Episode 56 - Ayo Edebiri (Season 49)

[00:00:00] With your host, Brad Omen, featuring Ben Conowitz and Nate Loughs and here's the podcast!

[00:00:19] Not as good, not as good as the last couple of years ago.

[00:00:22] No, that's how you fucking do it, you morons.

[00:00:24] Holy shit!

[00:00:25] Come on, we tried our worst.

[00:00:26] - Like listen to two people who don't know how to re-try to do an audio book.

[00:00:29] - I tell you what, we give you so much crap for it, and to start doing it yourself.

[00:00:33] - Wait a minute, what did you say?

[00:00:34] - I don't know.

[00:00:35] - Did you just host for it?

[00:00:36] - You know, he makes himself the host.

[00:00:39] - What?

[00:00:40] - What?

[00:00:41] - Let me say though, because Ben was giving me crap last week, and I want to go on record by saying,

[00:00:48] I just checked our stats for how our listens, you know?

[00:00:51] - Oh boy.

[00:00:52] - My listens are higher than yours.

[00:00:53] My episode that I did, so I assume that I did a much better job at the introduction, because

[00:00:58] people turned it off right after you did yours.

[00:01:00] - We're off.

[00:01:01] - Yeah no, I had to do Jacob Olu, the rest of the guy in Australia.

[00:01:06] - I feel like you got to do freaking the return of Justin Timberlake.

[00:01:09] I think that probably has a lot more to it.

[00:01:11] - Okay, he did not host.

[00:01:12] - Jacob Olu already is hot.

[00:01:13] - Yeah, but he has an SNL made it very clear.

[00:01:15] Jacob Olu already is hot.

[00:01:17] - Yeah, that was the only premise that every sketch they did.

[00:01:19] - We covered that, Brad, if you would have listened.

[00:01:21] - So let's start with the Jacob Olu already episode.

[00:01:23] (laughter)

[00:01:24] - No, I will give my...

[00:01:25] - It is good to have you back, buddy.

[00:01:26] - Thank you, no, no.

[00:01:27] It's going to be...

[00:01:28] It honestly feels like it's been so long, so they've been away.

[00:01:30] I went into London for work, I came back, I got sick.

[00:01:32] - Hey.

[00:01:33] - It wasn't COVID.

[00:01:34] - Let's skip over that.

[00:01:35] Let's humble brag a little bit.

[00:01:36] What are you doing in London?

[00:01:37] - No, no, no, no.

[00:01:38] It's a humble Brad.

[00:01:39] - Yeah.

[00:01:40] - Yes, it's true.

[00:01:41] I went to London to attend a press junket for Matthew Vaughn's movie "Argyle", where I got to

[00:01:46] interview people like John Cena and Brian Cranston and Bryce Dallas Howard.

[00:01:49] - How large is Gene Cena?

[00:01:51] - He's very big.

[00:01:52] He was sitting down, so I didn't get like the full...

[00:01:53] - Is his head big?

[00:01:54] His head seems big.

[00:01:55] - It is.

[00:01:56] He's just very thick in general.

[00:01:57] - Have you ever met Peyton Manning?

[00:01:58] - I haven't.

[00:01:59] - Because I was going to compare their heads.

[00:02:00] - No.

[00:02:01] - But who's the big larger head?

[00:02:02] - I think John Cena's head is bigger, but it does have a similar shape.

[00:02:05] - Gotcha.

[00:02:06] - Yeah.

[00:02:07] - Does John Cena have it as big a before head though?

[00:02:09] - No.

[00:02:10] - No, no.

[00:02:11] - Peyton Manning has a seven head.

[00:02:12] - Yeah, he does.

[00:02:13] - He knows that.

[00:02:14] - But hey, I do want to talk about Argyle because they saw it, but we're going to talk about

[00:02:16] that on Go Flicks yourself.

[00:02:18] - I will just briefly say, the last two episodes of SNL were underwhelming for the most part.

[00:02:23] The Jacob Bloorty episode was the worst of the two.

[00:02:27] All they did was talk about how hot he was.

[00:02:29] I did like the bowling sketch.

[00:02:30] I thought that was very funny.

[00:02:32] - I don't even remember that episode.

[00:02:34] - The pacing, though, was rough because he's not very skilled at comedy.

[00:02:38] - I don't know.

[00:02:39] - And also, whenever he does an American accent...

[00:02:40] - I don't know if he's even that good at acting.

[00:02:41] - No, he's not very good.

[00:02:42] - He's a pretty good actor.

[00:02:43] Whenever he does an American accent on SNL, though, it always sound like, "Hey, he's from New York.

[00:02:48] Hey, oh."

[00:02:51] - But then...

[00:02:52] - Yeah, I just don't know.

[00:02:53] The audition process just for me wasn't that bad.

[00:02:55] - And Dakota Johnson kind of felt like she was on Quailie's the whole episode.

[00:02:58] - She's just so still there.

[00:02:59] We talked about her still to delivery.

[00:03:00] - The only good sketch by far was the "Please Don't Destroy" roast.

[00:03:04] - That was hilarious.

[00:03:05] - That was hilarious.

[00:03:06] - So good.

[00:03:07] - And it was just because they let her be a bitch, you know?

[00:03:08] - Well, no, they did the nepotism thing.

[00:03:10] - She does that really believably.

[00:03:12] - If you're gonna do a roast, but then you pull punches, of course, the audience doesn't respect that.

[00:03:18] - Even the return of Justin Timberlake, I felt like the Barry Gipp talk show, it was like, "Okay, I guess."

[00:03:23] - I said that.

[00:03:24] - Yeah.

[00:03:25] I mean, it just felt off to me.

[00:03:27] - I was nostalgic about it.

[00:03:28] It was nice to have them back.

[00:03:30] - I just was like, "Wow, something's missing."

[00:03:32] - Yeah.

[00:03:33] - Oh, I just thought that Jimmy Fallon's voice just can't do it anymore.

[00:03:35] - Oh, yeah.

[00:03:36] It felt messy.

[00:03:37] - It felt messy.

[00:03:38] - It has felt like the last many episodes.

[00:03:40] - But this is a new episode.

[00:03:41] - I have.

[00:03:42] No, but I wanna say this, there have been a couple timing issues in just camera work and timing for the cast members.

[00:03:51] It just seems like there's direction off in these sketches.

[00:03:54] - We, Nate and I, and even before that, Brad had started talking about how the fact that the host really does have so much more to do with it than the writer.

[00:04:02] - Yeah, it sets the pace for the sketch, and it can throw everything off.

[00:04:05] - It throws the direction off.

[00:04:06] If you were behind and they're waiting, then they're like, "Okay, I guess we're gonna wait."

[00:04:10] - Fuck, we have to wait, keep waiting, okay, cut to two.

[00:04:12] And now Keenan's like, "Is it on me?"

[00:04:14] - Yeah, exactly.

[00:04:15] - That really ruins it.

[00:04:16] And that didn't happen when this episode.

[00:04:18] - Nope.

[00:04:19] And there's a couple of golden chances of the sketches that you and I talked about that are great.

[00:04:22] - Would have been good sketches, and they're well written.

[00:04:24] - Would have been great.

[00:04:25] - Would have been great with the better performance.

[00:04:26] - In the hands of someone like I--

[00:04:28] - I/O and February.

[00:04:29] - I/O and February.

[00:04:30] - Who hosted the third episode of 2024.

[00:04:32] By far, the best episode of the year.

[00:04:34] - Yeah, episode of the year.

[00:04:36] For those of you who maybe didn't know before this, I/O and February is the co-star of The Bear.

[00:04:41] She just won an Emmy for the World Show.

[00:04:43] - Do you guys watch the Bear?

[00:04:44] - Yes.

[00:04:45] - Love The Bear.

[00:04:46] - It's fair.

[00:04:47] - Amazing show.

[00:04:48] If you haven't watched The Bear, do yourself a favor.

[00:04:49] - After this podcast--

[00:04:50] - It is--

[00:04:51] - We're in the shadow of Chicago, where we're at, where we record this at.

[00:04:54] And it is a love letter to the City of Chicago.

[00:04:56] I love it so much.

[00:04:57] - In the best way.

[00:04:58] - In the best.

[00:04:59] - It's awesome.

[00:05:00] - And it's also a very high anxiety show, too, so be prepared for that.

[00:05:02] - Which promotes people in Chicago live with, so.

[00:05:04] - Yeah.

[00:05:05] - All of their families in Northwest Indiana like this is normal.

[00:05:07] - Yeah, what are you talking about?

[00:05:08] - You're fighting over the holidays?

[00:05:09] - That's what we do.

[00:05:10] - So, I/O and February hosted this episode.

[00:05:12] It's her first time hosting.

[00:05:13] Jennifer Lopez was the musical guest.

[00:05:15] And yeah, let's just dig into the episode, because it's a really good episode, I think,

[00:05:19] for the host party.

[00:05:20] - Yeah, lots to talk about.

[00:05:21] All right, CNN, Town Hall, South Carolina, Cold Open, written by Mike Desenzo, Alice Gage,

[00:05:26] James Austin Johnson, Colin Jost, and Jake Nordwind.

[00:05:29] Gail King, played by Punky Johnson, and Charles Barkley, played by Keenan Thompson,

[00:05:34] hosted a Town Hall with Donald Trump, played by James Austin Johnson.

[00:05:38] The sketch also featured performances by Michael Longfellow, Heidi Gardner, Devon Walker,

[00:05:43] as Tim Scott, and I/O at February.

[00:05:46] - I/O, I'm getting it.

[00:05:48] - There was also a cameo appearance by Governor Nikki Haley.

[00:05:52] Did you guys -- I want to get into some tea about this that I saw online afterwards.

[00:05:58] Let's talk about the performance of the sketch.

[00:06:00] We're into political season right now.

[00:06:03] It's not about having political cold opens.

[00:06:05] We're going to get those.

