Episode 92 - Quinta Brunson (Season 50)

[00:00:05] It's the Ten to One Podcast with your host Brad Owen featuring Ben Conowitz and Nate Lauchs and here's the podcast. Hello friends, welcome back. That was a good one Brad, that was good. It's spring and we're here for laughter. Okay, I was seriously gonna compliment you on the Don Pardo voice, it was good. You went there for a second and then he's like... And then you just had to ruin it. He does the thing. He just does the thing.

[00:00:35] He does the thing. Springtime for Saturday, Night Live. I really thought you were jumping into springtime for Hitler there. That's gonna be a little different. That's how it started. I thought better, you know. Hey, but you know what we did get? Technically if you think about it, springtime for Hitler is springtime for us. I mean for humanity. Yeah, exactly. Hitler enjoyed the same seasons that you did. Some people used spring for different reasons. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Sorry Ben, but you know.

[00:01:04] Well it's a new episode. Oh, guys. Quinta Brunson. She's back. She's back and she's short. She is. Very tiny. Very tiny person. And she, you know, it's so hard when somebody comes back to the show so quickly after she was there for the first time. And I thought her first episode was just so good. It was fantastic. I'm really interested to hear what you guys think.

[00:01:34] Because we don't talk about this to our listeners on the 10 to 1. We don't really talk a lot about what we think about the episode before we record. Got to keep it fresh. I'm really interested to hear what you thought about this episode because I've got some thoughts. Oh. I mean, it's just not like good thoughts. Whoa. I've not had any good thoughts since we've done this podcast, but I do have some thoughts. Pretty dark. You mean you're talking about like salient relevant points, not like you're just negative all the time.

[00:02:03] Like you're just nobody gives you kudos for the points you're making. Is that what you're saying? I mean, I'm just saying like I've not what experts call contributed much to the podcast, but you know, I've been on it though. I feel that not to be true. I think that you're a valuable, your input is valued and valuable. Wow. I think I agree with that, but also better. So she just hosted last year, right?

[00:02:30] And that was the, correct me if I'm wrong, that was the first time we saw the Mikey Day, Chloe Fineman, correct car sketch. Yeah. Created that. Okay. And okay. And that was an all timer. You know, it was really, really, really funny. Um, and obviously they brought the back this time. We'll get into that. Um, but let's let's kick it off, man. Let's let's go cold open. All right, friends. Let's do this. Trump cold open. Donald Trump played by James Austin Johnson. This episode signs a bunch of executive orders into law.

[00:02:59] So this is SNL going back to that old kind of, uh, Trump thing where they don't make it a creative use of, you know, the political satire just in the Oval Office, uh, with a couple kind of cursory characters about it. Uh, what did you guys think of this? Uh, Brad, this started with you. Did any of the executive order gags kind of land with you, uh, and even make you laugh? No, not particularly. It was, it felt like it was a step back for the most part.

[00:03:27] Um, it doesn't really feel like there was much else to do except, you know, just make fun of the fact that he is signing all these executive orders. Um, you know, it's, it was easy stuff. Like every time he signed one, he would do the picture where he shows it. Like he's like a kid that has a drawing that he just did at elementary school. Uh, and that's just a real thing that he does, you know? I think one of the things that made it feel a little bit more tired is because that was a huge part of his presidency on day one. Yeah. And so there, it, it almost feels like that thing where SNL is, is late, even though this,

[00:03:56] he has done a new barrage of these things, but it's been done before already by Trump, by SNL. They've, they've mentioned the executive orders a lot. So we're just kind of retreading the same stuff. And yeah, I get it. There's a few things that are new about it, but you're not breaking any new ground here. And so it really hard to keep my attention going on something like this where it's just so, so basic. Yeah. I, I a hundred percent agree. And I, I will say this. I didn't think Mikey days, uh, Steven Miller was all that great either. It was fine. I'm not sure he's really doing much of like a real Steven Miller impression as it is like

[00:04:25] turning him into like a cartoonish villain. But even that wasn't that great. Um, so I, you know, I, I, this one didn't land for me. I don't know maybe, you know, contemporarily what they could have done that was different. Obviously we're not comedy writers nor do we know anything, but I'm not, I'm, I'm, for example, I'm not going to go out on a limb and like make, make, you know, Mikey days out to the bet. The bad guy like Nate is. I don't, Mikey, I'm so sorry.

[00:04:51] Uh, you know, he listens to the show and Hey Mike, um, buddy, I love you. Um, but, uh, I, I would have maybe if perhaps just a note, um, I would have loved to have seen what the writers could do turning Trump into the Pope because you know, I'm surprised that they didn't. That's right. I, I, when I, sometimes, you know, things happen in the culture during the week and my immediate thought is, is I wonder what SNL is going to do with that. That is enough of an escalation immediately to be like, okay, share it.

[00:05:20] Cause cause the thing that can go well with this political cold open stuff is when they take a premise, something that happened and they actually don't just word for word almost recreate what happened. Yeah. That's when it's boring because it was just a photo of Trump and there was no actual, you know, there wasn't a video of Trump doing it. But then you can, your, your mind goes to what, what would it be like if honestly, and so then you can mix in the conclave stuff. And I don't know. I just think that that could have been an angle, Nate. See, that's the kind of valuable content that we come to rely on from you.

[00:05:48] There's a chance maybe it felt too easy for them, like just too broad of a target. But also I wonder if maybe they did try something like that and for whatever reason, it just didn't work. Sure. No. And again, we're, you know, we're, we're not flies on the wall in that room. You know, they, they did the best they could with what they had and this is what we got and not our favorite thing, but also, you know, I still like Mikey day. Yeah. Moving on. Let's go to monologue by Quinta Brunson returning to host SNL for the second time. Actress and comedia Quinta Brunson talks about how she worked on a sex phone line back when

[00:06:16] she was broke and sings about being short with Sabrina Carpenter, Marcel Hernandez, and surprisingly Dwayne Wade. So, um, we love it when they do songs. I like actually, I like, uh, monologue songs particularly. Nate, how tall are you? I'm six foot five. So you're, you're one inch taller than Dwayne Wade. Yep. So it's interesting to me. I was really hoping that they were going to do something about her being short and especially with Marcelo Hernandez.

