Episode 82 - Martin Short (Season 50)

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[00:01:09] Yep. What's that?

[00:01:11] The Nate Ben Brat.

[00:01:12] Oh, okay.

[00:01:13] By the way, I do love those of you that are listening on YouTube and our YouTube listenership keeps on increasing so if you're not a fan of ours and subscribe on YouTube please do but what I love is when people come to this episode and you're probably listening right now you're like well where's Martin Short gonna, when's Martin Short gonna talk?

[00:01:33] Not gonna happen.

[00:01:34] Not gonna happen.

[00:01:34] He's not gonna be here.

[00:01:36] We tried, as we always do.

[00:01:39] Just real, real, they didn't want to come to a basement in Indiana and you know I think that's what it is.

[00:01:45] I don't want to go to a basement in Indiana.

[00:01:47] Very fair.

[00:01:47] Yeah, here I am.

[00:01:48] Yeah, I'm not the biggest fan.

[00:01:49] Okay, again guys, like you're in my home and this is a makeshift recording studio that we have down here and I did this all for you and I don't really think that it's within the Christmas season, you know, spirit to just, you know, bemoan the fact that you have a terrible setup.

[00:02:04] All I gotta say is that like, we talked about like what the real setup was gonna be and nothing has changed since, you know, we got here.

[00:02:12] You haven't come over once to help.

[00:02:14] First of all, I wouldn't know what to do in this room.

[00:02:16] Oh my god.

[00:02:17] Hey, I do want to talk since Martin Short's been on the show for five times.

[00:02:22] Can we call him Marty now?

[00:02:24] Like do we have that familiarity?

[00:02:25] I want to call him Shorty.

[00:02:27] Shoddy.

[00:02:29] Shoddy.

[00:02:30] Marty Shoddy.

[00:02:31] Marty Shoddy.

[00:02:33] Five-timers.

[00:02:34] Five-timers club.

[00:02:35] Which we, I think, didn't we debate this?

[00:02:36] We did wonder if they were gonna give it to him since one of the times hosting was with Steve Martin, but.

[00:02:41] I'm glad they did.

[00:02:42] I mean, actually, one of the times it was Steve Martin and one of the times it was a Chevy Chase and Steve Martin.

[00:02:48] Oh, that's true, yes.

[00:02:49] Yeah, for three of you guys.

[00:02:50] So they're basically just, if you were one of the hosts, it counts.

[00:02:54] Yeah.

[00:02:54] Now we know that that's canon though.

[00:02:56] That's true.

[00:02:56] So I guess if Joe Montana hosts by himself four more times, he'd be able to get it as

[00:03:02] well.

[00:03:02] Well, if you remember correctly.

[00:03:04] Or was it Joe Montana and Walter Payton?

[00:03:06] Joe Mantania.

[00:03:08] That's a nice Simpsons reference.

[00:03:11] The, if you remember back during one of the other five-timers club ones, they gave one to

[00:03:16] Jack White, who.

[00:03:18] Musical.

[00:03:19] Was a musical guest five times, which was interesting.

[00:03:21] But not by himself though.

[00:03:23] No, exactly.

[00:03:24] So it still works.

[00:03:24] Yeah, so again, if you were, if you've been there and done something for him five times

[00:03:28] in any capacity.

[00:03:29] Yeah.

[00:03:30] Yeah.

[00:03:30] I get it.

[00:03:30] And Martin Short said, an Ebersole years cast member, right?

[00:03:34] That's true.

[00:03:35] And so I read, and I think this is true, the first Ebersole era cast member that's been

[00:03:42] in the five-timers club.

[00:03:43] Oh, okay.

[00:03:44] I mean, that would make sense because he's, you know, Martin fucking short.

[00:03:48] Yeah, exactly.

[00:03:49] He's amazing.

[00:03:51] And this episode is no, no departure from that.

[00:03:56] It's incredible.

[00:03:57] So we have a lot of five-timers, right?

[00:04:00] I mean, how many, how many total are there?

[00:04:03] I want to say.

[00:04:04] Yeah, something like that.

[00:04:06] That was a ton.

[00:04:07] 20 five-timers or 25 five-timers?

[00:04:09] 25 five-timers.

[00:04:10] 25 five-timers.

[00:04:10] I think there's roughly that.

[00:04:12] Yeah.

[00:04:12] Oh, wow.

[00:04:13] So you guys ready to go to the show?

[00:04:15] Let's do it.

[00:04:16] I'm ready.

[00:04:16] All right.

[00:04:17] Let's get to the show.

[00:04:19] Cold open, Martin Short enters the Five-Timers Club written by Mike DeCenzo, Allison Gates,

[00:04:26] Shooter Sidell and Kent Sublett.

[00:04:27] Martin Short is formally inducted into Saturday Night Live's Five-Timers Club by fellow members

[00:04:34] Tom Hanks, who's looking very old.

[00:04:36] Paul Rudd.

[00:04:38] Who's looking very young.

[00:04:39] Paul Rudd doesn't age.

[00:04:41] Tina Fey, looking great.

[00:04:43] Alec Baldwin, Scarlett Johansson, looking great.

[00:04:46] Kristen Wiig, looking great.

[00:04:48] Melissa McCarthy, Emma Stone, and John Mulaney.

[00:04:51] Looking great.

[00:04:52] John's had work done.

[00:04:54] Yeah, he's been wrote hard and put away wet a few times.

[00:04:57] That's okay.

[00:04:57] It also features Colin Jost and Bowling Yang, along with a cameo by longtime former cast

[00:05:02] member, Weekend Update co-anchor and host of The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon.

[00:05:09] Looking great.

[00:05:10] So we had, I think, what, 10 of the Five-Timers?

[00:05:15] It was great.

[00:05:16] In there?

[00:05:17] It was wonderful.

[00:05:17] I loved it.

[00:05:18] But I gotta say...

[00:05:19] 38% of the Five-Timers were in there.

[00:05:21] I gotta say, and this goes, also goes for the rest of the episode.

[00:05:25] I was supremely surprised and a tad disappointed that Steve Martin wasn't there.

[00:05:31] I kept on waiting.

[00:05:33] I kept on waiting.

[00:05:46] Of course hoping.

[00:05:47] I wonder, I mean, like you would think, they're together in everything.

[00:05:52] Right?

[00:05:52] They do appearances.

[00:05:53] They do media appearances.

[00:05:54] Yeah.

[00:05:54] They are, I mean, I think legitimately very, very close friends, but also obviously with

[00:06:00] co-stars.

[00:06:02] It was weird for me, honestly, not to have them there.

[00:06:04] Yeah.

[00:06:04] I thought it was just kind of weird.

[00:06:06] The only thing I could think is that maybe because it is so close to Christmas and just

[00:06:10] because, you know, Steve Martin's getting older, that, you know, maybe trying to like

[00:06:14] make it happen and be there for it and do it was maybe more difficult for him than it

[00:06:21] otherwise might have been.

[00:06:21] There's also just a point where it's like, hey, you know, just do it yourself.

[00:06:26] You can just do it yourself.

[00:06:27] Yeah.

[00:06:27] You can take all the spotlight tonight.

[00:06:28] Yeah, maybe he wanted it.

[00:06:29] It's really about you and you do deserve that because he does.

[00:06:32] And the last time they hosted it, I mean, it was the two of them.

[00:06:35] So maybe it's just like kind of a nice gesture to say, hey, you know, really, this should

[00:06:39] be about you the entire time.

[00:06:41] Yeah.

[00:06:41] I was fine with it, honestly, because there was a lot going on here and it gave Martin

[00:06:45] Short the opportunity.

[00:06:46] And I guess you're only going to get Steve Martin like in maybe one sketch or whatever.

[00:06:49] But I really loved just watching him perform just with everybody else.

[00:06:52] It was great.

[00:06:53] Oh, for sure.

[00:06:53] Were you also shocked that Dwayne The Rock Johnson didn't come back?

[00:06:57] The first five times.

[00:06:57] Yeah.

[00:06:57] Yeah.

[00:06:59] I'm always shocked when Dwayne Johnson doesn't show up to anything.

[00:07:03] So what worked in this?

[00:07:05] What didn't work?

[00:07:07] I mean, there was some line fumbling a little bit, you know, with that many people, though.

[00:07:12] Yeah, there's a lot.

[00:07:12] You're going to get that.

[00:07:13] And I'm going to guess that many people that couldn't be there the whole time either.

[00:07:17] Like, yeah, you're not rehearsing that a ton.

[00:07:19] Right.

[00:07:21] Everyone's showing up an hour before.

[00:07:22] I liked Melissa McCarthy breaking through the wall and doing that.

[00:07:26] And Melissa McCarthy had a good episode.

[00:07:27] So stepping over her to get into the frame.

[00:07:30] And I liked the 17 on Baldwin's jacket.

[00:07:33] I liked even though.

[00:07:34] I mean, I guess one of the things that didn't technically work was putting on the actual jacket.

[00:07:38] And that ended up being a funny club.

[00:07:40] That was a fumble.

[00:07:41] Yeah.

[00:07:41] But it's still they made it fun.

[00:07:43] Everybody was having a good time.

