciate you trying to do your best Marcelo Hernandez impression as the teacher, but we'll get there.

Yeah.

Hey, welcome back.

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If you didn't do this, wholly recommend you go listen to the three episodes of Go Flix Yourself that we recorded because a lot of fun stuff happened over there.

I do think we had to shake the cob's cobwebs off.

And by the last one, we were.

We were hitting our strike.

Argue that they're all very good, but the third one is the best.

The second one, about halfway through, we kind of lose it a bit because I made it.

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It was a joint episode.

A royal we in there.

There was one.

One really bad card that got played.

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Okay.

Anyway.

But yeah, welcome back to the the 10 to 1 show.

Yeah.

So it was a good episode overall, I thought.

What did you guys think just right off the bat?

Did you like it or not?

I think that it is a solid episode.

I thought it was a solid episode.

But, like, I know you've been a huge fan of Connor Story.

Oh, my gosh.

That's a story that needs to be told.

I've said it for years.

I think he was good.

I'll say that.

I think he was good.

Oh, yeah, Great.

Not really being familiar with his work other than the fact that he's in heated rivalry, which I haven't watched.

Were you not watching the same show?

He was great.

I mean.

No, he's great.

No, he really.

I was very impressed by him.

I don't know if you heard me,

but, yeah, for somebody who I'm not familiar with, watching him do what he did on snl, that's.

It's like, wow.

Yeah, this guy's got real talent.

Absolutely.

This is going to be one of those episodes, too, that is going to get so much traction online because he's a hot ticket.

Right.

Like, he.

And I will say that there was an aspect of that throughout the episode that was somewhat annoying to an extent,

because they're cheering too long and.

Well, not even just cheering too long because, like, first of all, the one sketch you're talking about.

Absolutely.

It did kind of ruin things.

But also they're the kind of fans that like whenever he shows up they're like, whoa.

It's like he's the host.

You can't do this every sketch.

Yeah, yeah, no, but I mean, like, that's why snl, like let's break that down.

That's why SNL has people like him host.

Right, sure.

So that people put their frickin eyeballs on the TV and in the audience.

Like, I get it.

There's not really much you can do, you know, about that.

You're not going to tell the audience everybody they try.

Right.

But it's, it's also kind of.

Yes, it's a little annoying, but to me it's more endearing that somebody that good at the job of being host is also getting that kind of recognition everywhere and it's having their moment.

Like, that's fantastic.

No, I do agree to a certain extent.

Like you can only get so mad about it.

But then like when you see people like Ariana Grande and stuff like that host, you can see how big her fan base is.

They're not going crazy every time she is entering a sketch.

But devil's advocate, what about the first time she hosted?

I'd have to go back and see

it because think about that.

Like this is a brand new guy with brand new fans that are rabid.

Give him five years and now he's hosted three times.

I bet you it's not.

I do think the male heartthrobs have more of the, of the screaming then.

Oh, for sure.

Harry Styles is going to be another example.

But I would.

That'll be a good test actually, just to see whether or not like when he.

Because they're going to blow when he first gets out, of course.

And then.

But if he shows up in the second sketch and it happens again, then we'll know.

I don't know though, because.

Is he still as big as he was?

But that's the thing.

He's still.

He's still absolutely as big as he was.

Hundo P. You think?

Insane, dude.

It's crazy.

His fan base is established with him.

Right.

So they're not going to be able.

Oh my God, it's him.

Yeah, that's not going to be a thing.

Kenner also has a background in improv.

He studied at Groundlings for a little while.

Oh really?

Yeah.

Sweet.

And went to college school.

To what?

Clown school.

Oh, I thought you said Colin school.

I did too.

I was like, hey, what's that?

No He.

Was that where you learned how to date a.

No, but he went to clown school, so.

Which.

Which he talks about in interview.

Can you say that one more time?

I. I don't know if you're saying it right.

Clown school.

Okay, that's better.

Yeah.

Clown school.

It comes up Colin school when you say it.

No, Clown.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah, It's.

It's.

There's, like, just a slight, like, space between the C and the L. Like you're adding a vowel.

Wait, you.

There is.

You do know, like, between the C and the L, there's no O. O. Clown.

Clown.

Clown school.

Clown.

Clown school.

Clown school.

Say it one more time.

Just one for everybody in the back.

One more time.

Try not to laugh.

It's really hard to answer because we're just literally saying clown school.

Okay.

Clown school.

Yeah.

Okay, that's a little better.

All right.

That's what I've been saying the whole time, guys.

Like, it's clown.

You can't see us, but Brad and I are making very direct eye contact.

Yeah.

Like, having a side internal conversation with each other.

Like, really time to let this go, or.

All right.

Anyway, he went to clown school, and it was great.

He's also.

He's also attached to a film that Ali Leviton is writing.

Oh, okay.

So he's got that SNL connection, too.

Yeah.

So that'll be fun.

Who.

Who's Ali Lemon?

Is that a writer for snl?

Yeah.

I'm not joking.

I'm not doing a bit.

Okay.

Her dad is Steve.

Steve of aan.

Yeah.

The creator of Modern Family.

Oh, gotcha.

Sorry.

But, yeah, she's a current writer, and he.

It's.

It's.

It's one of your favorites.

It's an A24 film.

Can't wait.

Called Peaked.

Can't wait.

Actually, I. I would be interested to see him in a comedy.

Oh.

Yeah.

So.

All right, you guys ready to get into it?

Let's go.

Cold open.

All right.

This certainly was written at the last minute.

The Iran war address.

James Austin Johnson's Trump addresses the nation to explain why the US Partner with Israel to bomb Iran.

He obviously kind of points to the FIFA Peace Prize winner and Nobel Peace Prize taker, which I thought was very funny.

And then he brings Colin Jost, Pete Hegseth back.

I. I like Colin Jo, Pete Hegseth.

I thought this was obviously very last minute.

Yeah.

I didn't think this was great.

No, it was pretty weak for the most part.

And they even admit, like.

Yeah.

And actually, if anything, I appreciate that they did that.

That, like, they made the meta joke about it driving the SNL writers crazy and, like, they had a whole thing planned.

And State of the Union.

Poor Jeremy.

Jeremy has got a light show.

I love that.

That was that.

I like that stuff.

I hope that they do start to do more of that because that is kind of a nice flavor to use James Austin Johnson as Trump as this meta commentary.

Definitely a breath of fresh air when you do stuff like that.

And they've done stuff like that every now and like they would do with the freeze frame when talking about Mikey Day and like, trying not to laugh.

But.

So this is another.

Break that down a little bit there.

That's a little bit of a different take because he's not there.

Right.

And I like that a lot because it just gives another layer to everything.

Yeah.

I think that my favorite joke, actually, and especially after listening to James Austin Johnson be on the Good One podcast with Jesse David Fox, is he talked about how he likes to try and insert at least one joke that's mostly there just for him or just for, like, a few people.

Sure.

And previously it was the reference to Metal Gear Solid where he talked about Solid Snake and mentioned that this time it was definitely the gamecube.

Yeah.

Because that was real deep cut nerd shit.

And I thought that was hilarious.

What was the bit was a bit like a small library.

Small library.

The coding was very difficult.

That's a great job.

And it's for three people.

Exactly.

But yeah, that was.

I liked that.

And think, like, immediately think, oh, yeah, that's the joke that he got in there.

I really hope that there are.

There's a group chat right now somewhere in America where somebody who just doesn't even watch SNL heard about this.

It was like, they just love gamecube.

I told you.

I bet the gamecube read it was like, oh, my God, guys.

Okay, let's talk about the logistics of this.

Do they have to.

Obviously, Iran thing was huge, right?

Yeah.

Do they have to do something on Iran or could you have stuck to the State of the Union?

You know, that's.

It's.

It's interesting because, like, you.

Is anyone really going to be mad that they didn't do something on their end?

Especially if it says half baked as this?

And it was literally, how.

How good was the State of the Union thing gonna be?

You know?

