Episode 123 — Inde Navarrette (Season 52)

[00:00:06] It's The Ten to One Podcast with your host Brad Oman featuring Ben Conowitz and Nate Lauchs and here's the podcast. Welcome back team. Yeah, we did it. Oh yeah. Inde Navarrette is her name, right? Spooky Scary. Boys becoming men. Men becoming wolves. No, that's not even from SNL.

[00:00:34] It's SNL adjacent. It's from 30 Rock. Tracy Morgan is singing the song. Anyway, her name is Inde Navarrette and she is the star of Obsession and she hosted the Halloween episode, which is only the sixth time I believe that Halloween has actually played host to a Saturday Night Live episode. The sixth time.

[00:00:59] Huh? Okay. Inde Navarrette. He's trying. Come on. He's trying hard. Okay. What is Inde short for? What's her full name? Indiana. International Delight. No, Danielle. Is it really? Her mom called her Inde because she was very independent as a kid. We named the dog Inde. It's not really short for Danielle. She just made up a different name for her.

[00:01:20] Correct. That was the joke, but yeah. It's not really short for that. Yeah, that was the joke. Welcome to the joke podcast, Brad. Yeah. We talk about Saturday Night Live. They make jokes. We have fun. You do too much of the making jokes. You like try and force it in there like a shoehorn in a butthole. Hey, I don't even know what that means. Before we get into recapping this episode, can we do mail call real quick? And then mail call. Yeah, Ben, do the mail song.

[00:01:47] We got mail coming for you. We got mail coming for me. Let's go through the mail and see, see, see what's coming in the mail for me. All right. We do let him come up with his own songs there. Yeah. Oh, are you telling me that wasn't pre-written? Wow. That's a shocker. All right. We have some mail call here. Let's go through. We actually have an email too. Let's go through this one real quick. This is a long time listener off an email.

[00:02:16] Andy Tacholsky. He says, hello, podcast. I would like to follow up on Tom Kaminsky's email shared on the 10 to 1 last week in which he expressed solidarity regarding public shaming and chastising a Brad. First and foremost, thank you, Tom. You will never know how much the support means to me, but I hope by having it read aloud on this week's version of the podcast or perhaps many months from now, if history is any good, that you will understand the depth of my appreciation. Second, I think this continued dialogue really speaks to the podcast growth in the Polish-American community.

[00:02:46] North West, Indiana, which there is a lot, by the way. Although I am but one member of this demographic, I can't help but wonder that if you continue to cultivate this relationship, perhaps one day there could be a sponsored Go Flicks Yourself segment in which the affirmation, junk man Brad produces a room temperature pierogi or Ziploc bag of kielbasa bits from the pocket of his cargo shorts. I do like the crossover here between Go Flicks Yourself and the 10 to 1 podcast.

[00:03:11] Yeah, our other podcast, if you're just new to us, to the dismay of his co-host. Third and finally, I was slightly underwhelmed by the RFK junior impression and look on last week's SNL. I thought he needed rotisserie chicken skin and the voice needed to be more gravelly, as if he had just finished chewing on the bones of a skunk. But then I was blown away by James Austin Johnson's Mr. Wonderful on Weekend Update. Again, I thought both were good impressions, but whatever.

[00:03:36] Okay, that's the end of my email. Great job, Nate and Ben Crack. Congratulations on your respective engagements, forthcoming weddings. I am now married. You are still engaged. I'm engaged. Brad, give your announcement. Oh, I have a girlfriend. Any comments to Mr. Toholski? Thanks, buddy. You know, Andy, I'll be honest. Brad wasn't listening at all. He was on his phone. No, you don't even know what he said. You're just such a disrespectful listener.

[00:04:02] He was talking about Tom. He was talking about how he didn't really appreciate the impression that James Austin Johnson for Kennedy and that he went through a whole thing. I heard most of it. You don't even pay. You weren't even listening. You were glancing. I was trying to find something that we were talking about after this. All right. I'm so glad that I could call you out on that. This is from Brad WZ, other Brad. This is from Spotify. Hey, guys. Brad from the Made Up 1 to 10 podcast where we got our URLs crossed last year. I hope you remember this joke. I do.

[00:04:29] I have to say, as another Brad, also the numbers on the breadometer this week were way off. If you need a new Brad for the Weekend Update meter, please let me know. It was at least an 86. Love your guys' show. Look forward to each new episode. Thank you, Brad WZ. Thanks, Brad W. Yeah, thanks, Brad W.

[00:04:43] And then this is one from YouTube. This is from Alex from YouTube. I called him Ali Strupp last time. He's like, my name's Alex. But what I love about Alex is he was single-handedly fighting people off on our YouTube comments because they were mad that Shane Gillis wasn't actually on our podcast.

[00:05:06] Yeah. Nowhere does it say that he would be. And the format of the episode title is exactly the same as every other episode we've done. So if you thought he would somehow be on the podcast, that's on you for being a dumb shit. Hey. Oh, sorry. Piss shit. Hey. Oh. Just for being confused. All right. He says this. You should do at least one episode of SNL UK this season. They've been killing it. And Weekend Update in particular has all the wit and edge that the U.S. version has been lacking recently.

[00:05:33] The Danny Dyer episode from a few weeks ago was particularly great. And for once, I was happy to see James Austin Johnson doing his Trump impression. Have you guys kept up at all with... No, I keep meaning to and then I forget and fall by the wayside. I want to catch up and I'll catch little clips here and there and people have sent me stuff. And it sounds like they're doing a really good job. And I'm really glad that it's panning out for them. But yeah. They do seem to have a little more of an edge. Of course. I think the clips I've been seeing... British television always has. Exactly. I think they're also allowed to have a little more than an edge.

[00:06:02] I did watch James Austin Johnson's clip of him on SNL UK. It was very funny. I saw the response on Weekend Update that UK had. About Shane Gillis' monologue. It was very funny. So yeah, they're clearly doing a lot of good stuff over there. I remember just watching that very first episode thinking, I don't know enough about the UK politics or just the UK and Europe in general.

[00:06:28] One of the fun parts of SNL is seeing... Just like we're talking about RFK Jr. Is the impression good? Right? And so there are characters on SNL UK that I'm like, I don't know if that's a good person or not. There's very New York specific things that are really just for them. Yep. And as a person from Northwest Indiana, I'm like, oh, that must be a local city council person or whatever. The best ones of those though are still funny even if you don't know who they are, right? Yeah, of course.

[00:06:56] And SNL UK has been doing a pretty good job. There was just one sketch in that one that I did watch. It was like a big table full of who's who where I didn't know anybody at all. And that was like, all right, well, I'm just going to sit here and wait for the next thing that I might pipe funny. All right. A couple comments here from Facebook. We like to put out before we record what you guys think to kind of a we will steal your opinions on this show if they're good.

[00:07:26] So here's a couple comments. This is from Joe Wicker. Overall, pretty decent episode. This is about this one here with Indiana Navarrete. Navarrete? Navarrete. Navarrete. Love seeing Mr. Pumpkins and his B-boy skeletons again. Too bad it was interrupted by another Trump appearance. And of course, you can't go wrong with the drunk alcohol at the desk and actually be a fart joke to save an OK sketch as I sound the cake. Alex Pappas says pretty good weekend update. Sketches were all just fine. Inventor's wife was a miss for me. I disagree.

[00:07:55] Host was enthusiastic, but not the best timing. Hope she gets to keep trying. Seems like she was theater kid energy. I agree. I like the first pumpkin sketch, but don't think it really works again. So I enjoyed the false start, even if it meant some Trump stuff was the payoff. Probably funnier than another straight riff on a David S. Pumpkin sketch. 6.8 out of 10. Good. I'm glad we got that. 6.8 out of 10. Okay, I'll take it.

