Episode 112 - Ryan Gosling (Season 51)

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Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

So let's very.

First and foremost, I want to get the, the elephant in the room here, Brad.

Your new best friend, Ryan Gosling.

Yeah.

He's on a big rise in his career trajectory.

Sky high is what we're gonna call it.

And yeah, I just, I was so excited to hang out with him.

And then, and then he gets.

Okay, then he gets snl.

No, no, no, no, no.

Wow.

Just start over.

You did not.

You're not hanging out with Ryan Gosling.

I did hang out with Ryan Gosling.

I've hung out more with Ryan Gosling than anybody in this room, actually.

Honestly.

Probably like a good 20 mile radius.

It's very fair.

Not, not true.

But somebody lives 20, 21 miles away.

That's Hang.

That is his best friend.

Yeah.

There's probably somebody nearby who is like, they're on a trip or they're like filming something nearby Chicago.

So Brad got to interview Ryan Gosling.

Yeah.

We talked about this on the previous episode.

But to refresh anybody, if you're a new listener, project, Hail Mary is coming out March 20, and I did the press junket for that.

So I got to talk to Ryan Gosling virtually over Zoom for a few minutes, and he was a very lovely, handsome gentleman, and I got to tell him how much I love seeing him on snl.

So that was, that was a treat for sure.

Awesome.

That's very, very cool.

Yeah.

Actually, I will say.

And you did mention us, though.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

But, you know, it always makes us mad when you.

I will, I will say there was something that felt kind of cool about interviewing somebody, knowing they were getting ready to go in to host snl.

Sure.

Seeing them on the show and be like, I just talked to that person last week.

You know, it's, it was a lot of fun.

Good.

Hey, guys, do you want some mailbag or.

No, of course.

Yeah.

Because I got in trouble for not doing mailbag last time.

As you should.

It's supposed to be your job.

That is your job.

Yeah, I know, I know.

But you said that there wasn't any comments.

Or did you just not look and you lied to us?

No, I, I, I did look, but there was a comment that was made, I think, on the day we recorded.

Oh.

And it just, the timing did not work.

And, and, and so I want to say on Spotify, Brad, wz Said you had no comments on the last show.

Well, good sir, I made a comment, but it must have been after the cutoff time.

Need to know when you record so I could get my funny and thoughtful words read.

And personally, I thought it was a great comment.

Anyway, I enjoyed this week's show, but I'm really excited for Ryan Gosling.

I do apologize.

I do believe you made that comment right when we were recording, which is we.

Typically on snl, we try to record Sunday afternoons.

Yeah.

Monday at the latest, but Tuesday if

it's an emergency, Wednesday if someone's dead.

The goal is Sunday afternoons.

So your comments before that is helpful.

A couple other comments.

I think this is probably directed at Ben and him not being a fan of women.

This is what this is from YouTube.

This is sea salt waves.

It says, it's almost comforting that no matter how many decades go by, there are always men belittling majority women fan bases as 12 year old girls.

I think you said that the audience sounded like 12 year old girls in last episode that were cheering for Connor's story.

To be fair, it was excessive.

Yeah.

And they sounded like 12 year old girls.

Yeah.

By the way, I made that comment, but you just owned it and I'm really grateful for it.

So who was that?

Sea Salt Waves.

On YouTube.

On YouTube.

Okay, well, yeah, sorry.

Sea salt ways.

Also, we make jokes.

And so it was a lot of screaming.

And so I understand that the women love the Conrad.

I don't mind the cheering as long as not interrupting the flow of every sketch just because someone who you knew was gonna be there shows up.

No, I think that they have more of a problem with us, with me or Nate saying that like it's pejorative to say 12 year old girl.

Yeah, but I guess it's the sound

though, and that's kind of what I was going for is like.

No, it sounds like very, very high pitched.

I guess it would have like the 1950s.

Yeah.

I was gonna say, to be fair, maybe it should be just 12 year old kids.

That's what it sounds.

Because like I had a birthday party at McDonald's when I was a kid and they had a ball pit.

And I guarantee you the sound coming out of there was equally as terrible.

Absolutely.

All right, moving on.

Another YouTube comment.

This is.

But it sounded like 12 year old girls.

I want to be very.

Oh boy, this is gonna triple that.

Now, this is Ali Strup.

She says Ali Strop says you guys often talk about how the audience seems to have spent specifically shown up for a certain Host.

We do.

I'm wondering how these people get in to see a specific host.

Are they all just hanging out all day for the standby line?

I know for the lottery, the official way to get tickets, you just get what you get and don't throw a fit.

I've tried to get tickets through the lottery before, and I've never been picked at all, let alone getting in to see my host of choice.

Yeah.

So I don't know all of the specifics, but there is a detailed podcast and post out there about how you can get into a show, both the lottery and the standby line.

And it's typically the standby line that the fans go and they'll line up and try and wait to see what number they get to see if they can get in.

Because not every host has the same demand.

Even when people have tickets from the lottery, they don't always show up.

So if you go in the standby line, you have a chance of getting into the show, even if, you know you got there at the last minute.

So kind of story may have had a couple hundred people in.

Yeah.

You know, because he's still pretty early, you know, but I'd be willing to bet there was still a pretty decent presence for him.

But it's not like.

It's like Harry Styles.

That's gonna be insane.

Like, I don't even know if anybody from standby will get in the show.

Yeah.

But, yeah, so it's.

At some point.

We've talked about this.

We would like to go and try and get in.

It seems like it's pretty easy if you know what you're doing and you get there at, like, a good time.

Yeah.

It's all about having the time to take off and do it.

Yeah, exactly.

It does.

It sounds like if you're there 24 in advance and.

And you're willing to stand outside and get in line for it, you're gonna get in.

There's people on the subreddit.

The line from New York subreddit that have went to multiple episodes.

Yeah.

Right.

And so there's a way.

It.

It's just a lot easier if you live in New York.

All right.

Or get the lottery.

Yeah.

There you go.

Last comment.

This is from YouTube or.

Sorry, our Facebook page.

Brock Heasley says.

Agreed.

That counter story was the best thing about the episode.

What a fantastic host who should come back asap.

Weekend Update was good, but nothing really stood out.

Pretty much the case for the whole episode.

Outside of the weird.

Marcelo Hernandez plays a teacher who talks Funny.

And that's it.

Sketch.

Nothing was horrible, but nothing really soared either.

This is too long a comment for such a lukewarm response to an episode.

So, yeah, we agreed it was fine.

No, no, not about the comment.

I like the length of the comment.

It's fine.

I think we agree on all parts.

Put it on his tombstone.

Ben liked the length.

Yeah, come on.

But I'm excited to see the comments for this episode with Ryan Gosling.

Now, just to double check, and you can take this out if you want to put this in the timestamps.

Did we get a voice note?

No voice note that I know about.

That's an oddly specific question.

But someone said they were going to because we didn't have it set up for them to send one for 10 to one.

They were supposed to do it through Go fix yourself, but apparently that person didn't do it.

So you know who you are.

Wow.

Ryan Gosling.

But I did get an email.

He sent me a voice note.

Tender, tender.

I bet he did.

I did check our email and I did get an email.

Okay.

This is from Pat Casey.

He says.

Hey, guys.

Love the podcast.

I love you, pet.

I was wondering what your thoughts on the little teasers the hosts have been doing before their episodes.

The accent off with Connor Story and James Austin Johnson was amazing.

And Ryan Gosling's mistaken Five Timers Club was great.

I know you don't talk about the musical acts, but would be interested in knowing if you like the stage setups and skit like nature of some of the recent musical guests.

Sabrina Carpenter's Dojo for no One's Son as an example.

Again, love your podcast and look forward to hearing from you.

Pat, you know what?

Love you.

We love you.

All right, you guys got any thoughts on this?

Yeah.

No.

Okay.

So moving on.

I love when they do the little teasers that they send out as promos on YouTube and stuff like that.

Not the ones where they're like, hey, I'm so and so I'm hosting snl where it's like they're just standing on the main stage.

I mean, like the Five Timers one that you mentioned, that was hilarious.

And it actually was done so well, it made me second guess whether I forgot he was hosting for a fifth time.

