Episode 119 — Will Ferrell (Season 51)

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Podcast with your host, Brad Omen, featuring Ben Konowitz and Nate La.

And here's the podcast.

Welcome back for the last time.

Wow.

Wow.

Are we ending the show?

No, it's just the last episode, it.

Made it sound like you were gonna kill yourself.

Yeah.

Welcome to the last show.

I'm done with this life.

It's the.

It's the Nate finale.

Oh, by the way, we.

I. I didn't tell you guys this off air because I just didn't remember, but I got a.

An email that our SNL UK episode that we did got pulled off of Spotify.

Can you believe that?

Wait, really?

Yeah.

Why?

They don't know.

They said something.

Oh, I know why what you do.

It's because I use the Downton Abbey theme for the opening.

Oh, why do you do these things?

Because it got pulled.

It felt like the most British thing to use for that, so.

But we had the rights, right?

No, no, I'll have to go.

I'll have to go try and find something else.

That's probably why.

I wonder if it got pulled off YouTube too.

I did not check, but I just got the email.

Well, did it just happen or.

No, it happened a while ago.

I didn't.

Thanks for checking the email, buddy.

Yep, I got it.

Hey, did we get in trouble for using this Internet Live theme song?

No.

And we've been using that for years.

Exactly.

I mean, it's a show about snl.

Shut up, Ben.

Sorry.

I'm willing to bet it's because they don't probably really don't like, actively sell the Saturday Night Live sound good.

Yeah.

You know, I own it.

You're absolutely right.

They probably don't profit off of.

But I guarantee they sell the Downton Abbey soundtrack.

Yeah, for sure.

Yeah.

Downton Abbey, where the abbeys are downtown.

That's the right.

Hey, guys.

Good, good.

I might now I on this podcast and probably the.

The biggest Will Ferrell fan, as we've established many times in previous episodes.

But you guys are master impressionists, right?

So Will Ferrell hosted.

Just because your father reminds you of the dad from Kicking and Screaming does not mean that you're a huge Will Ferrell fan.

Okay?

That's not right.

That's unfair.

All right.

Kicking and Screaming is a underrated film, by the way.

It's hilarious.

I love that film.

But anyway, you guys are skilled impressionists, right?

Totally skilled.

Yeah.

Compared to me, I'm very skilled.

Compared to totally.

Whatever you want for this business, it's me or hater.

And we do impressions on Go Flicks yourself sometimes or I to do impressions of different things.

And then they sometimes ask me and just make fun of me.

So I wanted to see who could do the best Will Ferrell impressions.

But this is Will Ferrell doing impressions.

So, for example, I want you to do your best Will Ferrell doing Alex Trebek.

Go, Brad.

Oh.

Oh, okay.

Wow.

Potent potables.

Ben, let's take a look at the board.

All right.

Neither of who wins.

Let's do Ben.

You do Harry Carey.

Okay.

Turd Ferguson.

There we go.

That's a good one.

That's a good one.

All right.

Harry Carey.

By the way, the audience never given them any, like, clue that I'm gonna do this with them to him.

If the moon was made of cheese, would you eat it?

I don't know.

I would.

That's really good.

Go ahead.

Hi.

Hi.

If the mood was made of spare ribs, would you eat it?

I know I would.

I know I would.

It'd be delicious.

Wash it down with a tall, cool Budweiser.

It's got.

You gotta close off the nose.

Yeah.

That's what you gotta do.

I was forgetting to do that.

Yeah.

Brad, your turn.

Let's do James Lipton.

You once told me a story when on stage, you presented yourself as the Duchess of York.

I'd like to speak to her now, please.

You got a good.

You got a good James Lipton.

Go ahead.

What is your least favorite word?

That's a.

More Hannibal Lecter.

Hello, Clarice.

All right, you get to redeem yourself.

This one.

Oh, boy.

George W. Bush strategery.

That's the one most.

That's all I got.

Yeah, you got one.

Let's be clear.

I want to take you down to my golf course.

I feel like that's Bill Clinton doing.

George W. It's been a while since I've heard his George W. The last one.

Robert Goulet.

Papa dinkle donkele dinkle donkele.

Someone's calling you.

Goulet, goulet Goulet.

Your phone is ringing.

La dee da do La dee da do.

Will Ferrell is back on the show this week as the.

Get off the damn.

Get off that and every minute of this just made me nostalgic.

Because I love Will Ferrell.

I love me some Willie Fairley.

Yep.

So.

But before we get into the episode, I do have a mail call.

Before I forget, should we do a mail call?

Yeah.

Brad.

I wish I wouldn't call it that, though.

I don't know.

It just feels.

Mail bag get you aroused?

Mailbag seems like a good.

When Ben hears mail call, he thinks, oh, boner patrol.

No.

Feel like it sounds awkward.

Brad, mail song, please.

He's really putting it the screws to the improv and the musical.

We got to go for it.

All right.

Yeah, fair enough.

What's that sound?

It's the letter bell.

The mail is here and we're feeling swell.

We got a bag of letters and we're going to read them now.

So sit on down and whatever.

Almost couldn't bring it home could bring it home.

It was so close you were going.

And also now rhymes with so many things.

Do it, do it then quick.

Yeah, quick.

Go ahead, Go ahead.

So we're gonna read these letters now.

Take a look at it now.

You're gonna.

Now.

Yeah.

No.

Get the out of here.

You suck just as much as I.

Afterwards, we'll eat some chow.

All right.

This is from Alice Trump.

Alice Trump.

Sorry, sorry.

Scared for a second on YouTube.

Okay, hear me out.