[00:08:20] Speaking of Alex Pappas, who is a longtime friend of ours and a friend of our other pod, Go Flix Yourself, a frequent guest on that show where we talk about movies and do other assorted nonsense. I'll give a shout out to Alex. We're not going to read this whole thing that he sent us, but because we are good friends with Alex, after the Shane Gillis episode was recorded, he sent us an email basically expressing his feelings on the entire debacle with Shane Gillis and also calling us out for a little bit of irresponsibility on our part that I will fully agree with

[00:08:50] and take responsibility for, which is that we kind of let Shane get away with stuff because we think he's one of those comedians who is smarter than he appears and takes shots at his audience, at least the side of the audience that we don't really like very much. And we kind of let him get away with stuff that otherwise maybe comedians we wouldn't like them to say or like what they have to say if they were to say that. And I'm going to go out on a limb and say that he's absolutely right and that we should be holding comedians like Shane responsible for the things that they say,

[00:09:19] even when they're dumb and off the cuff and not give them the benefit of the doubt. Oh, maybe he didn't mean that because he said it and he had time to prepare and he did it. Oh, so yeah, it's a very purposeful joke. Yeah. Can you though, here's I guess, and I'm not disagreeing with Alex, but here's I guess where I struggle a little bit with that. Do we not just have the freedom to say, that's a bad, dumb joke and move on? I think we do.

[00:09:46] No, because I also don't want to get to like refereeing every comedian because I feel like that happens on the other side quite a bit too where can you believe they said this about Trump or can you believe like, and it's like, okay, just calm freaking down. Maybe it's a bad joke or maybe it goes a little too far. Maybe it pushes a little too much. But like also like I can say that and also say, well, maybe next time they'll get it. Like maybe the next time it'll be funnier.

[00:10:14] Like not that joke specifically, but like, you know. I think that's a different conversation and a different argument because in this case I don't think we're necessarily policing comedy. I think we're just policing the correct treatment of women and making light of something that really is disrespectful and not in a way that felt satirically irreverent or anything like that because we talked about this. It was a lazy bit. It didn't feel it was well constructed and it didn't need to be done that way, especially when you find out that the butt of the joke is Shane himself. Exactly.

[00:10:43] It was sloppy. He should have done it better. There was a way to do that bit. Yeah, and he needs to be better. Well, he's also the guy that is known for being this kind of edgelordy type comedian. So what's better than shocking people right off the gate? So it's purposeful because he wants to shock people into listening. Yeah. And that's the setup of the joke and it creates controversy, which is why he's on the show in the first place. So he did his job. He did. He's just like, I don't have to agree with that joke being a good joke. It's not a good joke. Yeah.

[00:11:14] And Shane Gillis is not funny when he said that joke. Yeah. I also can't police myself as far as what I find funny. It's not that I will say out loud, I did not laugh at that comment, right? Yeah. I laughed at the bit later on. I laughed at him being in the background with his stupid face. I did laugh at that. Yeah. I just, that's why it's really hard because you laugh at things that are funny and you don't laugh. That's a good part of the joke though. Exactly. And that's, that's why comedy is so hard because you can't really control what you do find funny, right? It's, it's very subjective. Are you still going to watch Shane Gillis specials or see? And that's the thing.

[00:11:43] Like you, you start picking that apart and you can say, well, Nate Bergassi attended the UFC fight, took a picture with RFK Jr. So I'm not going to support him anymore. Louis CK, I'm not going to support. Dave Chabelle, I'm not going to support him anymore. And then you just, you start picking and choosing your own morality here. Everybody needs to do that. You do whatever you want. Yeah. I'm most likely going to watch the next St. Shane Gillis special because I find I'd say 80% of what he does pretty entertaining.

[00:12:09] And the 20% of stuff that he might be saying for shock value or whatever, I don't really care about it. I don't really, it's art artist type stuff. I'm still going to go see the next Tom Cruise movie, even though he's a crazy Scientologist and it's probably bad for the world, but I'm still going to go see it. We watched Saturday Night Live even though Chloe Fineman was a devout Scientologist the whole time. Nobody had a problem with that. People still watch Woody Allen movies. Where is the line for you personally? Make up your mind and stick to it. Yeah. But you don't really get to go out and say this is the line for other people. Yeah.

[00:12:39] Because everybody's their own person. And to Alex's credit, he was not saying that. Exactly. Alex approached it in the right way where he called us out for letting Shane off the hook for that because exactly what you said, Brad. Alex's point was that we think, or our opinion at the time was, well, he knows what he's doing and he knows he's being offensive. And that's why it gets the pass. That's not fair. He doesn't get a pass. He shouldn't get a pass.

[00:13:05] And especially because on a larger scale, you have the problem now is that there are other comedians out there like a Joe Rogan or a Theo Vaughn or anybody who is saying this stuff that is inciting bad faith arguments and ideas that is actually corrupting real people who are too dumb to understand that what is being said isn't true, isn't based on fact. And so the comedy that comes from them starts to feel less like it's a joke and more like

[00:13:34] it's genuine stuff. Yeah, you're just platforming idiocy. Yeah. And it's just fueling the worst side of their fandom. Good comedy, right? Doesn't punch down. That joke punches down. So fuck that joke. And I'm probably still going to watch Shane Gillis because I find him funny. There's my answer. All right. So Ben, no more backbone. Nate, you're all right, I think, maybe. I don't know. I mean, I'm still going to. I won't say that I'm watching Shane Gillis. That's what I do. Okay. But I'll watch it. But I'm not going to brag about it.

[00:14:04] Yeah. You're not going to do a sermon about it. Yeah. No, I'll download it illegally and watch it. I'm not going to give me money. And when I'm around Alex, I'll hate him with Alex. Oh, yeah, yeah. You'll be like, oh, Shane Gillis. I'm like, yeah, no. According to Gillis. I mean, just what a jerk. But then I'll talk to Ben about the- I'll be like, man, it's funny when he makes that face, though. And it made me laugh. Will you not watch Shane Gillis anymore? You know, I really- I don't know. It's tough. It's tough. Like, I do- Are you not going to watch Bergazzi because he was in that picture? Yeah.

[00:14:34] I feel like I'm done with Nate, honestly. Like, that's- It's just like- Like, there's no backbone there. Like, it's cowardly. Like, it doesn't take effort to be like, oh, no, no. I stand against the whatever the chuckle fucks represent. Because if you don't know what we're talking about, Nate Bergazzi took a photo with, like, RFK at a UFC fight. And the PR people came out and said, he just likes the UFC and he's so dumb. He was just there and somebody wanted to take a picture. He doesn't say no to anybody for taking a picture. Who cares? That's fine. But then when people are saying, oh, so do you believe in this horribleness on this-

[00:15:02] What's happening, then he just could say, I don't have an opinion. That means, yeah, probably you are on the side of bad stuff. I think Nate Bergazzi likes to make money. And I think he would much rather make money than take a stand on probably anything. Right. Yeah, and to me, that's cowardly. That's bullshit. Sure. Do you have more respect for somebody like Shane Gillis who is, like, tripling down on it rather than Nate Bergazzi who's not saying anything about it?

[00:15:28] No, because it kind of makes me feel like that maybe there's a bit of him that's actually a piece of shit. Well, yeah, no. I mean, I think that tripling down on the offensive shit that he's saying is even worse, right? I will say, not that he needs defense or anything like that. There was a post on Reddit, and you can take it with a grain of salt as to how true it was or anything like that. But in the days following his stint on hosting SNL, he had a live arena comedy show, and apparently he kind of talked about it a little bit.