[00:06:45] Cause I wanted to see, okay, if she's four 11 does Marcelo look and he does, right? He really does. And then, but then Dwayne Wade gets in and like, Oh, there's a, there's a normal or a big man. Right. So you're actually an inch taller than that. Uh, that is crazy to me to just to see that. I'm, and I think that I'm very glad that they did that. That was a cool thing to do to bring an actual professional athlete up there like that, that, that was short for an NBA player at six, four. Right. I thought that was very good. Um, I didn't in early on in the, in the monologue, she does the joke of the phone sex stuff.

[00:07:13] And I don't know if the audience really was like believing that she actually did it. I think it's true. Yeah. But there was, there was almost no laugh there because it was almost like they didn't want to believe her type thing. It was, it was just a little awkward. I think that joke could have been punched up a little bit too. Cause it was just a pretty basic, easy joke. Yeah. But the, uh, the song stuff though, Nate, uh, that you were saying, uh, that's hard to do, right? Um, uh, musical monologues are not easy. How do you think that she did brand? I mean, uh, I think it's clear that she's probably not like a, uh, super musical person

[00:07:43] like, but she doesn't have like a terrible voice, but she's not, you know, like she, she could carry the, the, um, the cadence. Right. But it wasn't necessarily that she was not belting out Sabrina Carpenter. No, of course. Uh, so, but it was, it was fun. I really enjoyed it. It's, you know, it's not every day that you get to do something like that because she is supremely short, you know? Um, and so plus it seems like everyone is just freaking out whenever Sabrina Carpenter shows up at any time. I mean, I, I get that. She's a, she's a superstar, a big thing right now. I, I, but I also don't get it. Right.

[00:08:13] I, I, I'm just not. Well, you saw what she looks like, right? No, no. But so sure. There's so many pretty people that do things like this. I don't know. Why is she the it person right now? Again, I'm not trying to take anything away from her. I just don't get it. I'm old. I don't, I don't get it. She's super huge in the pop scene right now. It's her combination of like witty humor, provocative, like sense of humor. It's a little bit sexy. It's a little bit silly. It's catchy tunes. Like she's just really, a little bit sexy, a little bit silly. You know, we do say that about Nate Lauchs all the time. Kind of sexy, kind of silly. Yeah. I think that's going to be the title of your book, right? Yeah.

[00:08:42] Nate Lauchs, kind of sexy, kind of silly. But no, I just think she's hitting like just a perfect mix of what people want right now. And it's, you know, Marcello Hernandez showed up at her concert as Domingo. This is six months ago now. And the fans went absolutely batshit. And that was the first time we talked about a character from SNL kind of crossing over to the mainstream, kind of like they used to do back in the day where it's super quickly. Yeah. Immediately. Right. That sketch had only been on for like a week and then, or maybe two weeks.

[00:09:11] But I think that's how the sketches used to, like Wayne's World, right? It blew up overnight, I think, didn't it? Like a lot of these characters did have that kind of quick action in the culture. It would have been more earlier because, you know, back in the day, 2, 5, 7, and 9 were the stations, right? Yep. So if, you know, everybody knew what John Belushi said or what, yeah, sorry, 2, 5, 7, and 9 in Chicago. That doesn't happen in LA? They didn't have the channel 2, 5, 7, and 9?

[00:09:40] Okay, Nate, whatever. Okay, sorry, 1, 3, 5, and 7. Anyway. But so back then, you know, everybody knew what Gilda Radner had said or Ed Grimlieb in the 80s and whatever. Nowadays, it is harder because everything kind of gets lost in the plethora that's out there. Yeah, there's no monoculture anymore. So this is crazy to see that hit so relevant and so fast, I think. Yeah. It was very surprising to me. Was it surprising to you, Brad? No, for sure. Especially because, like, we talked about this when we were taught, I think we talked about SNL 50.

[00:10:12] It was extremely quick that they suddenly did a Domingo Funko Pop. Yeah. Like, so fast. I've rarely seen a character get turned around that quickly and turned into, like, a little piece of pop culture. The last time it happened. It's TikTok though, right? I mean, that hit huge on TikTok. The last time it happened was Brad's favorite, the Huktoor girl. I'll talk about it. She got her Funko Pop pretty quickly. Did she get a Funko Pop? Probably. That would be so funny. No, first of all, I hope not. But it wouldn't surprise me these days. It was probably.

[00:10:42] Probably. It was probably tough because they don't often paint the mouth on the Funko Pop. Oh, okay. Let's just, let's move on. Moving on. Will and Todd's Radical Experience. Will and Todd, played by Andrew Smukes and Marcelo Hernandez, give advice to historical figures going back in time, except for Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, played by Kenan Thompson and Quinta Brunson. Nate, what did you think? We never start with you. Yeah, yeah.

[00:11:09] So this, there's sometimes when a sketch comes on and I immediately start thinking, oh, I hope they do this again. Because there are so many different iterations of this from history that they can make really funny. And I just thought this was hilarious. This was great. Here's what's... You heard it here first. Nate got excited thinking about all the people who have been wronged through time. And how funny that would be.

[00:11:38] It is though, sometimes it is funny to tell the real history through this and be like, this world sucks so bad. Look at all around you and Harriet Tubman and they're like, eh. Frederick Douglass is like, young man, you have a job? You get paid? You get paid, yep. No, I'm okay. I'm gonna stay. That's perfect. But no, the thing that I was gonna say is, De Smukes, his delivery of those radical lines got me every... He went, he's going all in as... The 1-800s. Oh my gosh.