I was like, wait a minute, is he really?

Yeah, it was a good bit.

They used to have a lot of fun with it.

I like when they actually do, like,

the kind of story.

Accent was really good too.

This is actually a good episode to talk about.

I do listen to the we don't talk about the musical guests, but I do typically listen to the musical guests.

I'm a big music fan, and I

do like when they do something very elaborate with the set.

And this was a fun one.

This had Gorillaz.

Right.

And so there is a lot of fun stuff.

I do love it.

I love the sets.

I love how creative they are with it.

We just don't talk about it.

But who was the artist that did the painting?

Was that Billie Eilish, or was that Sia, where there was a huge canvas she was laying on when she was singing the song, and by the end of it, she had drawn a portrait or something.

Oh, I forget.

I don't know.

It was a two for one.

It seems like something Sia would.

I was like, oh, my gosh, that's.

That's ridiculously talented.

And not that any.

You know, both of those individual skills are incredible.

And they did it at the same time.

I'm not sure.

I don't remember.

Yeah.

So I. I do appreciate those questions and the comments on all of our

stuff, but I love it when it's a mini.

Like, almost a mini sketch, you know?

And you're right.

The stuff on stage between it's, you know, host, musical guest, and one of the cast members, nine times out of ten, I'm not really laughing at that.

It's just like.

But I do like seeing the alternate takes that they didn't use.

Yeah, that's a lot of fun.

So keep it going.

Snl, we approve.

All right, so we've got the Four Timers Club, Right?

So Ryan Gosling entered the Four Timers Club.

There are many Four Timers right now.

I think I just saw this was done by the SNL Network, which is a fantastic SNL site you should follow.

And I think they have their own podcast as well.

They are crazy attentive to statistics.

They're incredible.

If you're an SNL fan, go to this SNL network and follow them.

But they have.

There's 16.

Nope, 17.

Four timers right now.

Okay.

And I thought I'd.

I'd quiz you guys.

Not.

Not about who they are, because that's.

That's probably who you think.

Or I want your opinion.

But who you think is going to get five timers first out of these four timers.

Okay, here are your options.

I actually don't know.

Is Eric Idol still alive?

Yes.

Okay.

It's gonna be hard to give five timers.

I know.

Michael Palin.

Yes.

Is he still alive?

Honestly, I'm pretty sure Michael Palin's still alive.

I don't.

I don't know.

I think it's.

Is that like, sir?

No, you idiot.

He's from Monty Python.

Monty Python.

Come on, man.

He is.

He is.

How's Graham doing?

Oh,

and then next we've got Paul Simon.

I'm a little shocked that Paul Simon hasn't done a five timers because he is so close to Lauren.

They're very, very close.

I have a feeling if Paul Simon hosted snl, it would be a very low rated episode.

Yeah.

And it's not an insult to Paul Simon.

It's just his last episode that he hosted was 1987, and that's why he's from.

From then on, I'm like, I don't really have an interest in hosting anymore.

Now we get into the ones that I think Garfunkel.

Oh, Art.

Now we get into the ones that are a little more probably appropriate.

Ashton Kutcher.

Probably.

Probably.

Say it again.

Probably not gonna get Kutcher.

Oh, is it Cutcher?

Kutcher.

It's.

It's whatever you want it to be, man.

Ashton Kutcher.

Kutcher, Kutcher, Kutcher, Kutcher.

Okay.

His last host was 2010.

Yeah, I don't think he's.

I think he's coming back anytime soon.

I don't think a little too problem

even for the show.

And.

And Ashton,

Sure.

He.

He's like a billionaire now.

He's.

He's like a venture capitalist that does really well.

He doesn't need us at all.

All right, and then we got Dana Carvey, Last time hosting 2011.

Lindsay Lohan, last time host in 2012.

Cameron Diaz, last time hosting 2014.

Louis C.K.

ben's favorite.

2017.

You know, this isn't Go Flex yourself.

Not that that actually makes it sound any better.

The best thing about when Louis CK Hosted SNL is he didn't make you watch.

Wow.

That's good.

Wow.

All right.

Brad's Favorite James Franco, 2017.

When you write.

When you're right, you're right.

My Favorite Charles Barkley, 2018.

There's one that needs to come back.

I would.

I would really like to see that one more time.

And he's super skinny now, so.

Adam.

Is he really?

Yeah, he got.

He's like on a. Yeah, he's on.

Oh, like, it's cheating.

2018 was his last.

Adam Driver, 2023.

Yeah, please.

Yes, anytime.

Michael Keaton, 2024 was his.

Yes.

Wouldn't mind.

Would love to see that.

Chris Rock, 2024.

Sure.

Yeah, fine.

Dave Chappelle, 2025.

I'm good.

I'm fine.

Jack Black, 2025.

Yes.

Anytime.

100.

Jon Hamm, 2025.

Love to see it every season, please.

Ron.

Ron Gosling.

Ryan Gosling, 2026.

Obviously, this is his fourth.

Yeah.

Who do you predict out of those is going to get their five timers first?

Probably Adam Driver.

Maybe Jon Hamm.

Maybe Jack Black.

Yeah.

There's another Jumanji that's on the way.

Although Ryan could end up doing it because he's in a new Star wars movie that's going to be coming out next year.

Ryan Gosling, the same.

Really?

I didn't know he was doing Star Wars.

Yes.

He's in a movie called Star Wars Starfighter that comes out in May of next year.

And find out all that news on our other podcast.

Go flick yourself.

I like the idea of a new version of, like, a John Goodman who could carry the torch for a couple of decades.

And I feel like they got Gosling early enough, and he's been performing enough times where he could turn into that.

I could see him aging into it, you know, because, you know, Lindsay Lohan.

Yeah.

She maybe gets another one.

Just if she kind of has another resurgence in her career, which is possible.

Is that gonna happen?

I mean, no, I wouldn't be opposed to it only because, first of all, she's really good in Freakier Friday.

It was very funny.

That would have been the time to bring her back, honestly.

But if, you know, if she's still sticking around and she's, like, doing, you know, more movies and stuff now, then I would, I wouldn't mind seeing her.

I do think people would watch it for sure.

There's a lot of people.

Well, of course we'd watch it.

This is what we do.

That's what we do, Brad.

But for the show, I would.

No, I, I'm, I'm not joking about Charles Barkley.

I would love to see him do it one more time.

I, I, you just.

With an episode with Charles Barkley, even at his age that he is now, it's still pretty unpredictable because it's still Charles Barkley.

So that there's enough left in the tank there for a fifth one for sure.

And also, Ryan Gosling give me favorite one or two sketches he's ever done on snl.

Is it Close Encounters?

Would that be in your top two?

I mean, Close Encounters up there.

Beavis and Butthead, Papyrus.

Santa Baby is one of my favorites.

Santa Baby is really funny.

You said Beavis and Butthead Beavis Butthead.

Yes.

The Papyrus was a awesome franchise.

You're not wrong.

But.

Yeah.

Anyway.

Why.

I just didn't.

Oh, podcast and we're just trying to.

No, it sounds like you're just.

Feels like came out of right for you.

Yeah.

It sounds like you're not a big fan of Ryan Gosling and you're trying to make us defend him.

I am so in love with Ryan Gosling.

That's based on that question.

I don't know.

Well, but you don't really love him as much as I do.

Oh, because you had a fake conversation with him.

That was probably the AI version of him.

You wish, buddy.

What is going on right now?

We're having a goose off.

Let's.

Let's talk about the show.

All right, let's move on.

Cold open Hegseth Iran presser Colin Jost returns as Pete Hegseth for another press briefing, this time about the United States and Israel's military bombardment of Iran.

This is the second cold open in a row with Colin Jost as Pete Hegseth.

I actually like this one better than last week's.

Last week's was, if you remember.

I think they just went into Iran and so they changed, made something up, literally.

Well, it was mostly Trump last time.

This had Ashley Padilla as Chrissy Noem.

I thought.

I thought the jokes for Colin were more similar to the first time he did Pete Hegseth.

And I think he was just a little bit better at this one than he was last week.

It's still not my favorite.

I think they're fine, but I didn't.

I didn't necessarily hate it, though.

What do you think, Brad?