So I think that, honestly, it is so much better to pivot to the news because the backlash you always see is what.

This has already been talked about.

City Union has been covered by 14 different people.

And now it's finally Saturday.

We finally get their take.

This is one of the first opportunities they get to kind of be the first ones to talk about it because the pundits on Monday morning and Tuesday and Wednesday on Kimmel, they're going to get their after SNL for once.

So this is actually a good thing, I think.

Yeah.

It's also a lot harder to write something in two hours and make it funny.

Right.

And they did a pretty good job there, too.

Sure.

You know, and it's.

I think that maybe also it is easier to make it funny when you know, you've got a reliable thing like Jost as Hegseth, where you know it's going to kill.

Because it has for four times in a row killed.

This time, though, I think it was okay.

Yeah, it wasn't.

No.

But I'm saying in the preamble to this.

Right.

So like, you know, that's.

You got to go to.

They do have a strong position to pivot to.

So even though they've only got to Write it in 2 and a half hours, they can still do it.

Yeah.

That's.

The end result may be a different.

But the run up to it, I think they're positive on it.

Right.

Yeah.

All right, moving on.

Monologue by Connor.

Story, counter story.

Jokes about heated rivalries, cultural impact and his own sudden rise going from waiting tables to host an snl.

He also brings out Jack and Quinn Hughes from the gold medal winning US Men's Olympic team.

But the men that are upstaged when U.S. women's champions Hillary Knight and Megan Keller come out.

What'd you think of this?

Did this work for you, Ben?

So they don't always do things like this when somebody wins a gold medal or wins a national championship or something like that.

It's not always.

But I think that because the crossover into political stuff and because it's that well known that the snub, the this or that, I think it needs a hockey.

Yeah.

And obviously the hockey connection, but I think.

I think you need both.

I think it needs to be that relevant.

And not just because they won gold, but because there was a little drama.

I think that's the thing that made the booking happen more than just the fact that he's a hockey player and they just won gold.

I honestly do think there's a little bit more there.

I don't know, honestly.

Because, like, when they.

Wouldn't it be great to have the men on and then also have the women?

Yeah, no, I'm sure That came into play as like they knew that it would play.

But I think that the, I'm sure like the, the hockey thing is what really made it work and the timing of it being right.

That's fair.

That's especially since NBC is the home of the Olympics.

Yeah, no, that's the synergies there.

But how do the hockey players did.

Not great.

Well, the men.

The men.

Yeah.

The men were terrible.

It was, it was like you said you took middle schoolers and said you guys are doing a today.

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

There was horribly.

Did you.

Did you get your teeth is knocked out as well.

I did appreciate though that it seemed like that they were the like dudes who were probably like you know, not necessarily on board with like the.

That was being said about like making fun of the women's team and like,

I mean they did laugh.

There was some, there was some pushback because they were.

But they, they've also been.

These brothers have been very pro like for the teams that they play for in the NHL having pride nights.

They run very publicly for that.

They, they also publicly said they think it's kind of much ado about nothing and people need to move on.

But.

But also celebrating the women.

So it's a little complicated but the

fact that the audience was so loud and like they had like hey had to wait so long for the cheering to go down for the women's team was amazing.

Yeah.

And they had a great joke.

The women did a great job.

They, they look like they've had some more media training maybe than the men.

Yeah.

I thought, I thought Connor was very good.

He made a couple really good jokes.

I also, I also thought it was a little just like, I don't know, like the sex symbol part of it was just a little like the screaming and everything was just a little weird at times.

Like it was just a little played up a little bit like.

And he didn't do anything.

It was Obviously the, the 12 year old girls in the audience but like it was just, I don't know, awkward.

Are 12 year olds watching heated rivalries?

They shouldn't be.

No, it's pretty graphic as he alluded to with the one scene he could show that was family friendly.

So maybe rethink that.

I think if you're, if you're showing heated rivalry to a 12 year old that might be a felony.

I don't know.

I don't know who the girls are.

Felony.

I don't know who the girls are that are screaming in the audience.

I liked the aside where you switched cameras and got all sexy serious.

I did like that because you can.

It got a good window into, oh, that's not really who this guy is.

But he can play that, you know.

And it was.

It was a fun back and forth.

I also love every time anybody says, I've been dreaming about this moment.

Right.

Being on snl because again, we're such big fans that, you know, he's like, I've been dreaming about this since I was 12 years old.

Yeah.

And it always means a lot to me because I'm like, oh, good, you get the moment.

Right.

Because this is still a big moment.

Particular phrasing that gets used to when you know that somebody is pretty organic.

It's when I got the call instead of when they asked me to host because I hear that all the time.

They asked me to host and it's like I got the opportunity to turn down.

I got the call.

Means I was chosen luckily.

Yeah.

And I feel like when they say that, it's a little bit more true.

Yeah.

All right, moving on.

Math Quiz.

Mr. Franzi.

This starred Marcel Hernandez Counter story in the rest of the cast is the class.

Marcelo Hernandez plays an eccentric coffee burned math teacher named Mr. Franz who keeps accidentally saying penis when he means penis.

Clown school.

It's kind of true though.

He keeps saying penis when he means to say penis because peanuts sounds like penis.

So does the word.

Have you guys ever had to say publicly Pianist?

Oh, yeah.

It is a hard.

It's a very famous joke.

I'm just saying like, I've had to say it like at funerals before.

And she loved being a pianist.

And you have to.

You can say she loved playing the piano though.

That's on you, actually.

But she was a very skilled pianist.

Yeah, that's great.

I know.

It's just she loved the organ.

I get him.

I get in my head a little bit about it.

But hey, don't.

You're.

But again, what do you think of this one?

Let's start with you, Brett.

This was one of several strange sketches throughout the night.

But Marcelo really sells it, you know, like he leans into it.

I'm 90% sure he was wearing something in the pants that both made his crotch poof out and his butt a little like heftier because like there was.

The pants fit him.

Like they would fit like a middle aged man.

Just like that.

Like they stuffed Glad garbage bags around it or something.

It was frumpy.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But you know, his, his voice was hilarious.

You know, I thought it was really funny.

When everyone else started doing the voice to, like, as soon as Connor started doing his impression, I was like, oh, okay, it's pretty good.

Exactly.

Yeah.

I thought this was fine.

I didn't think it was great.

I think there was some funny parts to it, but, like, I know, I disagree.

I think that was better than that.

I think that.

I think that watching it, I had no idea what was happening.

Where is this going?

And then like a good bit.

They didn't cut this one off too early because if they would have ended this earlier, it would have been worse.

By letting it stretch its legs a little bit longer and actually going back to him, getting up and sitting back down and then coming around and like, what class is this?

Like that.

All of it, right?

It really all kind of came together and I laughed hard.

I thought it was very good.

I thought it was, I guess my, my, my issue with this.

I thought it was a weird placement and this is a.

Maybe just a.

Too much.

That's fair.

Yeah.

It doesn't feel like.

It does not feel right.

After the monologue sketch, it feels a

little bit later in the episode, Lauren's losing it.

You know, he took that, that postcard and moved it over, you know, that post it note and shuffled it.

Too wrong to say about Lauren.

Just.

Just call in, let us know what you thought.

All right, next.

It was a pre tape the Gentleman's Code.

This is a pre tape period piece set at a posh London gathering in 1892.

Two gentlemen, played by Connor Story and Mikey Day, get into a verbal altercation that rapidly escalates.

Escalates with each offense.

Met with dramatic cries of how dare you In a slap across the face.

This is obviously a very physical comedy bit.

I actually, I don't know why.

I love this one and I loved the escalation of it.

I loved Keenan in this.

If it met me.

I didn't think it was the best pre tape.

I don't think I'll remember it for the whole season.

But for some reason, this met me in the right place.

What'd you think, Brad?

Yeah, I agree.

It's a Looney Tunes cartoon.

Exactly.

That's really what it is.

That's how it plays.

It takes some additional veers in the back half, which I really appreciated.