[00:15:57] And the way that he talked about it, the person recounting it said that he seemed a little forlorn and upset about it at himself, not because it happened. And he talked openly about how he wasn't voting for Trump, he was voting Democrat. Which he had said before this. The weirdest feeling I had watching the show was after that happens, and then he drops the F-bomb, right? His, and what I took to be honest and earnest.

[00:16:25] Like, he felt really bad about saying the F-word. And he apologized in a real way. And it wasn't like, he wasn't apologizing because, oh no, I won't be able to host again, I won't make more money. It was a very much, he respects comedy and was like, and the institution that is this You're messing it up. He's disrespecting Lorne Michaels, and that's not at all what he wanted, right? In retrospect, I was hoping that maybe he would look at the word whore in that joke like that, and like really have a thought process behind it.

[00:16:52] Like he did, if you respect comedy, respect it all the way. Yeah. And that was the most disappointing thing, because those two things should have had similar reactions by Shane Gillis, and they didn't. And to piggyback off that, actually, maybe the best, or not the best, but like one of the better reactions that came out of this was what Kenan Thompson had talked about when he was asked about how he felt about it. And he had said that, you know, that if Shane came back, that he would want to have a conversation about, you know, something like that, or like what would be in the monologue,

[00:17:19] because it was something that ended up taking away from the rest of the show, regardless of what you think about, you know, whether it was a joke that was right or wrong, but just that like it becomes the focal point of the entire episode. But you have all these people who made SNL that single week come together, and he like specifically said, you know, we had Grace Ryder, who had an amazing show that episode, but no one's talking about how great she was, because everyone's focused on this one little thing. And it's not to say that they shouldn't be mad about it, but it sucks that when that happens

[00:17:46] and that like the host hasn't thought through the consequences of that kind of thing. And then when you've got, you know, there was a lot of really good response and it came from women. And then you had a lot of dudes trying to, you know, white knight it and, and, and really virtue signal really hard. And that overtakes then a conversation about Grace's performance. And it actually does the opposite intent, which is to celebrate somebody who had a great week and is a woman.

[00:18:13] And the, the joke, you know, became, that was all we were talking about. And it actually hurt what it should have helped. Yeah. That, that sucks. Yeah. But we do get a callback in the monologue, which we'll get to in a second. Yeah. After we talk about the cold open. Yeah. All right. Fine. Did you want to keep going and talk about these? Let's talk politics, Nate. Cold open, scary Halloween. We open on a haunted house ride and the night's big surprise arrives right away. Interesting.

[00:18:41] Tom Hanks, which might be your favorite person coming back, wasn't mine. Tom Hanks is back as David S. Pumpkins flanked by my guy, Bobby Moynihan and Mikey Day. Just as the bit gets rolling, James Austin Johnson's Trump barges in and takes over. Obviously, he's nervous about the midterms. I, like Alex said, actually really liked this. I was a little worried, honestly, that they were going to do a David S. Pumpkins again. And I'm like, okay.

[00:19:11] And obviously, now I, now you know the full sketch. You know why it seems so rote at the beginning where you're like, okay, this is literally the same joke. But we've seen, we've seen repeat sketches where they have done just like essentially the same thing. And you're like, okay, that wasn't really that good. But I like this. I thought Trump was very good. I don't know why, but I just love when they do these paused sketches.

[00:19:39] And James Austin Johnson gets to riff as Trump. And he, you know, when he says Tom Hanks and he calls Tom Hanks out. And like when he's actually calling the people for their name and he's breaking the fourth wall. I like it a lot. I really do. I don't know what it is, but I just love it. And that's why I was okay with the Trump stuff here because this is my only, this is the only version of this that I have patience for still. Yeah.

[00:20:06] Because I do want to see what the meta comment will be. And it's interesting. No. And I feel like also because of what happened in the weeks since SNL was on hiatus, this was maybe the best way to jump around and do it. Because you get to lean into the chaos of how Trump speaks to the public these days and just says whatever he wants to, whatever he wants to with no, any like thought process. Which he's always done, but it's at a high novelty. Oh, yeah. It's like listening to a grandpa in a nursing home.

[00:20:30] But it's like, I did appreciate that they did this as a way to backdoor Trump coming in and doing it. And the stuff that they had to talk about was funny. Him making the funny noises, talking about guys' asses, the gay dementia, all this stuff has been really funny in the weeks since then. And so the fact that they were able to touch all upon it in this episode and still bring back Tom Hanks and Bobby Moynihan in a fun way. I got a little, a mini hot take. Okay. Riblet.

[00:20:59] I miss Beck Bennett because. That's not a hot take at all. Everyone misses Beck Bennett. No, no, no. You don't think we like Beck Bennett? You know who I miss, Mike Myers. I guess maybe the hot take part of it is I really hated the way Jeremy Colleen delivered his lines because I miss when Beck Bennett did it and the way he was so incredulously like, but what is it? And I swear to God, Jeremy Colleen was reading them off of a dinner menu. He didn't kill that.

[00:21:27] However, was it because though it was an interrupted sketch? Well, yeah, I think he was maybe playing it up and like faking sketch comedy. But also I think that to counter that, he was really good at doing the other thing, which was telling Grace Wright to be like, look, just pass out. If you're going to say that, I'm only going to pass out. And that's fine. And you do have to have two speeds to go to. You can't. But I still feel like there was a different way to do the actual readings of, you know, who is David?

[00:21:56] Because like, again, Beck Bennett was like just so fun to watch him do that. Like Mikey Day reacts incredibly well. Yeah. Beck Bennett incredibly well. And this one is just like I didn't know why he would write it like that. It was just weird. I think Bobby Moynihan does well too. Of course. He doesn't. Of course. Come on, man. He doesn't. He didn't mention him. No, not like that. You know what? Let's move on. All right. Monologue by Inde Navarrette. Oh, my God. Oh, now he did it. He's broken. He did it. All right. Hey, Jeremy Colleen. Move on. World when you're with Obsession.

[00:22:25] I've still not seen Obsession. I haven't either. It'll scare you so much, Nate. I bet. Should we watch it together? No. No. We should probably watch it together, right? Probably tonight. So she also jokes about her relationship with Nick Aiello. Is that his name? Sure. Okay. And takes a little bit of a shot at Shane Gillis. Great joke. Completing about how she was going to the gym to work out to be rogue in the new X-Men movie and putting on her little whore outfit. Good callback. Love that.

[00:22:53] Again, do you think that was SNL also? Obviously, they wrote this. Of course. It was just like saying, hey, guys. Yeah. We get it. Yeah. Of course. We're with you. But what do you think of this? I think Pappas' comment that she had theater kid energy was absolutely true. She's very eager. She was very excited to be there. She's got a lot of talent. I think that she probably needed to reel some of it in a little bit. But first time hosting SNL. Excited. That's what we always want.

[00:23:23] And she's so young, too. Don't seem too cool. That's what I want. She's got time to really build into this. I can't wait for her next hosting. Honestly. Obsession was her huge breakout role. And she's become insanely famous because of this movie now. She's huge. Her character's in Fortnite. She's going to be in an X-Men movie. Now, what's that? She's a sensation right now. She's a huge deal. She is an it girl right now. And so there's a lot of weight and pressure riding on that.

[00:23:51] But I won't say that she did the best job. But I don't think she did a terrible job. She did as good as anybody you would expect for this kind of performance. She didn't derail anything. Well. As far as overall the show. Derail is a strong word. But you don't look at the show and go like, well, if not for the host, it would have been a good show. No, not at all. Mistakes were made. Of course. But nothing got derailed. Crazy. She mentioned in an interview she wanted to write her own monologue.

