George Washington Skit-SNL

And there it is. SNL can write funny stuff, but for years, has chosen not to.

Getting rid of that annoying fat chick and anyone who portrayed Trump or Clinton was a great move.

It’ll go back though. As soon as election stuff gets going they’re gonna go back to sucking for the next few years. They can’t help themselves.

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That was one of the funnier skits I’ve seen in a long time.

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This is what people forget about SNL. There are always only a couple of funny skits in an episode. I've gone back on Peacock and watched episodes from all the classic casts: Farley, Ferrell, Murphy, whoever. 85% of those shows are clunkers. When was the last time you watched the whole "Cowbell" episode? There was maybe one or two other funny skits (I love The Continental). Nostalgia only lets us remember the great skits, not all the crap.

Crush your enemies! Grind their bones into dirt! Make them regret that they were ever born!

That was funny, the football stuff and the end...but we of course, were the opposite of being different and changing, rather just stayed with, 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it.'

The Metric system wasn't invented/used yet...and we never changed from the beginning, just kept using what we brought over.

We simply adopted English Units as we had been using them and called them Customary Units, as was the customary use, which we still use today (basically the later Imperial system officially adopted by England in 1824.)

Who later changed was England, a slight variation of English units to the Imperial system in the 19th century (while the British were reforming their weights and measures in the 19th century, we just kept using units based on those discarded by the act of 1824)...then England switched to the metric system in the 20th century; though usage of the Imperial system is still common for some things in everyday UK.

In 1975, The U.S. made metric “the preferred system of weight and measure” (without officially abandoning the imperial system). Like soccer in the 70s it never caught on except in science and medicine, etc. We don't see the need to re-educate the populace. Not in 1776, not now.

Thanks, professor. What that skit needed was a long discussion on the metric system for context.

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This is what people forget about SNL. There are always only a couple of funny skits in an episode. I've gone back on Peacock and watched episodes from all the classic casts: Farley, Ferrell, Murphy, whoever. 85% of those shows are clunkers. When was the last time you watched the whole "Cowbell" episode? There was maybe one or two other funny skits (I love The Continental). Nostalgia only lets us remember the great skits, not all the crap.

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This 100%

People only remember the good skits. They forget how many don't work. Comedy Central always running best of episodes back in the day memory holed a lot of the crap.

Relax buddy

Monologue

Thought his monologue was great as well. Nice 9 minute set that perfectly shows off his style.