Episode 60 - Ramy Youssef (Season 49)

[00:00:00] It's The Ten to One Podcast with your hosts, Brad Omen featuring not Ben Conowitz and

[00:00:14] Nate Laughz and here's the podcast applause like applause like applause like everyone's going

[00:00:22] to the audience.

[00:00:23] And then come down, come down, come down and credits we are done.

[00:00:28] All right.

[00:00:29] Not Ben Conowitz is my favorite Ben Conowitz.

[00:00:31] Yeah, he's not here again.

[00:00:33] He keeps choosing to go on these vacations and he tells us maybe like two or three days ahead

[00:00:38] of time and just on the plane guys.

[00:00:40] I'm going to where is he running?

[00:00:43] I was like Marco Island or something.

[00:00:44] I don't know.

[00:00:45] Have you been to Marco Island?

[00:00:46] I've been to Marco Island.

[00:00:47] I've not.

[00:00:48] Have you?

[00:00:49] Yeah.

[00:00:50] I was a high school actually.

[00:00:51] Was it good?

[00:00:52] Yeah, it was fine.

[00:00:53] One of my friends, grandmother's had a condo there and so we just spent spring break there.

[00:01:00] Do you create any high jinks while you were in?

[00:01:02] Oh absolutely.

[00:01:03] So we were cruising around listening to usher's yeah in grandma's Jeep.

[00:01:10] I don't know the words all I know is those are most of the words.

[00:01:13] And then we would go on the beach and there would be other people R age because it was spring

[00:01:17] break.

[00:01:18] Just having beers and hanging out.

[00:01:19] Did you have some brusquies even though you were not of Asia had had some brusquies hung

[00:01:23] out hung out with some people had a good time.

[00:01:26] We the cops came and busted up a little beach party once.

[00:01:29] No one got no one got trouble.

[00:01:30] They just apprehended the beer and put it in the back of their car so and then we'll

[00:01:34] drag it.

[00:01:35] Probably probably I've seen super bad.

[00:01:37] Yeah, I know how this works.

[00:01:38] This was back during a time too where there were like camera phones were not good so

[00:01:41] like we actually do have some like hard copy photos of like us with the police who took

[00:01:46] the beer from us because you genuinely they let you take it.

[00:01:49] Yeah, actually took pictures like with the.

[00:01:52] Well I would imagine anywhere that you like my grandparents live by South Padre Island in

[00:01:57] Texas.

[00:01:58] And so I went down there for spring break one time and it was a lot of fun but I can't

[00:02:02] imagine like cops in those areas high tourist spring break areas can arrest everyone.

[00:02:09] Yeah, exactly.

[00:02:10] Right.

[00:02:11] It's just it's impossible.

[00:02:12] Especially spring break.

[00:02:13] I mean, what are you going to do?

[00:02:14] Just give it to us and go.

[00:02:15] Right.

[00:02:16] So yeah, bends down at spring break in Marco Island.

[00:02:18] No, he's over in Vegas fucking around.

[00:02:20] I don't even know what he's doing or why but like that is that can you are friends

[00:02:23] that can't and I genuinely don't know why they win and he just didn't want to record

[00:02:27] like we asked him and he was just like no, you guys do it.

[00:02:30] It's like oh cool.

[00:02:31] He's really dedicated because yeah.

[00:02:33] So so if you're like ranking your favorite host of this podcast, I don't care where you

[00:02:37] put Brad and I it could be one a 1p but then definitely should be last on that list.

[00:02:41] Yeah, even put him in like number four, even probably.

[00:02:43] Yeah, like just silence.

[00:02:44] Yeah, silence.

[00:02:45] I've never had a guest on that's enough podcast as long as I can remember.

[00:02:49] I was like so.

[00:02:50] So putting him in number four is perfectly fine.

[00:02:52] I agree.

[00:02:53] Yeah.

[00:02:54] So speaking of Saturday and I live, that's why we're here and we had a new episode hosted

[00:02:58] by Remy Yusef, a stand up comedian and the star of his own self titled comedy series

[00:03:03] Remy which is on Hulu.

[00:03:06] It is an Emmy nominated series.

[00:03:08] He got all the series itself wasn't technically nominated but he was nominated for outstanding

[00:03:12] directing and outstanding lead actor.

[00:03:15] He's so charming.

[00:03:16] He really is and what's interesting about him too is he's charming in a way where he's

[00:03:21] not overly confident but he's also not super nervous either.

[00:03:24] He's kind of like Scott, this like calming middle ground.

[00:03:27] It was really interesting to watch him watching work especially in the monologue because

[00:03:30] he just feels like he's kind of there and just like, Hey, here's what I have to say and

[00:03:34] if you like it, take it.

[00:03:35] If you don't then I'll be fine.

[00:03:36] He has a new comedy special on Max.

[00:03:38] Did you watch it?

[00:03:39] No, I haven't.

[00:03:40] It's really good.

[00:03:41] If you know anything about his stand up, it is just obviously a continuation of his

[00:03:47] first major stand up that was on Max.

[00:03:50] But it's really good.

[00:03:51] He's very calm.

[00:03:52] He's also a comedian that likes to help people think a little bit too.

[00:03:57] Right?

[00:03:58] He will kind of go from great joke, great joke, great joke to serious point.

[00:04:05] He's just okay and comfortable with doing that.

[00:04:08] He has a rhetorical like method to get people to think but also to make them laugh because

[00:04:13] laughing often disengages us.

[00:04:15] Right?

[00:04:16] It can help us think about deeper things when we're not even thinking that we are thinking

[00:04:19] about it.

[00:04:20] Yeah, so great comedy special if you want to watch it.

[00:04:23] He's got a very unique world view as an American that is Muslim and an immigrant, these

[00:04:30] kind of thing.

[00:04:31] So I highly recommend that as well.

[00:04:32] There you go.

[00:04:33] All right, well let's dig into the overall episode and start with as we typically do

[00:04:40] the bottom of the barrel.

[00:04:42] Easter cold open written by Mike Desenzo, Alison Gates, James Austin Johnson and Ken Sublet.