Would the dancing teacher sketch have been funnier if it had played out exactly the same way, with no interaction from the students and him leaving in embarrassment for the students to then lose their minds gushing over how cool he is?

That's kind of where I hoped the sketch was going.

And I was disappointed at how unsurprising the ending was unrelated.

Regarding your disagreement this episode.

Ben was obviously right.

Full disclosure, I can't keep you guys straight, and I'm not sure which one of you is.

Which was.

What was the disagreement?

I don't.

We fight all the time.

I don't know.

I'm.

I'm.

I'm Ben.

Oh, this is Ben.

I'm.

I'm Ben.

I wonder if it was the Janewick line thing.

We always fight over Jake.

Yeah.

Brad hates her, and we, like, we.

Think she's great, but.

But.

Okay.

So what did you guys think about the.

The sketch about dancing?

I think it's an interesting enough take on it.

Like, I think that could have been better.

I don't know.

It definitely plays on some things with teens and adults or parents where a teenager is not going to give you really how cool you are, how much they like you.

And so I could see there's definitely some comedy in that experience.

I still just feel like if it was a more dramatic person in the role, it would have worked better.

So maybe just a little slight miscast.

Even though Matt Damon was fantastic in it, but it just.

He sold it too well.

Almost.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So thank you so much for commenting.

That is our only one for this episode.

And I'm Ben.

I. I'm.

I'm Ben.

Nobody really cares.

That's Nate, who's being very selfish right now.

All right.

This was the season 51 finale.

It is crazy that we got through another season.

I feel like, you know, season.

I feel like when we started this podcast, we were, like, a couple years away from season 50, and that was going to be, like, the big thing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And now we're a full season after season 50.

It feels weird.

It is.

Imagine how Lauren feels.

I. I know.

And can we do another episode sometime about, like, maybe reviewing this whole season and maybe some things that we expect to see next season?

Brad, are you okay?

No.

Okay.

No.

We will.

Moving on.

We always do a Season 51 recap where we pick our favorite sketches and some other stuff.

So, yeah, we'll definitely maybe make some.

Predictions, and I'd love to hear your predictions, listeners, as well.

All right, let's get started.

Cold open Jeffrey Epstein ghost.

This is kind of styled as a Christmas carol.

Trump James Austin Johnson falls asleep at the Oval Office desk after returning from China and is visited by the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein, who is played by Will Ferrell.

Again, second episode in a row that the host is in the cold open.

And that is rare.

It might not seem like it, but it is rare.

Epstein shows Trump visions of the Cabinet's future, and it ends with a duet of Grover Washington Jr. S. Just the two of us.

What'd you guys think of this?

I'll start with you, Brad.

I like this as another solid variation.

For me, some of the best political cold opens come when they have more of a narrative slant than they do a press conference or a meeting, things like that.

So, like, doing something like this by having the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein actually come and visit Trump at the same time.

In.

In.

In the real world idea of this, it's extremely frustrating to hear jokes like this being made, and we're just like, yeah, that's.

That's satire.

And it's still.

This is all stuff that's just really happening.

And, like, we have to tolerate that.

But, yeah, I think it was fun having Will Ferrell.

They.

I think that they did maybe do a little edgier things in there than you might have anticipated.

But I do.

I. I do wonder if they have writing Cash Patel jokes, because it just seems like they keep going back to the.

The well, even more so than SNL typically does for something like this.

It's like we only need so many jokes about Cash Patel's eyes.

Like, yeah, we get it.

For a while.

Beating a dead horse a bit.

Yeah.

So that's.

That was the only thing I thought.

I was like, you didn't really need to.

To do that again, but, you know, whatever.

Does Aziz live there now?

Probably.

He's just like, you can't get rid of me.

Yeah.

I'm gonna guess he won't be needed in the next season, because I'm gonna guess Cash Patel won't make it through the summer.

Oh, no.

We lose a good one.

What do you think of this, Ben?

No, I like, man, it's shocking to me how as soon as he's like, it's your old buddy Jeffrey Epstein, I'm like, oh, my God, he looks a lot like Jeffrey Epstein.

I don't know why.

I just, like, my brain really connected that, like, shit, he really does look like him.

It's.

It was very funny.

It's good.

Like, it's sharp, but it's still.

I'm mad that we're.

I'm.

I'm conflicted like that, Brad.

Like, I. I don't like that we.

We're at the point where we're just able to make jokes about it, and that's because nothing ever is going to happen about this shit.

Yeah.

So that's frustrating.

But knowing that and saying this is a comedy show, you know, they're.

They're still going to fight the power.

Whatever they're going to try to do on network television is about as good as you're going to get.

So it was.

It was biting enough for me that I definitely found it funny.

I loved Will Ferrell in this.

He was great.

I thought.

I thought it was a little too long.

I thought it was going a little bit too long.

I don't think you needed.

I don't.

I didn't need Aziz.

I'm sorry.

You didn't need.

You didn't need that.

I don't even know if you needed.

You know, I. I just don't think you needed Colin in.

Aziz in this.

Yeah, exactly.

I did.

I did like the future stuff, though.

I thought that was.

That was an amusing premise.

I could have been.

I would have been fine with Colin.

I didn't need Cash there, though.

Yeah.

So it was okay.

Like I said, it wasn't bad at all.

Will was great.

James Austin Johnson is always good.

But it just.

I will say I do appreciate the.

It wasn't just them doing a press conference.

Right.

It was something creative.

There was a spin on it.

And if you're going to do a political cold open, which they Will, almost always.

It's a creative way to do it.

So I do appreciate that.

Yeah.

All right, moving on.