Yeah, it's fine.

It's not as good as the first time Colin did this.

And it's tough right now when we're dealing with something like, you know, a war with Iran.

And again, it's.

Well, we'll always say this, as long as it's true.

It's tough when the real Pete Hegseth is out there being an absolute piece of shit.

And it's really hard to, like, really make fun of anything that someone who really just feels like an evil gym bro is saying on in interviews and stuff like that.

It's.

It has always been hard when the thing that you are trying to parody feels like a parody in the first place.

Yeah, we've said that no matter who's in office right.

These days.

It's so much that way, though.

There.

There isn't really normalcy anymore, even a little bit.

So we're in a new era of comedy when it comes to political comedy because it's really hard to make fun of something that's constantly so silly.

Yeah.

Conan o' Brien talks about this.

The hard thing with, with SNL right now is it's hard to parody Trump.

Exactly.

It really is.

So.

And then they're all.

There's pushback too, that it's not biting enough and it's not going after the administration enough.

But the other side of that is that this show has always kind of had its.

When it's being political, it's doing it this way.

And it doesn't mean that they're making light of something so horrible, but that's how they know how to bring it to everybody's attention and skewer it in their way.

Oh, for sure.

I'm not accusing them of making light of something that's terrible.

It's just that the material for comedy is so hard to actually turn into something that's truly funny that I just, you know, it doesn't really work very well.

I still always am going to enjoy Colin Jones doing this character.

Basically.

It's funny.

Always the varying levels of funny.

Sure.

But when he just comes off and he goes, yeah, it's a, it's a heg stand.

Like, that's.

Yeah, I laughed.

Okay.

Those are funny.

Funny moment.

Yeah.

That's what I'm saying is, you know, there have been far worse versions of political cold opens.

And I thought this was, this was fine.

I thought this was better than last week's.

So moving on.

Monologue by Ryan Gosling.

Ryan Gosling begins his monologue pitching project Hail Mary when he spots Harry Styles sitting in the front row of the audience.

Harry is hosting the following week and came to observe.

This is my favorite monologue of the season.

This was, I was just dying in this one.

Only Ryan Gosling, who is a heartthrob of his own right, can make himself look like the lovable loser compared to Harry Styles.

Right.

He is so good at this and, and he's so good at self deprecating stuff.

He's so good at like, you know, I just, I just wish he would have told me, you know, well, why, why is he in this image?

You know, why are you doing.

It's just like wipe, get.

Let's, let's wipe that one.

Not that way, not that way.

Like, you know what I mean?

You come on, man.

And then the reveal that the cameraman's

wearing I love Harry shirt project Harry style.

Nope.

It was just so good.

What'd you think of this one, Benny?

So this reminded me of when Will Ferrell did this with Ryan Reynolds in the audience.

So Will Ferrell comes out, does his monologue, and Ryan Reynolds is there.

He's gorgeous.

And it's Will Ferrell as a character being so.

Forgetting his lines and being so frazzled by this beautiful person.

And I think that maybe he was channeling a little bit of that because that's what it really what it felt like.

And it.

I loved when Will Ferrell did it.

It's even more funny when.

More fun when somebody as beautiful as Ryan Gosling can do it and.

And be, you know, funny.

So funny about it.

Yeah, no, I really enjoyed.

It was great.

Brad, what'd you think?

Yeah, it was a lot of fun.

I.

It made me wonder and I.

There's no.

There was no easy way to figure this out.

And I wouldn't be surprised if SNL Network finishes figured this out.

I wonder how many times a host has guest starred in the episode the week before they're hosting because it's definitely

the first time I've seen SNL network a few times.

Yeah.

But it's.

It's been a while.

I think that.

That it's happened.

But yeah, it's the fact that they, you know, got him to stop by and do that bit was really funny.

I also loved Mikey Day giving Ryan Gosling a little peck on the cheek.

Yeah.

Totally catching him off guard.

It is something to say already.

Ryan Gosling is a giggle boy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He has a lot of fun when he does a Snell and giggle boy.

He is.

He likes to have a little bit of fun.

He's a giggle boy.

And I love it.

I love it because the cast seems to be having fun as well.

And so there were comments I saw on a couple of the Facebook groups I'm a part of that are SNL groups and that people think that he ruins it by his laughing.

Just like, you know, like he's like just Jimmy Fallon kind of.

No, because with Jimmy, Jimmy and Horatio, they were just like a couple of chuckle flocks.

Like they were ruining sketches, you know, when they really like, shouldn't be doing it that often.

And when it happens with Ryan, you can tell it's genuine and it's charming and like he's, you know, he's having a good know.

And it's not to say Jimmy and Horatio are.

Weren't having a good time.

It's just more annoying when you're part of the cast and you can't keep it together in, like, any sketch, just because you're both in it.

It's like Bill Hader.

Right.

When Bill Hader would do it, you know, he's trying not to laugh.

Right.

And so when Ashley Padilla, later in this episode where she laughs in a sketch quite a bit.

I know she doesn't.

She's not trying to laugh.

Right.

She's not trying to get the audience to go with her.

She's genuinely laughing at that point.

Trying not to.

Yeah.

Which then you could just tell the difference.

And so I really thought it was funny.

Okay.

I think to chime in there real quick, I think the difference between Jimmy and Horatio and literally everybody else that breaks the good way or the normal way, the real dichotomous change there is, Jimmy and Horatio could just look at each other, no matter what the context.

And when everybody else breaks, it's because there's something that is a little different based on something.

It's never one of the cast members just looking at each other.

It really isn't.

A lot of times there has to be some external influence from a host or something else.

Sure.

Every once in a while, you know, you.

You do that.

But I think Ryan Gosling is the match, you know, to.

Or the kindling for that fire.

Yeah.

Right.

Whereas Jimmy never needed kindling.

It was always just him.

Right.

That's the problem.

Did you notice Sarah Sherman did I said what?

When she leaves the stage, when she's in the alien costume, she says, get me to God's country.

Yes.

Yes.

You guys remember?

That's from yes.

Yeah.

Thanks, Jay Leno.

My goodness.

Do you remember this?

Do you remember what he said?

You remember when Morgan Wallen was racist?

Okay, listen, I don't think all of our listeners got it, so I thought it was a good segue into.

I don't know if all the listeners follow Morgan Wallen's Instagram, where when he was on the episode, he Instagrammed get

me to God's country immediately after SNL walked off stage.

Yeah.

He was not my favorite person and still isn't.

I don't know.

Do we need to even say that?

Like, it's just.

He's weird.

Yeah.

I don't care about him.

All right, moving on.

Wedding toast.

Ryan Gosling plays Donathan, a strange wedding guest who has just discovered for the first time in his life that you can force the newlyweds to kiss by clinking their glass.

Is just me, or did this have some cookie crumbles vibe to it?

Yeah, the way he was talking was Very similar to how him and Bowen Yang's characters talked in the cookie crumbles Dr.

Sketch.

That's fair.

That's fair.

Or are we reaching the limits of character work that Right.

Can do.

So he's just doing an.

Well, that's.

That's my fourth guy.

That's all I've got.

Also, do you guys.

I'm sure you did because, I mean, I can't say you didn't because I know you guys always do for everything what is.

But you probably noticed dismissing Chloe Feynman as well together.

Which is a callback to.

What, the Lovers?

No, the Domingo.

Oh, yeah, I know what you're getting at.

I don't think you did.

I did.

Of course, everyone.

Oh, you think I don't remember that?

They're the couple in all the Domingo sketches.

And it's another wedding sketch.

I don't think Ben did.

No, I was actively hoping it wasn't a Domingo sketch.

It was up there, like, damn it.

No.

As soon as I have.

Like three weeks ago.

As soon as I saw the wedding set was like, what?

Why?

Come on, we're better than this, guys.

We don't need to go to this.

Well, it's Gosling.

We don't need it.

So what did you think of this one?

Was it.

Was it fun for you or not?

No, I really liked it.

It was.

I. I love the outfit that they gave Ryan.

You know what?

Reba McIntyre at the Oscars.

Yep.

Shout out.

Shout out to Reba.

And I also.

The ponytail.

The rat.

Yeah, that was the.