[00:04:48] Donald Trump played by James Austin Johnson is promoting his God bless the USA Bible which

[00:04:53] is unfortunately a real thing.

[00:04:56] A very, very real thing.

[00:04:58] Unbelievable and it's all to raise money for the Trump campaign, a Bible.

[00:05:05] And you know, it's just that right there and maybe Brad, we're getting into the territory

[00:05:10] that we've talked about before with Trump.

[00:05:12] The hard thing is is you can't parody a living parody, right?

[00:05:16] Right?

[00:05:17] But this is already absurd exactly.

[00:05:19] It's already crazy.

[00:05:20] So you're going to put James Austin Johnson out there and do something that was not that

[00:05:26] different than what is real.

[00:05:28] I was actually excited when the in it opened up and there was a joke about Mary and the

[00:05:35] other Mary, which is what the scriptures call.

[00:05:37] You know this they don't give her like Mary.

[00:05:40] It's like Mary Magdalene and the other Mary or Mary Mother Jesus.

[00:05:43] And I thought, oh, there's some really great comedy and meta like narrative comedy in

[00:05:49] how sometimes the scripture describe things.

[00:05:51] Yeah, they could have done a sketch like I would have much preferred as much as I don't

[00:05:55] care for the Bible.

[00:05:56] Yeah.

[00:05:57] I would have much preferred them to do something.

[00:05:59] They could have done something creative in the Easter or you know, or even brought in

[00:06:03] some cultural things in that.

[00:06:05] Yeah.

[00:06:06] And it would have been fun.

[00:06:07] But then I see Donald Trump coming out and I'm like, oh, you just ruined something

[00:06:11] that I was like, Oh, okay, what is this?

[00:06:13] Yeah.

[00:06:14] This is fun.

[00:06:15] What did you think of this?

[00:06:16] I didn't like it.

[00:06:17] You know, it's just like like you just said, this is one of those situations and there

[00:06:20] have been many situations like this over the years where what is happening in real life

[00:06:25] is already ridiculous and ludicrous enough that to lampoon it is extremely difficult.

[00:06:30] And this just the jokes right themselves when you just hear about the fact that Donald

[00:06:34] Trump is selling Bibles that also have the Constitution in them and have the American flag

[00:06:40] on it.

[00:06:41] And it's just like, what are we doing here folks?

[00:06:43] You know, and so like there wasn't really anything special about that they added to

[00:06:47] this that provided any sort of new insightful commentary.

[00:06:49] And sure James Austin Johnson's Donald Trump is always going to be good.

[00:06:53] That's fine.

[00:06:54] It's the best impression Donald Trump that I've seen.

[00:06:56] Yeah, so good.

[00:06:57] But there was nothing here that made me really laugh.

[00:07:01] There was nothing that was like good satire to me.

[00:07:05] You know, it's just like you can't really get a lot out of this.

[00:07:08] And I just I wish that they would pull back on the Trump and Biden stuff because it's

[00:07:13] just not working for him.

[00:07:14] 100% agree, but I think we've got a lot more of that to come.

[00:07:17] Oh yeah.

[00:07:18] Ramyuse of monologue written by Ramyuse of host Ramyuse of performance is stand up routine

[00:07:22] about the Holy month of Ramadan receiving a call from the Biden campaign and prayer.

[00:07:28] You know, he has this comment in there where he says he's where he's talking about prayer

[00:07:32] praying and the request he was getting to prayer.

[00:07:35] He says friend I'm friends with a lot of sinners just disgusting people.

[00:07:39] And it was really resonant for me.

[00:07:44] I have no idea we're talking about.

[00:07:46] So the receiving a call from the Biden campaign and that is actually in his comedy special

[00:07:52] he took that from that.

[00:07:55] And it was really interesting because he talks about so the way politics are, I don't

[00:08:02] know if you felt this watching this, but the way politics are we're in such a binary

[00:08:05] political season right?

[00:08:08] Are you four or against are you a or are you be?

[00:08:11] And so when he is in there kind of I think subtly or just you know kind of swiping on the

[00:08:19] Biden campaign and using him a little bit to get Muslim voters and everything that automatically

[00:08:25] goes to oh he must not he's not he's not a Biden fan.

[00:08:29] He must be a Trump fan or something like this.

[00:08:31] You know, there's that kind of meta narrative that exists.

[00:08:34] And then he goes to the comedy I think a trans woman should run for and his comment there

[00:08:41] not as many who was just so subtle so funny.

[00:08:45] I just I thought he was just masterfully delivered this whole monologue.

[00:08:49] I loved it.

[00:08:50] I will say though I do continually get frustrated when somebody decides to like be proud of the

[00:08:55] fact that like like I'm not happy with either choice.

[00:08:59] No, it's okay but like come on man like there's one better.

[00:09:03] Yeah, one is clearly better than the other like don't sit there and like feel like like

[00:09:06] oh you're the cool one who's like I don't like all these people it's like great fucker

[00:09:09] like fucking make a choice though still.

[00:09:12] So like but there are some some sharp stuff here.

[00:09:15] I you know, I appreciated you know especially in the current cultural environment of him

[00:09:22] coming out and like making a very clear statement about the Israel Palestine conflict that's

[00:09:27] something that like not a lot of people are willing to do right now you know in the face

[00:09:31] of potential backlash and things like that.

[00:09:33] And so I read some comments online though about how people on both sides were very happy

[00:09:38] with it right where he talks about a free Palestine but also releasing the host.

[00:09:42] Yeah, these kind of things and so I thought he handled that really beautifully in a like

[00:09:46] you said in one of the probably maybe perhaps the most charged political topic right now.

[00:09:52] And I thought he handled it very well.

[00:09:54] Yeah, absolutely.

[00:09:55] But yeah, I thought it was a good cold open.

[00:09:57] I liked that it introduced people to his stand up and I hope more people will watch

[00:10:01] it.

[00:10:02] All right moving on couple goals couples on a game show played by Rami Yusuf, Ego Wodom,

[00:10:07] Maggie Day and Heidi Gardner compete to see who knows their partner the best.