[00:12:07] That was so freaking good when they're just, man, it's too radical. Yeah. He was really doing it. And that helps so much. Like the core of this sketch is Bill and Ted, right? So that's just so funny to me. I was... Like I said, I just thought it was such a... I would love to see different eras. No, I agree. I think that there's potential to repeat it and do something like that. But also, I just think that like I was... It's such a good sketch premise. I couldn't believe no one had done it before. Exactly. Because it's not like Bill and Ted is really all that popular right now. Yeah.

[00:12:37] Right? And... It's crazy. Yeah, but you're right. Because they had the... In the film, the films, they have real historical characters that really come to the present and then have to go back. And it's never about like, well, I don't want to go back there. But that's absolutely a great take. And the fact that Quinta Brunson, oh man, just like, well, you were responsible for the Underground Railroad. Yeah. Oh, my cousin Janet. She... Like these little lines like that. There's a lot of us doing that work. Yeah, there's a lot of us doing that. You know, it's going to be fine. Of course, you want to go back, you're a queen.

[00:13:07] Let's go to the train tracks in the sky. You know, the roller coaster? Yeah. All of that worked. It worked so well and I wanted to see it. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if they bring it back this season sometime. I mean, it's worth it to revisit already. I love it. Yeah. I would love to hear what our listeners thought of this one if they liked it as much as we did because I just thought it was hilarious. Because you're right. My brain started going after our watches like what other characters would be funny to do as well. And again, you know, we'll brainstorm about all the negativity and then we'll let Brad know. All right. Moving on.

[00:13:35] This is a pre-tape only seniors and elderly couple played by Quinta Brunson and Keenan Thompson again raise money for themselves by being on only seniors. So what did you guys think of the premise of obviously those of you that have not watched us yet? Go watch it. But only seniors is a play on only fans. It's kind of using adult content platform. Oh, well, Brad life insurance revenue.

[00:14:05] Is it like a life insurance website? You know, go to only fans dot com and you'll see. Here's what I liked about this. The because I thought it was just OK. It was it was OK. I like the it was its strongest. Oh, my God. This is a porn website. Yeah. Put your phone away. Also cross your legs. This is awesome. It was at its best when they were like snapping back at their kids and the kids had to be like, yes. Yes, ma'am. Sorry. Sorry about that.

[00:14:33] Yeah, that was what it was at its best at its middling was just it kind of kept going on and on. We get right. It's so what I did like is even when they said only seniors at the start, I wasn't I didn't immediately think of only fans. I was like, I didn't either. I was like, where is this? Where's this going? And by the way, that's really Dennis Haysbert's voice at the end. Is it really? Yeah. I'm saying it really is because I've listened to it five times. I'm like, that's got to be him because that's not an impression. That's they got him to do it. Interesting. I would like to see if that's true.

[00:15:00] But yeah, I didn't think at first, oh, this is going to be an only fans joke until they actually started talking about the sexual things. I think that I would say that again, the sexual thing, the sexual thing, the sexual things. I think that it would have been funnier if they hadn't already done something similar in a live sketch form, because do you remember the sketch where it was also Keenan and he was talking about having a like his own webcast or something like that, where like he was doing sexual things.

[00:15:28] So didn't they just have the old man version of Keenan on Weekend Update? Wasn't it Michael J's neighbor? No, it's a live sketch. It's called Maurice. Oh, that's right. Yeah. And they're at dinner and he's not super old, but he's like... But he's got a recliner. Yeah. Doesn't he use that in the sexual positions? Oh, I mean, maybe he talked about that. I don't remember that specific detail. I just remember them being at dinner and he's talking about with his son and daughter, Chris Redd and Ago. And then... Yeah.

[00:15:58] It's like they're at dinner and he starts talking about it and like... I'm thinking about a different one. I think it's like a VHS tape series of like the sexual moves. Oh, that's something different. Yeah. That's just like a lo-fi thing where he's like, well, first you gotta... Yeah. That's totally different. Sorry, sorry. That's what I was thinking of. So many Kenan Thompson sexual positions here. I'm so sorry. Try to keep track of them all. But yeah, so this kind of reminded me of that. And so I was like, oh, we've already seen Kenan Thompson talk about doing the equivalent of OnlyFans before. Sure.

[00:16:26] But I did think the commercial framing was interesting and it added a little bit of variety to it. It was definitely not the worst thing they've ever done. I do think you're right though that them clapping back at their kids and stuff like that was the funniest part. And still having the kids be... Even though the... You guys are doing something so silly. Oh, sorry, sir. Yeah. They still are the kids. They're good. All right. Moving on. This is called Fairy Car. This is a repeat of...

[00:16:56] Or not a repeat. They've done these three times now where two of them now have been with Quinta Brunson where you've got two people in a car and one of the things we love about this sketch is it's live. Right. It seems like it'd be so easy to be pre-taped especially because there's so much choreography that's happening in these sketches. But we've seen three of them now. The first one was in April of 2023. Again, Quinta Brunson. And then there was one just in December.

[00:17:26] Was that Martin Short? Who was it? Martin Short. And... Melissa McCarthy. Yeah. And so that one we... If I remember right, we love that one. Yeah. Because of Melissa McCarthy primarily. Martin Short did great too. No, it was a great sketch. The capper was such a crescendo. Exactly. So when we look at this altercation, parking lot altercation I think is actually... Or traffic altercation I think is what they actually call the sketches as a whole. But this one's on a ferry. What did you guys think of this one?

[00:17:54] Did you think they escalated it? Was it just kind of more of the same which is still really good? Or was there a feature of this one that you thought they did that was a nice addition? It's... This is lightning in a bottle hard to capture, you know, over and over again. The thing I really still like about this is I'm just wondering what they're gonna... Like what are the physical gags gonna be? I'm just... I know that they're gonna do them and I don't see a lot of them coming and so that's what I think is funny. Yeah.