You know, I wasn't necessarily sure how they were going to keep it going and what they were gonna do, but the, the, the changes into like, you know, Andrews Mukes, you know, kicking his own child.

Yeah, that's when it peaked.

Yeah.

Like the kick of the Child, I guffa.

Yeah, it got me, like.

That was really funny.

Yeah, it was.

It's one of those things where, like, it's a.

It's a good, like, repeat physical gag that adds, you know, other layers to

it, that finds a way to escalate, which is good.

Yeah.

The dog.

The fact that Keenan's kicking ass, you know, and actually, the uppercut was great.

Yeah, it was great.

Like, you struck with a closed fist, sir.

Like, all of it.

It worked.

It did work.

Yeah.

The remark.

Whereas me saying that he is ungloved and I'm able to rebut.

Yeah.

A lot.

Yeah.

That the.

The fanciful language dancing around it all, it was.

It made it even better.

All right, moving on.

Ice skating.

This was the Rockefeller Plaza proposal 1.

This had Tommy Brennan, Veronica Slow Kowska counter story, Mikey Day, Ben Marshall, and a surprise guest, Hudson Williams.

Tommy Brennan tries to propose to his girlfriend, played by Veronica Slowikowska, at the famous Rockefeller center ice rink.

This is right in front of the studio, right?

Like in real.

Well, it's in 30 Rock Plaza.

Yeah.

In real life, it's outside that building.

Yeah.

I mean, obviously it was on the stage.

But as she tries to explain that she's not ready, Brennan keeps getting completely distracted by a group of guys behind them who are having the absolute time of their lives skating around.

I'm gonna.

I'm gonna go first.

This just made me sad because you're not having that.

I don't.

I've never had that much fun doing.

Doing anything.

Wow.

Let it.

Yeah.

Not even this show.

Hot on the heels of the best Go fix yourself we've ever done.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Go ahead and replay the sketch.

Just the four of them dudes skating.

Go and replay that and try to search your past for when you felt that good about literally anything.

That is so freaking cool.

Like, how much fun they were having that it was so funny.

Because the reason I think that it worked so well is because normally in a sketch like this, the things that are happening in the background are violent or mean or wrong.

And this is a complete turn where they're just having the time of their life and it's not the thing in the foreground isn't the juxtaposition.

Isn't that.

That is a horrific thing.

They're not talking about mom died in a car accident.

They're talking about something.

Yeah, it's still sad, but it's not life changing.

It's just two opposite ends of the spectrum, and it works really, really well.

Yeah, I agree.

Also, I was initially, I would say for the first couple minutes, really trying to discern whether or not they actually did this at the ice rink.

Yeah, they did a great job.

That's the thing.

I was like, wait, wait a minute.

Because they're obviously skating somewhere.

So, like, are they on rollerblades?

And you could never see them until they did the pan.

And a couple episodes ago, they did have Sarah out there legitimately.

Yeah.

And it wouldn't be too hard to, you know, have that closed off to sketch outside.

So you're not.

No, no, exactly.

I want.

Logistically, did they have to be like, hey, can anybody roll rollerblade backwards?

Because they.

You had to actually do some work.

Exactly.

I don't think that I could just throw in rollerblades and do that.

They had rollerblades on.

Yeah.

Yeah, they pulled it out.

Yeah.

You didn't see that.

You didn't see that.

Oh, you don't go to the bathroom.

I probably actually did the sketches ending

and he just turned around where.

Yeah, they pan out and you see their own blades.

It was very, very well done.

Yeah.

You know, and it's.

And it has the added layer too, because there's a little bit of David Pumpkins in it too, where he's just constantly thinking about what's happening.

It's like, he's like.

He's like, no, well, no, I'm trying to.

I'm wondering, like, like, wait a minute.

This is a bachelor party now.

You know, like, it just keeps, like, building.

They're in their 40s.

Yeah.

What about Hudson Williams?

Do you think that was a good use for him?

You know?

Is that the.

What you were talking about?

It would have been fun if, like, he show showed up and they were able to play it out like a normal sketch, but every time he came back into frame, it's like, shut the up and let the sketch go.

What do you have against Hudson Williams?

Yeah, we don't swear.

He ruined this guy.

No.

But, yeah, he ruined this episode.

No, you just like.

Like, just let it happen.

You know, it's like, we.

We get it.

Yeah.

You know, it was just too much commotion.

You know, you don't have to do it every time he comes back.

Also, though, live taping.

I mean.

Yeah, the energy.

I don't blame him.

I get it.

I don't know.

You just like.

Like, it's you.

There's.

There's rules.

No, no, Overall, like.

Like there's a Broadway.

Broadway play happening.

Like, you're not cheering every Time Daniel Radcliffe comes out to do his part.

Like, he's.

He's in the play.

Not the same argument.

You know, it.

It is.

It's not.

The overall sketch was very good.

I like the take on it being positive in the background rather than negative.

And I also think that just literally watching the logistics of them on the rollerblades by panning out made it all kind of like, make sense.

And I really.

It's like seeing it all come together at the end, like, that was cool.

I love the little parts too, where, like, just someone just.

It was typically Connor who just go.

Mind you, going there was like.

And this was when I. I really knew for sure that it wasn't outside.

There was a background.

A video glitch.

Yeah.

During one of these where like, they.

It reset to like the beginning of it and you can see the flags.

They can't afford the loop.

Yeah, they didn't have it for long enough.

All right, Dirkus, let's move on.

Math tutor counter Story plays BJ Cool jock being tutored by Ben Marshall's intensely odd stalker adjacent math nerd named Durkus.

I worry about this for Rune.

Oh, no, I'm back.

That.

I mean, my kid is a dork.

I mean, I love him.

He's a Dirk.

Is.

He's a Dirkus, man.

He's.

He's incredibly intelligent.

He's not.

He's not.

But Ben Marshall in this didn't play socially awkward.

Honestly.

He just plays it like, oh, this guy gets me now.

Yeah.

And I feel like that could be my kid.

Like, he's gonna get a little older and he's gonna be that guy.

Like, doesn't understand why nobody wants to wear a top hat and play the piano with him.

Like, I just feel like that's coming down the pipeline.

But it's.

This was very, very funny.

Obviously.

What did you guys think about the bringing in James Austin Johnson and Work or not Work?

I thought it worked.

It worked.

But I. I didn't escalate enough.

I don't know.

No, I thought it was.

It was a good, like, continuation and slight escalation of having the parents be just as odd and doing their own song.

Yeah, I like that.

And then him doing it at the BJ himself, putting on a hat.

It all worked.

Yeah.

Well, the ending's not strong.

Like, that's because I'll be clear about that.

It's not a great sketch.

It's an okay sketch.

It's for.

For me, I think.

What?

Why.

Why it wasn't great or better is there were obviously some pacing and timing issues and that kind of like upset the order a little bit, but it was amusing to me.

This felt more like a ten to one sketch, honestly, and I felt like it probably should have been later in the episode.

Almost feels like Jane Wickline wrote this and then Ben Marshall performed it too because, like, there's a lot of like her that's fair kind of sensibility in that song and the awkwardness that she does.

Can we talk a little bit about.

Let's, let's do kind of a. I know we're a little past mid season, but let's do a little mid season report card.

Ben Marshall is, you know, he's now a cast member, not doing his pre tape stuff.

How do you think he's doing so far?

I feel like if I had to go back and hadn't seen one episode yet, my thought process was, oh, he's probably going to blow up because he's already established and now he can spread his wings.

But that hasn't happened.

I mean, he's kind of middle of the road as far as a feature player.

He's getting used.

He's funny here and there, but overall he's not having a breakout necessarily either.

He's a pretty good straight guy.

Right.

He's.

He's a good Mikey Day type of person.

Right.

But he hasn't had that character yet that has grabbed the attention of everyone.

And we're going to come up to a sketch here, the, the, the cabin sketch where that's a perfect example of what Ben Marshall really is doing for the show.

He's another person in the room that has lines and has to deliver them on time and da, da, da.