[00:10:12] I'm pretty sure SNL has done this concept many, many times.

[00:10:15] I think they did it back in the Quinta Brunson episode or something similar to that.

[00:10:20] So games shows are a very common formula on SNL that has been forever and then there's

[00:10:26] there's this specific sub-sector game show where the couples are like trying to tell how

[00:10:32] much they actually know about each other and they're saying it's the same.

[00:10:35] Yeah, they usually vary up like how they do it but like and it's a very common game show

[00:10:40] trope and it's the newlywed game essentially.

[00:10:43] But yes, they pull it out.

[00:10:45] But what always makes it more fun is how they play with the formula and like what the

[00:10:52] how the answers go.

[00:10:53] And sometimes also how the chemistry is between the cast member couples right there.

[00:10:59] Sometimes just a look if you have a good cast member that can give a keen in type of look

[00:11:03] or you know it can make a make the sketch go a lot better because what you're looking

[00:11:07] for is discomfort right.

[00:11:09] You're looking for the comedy is in the weirdness of the answer but also the discomfort

[00:11:16] of the response of the couple.

[00:11:17] Yeah, and in this case I think what I liked is there were two layers of good jokes happening

[00:11:22] here.

[00:11:23] There were on one level you had Heidi Gardner and Mikey Day who were like uncomplete

[00:11:26] oppositions of the spectrum and like having just a weird clash of like what they thought

[00:11:30] each other's answers would be which is you know good in itself.

[00:11:33] But then you have the the ego, uh, Wotem and Ramy Yusef area where he's got this long

[00:11:40] complex thought out answers that are all tied to his worry about what happens if he's

[00:11:45] wrongly accused of accidentally killing his wife.

[00:11:49] And I like that you don't have Ramy reading the key cards.

[00:11:53] You have James Austin Johnson reading him in his like you know just general game show

[00:11:57] of what really good.

[00:11:58] Yeah, and that made it so much funny.

[00:12:01] No, and I do love the idea of getting so far into your head because you know that's

[00:12:07] what is Ramy's in his head like what if this happens and then this happens and then

[00:12:10] this happens and the response just goes longer.

[00:12:12] Yeah.

[00:12:13] It was good.

[00:12:14] But but like he said, it was a repeated concept.

[00:12:19] I'm fine with this repeated concept though because like there are some comedic formulas

[00:12:24] like this that just have a tendency to work and it just depends on the material that

[00:12:29] you use to do.

[00:12:30] And so again, in this case, I liked the escalation of how deeper it got as it went along getting

[00:12:36] you even going so far getting to the point that he like found himself in a Bonnie and Clyde

[00:12:41] scenario with his wife's for a best friend, you know.

[00:12:44] Mm hmm.

[00:12:45] So I liked it.

[00:12:46] All right.

[00:12:47] Let's move on to please don't destroy we got too high featured tre- featuring Travis Scott

[00:12:52] written by Dan Bola Martin, her the heat John Higgins and Ben Marshall.

[00:12:55] If you don't know those are the last three of the please don't destroy guys.

[00:12:59] Ramy use of Ben Marshall, John Higgins and Martin, her the he party with Travis Scott.

[00:13:05] So like maybe maybe a quarter to a third of the way through this song.

[00:13:11] I'm like, okay, this is just a joke.

[00:13:13] Yeah, this is a song like you're just doing a song with awkward guys.

[00:13:18] And then it takes this turn which I should have known.

[00:13:22] These are just right aren't going to give us something that doesn't doesn't turn because

[00:13:26] they are their masters of escalation, right?

[00:13:29] They're just so good at it.

[00:13:30] And then it just gets so funny for me.

[00:13:32] I loved this so much.

[00:13:34] Oh yeah.

[00:13:35] I just love how you know these guys who maybe don't get high regularly which I'm good

[00:13:40] and bad they do in real life but they don't in this sketch.

[00:13:44] And the paranoia that comes their individual responses.

[00:13:48] What I love now about please don't destroy is all we

[00:13:52] really know about them is from the sketches they do on you know what what they do maybe

[00:13:58] 15 sketches pre tapes a year.

[00:14:02] Last year and then they've done maybe let's say 10 of them this year I don't know if it's

[00:14:05] even not many but you're starting to figure out the personalities of each one of them

[00:14:11] and which makes it even more fun then it's like Larry Curly and Mo right you know the

[00:14:15] personalities and when how they responded kind of fit the personalities now that I expect

[00:14:21] their personalities to be and so they become characters for me.

[00:14:25] And so it just become even more funny because I'm connecting to characters that I now understand

[00:14:31] and know through SNL and just like you know Adam Sandler doing a bit or character and recurring

[00:14:37] it.

[00:14:38] I feel like their actual just personalities are characters now and I love this very much

[00:14:44] what do you think?

[00:14:45] Yeah no I agree.

[00:14:46] I agree.

[00:14:47] You know there's a great dynamic between them in the same way there was with the Lonely

[00:14:50] Island boys back when they were doing digital shorts and I on top of the turn which is

[00:14:56] very funny in itself.

[00:14:57] I also like the extra layer that they gave Rami in this one too where he's just awkward

[00:15:02] and like so funny it shows up to a club wearing shorts and like not knowing why and I

[00:15:07] also love the added bit of like social anxiety that he feels because he reflects back

[00:15:11] is like why the hell did I say that when I told it like what does this even mean?

[00:15:14] Let me tell a funny story from this spiritual quick about our cast our co co host that's

[00:15:19] not here so he and I were going to this event well we weren't going together but we were

[00:15:25] both invited to go to this event it was like a gala for a nonprofit in the area that we

[00:15:29] live in and so it is like a suit and tie event maybe even people wearing tuxes very very

[00:15:35] very nice event and our buddy Benny Kay who we love dearly shows up in a cargo shorts

[00:15:43] and a t shirt and I believe flip flops and it is November.

[00:15:50] This is not a rare occurrence this is like fans signature wardrobe no matter what the

[00:15:54] weather.

[00:15:55] And so it actually made me think of him a little bit where you know they're in the club

[00:15:58] and he's going why am I wearing cargo shorts?