[00:07:44] Clearly, this is one of those.

[00:07:45] Everybody was truly having a good time.

[00:07:47] Paul Rudd is adorable.

[00:07:49] Tom Hanks had a couple of good one liners in there as well.

[00:07:52] It was it was enjoyable the whole way through.

[00:07:54] Every single time there was somebody new, I just my mouth probably got a little bit more open.

[00:07:58] Right.

[00:07:58] I was like, oh, yeah.

[00:07:59] Oh, and then too.

[00:08:00] It was so cool.

[00:08:01] There was the good.

[00:08:03] There was a very funny line between Tina Fey, I think, and John Mulaney about his.

[00:08:09] Is there going to be alcohol or whatever?

[00:08:11] Wasn't that Tina Fey?

[00:08:13] I think so.

[00:08:15] A very funny line.

[00:08:17] And I thought that got flubbed a little bit.

[00:08:18] It was.

[00:08:19] Is there anything non-alcoholic?

[00:08:21] And she said, are you talking about the drinks or the people?

[00:08:22] Either way.

[00:08:23] No.

[00:08:23] Yeah.

[00:08:24] I thought I thought that was a that was a good line that reads really funnily.

[00:08:29] And it didn't come out as funny as I wanted it.

[00:08:32] Gotcha.

[00:08:32] Like I just felt like it was a really good line.

[00:08:34] Leave it to Nate Lauss giving Tina Fey notes on comedy.

[00:08:37] Wasn't Tina Fey.

[00:08:39] Pretty sure she's delivered the line.

[00:08:41] It was.

[00:08:41] I think it was also a John Mulaney.

[00:08:43] Like he gave a little back.

[00:08:45] I just I saw a really amusing and dark observation from this sketch that I saw online was that it was kind of awkward because when Kristen Wiig said, well, I wasn't sure if this was five timers club or an only murders in the building reunion.

[00:09:00] When she said murders, she happened to glance at Alec Baldwin.

[00:09:04] Oh, no.

[00:09:05] Oh, no.

[00:09:06] Did she really?

[00:09:07] Yeah.

[00:09:08] Oh, oh, oh, oh.

[00:09:08] It's like, oh, that's awkward.

[00:09:11] Yikes.

[00:09:11] How funny would that be if we found out that there's actually like she's like, I don't want Alec Baldwin here.

[00:09:17] Well, it's probably just because he's a little rusty.

[00:09:19] Hmm.

[00:09:21] Okay, fine.

[00:09:21] Another thing I thought was really funny and subtly funny, but obviously purposely funny was the Scarlett Johansson coming through the door and shutting the door on Colin.

[00:09:32] Yeah.

[00:09:32] It was a great little like just a wonderful little.

[00:09:35] He plays such a like a.

[00:09:38] Yeah.

[00:09:39] It's great.

[00:09:40] I love their dynamic.

[00:09:41] He's so good at being the butt of the.

[00:09:42] Oh, God, he's he really is.

[00:09:44] Yeah.

[00:09:45] No, overall, I I don't know what else I could have.

[00:09:47] I mean, of course, I could ask for more people, but what they had was doing the rock Johnson.

[00:09:51] Yeah.

[00:09:51] I could have got Dwayne Johnson in there.

[00:09:54] I'm glad that Paul Rudd was a big part of it, though, because as we've talked about, he got his day and day in the sun got a little little cloudy.

[00:10:01] Yeah.

[00:10:02] But yeah, no, I'm really happy with the way they did it.

[00:10:05] All right.

[00:10:05] Let's move on.

[00:10:06] Monologue written by Mike DeCenzo, Jake Norblin and Martin Short.

[00:10:10] Former Eversol era cast member Martin Short returned to Saturday Night Live to host for the fifth time.

[00:10:16] He talked about his accomplishments and joining the five timers club before spreading some holiday cheer with a Christmas Carol.

[00:10:22] Also featured are Sarah Sherman, Keenan Thompson, Bowen Yang, Ego Woden, Heidi Gardner and Mikey Day as Santa Claus.

[00:10:30] Jimmy Fallon, Emma Stone and Kristen Wiig made cameos.

[00:10:33] Executive producer Lorne Michaels made an on on screen appearance.

[00:10:37] Another one where it's just like all stops are, you know, they're just all coming out.

[00:10:44] Also, between the first the cold open and the monologue, we're 20 minutes into the show.

[00:10:53] Yeah, exactly.

[00:10:54] And the good nights.

[00:10:56] But it's just so nice to have a monologue that is just under 10 minutes long and doesn't feel exhausting because it's not a political cold open.

[00:11:02] Exactly.

[00:11:03] It just goes to show you what the show can do.

[00:11:05] Yeah.

[00:11:07] What did you guys think of the song?

[00:11:09] I thought it was pretty good.

[00:11:13] Funnily enough, I think Steve Martin has done this better.

[00:11:17] And on Christmas, because that's one of the like the better Christmas openings that is constantly replayed every holiday season.

[00:11:25] Because that's the one where Christopher is like, not gonna get liquored up tonight.

[00:11:30] But yeah, so yeah, pretty good.

[00:11:32] It was funny.

[00:11:32] You know, I thought they did a good job.

[00:11:34] It's always nice seeing Lauren pop up in a sketch like that.

[00:11:37] Did you think so?

[00:11:40] I was waiting for.

[00:11:44] Because I'll say this.

[00:11:45] I thought it was a good episode.

[00:11:47] Yeah.

[00:11:48] I was waiting for the magical moment.

[00:11:50] And there was a sketch I really, really liked, you know, like, and there was I didn't find a lot of bad sketches or anything like that.

[00:11:57] But were you were you waiting for a magic moment?

[00:12:01] And it didn't necessarily happen.

[00:12:04] Yeah, I think that I it never felt like there was like a full peak, I guess.

[00:12:09] Other than the five timers club.

[00:12:11] And I probably wondered if maybe they just, you know, shot their load too soon.

[00:12:15] And I would also like to blame my co host here, Ben Conowitz, who watched the episode live and said he was like on.

[00:12:24] I forget what the what the verbiage was.

[00:12:26] He said he was he had just started and he was like, I'm very happy.

[00:12:29] Yeah, it was during the five timers club.

[00:12:31] But then the very but then he was done at midnight.

[00:12:34] He said, spoiler alert, I'm still very happy.

[00:12:37] Yeah, I was very happy.

[00:12:38] Yeah.

[00:12:38] So for me, that set the tone to be like, it wasn't just a good episode.

[00:12:42] I thought this was a great episode.

[00:12:44] OK, well, we'll get into it.

[00:12:45] But I just it set the tone for the expectations for me over here to be really great.

[00:12:50] And I didn't think it was really great.

[00:12:51] I thought it was good.

[00:12:53] And I just like like I said, it wasn't.

[00:12:55] And well, see, that's the thing, though, is I think that you have to squash your expectations because whenever Ben tells me something is good, I'm like, OK, so I have to expect a little less.

[00:13:02] OK.

[00:13:03] All right. Yeah.

[00:13:03] If he really likes it.

[00:13:05] Yeah. Then be cautiously optimistic.

[00:13:08] What did you think of this, Benny?

[00:13:10] I thought this was great.

[00:13:12] Did you love the monologue?

[00:13:14] I mean, I like it when they do anything behind the scenes, when they when they can pull that off.

[00:13:19] It there's enough nostalgic mix in there because you still see the classic background performers that are always the extras that are always in the hallways of 30 Rock.

[00:13:30] And it's just great.

[00:13:31] I loved all that.

[00:13:32] And then I love when Lauren pops into one.

[00:13:34] I mean, yeah, man, it was the song itself was fine.

[00:13:38] I will admit that it wasn't the like the rhyming or the actual wording wasn't the funniest thing I've ever seen.

[00:13:46] But putting it all together like that and doing a 10 minute version of this for a guy who is, what, 70 whatever years old.

[00:13:52] I mean, he did great.

[00:13:53] You know, I really enjoyed it.

[00:13:56] Christmas.

[00:13:56] I think, Brad, your point is good.

[00:13:59] Steve Martin's done some of the things.

[00:14:01] We've also gotten some other really good Christmas songs here.

[00:14:04] Right. What was the one with Jimmy Fallon where there the four of them are playing?

[00:14:10] Oh, yeah.

[00:14:11] They do that like every every now and then.

[00:14:13] Yeah.

[00:14:14] Christmas time is here.

[00:14:17] We also have Santa's my boyfriend, which is another great song from Christmas episodes.

[00:14:23] It's so like this.

[00:14:24] This was fine.

[00:14:25] But this didn't fit for me.

[00:14:26] Chris rocking around the Christmas tree.

[00:14:29] And Chris Rock is here to host.

[00:14:31] Remember what they did last week?

[00:14:33] Yuck.

[00:14:35] That was worse than the Chris Rock episode.

[00:14:38] And that's saying something.

[00:14:40] All right.

[00:14:40] Well, you know, I'm here to provide entertainment.

[00:14:42] So let's move on.

[00:14:43] All right.

[00:14:44] Let's go to a recurring sketch now.

[00:14:46] Parking lot altercation written by Mikey Day and Streeter Seidel.