[00:06:07] Do you think they did anything in this that was worth mentioning?

[00:06:10] - So, I appreciated throwing a curveball by having Gail King and Charles Barkley,

[00:06:15] being a host of the Town Hall.

[00:06:16] It was a nice way to mix it up, because they actually do have a real show.

[00:06:20] - Is it called King Charles?

[00:06:22] - Yeah, it is.

[00:06:23] - Holy shit, I thought that was made out of it.

[00:06:25] - I don't know why I'm not watching it.

[00:06:26] - I was like, "Good for you writers." That's a really clever thing to do.

[00:06:30] - No, they do have a real show.

[00:06:31] But yeah, so that was kind of a funny spin on otherwise it would have been just,

[00:06:35] let's just repeat exactly what happened.

[00:06:37] And the one bit with James Dawson Johnson's Trump that I did like was him finding the

[00:06:41] conspiracy theories among Taylor Swift's album track list.

[00:06:45] I thought, you know, and they've done something similar like that before,

[00:06:47] where he runs through.

[00:06:48] - They used to do it where they all hit.

[00:06:49] - Yeah.

[00:06:50] - To speak to that, the only thing I didn't really love is that I don't know why you don't

[00:06:55] realize your time and connect those other three things.

[00:06:57] Because to me, it is a little lazy to be like, and three things that I couldn't really

[00:07:00] come up with.

[00:07:01] And that feels like the writers being like, "Three things I really could go up with."

[00:07:03] - But that also in itself is kind of like a joke on Donald Trump.

[00:07:05] - What about Trump?

[00:07:06] - Because obviously he's not going to make sense of everything because he's fucking idiot.

[00:07:08] - Sure, sure.

[00:07:09] No, that makes sense.

[00:07:10] - But yeah, otherwise, kind of a dud, you know, the usual kind of shit.

[00:07:14] And also I'm going to throw it out there and just talk about how frustrating it is to give somebody

[00:07:18] like Nikki Haley's screen time on SNL.

[00:07:20] - I do want to talk about that because Bo and Yang had a bit of a passive aggressive post.

[00:07:24] I don't know if you guys saw this about Nikki Haley appearing on the show, but then took

[00:07:29] it down because--

[00:07:30] - It was a picture of--

[00:07:31] - Lauren was like, "Hey, after James Chappelle's shit, we got to wrap this up, Bo and--"

[00:07:35] - It was a picture of a welcome car that said, you know, Ambassador Haley, "Oh, thank you.

[00:07:40] I'm coming to SNL, blah, blah, blah."

[00:07:42] - From Lauren and everyone.

[00:07:43] - From Lauren and everyone.

[00:07:44] - From everyone?

[00:07:45] - Yeah.

[00:07:46] He put everyone smiley face.

[00:07:48] That's all he put on Instagram with a picture of the car.

[00:07:50] - But they delete it.

[00:07:51] - Sure, so they've had Elon Musk on here, which after Elon became crazy, they had him.

[00:07:58] They've had Donald Trump in 2015.

[00:08:01] What do you guys think about this?

[00:08:04] - Here's the thing that I will defend to a certain extent is, SNL has always given Republicans

[00:08:10] and Democrats even time.

[00:08:11] - John McCain host.

[00:08:12] - John McCain.

[00:08:13] Sarah Palin has been on, you know, they have fun with politicians.

[00:08:16] The problem is is the landscape has changed so much, and there's so much more that's toxic

[00:08:21] about it now, that giving some of these people a platform, in the same way, like the worst

[00:08:26] one that really just was like a kind of game changer overall for how this works was having

[00:08:30] Donald Trump host leading up to the election because it normalized his bullshit and his

[00:08:34] nonsense and his toxicity and all that shit.

[00:08:36] - It let everybody know, "Oh, look, even the liberals know that he's a real candidate,

[00:08:40] and this is a real--"

[00:08:41] - Yeah, he's just like a crazy uncle, Donald.

[00:08:43] - Yeah, and so now when you bring in people who are saying, you know, crazy things and

[00:08:47] stupid, ignorant bullshit and like giving them time to be like poke fun at themselves but

[00:08:53] not really because like even having Iowa Deberry, you know, bring up the slavery--

[00:08:58] - That was so hard to watch, because she clearly gave her that smirk like you fucking

[00:09:04] bitch in for real.

[00:09:06] And then, "Oh yeah, I should have prized that the first--"

[00:09:08] You couldn't come up with anything else--

[00:09:09] - I know, right.

[00:09:10] - A little bit more of a good couple.

[00:09:11] - And that's the thing, it was like, it was almost like it gave her a window to like

[00:09:15] kind of apologize except not really.

[00:09:17] - It was horrible.

[00:09:18] - Yeah, it really rubbed me the wrong way.

[00:09:20] - Yeah, I probably should have said that the first time is not an apology.

[00:09:23] Like if in that moment, honest to God, if in that moment Nicky Haley would have been like,

[00:09:28] "I want to take a real moment to say I was wrong," that could have been honest, kind of

[00:09:32] impactful but it's like, "Yeah, I was so wrong, this is the answer."

[00:09:48] That's a secret to nobody that listens to our podcast but--

[00:09:51] - Yeah, I kind of want to cut that.

[00:09:58] - So, obviously it's going to be Trump and Biden this coming year.

[00:10:03] Do you think they're going to bring either one of them onto the show?

[00:10:07] - I mean--

[00:10:08] - Trump no.

[00:10:09] - Trump no, I'm like--

[00:10:10] - No, they just can't.

[00:10:11] - But will they bring Biden?

[00:10:12] - I mean, I just don't think he's got the time.

[00:10:13] - Yeah.

[00:10:14] - Between like--

[00:10:15] - All the naps?

[00:10:16] - Yeah, exactly.

[00:10:17] - So--

[00:10:18] - Kamala Harris maybe?

[00:10:19] - Sure.

[00:10:20] Kamala Harris?

[00:10:21] - They brought in-- I think they brought him Pete Buttigieg once when he was running for

[00:10:23] the primary.

[00:10:24] - No, no one, I mean, this is not a political, we should call this, but no one is going to

[00:10:29] be running against Biden.

[00:10:30] - I mean, they're running against Biden right now.

[00:10:32] They're just not competing.

[00:10:33] - No, he's got it.

[00:10:34] - Like, there's a couple like Marianne Williams and kind of a character.

[00:10:38] - Or Gorgon Flembeau.

[00:10:40] - Honestly, Gorgon 2024.

[00:10:42] - So, yeah, that was cold open.

[00:10:45] A couple of eye points but--

[00:10:47] - Also, I learned, I don't know if this is true but I did read this because I always

[00:10:50] checked.

[00:10:51] - I learned, but I don't know if this is true.

[00:10:53] I read--

[00:10:54] - I read the election.

[00:10:55] - I got a--

[00:10:56] - I got an email from my great aunt about this so I'm going to share it.

[00:11:00] But I did read it from Life from New York on Reddit that AOC was actually in the audience

[00:11:05] of that episode this weekend.

[00:11:07] - Oh, interesting.

[00:11:08] - Yeah, so one of the audience members that was there said AOC was there.

[00:11:13] - That's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez been, she's on comments.

[00:11:16] - It seemed to be having a great time.

[00:11:17] - I know who she is.

[00:11:20] - She was a bartender.

[00:11:21] - All right.

[00:11:22] - That's why Ben knows who she is.

[00:11:23] - Moving on, Ayo Edabiri, Ayo Edabiri, wow, fucking hell man.

[00:11:29] - It's going to be bad.

[00:11:30] - Ayo Edabiri.

[00:11:31] - Ayo Edabiri.

[00:11:32] - Yep.

[00:11:33] - Ayo Edabiri.

[00:11:34] - Yep.

[00:11:35] - I'm not going to get that.

[00:11:36] - Written by Mike DeCenzo, Alex English, Jake Norwood and Gary Richardson, as she hosts

[00:11:40] for the first time actress, Ayo Edabiri, discuss it, do that right?

[00:11:45] - You did.

[00:11:46] - All right, discuss this preparing for a role on the bear and share some ideas she wanted

[00:11:51] to submit to SNL.

[00:11:53] Was Ayo crying or getting emotional?

[00:11:55] - Yeah, she definitely got emotional, but she loved that.

[00:11:57] - Once she said that it was like a dream come true, it kind of like crept up on her.

[00:12:00] She was like, "Oh boy."

[00:12:01] - Yep, I loved that.

[00:12:02] I love when hosts yield a moment because this is a big, for anybody that loves comedy,

[00:12:09] a stand-up comedian, she is Mount Rushmore.

[00:12:12] - Did not know her background in stand-up in New York, so clearly, I mean, she mentioned

[00:12:16] it three times.

[00:12:17] - Yeah.

[00:12:18] - She's clearly very passionate, and it's a real start-up for the bottom now.

[00:12:23] I'm here for a moment, for real for her, and to see her get that catch in her throat.

[00:12:27] And you know she she walked out like a fucking boss by the way. She looked incredible. Yeah, she had command immediately

[00:12:33] Great, I will go that far. I do you feel like you can tell I was nervous. Yeah, you can tell she was nervous

[00:12:38] She didn't it didn't she didn't let it like necessarily ruin it

[00:12:42] But you could tell that she was slowly getting her formal as a winner for a stand-up. She seemed pretty tight

[00:12:47] Yeah, I agree, which I don't blame her. I would yeah, I totally get it at the same time though

[00:12:53] I think that the fact that the monologue was in my opinion is so good. Yeah, like I I immediately

[00:12:59] Was on her side and again, I said this over and adorable and fun and like wonderful when the host comes out

[00:13:06] And they they do the model you're gonna see what kind of show it's gonna be of course

[00:13:08] You will know if it's honestly gonna be good to episode or not. That's that's really a good

[00:13:13] Telltale point where this person is is

[00:13:17] committed and and affable enough to pull this off and yes, even though the nerves but she still pushed through and was

[00:13:24] It was good. It was good. I

[00:13:27] Wrote down the hop on to it now, which you know, the idea of having Keenan saying that I can actually see it

[00:13:33] I'm a sketch doing that but and just even her even lean into the sign is it burn it like just it takes

[00:13:39] It seemed to be almost our little personality. Yeah, you know like like just who she really is, you know, I loved it

[00:13:44] You like it. What'd you think I did? Yeah, I like I like her and I like this and it's I like her like this this one

[00:13:50] All right, why'd you say it written by Mike DiCenzo and Jake Dord when game show contestants play by I/O?