Will Ferrell monologue.

Instead of a traditional monologue, Chad Smith, the Red Hot Chili Pepper drummer, walked on stage first in an identical gray suit and addressed the audience as the host.

And then Will Ferrell comes and he claims that Chad Smith pushed him backstage.

That was a funny little bit.

And then they do a Q and A, which Will admits to what SNL does when they don't know what to do with the host.

Oh, yeah, of course.

And so this.

This was great.

I thought the Chad Smith thing, this a long going.

That's a ever going bit for Will Ferrell and Chad Smith, that where they kind of.

They look very, very similar.

What'd you think of this one, Ben?

Did you like kind of the going to the audience?

Do you think it flowed?

Well, I've never seen anybody other than the host come out that I can remember.

I'm sure it's happened, but I really don't remember the last time they introduced the host.

And it comes out and it's literally not them.

Yeah, so I thought that was very clever, especially because the way my house is set up, the TV in the living room are basically behind the kitchen, so I can be in the kitchen and look through the bar.

So I was in there making food.

And then it was right when the episode started late last night.

And so I was making a little snacky snack, and Ashley goes.

She's on the couch.

She says, oh, that's funny.

And he was just him saying the words and like.

And I'm like, how is it funny yet?

Because I literally thought it was Will Ferrell.

So I thought it was pretty interesting that it was just a normal bit that he was doing that I couldn't tell.

And as soon as I sat down and realized what was going on, I.

The push me backstage thing just was.

It's just delightful.

It's that little kind of childish shit that Will Ferrell does that I love.

Yeah.

But he.

He has a way of saying things incredulously, like in like a almost panic thing like that.

It always sounds funny.

He pushed me back.

He pushed me.

Yeah.

Like a little kid.

Like, take my side.

Don't clap for him.

Yeah, Yeah.

I love Will Ferrell so much.

I actually thought Paul McCartney was great in this as well.

He's obviously done SNL a ton of times, but there was a couple lines.

Again, nice try, Chad.

Get back.

Get back behind the drums where you belong.

And it was a nice little Thing, it wasn't groundbreaking.

There was nothing overly creative about it, but it just felt very vintage Will Ferrell.

To me, I appreciated the dedication to listing all the songs that Paul McCartney wrote.

That's great.

Yeah, I really did like that.

So, yeah, I liked it.

It set the tone for me really well for the.

The episode.

Brad, do you have anything to add?

No, I don't think so.

Okay, good stuff.

All right, next sketch.

Post op.

This was.

Will Ferrell plays a surgeon delivering post op news to Mikey Day nationally.

Padilla mentioning that he accidentally cut off and discarded Mikey Day's genitals during what was supposed to be routine gallbladder surgery.

Mikey Day is a consummate professional, but when, you know, he can barely hold it together, you know, I mean, you just had to believe he idolizes Will Ferrell.

And, like, there's.

There's so much there.

So it was just fun to see them play.

By the way, Mikey Day's 200th episode, I think, was this episode.

He's been on the show for a long time, but I had fun with this.

I thought it was fun.

There was, again, a little bit of the Will Ferrell charm in this as the doctor that he.

You know, I don't know if Matt Damon could have done what he did.

You know, every actor kind of has their own little specialty, but Will Ferrell just brought this sketch alive even more.

Brad, what do you think?

He just has this way of saying things that.

Where it just sounds like.

Like a child saying it, you know, for.

And like saying it for the first time, coming to terms with it and trying to get away with something and make it sound like, look, it's fine.

Everything.

I'm sorry.

Yeah.

And it's.

Why are you making this such a big deal?

I said, and again, I'm sorry.

Yeah, okay.

I said, there's.

I was sorry.

Nonchalant kind of delivery is like.

I mean, what other lever can I pull here?

I've already pulled the I'm sorry lever.

Okay?

I told you what.

It's.

It's very innocent, even.

And even the way he says.

What did I say about being a bitch.

Yeah.

Yes, exactly.

Exactly.

Somebody come talk to her.

You know, that kind of thing.

It was.

It was a lot of fun to see.

Again, Mikey Day and Ashley Padilla, they.

They have, you know, stolen sketches themselves with their performance, and they're really good in this, but they are just serving Will Ferrell.

Absolutely.

And Mikey Day, again, having a hard time not breaking.

I just really thought this was.

Again, I'm gonna Say it a lot.

It just felt very nostalgic.

It felt very, very like almost now.

And I heard.

And see, it's.

The problem is I heard remove his penis.

And so that's what happened.

And I mean, I did it.

I just think that it's such a simple premise and it's just.

It's got to be all in the execution.

And it was executed very well.

Yeah.

All right, moving on.

Bob and Sacrifice.

This is a Lord of the Rings musical parody pre tape written by Dan Bola, who had a sketch on last week.

Was it last week or two weeks ago?

I forget he did a.

He's had a few this season.

All right, this is a. I thought a very high production value pre tape with Lord of the Rings style, musical kind of song.

And Will Ferrell plays Bob and a elf or not elf.

He's a hobbit.

It's a parody of Lord of the Rings, the Two Towers.

And you have the cast playing the various members of the ensemble.

He's an.

Yeah, you know what?

You're right, buddy.

He's an elf.

It's been a long day.

So what you guys think of this?

Let's first talk about the song.

Did you like the song?

I mean, it was.

I won't say, like, it was a banger song.

It was.

It was amusing and that how it fit with the thing.

I wasn't expecting it to get musical.

I didn't think it was gonna be a musical.

Yeah.

So the fact that it took that.

That turn was.

It was a nice surprise.

Did you like the turn?