[00:14:51] Tensions arise as two men portrayed by Martin Short and Mikey Day compete for the same parking space.

[00:14:59] The sketch also features Chloe Fineman as Madison and features a cameo from Melissa McCarthy.

[00:15:07] This again, maybe maybe this is also coloring for me.

[00:15:10] The first iteration of this was magic.

[00:15:14] It was literally magic for me watching this.

[00:15:18] I wasn't sure how they were going to make this to where it was going to be better.

[00:15:23] Right.

[00:15:24] Yeah.

[00:15:24] And I don't think they did.

[00:15:25] It was very good, though.

[00:15:27] What I did love about this, what I thought was very good here was Melissa McCarthy.

[00:15:32] Yeah.

[00:15:32] She was incredible.

[00:15:34] And it was a great escalation, especially right at the end of an already great sketch.

[00:15:37] But OK.

[00:15:38] OK.

[00:15:38] Great.

[00:15:38] No.

[00:15:39] So you know Chloe Fineman is going to do something where Mikey Day is going to respond.

[00:15:44] I don't love that.

[00:15:45] You know, like that's what I'm saying.

[00:15:47] Like these were these have become tropes.

[00:15:49] See, but in the first one.

[00:15:50] No, it's not tropes.

[00:15:51] It's just it's the traits of a sketch when you do something recurring.

[00:15:54] Like you're going to have you're going to hit similar beats and like you want to recreate

[00:15:57] the form.

[00:15:58] But other than Melissa McCarthy, there was nothing new about this.

[00:16:02] Exactly.

[00:16:02] But it's still really, really, really funny.

[00:16:04] Yeah.

[00:16:05] Was it as good as the first one?

[00:16:06] Cutting to her in the first one.

[00:16:08] And that was surprise humor because I didn't see it coming.

[00:16:11] Yeah.

[00:16:11] Now that I know it's coming, I'm focused on other things because I know hers is going

[00:16:14] to be funny.

[00:16:14] So I got to pay attention more to Martin Short and to Mikey Day.

[00:16:17] And they're like fake miming is wonderful.

[00:16:22] Like all the stuff that they were doing there was that part was to me was better than the

[00:16:26] first one.

[00:16:27] Yeah.

[00:16:27] The the the daughter's jokes were not as good as the first one.

[00:16:29] But but that's what we expect because that's lightning in a bottle.

[00:16:31] I mean, McCarthy just crushes it again.

[00:16:33] So this is a great sketch.

[00:16:34] They were good.

[00:16:35] You're wrong.

[00:16:36] Chloe Fineman.

[00:16:37] I mean, everything she did was funny.

[00:16:38] It just wasn't unexpected.

[00:16:40] Exactly.

[00:16:40] Right.

[00:16:41] Take that later away.

[00:16:42] It's still very funny.

[00:16:42] Yeah.

[00:16:43] Honestly, like I feel like your your criticism here could be like tied to most other recurring

[00:16:48] sketches.

[00:16:49] Very rarely is the second version of what becomes a recurring sketch better than the first,

[00:16:54] you know, because the first.

[00:16:55] Why are we doing it?

[00:16:57] There's a chance that it could get better or it's it's funnier in a different way with a different

[00:17:00] person.

[00:17:01] I do think Martin Short brought a different kind of energy to it because with the first

[00:17:05] one, it's funny because it's it's you're not suspecting that kind of behavior to come

[00:17:10] from Quinta Brunson, even her comedic profile, you know, like her acting like that and saying,

[00:17:15] why don't you eat my butt?

[00:17:18] You know, like you don't even expect that.

[00:17:19] And so in this case, you get to see Martin Short doing Martin Short, but under the guise

[00:17:24] of that bit, you know, so it's still I think it's still very funny.

[00:17:27] So this this is a to me, this can be another recurring bit.

[00:17:31] Like I can see this one again and again because the it's kind of like the the police sergeant

[00:17:36] jumping on the table.

[00:17:37] Jason Zudeikis.

[00:17:37] Yeah.

[00:17:38] You know that that sketch or the alien abduction.

[00:17:40] It's just a different version of the same stuff.

[00:17:42] Because like you like you can say I thought this was very funny.

[00:17:45] I don't bigger than better.

[00:17:47] Do you want to you want to you want to edit and start over then?

[00:17:49] You want to have a better attitude?

[00:17:50] Because you came here like, listen, I thought it was fine.

[00:17:53] It was very funny.

[00:17:54] I was expecting jokes.

[00:17:55] Right.

[00:17:55] It was like it wasn't as good as the first one.

[00:17:57] It wasn't as good as the first one.

[00:17:58] That's all.

[00:17:59] I disagree with you guys.

[00:18:00] I don't think this was as good as the first one.

[00:18:01] I do agree this wasn't as good as the first one.

[00:18:02] Okay, then.

[00:18:03] I'm right.

[00:18:03] But I still thought it was very funny.

[00:18:04] That's fine.

[00:18:05] That's what I agree.

[00:18:05] You and I are the same.

[00:18:06] If the first one was a 10, this one could be a nine.

[00:18:08] It's fine.

[00:18:08] It wasn't a nine.

[00:18:20] I just have somewhere to go.

[00:18:21] I loved this sketch.

[00:18:23] I love the sketch.

[00:18:23] I thought it was very funny.

[00:18:25] I laughed so hard.

[00:18:26] Melissa McCarthy was so.

[00:18:28] Melissa McCarthy's just that thick spit on the window was like, oh my God.

[00:18:32] It looked like it was manufactured by a device, but she actually did it.

[00:18:36] She's incredible.

[00:18:37] And then the rubbing her boobs just on the wheel.

[00:18:39] It just got out of hand quickly.

[00:18:41] And Michael Day and Chloe Fineman both almost broke.

[00:18:44] Oh, absolutely.

[00:18:44] How could you not?

[00:18:45] I mean, that is a comedic performer that is known for doing that kind of stuff at peak performance.

[00:18:52] Yeah.

[00:18:53] You really get the appreciation of what a physical comedian can do in a sketch.

[00:18:57] And brings to a sketch.

[00:18:59] Exactly.

[00:19:00] All right.

[00:19:00] Moving on.

[00:19:01] Let me say that real quick.

[00:19:03] Because there is a difference.

[00:19:04] We've all seen physical comedy in movies and TV shows that you're like, oh, big fuck,

[00:19:10] I fell down.

[00:19:11] And that's, play the laugh track.

[00:19:13] You're playing a worse version of Chris Farley.

[00:19:16] Exactly.

[00:19:16] There is absolutely a nuance and a serious part to get that properly done.

[00:19:25] McCarthy had it.

[00:19:26] Chris Farley naturally had it.

[00:19:28] I think Melissa McCarthy probably has honed that skill.

[00:19:31] I think that Chris Farley never really had to work on it all that much because that's

[00:19:35] kind of who he was in his soul.

[00:19:36] But if anybody's curious to watch a truly gifted physical comedian, what that means is

[00:19:42] you watch that compared to like Kevin James falling down on King of Queens or whatever.

[00:19:46] There's just a difference.

[00:19:48] Yeah.

[00:19:48] She's fucking brilliant.

[00:19:49] No.

[00:19:50] Sorry, I just want to defend the bigger people that have comedic talent.

[00:19:53] It's true.

[00:19:54] Because again, after Chris Farley, John Belushi was a great physical comedian as well.

[00:20:01] But after that, everyone thought that everyone big should be and can be a good physical comedian.

[00:20:08] And so the counterpoint to that came much later, but Bobby Moynihan is a perfect example of

[00:20:12] a bigger guy who, yeah, he did some physical stuff here and there, but his stuff was more

[00:20:17] in his dialogue and the way he delivered his characters.

[00:20:20] And also innocence.

[00:20:21] Exactly.

[00:20:21] He could do a very good innocence.

[00:20:23] And some of his best work came in the 12 Years of Slave audition.

[00:20:27] Do you remember that?

[00:20:28] Yeah.

[00:20:29] Where he was like talking to the cameraman and played by Jay Farrow.

[00:20:31] Yeah.

[00:20:31] That's an incredible sketch.

[00:20:32] And that's just a character that he's doing, right?

[00:20:35] Had nothing to do with the physicality of the character.

[00:20:37] So again, to Nate's point, a lot of people thought that you had to be funny, funny, fall down.

[00:20:45] But there's a lot more nuance to that with those characters.

[00:20:47] Yeah, that's true.

[00:20:48] All right.

[00:20:49] Moving on.

[00:20:50] Another sketch written by Mikey Day and Streeter Seidel in an act of kindness.

[00:20:54] A woman portrayed by Heidi Gardner assists a homeless man played by Kenan Thompson during

[00:20:59] the holiday season.

[00:21:00] The sketch also features Michael Longfellow, Mikey Day, and Jane Wickline.

[00:21:05] I actually, I'll say this.

[00:21:07] I loved this one.

[00:21:09] This is great.

[00:21:10] I thought this was hilarious.

[00:21:11] The turn is perfect.

[00:21:13] I wasn't sure.

[00:21:13] I knew there was going to be a turn.

[00:21:14] Right.

[00:21:15] I just wasn't sure what it was going to be.

