SNL’s quality content has fallen on hard times for many years. Although they occasionally get it right, the majority of content that SNL produces is dull and boring. I lose my attention in a matter of minutes.
Unless one of the musical guests or hosts is someone for whom I hold a great deal of respect (like Dave Chappelle), I usually don’t tune in for the show live. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Shang-Chi & The Legend of The Ten Rings and enjoy Simu Liu as an actor (his story is pretty nuts), it wasn’t enough to justify me checking in last week when he hosted SNL.
He was featured in a skit that I saw on Facebook. It also features Kenan Thompson (another childhood favorite of mine). I decided to watch it for the five minutes I thought it would be running. It is one of the most hilarious SNL skits that I’ve seen for a while and I’m glad I did.
Thompson plays Benson Dubois the game host on the skit. This is Thompson’s role, which is exactly what it is. He can slap the same smile we all remember from Nickelodeon’s All-That days and then just spit out incredible levels of snark. Dubois hosts a game show called “Republican or Not,” where contestants have to guess from a series of clues, whether or not the person for whom the clues are about, is a Republican or not. This is quite straightforward, right?
Well, as you’ll see, Simu Liu portrays contestant Jim Lee, who comes into the show with a great deal of confidence. Michelle Flynn is the second guest. Michelle Flynn is a native Ohioan who feels her knowledge from Ohio will help her. Ego Nwodim portrays Michelle Liu. They laugh as they highlight both the hypocrisy and generosity of each guest. Every clue that the guests provide shows how there is truly no one standard. Even the word from their “sponsors” was absolutely hilarious. But the most funny is their last guest.
This is funny! Let’s hope that SNL gets the message that it is okay to laugh at this stuff now. SNL’s YouTube page shows that most skits get around 500,000 views, some as many as over a million, but this skit generated over two-and-a-half million views in six days — making it that week’s most popular episode.
It was a pleasure to share it with you.
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