[00:13:56] Andrew Smukes and Mikey day answer questions about comments. They left on

[00:14:01] Instagram Keenan Thompson plays the role of the game show host Danny Donnegan

[00:14:06] Hey, Brad why'd you say it?

[00:14:11] Yeah, this I always love when they do a game show bit that turns into like breaking down

[00:14:15] Like these like social things that happen that no one like what's that name? Yeah

[00:14:20] So like and the comments are like just so perfect and like I'm mad at what actually is out there and like I like that

[00:14:26] It's a real one, but because it's a real drama or clip

[00:14:29] Oh, yeah, you know, that's awesome exactly die and people did make fun of them online quite a bit

[00:14:34] But still would smash but I do see these comments online all the time. I'm like who's writing this stuff. Yeah, like I love the

[00:14:41] The sidebar one - when Keenan Thompson said said people who say cool on a trailer that's on YouTube when you could have just smiled to yourself

[00:14:47] And went about your day

[00:14:49] Listen to go fix yourself or we review trailers, but we don't post on YouTube. We don't know we should

[00:14:57] Anyway

[00:15:00] so

[00:15:02] The only thing that was I mean, I like that for the first time in a long time

[00:15:08] You say we like like you know meet your second wife

[00:15:11] What's that name all of these making for the contestants for the first time Mikey days character?

[00:15:16] Just get it. Nope. Yeah, just walks out. I love that

[00:15:18] And that's an escalation of all of these kind of very similar premises

[00:15:23] Yeah, finally we got one's like why would you actually be on that show and he'd walked away?

[00:15:26] And then they filled it in with somebody and I loved it because they didn't reintroduce the premise

[00:15:30] He goes figure it out. Yeah, I loved it

[00:15:32] I love sketches that have enough bit of truth to it and it reminded me because I think this all the time

[00:15:38] Because I watch different clips on YouTube

[00:15:41] I'm on YouTube more than I've ever been because there's different things that are on there that I want to watch and

[00:15:45] There are always comments on a YouTube clip or an Instagram reel where it is just why would anyone feel the need to comment on that?

[00:15:54] Yeah, so I love this bringing other people have noticed these writers noticed it

[00:15:58] Let's bring this in and make it in Congress hot at a party mid still smash though an AOC clearly in the audience for that

[00:16:06] Oh, that's funny. Yeah, I never thought about that. Yeah, if that's true

[00:16:10] All right, moving on dune popcorn bucket written by Dan Bullah and Stephen Castillo a group of teenagers played by IO

[00:16:17] Oh, well, hold on before we make jump. Let's talk about the

[00:16:22] Reference that was made during that sketch because I owe a debris. Oh, yeah

[00:16:27] Yeah, why'd you say it sketch? Yeah, it makes a stealthy allusion to something that was kind of swirling around online because just before SNL

[00:16:34] Came together. There was a resurfaced clip that IO at a beerie had talked about when she was on a podcast

[00:16:40] I forget which podcast but the subject of this is quite a while you're right. Yeah years ago

[00:16:46] The subject of Jennifer Lopez came up and IO at a beerie said, you know what one of the biggest scams is Jennifer Lopez performing

[00:16:53] At the Super Bowl because she can't sing she's not a singer

[00:16:57] She's a dancer and she wasn't this whole diet tribe basically making fun of Jennifer Lopez and that she can't really sing and all that stuff

[00:17:03] And it's like it's someone who's just like being silly and like talking about stuff and making fun of celebrities

[00:17:07] And it's also somebody goes I'm never gonna be on that level right. So why would I ever get in saying and as we said Jennifer Lopez was the

[00:17:14] So say dumb things all the time, right? I'm never gonna meet you know like you're never gonna meet Travis kills you for real

[00:17:21] Oh god. I hope so

[00:17:23] I hope I could like show your stupid bearded face to me and let's talk. How do you not like I mean thinking more more likable?

[00:17:29] You know, honestly, I think he's getting less likable. Oh my no

[00:17:33] Yeah, no, he's becoming more of a douche bro. No, she was humble

[00:17:36] He's humble you see what him and my homes are doing to the to the kicker during the championship

[00:17:39] No, that was the kicker needed that. No, I'm a jerk. Fuck them. A kicker always behind a jerk

[00:17:44] Just just a bunch of bro is broing it up in fucking throwing the ham skin around

[00:17:48] I'm homes could hold his hands

[00:17:50] I didn't even know that you were a Republican, but it's you know it only when it goes

[00:17:56] They're just it's a conspiracy there cuz Travis kill wild Brad. No Travis Kelsey sucks still sucks always will suck

[00:18:02] Hey Taylor's never getting with you. Yeah, buddy. I don't either to get with me actually did not be with Travis

[00:18:08] We're gonna get married and have babies

[00:18:10] No, no, if he was dating Jennifer Lawrence and he'd be murdered

[00:18:15] I'll agree with that be if he breaks up and Taylor Swift. Oh my god Brad would you know it would be the end of Brad Nate

[00:18:23] Loughson I would have a special midweek podcast on this

[00:18:26] No, so during this sketch

[00:18:35] Iowa debris character has a moment where she like has a breakdown basically when she after being attacked for the comments that make

[00:18:41] Online and she goes, you know what no, maybe it's just sometimes you're 24 and you're stupid and like you make comments about something and

[00:18:47] Like you don't really know what's talking about you don't mean it and like maybe we could just like let it go

[00:18:51] You know and like so it's a reference to her

[00:18:53] It's what had happened because it obviously went public and that kind of thing

[00:18:56] So it was a fun way of her to address it, you know, and I was so these guys before the podcast. I'm so dumb

[00:19:01] I didn't see I didn't know anything about that even though I sent Ben the tiktok clip in the thread that we have

[00:19:07] What we talk about our podcast. I saw it. Hey, hey Brad. I see you. I appreciate

[00:19:11] Anyway, I thought that this was an allusion to Shane Gillis is coming back to host SNL and I thought maybe she was

[00:19:17] They were letting who had said he will commit suicide if you ever host us now. Yeah, it's a lot of fingers crossed on a podcast

[00:19:25] Previously, that's why he didn't get the show in the first place. I thought maybe that's what they were doing obviously not

[00:19:30] So there we go. All right, dude popcorn bucket written by Dan Bola and steamer Castillo a group of teenagers played by Iowa

[00:19:37] Deberry

[00:19:37] Bowen Yang Marcello Hernandez Devin Walker and Chloe Tross sing a song about a special night

[00:19:43] Had you guys heard of this dude popcorn thing? Oh?

[00:19:45] Sleeping anywhere under a rock somewhere so we have you have won no, but I'm gonna get

[00:19:52] And I'm gonna need some time to myself

[00:19:55] No, no this I mean this was a joke that like went all over

[00:19:59] Immediately the bucket had leaked after like someone who I think well

[00:20:03] After someone had worked at AMC posted a picture of it and everyone immediately it was like, oh, that's us

[00:20:09] That someone's gonna fuck that bucket

[00:20:11] Looks like a sex toy Topper it's a popcorn. It looks like 100 percent

[00:20:14] It's the reverse joke of the popcorn in the movie theater now. Yeah, where you're digging should go to the bottom now

[00:20:19] Definitely wasn't the top. Oh, yeah, absolutely

[00:20:21] Uh, so yeah, it is it is fully real this dude popcorn bucket there. They're they haven't pulled it or anything. They're doing it

[00:20:28] They're doing it

[00:20:30] Yeah, so it is available at AMT. Are they doing it tune it? Oh, you know it

[00:20:34] Um, this was really funny because honestly because this has already made a joke all over online

[00:20:40] Everyone was making any joke they could about this

[00:20:42] Um, it's a little bit of an easy target, but the fact that they took it to the next level

[00:20:46] Oh, it's so good. Like this musical kind of, you know thing that that was it was so tough

[00:20:50] This is much better than them waiting three more weeks to do it as well as sometimes they do

[00:20:54] The joke's over. I talked about this actually in the episode with the with the bowling

[00:20:59] Uh, we're all the the pins get hit and it's like the whatever

[00:21:03] That's a very popular thing on instagram where they have like 9/11

[00:21:08] References and holocaust references. Oh, yeah, yeah, you've seen those right? Yeah, I had not had not and my algorithm isn't that dark

[00:21:15] So so I said memes to my friends. I'll tell whatever

[00:21:17] I've definitely seen those I thought in my head

[00:21:19] I'm like if if if this is one of those things where some of the writers came up with this independently of seeing that

[00:21:24] Then it's it's really clever

[00:21:26] But if it's just a retread of like because they're softer jokes than what you can find online

[00:21:31] Oh, yeah, so it's so that's just lazy writing in my opinion

[00:21:33] If that's truly what happened like but at the same time, I do think that this had a little bit more

[00:21:38] Specificity to it because I'm talking specifically about the bowling. No, no, I know this is different

[00:21:42] No, no, I'm not going to the bowling to the for me the bowling because even though I recognize like

[00:21:45] Oh, this is something that people have done online for a while

[00:21:47] the the fact that they made it

[00:21:50] Less sensational and a little bit more like dramatic and drawn out as opposed to just doing something that's like tacky and like

[00:21:56] You know tasteless like that. That was that's a whole different thing

[00:21:59] Okay, the fact that they carried it out longer and like made these like full scenes out of like doing the thing that that was

[00:22:05] Enough for you. Yeah, okay. It wasn't enough for me

[00:22:07] Well, you're kind of a bitch so so the the popcorn bucket though thing

[00:22:11] I know that it's everywhere and everybody's making the joke

[00:22:13] But like you said they took it then to the next level

[00:22:16] Whereas I think that the bowling stuff the next level had it been taken online and they just softened it a bit

[00:22:21] That's how I looked at it anyway, but this is a n escalation of that which is wonderful

[00:22:24] Making a full blown fucking music video out of this is awesome

[00:22:27] It was great. It was really good stuff

[00:22:29] And I do wonder if they went and got the actual buckets or if they just made them themselves

[00:22:33] I bet they got the actual ones who knows Lauren probably got he's got a cup. He probably knows amc chairman ruskel blep

[00:22:38] He's that's a good name

[00:22:41] All right drugs on campus in the sketch college students who follow strict lifestyle

[00:22:46] Overact when their friends play by introduced mukes and others

[00:22:49] Experiment with microdosing on shrooms

[00:22:53] The sketch also features bo and yang cloy Feynman and devan walker as our college friends

[00:22:57] As somebody that has microdose many times ben. What did you think of this?