But he's not the focus of the sketch and he's just filler, you know, and I want more for him.

What do you think?

Yeah, I mean, he's.

He's still just a featured player even though he was Please don't destroy before.

And it's got to be hard to, you know, deliver stuff on your own when you're used to working with your guys.

You know, like if he doesn't have Please don't destroy to work with anymore.

And so he's got to kind of re establish himself kind of similar to the way that Kyle Mooney did after Beck Bennett left.

You know, he couldn't.

Him and Beck couldn't do stuff together anymore.

I'd like to clarify too, that I am pulling for it to still happen.

I think he's freaking hilarious.

Oh, no, he is like, he's doing

good in everything he's doing.

He's just.

I want it to pop.

Yeah.

I want more.

Like, I.

And I think it's tough to, like, when, you know, to make the comparison.

Like, Ashley Petit is also a featured player, but she's having a huge breakout year.

But, like, not everyone can do that on a show.

Like, it's now, you know?

Yeah, yeah, I know.

And there's still time.

Obviously, he's not going anywhere.

Like, you know, it's not like he's shitting the bed every week and it's like, oh, when's he going to get

out of the show?

Yeah.

And I don't even think he's.

He's doing bad.

No, not at all.

Yeah.

Why do you hate him?

Yeah, Brad, why do you hate him?

See, it's a.

It's not a visual medium.

So, like.

Yeah.

Spider man meme.

Next was.

I. I do want to mention this real quick because I'm a music fan.

Mumford and Sons had.

Did you notice this?

Because I know you're a music boy, too.

They did songs, but they had Hozier.

Is that the first time they did two songs on the show?

I don't watch the Musical, guys.

Oh, boy.

Did you notice they had Hozier?

Obviously.

Yeah.

Do you see who is in back playing guitar?

No.

G.E.

smith.

Aaron Desner from the National.

I couldn't pick him out in a lineup.

I don't know what those words.

Well, he's an incredible producer.

He does Taylor Swift stuff.

He does lots of different stuff.

No, I know his name.

I just don't know what he looks like.

Yeah.

Those are nonsense words.

But I think he produced this album for Mumford, which makes me more excited because I'm trying.

I'm legitimately trying to remember the name and the thing that you said.

And I also like Aaron Burr from Nashville.

Close.

What was it?

Aaron Desner from the National.

There we go.

Great band.

Yeah.

National is a good band.

Okay.

All right, moving on.

It's time for Weekend Update.

Get your computer out, please, Bradford.

So I'm going to.

I'm changing it up.

Nate.

Yep.

I don't.

I don't care what his barometer says.

Oh.

Because it's 100 for me.

I loved this so much.

I thought that it was literally.

And it's not because I think what Brad's going to think I'm saying for me, if I could get a repeat of the Exact Benometer is 100 on this.

And it's because it's got every single thing that we talk about is pitch perfect here.

There is so much back and forth.

There is Jost having to read shit that is not meant to be, he didn't write, or whatever.

There is the weekend of.

The characters are fantastic.

This.

The jokes were so funny.

This was, in my opinion, one of the more.

One of the more perfect weekend updates.

Let me say this.

I think it was certainly the best of the season.

Okay, Brad, give us your number, though.

What do you think?

I'll just tell you.

Yeah, just tell us.

It's 85.

Why?

It's not you.

Like, I don't.

I even said, is this even?

I even gave you this.

I said, this is the best.

And then you said, it's the best one of the season.

And I said, I basically got on my knees on this one.

And you're still 85.

So you didn't like this?

No, no, I liked it.

85.

85 is a good grade.

No, it's not.

It is.

No, you gave something like two weeks ago.

You gave it 83 or something.

So you think this is just a little better?

You think this is the best of the season so far?

Yeah.

But also, comparatively, this is like, when you compare this to the best of other seasons, it's not, like, crazy high on the charts.

What didn't you like about it?

I didn't dislike anything about it.

Why didn't you give it a good grade?

I'm sorry.

I don't.

I don't have to like to jizz every time I touch my wiener.

What?

That is not a metaphor that I ever want you to use again.

Ever.

Let's strike that.

Sometimes.

Sometimes.

Sometimes I got to shift it because it's uncomfortable and it feels good when I move it out of the way.

Just like Nate.

Don't love where we're going with it.

Just like Nate seeing Pianist or that heated rivalry is for 12 year olds.

No.

Ever say that anymore.

Sometimes the old beanbag has an itch.

You scratch it.

Ah, that's good.

What are you doing?

For the record, my inappropriateness is always on accident.

All right.

Yes, it's true.

And mine.

Mine is on purpose, but at a lower level than this sometimes.

Okay.

The coin purse.

Anyway.

Okay.

Has to be given a little jingle.

Oh, my gosh.

I'm with Ben more than you on this one.

I thought this was a very good weekend update.

I thought they were having a ton of fun.

What is this?

Iran?

But I just.

I also think they brought in some good stuff with Iran.

Right.

Right away.

Yeah.

Playing Sarah Sherman's let's get into it.

Sarah Sherman's bit was utterly fantastic.

You don't want to talk at all about the jokes.

Okay, we can do it.

But I'm just so excited.

It's fine.

All right, let's get.

Get.

Okay.

I will say you didn't even like

the hear me out segment that Colin Josted.

That's the way.

Yeah.

That was so good.

Fantastic.

I mean, Prince Andrew, river corpse.

Yeah.

Was just perfect.

Such a great joke.

Che getting in trouble kind of for the, the.

The Iran stuff.

Comparing America to that.

Not getting in trouble, but not getting the applause he should have gotten.

These are just good jokes, man.

They really are.

It was really good.

All right, fine.

Let's do fine.

Let's start with Veronica Slow Kowska's Katie, the maid of honor.

This is a new thing for her.

Sloikowski played Katie and maid of honor who's supposed to be recapping news headlines from her friend Beth's wedding weekend.

I thought this, this, this very, very much reminded me a little bit of Heidi pulling out a character probably from somebody in her past that she's done before.

What'd you think of this one, Brad?

Let's start with you.

This is impeccable character work.

It's so good.

The voice that she has for this sounds just like every bridesmaid speech you ever heard.

That's what I'm saying is so good.

The cadence with which they deliver punchlines and like a knowing winking, like, yeah, I'm saying something funny kind of way.

Cody, I think that I've seen this at every.

And I'm not even joking if you're listening to this, and I know you and I've been at your wedding.

This was your.

This was her speech to your wife or whatever.

Like, that's a hundred percent.

This, this could easily be a recurring character for me.

Like, this was for sure.

She.

She formed.

I think I. I really am excited to see some other things that she could do on Weekend Update because like I said, we don't necessarily have a new Heidi yet.

Right.

Somebody that just brings a lot of different characters that does it, like just spot on impressions.

I think Ashley's getting close.

Ashley's getting good.

But I'm just saying I think there's another bit of that.

The frat girl kind of.

I think Veronica can access something different than Ashley can.

I think I would say that if.

If Ashley is Heidi, then Veronica is Chloe Feynman.

There we go.

Yeah, I'll take it, albeit potentially with.

Because Chloe's still on the show.

Yeah.

And maybe not quite as much aptitude for impressions.

At least not that we've seen yet.

No.

And I think that it's.

And it's not saying that she's like Feynman light.

No.

Saying it's a different skill.

Right.

Exactly.

But she has this.

A similar presence as far as the kind of character she plays.

Again, I think that.

Not even again for the first time.

I think it goes to.

She has characters, not impressions.

Yes.

And that's the difference.

Right.

Speaking of.

I never even thought of it until you said this.

Chloe had a really light episode.

She have anything?

She was in one of the sketches.

At least I think.

I don't think she was anything.

Wasn't she in the office dance sketch?

Am I misremembering?

No, I don't think so.

Maybe she wasn't there.

I don't think she's there.

SNL fandom says that she was not in this episode.

She was in the credits, obviously.

But maybe she's busy with something.