Him twirling it and everything.

And then when he threw it back in with attitude.

But no, just the.

They have to.

Just the cleaning of the bottom of the glass and making sure everybody knows

what that if I tap the top of the glass, you guys kiss on your lips.

But if I tap the bottom, it's a poozy.

A poozy.

I'm sure the censors had a little bit of a problem with that, too.

It's a made up word.

Yeah.

And you can say it.

It's like Pat Oswalt said, the clean filth is always worse than the worst.

It really is.

But.

Good night, Mr. And Mrs. Poozy.

This is great.

Yeah, no, it was a lot of fun.

A lot of fun.

Otezla Pre Tape, A surreal pharmaceutical parody ad for otesla, a medication for plaque psoriasis that, according to the ad, is 100% effective and also happens to defy the laws of space and time and may be Earth's mortal enemy.

This was.

But it's so funny because I know otesla.

I've heard a lot of otesla commercials, and I still don't know what otesla does, other than you literally just said it.

Plaque, psoriasis.

Right.

But you got it.

Like, I mean.

Oh, Tesla is a real thing.

Yeah.

Okay.

You've not heard of otesl.

He's not.

He's not watching real tv.

I don't really.

Yeah, I don't watch commercials.

He pays for all the ad free.

Oh, stop.

We have a few ad free things.

My goodness.

He hasn't seen a commercial, but Skyrizi is a thing.

Yeah, yeah, they're both real.

I thought that, though.

It was not real.

No, they're both very real.

Gotcha.

Did you guys like this one?

Yeah, I loved how weird this one was, actually.

What's the Totino's?

Is that.

What's the one that breaks and goes under the fridge?

Breaks and goes in the fridge.

The pizza.

Oh, yeah.

With Vasa Bear.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's.

That vibe is what I got here.

Yeah, a little bit.

But I just.

I like the.

The darker sci fi approach where they.

We don't really know what it is.

Yeah, yeah.

Because then you got the other guys playing the straight man.

Like, what.

What is it?

Then?

The delivery of everybody's lines of staying in the.

The pharmaceutical tone.

Yeah.

Was what really sold this one for me.

Yeah.

No, it's.

This is very well done.

I thought it was well done.

I. I didn't laugh as hard as I wanted to at this one.

I thought it was fine.

Like, I. I didn't.

I think you like this one better than I did, Brad.

I think it's very well done.

Yeah.

I think.

No, I think that you laugh.

Laugh.

Yeah.

Okay.

Did you laugh?

Laugh?

I just.

I chuckled at it.

I like that kind of humor, though, where it's smart.

Moving on, moving on.

The Treasure of Darlor, a fantasy world sketch in which Ashley Padilla and Veronica Slowkowska play goddesses guarding a legendary treasure.

To pass, the challengers must answer a simple riddle.

This is played by Ryan Gosling, Mikey Day, and Kenan Thompson with some incredible Cyclops makeup.

What?

I mean, I don't even know what that is.

I think they could see through there.

Correct.

There was.

So.

There was a very clever way of doing the makeup where they put eye slits into the wrinkles around the eye.

It was very well done.

It was incredibly well done.

So I didn't.

I wanted.

So as soon as the sketch starts,

I know as soon as the sketch

starts, I'm like, oh, I like where this is going.

This is going to be a silly.

And I like, I like silly.

And it never really, Never really worked for me.

It came off the rails a little too much with the.

I wonder how much they had to either did this go the full length of what it was supposed to be or did it.

Because if so it went way.

If they fit everything in that they meant to do, plus all the kind of laughing and stuff.

Is that why we had.

We might have like three cut, four times.

Because that thing went way too long.

Yeah, I mean, it was definitely.

I.

The bit was singular for sure, because.

Because I do wonder how that works because they definitely have to get through, you know, A, B and C to end the sketch.

And then.

So if you go.

But if a.

If A to B is normally this beat, but it takes another 30 seconds because the laughter and like.

And the improv.

Because I'm pretty sure Ryan Gosling approaching a couple of those times.

Well, Mikey too.

Yeah.

All of them, honestly, except for Keenan.

He's strong, he's.

He's a pro.

But that's the kind of stuff I'm talking about.

If you go and take a sketch that's supposed to be a minute, now it's three minutes, then you are obviously changing the length of the show.

Because they, they don't like mid edit sketches, right?

No, they do like, like, hey, this one's running really long.

We're just gonna end it right now.

I mean, I'm pretty.

They've done that before.

I don't think it's something that happens regularly.

Yeah, I couldn't imagine.

Because there's not really a good end point other than the one they wrote.

Yeah.

So it's really awkward if they don't have like.

It's not like improv where the lights go out and you're just done when.

Yeah.

You know, this felt a little bit like actually it's too long because of that.

That's all I'm saying.

Like, it just felt a little bit like Ashley Padilla saw and felt like the sketch isn't going that well.

And so she was doing like just the physical thing her and Ryan Gosling were doing.

Just didn't work for me.

It wasn't that.

I'm not sure that it didn't.

I don't think it went poorly necessarily.

I, I think that it was just a.

It was meant to be a slower sketch because the whole idea of the bit is the waiting for them to like, figure out an answer and then saying something super dumb because they don't understand.

So there's, there's a patience to it.

And I, I like that.

I was fine with it.

And I liked the fact that they kept going.

Mikey kept trying to walk up and she's like, stop.

No.

You know, I thought it was funny.

Yeah, I think it was enjoyable.

I don't, I don't think that it was brilliant or anything like that.

But I had a good time watching.

I just, I really, I want to see the version of it that there's not any breaking at all.

To see that pace, to see if I would have found it funnier.

Yeah.

And I don't think I would have.

I think it's the breaking probably that made it more enjoyable than the sketch on its own.

And so then you take the breaking completely out of it.

And I think that's not going to be my favorite sketch of the night.

Was it going to be your favorite

sketch of the night?

Yeah.

Otherwise would it have been.

This is really, it's a really funny sketch.

I did, like when he got the

breaking is really funny.

When he got the break, he was like, I got the treasure.

Yeah, exactly.

But you're right, the go back.

No, no, that was the best parts.

Did anybody else think that there was going to be some kind of sex based conceit to the sketch?

No, because I, I saw, I saw, I saw the two women standing for the door and I saw three cyclopses walking up.

What?

Three one eyed monsters.

Okay.

They're standing in front of a door.

And I thought there was.

I thought there was going to be a lot of double entendre.

I think we're going to have to cut a lot of this.

I don't know what is going on.

We're going to talk to you off air.

I thought they were going to do another poozy thing.

All right, moving on.

This is a pre tape.

Monty McTreats in the pastry bakery.

This was an elaborate full color parody of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with original songs.

Even Ryan gosling plays Monty McTreat's Willy Wonka asks candy master, whose bakery is staffed by tiny little creatures.

Are they doodidies?

How does he say those?

Yeah, that sounds about right.

Doodidies.

Doodees who are essentially just Oompa Loompas.

Whoa, racist.

The.

The dark twist.

The dude ites have a springtime ritual of mass self destruction.

This, I love this, this sketch so much.

If you have a, if you're not enjoying that, what's wrong with you?

This is so dark and so funny.

And Keenan was great in this.

I just loved everything in this.

That, that Ryan Gosling's panicked, like stricken, like, you know, trying to control things.

The.

Just the.

My favorite bit about this is just the realization that he went and grabbed him and just like.

I don't know, I just put them in the bag and.

Wait, you put him in a bag?

Yeah, just the realization that he just.

These are slaves kind of.

I.

It really worked for me.

I thought it really.

Why.

Why don't you like it?

Yeah, I feel like you're not.

No, no.

I thought it was funny, but I felt like it was missing something because it was.

It felt like it didn't go far enough with the, the premise.

Like, I was expecting it to be one of the, like, kind of gory style sketches and it gets a little bit there in the end with some.

With some of the blood splashing after the.

The jump and whatnot, but I was expecting it to.

To take a turn that was like a little more graphic, like the Scooby Doo or the.

See, I'm glad it didn't though, because I don't want to see that coming every single time.

I'm glad that it.

I.

If that would have been the thing, it would have been okay.

This is more business as usual.