[00:24:21] Like Taylor Swift. Did Taylor Swift write her own monologue? Probably. She's a writer. She said this before the episode aired. I wonder how much of this she actually wrote. It would be hilarious if she wrote the horror joke herself. I could see. Yeah, maybe. It would be amazing. All right. Moving on. Queen Mary Ghosts. A ghost tour abroad. The haunted Queen Mary. A spirit appears ready to reveal where the ship's treasure is hidden.

[00:24:45] But she keeps getting interrupted by a family of hyperactive 1920 ghost kids who just want to go swimming. I don't know why this sketch made me laugh so much. But it just did. It was just, I think, the silliest premise. And I know I read on, you know, I read the bread. Not a lot of people liked this. I just thought it was silly and funny. And I enjoyed it. Ben, what do you think? So I think there's something there.

[00:25:14] It just didn't do it for me. Maybe it was because it was more of the same when they came back the second time. I don't know. It just didn't work for me all the way. I think the other part of it was because I couldn't really tell. So from Ben Marshall's character's perspective, he's the only one that can see the ghost, right? Yeah. Yes. And so I wish they had a better way of visually representing that to kind of bring you into his perspective more.

[00:25:43] I thought Ben Marshall was very funny. No, he was great. But I just, I don't know. Just the whole overall setup was hard. I liked it. What did you think? I thought it was very funny. It felt like a sketch maybe that should have gone on later in the show as opposed to the one right after the monologue. I agree. But I thought that both India. What would you call that, Brad? Like if it was maybe at the end of the episode instead of the beginning. Chuckle funny end. And I thought Indy and Marcelo were hilarious as the child ghosts.

[00:26:11] That's what I loved about this idea. Their energy, like they just had this like wide-eyed innocence. They were just so excited about swimming. That was really delightful and fun to watch. Mikey Day was also fun entering the fray, especially when he- That was, at the end, he was great. Come swimming with us! That was great. I don't know where that came from either. Like it was wild. But no, and then like Ben Marshall, yeah, he was very funny in this one too because when it gets around, it's like, no, but I think I figured out how they died. Yeah. No, he was a highlight for me for sure. Yeah. I just, the mechanics just didn't do something for me. I don't know. I don't know.

[00:26:41] I just love when a writer's like, you know, we never like in ghost, like, you know, movies or anything, you never like hear about, you know, like it was just plain and like, you know, now they're ghosts. Exactly. Evil spirits. Like annoying you in the afterlife. Well, the mere concept of having interaction with a ghost and there's a purpose to that and then having random ghosts come in and ruin that. Shut up! Yeah. Like, you know, I don't know why it just made me laugh so much. All right.

[00:27:11] This one was probably, I think, the bigger one that I saw online. I saw a lot of people. Hold on. It was because I was annoyed because in my head- Reminded you of your kids? She was going on for a while and they're interrupting the whole time and I thought, I don't like that awkward humor because I would have stopped them. I would have been a Marshall's character. Shut your mouth. Hey, hey, guys, I get it. But because they went on for like sentences and sentences and so I think that that was awkward for me and that's why I didn't like it. Interesting. That could be.

[00:27:41] There you go. All right. Moving on. Like I said, this one I think has the most views on YouTube so far. Delta Disruptive. This is a new airline class. I just got back, by the way, from my honeymoon in Punta Cana. Whoa. But so this one- What part of Indiana is that? This is a pre-taped ad for Delta's newest cabin, a dedicated section for disruptive passengers so everyone else can fly in peace.

[00:28:08] This is just kind of taking every crazy character you've ever seen on a plane. Yeah, every TikTok you've seen of airline confrontations. Yep. And most Waffle House. Yep. Exactly. There was a little bit of that. It worked for me, though. I thought this was very funny. What did you think of this one, Brad? No, this is a perfectly executed commercial parody. The use of people who you've seen in TikTok videos over again, including a great character work by Indy Navaretti.

[00:28:38] She was very funny in this. Everybody was, though. I mean, it was just like there was not one dud that was there. Agreed. And it's just the setup for it. Ashley Padilla as the straight woman. She's perfect in that. Yeah. It was just fantastic all around. She plays that Cecily Strong character really well there. What did you think of this one, Benny? No, no. This is how you do a pre-tape, for sure. This is exactly what you would do. Especially a commercial parody like that. I loved it. No. 10-10 no notes.

[00:29:08] So we're into this episode. I think it's a pretty good cold open. I mean, comparatively, I think she does great. I'm like, okay, I'm into this episode. And I do think so far, I'm like, okay, they're hitting a stride here. Moving on, the uninterested woman game show. Ashley Padilla hosts a dating game show where, how do you pronounce this? Saida Bello Osagie? Saida Bello Osagie. Thank you.

[00:29:37] Plays a contestant who is very clearly not interested. She's married, in fact. And she's a lesbian. And she's a lesbian. And she's a lesbian. And then all of the three males are female, plain males. And so that was funny, too. What did you think of this one, Ben? Did this one work for you? Yeah. No. Just the blatant, moronic takes that all three had.

[00:30:06] Every word they said was dumb, and I laughed at all of it. It was just great. Six foot minus three made me laugh. That was really funny. I saw somebody online compare Indy to Kate McKinnon a little bit in this, and I can see that a little bit. Brad, what did you think? Did this one hit for you? This was hilarious to me. And I also loved that they actually had all of the women play the men in the sketch, too. This really felt like it was a very just female-forward sketch in general.

[00:30:35] I'm sure it was written by women because all of the things that are in here absolutely came from real-life experience of being hit on anywhere by some dipshit. But, yeah, and Ashley Padilla, again, doing the straight person role as the host, this was phenomenal work from her because her reactions to everybody, just the continued exasperation. I'm going to start off this by saying, again, she's not going to be interested. She's gay, and she's married.

[00:31:04] Just the Bill Hader over-the-topness of it. I laughed so hard at when Jane Wickline was like, yeah, she's probably a lesbian. Yeah, she is. She is. We said that. Yeah. I laughed really hard at that as well. Yeah. Okay. Great sketch. So speaking of Ashley Padilla here, let's take a real quick break here because my wife Molly asked me, because she doesn't watch SNL. She wanted a divorce because she's into Ashley? No. But she said, okay, I'm going to try to get into SNL with you. And she's like, so who do you think is the funniest cast member on the show right now?

[00:31:33] And I had a hard time answering that. And I said, honestly, it's really hard because I think people do characters very differently. And what Marcelo does really well here. Jane Wickline might be very funny in this bit. Who would you say is, do you think right now, the funniest cast member? I mean, the person who has the most heat right now and has been consistently funny for a while now is Ashley Padilla.

[00:32:02] Honestly, I think that she's got it all around from characters to playing the straight person like we're talking about. She's writing stuff. She's just funny all around. I really think that she's got it right now. Yeah, no, she's peaking. I mean, hopefully not peaking. Hopefully this is just who she is forever. But yeah, she's definitely hitting her straight right now. But I still think it's Marcelo Hernandez if I had to point to somebody to say that's the most consistently funny person on the show. Like I just.

[00:32:28] I think he's fallen a little by the wayside more recently. I think more recently, Padilla probably takes the lead there. But I think overall. So 100% agree with you guys. And I went with Ashley Padilla. And interestingly enough, she had actually heard of Ashley Padilla and seen some sketches on Instagram, these kind of things, because they go viral. But it's hard for me still, though, because I'm like, you know, though, I can't throw Mikey Day under the bus because also he's so consistently funny all the time. He's given me so much joy.

[00:32:58] But if you're honestly talking about right now, it's the highest percentage of time on screen that you're enjoying that person. It'd probably be Grace Ryder because she's been in almost nothing. And every single time she's in it, it's been awesome. She's hitting. Yeah. But she's been in two episodes. It's hard to answer that question. Mikey, I think, is more of a stealth talent because of his writing and because you don't necessarily think of him as having definitive characters or anything like that or sketches where like.