[00:16:00] You know what it was being about but also at the end where he's making pants out of the

[00:16:06] napkins.

[00:16:07] It's so good I loved it.

[00:16:10] Yeah no this is a great sketch.

[00:16:12] All right let's move on immigrant dad talk show written by Mike DeSenzo Jimmy Fowley

[00:16:16] Marcel Hernandez Jake Norblet and zero Sullivan.

[00:16:19] I'm going to say that's Marcel Hernandez seems to be becoming a more integral part of

[00:16:25] SNL even just in the last six or seven episodes like he just seems to really be becoming

[00:16:30] a featured part.

[00:16:32] Yeah.

[00:16:33] Hamad Ahmed Moumad played by Rami Yusuf and Joaquin Antonio played by Marcel Hernandez host

[00:16:39] they talk show as immigrant fathers.

[00:16:42] My favorite part of this two things Marcel Hernandez is very quick Spanish makes me laugh

[00:16:49] he's done this before I think and we kind of update before yeah it just makes me laugh

[00:16:53] it actually think I saw stand up that way does as well so it's an ability and a gift

[00:16:57] that he has to go very very quick with the Spanish but the other thing was introduce

[00:17:05] Muex doing parkour.

[00:17:07] Yeah it just was so dumb and so and he just handled it so well and I don't know I just

[00:17:15] I just thought that was such an interesting little little turn there what did you think

[00:17:20] of this?

[00:17:21] I liked it you know it's as somebody who comes from a Mexican family even though I

[00:17:25] didn't have any family members who were like this is today necessarily because I mean

[00:17:29] my dad was white but like you you understand aspects of Mexican culture is the like

[00:17:34] then so there are definitely fathers like this and what not and having that that identification

[00:17:39] that also comes from having you know Rami playing a playing a father who also is an immigrant

[00:17:45] as well coming from his own background was a nice way of bringing Marcelo and Rami

[00:17:50] together and so there were some amusing things about it that worked for me however to

[00:17:54] me this sketch kind of showed the limitations that Rami Yusuf has as a performer when it

[00:18:00] comes to sketch comedy because it's as funny as he is and as decently a decent of a job

[00:18:05] as he did throughout the evening I do think that there wasn't much of versatility as

[00:18:10] far as what he could do as a character and this one was I think an opportunity where

[00:18:14] he could have really showed it because as an immigrant father you can put on you know

[00:18:18] an accent you can really lean into being the character and it felt like he was an accent

[00:18:23] right?

[00:18:24] He did but I felt like he was really dipping in and out of it like like he's like he

[00:18:28] would forget you know like Marcel Hernandez who could right exactly you know and so like

[00:18:32] that's that for me like it didn't feel like he was quite as skilled as really getting

[00:18:37] into a character in sketch comedy as opposed to like you know like Marcelo does you know

[00:18:42] and or many hosts had before.

[00:18:44] Yeah, that's a good note.

[00:18:45] All right moving on team captain the team captain played by Rami Yusuf gives an inspirational

[00:18:50] speech at the request of his coach Keenan Thompson now I've said this many times in

[00:18:56] the past but Brad's a naughty kitty that demands discipline.

[00:19:00] That's just true.

[00:19:02] That's true.

[00:19:03] What did you think of this?

[00:19:05] I love this guy.

[00:19:07] I thought you would I watch something like this is going to be right up Brad's alley.

[00:19:11] Yeah, it's just it's it has that right level of escalation.

[00:19:14] Yep.

[00:19:15] It's the perfect sketch for Keenan Thompson because he gets he gets limited lines to

[00:19:18] say and he makes the most out of the lines that he does get to say.

[00:19:21] It is.

[00:19:22] It was right in his will.

[00:19:24] Yeah, exactly.

[00:19:25] And so I just I love hearing continued from the from the teammates of just like how it kept

[00:19:29] getting worse and like the messages he kept sending in the pictures and yeah this was

[00:19:33] a perfectly absurd sketch that I absolutely loved and it was cracking me up even the subtle

[00:19:38] characters they had James Austin Johnson being the like counselor that has to stay with them

[00:19:42] you know.

[00:19:43] Yeah, even his line was delivered really funnily it was just it was really good and it was

[00:19:48] so weird and it just as I was watching him going, where is this going?

[00:19:53] And I thought, oh, this is gonna be a weird sketch.

[00:19:55] I'm gonna love it.

[00:19:56] Yeah.

[00:19:57] And you know one thing that I it's sketches like this to where I think about how how much

[00:20:01] different the in studio experience must be and how it has the tendency to make a sketch

[00:20:07] maybe not as funny as it is to people watching at home because I don't know if you think

[00:20:12] about this but like the James Austin Johnson character when he's introduced it's because

[00:20:17] they suddenly cut to him and you realize that he's there because you didn't know he was

[00:20:20] there the whole right exactly but in studio, he has to make an entrance he has to be on

[00:20:24] the stage and so who knows how long he was there for that for that bit.

[00:20:28] And so people have seen him and so that entrance isn't a punchline for them like it is for

[00:20:34] us and that that is the camera is almost a character in some of these sketches right

[00:20:40] and you don't have that in the life's studio and that's that's why we talk about the importance

[00:20:44] of directing too and how like a poorly timed cut you know the wrong camera which is

[00:20:50] having quite a bit.

[00:20:51] Yeah it can ruin a joke you know it can totally derail a sketch and really suck the wind

[00:20:55] out of its sales.

[00:20:56] Yeah and also as I've listed the former cast members if a cut doesn't happen when it should

[00:21:03] and they're expecting a laugh at that moment in the laugh doesn't come it will throw them

[00:21:07] off because what's going on and they didn't know that the cut didn't happen is you know

[00:21:12] and they think the jokes not working.

[00:21:14] Yeah exactly.

[00:21:15] And so all of these things have to be conducted well and have to be they have to go out

[00:21:20] and directed perfectly to make SNL happen.

[00:21:23] Yeah 100% alright let's move on to Ozembek for Ramadan a company is rebranding Ozembek

[00:21:30] for use during Ramadan fasting I thought this was just okay.