But I think it was.

But I think that there was a creative way to do it, especially with the.

The premise being, you know, surrounded by Willy Wonk and the Chocolate Factory.

Like, I felt there was a lot more ways to make it more elaborate and fun in that way, because it's a chocolate factory, you know, and I'm sure they're limited besides the scale of production stuff like that, but it's.

I, I was, I was impressed by how it looked and I did, I did laugh several times.

It was funny.

I was just hoping.

I wanted a little bit more from it.

I like the dark joke in a cheerful package kind of motif that they do.

Right.

And.

And so I like this version of it.

I thought it was very funny.

I thought the songs were funny.

I actually really thought Veronica Slowikowski was very good in this as well as this kind of chipper, like, sing songy.

And we know she has a voice.

She did a great job in this.

But yeah, I really like this.

I thought it was hilarious.

So, yeah, no, it was very, very funny.

I thought it was pretty good.

You like, you liked the other pre tape better?

You like Tesla?

I wouldn't say I liked it better.

I just liked it for different reasons.

Which ones you like better this one?

Yeah, by far.

It's not even close.

Such an old man.

All right, Weekend update.

Colin, Joseph, Michael, chair at the desk, giving us the jokes for the weekend.

Brad, get your computer out and get us a breadometer note, and Ben and I will talk about the barometer and what we think he's going to go with.

Well, last week I thought it was a pretty great one, and Brad said it was terrible.

So I don't know what else to do here.

No, it's broken.

And I think most of our listeners are like, I don't like Brad or his barometer anymore.

I'm pretty sure that tide is turned on him enough.

Yeah, there were some good jokes, though, that I thought were good.

So this should be a pretty pretty.

If we're doing the whole.

The interaction between Che and Joe's matters, then this should be a skyrocketing one because they literally interacted five or six times and they were having fun with each other.

But Brad's gonna be like, no, they really didn't talk that much.

It's 62 for me.

So I'm gonna say 80.

I'm gonna say 81.

You're saying skyrocketing, and then you're saying 80 or 80.

Yeah, you won't think it's.

We go.

You think now what we think give an 88.

Yeah, exactly.

See, you thought it was better than last week.

It was better than last week because there was a lot.

There was a lot more ribbing from Che to Jost about the jokes, a lot more reaction from Jost as far as how the jokes were going.

See, I'm.

He tries to defend that the interaction between Che and Jost makes up some of it, but.

But.

But the majority.

But not the majority.

But that is the majority.

You know what?

Here's the thing.

It's the majority of it.

Here's the thing.

If you're gonna give me a segment that's named after me, don't bitch about how.

You know what?

Go ahead.

You can.

You can have the Ben over meter.

And Nate, you can have the.

The.

The great Nate.

You can do your own thing.

Love that.

Yours is the bend over.

Yeah, mine's the Great Nate.

What the hell, man?

Tell me how you really feel about me.

You each get a name based on the respect they give you.

I. I thought this was some.

I thought this is a good weekend update.

Yeah, I really did.

I actually, I would agree with you.

I thought it was an 88, too.

I didn't think you would go that high Though, why did you like this so much?

Honestly, I felt like the punchlines this week were really strong.

They were very.

Compared compared to last week.

I wrote down some of my favorites, actually, is.

I love the.

When they're talking about Iran, the why not.

It worked in Afghanistan.

That is a great, great joke.

And if you want to know more about what that joke means, if you don't get it, go watch Charlie Wilson's War.

And I mean that genuinely.

It's a great movie, and it will fully make you understand what that joke is.

I. I love Colin's reaction when he was like, oh, a lot of Ayatollah fans here today.

Because it.

SNL is at its best with these moments when they try to.

They.

They do make you kind of defend the other side a bit because, like, you know, oh, what?

You're gonna be mad.

That guy's really dead, but we shouldn't have killed him.

How do I feel?

It's so awkward.

I love the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Walton Goggins.

If you leave Walton Goggins in an air fryer.

Oh, yeah.

So good.

It's so good.

One joke that I will take issue with, though, because A, I didn't think it was very good, and B, I think it's a fundamental misunderstanding, as a lot of people are having with this thing.

But the Timothee Chalamet thing has been kind of annoying, the.

The discourse and also the joke in this not being very good.

So Timothee Chalamet is in a little bit of hot water right now because he recently did an interview with Matthew McConaughey, and they were just talking about the state of cinema and people going to movies and that kind of thing.

And he said, I don't want to be working in ballet or opera or things where it's like, hey, keep this thing alive.

Even though, like, no one cares about this anymore.

All respect to all ballet and opera people out there, a lot of people have interpreted this as him saying that, like, it's dumb to care about ballet and opera or, like, that people don't care because it sucks.

What.

That's not what he's saying.

What he's saying is, is both of those industries are in a position where people don't care about them as much as they used to.

And he hopes that that's not the route that cinema takes.

And if you watch the full interview in context and see what he's saying, it's very clear that he has no ill will.

Sure.

And he even also immediately realizes after he says it he's like, oh, shit, I'm gonna get in trouble for that.

But.

So everyone's taking this to think that Chalamet is taking a dump on Bally opera.

That's not the case.

Probably not the wisest thing to say, though, if you.

But if you understand what he is saying.

He's not saying what people are mad about him for saying.

That's.

That's the whole point.

But you have to know that anybody in the industry is not going to be happy with him saying those things.

No, but there are a lot of people who do understand, you know, I mean, in those industries who do understand.

It's just a lot of making mountains out of molehills.

Yeah, but even so, the joke in this.

The word.

Joe says.

He was like.

He said this while talking about his movie Martyr Supreme, a movie about ping pong.

And it's just like.

I thought it was funny.

Not really.

See, that made me laugh.

It's a good joke, though.

It's not, though, because.

What?

It's the same misinterpretation.

Nobody cares about ping pong.

That's interesting.

And you might.

That.

That.

I. I do wonder if that was intentional, but I think it's more so the idea.

If you're making this blanket statement about this, and then you would.

Blanket statement about ping pong being.

But that's the thing, though.

I don't think the joke.

The joke was intended to land that way.

It seems like it's more so.

It just sounds funny that an actor is saying this when his movie is about ping pong.

Something that people don't care about.

Yeah.

And he made a movie about it and people like it.

But that.

So.

But that's the thing, though.

The movie isn't really about, oh, my God, nobody cares.

That's bullshit.

But no, that's.

That is.

What's frustrating, though, is the.

It's that.

That'd be like.

Like saying.

All you're saying is the joke is too broad.

Yes, because that is.

It's.

But they only have the attention span.

But it was a great joke.

It's a good joke.

It's not a great joke.

Let's.

Let's.

Let's try and rope in how we use the word great.

Because that's not a great joke, Nate.

I don't know, man.

It's pretty good.

I thought it was a really good joke.

It was actually one of my favorite jokes.

One of your favorite jokes, Nate?

It was one of your favorite jokes.

This is a joke that is a favorite of yours.

You think this Joke is so good that it's a favorite of yours.

Go to hell.

I think that it works, though.

I'm kind of with him.

It does work.

The joke works, man.

Your favorite joke.

It's not my favorite joke.

No?

No.

One of my favorite jokes in Weekend Update.

I thought it was.

It was laughable.

It was very good.

It was laughable.

Cheek splitter.

That's good.

That was hilarious.

That's a good joke.

And then it wasn't dead when he started for the.

Yeah.

Having sex with the tear.

So I paused it.

And Ashley and I were talking about that, and she's like, I get it that, like, these are all pulled from the news, but does that mean that there's a news story of a guy out there?

Oh, yeah.

And I'm like, oh, yeah.

These are.

Because she thought maybe that was premise is also made up, but I was like, nope.

They pretty much always pull from something that's real.

How did you keep her from finding out that you did that?

Different county, right?

We just had one Weekend Update bit and it was a good one because it's about time we get a pastor on this frame.

I knew you were going to do this.

All right, Pastor up.

Was this one of your favorite, favorite drugs too?

Band letter leader Teddy.

Yeah, it was really good.

Keenan Thompson appears as Pastor Update, and James Austin Johnson has his band leader Teddy.

They perform songs.

Hey, was.