[00:23:03] Uh, I don't even know where microdoses. I take the whole thing or I don't even do it

[00:23:06] Uh, did did you like this it was odd. It was funny. Oh, I thought it was so funny. I was there's fine

[00:23:13] I didn't love it. No, I really liked this. I liked a lot actually so I think that maybe this is why I liked it

[00:23:19] You tell me Brad. I liked it because normally in a sketch like this

[00:23:22] um the weird people

[00:23:24] uh are

[00:23:26] like you've only got

[00:23:28] one straight person in the sketch and like

[00:23:30] This is a group of everybody agreeing like what are you talking about? And these two are the weird ones. Yeah

[00:23:35] That's different. That's played a little different than they normally do it. Is that why you thought it was maybe as funny?

[00:23:40] I mean, I I just really liked Mikey day and I owe deboree's performances because they fully they felt like they were in

[00:23:46] In 90s dare cheesy after school special

[00:23:50] Every time they were speaking and having everyone else around them be just kind of like just normal

[00:23:54] Like not even not even reacting in the same exaggerated way

[00:23:57] Was was great. And so like just the way that they sold every single line that they did

[00:24:01] And like, you know misusing terms and all that stuff

[00:24:04] And especially when they left and then came back and like and it continued to get worse and this continued to react

[00:24:10] I felt like it went a little long though

[00:24:12] I felt like that was a funny bit in the first couple interactions the couple back and forth

[00:24:16] But then I was like, okay, it's done. You thought it's it escalated. Well, I was fine

[00:24:20] It reminded me a little bit. It's like the reverse remember the uh the cocaine in the bathroom sketch

[00:24:25] Yeah, so it reminded me the reverse of that right that the two guys trying to score cocaine are the or the straight men

[00:24:30] Yeah, and every else is weird. Right in this one every else is the straight man and these two are really weird

[00:24:34] Yeah, it works on both levels of both those sketches work really well because you've got two characters

[00:24:39] That are uh either really really weird or really straight

[00:24:43] And everybody else around there is the opposite when sketches normally when they do this

[00:24:47] Somebody turns and gets on their side or this and that and the fact that they didn't do that

[00:24:53] that I think made it.

[00:24:54] It's really funny. There's also a great physical gag that I owe had when the way she unfurled her luggage backpack. Yeah, like he had sternly walked away. So good. She's a great sketch comedian. She's very well innocent. 100%. Like she could have done really great had a really great career on us. All right, moving on. Bad couples and news reporter played by Bowen Yang interview. Several random couples from New York City to ask him how they met. This gets also includes appearances by Molly Carney as Hannah Jenny.

[00:25:24] Michael Longfellow is Keith Michaels and Marcelo Hernandez as a man. A man. That is how you need it. He's got a deep voice. Yeah, he's got a baby face and a boy. Oh, and he's only like five foot four. But honestly, I'm attracted to that guy. You should find him attractive. You should be Marcello. And he's got like that Latin lover. Oh, just that guy. I want to be next. Who else was in this sketch? Yeah, everyone. Literally everyone. No, but who else isn't normally?

[00:25:53] Yeah, who else? Please, please don't destroy my feelings here. Martin Hurley? Yes. Martin Hurley. He appeared. It didn't have a line. Is it really awkward? I didn't seem really awkward. Kind of really big audience reaction. Yeah. But they didn't seem really awkward, though. Yeah. It was weird to see other stage actors that weren't that are just extras, you know, and then for some reason, Martin, they could have gotten just any other white guy. Yeah. Why did they? I wonder why? Did he write it? I don't know. They've not nobody. Okay. So, just so our listeners know the right

[00:26:23] thing when I would read that, it's because the cast members or the writers who I all follow on SNL post something in their stories. You want to follow him on X? Sorry. No, usually on Instagram. Twitter, Instagram, Reddit. And you find it. And there's Reddit or there's threads on subreddits that we, where you can find some of that information.

[00:26:42] So what? But if they don't post it, then we don't know. Nate, Nate, Nate does the research for the show and it does show, buddy. We really do appreciate it. Yeah. The only the only writers where they list.

[00:26:53] Specific sketches and the credits is if it's a pre-recorded sketch, credit that in the.

[00:26:57] Because there's always a director usually of that that they were. But what did you guys think of this? I thought it was fine. No, I thought this was a solid sketch. It was it was not my favorite of the night. It was it was. It was. Enjoyable. Having the double entrance of Iowa debris with two different people was a pretty nice. Oh, yeah. And then man, the audience was real horny to have bone Yang and Marcelo Hernandez kiss huh? Like they were really hoping for it. And the.

[00:27:20] That kind of was. But it kind of speaks to like that moment was. I mean, they, because they played it so good, very organic. I mean, honestly, they were doing a dramatic scene in a comedy.

[00:27:31] Yeah. It was really, they had a real me. Yeah, it was really fun, like good for them. They pulled it off. It was OK, incredibly believable. Right. And so that's why the audience is going to get it on it. I love that. Yeah, I don't know.

[00:27:43] I don't know if they could have gone. Maybe I thought I went a little long. I know they tried to include a lot of different bits.

[00:27:50] So it's like, no, this is my sister is my girlfriend as well or whatever. That's not enough for me. Like, it's an easy joke. But like, nothing is the escalation, I guess, wasn't. I was waiting for something more outlandish to happen, I suppose, and not that I didn't respect what they were doing. It was funny enough. Yeah.

[00:28:06] But you can really throw something crazy out there and that didn't really happen. Yeah, I think I would agree with it. It just seemed like the.

[00:28:15] Definitional of just a fine sketch. It was fine. It was fine. All right. Moving on. We can update. We can update anchors. Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like Nikki Haley targeting Biden and Trump with grumpy old men campaign ads.

[00:28:29] Colin Jost headed towards a major major milestone on this episode. It was his 200th episode as an SNL cast member and we can update anchor. So big, big night for him.

[00:28:42] You're a littleundo. Yeah. So. Everybody knows what the Brad Omer is. Is the Brad Omer the Brad Omer was not listened well. The predominant is everybody knows what is. So I'm going to give this one a if you don't know what it is, listen to the last episode.

[00:28:58] The predominant on this one is going to be a. It's going to be a little lower than I expect because it's all Michael Che. It's Michael Chaey. He's been having fun, but he has one, but but he was he and it was a little bit better.

[00:29:10] You know, towards Colin Jost, even, but he kept saying again, he's he's really leaning into the, I like this audience and it's making Colin Jost smile, but they're not directly interacting, interacting, because Colin Jost had phone with Sarah Sherman in the bed, which we'll get to, but it wasn't a lot. We might go check.

[00:29:25] We can cut this, but Brad, can you please pull up your calculator on your phone and give the Brad Omer and then set it aside because we've said this for a long time that we really we guess and then you're like, yeah, I'm going to change it.

[00:29:39] Okay. I'm going to get it. So I'm going to say, I'm going to say 75. I think that it was enough of a of a good back and forth because Colin was laughing a lot at what at what Che was doing. That's what I'm going to say.

[00:29:53] I'm going to say I'm going to go a little lower because I actually liked the weekend update, but I don't think I had a ton of chemistry.

[00:29:59] Talk about this. It doesn't matter. I know. I know. I know. That's what I'm saying. I just want to preface it off that. It does play a little part because like it has to be good for. Yeah.

[00:30:06] But that, but it's a he's. It has to be good because then there's going to be interaction. If it's bad, then Colin's going to clam up. All I was saying was that I liked weekend update. I thought there's some good stuff here, but I don't think the

[00:30:20] denominator's high. I'm going to go because it's Brad with a 69. Show your calculator, buddy. Well, one of you is going to be very happy because I put down 75 right on the frickin money.

[00:30:35] Right on the button. I did it. Congrats, buddy. All right. Brad, tell us. Why did you come up with a 75? Honestly, it's very much for the reasons basically that Ben said it. Thank you.

[00:30:46] Because there was there it was there was a little bit there and it was a very good weekend update. And like there there is a playfulness that is unspoken between them in this one because Jay is having such a good time and Colin is enjoying Jay having a time so even though they're not directly interacting with each other.

[00:31:02] There's still a little bit of camaraderie. There wasn't a lot there though. There was there. No, not. Maybe not to the untrained eye. Yeah, but if you're true comedy scholarly Brad and I can see when Colin just has this little penny smirk.

[00:31:14] You know that he's like, I love you Michael. That's what it is. I do love Michael Chase. I love his audience. Dude, I want the past the past three episodes. He's been crushing. He has been just on fire.

[00:31:25] Yeah, he just he liked the groans give him strength. Oh, the jokes. The jokes are very good. I'm laughing.

[00:31:31] I thought it was actually a pretty good weekend update. The easiest joke they did was the Gaza cease fire in Chicago and then that's that's an easy enough joke.