[00:33:27] It would be hard to say that Mikey Day is the funniest person on Saturday Night Live. Yeah. But also, I think when we watch SNL, it's a little different. We're watching a lot of different cues, a lot of different things. And so Mikey Day can hit for us. If you were to tell me who's the biggest glue person on the cast, it's Mikey Day. But it's also hard to not say Kenan for that, too, because he's also kind of a glue guy. Or a horse. You're so dumb. Moving on. Midnight Matinee, the inventor's wife. Somebody in the comments made fun of that.

[00:33:57] That's a bad joke, Brad. Horse and glue? It's just a bad joke. That's reliable. That's classic stuff there. I just wanted to. Does it? Does. I mean, it's a silly question. We should probably cut this out. Does glue. Is glue still made from horses or no? Is that like something. If it's not, I'll put my hoof in my mouth. I feel like we probably have figured out how to make it. I'll ask my friend Elmer. Okay. There's a dumb thing for me to ask you. I know somebody named Elmer. I actually do as well. All right.

[00:34:27] Midnight Matinee, the inventor's wife. I know two people named Elmer. Just one. Oh, I got you. I know four. Shut up. You're a liar. No. Nobody knows that. You don't know. I know two Elmers. I know an Elmer in California, and I know an Elmer in Indiana. Elmer Fudd does not count. That would be three. Forgot about him. Fuddett about it. All right. This is the latest entry in Dan Bulla's Midnight Matinee series. Indy plays the grieving widow of an eccentric inventor.

[00:34:54] After the funeral, she finds his final creation waiting in the workshop, a sweet Wally-like robot called PD44. This, couple comments. Go ahead. This was shot beautifully. Like this, Dan Bulla is going to be like, I think a good filmmaker one day. Like, I think his- I would argue he is a good filmmaker right now. I mean, the short film. I'm just saying, give him a full-length film.

[00:35:24] Sure. Like, he's creative in the shots. Like, there's just such good work going on. Hey, Brad, you know something else that was shot well? Michael Man's leg. That's true. Man down. That's a very topical joke. Yeah, that's a joke for Go Flix Yourself. Yeah, sorry. Jesus. Sorry about that. What am I going to- We're not going to record for a while. It's your fault. We could be recording 10 to 1 and Go Flix Yourself back to back. Be like, oh, I got kids and I gotta go get my prostate exam.

[00:35:53] That only happened three times. All right. Dan Bulla's latest sketch. Wonderful. I didn't ask you yet. Come on, man. Brad. Say wonderful. I like this a fair amount. Whoa. Whoa. But I worry that the midnight matinee framework of a sketch has started to create expectations that make it hard for a sketch that even by normal SNL standards is very good to live

[00:36:20] up to because now, ever since the beginning of midnight matinee, we're expecting a turn. And so I knew something was coming. Sure, me too. At some point. And I knew it was going to be something involving the robot doing something that was going to be probably incredibly violent or incredibly inappropriate. You're going to have that. Yeah. And for me, the payoff was not quite what I wanted. It was still very funny, but I was just hoping maybe for something a little more. You saw it coming a little bit too much? Yeah. I think Indy did really well in this, too. I think she did, too.

[00:36:49] And I think that it's a very well-made sketch with phenomenal production quality. And so I enjoyed it. And I don't have anything negative to say about it other than I feel like I wanted a little bit more from the punchline and the reveal. Maybe as a compliment to Dan Bullock because you do have such high expectations now of his work, right? Yeah. Because he is really creating some fantastic stuff. All right, Ben, I'll ask you now. What did you think? It was fine. I thought it was great.

[00:37:19] I really liked it a lot. I did see it coming a little bit. I knew there was going to be a turn. I was very satisfied with the turn, though. That's just it. It's just on its face, whatever, Penis Destroyer 44. It's just funny. It's just silly funny. And the fact that it turned into something so large, I also thought that was funny because I thought that maybe it would just jump up and bite a guy's dick or whatever. But turning into a massive, massive thing is the turn, and I was there for it.

[00:37:46] Did you guys catch the Easter egg in the restaurant when they were on their date? No. No. The name of the restaurant was DiCenzo's. Wait. Wait, is that? As in the writer. Oh, I was thinking. What's Dicenzo's first name? Mike. Mike Dicenzo. Isn't it Mike? I don't know. You've said his name dozens of times on the podcast. That doesn't sound like something I would say.

[00:38:15] This is something you guys should know. Hey, don't be a bulla. Thank you. Is it Mike? Are you asking AI right now? No, it is. No, I Googled it. I didn't ask AI, but I did Google it. Dang it. You're right. I should have known that. Mike. I thought it was Dicenzo's, but apparently it's Dicenzo's. You could be right, but it sounds more Italian if you say Dicenzo's. It does, yeah. I'm going to guess the restaurant would be called Dicenzo's for sure. Dicenzo! Navarrete!

[00:38:46] I don't think she's Italian. Pretty sure she is. Nah, I think she's... Go on. Nope. That's not good. Let's guess female ethnicities. She's Italian. All right. Moving on. Not bad. You're welcome. Que bueno. You don't speak Spanish.

[00:39:09] Marcelo and Indy are filming a dramatic telenovela under Keenan Thompson's direction, but the sponsors, Mikey Day and Ashton Padilla, as ad executives, keep forcing awkward Sprite product placements into the scenes. Did this one work for you, Ben? I wanted more. Yeah, me too. But there were a couple times where I was very happy with the choices, especially Marcelo's lines about the poison. I mean, that's really funny.

[00:39:39] But because it was so funny, that's all I wanted. I want them to go way over with... Yeah. And the Sprite executives having a much more visceral reaction to that. It was touching all the points, but it didn't really go hard, and I wanted it to go hard. That's all. Yeah. No, I did like the various ways they made Sprite look bad, and then also I liked the escalation of the Sprite executives being like, look, we know it's bad, okay? Exactly. But yeah, there was a lot of fun turns here.

[00:40:07] Both Indy and Marcelo were having a lot of fun. There was a lot of different comedic elements at play here, from the heightened feel of the soap opera to what the Sprite executives bring to the table as far as their reaction to how they portray it and the portrayal of the Sprite flavor itself. I did feel a little called out, though, for my preference. Because you liked Sprite? Yeah, and apparently I'm a pervert. What is it called? It was Fiery Cherry Habanero or something like that. Definitely look at Brad's junk worthy. Something like that, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[00:40:37] I would have brought that in. You guys would have chugged it up real good. We would not have chugged it up at all. If you ever bring something like that, you'll get, you know what? I will say, this is poison. Good. All right, moving on. Am I allowed to do that? Say it's poison? Yeah. I wouldn't. What do you mean? I mean, I don't know. It sounded too much like a Marcelo impersonation. Oh, because you're white. Because I'm a white man. Brad can do it. Your voice was so good, I forgot it for a second. I think you might have been okay if you had the beard, but since you shaved it, now you're super white. I just look like a pedophile.

[00:41:07] Yeah, you look like a turbo white. I don't want to be a turbo white. Brad, get out your computer, please. It's time for the Bradometer. I can't freaking out, man. I really am over this Bradometer. I did like the Brad WZ. Yeah. I'm over this Bradometer. Because like, last week was a pretty good example of something that should have been pretty high. Maybe we should do the Benometer.

[00:41:31] For those of you who don't know, the Bradometer is a scale of zero to 100 where we, you've been on by now. If you don't know by now, you know by now. Yeah. It is just a, there's no science to it. Come on, Brad. Let's talk about it. All right. So they interacted pretty well. I agree. I mean, we, but it was funny. I laughed. Hear me out segment. Yeah. How could you, I mean, drunk uncle. Yep. I don't know if they had a ton of, you know, they had some.