Yeah, of course.

Yeah.

So what'd you think of this as a whole?

It was great.

It was very funny.

I liked.

I liked the escalation.

I liked the twists and turns that it took.

I very much appreciated the production value.

I couldn't believe how accurately they recreated just the.

The lighting and the style and the visuals of the two towers, right down to even the big army out in.

In front of the fortress.

Like, it was extremely impressive.

And also everybody did a great job playing their respective characters.

Having Chloe Feynman play Legolas was kind of perfect.

Making James Austin Johnson Gimli is great.

You know, everyone did their.

Their part extremely well.

Took me a second to get that.

That was James Austin Johnson.

At first I thought it was dism.

And I was like, well, no, he's playing Gandalf.

They wouldn't have him.

Then he started singing.

I'm like that.

That little, you know, songbird.

He.

He's got a great voice.

Yeah, I like that.

A Lot, I thought the turn, right, where he literally is a turncoat and he goes to the other side.

I love that.

That's so fun.

Well, that and the fact that then he's still alive and kills Gimli.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

A lot of fun to be had.

Yeah.

A lot going on there, and I enjoyed every second I watched it.

All right.

This is a sequel to a sketch they've done before.

But what's interesting about this is the first time this was on cast list 1v1 was a cut for Time sketch, and so this is actually airing during the episode.

This was initially starring Beck Bennett, Heidi Gardner, Aidi Bryant, Mikey Day, Alex Moffatt, Cecily Strong, all of those.

And now it's got the new cast in it.

So this is.

Will Ferrell reprises Mr. Koenig, a manipulative high school drama teacher who torments eager students waiting to see the cast list for the spring musical, which is Grease.

And there is a special cameo by Molly Shannon as well.

What'd you guys think of this?

Do you remember the Cut for Time initially, when this is on?

I didn't.

I had to go back and find it.

As soon as I saw that this sketch was called Cast List 2, and I was like, oh, I need to go check out Cast List one.

But, yeah, this was hilarious.

I will say it did feel long.

It was long, but it didn't feel long in a way that was necessarily bad.

I could just.

I just realized that the sketch was going on for a while, but it was still very funny.

Every.

Like, the fact that they were able to have so many cast members in the sketch was great.

And I thought that Will Frell's character was very funny.

Bringing in Molly Shannon was a really nice touch.

I love the stuff with the Wicked poster was really funny.

But, yeah, this was.

This was a very good sketch.

I think this is Kenan's only sketch.

No, he popped up later on.

Did he?

Okay.

He wasn't in the episode a ton, but.

Ben, what'd you think of this?

I remembered this when I.

When I saw Will Ferrell.

Well, I saw the set and I saw that Will Ferrell come out.

It did.

I did immediately jump to, but I thought it was on the show.

I didn't, though.

I didn't remember there was a Cut for Time, but, yeah, I remember really, really liking the.

The original one.

This was very funny.

It was long, but I.

It was worth it.

I. I liked it the whole way through.

Like, the Jeremy Coleane's bit about, like, just getting cast in it.

And being I was in the background eating yogurt or whatever it was.

And it was just that they.

They foreshadowed a little bit by talking about how Mr. Whatever.

What's his name?

Mr. Koenig.

Mr. Koenig, like, is resentful of him because of it.

And then it comes to fruition because he talks directly to him about it.

Like, I just think the little things like that make the sketch even better than it had any right to be.

I actually think that you're right.

This was Keenan's only sketch.

I couldn't.

I thought there was something he did later, but I had to go look and see and.

Yeah, I couldn't remember what else he was into.

Yeah, great job, Brad.

I was gonna bring up at the end.

Shut up, man.

All right.

But also on one tonight, when I was watching this, I'm like, Ben's gonna love this.

Cuz he also had an idea to do an all white cast.

The Color Purple.

He didn't do it, but we talked him out of it.

That joke is hilarious.

I laughed very hard at that.

And also Will Ferrell's.

What does he say?

Wheelie.

Wheelie mad about it.

I'm wheel.

Wheelie mad.

So good.

It is like, I don't.

I don't know.

They cut to Sarah Sherman.

She's like that.

It's about me.

Like, just the look on her face is amazing.

And Will Ferrell could get away with so much stuff too, because he is so just, you know, innocent when he says things and just so good about it.

I really, really enjoyed this one.

I thought it was very funny.

I did think it was just slightly long, though, but that's okay.

All right, it's time for weekend updates.

Bradford, get your computer out, please.

So joke swap was this week.

We had one bit.

Jeremy colane doing his Mr. On blast.

We had some pretty good jokes and some fun there.

What did you think, Ben?

Yeah, I mean, for the bread ometer.

It's.

It's broken.

It's not broken.

I don't know.

But this is them directly screwing with each other is always the highest of the season.

Because it has to be.

You have to set the bar somewhere.

I don't know, Brad, are we going season by season or is this just for this season?

Because if we're comparing this joke swap to other joke swaps and that will affect the fact that it's a 90.

92, 95.

Or are we only considering this season?

It is entirely contingent on the singular season 100.

Then no, 94.

It's 100.

Oh,.

You thought it was perfect.

I mean, yeah, like, they, they were from the get.

They were like, they were very good.

Yeah.

They were messing with each other.

Like they were already anticipating joke swap.

Like, you could tell.

I, I, I enjoyed this too, and I would have given it higher as well, but I just thought, well, you know how Brad is sometimes.

That's fair.

No, you did, you, you, you were.

I'll defend your take there.

I will say to Joke swap wasn't my favorite joke swap.

I thought it was one of the first time, though, that Colin Jost has one joke swap.