Yeah.

I don't know.

So the other.

Interesting that I didn't notice that she wasn't in it.

Right.

And so you just mentioned it.

So I. I love this.

I need this to come back, though.

I need the exact same shtick.

Do the bridesmaid made of honor thing again.

Talk about Cody.

Different.

Yes.

Same same thing.

Just obviously give me different news.

And I want.

I want to see nine iterations of this because I think there's more.

It was.

Don't get me wrong, this is very good.

Yeah.

But you think there's even some.

There's definitely more here.

Yeah.

The absurdity of the juxtaposition is what really sells it.

Exactly.

The dark tinged news being presented with that tone is.

And they're 80% there.

Yeah.

There's something about the connection between the two that either.

And I can't answer this, but it's either that directly word plays into it or not.

I don't know exactly where.

I think that what they have to maybe to perfect it.

My suggestion.

What I would do if I were doing They're Listening.

God.

Would be that you need to figure out the most loose tangential connection from the news and still keep hitting that.

Yeah.

Because of course, comedy is what's unexpected.

So if this is the news story and this is the thing, how are we going to connect it when nobody sees it coming is half the battle.

Yeah.

Now, you guys, Very funny, though I've not shared this with you, but I've had an emotionally trying week this week because I'VE been really wrapped up into the Punch the Monkey stuff, and I've been sharing this heartbreaking.

I've been sharing this stuff with my

daughter over and over.

I have searched YouTube for punch the Monkey, and it's just beating up monkeys.

Like, I don't.

I don't.

Am I watching the same thing as you?

That's the joke that you wanted to.

Okay, well, I thought it would make you a little better.

I gave you a segue.

You didn't even take it.

Like, it was even good.

And also, like, punch the monkey.

We're all, like, sad about.

It's like, why would you.

Yeah, why are you making a joke at the expense of this sad, abandoned monkey?

Okay, I don't know anything about this thing.

So, like, what is this?

This.

Oh, my God.

This is a.

Well, I don't think he's on social media much anymore.

No.

Because I keep on sending him reels and he doesn't respond to it.

Yeah, this is a.

A social media sensation.

Well, I know what it is now.

I saw snl.

Well, maybe.

Maybe listeners don't.

Oh, sorry.

Yeah.

So all over online, if you haven't paying attention, there's this tiny monkey named Punch in a zoo.

Literally the cutest thing I think I've ever seen.

He was rejected by his mother.

Like, his mother literally pushed him away.

What'd he do?

I do know why.

It was a heat wave.

And she, like, apparently was.

Yeah, it was a heat wave.

So anyway, yeah, rejected by his mom.

He tried to, like, embrace and, like, she's, like, literally physically shoved him.

One of those famous January heat waves.

So in order to comfort the.

The monkey, the zookeepers gave him a stuffed orangutan.

And he was basically from ikea.

Yeah.

Carrying it around and pretending it was his mom.

Like, like, like hugging it and sleeping with it.

Okay, why.

Why wait?

I don't even need to be sad to be sad about now.

I know.

It was, like, the saddest thing.

Like, watching him walk around by him, sad monkey dragging behind him.

And then he'll take the.

The Try and wrap the arm around his hill.

Oh, Jesus Christ.

But.

But the good news is, is he's.

No.

I'm gonna break my.

That.

That's insane.

And you're terrible.

I don't care.

Keep it all in.

I don't care.

That's insane.

No, I don't want to be sad, man.

And so every.

But everyone was, like, pulling for him.

Like, was.

Everyone, like, felt bad and, like, wanted good stuff for him.

And so all.

Some of the other monkeys in the.

The enclosure started to embrace him.

So, like, one came in, like, hugged him and held him.

And so now there.

Now he's, like, becoming.

Yeah, well, you should have freaking started with that and then told me, hey,

buddy, there's also some other.

Like, before this happened, the other monkeys were really mean to him, like, beating him and stuff like that because he had no mother to protect.

Well, so apparently.

So the one video that made people the saddest, the one where he, like, dragged Punch and, like, around in the circle.

Yeah, well, but apparently that was because that monkey is the offspring of the mother, and the mother thought.

Or like, that was the.

The mother thought that, like, they were threatening, like, her young ones apparently still mean.

Yeah, I don't know.

I think he was just punch drunk.

So anyway, again, you want to try again?

So, anyway, so in this.

You like that one a little bit,

we get an update bit.

Sarah Sherman played Punch's mom, and Marcel Hernandez plays Punch Honey Boo boo version of.

I know previously that I said my sexuality is whatever Sarah Sherman was doing in this sketch before.

Now it's trashy.

Sarah Sherman in a monkey.

Well, she doesn't have the monkey costume.

I don't.

I don't really want the monkey casting, but if she's doing that voice and talking to me like that, that's my new.

Oh, my God.

We just unlocked the new Brad.

All right, what'd you think of this one?

Let's go with you, Benny.

No, I mean, it's just the.

It.

It baffles me that this can keep happening.

It's so impossible.

This is like flipping a coin and it coming up heads a thousand times in a row where Sarah Sherman is a Weekend Update on weekend of doing a bit and Colin Jost is somehow made to be fodder and they just keep.

And it's not.

It's.

It's like the same lightning in a bottle level.

Everything's just as good as everything else, in my opinion.

So it doesn't need to get better and better because, like, every time that you're watching SNL and you see a recurring thing on Weekend Update, you want it to be better than the last version.

And I don't.

I want it to just maintain this level.

And they're doing it.

And I think.

I think what helps in this instant is that every time they do it, the character Sarah plays is so drastically different what came before it.

The punch lines are very.

That you don't even realize necessarily that, like, it's something that's being repeated The.

Yeah, so it's not.

You're exactly right.

It does not come across as a recurring bit whatsoever because it's technically not.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, that makes sense.

But, like, all the things that they say that are so inappropriate are so creative.

Like, and it's the.

It's the exact kind of thing where, like, you can say something that sounds so innocent for network TV sensors, but it almost makes it dirtier.

Absolutely.

I couldn't find my beam.

Right.

Exactly.

Oh, my.

Ashley said we were just like.

Oh, like that hit us, man.

Yeah, exactly.

I do.

I do love, though, that Marcelo comes in.

Ass punch.

Everyone's like, oh, they picked the perfect person.

Adorable, adorable Marcelo.

Yeah.

And that huge ass orangutan

Harambe's last meal.

Come on.

God.

Just incredible horrib.

Horrifically funny.

I thought this was really good.

Yeah, this was.

This might be.

You won my body.

This might be one of.

I mean, if I had to.

And we should.

We should rank them.

We should figure out what we like.

So 85 on all that.

85.

Yeah.

85.

Wow.

Well, yeah, because, like, if you compare it to some of the best update bits, I mean, again, let's think about it.

Let's just do the Ben Armature from now on.

Tell you what, if you.

If you really want to figure this out, let's go back.

We'll rewatch all the weekend updates with Michael Chan, Colin Joe's, and we can rank them all and then we'll see how you guys feel after that.

That sounds like a you project.

Yep.

You let us know how

lazy is what you are.

You lack the dedication.

All right.

Leg lengthening.

This was Marcelo Hernandez's character.

Griff has clearly had an illegal leg lengthening surgery in Turkey.

Do you know that this happens?

Like, people do this?

Oh, yeah.

He's not walking around on enormous stilts while everyone tries to act normal.

What did you guys think of this?

Counter story plays a guy that donates part of his legs to Marcelo.

I wanted to like this.

Yeah.

I could not get into this one.

Did I miss something?

Brad, what'd you think?

No.

Yeah, it kind of felt like the reveal was funny.

Both of the reveals, you know, of the.

The legs themselves, but then there wasn't much to it.

No, that's.

It just wasn't fun.

Yeah.

I also got a little annoyed because the crunching of the legs got inconsistent in the second half of this game.

That's a Bradism for sure.

The I.

And again, this is.

I'm not a friggin comedy writer.

We all know that.

