Reminds me of the SNL skit of TV newsreaders when the teleprompter goes down. By the end of it they've gone completely primitive and started killing each other.
found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc0FeUMQIA4
SNL skits have these great ideas every now and then, only if the execution were a bit better, they'd have timeless pieces (like the Monty Python's dirty fork). This one was very funny anyway.
One show is produced with edits and retakes if someone flubs a line or breaks, the other is live. Also consider, SNL puts out more content in a single season with 22 episodes at 90 minutes, then all of Monty Python's full run of 45 episodes at 30 minutes. You're comparing apples to oranges.
Sometimes you look at an orange, and think how convenient it'd be if you could bite it like an apple. Okay, many don't, but few who do came up with all the modern fruits :)
You would think that 20 episodes a season over 50 years, then on just pure statistical probability they would have had a funny skit. An infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of type writers will eventually write a funny joke. But somehow, against all odds, despite hiring comedians, comedic actors, improvers, and writers. They have never, once, gotten a funny skit. It defies belief actually.
Great skit, thanks for sharing.
WhenI started watching, I was thinking I’ll share this on Teams to joke about the outage…then the third act came, and that it’s definitely nsfw.
I ASSURE you that SNL skits have wider appeal than Monty Python, which really just appeals to a specific subset.
Maybe to Americans? Not for the ROW
As a non american SNL is 99.9% asinine crap and pales in comparison to Monty Python even after all this time. May be that's why it has a wider appeal but the formulaic lack of humor and fear of actually punching up comes down to the bitter old man in charge.