[00:18:23] Because as somebody who thinks that they're funny, I'm like what would I do? And I'm like oh yeah, that's fair. These are very clever. They're making me laugh. Chloe Fineman with the nuts stuff is always gonna be hilarious. I... Because she's always the thing that goes very crass and so I'm wondering how they're gonna do that. The addition of Kenan Thompson in the back in Iraq was a pretty good one, not gonna lie. Yeah. The Jost thing at the end is fine I guess. It's a little... It was a little like...

[00:18:48] Yeah, a little overkill as far as like just the meta self-reference comedy but it was pretty funny to see Jost doing something like that. Overall, I mean this is probably my... It's number three of three for me. Like the first one's great, the second one's very, very good, so solid. Yeah. And this is a little bit of a departure but still I laughed very hard so I can't say it's a bad sketch whatsoever. Yeah, exactly. But it's hard when you got something so good to compare it to. Plus I feel like it would have been disappointing if they brought her back and they didn't do it again. Oh, exactly. We would have been like where was it? Yeah.

[00:19:15] I just wonder how long do they have to like practice the choreography on this because it is so precise. It's so good. Like it is such a skill to be able to do what they do because again... Especially because they're not doing physical. What's your deal? Yeah. What's your deal? Especially because I don't think that... And maybe they do have a way of like articulating it on the cue cards but I can't imagine that they're like... Like drawing out a hand gesture for them to do. Yeah. You got to remember what you're doing. Maybe they are though.

[00:19:43] Maybe like in brackets or parentheses they say gesture and they immediately... Oh, they're like, oh yeah, that's right. It's... And they know what the gesture is. Right. Yeah. I don't know. I wonder if somebody underneath the cue cards could be doing the gesture. Because that's a lot... Because we think of it like as this they've got all this time to prepare but you know they don't, right? So it would be really easy to like... Or it would be very helpful if somebody was like this is how you're gonna do the next one, right? Yeah. Yeah. Because very impressive still. The physicality of that is always very, very impressive. All right. Let's move on.

[00:20:12] This is a leadership summit. A leadership summit goes off the rails when employees completely miss the point. Let's start with you, Brad. What did you think of this one? I really liked this one. I liked the absurdity of it. I liked that it had a combination of a... What felt like a realistic frame but then the characters in it, at least as far as the people that the leadership leaders are talking to, they're like some special brand of like

[00:20:42] crazy or absurd where like they're on each other's level and they're fine with that. But then the people who are running it, they're like, what the fuck is going on? Yeah. So I especially like just how normal Quinta was saying the craziest thing. Right. But no, her kids are ugly. Yeah. I also like when they do things like the... And then the, I think she should wear more shorter things. Well, thank you. Thank you. I will. Thank you. I will. No, I do like it when the universe that they're building is self-referential enough

[00:21:11] to like when Emile Joachim says, I don't like the tone. I'm going to say yes, technically. So that sets the expectation for me that, okay, they know how absurd this is going to be and they are, they're going to be the straight men here. Yeah. I love that they set that up. It was so, not liking the way you said that, but okay, we're going to, we're going to say technically yes. Yeah. This was one of those sketches where they, nothing groundbreaking. You've got a, you know, again, Quinta's playing kind of a straight, like you said, the delivery

[00:21:41] is very straight. She's the comic part of this, but her delivery is very, you know, straight, but it wasn't anything that I thought kind of made the episode, but it was, I think a solid addition. I also liked that Sarah Sherman, like she would react to what was happening. But then as soon as everyone was clapping, she'd be like, oh, smiling. Oh, and the clapping stuff was great, by the way. It's like, it's just taking the lead, like, and, and that's what it, and everybody just falls in line. All right.

[00:22:09] Moving on forever 31 women in their thirties. Oh, but real quick, Brad, would you have a Bursuito? Oh, a hundred percent. I actually saw that. I'm like, that's a really good idea. I understand why we don't have Bursuitos at Chipotle. Get on it, Chipotle. Yeah. All right. Women in the thirties, Quinta Brunson, Chloe Feynman, Ego Wodum, Sarah Sherman, and Heidi Garner play in this. They advertise clothes for women in their thirties and up.

[00:22:35] Now as women in their thirties, I'll start with- I got this. Start with you, Ben. This was a pre-taped. Yep. These are my people. What do you think on this one? I mean, forever 31 is a clever enough thing. Yep. It's, it's like, it's almost like the little red glasses or the big dumb hat, you know, they're, they're in the same vein of this. It's, it's fun enough. I don't know. I just, it's not, it's not, I'm not the target audience for that. Right.

[00:23:05] Like I think it's, it's clever enough, but like for me, okay, there's enough. I could, I could go full term in this outfit. Yeah. I wonder if again, women, particularly women ages 35 or 40 feel a little bit more connected. I'm sure. As you're getting older. I mean, this is the hard thing, right? Just, just culturally as we're getting older, um, you, you know, I was thinking about this

[00:23:31] before my grandparents when they were like 50 seemed super, super old. I'm 43 and I don't feel like I'm that old. No, it's right. As, as the, the, the, I'm still wearing the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, wearing clothes from gap, you know, as we, as we're getting older, you start to see that finish line be pushed out further for like, uh, when I've turned 70, I'm like, I'm not that old, you know? Exactly. So I get it. Um, I, I do wonder if this hit, you know, I feel seen or I feel, I feel attacked.

[00:24:00] You know, I'm sure there's a lot of women out there that, that saw it that way. Yeah, no, I, I think that the commercial premise works in a similar way as a one that we had not too long ago, which was the, the mascara that runs when you have a new cry. Oh yeah. Like I, uh, I get it, you know, and I'm sure there are certain like specific things that hit a little more for like women who know, you know, those kinds of clothes more often and whatnot. But yeah, I thought it was still pretty good. Yeah. And I can, I can appreciate the cultural comedy here, right?