[00:21:17] And then the fact that it became that was even better.

[00:21:19] It's great.

[00:21:20] Yeah.

[00:21:20] I didn't see it coming at all.

[00:21:23] All right.

[00:21:23] Moving on.

[00:21:24] I loved it.

[00:21:24] I really did.

[00:21:25] No, I loved it.

[00:21:26] That's all we got to say about that.

[00:21:27] Yeah.

[00:21:27] It's great.

[00:21:28] Watch that sketch.

[00:21:30] Speaking of a not great one, Christmas Airport Parade written by Mike Desenzo, Jimmy

[00:21:35] Foley, Jake Norbin, Ego Wodum, Carol O'Sullivan, and Bowen Yang in a festive Christmas

[00:21:41] week, Airport Workers, portrayed by Martin Short, Bowen Yang, and Ego Wodum, provide insights

[00:21:47] about travelers at the airport.

[00:21:50] This sketch also features performances from Andrew Desmukes, Sarah Sherman, Jane Wickline,

[00:21:54] Kenan Thompson, Chloe Fineman, Michael Longfellow, Ashley Padilla, Devin Walker, Emile Walken,

[00:22:00] Heidi Gardner, and Marcella Hernandez.

[00:22:02] Additionally, Paul Rudd, Tom Hanks as Captain Sully, again, putting that back in there,

[00:22:07] Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy make cameo appearances.

[00:22:10] There's a large ensemble in this one, and it didn't work great for me.

[00:22:16] I thought this iteration actually was better than the previous one.

[00:22:19] This one was better.

[00:22:20] Yeah.

[00:22:21] But still not great, I think.

[00:22:22] I think it's because, if I remember correctly, the first one, I think they had some timing

[00:22:25] issues, wasn't it?

[00:22:26] Yeah.

[00:22:27] It was Matt Damon the first time, right?

[00:22:28] I think so.

[00:22:29] Because he had the pin that he was going to give, I can't remember.

[00:22:34] This one did work better.

[00:22:35] This one worked better for me than the ones where they've had him in the park and the

[00:22:40] Halloween stuff.

[00:22:40] Yeah.

[00:22:41] This one did work better.

[00:22:41] Still though, it's really hard to, you're doing rapid fire jokes here.

[00:22:45] You have so many people who move through the scene.

[00:22:47] It's like, it's a one note character, let's get it done.

[00:22:50] It was Jason Momoa.

[00:22:52] There you go.

[00:22:52] Oh, that's right.

[00:22:53] Yeah.

[00:22:54] So it's really hard to make everything pop if you've got 19 that you're just firing

[00:22:59] off.

[00:22:59] That being said, maybe don't do 19.

[00:23:02] Maybe not everybody has to be in this one.

[00:23:04] But I see what they're doing.

[00:23:06] It's like, okay, how do we write everybody into this one?

[00:23:08] How do we get everybody involved?

[00:23:09] So they're trying to do that.

[00:23:11] It is a parade.

[00:23:11] It is, I know.

[00:23:12] But if you're going to have, again, 19 jokes in a row, they all better be pretty good.

[00:23:20] Because you're committed to it.

[00:23:22] So it's a long one.

[00:23:22] I did think, I actually did like Tom Hanks being Kevin Sully.

[00:23:25] Oh, I liked that one a lot.

[00:23:26] Yeah.

[00:23:27] I thought that was really good.

[00:23:28] He's done that before though, right?

[00:23:31] Well, he played the movie.

[00:23:32] He played Sully in the movie.

[00:23:33] Yeah.

[00:23:33] I know, but I thought, didn't he do this on?

[00:23:36] I don't think that they would have done that because I feel like it would have been weird

[00:23:40] to like, do a sketch about Sully when the movie was being made seriously.

[00:23:44] Like right after.

[00:23:45] Yeah.

[00:23:45] It was an awards contender, buddy.

[00:23:48] All right.

[00:23:48] I'm wrong about everything.

[00:23:49] The geese died.

[00:23:50] I'm wrong about everything about this episode.

[00:23:52] It was Goose, and it was Top Gun.

[00:23:54] All right.

[00:23:55] All right.

[00:23:55] Let's move on.

[00:23:56] It's time.

[00:23:57] Yes.

[00:23:57] Weekend Update.

[00:23:58] Brad, please get your phone out so that we trust.

[00:24:02] That's not about that.

[00:24:05] All right.

[00:24:06] Weekend Update hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che discuss the week's top stories such as George

[00:24:12] Santos launching his podcast, Louie Mangione finding himself in the same prison.

[00:24:18] Luigi Mangione.

[00:24:21] Oh, don't make a lot of that.

[00:24:22] Did he?

[00:24:23] What?

[00:24:23] You're making, just like the Sully thing.

[00:24:25] Are you going to clap?

[00:24:26] We're in the middle of this.

[00:24:27] Are you going to clap?

[00:24:27] It's a serious thing.

[00:24:27] You're going to clap?

[00:24:28] Fuck CEOs.

[00:24:30] Oh, Jesus.

[00:24:31] Ben is a CEO?

[00:24:33] He wishes.

[00:24:35] A study suggesting the moon might be 100 million years older than previously believed looks

[00:24:41] great, and a pizza shop's refusal to serve same-sex couples.

[00:24:46] They also take turns reading jokes they've never seen before live on air to finish off

[00:24:51] 2024 called what?

[00:24:53] Joke swap.

[00:24:54] Joke swap.

[00:24:55] Joke swap.

[00:24:55] With Colin Jost reading jokes about his wife, Scarlett Johansson, while she looks on.

[00:25:01] I would never read jokes about you, Scarlett.

[00:25:03] But there's one weekend update bit featuring a drone played by Bowen Yang and written by

[00:25:08] Bowen and Will Steven speaking about drones in New Jersey.

[00:25:11] Hey, Betty Bear, please give a description of the breadometer for our new listeners.

[00:25:16] Breadometer.

[00:25:17] Breadometer.

[00:25:18] Breadometer.

[00:25:18] If you guys are those newer listeners that are giving yourself a Christmas present by

[00:25:22] listening to this first episode of the 10 to 1, the breadometer is a very scientific

[00:25:28] and perfect system that if you're ever going to get it right and you're perfect, then you're

[00:25:35] probably the best person who has ever lived.

[00:25:37] But it's really hard to do.

[00:25:39] And that's because Brad picks a number between one and 100, 100 being the best of all time

[00:25:43] and zero being that Colin Jost and Michael Che were not even in the same room together.

[00:25:47] This is to say that the weekend update, the indirect and direct collaboration between the two anchors

[00:25:54] of weekend update, did it make the show better?

[00:25:56] Did it make the show an all-timer?

[00:25:58] Did it make the show worse?

[00:26:00] Brad?

[00:26:01] Go ahead and punch in that number.

[00:26:02] Breadometer 5000 is ready.

[00:26:05] No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[00:26:07] Breadometer 5000 has calculated.

[00:26:10] All right.

[00:26:10] So this is very good.

[00:26:12] But in the way I feel, I'm gonna go first.

[00:26:16] 96.

[00:26:19] No.

[00:26:20] 96?

[00:26:22] Fine, I guess.

[00:26:25] See, I was gonna leave some space to grow.

[00:26:30] Do you think it could be 100?

[00:26:33] Fine, I'll risk it.

[00:26:34] I'm gonna go 100.

[00:26:35] 100.

[00:26:35] Oof.

[00:26:36] You know he doesn't ever do that.

[00:26:38] I know, but here's the thing.

[00:26:40] There are things called Christmas miracles.

[00:26:42] And he's also been broken for the past two months.

[00:26:45] Today, Little Benny.

[00:26:46] Breadometer 5000 is not broken.

[00:26:50] Little Benny, I'm gonna put you on my shoulder and walk you around this room if it's 100.

[00:26:53] All right, buddy.

[00:26:54] Brad, what do you got?

[00:26:55] Breadometer 5000.

[00:26:56] Oh my God, this is the worst bit you've ever heard.

[00:26:59] Says 100.

[00:27:01] Wow!

[00:27:04] Nate the Great participates.

[00:27:07] Gets it right.

[00:27:08] Breadometer 5000 is proud of you.

[00:27:10] Okay.

[00:27:11] You could probably just turn that one off.

[00:27:13] Is this the best weekend update you've seen since when?

[00:27:16] This is now the best weekend update joke swap, I think.

[00:27:21] Yeah.

[00:27:21] Ever.

[00:27:22] I've been doing this for 64 years.

[00:27:25] I did think about it and I think my previous favorite one was the one where Che had jokes

[00:27:30] tell racist jokes while there was a civil rights survivor.

[00:27:35] Who wasn't?

[00:27:36] By the way, that was the best part of that.

[00:27:38] Not real, it was fake, yeah.

[00:27:38] It was so good though.

[00:27:39] But Kyle just genuinely thought it was.

[00:27:41] Exactly, exactly.

[00:27:42] So that was one of my favorites.

[00:27:43] Was the rabbi real?

[00:27:44] Was she a real rabbi?

[00:27:45] No, I don't think so.

[00:27:46] On that one?

[00:27:47] I think that was also a fake one.