Was James Austin Johnson playing the guitar there?

Yeah, he really.

Guitar.

I thought so.

Like, I'm like, I think he's actually playing that.

You didn't like this?

Why didn't you like it?

No, no, I did.

I thought this was.

This was hilarious.

Okay, then this is really funny.

I'm just mocking you for your poor taste in general.

Shut up.

Don't you giggle at me.

No, this was really funny.

And funnily enough, actually, I happened to see this before I even watched the episode.

But there had been a streak where Kenan and James Austin Johnson hadn't been at the Weekend Update desk for like a year.

Like, either of them hadn't been there.

And the fact that they both appeared together when I was like, oh, that's kind of funny.

Nice.

No, it was.

I like this a lot.

The.

It's.

It's.

The James Austin Johnson character needs to actually be like that added value I didn't see coming.

And it's.

And it's value that you might not even appreciate, but because it's such a subtle thing that he's doing, he's talking.

If you've ever been to a Church like that.

Oh, yeah.

He's talking exactly how.

Like you don't run a megachurch.

Nate, he's not doing a megachurch.

Stop.

That's not what a megachurch does.

You often see the kind of personality, a band leader and a pastor with energy like this at a mega church.

No, you don't.

Are you kidding me?

Megachurches are like productions, right.

They're high valued productions.

The kind of production that might require a very theatrical pastor.

And someone can get anything back and forth.

Everything is going to be scripted.

That's a megachurch.

Right, but 60 minutes.

The whole point is, doesn't it seem like it's scripted the way they.

I'm going to lean on my pastor right here.

I'm going to say what he's actually doing is more of a black church visual that.

Aren't there black mega churches or can they only be white?

No.

You don't have to have a megachurch to have this kind of feeling.

I'm not saying you have to, but that's the vibe that you said.

Megachurch.

Yeah, that's the vibe that I got.

I'm not saying it has to be.

I'm not setting up a definitive rule.

Here's the thing, though.

You could just admit you're wrong.

You don't have to lean into being wrong.

You could just admit it.

It's not wrong to have an opinion that.

That's the vibe.

I got Nate wrong.

All right, fine.

I'm signing with the man of cloth over here.

I hope your church burns down.

Oh, my God.

He's sorry.

Jesus.

He's really sorry.

I. I did.

I did think, though, that this was a very good, like the back and forth between the worship leader and.

And the pastor.

I'm sure you've seen this dozens of times.

I have seen this.

But.

But in this vibe here before, it actually reminds me more of like a Pentecostal kind of view where, like you said, the.

The worship leader and the pastor, they are in.

In.

They're like.

They're just in sync in this way.

And they are.

They're almost like, you know, like a late night TV show in the sidekick.

Yep.

And it's even.

It's even in the laugh that.

Oh, you.

You keep talking and I'll be right here the whole time supporting.

But I just loved it.

I thought they were just.

Their chemistry was great.

It looked like Keenan was having a great time and it was good to see him behind the Weekend Update desk.

And I love that, you know, involving Che.

Yeah.

You know, that's just.

That's great fodder.

Anytime they do it with Jost and Sherman.

So on the other side, I love it when a character can actually, you know, give it to Che in that manner.

It really takes it to another level.

By the way, listeners out there, if you've ever been to a megachurch and you've experienced this dynamic, he has not been.

Let us know.

He hasn't been listening for the last three minutes.

He's just been working for that comment.

No, no, I have.

I'm just quick.

Like, one of us is a pastor.

One of us.

I'm just going to listen to Pastor Nate because he knows what he's talking about.

I like to consider myself a pastor of the world.

All right, moving on.

Passing notes.

Did you ever get caught passing a note in school?

Oh, yeah.

Did you really?

Definitely.

Did you get in trouble for it?

No.

Was it usually to a girl?

Oh, yeah, always.

All right.

This was a classroom sketch with a twist.

Ashley Padilla plays Ms. Parish, a teacher running in a bullying assembly.

And Ryan Gosling plays the principal.

When a student, Mikey Day, is caught passing notes, the teacher confiscates him and begins reading them aloud.

But there's a disclaimer on the screen that says the content of these notes have been changed since rehearsal.

And I did read there was somebody.

And I love if there's any listeners on this that actually go to the show and they participate in Live from New York.

The.

The people that do the posts about what they saw in rehearsal.

I love it.

I just think it's so helpful.

I love reading what changes.

I love reading this about the sketches that get cut, these kind of things.

But they said that it was very different.

The type of the letters that they had in rehearsal, they were actually, they said, a lot more sexual in nature.

But the.

Like the Cyclops sketch.

Yeah,

he got you, man.

Actually, Brad, you're such an ass.

You set him up perfectly for that.

Ashley Padilla and Ryan.

I love that.

He's like a giggle boy.

He is.

He's just laughing at his own.

I got him and.

And Ryan Gosling.

So they read notes that they catch these students passing and they don't know what they say, and they are in a giggle fest.

What did you think of this one, Brad?

This one was hilarious.

But I will say I have complicated feelings on the premise of the sketch because.

Because SNL has always been found on the idea of, like, you should be trying not to break, and the fact that they have a sketch that was intentionally designed to make the cast And Ryan Break felt like it was kind of counterintuitive to, like, what SNL always goes for.

Having said that, I had an insanely good time watching it because it was so funny to watch them read the notes for the first time, react to things that they hadn't seen.

That was very funny.

I guess where I'm at is I hope it's not the kind of thing that they start to use as a crutch, and I hope that it's something that maybe they did just for someone like Ryan, because they knew what they were gonna get from it.

Because I would hate it if they turned this into, like, a regular thing where it feels like a game show.

Then it almost feel.

It would almost feel like when they.

You know, when Whose Land It Is Anyway was popular.

And every network kept trying to have their own improv comedy show, and they would have certain games that they would play.

Improv games, usually.

But this itself feels like an improv game in a way.

Timeout.

Okay, but did you feel the same way when John Mulaney did that to Bill Hader?

No, but that's also because they weren't telling you, and a lot of people didn't know until the disclaimer on the

screen is the big thing.

That's.

That's the big thing.

It's a disclaimer.

They're framing it like, yeah, this is what we did.

We.

We're letting you know that we're surprising them with new material.

We're letting you in on the joke.

Right, Exactly.

Whereas you didn't know that with.

So for you, it would have been better if they didn't do the disclaimer.

No, because that's the thing is, that gives.

That is what is so unique about it, is because I'm not sure it would have been as funny because I would have thought that they were just breaking naturally.

So let me ask you this.

With.

With Hater and Mulaney, right?

The thing they wrote that if they didn't change it, the audience would have been like, that's still one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my whole life.

Because whatever they replaced, it was.

Was equally as funny.

Not more funny, not less funny on that equal plane of funny, but just different.

So that it made Hater break.

Right.

Now cut that to tonight or yesterday when we watched the show, that sketch, written as it was, with the notes, exactly as they're performed, without telling anybody they had been changed.

Would that have been the comedy?

Yeah, I mean, that's.

I guess I Would need to see what the original like, is it.

Was it still as funny if they didn't have.

Because I remember.

I remember what they're reading.

And it's funny.

Like he bought the entire row of the show.

Barbie.

If you read that and you don't break, it's still gonna be clever and funny, but it's not gonna be laugh out loud funny like I was dying when he was.

Because it's.

He's reading it for the first time.

Well, and that.

That.

And also the kind of added an extra layer to it where they made one of Ryan's lines and one of Mikey's lines meta as making fun of themselves.

Exactly.

So they obviously did that knowingly.

And I wonder if the sketch in its original form was as funny without that gimmick.

And I don't.

I would say probably not.

Whereas on the Stefan hater stuff, it always was.

And I would be curious if that was always the intention, like.

Or did they decide that between.

Yeah, they were like, this is actually falling pretty flat.

But you know what we could do, Right?

Yeah.

Who knows?

Yeah.

So do you think that they knew they needed to laugh in this?

In the letters, Ash Padilla is not a laugher.

She's not known.

And so twice in this episode, by the way, she broke.

But.

And let's talk about that just real quickly, because this is the kind of thing that happens where it's so the antithesis of the show, because not only is it changed that the actors don't know that it's changed, so you can't even prepare like you would normally prepare.