[00:42:00] What was last, do you remember last week's? What was last week's? It was like a month ago, but like. I asked, or yeah, last episode. I guessed like 86 and it was like, no, you're wrong. It's a 78 or whatever. Yeah. He always does it, so. I'm going to say 80. I'm going to go, I'm going to, I'm going to go with you. 80? 80. We got 80. Good job. 83. Okay. All right. All right. We're back down to earth. You were wrong though. We went a little low because you've been a piece of crap lately. No, I've been accurate because it's my meter. Yeah. And that's why, that's what we're, they and I have been talking about.

[00:42:30] We want other Brad. All right. Was there any jokes in this that you guys. Other Brad, would you comment your. Yeah, exactly. Bradometer for reference. Just so we can start doing that. On Spotify. Every week. Yeah, Brad, go ahead. Yeah. New. Better Brad. Let's call him better Brad. Better Brad. Oh, I like that. All right. So any jokes that stood out? Well, yeah. Why did you rate 83? Oh, I mean, there was, there was the great bit with doing the fake intervention for Che,

[00:43:00] which I liked a lot. And I thought, I thought it was a nice tie in and bringing Colin to that was very amusing. The hear me out bit from Colin Jost was good as well. I think just in general, they had a good cadence going back and forth with Weekend Update. They had a lot of good stuff that I felt like was, they didn't feel like they were leaning too hard into like making it all about the topical, you know, politics stuff. They had some good stuff at the top. There was some, like I would call them 70s jokes in there where like dad jokes almost.

[00:43:30] They're just turn of phrases and just silly things. They were kind of a little bit jokes that are going on to back, you know, call back to SNL UK that are happening with SNL UK a little bit. I think they've got a little bit of a nostalgic feel when you watch SNL UK Weekend Update. They're very sharp politically, but also, you know, they feel a little bit like Dan Aykroyd. Because I do like it when they're able to just have a good turn of phrase and it's not even offensive. It's literally just a PG joke. A dumb joke.

[00:43:59] Yeah, I love them. Now, Brad, were you offended at all during the KKK joke? On behalf of Ben? No. Come on, guys. All right. Let's go to the Weekend Update bits. Pennywise the clown, Ben Marshall, the killer clown supposedly reformed, turns out to be pitching his AI startup, weallfloat.ai. What'd you think of this? Did this work?

[00:44:25] So I have complicated feelings about the overall bit of what they did with Pennywise here. Because it feels like... Go on. This is a deeper take than I was anticipating. Because... Usually just do I like it or not. Because like a lot of people, I hate AI. I just say... Oh, man. AI can just hammer itself in the head. I hate it a lot right now. There's a few things that I hate more than AI right now. I know. You are almost triggered by AI.

[00:44:54] Having said that, this is the third time now, I feel like, where they've taken a character and done an AI slant with it in the same fashion. And granted, that's probably because there's a lot of really evil stuff happening with AI people right now. And that's kind of the thing that is driving a lot of the bad stuff that's happening in the country, aside from the political stuff. So that makes sense to a certain extent. I mean, I guess the writers don't like AI either. Yeah, I'm sure. But at the same time, it also just felt repetitive.

[00:45:21] And it felt like, okay, I've seen this before. But I did appreciate that it did take a sharp turn into being something completely different by turning into that intervention for a chance. There wasn't a lot of escalation here. The premise was a little weak. But I did like Ben Marshall as Pennywise. Yes. The character work is very good. Yeah. The topic, okay. The pivot to the intervention, good enough. Like, it worked. Yeah. So overall, I liked it. Yeah. I didn't think it was bad like you did.

[00:45:51] I didn't think it was bad either. Your tone says that it was. Moving on, my favorite drunk uncle, Bobby Moynihan's back. Gosh, darn it. Celebrating the Milwaukee Brewers World Series win. And what did you guys think of Bobby Moynihan coming back? Now, I'm a big fan of Bobby. You guys, I don't even know. Nate, what did you think? I don't think you guys even had him in your top 25 former cast members. But Bobby Moynihan means a lot to me.

[00:46:22] And drunk uncle reminds me a lot of holidays growing up for me. And so I thought it was good. I hate the Brewers. It just sounds sad. Yeah. That's the goal. That was the joke. Who's your drunk uncle? Did you have it that bad? I don't know if I told you this, but my mom died of alcohol. Oh, yeah. Forgot about that part. I was thinking uncle. And I'm like, which uncle? There was an uncle that also had alcoholism. It kind of goes around.

[00:46:51] Get caught with it. Let's keep talking about this. So what I didn't like was the Brewers. It did feel a little shoehorned in. It's a very shoehorned in. Even though the mere concept of drunk uncle being the one who wanted a beer to win the World Series does feel very drunk uncle-esque. But yes, the ending did feel like. Somebody made that connection and was like, ooh, I wonder if that's how we can. But them coming at the end did feel very forced.

[00:47:18] But I'll never be mad about Bobby Moynihan playing drunk uncle. I don't love the momentum killer that that was. Because I love drunk uncle so much. It really took me out of it. And I don't like that. Because I know we're only maybe going to get this every once in a blue moon. And I want it to be wonderful every time. I wonder. I mean, obviously, did they just bring him back for the David S. Pumpkins? Oh, sure. I mean, Bobby Moynihan. Because again, I wonder if he was in New York City at the time or if he lives there. I mean, it's the Halloween episode.

[00:47:48] Everybody's calling it David S. Pumpkins from the cheap seats. I'm sure. I'm sure. I'm sure. Yeah. So then they're like, well, at least let's bring him in for that. And then why would you not then have him? Is he on anything right now? By the way. He's on The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, which is the show with Tracy Morgan and Daniel Redcliffe. It's hilarious. Okay. It's executive produced by Robert Carlock and Sam Means, who are both former SNL people. And Robert Carlock did 30 Rock. Sam Means did Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Yeah. So yeah, they're hilarious.

[00:48:15] Actually, if you go back to an old episode of Slash Film Weekly, you can hear me talk to Robert Carlock and Sam Means. And we also talk about Saturday Night Live, which so fuck yourself. Did you mention the podcast? No. No. I didn't mention the podcast. I just mentioned being a diehard SNL fan. I have two friends who keep trying to ruin my podcast about SNL. There were more mentions of our podcast at your wedding than from Brad's professional mouth. Yeah, that makes sense.

[00:48:41] You're talking to a former SNL writer and you don't mention that you have a podcast about SNL? No, because I'm not Desperate Sweaty Ben, who the first thing he mentions when we meet James Austin Johnson, Andrew Dismukes, and Stephen Walker. Oh yeah, big fan of SNL, are you? He's like, we've got a podcast, SNL. That's exactly how I said it to you. Yeah, he just bursted it out. We have a podcast, SNL. All right, moving on. Paw Patrol SVU. Paw Patrol goes law and order.

[00:49:10] Andy plays Ryder, channeling Mariska Hargitay's Olivia Benson as she walks the wide-eyed pups through a string of grisly murders. Now, you guys... Love Paw Patrol. I love grizzly murders. I did. My kids were the era of Paw Patrol. I don't know if Paw Patrol is still a thing or not. It is. They had a movie this past summer. But I didn't think this was as good as I... Well, let me say this. This wasn't as good as I wanted. I agree. Especially because the...

[00:49:40] Is this the one you're talking about that you're taking out of it? Yes. Partially. The flash to the title card instantly got me like, oh, hell yes. Yep. That's hilarious. And then I'm just kind of like, oh, we didn't really use that to its full potential, did we? Exactly. Like, this could have been really good. Yeah. And granted, Indy Navarrete did do a good job of playing it straight, committing to the bit. She fumbled a couple lines here and there.