[00:21:35] I agree because and I one thing I will say is I did appreciate the the new cultural

[00:21:41] perspective that came from having somebody with Rami uses background on the show because

[00:21:45] I we've never really gotten commercials like with this approach before you know because

[00:21:50] of him being Muslim and whatnot.

[00:21:52] And so having this specific prescription medication tied to that aspect of his identity

[00:21:56] was an interesting approach but it didn't really feel like you did anything interesting

[00:22:00] with the material like he was just kind of there you know like pretty much exactly what

[00:22:05] I expected to be what it was and it was just kind of mildly amusing.

[00:22:09] Yeah I agree it just nothing about it really got to me it was well done it was well produced

[00:22:16] it was creative enough right but it just it was just okay yeah it just wasn't great.

[00:22:20] Yeah I agree I would have much rather them cut this and put back in the cut for time

[00:22:27] so we'll get to yeah alright let's go to weekend update with Colin Joseph Michael Che

[00:22:31] do you have a number already written down yet Brad for the Bratometer?

[00:22:35] I don't can you please write down a number.

[00:22:38] The Bratometer is a number that Brad comes up with about the chemistry and his kind of

[00:22:44] feelings that come from within him about the spiritual and emotional and comedic chemistry

[00:22:51] that the two hosts have now.

[00:22:53] The Bratometer is not about the overall health and success of the weekend update sketches

[00:22:59] or bits it's just about whether or not Michael Che in Colin Joseph had the chemistry necessary

[00:23:05] to pull off weekend update at a high level so let's it's just me and I am the worst at

[00:23:12] this Ben does a better job at this predicting that but I'm going to say there wasn't

[00:23:19] a ton there was some Colin Joseph had a nice joke about stranger things and Michael Che

[00:23:25] gave him a little bit of crap for that but I'm going to say it was only about 67%

[00:23:30] Well you know I will say that you are pretty close so they gave it a 70.

[00:23:34] You can go over though yeah I won you definitely won and Ben lost yeah again her the usual

[00:23:39] so yeah I felt the same way I thought it was good let me read it real quick for our listeners

[00:23:45] in case you haven't listened a weekend update anchors my Colin Joseph Michael Che cover

[00:23:49] the biggest news of the week such as the famous cherry blossom tree in Washington DC being

[00:23:53] chopped down in former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama attending a fundraiser for

[00:23:57] president Joe Biden in New York City so you just thought it was okay yeah the jokes

[00:24:04] same just okay yeah just okay it didn't seem like it was particularly strong stranger things

[00:24:08] joke was funny yeah stranger things joke was funny yeah but yeah otherwise there wasn't

[00:24:13] really a lot of standout punchlines to me in this particular edition although I will say

[00:24:17] there was an aspect of weekend update that I did enjoy immensely all right moving on

[00:24:22] weekend update bit we'll go to both of them I'll see which one you liked the best tick-tock

[00:24:27] or paper don't stir on Kate Middleton conspiracy theories written by Mike DeSenseo Jimmy

[00:24:31] Fowley Jake Norbin and Sierra Sullivan tick-tock or paper don't stir play by Chloe Fein

[00:24:36] and makes an appearance on weekend update to discuss her controversial post did you get

[00:24:41] involved at all into the Kate Middleton stuff because I did I got involved to the sense

[00:24:46] that I knew what was happening and I saw the the gift that would like showed the Photoshop

[00:24:52] reveal of like oh well this is a magazine cover superimposed onto the thing and I understood

[00:24:57] that there was like a general question of like seriously though where is Kate Middleton

[00:25:01] and it's a legitimate question yeah but that but that was pretty much it yeah I I will I

[00:25:06] will never hesitate to say this I could give two fucks about the royal family I do could

[00:25:11] not care about anything less than the royal family yeah I know but that that's why it got

[00:25:16] me I'm like I don't that's when I was a little surprised at myself I didn't care at all

[00:25:20] I genuinely don't care at all about the royal family I mean I don't like that they're

[00:25:24] racist but like like I just don't think about them often yeah and so but the whole idea

[00:25:29] for me wasn't I care about the royal family for me or I care about like what like they

[00:25:37] they are a monarchy that has endless amounts of money and they thought this would pass right

[00:25:44] right like the audacity for me but what did you think of this weekend update bit I thought

[00:25:50] it was okay you know it's what I thought to didn't do anything surprising or over the clever

[00:25:56] like once they had set up what it was I knew it was just going to be a string of tick-tocks where

[00:26:02] like she was proven to be in the wrong and made mistakes and like happens all the time yeah

[00:26:07] it was it was a very normal thing and so I I you know it was just whatever all right let's go

[00:26:12] to the one that I think you and I both liked better flakko the owls widow on her husband's death

[00:26:17] and autopsy written by Megan Callahan Shah who I think is a new writer Josh Patton Pete Schultz

[00:26:23] Casey Shornima in ash award those are all actually very new writers flakko the owls widow play

[00:26:29] by Sarah Sherman visits weekend update to talk about her husband's recent passing and the results

[00:26:35] of his autopsy it's Sarah Sherman whether she's in an owl customer not is going to pick on Colin

[00:26:40] Joe's and I like it yeah the fact that this was another stealth way of making fun of Colin

[00:26:47] Joe's just made me absolutely happy on top of the fact that Sarah Sherman's performance is just

[00:26:54] like so silly in itself because she's constantly flapping her arms for the wings and doing

[00:27:00] the ongoing who bit and the way that she would turn her head like an owl to look at Colin when

[00:27:07] they when they did that and of course every punchline at Colin Joe's expense I'm just I'm just so

[00:27:12] I'm so happy with this dynamic that they have and that they're able to keep this going and do it

[00:27:17] in a way that still feels like it's not getting old like the fact that they're able to fit it

[00:27:22] in in such a variety of weekend update characters that is not just Sarah Sherman making fun

[00:27:28] of Colin Joe's is just makes it that much better I agree I thought she was great I thought this