[00:27:48] Okay.

[00:27:48] But yeah, so that was the best one before this to me.

[00:27:51] This I think is the best one because it's made so much better by the fact that Scarlett

[00:27:56] Johansson is there and you get to see her reaction to these jokes because she has said

[00:28:00] how much the joke swap stresses her out.

[00:28:03] And this means so much that they had to cut away from him to get her reaction.

[00:28:07] He gets to see it live.

[00:28:09] He can't do anything about it.

[00:28:10] I think though, I think I would have liked to have her on the desk with him, but you

[00:28:15] guys...

[00:28:16] No, because I think that there's comedy that comes from them having to be separated from

[00:28:19] each other and also the cut to Scarlett Johansson.

[00:28:22] You know, there's always a good thing in comedy and it's the cut to, you know, like that's

[00:28:27] a great way to introduce a joke and show something.

[00:28:29] And there's no life...

[00:28:30] If she's sitting there, there's maybe a possibility of a sly look or a lifeline, like

[00:28:34] it's gonna be okay.

[00:28:35] And you take that away by putting her in a different room.

[00:28:37] So that was, oh, so good.

[00:28:39] No, and she got away with saying shit live on air.

[00:28:43] I couldn't believe that they went to the roast beefs, honestly.

[00:28:45] Because it felt like it's right on the line of like, I'm...

[00:28:48] Can you say that?

[00:28:50] Network TV?

[00:28:50] Okay.

[00:28:51] I don't know.

[00:28:51] And I'm sure she loved that.

[00:28:53] I'll bet.

[00:28:54] It was...

[00:28:55] I know Colin Jones loves it.

[00:28:57] Oh, this is hilarious.

[00:29:00] Absolutely hilarious.

[00:29:00] All right, let's talk a little bit about Bowen Yang as a drone.

[00:29:04] What did you guys think of that?

[00:29:06] Well, I mean, now I think that they're just trying to come up with ways of turning Bowen Yang

[00:29:10] into some kind of an animate object tied to a current event.

[00:29:14] Or an animal.

[00:29:14] Yeah.

[00:29:15] Which doesn't anger me.

[00:29:16] What is the most ridiculous getup we can put him in and then have him have some fun with it?

[00:29:20] It's the complexity of the costumes and it's just the fact that Bowen Yang is pretty much

[00:29:24] doing the same version of like the character every time.

[00:29:27] Yeah, he's awesome.

[00:29:28] Yeah, you know what?

[00:29:29] I'm here for it.

[00:29:30] I want to see more of it.

[00:29:30] I'm not upset, especially since there was some comedy that came from the fans at the

[00:29:34] propeller blades, like him hitting them with his hands and messing them up.

[00:29:38] So...

[00:29:38] Good job, costumers.

[00:29:40] Great job.

[00:29:41] Do you think they genuinely don't see the jokes before the live show?

[00:29:45] Oh, the joke swap?

[00:29:46] The joke swap 100%.

[00:29:47] That for sure because like there's a on Reddit sometimes if someone who's in that subreddit

[00:29:56] called Live from New York, if they go to...

[00:29:59] Go there if you're on Reddit by the way.

[00:30:00] It's a fantastic subreddit.

[00:30:01] If someone goes to the dress rehearsal and they're part of that subreddit, they'll post

[00:30:04] like the differences between the dress rehearsal and the live show and describe some of the

[00:30:08] sketches that we don't ever get to see because even though we do have one cut for time

[00:30:12] to talk about, there's plenty of other sketches that were at dress that don't make it to air.

[00:30:16] So that's always interesting when someone is able to post about that.

[00:30:20] Yeah.

[00:30:20] Yeah.

[00:30:21] All right.

[00:30:22] Moving on.

[00:30:23] Sabado...

[00:30:24] What is this?

[00:30:25] Sabado Gigante!

[00:30:26] Gigante!

[00:30:27] Gigante!

[00:30:27] Christmas special written by Dan Bulla, Steven Castillo, Marcelo Hernandez, and Brian Tucker,

[00:30:33] a man portrayed by Paul Rudd who does a man so well, who doesn't know Spanish, participates

[00:30:39] in a Spanish game show led by Chilean television presenter Don Francisco, played by Marcelo Hernandez.

[00:30:47] The cast also includes Chloe Feynman, Emile Wackham, Bowen Yang, and Ashley Padilla, plus

[00:30:54] a cameo from longtime former cast member Dana Carvey.

[00:30:59] This was Dana Carvey's, by the way, ninth episode this season out of 10.

[00:31:05] Yeah.

[00:31:05] Nine out of 10.

[00:31:06] So he is a cast member this season.

[00:31:08] Yeah.

[00:31:09] Might as well be, yeah.

[00:31:12] So, you know, they've got all of these kind of big five-timers walking around.

[00:31:17] They're just throwing them in sketches right now, right?

[00:31:20] Paul Rudd gets to do this.

[00:31:22] Andrew Smukes could have done this.

[00:31:24] Anybody else could have done it.

[00:31:25] But again, you got the big guys there, so you're going to throw them in there.

[00:31:28] Plus you want the guests, whoever is a guest, to be in that role anyway, because that's the

[00:31:34] starring role of the sketch.

[00:31:36] There's a couple things about the sketch.

[00:31:37] I'm going to confess again, I know I'm Debbie Downer today, but I like this episode more

[00:31:42] than I think I'm coming across.

[00:31:44] I didn't really like this episode as a whole.

[00:31:46] But this sketch I didn't love, and it's recurring.

[00:31:49] I just didn't think it was stronger.

[00:31:51] I didn't think it was a better version of the previous two.

[00:31:54] I think they've done two now.

[00:31:56] I think this was the second one, because the first one was Nate Bregazzi.

[00:31:59] I thought they did another one, but maybe not.

[00:32:03] I think you're just thinking of all the Fred Armisen sketches where they also did.

[00:32:06] Yeah, you're probably right.

[00:32:07] Yeah, yeah, yeah, probably.

[00:32:09] But you know, yeah, this is the second time they did this formula.

[00:32:11] And I do agree with you that this one, the second iteration was not as good as the first one.

[00:32:16] It felt like he was missing, I think some of it is that the novelty is worn off because

[00:32:20] a lot of people don't necessarily aren't familiar with Sabado Higante.

[00:32:24] And it seems like they weren't as weird with this one.

[00:32:28] It seems it works better when there's real consequences for Paul Rudd not knowing Spanish.

[00:32:33] Right.

[00:32:34] But this seemed more like they were just explaining a lot of the rules of the game and that was

[00:32:38] where the humorous come from.

[00:32:39] But I've mentioned this before, you cut all the way back to the Chris Farley and Mike Myers

[00:32:43] Japanese game show where he didn't speak any Japanese and he got like electrocuted because

[00:32:48] he didn't understand it.

[00:32:49] Sabado Higante is never going to be that.

[00:32:50] But the idea that because you don't know the language, it is more, you know, there's

[00:32:57] more on the line or there's a riskier setup.

[00:33:00] Yeah.

[00:33:00] You do something inappropriate and it's embarrassing.

[00:33:02] That kind of wasn't part of this.

[00:33:04] Yeah.

[00:33:05] I also didn't love what Dana Carvey was choosing to do in this one.

[00:33:08] Like I felt it was a little try hard.

[00:33:10] Like it was just a little try hard.

[00:33:11] Like it just, it wasn't a funny bit or a funny element of it.

[00:33:16] I don't think that's Dana Carvey's fault though.

[00:33:18] I think that he did exactly what he, what anyone would have done with that particular

[00:33:22] character.

[00:33:23] I don't know whose fault it was.

[00:33:24] I just think that particular gag wasn't very strong.

[00:33:26] That's what I'm saying.

[00:33:27] It just didn't seem that great to me.

[00:33:29] Um, and it was odd to me that Martin Short wasn't in this because again, it's all about

[00:33:33] being over the top and nobody is more over the top.

[00:33:36] Maybe, you know, uh, other than Dana Carvey, then Martin Short.

[00:33:40] Yeah.

[00:33:40] I do wonder why they opted to not have Martin Short as the main person in this, if it was

[00:33:45] ever supposed to be like that.

[00:33:46] Um, I don't think so, but I, one thing I will do is go through, uh, the, the full Reddit

[00:33:53] post from the person who was at dress rehearsal so that I can mention some of the sketches

[00:33:57] that were at dress that did have Martin Short in them and didn't make it to air on top

[00:34:02] of the cut for time sketch that we're going to talk about.

[00:34:03] So Lauren just decided if Martin Short's in this, we're cutting it.

[00:34:08] Apparently done and done.

[00:34:10] All right.

[00:34:10] It's time for the 10 to one, uh, peanuts Christmas written by again, Mikey Day, street or say

[00:34:16] Dell.

[00:34:17] That was their third sketch of the night, which is very rare to have three sketches, uh,

[00:34:22] in one possibly the highest percentage of sketches.

[00:34:27] There's only, there's only six sketches.

[00:34:29] Totally wrote half of them.

[00:34:31] Any rehearsal for a Charlie Brown Christmas, a drama teacher portrayed by Martin Short offers

[00:34:36] critiques to the peanuts cast.