[00:50:05] Actually, strangely enough, this was the sketch that made me realize why Indy Navarrete seems so cool and appealing. It's because she is like tiny Natalie Portman. And Natalie Portman is already very tiny. That's a good... Yeah. This in particular... It actually said that she reminded her of if Ariana Grande and Anna Kendrick had a kid. I could see that too. Yeah. But this sketch in particular had a lot of Natalie Portman energy too. Oh, for sure.

[00:50:33] But there was some good stuff here for sure. Some things that were very funny. I always like the dark take on a kid's show kind of thing. But if you're going to go dark, you got to go... Exactly. You got to do Sesame Street. I was really thinking you were going to go hardcore. Yeah, I really did. This was like a lot of misunderstandings and like, oh, is that what that means? It was kind of this goofy mentality rather than like, make them really scared of what the world is. Oscar the Grouch kind of like... Yeah. I wanted to say something really messed up.

[00:51:02] It didn't take full advantage of turning the kid's show into something really... Because this is the same show that physically ripped off the skin in a Scooby-Doo parody. Yeah. Right. And so I'm looking... Not that it's got to be that vile, but just more than just like, what? You want more absurd from this. So anyway, but the premise is good. I just really wanted more. And I think to show that it really didn't quite live up to what it should have... I don't think that there was a bigger laugh in the entire sketch than there was when Special Victims Unit appeared on the title screen.

[00:51:32] Well, that tells you what you need to know. All right. Plates. The 10 to 1 sketch. This is... At a restaurant, Mikey Day's waiter keeps dropping food on Ashley Padilla's Denise, who tries desperately to play it off as if nothing is wrong. This is just a physical comedy sketch. I think trying to give Ashley Padilla just space to do physical comedy. Did this work for you or not? The first half was amusing.

[00:52:02] Yeah. The second half was hilarious. I felt like the first half felt like it was maybe trying to have its Lisa from Temecula cake. See, this is what I thought a little bit. They're like trying to recreate... Yeah. And there was something funny that came from seeing her dripping with sauce and her smashing the plates on her head and that kind of thing. I don't think it quite justified the amount of time it took to get to the second half

[00:52:31] of the sketch, which is what I thought was very funny. And her just reacting and narrating her own stream of farts. Which is just funny to say. While the other four people are just sitting there while it happens. I don't know, man. Like, as soon as... Man, as soon as she was blind. Yeah. Like, it just... Whenever that second of film hit, I haven't had more fun watching a sketch in a long... Like, it's just so much fun. Because it's...

[00:53:00] I'm literally on pins and needles. Like, what is going to happen next? It was so much fun. Careful. Careful. I just love it so much. And then finally, was it Ben Marshall that had to be like, we're still here. Yeah. Good. Good. Oh, good. But yeah, this is one of those sketches I think that will... Ashley Padilla will become known for. Yeah. Where that has patience, takes something that's very silly and immature, and really milks it

[00:53:30] for comedic gold. But the awkward girl or the awkward character, Ashley Padilla's been doing. And so I don't... I didn't... I thought this was funny. I didn't think, like you said at the end, it was hilarious. Yeah. I don't know if I would say it was hilarious. You're kind of stuck up about farts, though. I mean, I'm an adult. I don't find farts funny. See? There we go. I'm just kidding. Who doesn't? Who doesn't like your character? My dad farts, and I laugh, and he's like, why is it funny? And I'm like... Because it's never not going to be funny. Yeah. Exactly.

[00:53:57] I think that the pause right before she smashes the plate on her head, just like that one time where she's just like, do I do it or do I not do it? Yeah. And it's the same pause of, do I tell him I don't like the haircut? Right. Right? And so I'm still not done with Ashley Padilla doing this. Exactly. Yeah. Like, it has lost nothing for me. Yeah. Like, I'll watch this probably two more times, and then I'll be like, all right, she's doing the same thing over again. But she's got a lot of leash here.

[00:54:27] Because it's awesome. And she's fantastic at it. No, she is fantastic. Well, then what's your problem? I just thought it was fine. It was good. It was funny. But it wasn't like... For me, I think they wanted magic in a bottle, and it didn't hit that for me. It wasn't Lisa and Temecula for me. And so I feel like they wanted that. Let's just do as crazy bits as possible and hope that we break and hope that... I hate to be that cynical, but I feel like that's what they wanted. And it never got that for me. But it was still funny.

[00:54:57] I didn't hate it. But did you notice, Brad, I don't think Ben would. You would. Did you notice anything about the Good Nights that was different? Bobby Wondheim held something up. I think it was a picture. It was a shirt with his kids on it. Yeah. Some of the cast were in Halloween costumes. I think they're... So this was a short episode, and Good Nights were about two and a half minutes. Oh, yeah.

[00:55:26] When I had to fast-forward it at the end, I was like, son of a gun. So you always know when a show has run short, when you see the full credits run in their entire... I think there was another sketch. Yeah. And they cut it at the end because... Oh, I don't think so at all. Oh, I think... Do you think that people just put on Halloween costumes? That's exactly right. I think they were in a sketch. Yeah. No. Yes, because they've done that before. Like, they immediately... Like, a lot of cast members have immediately gotten into Halloween costumes when they're done, when it's the Halloween episode. I have not checked SNL to see. Like, sometimes they have people that are at... Yeah.

[00:55:55] Especially because... Because... Even if it's not on actual Halloween? Yeah. Just every year. If it's the Halloween episode, yes. They just do it. Yeah. I've seen it happen before. Fair enough. I'll take your opinion. Because what would the sketch... Don't, though. No, because what would the sketch have been? Tommy Brennan was dressed as Sarah Sherman. Who was dressed as Ashley Pitya's haircut character? I don't know. Rover. You're not going to put that person in a sketch. I just feel like... Jeremy Colhain came out dressed as Wolverine again from the monologue. That's true. Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. So, no. I don't think there was a sketch that got cut.

[00:56:25] I think people got into Halloween costumes and they came back out. But you think they just rushed through the episode a little bit quick? Yeah. I imagine they probably didn't have a sketch that they easily fit into another slot, and so they ended up just having to be a little bit short. Controversial opinion. Maybe they had a third weekend update bit that got cut. Because that would be about the right timing. I'm not sure I'd call that controversial, but it's probably a good call. I know, but that was the joke. Controversial. Lauren Michaels, not very good at this anymore. You know, Brad's not gotten any of my jokes. I'm like, controversial opinion?

[00:56:54] That's a joke, Brad. It doesn't sound like it. It's too dry. That's Nate's whole thing. Speaking of Lauren Michaels, if you want to see a real cute, adorable master class in comedy that is family-friendly but also geared towards SNL people, go check out Sesame Street's sketch featuring Ashley Pitya, Mikey Day, Sarah Sherman, where they do a mock writer's room with Elmo and Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch, and you hear Elmo,

[00:57:23] and I don't know who's voicing Elmo currently, but whoever is, does Elmo doing an impression of Lauren Michaels in the sketch. Wow. And it is awesome. Sweet. So yeah, very funny thing on Sesame Street that they did involving some of the cast members of SNL. It's good stuff. Did you guys, before we go on to that, did you guys see the new cast members on Hot Ones? Yeah. Yes. Yep. That was very good. Yeah, so it was funny. Check it out if you haven't. If you didn't know that existed, it exists. If you are a fan of SNL and you're like, We post it on the Facebook page.

[00:57:52] Exactly. Like our Facebook page, and you'll see all this stuff. I'm trying to be a little more active about posting SNL-adjacent things. Speaking of SNL things, let's talk about what our favorite sketch of the night was. Yeah. I'm going to say The Inventor's Wife. Favorite of the night. Yeah, I thought it was very good. Okay. You didn't like it? I know you didn't like it. No, I liked it. No. I liked it.