[00:27:33] was funny I thought it was creative because again they're just looking for ways for Sarah Sherman

[00:27:39] to have an interaction with the fun jokes and that's all you have to do but you can't just put

[00:27:43] her out there every time you have to or you can but I would still laugh but I love that they're

[00:27:48] finding other ways to do it yeah and and Sarah Sherman's so silly and so creative that it was

[00:27:53] it was really fun all right murder detective he's a detective play by Andrew dis meek's

[00:27:58] tries to make his fellow officers Rami use of I go woe them Devon Walker Marcelo Hernandez

[00:28:04] and James Austin Johnson laugh Sarah was she was holding on to not laugh at the end as best she could

[00:28:13] by Andrew dis meek's who was hilarious in this yes and it escalated actually the joke in the

[00:28:20] beginning I'm like okay it's fine but towards the end I really loved the sketch I thought it was

[00:28:25] great I don't think Rami use if it was great like in some sketches he just wasn't he was a character

[00:28:31] in not a featured part of it yeah so I wrote about this in my review actually as far as like

[00:28:37] it's an interesting like performance that you want from an SNL host because you want them to be the

[00:28:44] star of the episode but you don't want the episodes to necessarily be entirely about them and you

[00:28:51] want them to fit seamlessly into the SNL cast without necessarily like dominating and you know not

[00:29:00] letting anybody else get the spotlight you know you want it to be this nice harmony and for Rami

[00:29:05] what I felt was I felt like most of the time he did fit in with the cast pretty well but he wasn't

[00:29:11] necessarily great as the characters and they didn't give him a lot to like make him stand out as

[00:29:18] the host and like be the star in a way that was like satisfying does that make sense to you yeah it

[00:29:23] does I felt that way even in the in the game show right anybody could have done that role yeah

[00:29:31] and anybody could have hold that sign up he was fine he didn't he didn't make it bad but there

[00:29:36] was nothing that they were using that Rami use of can only especially bring to that role yeah

[00:29:42] there are sometimes there's hosts where they just only they can do that I think well yeah I

[00:29:48] think about um Quinta Brunson when she did the car yeah like I don't know I don't know a lot of

[00:29:55] other people could have pulled that off yeah it was just her personality her quirkiness her

[00:29:59] her just exoncent exoncentories exoncentry thank you um that that was able to do that and so

[00:30:06] I didn't feel that they had that sketch for Rami use of yeah I yeah I totally agree um I do

[00:30:12] think this mucs made the sketch work I think that I might have preferred that like I'm torn because

[00:30:18] I do like the idea of him constantly trying the same punchline over and over again it adds to like

[00:30:24] the the awkwardness of it but I also wish like they would he would have like tried different punchlines

[00:30:30] as well I'm not sure if it would have made it work even better or what um but it was great though

[00:30:36] at the end when Sarah Sermon is he knows she's she's starting to go and when the cast members

[00:30:41] start knowing that they're breaking right they just they want to make each other laugh just like

[00:30:44] they want to make the audience laugh yeah exactly and so it was a lot of fun all right moving on

[00:30:50] tiny desk concert written by Alice and Gates Martin Herla he bow and yang and Celesteine do you

[00:30:56] watch any of the tiny desk concerts yeah I've seen some here and there just been done who's on

[00:31:00] there was one recently with Justin Timberlake fan of this podcast and former host of SNL

[00:31:09] it's fantastic you should watch it so much fun but um I am a big fan of the tiny desk concerts

[00:31:14] so I like this I thought it was hilarious I always wonder when I like I've had these

[00:31:18] these conversations are in my head about I wonder where they're they're clearly filming this

[00:31:23] in an office and I wonder if there's other people working I wonder like you know I've had these

[00:31:28] entire entire in I've had these dialogues in my head about this but did it work for you um

[00:31:35] to an extent I thought the premise was an amusing one and having bow and yang come in and be

[00:31:40] frustrated by it continually uh was was a funny premise because he had a quiet episode yeah he

[00:31:45] did actually um I just didn't feel like it really went anywhere beyond that like single joke you know

[00:31:52] um I this is another one where I didn't feel like Ramy Yusif like was particularly doing anything

[00:31:57] that like worked for the sketch and made it that much better um so yeah I thought it was it was

[00:32:02] just fine I didn't I didn't dislike it but I wasn't over the moon for either it's a sketch that

[00:32:07] I thought the premise was great and I liked where it was going in the beginning I liked when bow and

[00:32:12] yang came in um and that was nice but like he said and then it just didn't go anywhere yeah like it

[00:32:17] it just repeated that kind of thing now bow and yang can do a really good mpr voice a really good podcast

[00:32:23] voice yeah and that made me laugh as well is is kind of inflections but it didn't end as funny as I

[00:32:30] could it's it's it's a sketch that I think again I were idiots I don't know but there was some more

[00:32:36] to that that could have been that they that didn't happen yeah wish because I liked the premise I

[00:32:42] like where they're also it was just me it was there something weird about Chloe tropes lines like

[00:32:46] that they almost didn't fit in like with the script like someone like they did a rewrite and they're

[00:32:51] like but they didn't adjust a certain part of like this the sketch yeah it did it did it also I

[00:32:57] couldn't tell if she was angry that she was playing I mean the idea of playing a milk jug maybe

[00:33:01] laugh a little bit but like I think that's a little it's a little too meta because you know

[00:33:07] they often have bands that come in here and they can't fit the whole group in yeah and they

[00:33:13] or all their instruments or all their instruments and stuff like that but I don't know if people

[00:33:16] really know that and so I just don't think that worked that was not accessible enough yeah or

[00:33:23] or her her response to it just wasn't good enough I don't know like you said that whole character

[00:33:29] didn't work for me yeah all right that is it's we've got a cover time sketch let's go with that one

[00:33:36] yeah the hitman hit man in this cover time sketch a hit man played by Ramayusev keeps interrupted

[00:33:43] keeps getting interrupted by the guy who was delivering his food played by Marcel Hernandez

[00:33:48] I liked this I thought it was pretty funny I didn't escalate perfectly for me