[00:31:39] But there were some really, really funny things that happened and they didn't have to rely on like seen here watching an orphanage burned down.

[00:31:46] Like they didn't have to do one of those and they still had a really solid episode. But you know what made it even better Nate?

[00:31:51] All right. We can update bet CJ Rossitano on winning the SNL ticket lottery CJ Rossitano play by Sarah Sherman.

[00:31:58] You mean Colin just Rossitano stops by weekend update to discuss his experience winning tickets SNL. Sarah Sherman has Colin Joes number and I love it every time.

[00:32:09] Well, my favorite thing about this is it's just so much so it started as Sarah Sherman just appearing as herself and roasting Colin Joes.

[00:32:17] And that happened what three times? I think just two. It was like the Sarah news. Yeah, right? No, not even Sarah news. There's just her like being on before that.

[00:32:25] Yeah, it's separate from Sarah news. And I think there was one Sarah news where it turned into her. Gotcha gotcha.

[00:32:30] By the way, bring that back. We haven't seen that in a while.

[00:32:33] Well, no, the thing is they keep reinventing it. Well, yeah. So they did another one where she played a guru and that turned into her roasting Colin Joes as a character.

[00:32:40] And this is the same kind of thing where she's roasting him in an entirely different way.

[00:32:44] They keep reinventing the wheel and the wheel keeps getting fucking rounder and rounder.

[00:32:48] Like this is the best version that's in my opinion. It was so fucking funny. Yeah, my favorite touch is that they did a slight blur filter when they cut to the grill.

[00:32:59] Such a good little bit. She's such a freaking good performer that she snaps right when she didn't miss a cue once. It was perfect.

[00:33:07] And they cut perfectly. It was so so funny. Technological issues. And I mean, even when he reacted organically to something, she matched his mannerisms.

[00:33:17] Yeah. Even though that wasn't planned. Yeah, that was really funny. That's really good.

[00:33:20] It's like comedy needs chemistry to really, and they have so much good chemistry. It's so much fun.

[00:33:25] It makes me wonder like how something like this comes about because I don't know if Sarah Sherman and Colin Joes knew each other before Sarah came to SNL.

[00:33:33] So like, I wondered like where this kind of relationship comes from and how it figured out.

[00:33:37] You're like, you have these sensibilities like Colin Joes maybe knows that he's never going to be able to pull off that style of comedy because that's not who he is.

[00:33:46] He probably is that funny and can be in that way, but here's another face for it.

[00:33:50] So how do I make, how do I partner with somebody who can do this?

[00:33:53] Yeah. That's, it's perfect. I don't ever want this to go away. I want nine more of these.

[00:33:58] Yeah, but they're all different characters. Also, one of my favorite parts had nothing to do with it.

[00:34:04] It was the whole like, I just like, why doesn't that dumb truck ass?

[00:34:08] What is so silly? I love that. Love it.

[00:34:11] I do wonder if they have a previous relationship or like history because she's from Long Island.

[00:34:17] You know, so she, she's in the New York comedy.

[00:34:19] And maybe that is it. You know, like if they've had a long, you know, like one, two, three cocaine, like everything about this work, they were so good.

[00:34:29] But it is a kind of a big sister, little sister or big, big, big brother, little sister relationship that is just so much fun to watch.

[00:34:36] Do you think, let me ask you this, do you think Sarah has a dumb truck ass?

[00:34:41] She might. Do you think that everything on the cue cards was, he had seen them before?

[00:34:49] Was he reading anything for the first time? It looked a little bit like, I'm kind of curious about that too because some of it seems like he's reacting to it.

[00:34:56] Like the joke swaps. Yeah. Like he didn't know because you can tell when he's like hamming up and knows what he's supposed to do, but there were times when it felt like he didn't know that that was coming.

[00:35:05] And it's either these playing up, like, I don't want to say this and like we're faking that I don't know.

[00:35:10] He's so good at it though. I don't know if this is true, but it was the.

[00:35:16] It's from the same audience. Remember that said, AOC?

[00:35:18] No, this is from the podcast that Keenan Thompson used to produce. It was the, I forget what it was.

[00:35:25] It was like the weight, the line SNL line kind of podcast.

[00:35:29] Is it the one with Chris Red where it's like, you won't sleep with my wife?

[00:35:32] It's very short lived. It was a very short lived podcast.

[00:35:35] But they always attended the dress rehearsals. And so they got to talk about like, the differences between dresser hurtsle too.

[00:35:42] And they mentioned that oftentimes the joke, same jokes were said in dresser hurtsle, but Colin Joseph's really good at making it say it.

[00:35:51] And it honestly, he's been doing, what, I mean, to your credit and they used to do the research, is 200th time doing this.

[00:35:58] I think he knows what he's doing about it.

[00:35:59] Obviously, the John Mulaney stuff, you know, with the fine.

[00:36:04] Well, Bill Hader, that's different, because he was literally trying to make it break.

[00:36:08] But I, for my, for my, listen to that podcast, Lauren actually doesn't like changes.

[00:36:13] Of course. Oh, no, no, no. Yeah.

[00:36:14] So like, I think a lot of it is kind of just played up.

[00:36:17] Yeah, and yeah, that's so, it's just, man, they're so good. They're just so good together.

[00:36:21] And then we just talked about this Heidi Gardner being on the, the, the newsman tarot cards.

[00:36:27] Like that's kind of the reverse, you know, of what, what.

[00:36:30] Did you watch it or not? Yeah. Yeah. Of course.

[00:36:32] He watched it. I didn't know if he, because he wasn't, he didn't watch the episodes.

[00:36:35] He watched it. He's still got to do his review for a fucking slash film.

[00:36:37] Actually, I actually didn't.

[00:36:38] I just say, see, see, see, see.

[00:36:40] Oh, wow. Oh, wow. I was trying to, I knew he didn't do it because I read it.

[00:36:44] Try to defend you. And then, sorry.

[00:36:46] So both of you just showed your true colors. Yeah. Exactly.

[00:36:48] Well, you knew what they were.

[00:36:49] So anyway, um, we were very much in agreement that that I want to see that Heidi Garner again.

[00:36:54] Yeah. I want to see that happen with, with Che just like Sarah does it with Colin.

[00:36:57] Yeah. It's like there was a great chemistry between us.

[00:36:59] Yeah, I agree. Yeah.

[00:37:01] All right. Moving on, trivia quest, a game show host fears off course.

[00:37:05] When contestants portrayed by, uh, I'll, uh, I'll, uh, Deborah.

[00:37:11] Yeah. Yep.

[00:37:13] Good boy.

[00:37:14] Mikey Day and Sarah Sherman answer trivia questions.

[00:37:16] I'm a wodom that plays the role of a game show host with punky Johnson.

[00:37:21] as the judge, is the second game show of the episode, correct?

[00:37:29] - It is.

[00:37:31] - Which one did you like better?

[00:37:33] - The first one, but I did not enjoy this one.

[00:37:35] I thought this was very fun.

[00:37:38] A pretty basic premise, but the way that they built up

[00:37:42] the camaraderie between I/O Debary and Ego Wodom

[00:37:45] was a lot of fun and the fact that she just really leaned

[00:37:48] into it and was helping her out and that kind of stuff.

[00:37:50] And just, I liked that banter and that playfulness

[00:37:53] between the two that blossomed.

[00:37:55] - I like that I think that they definitely could have played

[00:37:57] up the white guilt stuff some more.

[00:37:58] I would have been okay with that.

[00:38:01] They definitely got in Mikey Day's face over and over

[00:38:04] and which was really fun.

[00:38:06] - Because she's what?

[00:38:08] - I was trying to say it.

[00:38:10] - She's her favorite.

[00:38:11] - Yeah, that's funny, but I would have loved more of that

[00:38:15] because that's what this sketch is about.

[00:38:18] And it's okay to definitely lambast that lambast.

[00:38:21] - Who would have liked to bring Mikey Day into more of it?

[00:38:23] - I would have liked to bring Sarah Sherman's character

[00:38:26] as well of like, hey, this isn't fair.

[00:38:29] Oh really, it's not fair?

[00:38:30] We want to talk about fair?

[00:38:31] - Play off the awkwardness.

[00:38:33] - That is what this is about.

[00:38:34] They made it more individual.

[00:38:37] I'm just helping her when there is an opportunity there

[00:38:40] to just blast the inequality overall.

[00:38:44] And again, I really like this sketch,

[00:38:46] but you can bring this back.

[00:38:48] You can do something bigger with it later

[00:38:50] and really target some larger points about inequality.

[00:38:54] But honestly, I laughed quite a few times.

[00:38:57] I really did like when they cut the,

[00:38:58] I mean, I saw it coming, right?

[00:38:59] They're like, all right, I guess we'll go to the judges.

[00:39:01] I knew I was like, this is gonna be three black women

[00:39:03] or whatever it was.

[00:39:04] And man, perfect.

[00:39:06] - All right, this sketch reminded me of Ben

[00:39:08] if you've ever been stuck in an elevator with him.

[00:39:10] A stuck in the elevator written by Asha Ward,

[00:39:12] Bo and Yang, it's the last team.

[00:39:14] Tenses arise when a group of characters

[00:39:16] become trapped in an elevator.

[00:39:18] - Damn, right they do.

[00:39:19] (laughing)

[00:39:21] ♪ Trapped in an elevator ♪

[00:39:24] - Was that an arrow, Smith?

[00:39:25] - It was.

[00:39:26] - It was a variation.

[00:39:27] - Hey, you see how parity, if you will.

[00:39:29] - You see how we speak each other's language

[00:39:32] when it comes to music.

[00:39:33] - All right, what did you guys think of this one?

[00:39:35] Stuck in the elevator.

[00:39:36] - Fucking weird.

[00:39:37] - It was so odd.

[00:39:38] - I don't know who-

[00:39:39] - Actually, I should have wore Bo and Yang,

[00:39:40] so I see him.