[00:24:28] That they're making a statement about, again, people getting older. Yeah. Um, you're getting older, but you also don't feel like you're going into a new bracket. It's like, I'm, I'm going to keep the old bracket that I'm going, even though when I look in the mirror, I don't still see that 25 year old. Right. Um, and so I thought it was good. Not great, but good. All right. Moving on to bees versus a gorilla. Um, two women. Uh, sorry. What's the name of the sketch? It's two.

[00:24:57] It's probably two bitches versus a gorilla. Yeah. He doesn't like to swear. What are you doing? Okay. It's just two bees. He swears all the time. We can just skip this one. You don't want to. The bee in apartment 23. Oh, wow. What are you, CBS? Okay. Calm down. Uh, this was not good. This was a, this was a, this is for our kids that are listening. All right. We get, this is one of the most popular podcasts on the former, uh, PBS podcast station. Wow. Former.

[00:25:26] So this is called two bitches. Uh, so I do want to give the sketch just a little bit of credit because it was not executed in a way where it was very funny or anything like that, but I did appreciate the innovative way that they shot it. I liked it being from the gorilla's perspective. Okay. The hands and stuff, the interaction that was there. Was there a blink as well? There was, there was. Um, but I do, I think you're right. There wasn't much to it. It, I just didn't, I mean, and I just, I just didn't get it.

[00:25:56] Like I get the, the one versus 100 that that's going around on the, on the internet right now. I hate it. I hate this by the way. Who would win a gorilla or a hundred? It's the dumbest fricking question. So that's one thing. But then also this is kind of a, you're going, it's not really even a to C you're going to a to F. Like what is this? It's just messy and weird and not just two women yelling at a girl. I don't know. It's just weird. There was a couple amusing lines here and there, but yeah, it just didn't feel like this was a fully formed premise. It just felt like it was like an interesting like thing that someone said and they're like, Oh yeah, that could be funny.

[00:26:25] What would happen if we did this? Yeah. The payoff wasn't there for me. It wasn't all that funny. I mean, I think Eggo and Quinta had some funny lines. They weren't terrible in it, but they're committed to the bit. I mean, obviously they're all in, you know? Um, and, and Brad, you said it right. Like the, the POV from the gorilla's point of view is, is, is a funny take on it. The arms. But yeah, it just didn't really hit for me. I, I also genuinely hate this conversation. Dude, I hate the camera.

[00:26:52] Who would win a hundred men or a gorilla? I can't, I haven't even been paying attention to it. I can only imagine though that there are so many men out there and be like, Oh yeah, I wouldn't have a problem. Me and my bros would take down that gorilla. No problem. They've done simulations now where it's like a million men versus 10,000 gorillas and all of a sudden it's just computer simulations. It's just the dumbest thing. It's just silly. All right. Who won? The gorillas every single time. No, me and my bros could take those gorillas down, man. All right.

[00:27:20] It is time for weekend update. Oh boy. All right. Um, that's not at all. Uh, so the Bradometer, uh, Brad is going to get out his phone and type in a number and it's going to be between one and a hundred. And then the closer to a hundred. And then the closer to a hundred it is, the more camaraderie and inside jokes and a lot

[00:27:48] of fun that they were having a little, the vibe was on, uh, all that stuff. Uh, Brad or I'll address Nate, Nate. They talked to each other this time. They did. They did. Um, which is usually a pretty good indicator that that's going to be a decently high on the bradometer. Um, I, the, the jokes weren't as crisp or edgy this time around. So that's probably going to hurt a little bit. Um, so I'm going to go.

[00:28:19] Also, they made fun of Diddy and you know how Brad hates Brad does not like you got to defend Diddy. That's that's Brad's, uh, mono these days. Good parties. Good parties. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'll go 78. Cause he, they did interact with each other, but it overall wasn't anything to write home by. Oh, you guys are low for this one because while there wasn't the kind of interaction that I love to see where they're like busting each other's chops. Just stop there then. Yeah.

[00:28:47] No, but the interaction that was there though was they were enjoying each other's groaners and reacting and like not, not necessarily like, uh, poking fun at each other, but like they felt like they had a good camaraderie because they were all getting like groans on some jokes because I actually, and I really thought that the ones that got groans on, they were funny jokes too. Uh, but the audience was just like, Oh no. So this one I thought was better than you guys did. And I gave it an 87. Whoa. That's pretty high. Like an 82.

[00:29:15] I can forgive you for it. 87 is high. Well, here's the good thing. I don't need your forgiveness. You need my approval. Yeah. That's not how Jesus works. No, leave him out of it. You need Nate's approval. Exactly. I didn't say anything about Jesus. I'm going to heaven. All right. Was there any jokes that stood out to you that you really liked? No, I don't remember like any of this. Oh, cool. But 87, 87 all the way. I was going to go. I was going to go array of amazing jokes. I was going to go back and watch again before I got here because I did want to talk about

[00:29:45] the groaners that they got because I do. I thought that they were good, but I didn't get a chance to. I haven't had. Yeah. They did have quite a few groaners. I don't remember either, but all right. Let's go to the weekend update bits. Let's start with Michael Longfellow commenting about not getting the real ID to get on an airplane. This was fantastic. So good. I love this felt like Norm McDonald. Yes. Oh, absolutely. He's got that ability to be like, hey, hey, zoom in. He's so patient. No, no, I'm not going to do it. He is the patience and the level of payoff that comes with it.

[00:30:15] That's a level of confidence. You don't get too many people. And again, we all love self-deprecating cast members when he's like, you know, I work, what did he say? 12 hours or something like that. But it's just, it is. He's got brilliant comedy, man. It's so funny. I wanted to back on there. Like, I hope he does more. I will do a terrorism. I will do a terrorism. Yeah. There was just a lot of the way he said things is commentary.