[00:33:54] I it ended pretty okay yeah but there was enough to this and particularly in Marcel Hernandez

[00:34:01] is a performance yeah that I thought was really funny it was for me it was one that you would

[00:34:06] I would have put in the show not in the same scenario but I've been in this position where I've had

[00:34:13] a conversation with an Uber Eats driver where it's basically the same kind of thing where I'm trying

[00:34:18] to figure out where they are and they just keep saying delivery yeah I have your food it's like

[00:34:23] yeah I know that's why you're here but we've to figure out where you are oh I would have loved

[00:34:27] to see you do that because I could just imagine you getting increasingly frustrated I actually

[00:34:32] had a similar situation happened with when I was getting picked up at the airport recently and the

[00:34:39] person was trying to tell me like where they were and they told me to go to one area and I went

[00:34:44] there and they weren't there and he's like are you sure you're not upstairs and I'm like yeah man

[00:34:48] I'm sure I'm not upstairs I know the difference between downstairs and upstairs at the airport

[00:34:53] full Chris Farley on this it was so frustrating but so I don't know have you seen the killer yet

[00:35:00] with Michael Fassbender is that what this is based on yeah I didn't know I figured it was based

[00:35:05] off of something yeah no I am not this is essentially a parody of the opening scene of the killer

[00:35:11] with Michael Fassbender and so like he's it's it's the thing where you hear it's in a monologue

[00:35:16] and he's basically talking about how efficient he is at a job and like what he's doing and how he's

[00:35:19] doing in that kind of stuff and this is pretty much like that exact thing but if they the approach

[00:35:24] obviously in the movie is a little bit different than this it's interesting though because in the

[00:35:28] movie the scene itself actually has a punchline as well and so as I was watching this I was like okay

[00:35:35] so how are they gonna make this different and then you know I did see and it did work for the most part

[00:35:40] interesting again though I didn't even think about this when I was watching it but based on our comments

[00:35:45] another thing that Ramyusive Divine but anybody could have played that yeah and so

[00:35:51] um so let's talk a little bit about what you thought of Ramyusive in this this episode yeah I

[00:35:57] mean I think he's but he was perfectly serviceable um I think that he's more

[00:36:04] more adept at playing virgins of himself you know that's why his show on Hulu has been so

[00:36:10] claimed and he has gotten you know a claim for for for being in it as as himself I mean the show

[00:36:15] is called Ramy and he is essentially playing yeah it experiences from his own yeah exactly you know

[00:36:20] and so and it's the same thing with a stand-up too you know he's he's got a stand-up that that's

[00:36:24] his life that's his material um he has a great approach to comedy he has a sharp mind a unique

[00:36:30] perspective on things I just don't think that uh character driven sketch comedy is necessarily

[00:36:35] his forte and it doesn't mean that he's a bad performer overall just means he has limitations

[00:36:40] as far as what he can do and like where he's the most funny and how his his comedy uh comedic

[00:36:46] you know approach and demeanor can be utilized yeah he really didn't he didn't go all in as like

[00:36:55] like even take a guy like this that who doesn't act a Nate Bargazzi yeah who I think went in on some

[00:37:00] of these sketches when he was on more so or at least committed more so because Ramyusive is a good

[00:37:06] actor he's a good actor yeah so I thought he was gonna go in a little bit more on some of these

[00:37:11] he didn't hold back he didn't hurt the sketches at all but there was there wasn't a lot for him and

[00:37:16] maybe maybe just the sketches didn't work as well for that but hey I don't know I just thought it

[00:37:22] was fine I thought it was I'm thinking of somebody like like like uh a a debory too you know yeah

[00:37:29] she's she's very skilled when it comes to she's a she's a she's done stand it before she's

[00:37:35] a an actor in both movies and television she's not often playing characters that are remarkably

[00:37:42] dissimilar from from herself yeah or like that you know feel that then her roles never feel like

[00:37:48] she's a chameleon necessarily you know not like uh like an Adam driver you know people like

[00:37:53] um uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh

[00:37:58] but she's a great performer and a great actress and so when she was on Saturday night live she

[00:38:03] crushed it she you know like I can't wait for it to come back or even the characters who didn't seem

[00:38:07] like they would be different from each other on paper had something that was a little bit different

[00:38:13] from the way she played at elsewhere yeah and Rami just didn't have a lot of variation between

[00:38:18] the characters that he played from sketch to sketch what what is I cannot remember I'm so sorry

[00:38:23] but what is the movie he did with Emma Stone poor things yeah I have not seen that yet

[00:38:28] but does he play himself in that essentially you know it's the vibe is a little bit different

[00:38:33] because the the movie has this kind of steampunk Victorian yeah uh you know style to it as far

[00:38:40] as the production design and so he fits into the world like his character does but the kind of

[00:38:45] character he plays is very much like a Rami Yusuf character in that world yeah that's interesting

[00:38:51] all right let's go to um sketch of the night what did you think was the sketch of the night I'll

[00:38:56] I guess I'll go first I really ended up there's a couple things that I liked I didn't think there was

[00:39:01] a uh I didn't think there was a sketch of the year in here tonight I didn't think any of this episode

[00:39:06] had that I we don't pick weekend update bits so I probably would have picked Sarah Sherman's because

[00:39:13] it made me laugh a lot hmm I'm gonna go with please don't destroy we got too high because that one

[00:39:18] made me laugh probably the most what did you pick please don't destroy I was also the one I picked when

[00:39:23] I did my review for slash room I thought it was the best catch uh but very close together and not

[00:39:28] too far behind uh I I think I like this one more than you did but I thought the couple goals was

[00:39:34] very very funny uh and then along with it the um the team captain yeah I was wondering if you're

[00:39:39] gonna pick team captain because I know you liked that one quite a bit I like team captain better

[00:39:42] than couple goals I figured as much uh I thought I like I said it just maybe two because it came so

[00:39:47] early in the episode and I was waiting for uh after a bad cold open I was waiting for like okay

[00:39:55] let's let Ramy use of do his thing yeah and it just didn't but like said there was nothing wrong

[00:40:00] with that sketch at all and there was a lot of fun in it and just whatever all right this was hard