He usually doesn't.

I agree with that.

Yeah.

But it was not my favorite joke swap.

I thought it was a good joke swap.

I believe that's fair.

I think that is why you probably had to clarify.

Right?

Yeah, seriously, that's why.

Because we're at the point now where we've done enough of these where there it's, I use the words diminishing returns a lot.

Like, I, that's part of my vernacular a lot.

But, but that kind of fits here because, like, I've seen this enough where it's, it's lightning in a bottle.

Lightning in a bottle lightning.

They keep coming with ways to reinvent it.

If I'm going to liken it to an analogy on snl, Sarah Sherman being on Weekend Update as a character and fucking with Colin Jones has not lost its luster at all to me because they keep reinventing it.

The reinvention of the joke swap is what is Che going to do to Jost?

Yeah.

And at this point, yes, the, the literally he was going to cut his hair and he was going to let that happen.

Yeah.

And that for real, that real moment in the show was my favorite moment of the entire season.

To see that Michael Che literally looks over goes.

You might be the greatest, you're the greatest comedian of all time.

Yeah.

You were.

You're that committed to the bit.

He has so much respect for him.

That right there made me literally have goosebumps.

It's, it's perfect comedy.

It was, it's awesome.

That being said, I still think the civil rights leader or cutting to Scarlett Johansson in the hallway are funnier bits.

And so, again, not necessarily diminishing returns, but there's only so many lightnings and only so many bottles.

Right.

So this one's just not as, not as good as the other ones.

But it's not to say, man, I thought this was tremendous.

I don't want it to be an insult.

I also did wonder if there Were actually members of Michael Jackson's family in the.

Oh, see, because if they're probably not.

I don't know.

Because Paul McCartney is there.

But that would have been.

But if.

If there was, I think they could have showed them on camera and that would have even.

Oh, God.

I mean, I doubt that they would have been able to because they probably would have been somewhere in the audience where they wouldn't have.

I been able to have a camera.

Highly doubt they were in the audience.

Yeah, I don't.

I don't think they were.

I think it's called a joke.

I don't know.

I don't.

Look it up.

Look at Brad.

Look it up.

Is there any benefit to saying that they're in the audience?

Is there any benefit to saying that she was a real civil rights leader?

And then Nicole, right about later on, she was just a paid actress.

Yeah.

Because it makes you think that she's real.

Exactly.

So you just say they're in the audience and they're not, because then you think they are.

But that's the same bit.

But it doesn't make sense for them to be there necessarily.

What, by the way, did you.

Did you guys watch the Good Nights with Colin?

Joe's.

Yes.

Yeah.

And they put a bald cap on him.

Oh, they really.

I didn't see that part.

Yeah, I didn't see that because I was watching Paul McCartney to a song the next day.

Whatever.

Did they really cut back to it?

They.

Well, they.

They did the Good Nights with.

During the song, and so they showed them dancing while he was.

Gotcha.

Gotcha, Gotcha.

All right, let's do Mr. On Blast.

Mr. On Blast.

Return for another commentary segment.

What'd you guys think of Jeremy Culhane doing this again?

Brad?

Oh, I'm fine.

If he does it whenever he wants to.

Exactly.

Yeah.

It's hilarious.

The choreography wasn't quite as tight this.

Time, but it was more.

Yeah, so I get it.

Yeah, they did more.

They did some different stuff.

The ending was right.

Right back on the money.

It was the middle where they had a little bit of, you know, it wasn't quite as on with picture.

The picture in picture was great.

Very funny.

Yeah.

There was enough escalation here to make his return to the desk worth it.

As long as they can keep figuring out a way to do that, then I am all for it.

Yeah.

No, very, very same page.

Great, great bit by him.

He had the best season of the featured performers.

Now, Brad, on your car, have you ever had the.

Maybe you would say Veronica Sloikowska.

Has some contention there.

No, we're going to talk about that in the night, but next episode, right?

Listen, they all were special snowflakes, because.

I want to talk about dong rod gaskets.

I'll bet you do.

All right, mechanics.

Three mechanics played by Will Ferrell, Paul McCartney, Marcelo Hernandez, attempt to explain incomprehensible car problems to a clueless couple played by Mikey Day and Ashley Padilla.

This is like me going to the mechanic, by the way, whenever they bring up something, you know, I know how to change my oil, and that's about it.

I can't do a ton of stuff, but if they're like, your blinker float fluid is leaking, I'd be like, oh,.

Well, that sounds dangerous.

Got to fix that.

That's for sure.

So I love the.

I loved the.

The comedy part of this.

This was really good.

I thought the sketch was fine, but I liked the.

The.

The conception of the sketch.

What do you think of this, Brad?

It did feel like it maybe went on with the same joke a little too long.

I'm.

I was glad to see that there was a little bit of a.

A peak in the end of the.

Of, you know, saying that they could pay with ass about.

That was.

Was very funny.

And I also appreciated Paul McCartney doing the.

The gibberish sounds.

It's always fun to see him because he's so dry with his delivery.

That was a lot of fun.

But, yeah, it was.

This was.

This was a fine sketch.

I didn't.

Didn't love it.

Didn't.

Just too long.

Yeah.

I really did like the numbers, though.

Yeah.

4760, 400, Whatever.

They just.

And then the fact that Mikey Day says it back kind of innocuously or incredulously.

I like that a lot.

There wasn't a ton of sketches in this.

This episode because there were so many long sketches and three musical performances.

Exactly.

This is a. I guess.

I don't know.

Literally don't know the answer.

So maybe you guys do.