Right.

So it does just.

You're taking the.

The production and communication away as well.

Yeah.

And that's not what SNL is known for.

They're like, everybody's in on this.

We're all going to walk over here, he's going to come down the stairs, he's going to say this line.

It's.

It's.

It's a play.

Right.

So that is different.

Yeah, it was.

It was very interesting.

And I'll be curious to see if they do it again.

But like I said, I had a very fun time watching it.

I laughed a lot.

It was extremely funny.

Everyone did a good job.

I loved watching Ashley's reaction when she opened the drawer and saw the big bag of spaghetti, which she clearly didn't expect.

Right.

Exactly.

You know, so, like, there was a lot of fun to be had.

Exactly.

But by the way, I just love.

It would have been hilarious even if it wasn't unexpected to her because it said lunch number two.

That was freaking awesome.

Now that you've seen, I guess I don't have to eat it in my car.

That's so good.

So does this feel a little more like improv then?

Yes.

Well, yes and no, because it's more than SNL normally.

Yeah, that's what I feel like.

This is a little more like improv.

Improv feels like the wrong word though, because the only thing improvised is their reaction.

Everything is still written.

Still.

But yes, I'm just saying for what it is.

There is, there is, there is.

There is much more spontaneity than you would normally expect from snl.

Yes.

Yeah.

And I think you're right though.

I, I have a little mixed feelings about it, but I also had a lot of fun with it.

Yeah, I. SNL sometimes does this, right?

They, if they see a hot hand, they're gonna go with it and I don't want them to replicate this.

It's fine for a one off, especially when you got giggle Boy Gosling, but yeah, let's just make this one time with this episode and we'll have fun with it.

All right, moving on.

Goo Goo Man.

Ryan Gosling and Sarah Sherman play a couple checking out of a hotel after her work trip.

They're disputing a 1200 charge on the bill for repeat visits from the Goo Goo Man.

Ben, what'd you think of this one?

So I.

You've been in this position before.

Love this.

Because checking out of a resort or something.

That's exactly how it goes.

They do if you go to a hotel in the estates, they don't really do that.

Would you like a copy of your receipt?

And you're like, yeah, but if you stay at a resort, they absolutely, at the end of it, they need to like confirm that it's okay that all these things were legit.

And so they're like, and so you.

Couples massage on the beach.

That was 250.

Okay.

That's a legit thing that happens.

And so to find the Goo Goo man part, I'm like, like this.

Have you ever had to.

This is amazing.

Have you ever had to challenge a charge?

I have, actually.

They.

Because in.

In certain resort, they, they try to get you to sign up for the spot you.

And then they make, oh, it's you.

No cancellation feed.

If you can't show up, don't show up.

So we just didn't go after we got hassled to like do it.

And then they tried to charge me 200 to.

For a non show.

That's a scam.

And I'm like, yeah, that feels very.

And it was a nice resort, so.

And they took it off.

Doesn't sound like it.

Yeah.

You know what exactly?

Say the name.

How dare you.

Excellence resorts.

Yeah.

Now they never explain what the goo goo man is.

What do you guys think it is?

I don't care, but I love it.

Yeah.

All I know is it's a good time.

Yeah.

All I know is if I stay at the Hilton next time they don't have the Google man package, I'm out.

Yeah.

What did you think?

This one, bro?

No, this was great.

I. I love how it builds.

Ryan is one of the, like, the.

The best people to do this kind of thing just because his reaction to it and playing it so genuinely.

Incredulity.

Incredulously.

Yeah.

So, yeah, this.

Oh, my God.

It was.

Well, what is that?

Hold on.

I'm about to find out.

Yeah.

I only had one visit from the

cuckoo, so that's the turn, which is fantastic.

And then it escalates from there, which is just awesome, Especially having Colhane in the back with the.

Hey, man, thanks for that.

Yeah.

So.

Because again, it rounds up the universe of what they're trying to build here.

It's.

It's silly.

Gosling and Sherman versus Gosling and Padilla.

Which one you like?

Better pairing.

In what capacity?

I was gonna say.

I don't know.

It's just any.

Like.

No, you think there's a better pairing?

I want Mikey Gosling together.

Yeah, I know, Kitty, I. I would.

That's a good point.

If it's a threesome.

What?

Kate, are you okay?

I asked in what capacity, and there was no answer.

So what am I left to assume?

There is no context.

We're back to the cyclops bit again.

What is.

What is wrong?

No, that's not a compliment.

That's not where.

Oh, I'm sorry.

That I'd like to hook up with Ryan Gosling and two ladies from snl.

Excuse me.

Sue me.

You probably will get sued.

By who?

I don't know.

Somebody.

Ryan's my friend.

Oh, gosh.

Oh, I'm sorry, ladies.

Oh, and, you know, I met Sarah, too, so.

So, Ashley, we'll see.

See you in court, I guess.

See you in court.

Oh, all right.

Final sketch of the night.

I'm wearing a Sarah Sherman hat right now.

I was not going to say anything, but you are.

How dare you?

I think you're bringing a lot of this on yourself, if I'm being honest.

Especially if it's a threesome.

Stop it final schedule of the night is a pre tape called Lies.

This was Martin Hurley.

He directed pre tape.

Those of you that listen enough, you know that Martin Hurley, he is one of the Pleasure Destroy crew.

And he's not a cast member, he's a writer.

But he's made it onto the show a couple times now.

I think this is his third.

Yeah, yeah.

And this one is about lying.

This is great.

Which becomes an indirect roast of Colin Jost.

The joke is that her Lahey, wearing a prosthetic chin, is playing a version of Colin Jost, who apparently lies constantly.

This I could just imagine.

I love, by the way, that the younger cast loves to roast Colin Jost.

Yes.

I just love that he's become the butt of so many jokes.

Perfect foil.

He really is.

And so what'd you guys think of this?

What'd you think of this sketch as a whole?

But also, what did you think of the prosthetic chin?

Oh, my God.

Delightfully insane.

He looks like a maniac.

Unhinged jaw.

He looks like.

Did you ever see that show?

You probably didn't.

You're probably too old for this.

It's called Big Bad Beetle Borgs.

Oh, no, I saw Ben probably didn't.

But I.

It's a.

It's a Power Rangers series.

Wait, why would you have seen it and I hadn't?

I just kind of wanted to be in on this joke.

He stayed a kid a lot longer than you did.

Yeah, fair enough.

I know, like, you're older than me, so.

Yeah, there's a character who has, like, he's blue skin, but he has, like, a pompadour hairstyle, and he has a huge chin.

And, like, the facial prosthetic that he was.

Martin was wearing for Jostle reminded me of just a.

Like, a regular skin tone version of that character.

It looked like Max Headroom.

Yeah, a little bit.

But, yeah, it was.

His turn as Jost was so perfectly insane.

And then with her pulling the gun at the end and.

And I'm like, oh, they're doing this old bit, but then it's the Jurassic park characters.

Yeah, exactly.

Gosh, that's funny.

That's such a good turn.

Former SNL great Seth Meyers also makes a cameo in this, but having him

out on his show, that's just wonderful.

It was.

Yeah, it was just so much fun.

I. I love.

I don't know how long this was.

It's probably only like, three minutes.

And it didn't need to be any longer than it was.

Well, that's what I love.

Is.

I love how fast paced it was, like, just in and out, and it was so packed with, like, jokes.

Also, great job with the.

The stuntman callback.

Yes.

That was just good stuff all around.

Yeah.

It just.

He really knows how to.

How to tell a funny story quickly.

Yeah.

Yep.

All right.

I sent you guys an article, and this is going around on the SNL news website online, but there's some cut for time sketches.

One of the ones I wanted to bring up before we.

We talk about our MVP and schedule the night was there was another Beavis and Butthead that they did in dress rehearsal that got cut, and I read about it from somebody on the SNL subreddit, and essentially it sounded like just the same thing over again.

I mean, other than Heidi Gardner is replaced by Ashley Padilla.

What are you guys thinking about that?

Are you glad they caught it?

Yes.

Me too.

There's no way it would have lived up to what happened, because what happened previously was such an organic, wonderful thing that went viral.