[00:40:05] for me who did you pick as MVP uh it was pretty difficult to determine this one because there weren't

[00:40:11] really any particular like standouts in like overall sketches but I think the one that I sell on

[00:40:18] even though the sketches themselves were not uh like the the overall best and one of them honestly

[00:40:27] technically couldn't count because it's the cut for time but I went with martiala Hernandez yeah

[00:40:33] that that's that's a good choice um because I'm still thinking right now I there's part of me that

[00:40:38] wants to pick Andrew just mucke's just because I really loved the sketch you know where he does

[00:40:44] the the detective sketch and the parkour thing made me laugh quite a bit but that shouldn't be an

[00:40:50] MVP type of performance no that's indicative of for me indicative of there wasn't any really standout

[00:40:57] before no yeah there like no one really like got a huge like I can pick Sarah Sherman yeah I think

[00:41:02] you know but other than the big enough being in for for team captain you know um but also there was

[00:41:07] like you know there wasn't like Heidi Gardner where was she right yeah she wasn't in tonight um

[00:41:13] much uh James Johnson was in five he had a big night so he could be you know he did good but

[00:41:19] I like he never does like yeah half the roles he did he was like just kind of yeah just kind

[00:41:24] of there you know um punky Johnson was only in one I will say though I think the one that you

[00:41:29] could argue would be the game show and because that's the one I feel like he was most prominent

[00:41:33] and his delivery and it was what made it funny um Chloe Troost was only in one um

[00:41:41] boon Yang was only in one so there was a lot of our regular performers that you know

[00:41:48] especially Chloe Troost has been in quite a few lately yeah um uh boon Yang you know who

[00:41:54] hasn't um boba uh Molly Cardney was in none yeah it happens every now and then yeah just felt

[00:42:00] weird to me like I just felt the dynamics of all that felt weird to me like I felt it in the show

[00:42:05] but yeah I think um I think Sarah Sherman has an argument for it as well but um yeah Marcel

[00:42:12] Hernandez is a great pick I'll I'll I'll let go you for that let's good there you go but again

[00:42:16] I don't think anybody really had an MVP I thought it was just all okay yeah it was it was

[00:42:21] this was a solid episode not not a home run uh not not terrible just just uh enjoyable was there

[00:42:28] bad sketch you think the Trump opener yeah cold over so he's good but like other than that I don't

[00:42:34] think there was nothing where I was like oh that was awful yeah yeah yeah but all right well

[00:42:39] we've got a couple I think episodes coming up you know who the next host is the next host is

[00:42:45] Saturday Night Live alum a former cast member one of our favorites that we love to see come back

[00:42:51] to us and never so much and that is Kristen Wigg she will be hosting the show on April 6th that's

[00:42:57] going to be very exciting I saw something stupid um on on X which I know it shocks you but um

[00:43:05] on the Twitter so I saw I know Brad gets upset if I say X but yeah we say Twitter um I saw the

[00:43:10] dumbest thing today uh where he said Saturday Night Live his why is Saturday Night Live never had a

[00:43:15] beautiful woman as a cast member oh my god just the what like what and I I I had a big crush on

[00:43:22] Kristen Wigg when she's on the camera yeah she's beautiful I think Tina Fey is gorgeous yep um I

[00:43:27] think um I mean Ben would certainly argue for the ID guard her yeah uh it was just so silly to me

[00:43:35] that that was even like a thing yeah people hey doesn't matter if it was but B that's just simply

[00:43:40] not true Jenny Slates Jenny Slates Abby Elliott yep and and all the same time as well I had a

[00:43:47] huge crush this seems to draw it's just oh my gosh yeah I had a huge crush on Casey Wilson when

[00:43:52] she was on the show I love Casey Wilson oh my gosh so it just it just baffled me that this and it

[00:43:58] had a bunch of like you know people like retweeted it but um just goes to show you that just because

[00:44:03] your popular an X or Twitter doesn't mean you have nice takes that's yeah that's very true Nate

[00:44:10] good good insight there all right so guess who's coming after Kristen Wigg I'm so excited it's

[00:44:15] another one of our favorites um and I'm I'm glad that they were able to fit him in because he's a

[00:44:20] very busy man but whenever he comes down SNL I get so jazzed and it's Ryan Gosling hosting on April

[00:44:27] 13th just in time to help promote the upcoming movie The Fall Guy so that's that's something to be

[00:44:33] very excited about and Ryan Gosling has hosted how many times now I actually don't know I want to

[00:44:38] say that this might be his fourth time oh this is so it's third time so be his third time first time

[00:44:43] he hosted was in 2015 with musical guest Leon Bridges he did a Christmas episode and then Christmas

[00:44:52] episode resulted in one of my favorite Christmas sketches of all time in SNL history that Santa

[00:44:58] baby sketch that he did with Vanessa Bayer oh yeah and back then oh my god I love that sketch so much

[00:45:04] and then and it does we feel weird that this is only his third because and then in 2017 he did the

[00:45:13] opening episode of season 43 with musical guest Emma Stone or sorry musical guest Jay Z

[00:45:20] and Emma Stone was made a cameo because it would have been right after um a lot of

[00:45:24] yeah so but he's gonna be great I know he's gonna be great assuming there's great sketches for him to

[00:45:30] work in but he is so good yeah that he will bring so he will do as a cast or as a host he will

[00:45:38] bring life to things that sometimes even might not be great written so he's just so good at it so yeah

[00:45:45] absolutely very excited about the next two episodes me too I can't wait all right hey Brad where can

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[00:47:14] here at the 10-1 and I think Brad found a list that we were like a top 10

[00:47:19] Saturday live podcast right yeah there's uh there's a website out there that they rounded up

[00:47:24] the what they think are the best SNL podcast out there and we were on it so they were like eight

[00:47:30] right or seven I think it was like like yeah like six or seven okay so I'd like to be top five

[00:47:35] I don't know if there was any necessarily rhyme or reason as far as like actually ranking them

[00:47:38] I don't think there was a base there was no metrics but I would really like to be in that top five

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