[00:34:38] This kid also includes, I mean, everyone, Andrews, Heidi Gardner, Mikey Day, Sarah Sherman,

[00:34:43] Ashley Padilla, Marcelo Hernandez, Chloe Fineman, Emile Walken, Jane Wickline, Michael Longfellow,

[00:34:49] Kenan Thompson and Bo Yang.

[00:34:50] I literally think that's everyone other than James Austin Johnson.

[00:34:54] Yeah.

[00:34:55] Um, and so, um, yeah, this was, this was great.

[00:35:00] What was James Austin Johnson doing?

[00:35:02] Yeah.

[00:35:03] Just like, they were like, you know, he's busy.

[00:35:04] He's like, you know what?

[00:35:05] I'm just going to take off guys.

[00:35:06] He wasn't in anything.

[00:35:07] Was he?

[00:35:07] He was, he played the bearded, uh, Oh, he played a, he had a white beard and they cut

[00:35:12] to him or something.

[00:35:13] I can't remember where it was.

[00:35:13] But yeah, he went in much.

[00:35:14] Oh, he was, uh, he was Sigmund Freud in the monologue.

[00:35:17] Yeah.

[00:35:17] Oh, that's right.

[00:35:18] All right.

[00:35:18] What did you think of this?

[00:35:20] I thought this was, uh, I loved the setup of this.

[00:35:23] I loved watching the little details of this, how they were dancing.

[00:35:27] That was just kind of a fun little bit, you know, fun little gag to see how they were trying

[00:35:32] to, you know, parody the, the actual dancing.

[00:35:36] Did the comedy work for you guys?

[00:35:38] So they've done this, a version of this now three or four times where it's the Peanuts

[00:35:43] gang and.

[00:35:45] But, but it's always something different.

[00:35:47] Yeah.

[00:35:47] And what I mean by that is not, not this, but just the, the, the format of we're going

[00:35:51] to impersonate the Peanuts characters or we're going to do something with Peanuts.

[00:35:54] They've done it.

[00:35:54] They go to that well a couple of times, but they've done it in surprisingly different ways.

[00:35:58] Cause my favorite one of all time though, is the Al Pacino.

[00:36:01] You're a rat bastard.

[00:36:02] Oh my God.

[00:36:03] I don't know that I could ever get better than that.

[00:36:04] And that kind of colors my vision a little bit here because again, it's not the same

[00:36:08] at all.

[00:36:08] And they're not even trying to do the same thing, but my version of it is lives in my head

[00:36:12] rent free.

[00:36:13] Yeah.

[00:36:13] That is so good that I, and that one is, it is, that one doesn't need, need to be Peanuts,

[00:36:18] but like for me it's about the impressions they're doing as Peanuts characters.

[00:36:22] Exactly.

[00:36:22] Yeah.

[00:36:22] This is way different, but again, I, I still have that, my lens color.

[00:36:26] It does bring you back.

[00:36:26] Yeah.

[00:36:26] Do you remember, uh, one of the other Peanuts sketches?

[00:36:30] Uh, no.

[00:36:32] So I only remember one part of it, but I'm, but I remember the basic premise and one of

[00:36:36] the things that made me laugh so much is they, they took the cast members and they actually

[00:36:41] gave them like head molds.

[00:36:42] So they looked like real life Peanuts characters and Brendan Fraser, I think played Charlie Brown.

[00:36:48] Yeah.

[00:36:48] I remember that.

[00:36:49] And then, and what I think what the setup was is Lucy does the football thing, but Charlie

[00:36:53] Brown actually gets hurt and like he gets like a compound fracture or something like

[00:36:57] that.

[00:36:57] Yep.

[00:36:57] Cause I think they show the wound and then Franklin, uh, Tim Meadows, the time, yeah,

[00:37:02] it just goes.

[00:37:03] Yeah.

[00:37:04] That, that is from February 13th, 1999 episode.

[00:37:07] You're a champion, Charlie Brown.

[00:37:09] Yeah.

[00:37:10] That would have been a mummy, Brendan and Fraser.

[00:37:12] Yeah.

[00:37:13] Yeah.

[00:37:14] Yeah.

[00:37:14] Yeah.

[00:37:14] I remember that one.

[00:37:16] But yeah.

[00:37:17] So what'd you think about this, Brad?

[00:37:18] No, I thought, I thought this was pretty good.

[00:37:20] I did, uh, like Nate, because I've watched a Charlie Brown Christmas.

[00:37:24] I don't know how many times they did a phenomenal job of recreating the dance scene from when

[00:37:28] they were rehearsing, uh, having all the characters there and even just the color and the

[00:37:33] production design and everything.

[00:37:34] I didn't think the sketch was super funny.

[00:37:36] Um, I did think it was, it was more amusing actually when Martin Short, uh, shifted into

[00:37:41] Jiminy Glick territory with his voice.

[00:37:43] And I think even realized it cause there's a point when Bo Nying was like, Oh, um, but

[00:37:48] yeah, it was, it was fine.

[00:37:50] I didn't love it.

[00:37:51] Uh, I thought that more could have been the Snoopy twist was kind of like, Oh, we don't

[00:37:55] really know how to end.

[00:37:57] Yeah.

[00:37:58] Uh, so, so that, I think that's where it kind of fell apart for me, but it was, otherwise

[00:38:02] I, I mostly enjoyed it.

[00:38:03] I had fun with it.

[00:38:04] It wasn't great, but I had fun with it.

[00:38:05] All right.

[00:38:06] One, actually that's it.

[00:38:08] We do have one cut for time sketch.

[00:38:10] Uh, the cover time sketches are sketches that again, they can't get into the live show

[00:38:14] because of whatever reason.

[00:38:16] Literally this one was actually covered.

[00:38:17] It had to be cut for time.

[00:38:18] Yep.

[00:38:18] Had to be.

[00:38:18] And so this was put on YouTube.

[00:38:21] Now they don't always put their YouTube cut for time sketches there because if they

[00:38:26] can reuse them and film them with another person or, you know, if there's a sketch that, you

[00:38:32] know, sometimes the first time it goes into the dress rehearsal, it might not actually go

[00:38:37] live for two or three episodes.

[00:38:39] You never know.

[00:38:39] But when you create something for Christmas, specifically for Christmas.

[00:38:46] You have to do this.

[00:38:46] Martin Short in full Grinch outfit.

[00:38:48] Yeah.

[00:38:48] You have to.

[00:38:49] In Grinch face.

[00:38:50] There, there's no reusing it.

[00:38:51] So this was.

[00:38:52] Resting Grinch face.

[00:38:53] It's called How the Grinch Stole Christmas in this cover time sketch.

[00:38:56] Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas takes a surprising twist featuring.

[00:39:02] Everybody.

[00:39:03] Lucy Liu.

[00:39:04] Yep.

[00:39:05] Uh, so this is a, another going back to the same sandbox because they did this.

[00:39:10] I assume this is written by Sarah Sherman.

[00:39:12] I did not.

[00:39:12] A Dickens Christmas Carol.

[00:39:13] Yeah.

[00:39:14] When Martin Short and Steve Martin hosted and they had the.

[00:39:16] Threw the, threw the nickels down or the shackles.

[00:39:18] I heard people.

[00:39:19] And it started raining down hellfire on these people.

[00:39:21] Um, so yeah, in a very similar way, uh, the production value of course is they went for

[00:39:27] it.

[00:39:27] It's kind of sucked to not have this on.

[00:39:30] Yeah.

[00:39:30] I really cut for time.

[00:39:31] Yeah.

[00:39:32] I actually would have preferred that this was in there as opposed to the peanut sketch.

[00:39:36] Honestly, I think that would have been better.

[00:39:37] Or the airport one.

[00:39:39] Or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or.

[00:39:41] Yeah.

[00:39:41] I would have taken any of those out in favor of the Grinch one.

[00:39:44] Yeah.

[00:39:45] Cause it was good.

[00:39:45] Not, not, not, not anywhere near honestly as funny as, as when the Christmas Carol one.

[00:39:50] Yeah.

[00:39:51] I agree.

[00:39:51] They're going back to the well.

[00:39:53] Still funny enough to put it in the show for sure.

[00:39:54] I guess maybe that is.

[00:39:57] So here we have, and I, I watched this one.

[00:40:00] Drunk.

[00:40:01] Right.

[00:40:02] No, right when I, I watched the episode.

[00:40:04] Right.

[00:40:04] So this was for me.

[00:40:06] Oh, okay.

[00:40:07] Like, so here I have three sketches that aren't necessarily recurring, but like, this is

[00:40:14] not a recurring sketch necessarily.

[00:40:16] Well, it isn't.

[00:40:17] It kind of, you know what I mean?

[00:40:18] Right.

[00:40:19] So I look at all three of those and I think, I don't know if any of them were better than

[00:40:23] the first.

[00:40:24] And so, and I know, I know you say the whole point of recurring is that they don't have

[00:40:30] to be better.

[00:40:30] Or just that they typically aren't.

[00:40:33] Is there any that are?

[00:40:35] Um, I think the second Wayne's world was better than the first Wayne's world.