[00:30:42] I just love the, you know, you're waiting for him to say why he won't get it. And he's just like, no, no. Here's the thing. I'm not going to do it. While we're on the topic of Michael Longfellow, I want to bring up a fact that I learned. He was on Late Night with Seth Meyers a while back. Like it's been a couple of weeks at least. And I finally got around to watching it and he revealed something that we were all wondering,

[00:31:08] which was who was under the shroud as the dead body during the water slide corpse sketch when Nate Bragazzi hosted. And it was Jake Nordwin, the writer. One of the writers? Yeah. Uh, funnily enough, this got pitched further back and apparently he bombed it because they told him like they wanted him to be in the sketch. Who? Michael Longfellow. Bombed it. Okay. Yeah. And that, and when they did it the first time around, they used a dummy.

[00:31:37] They didn't use a real person, but apparently he biffed so hard, like, cause he had a big part. He kept messing up his lines to the point where James Austin Johnson, like sensing that it was going bad, even like gave him like a tap on the back. Oh boy. Like it's, it's okay. Okay. Everyone knew it was bombing. It did not go well. And it was because he was flubbing the lines and not getting it out. Yeah. Do you know who was the host when they tried it the first time? I forget who it was. He does talk about it though? Yeah. They did.

[00:32:07] They didn't say, I forget who it was. Cause that, that's a, such a very specific delivery for that because you have to have the tone right away. And again, your idea. Okay. To push him down the side. I mean, I see it. Right? So, so if you screw that up, you're going to screw up the cadence. You're going to screw up the tone. That would be easy to mess up on. Cause that was Bargantsy, right? Yeah. I can't imagine Bargantsy not doing that because he, I know like it was, it's so, it's so perfectly deadpan him low key, right?

[00:32:36] They're all very low key. Nobody's animated about this. Hey, we're just going to make a calm, practical decision about sliding a dead body down a water slide. All right. Moving on another bit, two Applebee's bar flies, played by Sarah Sherman and Bowen Yang with their waiter, musical guest, Benson Boone. All right. Um, do you guys like Applebee's? Uh, I don't dislike Applebee's, but I'm not going out of my way to eat it. I don't know. When's the last time you had Applebee's? Oh, it's been, it's been a year. A week.

[00:33:06] It's been a week. I mean, honestly for me, I bet it's been back in the aughts, in the like, in the aughts 09 era. Oh no. It's been more recent than that. The one nine hundreds. Yeah. One nine hundreds. It has been several years though. Me too. Applebee's isn't the kind of choice. Like we don't have one close to us. Do we? The closest one is Valpo, I think. Oh, they close one in Michigan city. I'm pretty sure the one in Michigan city. That's a Chili's. See that goes. I thought the Applebee's was in the old mall and I thought it was still there. I don't think it is. Okay. Fair enough.

[00:33:36] But no, it's, it's not the kind of place she'd like actively choose to go eat. It's the place you settle. Yeah. No. And I love when a work conference is over and you need some like drinks, like that's where you go to get like potato skins and beer. And I love the idea of somebody using the Applebee's or the Chili's. You know, they all have these like small bars, right? That that's the bar they hang out at. Oh yeah. Right. So it is kind of a funny premise to think of, you know, that concept being the bar that you go to.

[00:34:03] Like, I don't know anybody that goes to Olive Garden bar like every Thursday night or something like that. Well, you're missing out. I mean, who wouldn't love a good Chianti with breadsticks? That's what I'm saying. Chianti with breadsticks. These characters were so much fun. I especially loved Bowen as this character. And I especially loved when they say, when he says the word that sounds like the F. Gaisler. Yeah. But it's like, oh, I can say it.

[00:34:31] No, this was, this was, this is, again, this is like, well, what do you, what do you think of Sarah Sherman and Bowen? Does it only work because it's them two or can you get, because I mean, this is, these are them doing characters, right? Yeah. I mean, I think it makes it more fun because you don't often see them paired together. Yeah. So yeah, that definitely helped. But I just, I thought I liked the energy. I, you know, I liked how wild it was and, you know, just how.

[00:34:59] It helps to that those two, being two of the more seasoned weekend update bidders, right? Like they do a lot of weekend update bits. There is a comfort that they have when they come there. You know, you can just tell sometimes when there's a swagger, when they get to the desk. Sure. And they had it. And so if, if. No, I, it's like, anytime you see, you know, Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant or you just, anybody that has that chemistry together. I mean, you know what, one of the ones that I've brought up like multiple times here, when Punky Johnson and Mikey Day. Yeah.

[00:35:28] It was, that was only a couple times. The friendship there, the real relationship. Yeah. Like Mikey being so like, you don't know you're in Hollywood. How do you not know? Yeah. You know, I just love it when, when the kid, the charisma kind of comes through. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. All right. Moving on addicts meeting people in an addicts meeting to play by Quinta Brunson, Kenan Thompson, Maggie Day, Marcella Hernandez and Heidi Garner. Talk about their struggles.

[00:35:58] Ben, let's talk about your struggles. Um, you know, I struggle that Heidi Garner wasn't more in this episode. Okay. Yeah. She didn't have a ton. Did she? No. That's my addiction. Okay. That sounds really creepy. I'm really sorry. It is kind of weird. Um, what'd you think of this one? Uh, it was fine. Good criticism, Ben. We love having a podcast where you talk about SNL and that's your response. That would be a fun podcast where it's like only like 60 seconds long and that's all.

[00:36:28] So it wasn't, it wasn't, you only get, it wasn't great. Here's the full disclosure. I might've taken a Peter in this one cause I don't really remember. What are you doing? It was getting late. By the way, I watch every sketch. Ladies and gentlemen, the guy who cares about SNL so much is a podcast about it. And he went to go pee during his sketch. Didn't pause it. I might have. Didn't follow up to see if the sketch was any good. By the way, did you love that I called on you first that you're probably. I was hoping. And you know what? That's Jesus. He was really just. Catching you in a line.