But I think it's a funnier move to make Connor's character really baffled and disappointed that he didn't have to do what he did because he leans into, like, oh, no, I still glad I did it.

No, I think it's hilarious if he's, like, just looking at his legs, like, what have I done more?

I think that there's a bit there.

I think that there's.

I think there's something to be said about him just being more, like, pleased with himself that he did it to, like, you know, either way.

Yeah.

The sketch was just.

I would have rather taken either of the cut for time sketches is rather than this one for sure.

All right.

Office morale.

Mikey Day plays a struggling company's manager, desperately soliciting employee ideas to boost morale.

Counter stories, characters, solution.

A massive office dance.

This actually has a Mumford and Sons in it as well.

Again, not my favorite.

What did you think of this one?

I liked it to a certain extent.

It felt like they didn't quite figure out where it should be taken to.

To really make it land.

I like.

Was that a Hillary Duff ending?

Is that why that was funny?

I'm honestly not sure, because when I

did, oh, that's a weird way to end it.

But then Ashley said, oh, that's probably something from Hillary Duff's career.

It might be McGuire.

Maybe it's how Lizzie McGuire.

Well, she's going on tour.

Is that like.

No, I mean, just like, the character is really, really into Hilary Duff in the sketch.

Like, and that's how they decide to end it.

So it must be connected to that.

That's all.

But it didn't hit me because that's not.

Yeah, well, that was a terrible ending.

Yeah, exactly.

That's a weird way to do that.

No, but go ahead.

Didn't seem great.

What did you think?

No, the.

I don't know.

So I like the Severin stuff.

That was fun.

So, yeah, I was.

What's the so with the chair with dismiss.

Is that more than I'm.

I don't really.

I didn't really get why that was a thing.

Like, what do I miss there?

I think it was just meant to be, like, a weird thing that was happening.

Okay.

Because again, if I.

If you can't explain it to me and then.

And I can't explain it to you, it's like, this is a choice, a weird choice because, like, there's no reason plot wise for it to happen.

There's.

There's no escalation there other than it's a thing that happened in the back.

I mean, it's very weird.

It's the same reason that, like, it's like, you're not questioning, I guess, why Mumford and Sons was in their bathroom, as you say.

Also, the Muffins and Sons cameo seemed really forced to me.

I just didn't.

I don't.

It didn't feel like it needed to be there.

Yeah, I mean, it's.

It's tacked on, for sure.

I don't know.

It's just.

These are all just choices that were made in the sketch, and I don't think that any of them were particularly, you know, grounded in comedy for that.

Like, a Pratt falling a chair is fine, but, like, if there's no purpose for it legitimately, then you.

Then you move on from it.

You don't have them sit there and then poke his head up and say more out of that same position.

I don't know.

Because it breaks.

Also, what is in the real world.

In the real world, something happens, and you would want to help them up.

Right.

So just building that universe where everybody's just gonna let him sit there.

It's not weird that that happened.

And Mount versus Sons in your bathroom, like, all of the universe, the building was just kind of weird.

Yeah.

I think it was meant to be, like, taking place in, like, a.

Just like a alternate reality kind of thing where, like, just things were slightly off kilter.

And that's.

And that's.

That's the, you know, the brain space you need to be in for it.

Cool.

I think a couple of the funniest.

The funniest thing that happened was Mikey Day saying her name by himself.

Yeah, that was great.

No one else, because especially he's the one that's supposed to be, like, keeping it all together right now.

We're not doing that.

And then he says the outrageous thing.

That's.

That's.

That's good comedy right there.

I.

Someone pointed out in the comments on YouTube that I saw in the sketch, because I went to look back at it, that Connor Story's fly was open the entire time.

Ashley pointed that out, and she said true.

Yeah.

And I saw it in real time.

And then she said it actually happened in the other sketch as well.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

I can't remember which one it was.

Maybe the cabin one.

She said it was also in that sketch.

He's got a big hockey stick bail.

All right, moving on.

Final sketch of the night stripper.

The.

At the bachelorette party.

At a Las Vegas bachelorette party.

Hotel suite.

A stripper named Serge, played by Connor Story, shows up severely injured.

He was hit by a little car on his way over, but he insists on doing his job despite being barely able to stand.

Now, here's a fun fact.

I don't know if you saw this online from New York, the subreddit that we love on Reddit that's dedicated to snl.

This was based on a bit that Connor's Story performed at Clown school.

No shit.

Yeah, before he was famous.

There's actually

footage.

There's not footage, but there is pictures on the subreddit they could see of him doing this in clown college.

So.

Clown.

Clown College.

I don't know.

There's something here for sure.

I think that that informs me a little bit more about why they did it, which means they took.

They probably had a little bit of their take on what it should be as well.

I get that the moves have to be very slow.

I think the pacing was just even too slow.

I almost think that they should have gone a little more big with his injuries and the things that happened because of his injuries.

Like, I think that there.

They should have incorporated a little bit of, like, a blood element into it where, like, he was getting blood on people or, like.

Because I was expecting when he opened his shirt, he was going to have, like, a gaping wound or something and, like, was going to, like, start bleeding and stuff.

Stuff.

And I think it would have been funnier to watch him dragging his body and, like, smearing the carpet with blood, you know, getting it on the.

On Ashley as he starts dancing.

It's the last sketch of the night.

You go for broke.

Right?

But at the same time, I fully respected.

Was amazed by the physical work that he did.

Some McCarthy ask, right?

He was.

It was unbelievable, like, the way that he could contort his body and moved around everything, and, like, it was so

funny, I could not stop watching.

Yeah, it was amazing.

And especially when he, like, wrapped his legs around Sarah.

It just presents his package right there.

What did she say?

Like, I think he's dead.

It was.

Yeah, it was.

It was very impressive.

I do think that they could have done something to maybe help it hit a little more strongly.

But obviously, you know, what he did, like, did was still very funny, I

think, because there's so much focus, of course, on Serge as the stripper that the.

The four women in the room, there's room there for them to do a little different reactions that could have maybe escalated a little bit as well, because a lot of them are just doing the same thing.

Just letting it happen and kind of just playing along.

But what if one of them was a lot more offended by it or wanted to get a little too into it or whatever.

Yeah.

So, but overall, though, again, it's to.

If it's to showcase him doing his thing, then, by God, they nailed it.

I thought it was very good.

The, the Janewick line thing, though, is that we know you're gay.

Yeah.

You don't have to do this.

That's.

That was a great line.

All right, let's go for the two cup for time sketches.

For those of you that don't know, long term listeners obviously do when a sketch doesn't make the air but they still record it in the rehearsal and they're not going to use that sketch later.

That idea because oftentimes they recycle ideas.

They're going to put it oftentimes.

Not always, but oftentimes they're going to put, say oftentimes more YouTube page.

When do they do it, though?

Oftentimes.

Yeah.

Is it a lot?

So the cut for times are on the SNL.

YouTube.

Check them out.

What's the first one that we're going to talk about?

And I apologize for making fun of you, Nate.

I'm dead.

All right, let's go with Carsong.

Veronica Slowikowski and Jane Wickline star in a musical sketch where they lament the very relatable struggle of how to exit a rideshare car that has an unfamiliar door handle.

Have you noticed that door handles are getting harder to open?

Yes, oftentimes I do notice that.

Got them.

You're good.

You're funny.

I think everyone's, like laughing right now, but what'd you guys think of this?

Was it funny?

I thought the song was fine.

No, it was.

It was.

No, I thought the song was hilarious.

I think I did.

Wait.

Hilarious?

Yes.

Yeah, I think it was fine.

I think the.

The tone of the delivery and the detail to which they talk about the.

The awkwardness of car doors and like, the things that they say about, like how it's impacting them and stuff like that I thought was very funny.

I like the delivery.

It reminded me of the sketch that Jane Wickline did before the Planet Cousin.

Planet One.

Sure.

There was an element of that to it.

I thought that the turn went on for a little too long.

Maybe that's what it is because.

Yeah, that's two different sketches almost.