[00:40:39] I think there have been plenty of Wayne's worlds that were better than the first Wayne's

[00:40:42] world.

[00:40:42] Yeah.

[00:40:42] Um, but I think that's something this year that we talked about being better.

[00:40:46] I think the 14th head boon Harry was better than the first one.

[00:40:49] I know.

[00:40:49] I remember we liked the, how the song was performed in the second Domingo sketch than the first

[00:40:54] one.

[00:40:54] Yeah.

[00:40:54] That's true.

[00:40:55] Um, but, but yeah, no, I mean more, more likely it's going to be Lisa from Temecula

[00:41:01] where lightning in a bottle and then they did it again and it was fine, but it definitely

[00:41:05] wasn't ball busting funny.

[00:41:06] But also like, I, I mean, I don't have a problem, especially like when it comes to Christmas,

[00:41:11] like there are just certain themes that work out pretty well.

[00:41:13] Yeah.

[00:41:13] I think he had a good mix of like doing something you would expect from Christmas and also just

[00:41:17] stuff that you wouldn't have expected to become recurring anyway.

[00:41:20] Like I thought it was a nice surprise that they did a repeat of the Quinta Brunson, you

[00:41:24] know, car confrontation formula.

[00:41:26] Oh, I love it.

[00:41:26] I like stuff like that.

[00:41:27] Cause especially cause that's the kind of sketch where you can vary it up enough that like

[00:41:31] you don't need to hit certain, like there's not always a rhythm as far as joke beats.

[00:41:35] It's like, sure you expect Chloe Fineman to do some, some kind of inappropriate gesture

[00:41:40] that her dad doesn't like, but it's how they do it that matters.

[00:41:43] Exactly.

[00:41:44] I agree.

[00:41:45] All right.

[00:41:46] That is the episode.

[00:41:47] Brad, did you want to share anything about the stuff you've feelings or emotions?

[00:41:53] Before we pick our, uh, our MVPs and the best sketch of the night.

[00:41:57] So here's the, the stuff from the, on live from New York, uh, the Reddit thread.

[00:42:03] Um, and I'll hold on.

[00:42:05] I want to give credit to the, uh, the person who did this so that it's on the record.

[00:42:10] R, uh, r slash, uh, the user is ever true 13 in the live from New York, uh, Reddit.

[00:42:19] So, uh, so in the five timers club opener, Sarah Sherman filled in for John Mulaney and made

[00:42:24] even more fun of him not being available due to his Broadway show.

[00:42:27] Tom Hanks changed his response about the world war two book gift.

[00:42:31] So there's a different punchline.

[00:42:32] Martin shorts joke in the musical intro on the psych psych psychiatrist couch was about

[00:42:38] dreams of having sex with his mother and change to the eating army hammer, which was a better,

[00:42:44] better punchline.

[00:42:44] Uh, in the airport sketch, they changed Sarah Sherman's food from seafood curry to tuna casserole,

[00:42:51] uh, or something like that.

[00:42:52] That's so funny that those are the things they change.

[00:42:54] James Austin Johnson and this music played the viral arguing gay couple who keep asking to

[00:42:59] think about the girls, which was cut.

[00:43:02] I, that must be a tick tock thing, I guess.

[00:43:04] I don't know.

[00:43:05] Oh yeah.

[00:43:06] Uh, yeah, yeah.

[00:43:06] There's, um, a famous viral, uh, two gay guys at an airport and they're one screaming

[00:43:11] at a dude like getting in a fight and the other, his husband is like, think of the girls.

[00:43:16] We can't do the, think of the girls.

[00:43:18] I've never seen that.

[00:43:18] It's really funny.

[00:43:20] Uh, Marcello and Jane, uh, had another weekend update bit as the couple you can't believe

[00:43:24] were together, which was okay.

[00:43:25] That got cut a sketch with all the women cast members on a dating show hosted by Ego where

[00:43:31] they popped their balloons to turn down an eligible bachelor was cut.

[00:43:34] It featured Martin Short as an older man pretending to be Gen Z with some riz.

[00:43:40] Wow.

[00:43:40] Um, a sketch where Martin Short and, uh, Minky Carmichael.

[00:43:47] Oh yeah.

[00:43:48] Minky.

[00:43:48] Uh, and a pregnant Heidi were hosting a dating advice talk show that got cut.

[00:43:53] Uh, the sketch where Sarah Sherman played a bitter grandmother complaining about her visiting

[00:44:01] family with Martin Short as her husband, Irving Cohen was cut.

[00:44:05] They say this one was especially good.

[00:44:07] Had Martin Short falling face first into Andrew DeSmueck's crotch while singing.

[00:44:12] The other cut sketches made sense as they were weaker, but this one was solid, but probably

[00:44:16] too long with semi-musical breaks.

[00:44:19] Yeah.

[00:44:19] And so it's, it's funny.

[00:44:20] We watched the movies Saturday night.

[00:44:22] Yeah.

[00:44:22] And you see the board in the beginning of that film.

[00:44:25] That's full of four hours of content and yeah, it's got an hour and a half.

[00:44:28] And I feel like sometimes he's still that guy.

[00:44:30] Oh yeah.

[00:44:30] Yeah.

[00:44:31] Well, let's just do it all, you know?

[00:44:32] And then we got to cut for, cut stuff for time.

[00:44:34] Uh, the Charlie Brown sketch was slightly shortened.

[00:44:36] There was an even funnier second call back to Martin Short calling Linus, uh, a top.

[00:44:42] Uh, there was a great sketch with Short, Keenan and Bowen playing a Kenny G-esque jazz trio.

[00:44:49] Keenan was Treese Henderson playing Christmas music at a hotel.

[00:44:53] Premise was they were double booked with a live animal nativity scene and in dress the chicken

[00:44:57] kept trying to escape.

[00:44:59] That would have been great.

[00:45:00] It would have been great.

[00:45:01] Uh, Colin and Shay held back on their joke swap until the live show.

[00:45:04] Colin was completely surprised by the black voice, uh, quote unquote, as all the prior

[00:45:09] cue cards were normal voice jokes.

[00:45:10] The cuts to Scarlett were also new as was the roast beef joke.

[00:45:14] Oh my God.

[00:45:15] That's amazing.

[00:45:15] Uh, lots of weekend update jokes cut one about marriage, uh, age being lowered to nine

[00:45:20] in Iraq, but Shay saying it's okay if she's an old soul.

[00:45:25] Jesus.

[00:45:26] Then apologizing and saying now that he reads it, he agrees with the crowd.

[00:45:31] Um, it's the nineties cop.

[00:45:33] Yeah.

[00:45:33] Other than weekend update joke swap, uh, live show was much shorter overall and dress seemed

[00:45:38] like it was more engaged.

[00:45:40] So, um, and then they go on to mention the pre tape, uh, with the, uh, the Grinch, which

[00:45:45] we actually ended up seeing.

[00:45:46] There you go.

[00:45:47] Um, which I will say, I, one thing I really liked about the Grinch, uh, sketch was the

[00:45:51] fact that the Lucy Liu thing ended up turning into like a Quentin Tarantino's version, which

[00:45:55] was a, which was a nice touch.

[00:45:57] It's a nice touch.

[00:45:57] And you know, Lucy looks, looks great.

[00:46:00] Oh yeah.

[00:46:01] It's been 24 years.

[00:46:02] It's exactly like she didn't kill bill.

[00:46:03] Yeah.

[00:46:04] All right.

[00:46:05] Let's get to, um, our final segment of the night, uh, MVP and sketch of the night.

[00:46:13] Melissa McCarthy.

[00:46:15] Oh wow.

[00:46:16] That was my MVP.

[00:46:16] Yep.

[00:46:17] Yeah.

[00:46:17] Melissa McCarthy was my MVP.

[00:46:18] Oh wow.

[00:46:19] I thought she was fantastic.

[00:46:20] She was, she completely, and I mean completely elevated, uh, the, the, just the few things

[00:46:26] she did.

[00:46:27] She did so fricking perfectly.

[00:46:28] Even in the cold open.

[00:46:29] Yep.

[00:46:29] There were just, there's too many people that the cast, the regular cast is going to

[00:46:33] be, it made me think I need to see her host again.

[00:46:35] Yeah, exactly.

[00:46:36] It made me, yeah.

[00:46:37] Want that to happen immediately.

[00:46:38] Yeah.

[00:46:39] Oh, okay.

[00:46:40] What'd you, what'd you think?

[00:46:40] That's an interesting pick.

[00:46:42] Uh, I actually had a hard time trying to, to come up with one because you expect Martin Short

[00:46:46] to be very good.

[00:46:47] You know, he'd have to like do something crazy.

[00:46:49] And he didn't, he went in a ton.

[00:46:50] Yeah.

[00:46:52] Um, gosh, you know, part of me almost, I do appreciate your preparation.

[00:46:58] The preplanning of this was really good.

[00:47:00] This podcast.

[00:47:01] Part of it is like, I just don't care anymore.

[00:47:03] So my sketch of the night was still Mikey Day in the car with his daughter.

[00:47:06] Uh, even though, even though I did say it's not as good as the first one.

[00:47:14] Is this still your sketch of the night?

[00:47:16] And even though.