[00:39:41] - I didn't really get it.

[00:39:42] - I got it, but to me,

[00:39:43] it's sorry, I got it.

[00:39:45] And then when they opened the elevator button

[00:39:47] and got out there, I didn't know why that came out.

[00:39:48] - Yeah, so to me, this was the weakest sketch

[00:39:51] of the night, other than the cold open,

[00:39:52] 'cause obviously, but yeah, like it's weird

[00:39:56] because like the gag is obviously that it escalates

[00:39:59] so quickly, and that's a music in itself.

[00:40:01] - Yes, yes.

[00:40:02] - But at the same time, it felt like the sketch

[00:40:05] was moving too fast to really like work, I guess.

[00:40:08] I don't know, that team's counterintuitive, but--

[00:40:10] - You jump to a literal fantasy land for real,

[00:40:13] where they leap out another in this magic board,

[00:40:16] after what, a minute and a half?

[00:40:17] - Yeah, it felt like to get to that point,

[00:40:19] then you did more build up.

[00:40:21] - I don't even know what they need to get there.

[00:40:24] I think it's just the fact that the firefighters

[00:40:26] are like so concerned, like, what are you talking with?

[00:40:29] Does anybody actually wanna get out of the elevator

[00:40:30] and then try to convince them to get in?

[00:40:32] And maybe one of the firefighters decides

[00:40:34] to get into the elevator and keep going with that?

[00:40:36] I think that could have been just as fun.

[00:40:37] - It was such an elaborate ending.

[00:40:40] - It was so weird.

[00:40:41] - Especially for an ending that felt like it was like,

[00:40:43] well, we don't really know how to end this,

[00:40:45] but they really leaned into it.

[00:40:47] - Really, really weird.

[00:40:48] - Real Sarah Sherman at the end there.

[00:40:50] - Yes, it's weird, it's weird.

[00:40:52] I'm not, but to Brad's point though,

[00:40:54] when Elle almost immediately, they were like,

[00:40:59] well, Bowen's line is maybe the line of the night,

[00:41:02] where he's like, there's three men and two women,

[00:41:05] so there's enough, what did he say?

[00:41:06] - Enough meat for the mouth.

[00:41:07] - Enough meat for the mouth.

[00:41:08] - And the way he said, I'm like, oh my God.

[00:41:11] But I do have one part that I did enjoy,

[00:41:14] which was when they started being what they wanted to be

[00:41:16] and everyone wanted to be able to be on the air.

[00:41:18] - And then like, no, you already said

[00:41:20] you were gonna be asked that.

[00:41:21] - Yeah.

[00:41:21] - No, you can't be, you know what, you can be a member,

[00:41:23] you gotta pick something else, it was good.

[00:41:25] There was enough there to like,

[00:41:27] it just got so weird, so quick.

[00:41:29] - In any other episode, this would have been a better sketch,

[00:41:32] but because the rest of the episode was pretty much

[00:41:33] like very good, like this kind of just felt like, yeah.

[00:41:36] - Like I don't know what we're doing here.

[00:41:37] - Yeah, for sure.

[00:41:39] - And what do you think?

[00:41:40] - I thought it was fine, I thought it really veered

[00:41:42] at the end there, which kind of lost me

[00:41:44] in the whole sketch as a whole.

[00:41:45] Like I just thought, what are we doing?

[00:41:47] Why are we going down?

[00:41:47] - Yeah, or like, sometimes they have you by a rope

[00:41:51] and you're going, okay, I'm going with this,

[00:41:53] I'm going with this.

[00:41:54] And then it was a disappointing ending to the sketch.

[00:41:56] If they would have escalated to something

[00:41:58] that I thought was really fun,

[00:41:59] it would have been a better sketch.

[00:42:00] - Sure.

[00:42:01] - But in a night that I thought had some really good sketches,

[00:42:03] it just was a forgettable sketch for me.

[00:42:04] - Very fair.

[00:42:05] - All right, speaking of a great sketch

[00:42:10] with I.O. Adebri, this was School Hypnotists,

[00:42:14] written by Andrew D. Smukes, Vanessa Jackson,

[00:42:16] Asha Ward, and August White,

[00:42:19] a professional hypnotist played by Andrew Smukes,

[00:42:22] who could really only play this character.

[00:42:23] He does so well in this awkward character.

[00:42:26] Introduces the art of hypnosis to a group of high school

[00:42:29] students, the teacher is played by Heidi Gardner

[00:42:32] and the janitor is played by Keenan Thompson.

[00:42:35] This is kind of, I.O. Adebri's character is kind of

[00:42:39] like when Brad tries to like name drop all the people

[00:42:43] he's met, but he doesn't want to really name drop,

[00:42:45] but you know, he's kind of beating around the bush

[00:42:47] a little bit about it and then it just finally comes out,

[00:42:49] it's like possessed.

[00:42:50] - Well, but I can't believe you hypnotized me

[00:42:53] to let you know that I meant Chris Hemsworth.

[00:42:54] - What a weird comparison.

[00:42:56] - It's exactly what I thought of him.

[00:42:57] Like this is--

[00:42:58] - This is Brad all day long.

[00:42:59] - Yeah, this is Brad.

[00:43:00] - Solomon Brad.

[00:43:00] - A lot of people say I do have the vibe

[00:43:01] of a black bisexual boy, so.

[00:43:03] (laughing)

[00:43:04] - I've said this so many times.

[00:43:06] - Yeah.

[00:43:07] - You definitely didn't listen to the last episodes.

[00:43:09] (laughing)

[00:43:10] - Okay, exactly.

[00:43:11] - This was hilarious.

[00:43:13] I love this actually.

[00:43:15] - I loved this tattoo.

[00:43:16] - This is so much fun.

[00:43:17] - It felt like she was possessed.

[00:43:19] She was so fucking into this character.

[00:43:22] - The built move.

[00:43:24] - Yeah.

[00:43:24] - The fucking belt move.

[00:43:25] - It's like her own variation on like Steve Urkel

[00:43:28] in a way, but it's Pat a little bit.

[00:43:30] - Yeah, and it felt like a character.

[00:43:32] Like I feel like maybe this is her character

[00:43:35] that she had in her back pocket.

[00:43:36] - She wasn't on the cue card.

[00:43:37] She was just like, yeah, like in it.

[00:43:39] It was so, so good.

[00:43:40] It felt like she was a cast member on SNL

[00:43:44] and this was a recurring character.

[00:43:46] - This is a Kristen wig or Kate McKinnon level character.

[00:43:50] - It was so, so good.

[00:43:51] - Fully formed.

[00:43:52] - I'm so glad you guys thought that

[00:43:53] 'cause I'm watching this.

[00:43:54] I'm like, this is a lecture.

[00:43:55] - I watch it three times.

[00:43:56] - So weird.

[00:43:57] - I watch it three times.

[00:43:58] - And I love the escalation too of Keenan Thompson

[00:44:01] suddenly getting into the hypnotist too.

[00:44:03] It was so, so funny.

[00:44:05] And to be clear, I am not telling this person

[00:44:10] to come out as bi 'cause it's a kid.

[00:44:12] You know what I mean?

[00:44:14] And then, so I think something that helps this sketch

[00:44:17] is Heidi Gardner.

[00:44:19] And I know ha ha ha, I like Heidi Gardner.

[00:44:21] But the fact that she is--

[00:44:22] - I didn't say anything.

[00:44:23] - You looked at me weird.

[00:44:24] She is in this sketch because she's letting the audience know,

[00:44:28] no, he is a little off.

[00:44:30] This isn't normal.

[00:44:31] And so you do need to have a side character like that.

[00:44:34] Sometimes make sure that everybody in the sketch

[00:44:36] understands who you're supposed to think is weird.

[00:44:39] - Yeah.

[00:44:40] - Because if the--

[00:44:40] - To be that north star a little bit.

[00:44:41] - If the teacher is also going like,

[00:44:43] yeah, Mr, what are you doing?

[00:44:46] Then it loses something.

[00:44:47] But the fact that like now we're back on board,

[00:44:49] like everybody knows like, yes,

[00:44:51] I don't know, you're being a little aggressive.

[00:44:54] It made it so much better.

[00:44:55] So it's just so well.

[00:44:56] That's a really well-written sketch.

[00:44:58] The performance is number one, but it's a very well-written--

[00:45:00] - It's a good note on the writing that you,

[00:45:03] that the subtlety of the sub-characters--

[00:45:05] - It does matter.

[00:45:06] - Matters as well.

[00:45:07] - And that means that the director has to kick that camera

[00:45:11] at the right time and that Heidi has to deliver

[00:45:13] her life without a flub.

[00:45:14] And this only works if everything's firing.

[00:45:17] You could have kept the camera on her the entire time,

[00:45:20] obviously.

[00:45:21] But the fact that there were a lot of moving parts here

[00:45:23] as far as the background characters, it worked really well,

[00:45:25] especially, oh my God, Keenan was great coming at the end.

[00:45:29] And then just like all of them singing, oh, wow.

[00:45:32] Good stuff.

[00:45:33] - Simbocalists on this.

[00:45:34] - Yeah, well, and I almost see what's the new person's name--

[00:45:37] - Chloe Troost.

[00:45:38] - When I see Chloe Troost in a sketch,

[00:45:40] I'm like, I wonder what musical we're doing,

[00:45:43] 'cause they really are relying on her.

[00:45:45] I do want to see her do a little bit more than that,

[00:45:47] because again, you don't want to see it coming, right?

[00:45:51] - It was a note that I thought as well

[00:45:52] when I was watching Sarah Sherman,

[00:45:54] what is this, her third season or second?

[00:45:55] - Sarah Sherman, I think it says third, right?

[00:45:57] - Third, I think so, yeah.

[00:45:58] - But how comfortable she is.

[00:46:00] And like, you go from a Chloe Troost who's new,

[00:46:02] who's doing great.