Yes.

And I think that if they could have figured out a way to make that a little more concise, but at the same time, the length with which that.

That turn went and then having to turn again, that did make that last one Impact a little bit stronger.

And so, again, I think that the science of comedy in this aspect ratios and, like, how long to spin everything.

I think SNL's way better than us, and I think that's probably the right move.

I don't think that.

Way better than you, but yeah, yeah, we would change it and it's.

It's going to make it worse.

So I think that you're right.

I think that overall is very, very funny.

All right.

Thing I liked, there's the.

My favorite line is Jane Wickland when she's like, if there was money outside the door, I would be the exact same position.

I am now broke and upset.

Yeah.

The door handle.

Like, there was a lot of really great moments like that thing.

One thing I liked, one thing I didn't like, one thing I really like is this pairing between Veronica slowikowski and Jamie McLean.

I think that's a really good pairing.

I think they're both very musical.

I think they could do some really fun things.

One thing I didn't like is I haven't had a door handle I can't open.

Well, you don't take Ubers also, you

can't afford new cars.

Jesus Christ.

Right?

I can't either.

So.

No.

So I. I think I take a lot of Ubers and sometimes the car that shows up is a Tesla.

Yes.

And I don't.

I.

The first time I absolutely had to ask him, I was, where the hell

do I, you know how to open a Tesla?

The.

The back seat of a Tesla.

There's a button.

It's a button.

Yeah.

And there's.

And there's a lot of new cars that have buttons instead of handles now, but it's not always easy to find.

And it looks just like the window.

Well.

Oh, I guess 10:00 clock at night.

Yeah.

It's in a car I've never been in before.

I'm reaching and looking like, flat panning it.

Yeah, you.

And you're like, what the.

I'm sorry.

I keep swearing now because what the heck am I doing?

You know, some guys from Indiana visiting the city.

I get it.

But, like, also, I don't know if this.

I hope this is purposeful, because if not, and they just miss this, then.

Then I.

Then I don't like that I'm not a writer.

Because they said, what is this?

A Hyundai escape room.

But the Ford escape room.

Ford Escape is a car.

Like, I don't that it's right there.

That is a good point.

That.

That would have been pretty funny.

But I wonder if maybe they did

avoid it because it was too much the joke.

Yeah, maybe.

And maybe, like, I hope to God

that somebody from SNL is hearing this and can share this with the writers, because I want to know.

Send us a message.

Did they.

Did they have a back and forth, like, to use that as it.

Or don't.

It's a good question.

I really want to know that.

All right, moving on.

Cover time.

Number two, the national workforce of rethinking disabilities.

This is just.

They.

Hold on a second.

We didn't directly address that at the very end of the sketch.

I just want to point out that the groin gutters on Connor's story were.

I paused it.

Like.

Like breathtaking.

When.

When he.

When he goes shirtless.

I. I gasped.

Yeah.

And I was like, that's not real.

And I paused it.

I had to look at it like, what the heck am I watching?

Insane chiseled man.

Yeah, Just uncomfortably.

He's fine.

Like ridiculous.

Yeah.

Good for you, brother.

Yeah.

Go get it.

All right, the national workforce.

Let's talk about a little bit more.

Did you like that I said groin gutters?

Yeah.

I was like.

I was.

I didn't know what it was immediately.

And then I was like, oh, okay.

Yeah.

Because I can't say the other one.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right.

Fun gutters.

Goof juice gutters.

Goof juice gutters.

That's my competition.

Actually.

Moving on.

In the wake of the real BAFTA awards controversy, where Tourette's advocate John Davidson accidentally shouted an unbleed slur word while sinners.

I think it was Michael B. Jordan was up there.

Were presenting snl, assembled a group of canceled celebrities who all claimed their various misdeeds were actually Tourette's.

This is a very funny premise, and it got.

It gives the SNL cast members their chance to do an impression maybe they're working on or whatever.

And Connor Story is actually a very skilled impressionist.

I could tell he did some other work.

Obviously, he can do accents and things like that.

What do you guys think of this one?

Did.

Did this work?

I like the premise of this.

I think it's very relevant.

I thought it was very funny.

I like taking these kind of canceled actors and saying, yeah, it's threats for me as well.

Yeah.

What do you think it is?

It's a bit of a challenge.

And I wonder, this is maybe why it was cut for time, but at the same time, they still put online so they know what they're doing.

But it's.

It's a.

It's a difficult line to dance, to

not make fun of it and punch down.

Yeah.

Well, not even punch down.

But also not making it seem like this makes an excuse, you know, to make fun of Tourette's.

That's what I'm saying.

Punching down like you're making fun of the disease and not.

Yeah, exactly.

But having it be that the worst people in Hollywood, you know, are trying to use it to get out of the joke being.

Of course, they are the idiots.

They're the bad people.

Yeah.

That's what makes it work.

But I feel like this is a very Robert Downey Jr. Blackface type of thing.

Yes.

Where if it gets released, people are laughing for the wrong reasons or they're offended for the wrong reasons.

Right.

100.

Yeah.

I'm glad we got to see it, though.

Yeah.

All the people that they picked to do this with were Army Hammer.

This stuff that was so freaking funny.

So good.

Everything was.

Was J.K. rowling and then her condition.

Right.

Long term opinionated Tourette's.

Like, just.

Just bending the reality to fit whatever you're doing as a bad person.

Oh, my chef's kiss.

Yeah, it was.

It was really funny.

And I. I would have liked to have seen this in the episode.

Yes.

I kept thinking about more bad people that.

And who could impersonate them.

I'm like, get them all out there.

Yeah, I like this.

I also like that Michael Che played himself.

Yes.

Good stuff.

So.

All right, that's the episode.

Let's go to MVP of the episode.

Who would you put pick?

I'm gonna go with.

I'm gonna actually gonna go with Connor Story.

I didn't love this episode, but I loved him.

I thought he did really well.

I mean.

Yeah, I'm giving him too.

He was very.

I think he did a phenomenal job of doing a lot of different characters, a lot of different comedic styles.

And he had a lot of energy too, which I appreciated.

Yeah.

Honestly, the stripper sketch alone was like enough for me to be like, oh,

this guy, is this guy.

It just.

What a special talent to be able to do all that.

It just.

Wow.

You know, And I think it's probably also because anytime somebody is.

Is new enough that I've never heard of them, which is these days getting to be a long list.

I know you super old, but he did Rivalry.

I'm not a show I watch.

Right.

So I'm like, oh, great.

Why don't you Watch.

It's another Jacob Elordi gonna happen here.

Or are we.

You know, and that's what you're thinking is gonna happen, but then you hit with this and it's so unexpected.

And I said it earlier in the episode, if.

If unexpected is the source of comedy, then my goodness, I was surprised and I loved it the whole time.

Jacob Elordi is getting a pass from me after hearing Akiva Shaffer tell a story on the Lonely Island Seth Meyers podcast, where Akiva was at the Critics Choice Awards red carpet and Jacob Elordi was nearby and he saw Keev and he literally told his people, oh, you guys go.

Go ahead on without me.

And he came over to Keev and told him.

He was like, I just wanted to let you know I'm on a Boat is my karaoke song.

He's like, and I love just two guys and like, just gushed about Lonely island stuff.

So Jacob Elordi is awesome and very cool.

And Key was very excited and happy, like, just to get that compliment because he wasn't expecting it whatsoever.

So, yeah, he's seems like he's.

He knows what he's doing.

Sure.

But does it make him a good SNL host?

Probably.

Jacob Elordi?

Yeah.

In retrospect, I'd say he's great.

Oh, boy.

Did you see the episode?

Yeah, I think we all did.

No, he was not.

But also, you know.

But also, does this mean, like, if.

Oh, you know what?

I gotta give a. Travis Kelsey ends up.

He loves the Lonely Island.

No, but it's different when you, like, specific.

It's the.

It's the fact that the.

The I'm on a boat is a basic one.

Yeah.