[00:47:17] Oh my God.

[00:47:18] I know I'm going to get some crap from these two.

[00:47:21] Oh my God.

[00:47:22] I do think it was the best sketch.

[00:47:23] Oh my God.

[00:47:25] You son of a bitch.

[00:47:26] Best sketch of the night.

[00:47:27] And he's in, in the moment.

[00:47:28] He's like, it just wasn't as good as the first one.

[00:47:29] It wasn't as good as the first one.

[00:47:30] I actually think because of an act of kindness that I would give Kenan Thompson MVP, especially

[00:47:36] also because I think he had one of the funnier brief bits in the Christmas.

[00:47:40] You know what?

[00:47:40] I'm switching it.

[00:47:41] I'm going to go with an act of kindness.

[00:47:43] Actually.

[00:47:43] I think that was the best.

[00:47:44] And actually, that was the only thing I was going to say.

[00:47:46] Act of kindness.

[00:47:46] I think it's my special.

[00:47:47] I do think that.

[00:47:48] I forgot about that.

[00:47:50] You're.

[00:47:50] I forgot.

[00:47:50] I did forget about that.

[00:47:51] You're flip flopping right now is just at an all time high.

[00:47:55] I forgot about that.

[00:47:56] I think that you need to work on committing and just understanding that once you say something,

[00:48:00] it's online forever.

[00:48:02] It can never be taken back.

[00:48:03] But now this is your credibility.

[00:48:04] It just takes a nosedive when you just flip it.

[00:48:07] You know what?

[00:48:07] I'm going to go with Christmas airport parade.

[00:48:12] Now you're just crazy talk.

[00:48:15] Salpaguhiente!

[00:48:16] Salpaguhiente!

[00:48:16] Cuckoo bananas over here.

[00:48:17] All right.

[00:48:18] Well, we did it guys.

[00:48:18] We got through another episode of Saturday Night Live.

[00:48:19] We don't have any new SNL scheduled.

[00:48:22] No.

[00:48:22] We don't know who's going to be hosting in January.

[00:48:25] So probably January Jones.

[00:48:27] This will probably be our last podcast.

[00:48:29] Oh my God.

[00:48:31] It sounded so sad.

[00:48:33] It got dark all of a sudden over the holidays.

[00:48:34] Thanks so much for listening.

[00:48:35] Thanks for the support over the years.

[00:48:37] I'm going to try and make a guess and see if we can pick who is going to be hosting.

[00:48:44] Just based on the stuff that's coming out in January?

[00:48:46] Yeah.

[00:48:49] I'm going to say probably Hugh Laurie.

[00:48:54] Hugh Laurie?

[00:48:55] Wow.

[00:48:56] I'm going to say Hugh Downs.

[00:48:57] Hugh Downs.

[00:48:59] Interesting.

[00:49:01] Gerard Butler?

[00:49:02] Because then if these two, Pantera comes out?

[00:49:05] No.

[00:49:05] You don't think so?

[00:49:06] What are you talking about?

[00:49:07] Jerry Butts.

[00:49:08] How many times has Jerry Butts...

[00:49:10] He's probably hosted once maybe?

[00:49:12] You think?

[00:49:13] Do you think that they would bring Mark Wahlberg back because Flight Risk comes out on January

[00:49:17] 24?

[00:49:18] He'd do it.

[00:49:19] He would do it.

[00:49:20] Yeah.

[00:49:21] Because he's a self-promoting marketing machine.

[00:49:23] Because he has hosted, right?

[00:49:24] Oh yeah.

[00:49:24] Yeah.

[00:49:26] Wait.

[00:49:26] Right?

[00:49:27] Or did he just do a cameo?

[00:49:28] I know he cameoed once in the Mark Wahlberg talks to animals bits.

[00:49:32] Exactly.

[00:49:32] But has he hosted?

[00:49:34] Ooh.

[00:49:35] I'm sure.

[00:49:35] I'm sure of it.

[00:49:36] I can't think of any sketches though other than that.

[00:49:38] He is legitimately, you know, again, he likes to see his face freaking everywhere.

[00:49:45] Mark Wahlberg.

[00:49:47] I don't think he has hosted.

[00:49:48] Whoa.

[00:49:49] Yeah.

[00:49:49] Now that I think about it, I don't think he did.

[00:49:50] Because if he did, it would have been around either Planet of the Apes time or sometime

[00:49:55] like...

[00:49:55] The other guys would have been an amazing time for that.

[00:49:58] Yeah.

[00:49:59] Okay.

[00:49:59] Well, hey, Mark Wahlberg.

[00:50:00] Let's get you on the show, buddy.

[00:50:01] No, Nate?

[00:50:03] No, he has not.

[00:50:05] Wow.

[00:50:06] Okay.

[00:50:08] All right.

[00:50:09] There you go.

[00:50:09] No, I cannot find him in anything.

[00:50:10] Interesting.

[00:50:11] Now, the other thing that is possible is because January is going to be like awards season leading

[00:50:16] up to, you know, Oscars, they could just get somebody who's maybe having like a good

[00:50:20] year.

[00:50:21] So somebody gets nominated and then for best actor, best actress?

[00:50:25] Or somebody where there's at least buzz about them being nominated.

[00:50:28] Okay.

[00:50:28] I think that's...

[00:50:29] How many of these things do you think are kind of last minute decisions?

[00:50:32] Like, I know that they have a plan, but then if somebody does have huge buzz and they're

[00:50:36] like, oh, you know what?

[00:50:37] We could move the schedule and see if that person would want to do it.

[00:50:40] Does that happen all that often, do you think?

[00:50:41] I don't think so because like, you have to schedule a whole week for that person, you

[00:50:44] know?

[00:50:45] I know, but like you just said, if somebody's got a lot of awards buzz, they might grab them

[00:50:49] in January?

[00:50:49] Well, yeah, but like you usually know around that time of like, there's like...

[00:50:55] So maybe somebody already is in...

[00:50:56] Yeah, like there's a...

[00:50:57] Yeah, it's somebody that you think might get nominated.

[00:50:59] They don't have to already be nominated.

[00:51:00] Gotcha.

[00:51:01] But I, yeah, I do...

[00:51:03] It is interesting to like figure out when they determine that.

[00:51:07] I feel like this year especially, they're probably planning stuff way far out.

[00:51:10] Yeah, I would say.

[00:51:11] But I think that what's interesting is there was some news actually this weekend that Blake

[00:51:16] Lively was going to host the season 50 opener.

[00:51:19] Yeah.

[00:51:20] But then because of the controversy that happened with her movie, it ends with us and some being

[00:51:23] being some conflict with director Justin Baldoni.

[00:51:26] The negative publicity campaign she started to get around that time, which as we've been

[00:51:31] finding has been manufactured by like this Hollywood PR firm by Justin Baldoni and his

[00:51:37] people that it made her not want to host SNL.

[00:51:41] It's weird that people still think they can get away with shit like that because it's

[00:51:44] 2024 and the receipts are everywhere now.

[00:51:47] Jesus, dude.

[00:51:47] So yeah, we could have gotten Blake Lively hosting SNL.

[00:51:50] So I hope that maybe at some point they'll come back around and do it because I think

[00:51:54] that it'll be a lot of fun to have her.

[00:51:55] That'd be great.

[00:51:56] All right.

[00:51:57] I'm sure they're working on something.

[00:51:58] That's why they haven't announced anything.

[00:52:00] But we'll be back though.

[00:52:01] I'm going to guess sometime in the middle of January and another new episode then.

[00:52:06] Maybe right at the end of January.

[00:52:08] Yeah.

[00:52:08] But in the meantime, you can listen to our other podcast, Go Flicks Yourself, where we

[00:52:11] talk about movies and trailers and our lives and therapy.

[00:52:16] Yeah.

[00:52:17] That's such a sell.

[00:52:19] That's such a sell for the show.

[00:52:21] You know, sometimes we talk about our feelings and therapy.

[00:52:23] My sadness.

[00:52:23] And a lot of times, no jokes.

[00:52:25] My sadness.

[00:52:26] So tune on in to go find yourself with Nate Lauchs.

[00:52:31] No, you can listen over there as well.

[00:52:33] We'll be posting new episodes in the meantime.

[00:52:36] Hey, Brad, where can people find you?

[00:52:38] Oh, you can find me online at slashfilm.com.

[00:52:42] You won't see my full reviews there anymore just because, you know, they're not getting

[00:52:45] as much traffic as we would like.

[00:52:48] But I might try and put, you know, more like thorough reviews together somewhere else.

[00:52:53] I'm thinking about starting a sub stack.

[00:52:55] Who knows?

[00:52:56] What?

[00:52:56] But we'll see.

[00:52:57] You can find me struggling at Twitter at Ethan underscore Anderton.

[00:53:01] And I'm also on Blue Sky if you've joined the millions of people flocking over there from

[00:53:05] Elon Musk's dumb social media machine.

[00:53:08] Whoa.

[00:53:09] Well, that's who I'm hoping is hosting in January.

[00:53:12] And Ben and I are online as well.

[00:53:13] You can find us.

[00:53:14] More importantly, go to the 10 to 1 and you can find all of our information there or past

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