It was a big.

And I understand the.

The desire to want to try and do something like that again and, you know, recapture.

But that magic.

But it was magic for a reason.

And unless they were doing completely different cartoon characters, doing Beavis and Butthead again feels, like, desperate.

That's excellent call to not do anything with it.

I don't want that to.

Like you just said, though, I don't want them to stifle that kind of the.

If.

If the root is there.

Right, Then maybe look for other things that they could do kind of awkwardly like that, because that's gold.

And I'm gonna.

I. I will argue, too, that the magic in that original sketch was Heidi Gardner.

Oh, for sure.

Yeah.

And her breaking and her responses.

If you don't have that in a second one, it's.

It's not magic anymore.

Yeah.

It's truly lightning in a bottle.

It's gonna be really hard to replicate.

I hope that they kind of like the.

It's.

It almost feels like, what did.

What did he do?

What did they do first before they did David S. Pumpkins?

What was the other character that didn't.

Didn't Larry David have a character that

was after David Pumpkins?

Okay, so I think that that's the closest you could hope for.

Yeah, you do.

Like, oh, well, we can't do David Pumpkins again, but we can do something tangential to it.

David Pumpkin.

No, I know, but that.

What I'm saying is, like, the.

The success of that character.

Let's try a different character.

And that One was definitely not as successful, but it still was very funny.

Yeah.

So I think you could try for something else with Beavis and Butthead not being beef as a butthead and still being funny.

But you're never going to catch that original magic.

Right.

That's all.

All right, let's get into our MVP of the night.

I'll go first.

I'm going to go with Asha Padilla.

I think she had a great night.

I think she obviously broke a couple times, which is rare for her, but she made me laugh a lot, particularly in the principal or teacher sketch, and I just thought she was great.

What'd you think of who'd you give mvp?

I went back and forth, and I think I'm going with you, and I'm going to pick Ashley.

But Mikey Day was also.

My name was right on the cusp.

Mine is Mikey Day.

Yeah.

Why Mikey Day convinces a Mikey Day.

So Mikey Day.

So the.

The kiss on the cheek.

Right.

Just right off the bat.

Right.

He's setting a tone that then he himself kept the entire time.

The playfulness and that, honest to God, set the whole course of the episode.

That's fair.

And kept it.

No, I think there's a good argument for both of them, for sure.

All right, what'd you guys go with?

Sketch of the night.

I did mine in McTreat's.

I thought that was a very clever, funny one.

But I also.

It's hard, too, because I. I would say that.

I don't know.

Passing notes is pretty funny, too.

Yeah.

See, I'm.

I'm hung up on passing notes because I. I was very funny.

Don't want to give him the credit.

Yeah.

It's such a. I really have.

That's.

I think, why I. Strangely complex feelings about that sketch.

But you probably laughed a lot, didn't you?

I did.

I left a lot at that.

I did.

I did.

But I. I think that I laughed harder.

And because it's such a tight, strange, unique thing, I'm gonna give it to Hurley.

He's lies.

Yeah, that one.

Really like that threw me for a loop.

I'll say.

This wedding toast was very good, too.

I like that one, but I'm not gonna say it's my favorite, but it was a very good sketch.

I liked Goo Goo man better than.

Did you like Google Man?

Okay.

So I think based on how much I laughed and only how much I laughed, I think I gotta go with Google man because I had so much fun watching it.

I was there when he watched it, and he did laugh.

I Laughed a lot.

So I'm gonna go Google Man.

I'm gonna go.

My name McTreatz.

But I think that's a great choice too.

Google man is very.

The fact that we had a wealth

of hilarious sketches, like, too many to choose from.

Yeah.

So all in all, Bowen didn't have a great episode.

What.

What did I miss?

All in all, would you put it in the top three of this season?

It's getting the point where I can't remember how.

Blending together.

I think so.

I don't remember thinking about the fact that Ariana, I think I thought, had the best episode of the first half of the season.

And.

Yeah, I think.

I think it would probably be top three.

Definitely top five.

Probably.

Probably top three.

Probably.

Probably next week.

Ariana, Melissa McCarthy.

Ryan Gosling.

Yeah.

And maybe Ryan might even edge out Melissa.

Not for me.

Okay.

No.

I'm sorry.

But.

No, the.

But just the grocery store and the ups from hers that I still think about.

I still, like, reference those in my brain.

It'd be a tough choice.

Yeah.

But I do think all of those are in the top line of this season.

Oh, yeah, we're.

Listen, I'm very happy.

Like, that's good.

So Harry Styles next week also.

I forgot to mention, Sarah Sherman turned 33.

I think it was her birthday on Saturday.

As you saw.

If you saw the end, Ryan Gosling wished her happy birthday.

Didn't wish me a happy birthday, but.

Well, your birthday wasn't anywhere near the episode.

It actually was pretty close.

February 21st is my birthday.

Weeks away, man.

Close on your birthday, you piece of shit.

All right, next week we've got Harry Styles.

Is Ryan Gosling gonna make an appearance?

Comment your thoughts.

Will Ryan Gosling be in the audience or maybe just in the good nights.

Harry Styles was a host before, correct?

Yes.

Yeah, I don't really double duty, but we talked about that.

And I'm.

I'm gonna actually gotta make a point this week to go back and watch his episode because I don't remember anything about it.

No, I don't either.

I think that sounds like a good use of my time after this show, so I'll do the same.

Bradford, are you gonna watch it right now?

But.

But let us know what you think, what you're looking forward to, what you loved about this episode, if you can too.

I would love to have you chime in on what you thought about the.

This.

The passing notes sketch.

What do you think about the laughing that Ryan Gosling did?

How does that inform what the writers might.

I love it try to do moving.

I love Ryan Gosling being giggle boy, but I understand that a lot of people kind of get annoyed.

I would not like if you had a bad host.

Like, if you had a Travis Kelce on that show to do that, you would not like that sketch.

That's probably true.

You wouldn't.

Because he doesn't.

He's not talented enough to like, read it and be funny about it in that way.

It was.

He would just probably deadpan deliver it, let alone read.

It's not that bad.

Also, if you want to chime in with another thing, whether it's Ryan and Ashley or Ryan and Sarah, which one are you leaning towards?

Mikey and Ryan.

So one thing I'm gonna mention because I hope that we can actually make this happen and if anything, it would be cool to do some kind of, like, video or talk to Ryan Gosling somehow.

Roaming podcast.

But I just found this out and so I want to let people know about it in case you didn't know.

Because if somehow we didn't know, I'm betting there's tons of people that don't know.

But currently, the Rock and Roll hall of Fame in Cleveland has an exhibit dedicated to SNL 50 years of music.

It's been going on since May of 2025.

So it's been there for a while now, but there's currently no end date.

And so it seems like it's going to be open for at least a little while longer.

We are talking about maybe going to check it out because it's.

Apparently it's filled with tons of stuff from people who have been on SNL musical gas.

Also sketches from snl.

They have the costumes and props and all that sort of stuff on display.

So if we can check it out, we might try and do something cool with it.

I ran out of time, so I skipped through the musical stuff.

Did you watch the Gorillaz?

Yeah, I did.

They actually appeared.

Did they appear?

Okay, I do.

And it made me wonder if maybe that's like a normal thing they're doing now where they don't only appear in

animated form, but they had the animated screens going as well.

They did?

Yeah.

Okay, they did.

And they had a lot of people

on screen and they did Clint Eastwood, which was pretty cool.

Oh, yeah, cool.

Awesome.

All right, well, we'll be back next week for our final episode of this kind of three peat, this three episode arc and then they'll take a break and then we'll be back for some more for this season 51.

But we also have another podcast, Go Flix Yourself, where we talk about movies and trailers and some a little bit of tv.

But, Brad, where can people find you?

You can find me at Slash Film and Slash, one weekly podcast and another podcast called Pop Cultured and Ethan Anderton on Twitter and Blue Sky.

I feel like you're cheating on us

a lot right now.

Find Nate at megachurches.

Yeah, just go find Brad.

I don't care.

Come.

Come get me.

All right, we'll be back next week.

Be good to yourself.

Be good to others.

Bye.

Bye.