[00:36:58] I was just hoping that like. Nate, I thought this sketch was pretty funny. Damn it. Hey, me playing Ben. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I laughed too. I thought. That part. Did you see that part? Oh man. Quince of Brunson. I knew I was going to get in trouble for this one. I knew. I was just hoping. And then Heidi Gardner. No, this was pretty funny. A simple premise. But this is one of the ones where when you have Keenan in the role, he elevates it. Yeah. Because the way he's just like very eager.

[00:37:27] Keenan Thompson's a cast member on himself. I knew. He's just very. The way he's very eager. Like we'll be more specific, you know, like trying to find out where all the drugs are at an addicts meeting. And so, yeah, it was good stuff. I don't think it was, you know, groundbreaking or anything that is going to be one of the best of all time. But it was very enjoyable. Yeah. It wasn't. It wasn't bad. I didn't think it was great, but it was fine. Ben, what did you think of this again? You know, I liked Mikey Day's wig. So he scrubbed through part of the sketch to see the other characters. He's going through right now.

[00:37:57] Like, all right. Did you watch the Benson Boone part yet? Yeah. I'm watching. I'm definitely just fast forwarding on YouTube. This is really good. This is good stuff. What do you think of the Benson Boone part? Where would Benson Boone come in? He doesn't. Okay. I was just gonna say. That was a test and you failed. A couple of times I didn't really see it, but I can't. Never mind. All right. Moving on. Don't start with me anymore. Okay. You guys go just have your little podcast. No, you know what, Ben? Don't start with me by bringing this piss poor preparation process to the podcast. And that is alliteration.

[00:38:27] Piss poor. Piss poor. Preparation process to the podcast. All right. Let's talk about the Jackrabbit. Jerry Jackrabbit Tulane and Bo Shannon do several fights together. The greats. Ben, do you remember when? Do you remember the sketch? I do remember this one. Yes. Do you remember when Jerry Jackrabbit Tulane was still fighting? I'm not old enough. No. So this is a very. Is this based on a real boxer?

[00:38:57] No. No, no, no, no. This is a very. This is a very one note premise. Obviously. This is basically a cartoon sketch. Yeah, it is. It's getting thrown out of the ring because he's tiny. Whatever. I like the escalation of the wrappings. Yeah. You know, that's really funny to me. So anytime you can. And again, they've got to do it in sketch form. Right. So they've got to. They're cutting. They're coming back. Yeah, exactly. It was just the props to the props department again, because that's a really good job. And you realize how small Quinta Brunson is.

[00:39:27] Oh, my God. When you see Devin Walker, who I don't know if he's ginormous, but he looks ginormous in comparison. We met the man. Yeah. He's like 6'3". Yeah. He's not a giant whatsoever. He's not a giant, but he definitely is a bigger guy. Yeah. But maybe 6'4". I don't know. But yeah, it just the stature alone. He looks huge. And so this is something where in the writers room, they're going, okay, what can we do besides the monologue with Quinta being a small stat? What if they were a boxer?

[00:39:57] Okay. That's a good premise. Yeah. It's a good premise. I thought it was fine. It was silly. The escalation didn't work a ton for me. See, for me, I liked it because it felt like a classic, almost like something like the Three Stooges might do or something like that. So I thought it was funny. Again, not the kind of sketch where I'm over the moon for and it's going to be a favorite or anything, but I appreciate it. And I actually was especially impressed by how much they made Quinta Brunson look like an old, tiny black man. Yeah. That was great.

[00:40:27] Yeah. No, she really did look like the real Jackrabbit to Lane. The real Jackrabbit. All right. That's it. I do have a question for you guys. So... Hold on real quick. The... I don't normally watch the musical guests. Or some of the sketches. I had to pee. So... How long did you pee? Okay. Calm down. It... When Quinta Brunson introduces him, Benson Boon, the first one he does is backflip off. Did you ever see the... Yeah.

[00:40:57] At least the start of it? Yeah. That's his move, by the way. So yeah, he does the backflip, which I get, but then it was not necessarily even awkward. He just like walks back up to Quinta and like is standing next to her. Well, it's... Did you listen to the lyrics of the song? No, I was like just like, what's going on? You're being... The premise of the song is he said, there's a woman who comes up to him and he tells the woman, I'm sorry, I'm here for someone else. And so it was... They were doing... I get that, but they don't ever really do things like that with the host. Oh no, I know. That's why I was like, why would they do that? No, yeah. I think it was just a cool thing to do, like be different.

[00:41:28] So... I'm sorry, I just thought I'd bring it up. No, that's fine. Because I was actually watching that one. You don't get it, it's fine. There have been three black female guest hosts that have hosted two times. Who are the other two? Quinta Brunson. Oh, interesting. I mean, Ayo's gonna be one, because she'll come back, but she hasn't done it twice yet. But it... Has she done it twice? No, buddy, I'm just trying to work through, okay? Just give me a second.

[00:41:58] I'm gonna say... Queen Latifah? No. Yep. Really? Oh, nice. Good job. Wow, Brad. Whitney Houston. No. Queen Latifah hosted in 2003 and 2004. Just so that you guys know. That was when she was big time. That was bringing down the house of Queen Latifah. Yeah, exactly. Pre-taxi. Not the equalizer. Oh, wow. This person was hosted three times.

[00:42:30] Most recently, last May. It's okay that you guys don't... Hold on, no, no. Just give me a second here. It's all right. I said give me a second. There's a second. I don't have it. Nope, hold on. No, we're wasting time. Just, we're gonna cuddle this anyway. I'm not. Nope, yeah. All right.

[00:42:59] The answer is, I don't know if you guys remember this person, Maya Rudolph. Oh. That's not fair. I was thinking that as a cast member first. Yeah, I would... No, no, I was thinking of just an actress that's never been on the cast. Michael... That's what I mean. I wasn't thinking about that. Yeah, like in the terms of like a Queen Latifah or a Quinta Brunson, not somebody who's been on the show before. Right.