[00:58:23] Exactly. I mean, I like the Delta. Yeah, Delta's mine too. Oh, you like Delta better. Yeah. Okay. Pitch Perfect Sketch. It's not Delta Burke. I mean, Pitch Perfect, but you know, it's fine. Actually, I don't have anything to guess. Delta Burke, I don't know why I said that. All right. Episode MVP. Former SNL host. Probably. She was. For real? What year? You don't remember that episode? It was like the early 90s. Early 90s. Yep. Whenever Designing Women was big. Great show. Just watch it with my grandma.

[00:58:53] Then we watched Matlock. Then we got pudding. Episode MVP. I'm giving it to Ashley Padilla. She was all over this episode. Yeah. And even the sketches that didn't work very well. Yeah, it's hard to get her stank off this one. Ew. So I gotta give it to old pads. Yeah, I would say Ashley Padilla with a honorable mention to it. I thought Ben Marshall had a very good episode. He did. He did have a good episode. You know, like I don't think he was MVP worthy, but I do want to. Yeah. Ashley just hit it a little harder. Yeah. I'm going to give it to Bobby Moynihan. Yeah.

[00:59:23] You could. I mean. All right. So this episode, best episode of the season so far? I think yes. I think yes. Yeah. I think pretty easily. All right. Would you say good episode or just best of the worst? Kind of like. No. Good episode overall. I think pretty good episode. We've been a little critical of some of the episodes so far. No, this is a good episode. I think, again. It's a good episode, Nate. No, no, no. She was the best host so far, and I think that makes a big difference. Yeah. Her energy was contagious. Everybody clearly liked having her there.

[00:59:52] Like I said earlier, I can't wait to see her second time hosting. There's no way, unless something really weird happens, she should definitely be on the list to come back. Yeah. I really, really liked it. We've got a couple new episodes coming up. We're getting into holiday season, which are my favorite SNL. I actually watched on Peacock. I watched the SNL Christmas special the other day, and I will watch it probably. It's November 2nd, folks. I will probably watch it. I was going to say, Nate is that guy on October 29th. And don't get me wrong.

[01:00:21] I'm like, let's go Christmas shopping. I love Christmas. I've already bought Christmas decorations with my girlfriend, Caitlin. Shut your mouth. I haven't started watching Christmas movies yet, though. But you don't like SNL Christmas. I love SNL Christmas. I watch it every year. Nate, do you watch Christmas movies before Halloween? Do you? It's a yes or no question. I'm answering your question. It's a yes or no question. Yes. I watch Christmas movies all year. He doesn't stop watching Christmas movies. Yeah, but yes, I particularly start watching them in October. Because you get scared. I don't like spooky series.

[01:00:51] I don't like spooky scary. But there's a new show called Widow's Bay that I started watching on Apple. I've heard it's fantastic. I need to watch it. It's kind of scary. A little spooky. But it's also very funny. But very good. I watched the first 20 minutes. Oh, did you like it? I really did. Yeah, it's very good. Cool story. So who's coming up? I've actually seen something. It's relevant, Brad. Well, SNL is doing something that they have never done before. And it's going to be really fascinating to watch. Especially because it's somebody I'm not super familiar with. And the next episode is going to be hosted by a person named Drewski.

[01:01:20] Are you not familiar with Drewski? I'm not familiar with Drewski. I've watched all of his stuff. I'm not a big TikTok scroller. I know he's a famous person. Yes. I know he's online. That's the extent of my knowledge. I'm going to send you guys. Do you guys want to see some of his better online sketches? I would actually almost rather not. Okay. All right. I would rather see. Send them to me then. I will. Well, they're very funny. No, I've heard that he is very funny. He's a little controversial too. I mean, consider the fact that he's hosting SNL. He must be funny. But does he do like, I'm so freaking old.

[01:01:49] Does he do like punching? Does he take advantage of people in public, making them weird? No. Is it reality crap that I'll hate? He punches down. He makes fun of white women a lot. About time. But he doesn't do like awkward interactions and filming people without their consent and all that shit? No. He's not like a Sacha Baron Cohen or anything like that. Sacha Baron Cohen is even different. The people on TikTok and shit now, they just run up to you with a video camera and try to ruin your day. And that's why it's funny.

[01:02:20] He actually is doing sketch comedy. Okay. All right. There's a whole culture. He does characters and stuff. Okay. Grace Ryder is from that world, right? Okay. But he does a lot of racial humor stuff that's very funny. He's a black man. I know that. But it's like Mr. Beast is hosting and like, oh, cool. Some video guy. Mr. Bean. If Rowan Atkinson wants to host SNL. Surprised he hasn't. I mean, SNL UK is right there, man. That's true. Anyway.

[01:02:50] I'm cool with Drewski. I want to see Drewski. Very excited about this. Drewski is hosting. And then after that, we have Old Reliable is coming back. Our old friend, Mr. John Mulaney will be returning. Drewski also. Okay. Don't go back. No, real quick. Because I'm excited to see this. He does a lot of music video stuff. And so I'm going to guess he's going to bring music into this. He'll probably do a music video. Very funny. I think you're going to like him a lot. Okay. All right. Sounds good. Now, what about this young upstart, John Mulaney?

[01:03:17] Juan Mulaney is coming to host again. It's going to be a big deal. I just, every time he does it, it's my favorite episode of the year. That'll be the Thanksgiving episode. I just love, I love, I love it. Will it? What's the date? Well, I assume it's Thanksgiving's at the end of the month. But it's already November 2nd. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So if you've got just the, it's going to be three weeks in a row? So November 8th will be Drewski and November 15th will be Mulaney.

[01:03:46] You think they'll do another one before Thanksgiving? No, probably not. No, that's what I'm saying. That'll be, because Thanksgiving's about the 26th or something like that. Because they probably would have announced it by now. Well, not necessarily. It depends. Because they didn't announce Drewski and Mulaney until the week that Indy Navarati show was underway. So, but yeah, Mulaney to come back is very exciting. It's always awesome. Does it be the sixth time? I think so. Last time was the five-timers sketch? Okay. Okay. Yeah.

[01:04:12] I actually just got to see Mulaney in Chicago at the Den Theater because he did a set of surprise shows as practice for his upcoming Mulaney Takes Manhattan series that he's doing over in New York. Did he chuckle at all? Yeah, of course he'd chuckle. Oh my God, chuckled so much. It was amazing. But no, it was really cool. Don't say it like that. I chuckle so hard. Yeah, it's very creepy. But no, it was cool because it was a very laid back set. You could tell he was just like trying out some new stuff, working on some things.

[01:04:39] They had like a little glass bowl that people put questions in and he would answer questions in between bits that he knew he wanted to do. And like just to kind of jog his mind and see if anything else came out of it or anything like that. And so he had some local Chicago stuff. He did some extended bits tied to stuff he already did that he started doing for the Mr. Whatever tour that he did at Wrigley when we went to go see him. Did he do, and I'm only asking this because he did a bit that didn't make the special when I saw him live. And I'm like, this is a great bit. Did he do anything with dinosaur bones in the earth?

[01:05:10] No. Because my goodness, he's got some, it's just such a simple, it's one of those things where you go, I can't believe nobody's ever had that take about something so common. Yeah. And I just, I'm going to save it though. I want him to do it. He's going to get it out there someday, Brad. All right. I'm writing him letters daily. If you say so. Do the dinosaur bones bit, John. Everybody do the dinosaur. Bones. All right, be good to yourself, be good to others, guys. Let us know in the comments what you think about Brad.