Were sketches when Will Ferrell was on snl?

Were they longer on average or were they shorter or roughly the same?

No, I don't think so.

I think it was roughly pretty much the same.

I don't.

Yeah, I remember Will Ferrell specifically, like, being the cause of longer sketches.

I didn't know.

It just felt like.

Like I said, with the exception of the cold opens when he was George W. Bush.

Yep.

All right, moving on.

The new mints.

A woman who brings her boyfriend home to meet her family.

But the joke is when any Family member turns around.

Their clothing has cutouts that reveal their buttocks and their backsides.

This is a very silly physical sketch.

It's.

It's nothing that's, you know, groundbreaking.

Pass.

But I didn't like this one.

Yeah, it didn't work for me.

I didn't dislike this one.

It felt very half baked, though.

Like, it felt like there was an amusing idea here, but they couldn't really figure out how to make it feel a proper sketch length.

It felt very one joke to me.

Yeah, the, the, the best version of this ever was when Will Ferrell shows up in bikini briefs that are red, white and blue.

Yeah, of course, that's.

That's what they're always going to be chasing with stuff like this.

This was nowhere near that.

And so that's why I was like, there's.

There's nothing here.

Yeah, that's all it did.

Again, feel fairly nostalgic, though, in that, like the.

I get that this was the first.

Time that work as well.

If this is the first time that Will Ferrell had done something like that, I probably would have found it hilarious.

But I'm like, oh, this is literally.

I've seen this before.

So it was still amusing to see him where a garter and laundry and, you know, and that kind of thing.

But, yeah, it just wasn't anything that like, moved the needle for me.

Yeah, me neither.

All right.

And that is it.

I think of the Did I forget sketch.

I don't think so.

I think the new mince was last.

Right.

And then Paul McCartney performed band on the Run.

All right, that was it for the episode.

Again, not a ton of sketches, but we do have two cup for time sketches, which I really enjoyed watching.

Let's go with the first one.

This is a pre tape.

Will Ferrell plays Hormuz.

Jeff, a boat captain promoting his business smuggling goods through the Strait of Hormuz amid the US Iran conflict.

I thought this was hilarious.

It was very good.

I liked Mikey Day in this.

I just thought this was fantastic.

I don't know why they didn't put it in the show.

Time.

Yeah, I got cut for time.

There's no time in the show.

I know, but cut one of the other sketches out.

I would have cut the nudmans.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Like, I think this was one of my.

My top three sketches.

Put it in there.

Find it.

Find a spot for it, in my opinion.

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

Like firing guns at fish.

Especially since it's not as if There were any other pre tapes other than the.

The midnight matinee, you know, like, he could have one more in there.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

And.

And the whole idea of, like, was it Peeler, you know, find us on Peeler, and you have to download the app.

That texto through Peeler and Mikey Day as the second banana, literally saying, you gotta go through, man.

Gotta go through.

You gotta go text, because you know that guy.

You know that guy.

Oh, dude, I've seen that guy at the gas station three times.

Absolutely.

And good on Mikey Day for finding a voice he's.

I've never heard out of him.

No, no.

It was literally a delivery of cadence and a character I've never heard out of him before.

I loved it.

But, yeah, I really like this.

If you've not seen it, go to the SNL YouTube page and you'll.

You'll find it.

It is a wonderful sketch, worth your time.

The energy reminded me of the.

The sketches that they used to do with, like, church and stuff like that, with the.

And talking about the people as if they were like, big drag race events,.

You know, I really don't know what you're like.

Like, when it's.

It's the announcer and it was like, like.

And DJ Zo spinning, you know, whatever.

Oh, oh, oh, gotcha.

The.

You're not talking about.

Ask Dan.

That was one of them.

Okay, okay.

Yeah, no, that's fair.

That's that vibe, that Juggalo vibe almost to it.

Sure.

Now I get that.

All right.

Two of my favorite words together is our next cover dime sketch, Juicy Tubings.

Will Ferrell plays a security guard working a meet and greet for a children's musical act.

I'm physically upset that this was not in the show.

This.

This was absolutely hysterical.

I laughed out loud, hard.

But you do love juicy tubings.

I love juicy tubes more than I like to admit, and I admit it all the time, so you know it's real.

Brad, what'd you think?

Oh, I love Juicy Tubans.

Like, the.

The juxtaposition of a hardcore security guard and a children's show.

I can't believe I've never seen this before.

With a fantastic wig, incredible character work.

Just spot on.

Like, you thought he might actually kick a kid.

Yeah, I don't know.

Just.

He was really going for it.

Well, the way he picked up the one.

Yeah.

I was throwing him around.

I know how to throw.

I know how to throw a kid.

By one complaint or the kids.

I mean, come on.

You know, stop breaking during the sketches.

I mean, they Honestly, weren't.

They were breaking?

Yeah, there was a couple breaks.

That's all I'm saying.

If you watch them closely, they were.

I thought they did a very good job.

They did great.

I would love to see what you would do if Will Ferrell shouting at you and pretend.

Also, I like when he puts the sleeve on the kid and he's like, that's not my kid.

Yeah, awesome.

But I love this sketch.

I love Will Ferrell on this.

Jeremy Clean's not even doing anything.

He still makes me laugh.

He is.

He's got a little bit of that Bobby Moynihan thing to him where he just has that, like.

I don't know what it is an innocence to him that just makes me laugh when he.

When he talks.

Seriously, do yourself a favor, go to the SNL YouTube page.

Watch those two sketches.

They definitely should have been.

These are the.

In my opinion, these are the funniest sketches of the night.

And they're both the.

The cut for times.