[00:46:03] - Doing great, yeah.

[00:46:05] - To Sarah Sherman, who's just found their groove.

[00:46:07] It takes two or three seasons,

[00:46:08] but they just find their groove.

[00:46:10] - Just crushing it.

[00:46:11] - Crushing it, man.

[00:46:12] - All right, moving on, people's court.

[00:46:14] Bad hair day, written by Alex English, Jimmy Foulley,

[00:46:17] Gary Richardson, and Ashha Ward.

[00:46:19] A woman portrayed by I/O,

[00:46:21] a debbery is suing her former hairdresser,

[00:46:24] played by Ego Woldham.

[00:46:25] The judges played by Keenan Thompson,

[00:46:27] the bailiff played by Devin Walker,

[00:46:29] and Janelle White by Punky Johnson.

[00:46:32] So this was kind of a tender one sketch, honestly.

[00:46:37] - This was odd.

[00:46:39] - This was great until they classically

[00:46:42] didn't know how to end it.

[00:46:43] - Yeah, they did.

[00:46:44] - It was the worst ending of the night for any sketch.

[00:46:46] I really enjoyed what they were doing, though.

[00:46:49] Like it's an exposed brain that's insane.

[00:46:53] Like her blowing on it, so she doesn't remember it.

[00:46:58] There's a lot of really funny stuff here,

[00:47:00] but it just takes an absolute dump on the lawn at the end.

[00:47:04] I mean, just embarrassingly so.

[00:47:06] Anybody couldn't have come up with that.

[00:47:07] - They didn't really know how to escalate as much.

[00:47:09] - It was so weird.

[00:47:10] It certainly didn't happen.

[00:47:12] - I agree, yeah, the ending was just like what?

[00:47:14] - What the fuck?

[00:47:14] Their performances were good, though.

[00:47:16] - I know, I like--

[00:47:17] - There was some good comedy happening there.

[00:47:18] - There should have been, hopefully,

[00:47:20] a way to button that up where your like ends on a high note.

[00:47:22] It's a big laugh and an end.

[00:47:25] Whoa, what a missed opportunity.

[00:47:27] But yeah, but overall, the sketch was still--

[00:47:29] - It's wacky, it's weird.

[00:47:30] - Yeah, yeah.

[00:47:31] And Punky Johnson looks so funny,

[00:47:34] with like the hair hair pulled back,

[00:47:36] and like they're just a huge--

[00:47:37] - And the fact that like Keenan and--

[00:47:39] - Devin make fun of him.

[00:47:40] - Yeah, and it's like, we don't normally do,

[00:47:42] you could tell, it's like, oh, I'm sorry about that,

[00:47:43] but we just couldn't help ourselves.

[00:47:45] Like that's great.

[00:47:45] There's some really good stuff here.

[00:47:48] - No, not Punky Johnson.

[00:47:49] We have before said that Punky Johnson needs to find her voice.

[00:47:53] Do you guys feel like she's kind of doing

[00:47:54] a little more of that this season?

[00:47:56] - It's one of those things where it's like,

[00:47:58] it can be hit or miss.

[00:48:00] Like sometimes she has like great moments

[00:48:02] within episodes.

[00:48:03] I don't think she's still fully found her groove.

[00:48:05] If anything, I think that--

[00:48:06] - I don't know if she ever will be a featured,

[00:48:08] featured part of every episode.

[00:48:10] - Yeah, I think that like she has these like little niches

[00:48:12] where she kind of fits into various sketches

[00:48:15] in a certain way that like really helps the sketch

[00:48:17] without being the star.

[00:48:19] She's had a couple instances where she's been throwing it.

[00:48:20] Like the sketch when they had Bad Bunny

[00:48:23] and they did the Spanish soap opera.

[00:48:25] And she was hilarious in that.

[00:48:27] And every now and then she gets a moment to shine like that.

[00:48:29] - The best thing she ever did was her and Mikey Day

[00:48:31] being themselves on weekend.

[00:48:32] - That was funny, yeah.

[00:48:33] - It was the funniest thing.

[00:48:34] - Things that she's actually said--

[00:48:36] - But I want, if that comes up again

[00:48:40] on the next weekend, everybody, next week or whatever,

[00:48:43] where she and Mikey come back on and do that again,

[00:48:45] I'm gonna laugh.

[00:48:46] It was great.

[00:48:47] So she's the best when she can be herself.

[00:48:49] And so I want to see more of that, I do.

[00:48:51] - 'Cause I don't think that she's bad by any means.

[00:48:54] I do think that it is, it's--

[00:48:57] - And not everyone does find their group, you know?

[00:48:59] - I will say though, she is way better

[00:49:02] than even last year at delivering her lines.

[00:49:04] Like if you look back--

[00:49:06] - I agree, that's what I'm saying.

[00:49:07] - But we feel like she's--

[00:49:08] - She's a little bit more aware.

[00:49:09] She's at least comfortable now and can--

[00:49:11] - I agree.

[00:49:12] - In a sketch, deliver line without pulling focus

[00:49:15] that wow, that was a little still to delivery.

[00:49:16] - And she's not just playing the waiter delivering food

[00:49:19] to the table.

[00:49:20] - Yeah, there's more meat there for sure.

[00:49:22] - Yeah, so I just wanted to give her a shout out

[00:49:23] because I do think she's growing into this.

[00:49:25] Whether she'll be on SNL for many more seasons,

[00:49:27] I don't know.

[00:49:28] - I like her a little bit.

[00:49:29] - She's finding her voice slowly.

[00:49:30] - I just wanted--

[00:49:31] - I just wanted to get a character though.

[00:49:33] - I wanted to find a character that she can own

[00:49:36] that is really, really good.

[00:49:37] - Yeah.

[00:49:38] - 'Cause I think there's something there, so.

[00:49:40] All right, that's the episode.

[00:49:41] There was no comfort time sketches

[00:49:43] when we are recording at least at this point on Monday night.

[00:49:48] there on the SNL YouTube channel. Let's do MVP first. Who was your MVP of the night?

[00:49:53] I owe a Deborah. Yep. I'm giving it to a Deborah. I thought so too, because she

[00:49:58] incredible. She should have been on us. Oh, yeah. For her first time hosting, she did an incredible

[00:50:03] job. She's easily fit in with the cast. Character work. She could have been with them for a few

[00:50:08] years. And yeah, just just very fun, very natural sketches. And it is hard to know the moment, to

[00:50:14] feel the moment and to not miss the moment. I mean, she's so young and just, you know, again,

[00:50:19] yes, she does have that stand-up background. And yes, she's got probably, she mentioned them

[00:50:23] out. She's friends maybe at the show a little bit. Yeah. Some of the writers and the cast members

[00:50:28] came up with her in New York. Somebody just that confident, you know, and just, again, maybe even

[00:50:35] bringing a fully formed character to the show. Like, I don't know who wrote that, but wow.

[00:50:40] Yeah, Andrew Smewkes, Vanessa Jackson, Asha Ward, and August White. So maybe that's, and again,

[00:50:46] I will, I will shout out if we had, you know, gun on my head, I had to pick a cast member this

[00:50:49] week, this Smewkes was great. He was great. He was in a lot. He did. He had a lot of heavy,

[00:50:55] heavy, heavy health, right? That sketch, which is really great. Really, really good stuff. All

[00:50:59] right. Sketch of the night. School hypnotist. School hypnotist. Yeah, it was mine. Yeah, that's

[00:51:05] for me too. I'm just thinking about this. I didn't actually pick one beforehand. I also like to

[00:51:10] why did you say it a lot? I thought that was very good. I like to do popcorn bucket a little bit

[00:51:14] more. Digit. Okay. But for me, school hypnotist, the character work is just phenomenal. There was

[00:51:20] magic happening in that sketch. Especially if that's not a character that she had in her back pocket.

[00:51:25] Oh, God. If that's the case, then it's the best one of the season. Maybe in two years,

[00:51:29] like honestly, nobody comes. If she fit that well into that character, nobody comes that hard

[00:51:34] on a character. It is. It is almost, you know, the great, the Justin Timberlake, the character

[00:51:40] that are the hosts that bring it on to homeless. Yeah. If she hosts again, and I hope she does,

[00:51:45] if Solomon isn't come back, I'll be pissed. Seriously. Oh, yeah. No, you're not wrong.

[00:51:51] That's amazing. Yeah. Well, I mean, last week was fine. Week before sucked. This episode was great.

[00:51:59] I'm so happy. Best episode of the season so far? None of the season probably, but it's up there.

[00:52:04] It's up there. It's got to be in top three. Yeah. Oh, for sure. Yeah. For sure.

[00:52:08] So who would you say is the best of the season? Read out the the hosts, sir. All right. Hold on.

[00:52:14] All right. Let's start from the beginning. Pete Davidson, Bad Bunny, Nate Bargazzi,

[00:52:23] Timothy Chalamet, Jason. You loved the Jason Moore episode. Emma Stone, Adam Drive.

[00:52:29] Oh, those are two good episodes. Yeah. That's it.

[00:52:32] Pete McKinnon, Jacob Allordie, Dakota Johnson. It's Adam Driver and Emma Stone and I/O at

[00:52:40] Devereg. Me. It's Emma Stone, Adam Driver, I/O at Devereg. Really? Yeah. I like the Emma Stone

[00:52:45] episode better. All right. All right. Well, I do want to give a shout out. It was probably

[00:52:50] May 4th place. I thought the Nate Bargazzi episode was really good. It's funny. Who was the week before

[00:52:56] Nate? Bad Bunny. That's a really good episode, too. I think the episode as a whole wasn't perfect,

[00:53:04] but there were sketches in there that were just... Those are really bad. They would make my top 10

[00:53:07] sketch. So the sketch of the Bad Bunny episode that comes to mind is the one, it's a pre tape

[00:53:11] where they... So good. It will be a top 10 sketch of the season for me. And it's just the same thing

[00:53:16] with Neighbor Gazzi and the meters and feet. George Washington. Amazing sketch. So if people are

[00:53:24] saying not a good season, there's been... There's plenty of stuff. Plenty of stuff to celebrate. As there

[00:53:28] always are, but there's been some great stuff. Just recently I heard somebody say, "I'm old enough to

[00:53:32] remember when SNL was funny." It's like, "Well, you're old enough that you should be in the fucking

[00:53:34] ground then." Whoa, geez, oh, Pete. I'm not pulling any punch when it comes to SNL. You don't

[00:53:39] fuck with my thumb. I mean, you just say, "Oh, I didn't know you're that dumb." Do we have anybody

[00:53:44] coming up on SNL that we need to watch soon? No, the season's done and we're finished. Now, as a...