[00:43:21] Michael Che now ties this cast member for fifth place all time in most episodes as an SNL cast member. Who is the other cast member? Fifth. Most. So obviously somebody, you know... Seth Meyers. No. Tim Meadows. No. His name's Fred Armisen. Oh. Who, again, listening to the Lonely Island podcast, when they talk about Fred Armisen,

[00:43:51] they talk about him as if he is the funniest person in the world. Yeah. And it made me appreciate Fred more because he doesn't often get talked about as, you know, I think everyone has a high view of Fred. Yeah. But as like one of the legends, I think he maybe should be. What I like about him is the stories that people tell is it sounds like he's always doing random bits to people out of nowhere. I like hearing those side stories too. Yeah. I forget who was telling it.

[00:44:17] I don't know if it was Maya or Amy or whatever, but Fred will sometimes just text his itinerary to someone. No, Amy Poehler. Amy Poehler. Yeah. Like they're expecting, like he's expecting them, like they're picking him up like at the airport or something. So yeah. Now remember I get in at 430 and we got to make this whole time by five. Wait, am I picking up Fred from the airport? Yeah. That's a good bit.

[00:44:43] And then another bit she said that he'll do is when they're at a party, he'll just essentially pretend like, you know, like you've got something wrong with, you know, between the two of you and you're going, did I piss off Fred? Like, I like that. The, the sketch or the, the digital short that they do where he just babbles on and on and on again and then becomes famous. Yeah. So I thought that that was, they talked about that one on the show. Yeah. And was that just him doing a bit?

[00:45:11] Like he just has the ability to just kind of do that. And they were like, we're going to make that into a, yeah, he just, he can just go on and on and on about nothing. Yeah. That's incredible. That's, that's a skill set. Honestly. All right. Let's move on to MVP of the night. Who, who'd you guys think had the best episode? I'm actually going Keenan this time. I really liked the Frederick Douglass stuff. I liked the only, uh, only seniors stuff. Uh, it sticks out to me that he did a good job.

[00:45:39] He was good in the fairy car sketch too. Yeah. Popping in there. Yeah. He's also, uh, you wouldn't remember this, but he's the lead of the, the drug sketch. And that was my favorite sketch of the night. So I think, I think he's right. I think you're right there. Yeah. I had a hard time thinking through that because Keenan often isn't one of the people. Well, if you guys watched more of the episodes that, you know, like me, you know, which, which character should be the MVP. All right. What was your favorite sketch of the night? Uh, easily that Bill and Ted Perry. Yeah. That's so good, man. Yeah.

[00:46:07] I do want to, again, give a shout out though, to Michael Longfellow's weekend update bit. I thought that was one of the better weekend update bits that I've seen in a while. I see, I see him or Emil come on to, or Marcelo come on to do standup at the, and I'm like, yes, this is what I'm here for. Like that's, they've really come into their own at the, and I'm like, I'm on Jane's is warming up a little bit. I, I'm, I'm getting, I'm getting more comfortable watching her do stuff. It's just, I, I, the idea that it's purposely awkward or not. Yeah.

[00:46:36] I think I've warmed up to seeing her on camera. I've not laughed at her yet, but she's so mean. She's so mean. She's so funny. Uh, no, I love you, Jane. All right. All right. Anything else? What do we have coming up? I think we have another episode or two left this season. No, I think we're done. Well, Brad doesn't know it yet, but we've got two more episodes of Saturday Night Live. What? It's a weekly comedy program. Wow. Semi-weekly comedy program.

[00:47:05] We've got a Mother's Day episode next week. What? And hosted by one of our favorite mothers. Walton Goggins. Mine. Walton Goggins. Walton Goggins. She's currently riding a big wave because of both the White Lotus and the ongoing Righteous Gemstones in its final season. So funny. And plus he's in Fallout. It's a big thing for him. He's, he's kind of a big deal right now. I mean, he's been a big deal for a while and I want him to get his due. I'm very excited to see what he could, what they're going to get him into. I'm very interested. Yeah.

[00:47:32] Arcade Fire is coming back for their sixth appearance. Mm-hmm. And so they'll be there next week. My least favorite band name. Arcade Fire. Just the name. Because he has an arcade and he's worried about the fire. My arcade catch is on fire. It's a bad day. And then in two weeks we have the final episode, the season 50 finale. Who is it going to start? Scar Joe. Yes. He is. With? I don't know. Bad Bunny.

[00:48:01] Oh, we're going to get Shrek 2. I mean, he's going to be in this guy, right? He's going to be in something. Come on. Shrek 2, Shrek in the cash. Wow. You could see Scarlett Johansson being Fiona. Oh, for sure. Yeah. I can see her doing a lot of things. Yeah. It's Scarlett Johansson. What can't she do? What? She's a good actress. Okay, great. Versatile is what Brad meant. Yeah.

[00:48:25] Anything you expect to see Scarlett Johansson doing in that, I assume they'll have some kind of Colin Jost joke. I mean, that's the season finale and they normally do joke swap. Well, I mean, they don't normally, but like- But they've already done joke swap with her. I know. Still though. Come on. There's going to be something. Yeah. I mean, Che's cooking something up. Yeah, it'll be good. It's going to be good. Let's not get ahead of ourselves though. Walton Goggins next week. I'm very excited. Mother's Day.

[00:48:53] I was glad SNL is honoring Mother's Day by bringing Walton Goggins. You know what? What? It would be a cruel thing to do almost, but also be very funny is if they tricked Scarlett Johansson into being in a bit at the Weekend Update desk, but then they change it into joke swap and catch both Jost and her off guard and they both have to sit at the desk while they do it. That'd be horrible. They're both good enough sports where they would do it. Yeah. Well, write Michael an email. I'll send a letter. Yeah. All right.

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