Like, that's tough.

All right.

Yeah, that's a good point.

I. I really do.

I. I think they're.

They're.

They were very funny and they were funnier than.

Than half this.

They really were.

You say that the pre tape horror mo Jeff was better than the loader rings pre tape.

No, not quite.

No.

I'd still prefer that one for sure.

But I think that overall, I would have preferred to see these two in over almost everything else.

No, but I'm gonna give.

I mean, can I give the sketch of the night too?

Little juicy tube?

No, we have rules.

Yeah, no, I'm gonna give it to you.

No, we have rules.

No, no, we've done that.

It's my show too.

My show too.

And I'm gonna never done that.

Well, I'm pretty sure we have.

So good.

So good.

No, you know, because.

No, because now you're giving him free reign to break rules whenever he wants to just because he feels like he can.

It's a sketch that was written for this episode.

It's not part of the episode.

We've had this conversation before.

And you agree.

You know what you need.

Don't give him the power to defy mom and dad.

Nope.

You need to embrace streaming media on YouTube as a legitimate form of sketch comedy and taking in what's what they're releasing.

If they didn't want us to consider this, they would not have put it up on YouTube.

That's not true.

We've never considered any other cup of time sketches.

Time.

And also, I say this with all due respect, but go yourself.

You know what?

Juicy Tube in your ass.

You wish, Pastor Nate.

Easy, easy.

A little heated in here.

I like to say for the record that this cut for time sketch is the sketch of the night.

All right?

Disqualified.

The sketch of the night is, in fact, the post op.

That was the funniest one.

I mean, sure, it was funny.

Sure it's funny, but this was funnier.

I thought post op was very good, too.

If I have to pick one in the episode, I would say post op.

I'm giving it.

Maybe Bob and sacrifice.

Yeah, the fight.

No, no.

I don't know.

Also, juicy tubings is very good.

It wasn't in the show.

It was in our show that we watched.

No, it wasn't in the show.

Who was your MVP this time, Nate?

Will Ferrell.

He.

With.

Without Will Ferrell, this is.

This is a nothing show.

Honestly, he carried most of it.

You have to have a high, high bar for Will Ferrell to win.

I have to agree, though, because literally without him, this is.

This is literally a very, very middling show.

It was.

He.

He just.

He brought this show together.

Absolutely.

He gave me so much joy just watching it.

Yeah.

I loved how this season ended.

How about you, Brad?

I think I agree just because even though we do expect this from him, he really did carry the show.

The whole show.

Yeah, it's.

It's.

He made the sketches better than they might otherwise have been with another host.

Yeah, he's.

He's just great.

Yeah.

Can't deny it.

All timer Will Ferrell.

Where is he in the pantheon?

Is he on, like, the Mount Rushmore for you?

I'm pretty sure he was in our.

Our best.

Our top ten casts.

Oh, no, he was definitely in the.

Top ten, but easy.

But I don't remember what we had said about him being in the top.

I don't remember our top.

I don't.

I don't think that we came up with a cumulative best.

We just know we just had our individual.

That's what I'm saying.

Is he on your Mount Rushmore?

I can't remember.

Is he top four?

I remember if he was.

I think.

I think he was up there.

Well, it's worth a re.

Listen, Go have our opinions re shared.

Yeah.

We actually do need to think about some of this.

Are there any cast members right now that you would put in your top?

Let's say 25.

Yes.

Yeah, probably.

Mikey Day.

Okay.

He's just.

He has proven himself over and over again to be a wealth, a spring of comedy.

I Mean, he's just so talented as.

A writer and it is so hard.

Though, because he is so, so good.

But he doesn't have the.

I don't know what it is.

He's not the household name.

Exactly, exactly.

He's not the household guy.

He is the Phil Hartman of this where he just brings everything together so well and he's so good.

Would, Would you put any of the current cast in your top 25?

I think that James Austin Johnson maybe has a chance of also being on there just because he, he is also a versatile performer.

He can do the everyman stuff like Mikey Daycan.

He's an incredible impressionist and he's.

Yeah.

So he's.

You know, I'd like to revisit this in about three years for Padilla because I think she's on a rocket ship for sure.

Marcelo as well.

I mean, they have.

If they've got legs to their career like Bowen Yang is an all timer for me.

And right.

The first couple years it was like, yeah, he's got a lot of good stuff.

Let's see where his career goes.

Right after the shows for him is over, you look back and you go, holy, what a great, like all time career he had.

And I think, would you put him in your top 20 has that as well?

I would.

I would really have to think.

I would really think about this again.

Yeah.

I don't remember.

I know we've done a list.

Like.

Yeah, but it's.

We only did 10 too.

It's hard.

Yeah, no, it's hard.

He's definitely up there in the.

I'd say, like all these people are in the conversation, you know, but I would need to.

I would hate to like look back through and forget somebody, you know, from the 90s or 2000s that I loved instead.

But.

Yeah.

All right, well, that is the episode and that is the season.

Anybody leave anything, Brad?

Yeah, Chloe Feynman's done.

I think that that's a possibility, maybe especially with as much heat as Ashley Padilla is getting.

And she wasn't in a ton of like.

She didn't have the best in like busiest season either.

Yeah, yeah, she.

I mean, she was there a lot.

No.

But just didn't have like really.

It's always these days with the.

It is a bit of a bloated cast and it has been for a while.

Yeah.

It's harder to stand out, I think with Ashley Padilla there and Veronica's Loy Kosa there who I think has the potential to like do what Chloe does.

Yeah.

Maybe not necessarily as, as skilled as an impressionist yet, but she definitely probably has the, the chops to, to maybe do that.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I think that's a possibility.