[00:53:50] Shane Gillis. Yes. A very shocking announcement was made during this episode and that comedian

[00:53:57] Shane Gillis is going to be hosting the February 24th episode. Is that the right day? Correct. If he

[00:54:03] really did say on a podcast that he would kill himself rather than host SNL. Yeah, so for those

[00:54:10] of you who maybe don't know who Shane Gillis is, Shane Gillis was actually hired as a featured player

[00:54:16] on "Saturday Night Live" a few years ago. But before he could make his debut, some podcast clip

[00:54:22] surfaced of him appearing where he was making racist and homophobic remarks. Granted, they were

[00:54:29] "ingest." As a comedian, it's one to do. But they got him in some hot water and they announced

[00:54:39] that they would not be hiring him as a cast member after all. And there was a whole

[00:54:43] bruja-ha about it. And it's... I think that that is actually... It's about 10 years ago. Is it

[00:54:47] ruffling? No, I think it was only like five or six years ago. I mean, he didn't get the show

[00:54:51] two years ago. The podcast clips were from about five to seven years ago, I think. So, yeah. So,

[00:54:57] so the controversy around that is kind of what got him a little more attention. The

[00:55:04] Shane Gillis thing was five years ago, SNL. 2019. So, it's just hard to keep track. Wait,

[00:55:09] wait, wait, wait. He didn't get the show two dozen-19. Yeah. It's been five years since he

[00:55:14] didn't do show. I know. Man, time, dude. It was Bo and Yang's year, until we find him.

[00:55:17] And they've been on the show forever. You know what, guys? This is the last episode. I'm going to bed.

[00:55:21] I can't believe that. I thought... I'm not joking, dude. I thought, ah, two years. Anything before

[00:55:26] 2020 now is like... Yeah. It's in the before/for time. But, yeah. So, he got a bigger following because

[00:55:32] of this because those are the kind of people who support trash whenever they see somebody who's

[00:55:37] getting quote-unquote canceled. Yeah. So, he got all over Joe Rogan shit, Tom Segura and all these

[00:55:42] guys that are... His podcast has gotten more popular. He just recently had his own standup special on

[00:55:46] Netflix. And so, now... But I will say that the standup special on Netflix is funny.

[00:55:51] His standup special is pretty good. And there is an interesting thing about him. And we've talked

[00:55:57] about this off air is that there is part of Shane Gillis's persona and his comedy that feels like

[00:56:03] he's almost in on pandering to the audience that has made him famous, who would be complaining about

[00:56:11] getting canceled and like that's not racist. But, in a way, we're like, he's also kind of making

[00:56:16] fun of them without them knowing it. So... It's a really interesting line to walk.

[00:56:20] So, he was a cast member or at least a recurring cast member or cast member on Pete Davidson's

[00:56:29] recent show, Bob Kiss. So, he must be friends with a lot of this group. And if you watch his

[00:56:33] standup special, you'll see that one of the reasons that he was likely going to be hired is because

[00:56:37] he has a pretty decent Donald Trump impression. His impressions are really good. So, I think I

[00:56:42] brought this up with Ben maybe in one of the... We talked about this at least maybe just in person,

[00:56:46] but Louis CK, which again, we won't get into his backstory, but he makes a point where

[00:56:52] Shane Gillis is the only person he's ever seen that can do the shtick that he does

[00:56:59] in Brooklyn and get a bunch of hipsters to laugh. You know, like he does this, you know,

[00:57:04] really almost that racist. But there are certainly times that are racist, but like,

[00:57:09] not everything he does is racist. There's stuff that feels like it's right on the line of actually

[00:57:14] being offensive but not really because he can actually do it and the Brooklyn people love him.

[00:57:19] Yeah, what it is is he's a half to a quarter step removed from being that guy. So, he'll say

[00:57:26] things like, you know, you know, I'm not necessarily probably I got a Fox News dad though,

[00:57:30] or I'm not a Republican yet. And I love my dad and I respect my dad. I think my dad is smart,

[00:57:37] but he also loves Fox News. So, he's aligning right there on the edge of everything. But then

[00:57:42] he's also got an uncle that has Down syndrome. And so, and he used to coach the Special Olympics.

[00:57:46] The bits on that are amazing, but if you just take that kind of out of context and you say,

[00:57:50] well, he's making fun of the Special Olympics. He's a motherfucker. I was there. I've coached,

[00:57:53] I love these people. These are my people. Then you may be deep to have a little bit more and

[00:57:57] understand that he's making fun of you if you think that way about the Special Olympics.

[00:58:01] It's very, honestly, his Shane Gales is really more nuanced than a lot of like,

[00:58:05] but at the same time, when you still problematic as fuck. Yeah, when you listen to some of stuff

[00:58:10] he said is like their stuff that doesn't walk that long. No, not at all. But a lot of people have

[00:58:16] stuff like that, especially when you're a comedian. Hey, make fun of Jennifer Lopez sometimes.

[00:58:20] There you go. But, yeah. So, I mean, it's weird. It's really weird. It's really weird.

[00:58:23] Because it's not one of those things where like, I'm immediately pissed off at the things he says,

[00:58:27] unlike someone like Dave Chappelle, who has really had a lot of trash stuff.

[00:58:32] You don't put him in the Shane, the Dave Chappelle. I don't actually.

[00:58:36] No. Dave Chappelle is anti-training. I feel like he, I feel like Shane Gillis could potentially be

[00:58:41] on the cusp, and like, especially because he has a friendship with Dave Chappelle. He totally

[00:58:47] like hangs around with Dave Chappelle. You know who else says John Malaney and some of our

[00:58:49] the communities. Yeah, exactly. Well, that's, there's a reason that Dave Chappelle's not booed

[00:58:53] off the stage when he showed up at the good night, see the night, you know,

[00:58:56] and that's an L. I mean, he, although if you did, I don't know if you guys noticed this or talked

[00:59:00] about it. Well, Bowen, yeah. Yeah. Bowen and Cher Sherman being like pointing at me and like,

[00:59:03] what the fuck? Yeah, but you should be able to figure out why that happened.

[00:59:06] Like why Dave Chappelle was. Maybe he was there to get Shane the hosting gig.

[00:59:09] Listen, it's a weird line. And I'm, I am probably more not excited,

[00:59:16] interested to see what this is going to be. It's a, it's a fantastic move by SNL.

[00:59:20] Oh, you know, if you're trying to drum up interest in the show from people that are on the right,

[00:59:24] you're going to get more people tuning into this show. Yep. Until the next time they let

[00:59:28] Dave Chappelle. We could talk about not having Nikki Haley on, but that was the first thing I saw

[00:59:33] about SNL on Twitter that night was Nikki Haley was on. So and Lauren is not probably stupid,

[00:59:37] so he does understand that yes, you do have to do equal time, but also we're going to get views

[00:59:41] if we do certain things. And I've got a, I've got a business to run. Yeah, I get that.

[00:59:45] It'll be interesting. I'm, I'm excited to see it. We'll see what happens. I doubt it'll be as

[00:59:50] controversial as Dave Chappelle usually is. I'm very curious what he will say during his

[00:59:57] monologue. The monologue, because there's no way they can address it. Well, and also he's a

[01:00:01] stand up. So normally it's a 10 minute monologue, you know, you'll let them go. Yeah. So in you,

[01:00:06] I mean, if it's, if it's, if Shane Gillis is at all like vindictive and has just been holding on for

[01:00:11] this opportunity, and he's like, well, I may, I made a couple million. Fuck him. I'm gonna burn

[01:00:15] the whole place. Who knows? Yeah. That's gonna go crazy. We'll see. All right. We'll see. So we'll be

[01:00:21] back in a couple of weeks. But in the meantime, you can listen to our other podcast, Go Flix yourself,

[01:00:26] where we talk about the most recent movies we've seen, we review movie trailers, and we just

[01:00:32] have a lot of fun. Just generally dick around. Probably gonna have to watch Stewart saves his

[01:00:36] family now. No, we got a couple weeks. We got a couple weeks. Let's just take a

[01:00:39] two weeks. Now I've been pushing that off. You guys can't keep pushing Stewart away. All right.

[01:00:45] Hey, he's good enough. He's smart enough. I got it. Dog on it. Dog on it. People like him.

[01:00:50] Very very working. People find you online. Slashroom.com is where I write about Saturday Night Live.

[01:00:54] Typically, I was traveling and I was sick for a couple weeks. So I did not review the Jacob

[01:00:58] Allordi and Dakota Johnson. Who did? Nobody. And and and rightfully so. But you can check out my

[01:01:07] nobody. My full review of the IO at a Bury episode. And typically every after every new episode,

[01:01:11] you'll find my review on Sunday in the afternoon on Slashroom.com. And also various remarks here

[01:01:17] and there on Twitter at Ethan_anderton. All right. All right. And Ben and Aaron.

[01:01:23] And stuff. But I also, I mean, I will tell you that there's a if you're anywhere near

[01:01:29] Northwest Indiana, there's a $10,000 treasure hunt going on right now that I'm sponsoring at the

[01:01:33] full till arcade and pinball. So you win $10,000 same. Yeah. And I've got nothing. So

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