The fact that he, like, specifically was.

It was just two guys because that's deep cut stuff for real only.

That's fair, you know, that's what it is.

Is.

Okay, fair enough.

All right, sketch of the night.

Let's start with you, Brad.

Brad, you just.

You need.

Are you stalling?

That's just you stalling.

I'm not.

Say I don't know what it is.

I'm not.

Just say I didn't think of it before the show.

I'm not stalling.

It's stripper.

That was the best.

It's stripper.

It's not.

No, not to me, actually.

I think.

No, I think that.

I think the.

The Mr. Franz or whatever.

I really, really like that.

But no, we're asking, though.

I don't know if, you know, it's the.

The funniest sketch of the Night.

No, I laughed really hard at that.

I really liked it.

Yeah, it's the stripper sketch for me.

Yeah.

No, I, I respect.

There was a really funny sketch, I expect.

I respect the athleticism in the stripper sketch.

It just was too, too slow paced for me.

Oh.

Whereas Mr. Franz, the hips just kept on coming.

All right, well, we are now in a kind of a run of three episodes.

Is the first of, of three new episodes.

Who do we have coming up next week?

We have.

Well, this is very exciting because this is a buddy of mine who's hosting snl.

Just interview him and.

Oh, my God, a buddy of yours.

Good old, good old baby Goose is coming back and just had a good chat with him.

Oh, my God, Ryan Gosling is hosting.

Well, everyone.

You do call him by his first and last name, like when you're, when you're friends with him like I am.

Oh, my God.

I call him.

I call him Goosey sometimes times.

No, the.

So I project Hail Mary comes out on March 20th and which you saw

and you say, go see it.

Yes.

You know what?

I. Yeah, you know what?

Social sentiment is out there.

So, yes, I will say it is a fantastic movie and you should absolutely see on the biggest screen.

I read that reviewers are saying it's good.

So you can say, well, that's not

entirely true because reviews aren't out yet because they're under embargoes, but social sentiment is out there.

So.

Yes.

So is that the, is that, that's your loophole?

No, because there is a social embargo and then there's a review embargo.

The Review embargo is March 10, but the social embargo is already.

So you can tweet this movie sucks on day one.

Correct.

But you can't say, I guess this, this article I wrote that says full review.

That's so weird.

It's different.

Yeah.

Is it because spoiler.

No, it's not even spoilers.

It's just they, they want, they want a smaller bite size.

Like, Right.

They want it to grow.

Here's the little bits.

Here's the big.

I got you.

Okay.

Some of it is probably spo stuff because reviews are going to dig into more details.

Sure.

But like, but a lot of the blurbs are just like saying it's good what you like, you know.

You interviewed Ryan Gosling.

Talk to Ryan Gosling about how long

it was to get little nuts and bolts here.

5 minutes, 3 minutes, 1 minute.

It was a 4 minute spot because the junket was just Jesus.

Obviously, everyone.

So and for the.

We can cut all this if it's not interesting.

But do they go and go or do they give you like a little hi, I'm Ryan.

Hi, I'm.

And.

And then four minutes you get like

a little bit because they bring you into the, the virtual room on Zoom.

It's just, it's like, hey, how's it going?

You know, and they say just like slate your name and outlet and you have this much time.

Keep an eye on the chat for the time codes will tell you how much time you have left.

And it's that.

And so I got into the room and like the, the publicist was like talking to somebody.

And so Ryan was just like, hey, what's up?

And I was like.

I was like, hey.

And he goes, he goes, that's quite a DVD collection you have back there.

I was like, oh, dude, you don't know the half of it.

That's just the TV dvd.

So, like, there's a lot more.

And so then, like, then we did the interview and yeah, just.

It's just wild.

It's.

You fall in love with him.

I was already in love with him, let's be honest, you know?

Yeah.

I mean, I saw, I saw the screenshot of this.

The thing in his hair.

Yeah.

It's amazing.

It's just perfect.

It is.

It's just, he just looks like just a handsome gentleman and he's effortlessly cool.

Like, he's just laid back and chill.

Yeah.

Just fun to talk to him.

Easy thing.

I got to tell him that I was excited to see him hosting SNL this week, which he was very appreciative of.

And.

Yeah, so it's.

I'm excited to see him back because he's, he is one of my favorite hosts.

Time he's hosted has been gangbusters.

I mean, honestly, the Beavis and Butthead sketch is.

It's an all timer.

Yeah, well, but we're also talking Santa, baby, we're talking.

No, no, I know, but like, that's going to literally be up there with, I think cowbell.

Yeah, possibly.

It is.

It is a papyrus.

Yeah, I know.

Close Encounters.

I know.

The first close encounter.

Yes, yes.

We're not arguing.

We're not arguing.

But the Beavis and Butthead took on a life of its own.

It became a cultural thing.

The Close Encounters is a recurring.

It was not a cultural.

The Beavis.

The Beavis and Butthead thing sure was international.

Yeah.

And nobody that even gave a crap about SNL knew what that was.

So that's why.

Right.

I Mean, it's.

And for good reasons.

Yes.

What a. Oh, man, I love that.

And for music fans, Gorillaz is going to be the musical guest.

And then March 14th has.

Has Gorillaz been the musical guest on SNL before?

I don't think.

Maybe back when they were Blurred.

No, I don't think so.

You said you don't know about music, so don't make references like that.

But that'd be good for me.

I know, but stick to your character.

I'm not allowed to know that?

No,

you don't know enough about music to have that.

So that's interesting, because this is Saturday Night Live, and Gorillaz is famously an animated band that does not appear live when they do concerts.

They have.

They are animated.

So.

No, I think actually, I do remember them hosting because they do.

There was just a screen or maybe I dreamt it.

They've done that in concerts, on stage, and live performances at, like, the Video Music Awards, and I think, like, things like that.

But I don't think that they've done SNL because I don't remember them doing anything on snl.

No, I don't think so either.

So it's Baby Goose and Gorillas.

Gorillas.

So Goose and Gorilla.

And then my favorite sandwich shop the next week.

Another, I think, quality guest.

You know, I need to go back and watch because I don't remember what it was like, but Harry Styles is pulling Double duty again, and I don't remember how good he was.

I do think that he was good, but I couldn't tell you any of

the sketches from his episode.

I could say one thing that happened in that episode, so I could give

you, if you want, a little bit of the sketch titles.

So we have.

Hold on, let me get through here.

Lunch Run.

Oh, I totally.

Lunch Run.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Doug, this had A.D. bryant and Kyle Mooney in it.

It was a pre tape.

Airline pilots.

None of these stand out.

That's the game.

Yeah, I don't honestly think any of these stood out.

Yeah.

I'm gonna have to go back and take a look and see Moden too.

Well, then.

But he has not hosted in seven years, since 2019.

Yeah.

So it'll be a big deal.

We'll see how the ladies scream for him.

If they scream as much as they did for Connor Story, we're gonna have

that metric for you.

But yeah, there should be a couple big episodes coming up here that'll be exciting to talk about.

I'm liking this one.

Run.

Yeah, yeah, No, I really.

I know.

Nate, you didn't like this episode for.

I love this.

I didn't dislike this episode.

I thought it was a fine episode.

I thought Connor's story was a better part of the episode than the episode itself.

I think he did very well.

I agree with that.

I agree slightly with that.

But overall, I still had a great time watching the whole episode.

That's fine.

Yeah, I had fun.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm not.

I don't regret it.

I like what.

I like what I do.

I like the money I get paid for this podcast.

I like all of it.

Yeah, that's a good point.

All right, well, we.

We'll be back next week.

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Don't forget to give us some comments.

I did not read any comments on any.

There was no mail back today because there was no mail.

No, no comments on our YouTube.

No one commented on our Spotify.

No comments on anything.

No one commented on the.

The last episode before we took a break.

I don't think so.

Oh, no.

It was just a lot of nothing.

So I'm hoping there's a lot of something this week.

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We'll take that.

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Can you rollerblade backwards?

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I can't.

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