Here's a couple other ones to think about.

James.

Austin Johnson has been on the show for a while now.

If Trump's alive, he's still.

Yeah.

I feel like Lauren probably will do everything he can to keep him around.

Marcel Hernandez is getting more popular culturally.

Right.

I think he can probably be an actor.

He can do some com.

I think he's got.

I don't think he's going anywhere though.

I'm just saying.

Yeah, I, I think he's got opportunities.

I could see him going the full.

What is it, six years?

Seven.

Seven.

Seven years.

Yeah.

What about Andrew?

Just mukes.

I can see him wanting to write and create some things.

Yeah.

And he's.

I think that he's also had at least in the back half.

It's been a little more of a quieter season for him as well.

The bigger question is is, do Joseph Che maybe leave?

I think that that's prob.

Probably outside.

You know, everybody else, like, is Lauren going to stay or whatever.

But Che and Jost, when they, it's an, it's an era that's over, you know, and so I wouldn't be surprised if, if they were gone and Chloe Feynman's gone and at the same time it's another rewrite for the show.

I don't, I don't know why, but I don't feel like they're wanting to leave.

Like, I don't get that like, vibe from them.

I don't either.

Like still having fun.

I.

And honestly, it's a great gig.

It is a fantastic gig for them.

They're probably getting paid really well to do it because they're very popular.

You know, they're, they're.

And let's be honest, they're not head writers.

Well, we Update is a well oiled machine.

Y.

They have plenty of good writing.

Writing that happens.

They have amazing cast members to pull Weekend Update bids from.

The joke swap stuff.

The, the camaraderie they have, they.

They are peaking still.

So like it would be them retiring at the head at the top of their game.

I would hate to see it, but if it happens, they would, they would basically be very, very missed next year.

I guess the only thing that maybe like might keep me from thinking that maybe they're not quite gonna leave yet is that I don't know if they really have anybody who can Replace them yet.

That's not necessarily a barrier to people leaving, though.

That's.

No, no, of course not.

But I don't think they ever really can until they do.

Right.

Like, I mean, there's, you know, when.

They tested people last season.

They did.

Yeah.

Longfellow.

Yeah.

Who then got released from the show.

Maybe, maybe his audition was that bad.

What about Mikey Day?

Can you see him leaving?

I hope not.

But like I could see again, he's.

I did notice this year for the first time that he looks a little older.

Like in the sketches.

He's not a very young face anymore.

So like him playing younger roles like high school kids and stuff is a little.

It's a little jarring these days.

It'll be interesting too, to see because Cam Patterson and Tommy Brennan really didn't have great freshman years.

Right.

I think they both have potential.

I wouldn't necessarily ax them at all, but the show has got rid of cast members quite a few times after a season if they don't really break out.

Veronica has had a great freshman season.

Veronica and Cole, I don't think are going anywhere of their own volition.

The show will keep them hopefully too.

But again, like, who was the wonderful woman that we lost?

That was just last two years ago, Trost.

Oh, yeah.

Chloe Troast.

And we were all like, what the hell?

Like, she was brilliant.

But that probably speaks more to internal demands or drama or whatever than anything else.

But yeah, that could happen, you know, with any of these cast members.

Yeah.

So it'll be interesting.

We'll talk about more about this probably on our wrap up episode, but I don't really have anything else to comment on this episode.

But I really loved how this season ended.

And we'll talk a little bit more.

Let us know what you think of the episode.

Give us some highs and lows.

Should a pre tape that got cut for time be allowed to be your sketch of the night?

Or does it need to be a live sketch that was cut for time can be your sketch tonight?

Which do you think?

And also if you want your comment read on the next episode, say something about the full season and we'll see.

Yeah.

If you.

What was your favorite episode this season?

Yeah, what do you think is going to get cut?

Who do you think is going to make it through?

Who should host next year?

Do you think Ben should be allowed to break the rules all willy nilly?

Like, you know, we live in a crazy, chaotic society.

What do you think of Brad's juicy tubings?

Are they too juicy?

That's the question the Internet wants to know, are Brad's juicy tubings too juicy?

Tune in to Juicy Tube and Tuesday.

It's a ridiculous question.

No tubings can be too juicy.

Not even on Juicy Tubing Tuesday.

All right, Brady, where can people find you?

You can find me on Twitter and Blue sky under Ethan Anderton or Slash Film and the Slash Film Weekly podcast or Pop Cultured as a podcast or.

Oh, my gosh.

If you like junk food, and I know you do, you can check out look at Brad's Junk TikTok and Instagram and Facebook.

You've been doing the videos.

Yeah, I like.

I'm looking at your junk right now, and it's a.

It's a great juicy tube.

Yeah, you are Juicy Tubing, Ben.

Where can people find you looking at Brad's junk?

Hey, did you announce anything important yet?

Can we announce that on the thing?

Nope.

Anyway.

All right.

Why not?

I mean, I'm just.

This is the podcast for that.

We're still waiting.

Okay, well, soon we're gonna announce something that's gonna freaking Ben's pregnant Juicy twice.

It's gonna knock your juicy tubing off, buddy.

I'm Nate Laukes.

You can find me somewhere on the Internet and we'll be back here in a couple weeks.

Probably maybe next week, I don't know.

But listen to our other podcasts as well.

Go flick yourself.

We'll be updating that one quite a bit more this summer.

We'll do so many more Will Ferrell impressions on that show.

Yeah, and if you would like a video of Ben blowing you a kiss, just send us an email.

Where did this come from?

All right.

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Be good to others.

Bye.

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