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GeekAesthete Apr 20, 2026 +674

Fun fact: this was the same episode that introduced us to David S. Pumpkins.

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ChronoMonkeyX Apr 20, 2026 +310

Any questions?

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ZwVJHSPiMiaiAAvtAbKq Apr 20, 2026 +178

Yes, several!

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Hey_Pizza Apr 21, 2026 +41

I am so in the weeds with David Pumpkins!

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One-Earth9294 Apr 21, 2026 +25

Look it's 100 floors of frights they can't all be winners.

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SantaCruznonsurfer Apr 20, 2026 +48

yes! Several!

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DoorEqual1740 Apr 20, 2026 +52

This is the funniest thing ever. I've watched it repeatedly over the years. Tom Hanks and the cast and writers all deserve awards for this one.

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SamMarduk Apr 21, 2026 +10

And the skeletons are…?

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JuniorFondant Apr 21, 2026 +18

Part of it!

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SpaceForceAwakens Apr 21, 2026 +2

Did you watch the cartoon?

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MelloDawg Apr 21, 2026 +5

Preguntas?!

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BlasterShow Apr 20, 2026 +87

And the skeletons are?

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yousyveshughs Apr 20, 2026 +110

PART OF IT

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accio_coffee234 Apr 21, 2026 +13

Part of it is a regular quote in our house!

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ChemistVegetable7504 Apr 20, 2026 +27

Love David S. Pumpkins . Trick or treating? Raisins. Yuck. Also, your house smells weird!

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dancepartyusofa Apr 20, 2026 +61

Yep, a lot of SNL episodes have one sketch that goes viral or otherwise breaks into the cultural zeitgeist. This is the last time where I can remember two sketches from the same episode breaking through. Other episodes have had more than one great sketch but not multiple sketches that people at work have quoted the week after Considering it was right before the 2016 election, it is interesting that one is super political (and curiously optimistic in retrospect) while the other served as a silly break from pre-election tension

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ithinkther41am Apr 21, 2026 +7

> one sketch that goes viral The one I really didn’t get was Domingo.

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PerfectZeong Apr 22, 2026 +2

People like funny accents and when its someone from the community doing the funny accent they don't need to feel bad. Some stuff is just funny, it's not really talent or thoughtful it's just goofy and it tickles a basal part of our brain 'Makin copies' is the 90s equivalent of Domingo.

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ScorpionX-123 Apr 20, 2026 +49

I'm convinced it would've been a forgettable dud with anyone other than Tom Hanks

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Wolfwoods_Sister Apr 21, 2026 +6

I loved Tom saying in an interview later that, from his entire body of work, his headstone will probably say “Here lies David S Pumpkins”. Hahahaha his hangdog tone was too much.

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PerfectZeong Apr 22, 2026 +1

He really does have some incredible comedic chops.

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KnotSoSalty Apr 20, 2026 +56

And the last episode before the world cracked open like a rotten egg.

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Sir-Bruncvik Apr 21, 2026 +12

They even made an entire animated Halloween Special featuring him because the character was so popular 😅 🎃

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openletter8 Apr 21, 2026 +4

It's pretty good too.

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pinkkittenfur Apr 21, 2026 +6

And the skeletons are...?

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Hoodi216 Apr 21, 2026 +11

Part of it!

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sciencep1e Apr 21, 2026 +7

Had to just search what this was on YouTube..... Thank you!

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Wolfwoods_Sister Apr 21, 2026 +4

It’s life-changingly strange. They had to talk Tom into it and he said “You know what, ok what the hell”.

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SantaCruznonsurfer Apr 20, 2026 +356

the cheer and Kenan's happiness after "Not a damn thing" was so heartwarming. What a great skit

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False-Entertainment3 Apr 21, 2026 +30

By far my favorite quote of the show.

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LegoBobaFett Apr 20, 2026 +178

My wife is a sturdy gal

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DoorEqual1740 Apr 20, 2026 +30

I hear this line in Doug's voice

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ChemistVegetable7504 Apr 20, 2026 +329

There’s a few Black Jeopardy skits out there. Tom Hanks was hilarious. Also Chadwick Boseman was so good too. Google them.

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RFKjrBrainwormAccnt Apr 20, 2026 +194

Yeah his remark about putting the cable bill in an older relatives name as a way to honor them was hilarious

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ChronoMonkeyX Apr 20, 2026 +150

Let me see if I understand... this white woman, she does not season her food, yes?

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ChemistVegetable7504 Apr 20, 2026 +83

Keep your damn raisins out of the potato salad!

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therealwillhepburn Apr 20, 2026 +11

But for real though

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LeviStubbsFanClub Apr 20, 2026 +16

And no paprika…

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ReflexImprov Apr 20, 2026 +80

I consider T'Challa appearing on Black Jeopardy as official MCU canon.

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Worthyness Apr 20, 2026 +30

part of his outreach program after he made the wakandan embassy in Oakland

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Wolfwoods_Sister Apr 21, 2026 +2

Chadwick’s “R Kelly at Disney World” was hilarious too

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Rudeboy67 Apr 21, 2026 +20

Eddie Murphy as Tracy Morgan. You gotta have money if you live like me. I eat 3 cheese lasagna. If it has 2 cheeses I REFUSE to eat it.

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ghoti00 Apr 21, 2026 +4

Celebrity Jeopardy is different from Black Jeopardy.

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Welcoming-War Apr 22, 2026 +2

Eddie Murphy as Tracy is from Black Jeopardy from the 50th Anniversary show. [Video here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qYM6bKl57A)

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ChemistVegetable7504 Apr 22, 2026 +2

Yes! Classic 50th year. Thank you for remembering!

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arbybk Apr 23, 2026 +1

Having eaten three cheese lasagna myself, I'm pretty sure Tracy only eats four cheese lasagna.

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EagleForty Apr 20, 2026 +66

Very few actors besides Tom Hanks could pull this off. It was lightning in a bottle.

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[deleted] Apr 20, 2026 +33

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ModernSmithmundt Apr 20, 2026 +8

Even hanks couldn’t time it right the 2nd time so that joke basically flopped

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Toby_O_Notoby Apr 21, 2026 +3

Dunno, man. On top of everything else he had to do as a host, he only had three days to come up with the character, including accent and mannerisms. I mean, I can write "my wife is a sturdy girl," and you'll hear it in his voice. [There's an EW article about this sketch](https://ew.com/tv/saturday-night-live-black-jeopardy-sketch-tom-hanks/) that says he worked on it up until air, and it was different even at rehearsal. Also, him pulling back when Keenan approaches was improvised.

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ScorpionX-123 Apr 20, 2026 +11

so was David S. Pumpkins in the same episode

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TVhero Apr 20, 2026 +5

They did it like twice more I think?

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Manggo Apr 20, 2026 +25

They’ve done it before this one with Louis CK, where the character had the opposite problem and couldn’t get any of the answers right

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TVhero Apr 20, 2026 +8

And with Chadwick boseman too!

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ManassaxMauler Apr 21, 2026 +5

And with Drake, who is black but Canadian so he wasn't quite getting it.

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PerfectAstronaut Apr 20, 2026 +2

Howard Stern had the original Black Jeopardy in 1999 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK\_4euYi8Eo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK_4euYi8Eo)

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legitlyawesome Apr 21, 2026 +3

“Ahh hell nah Karen. Keep your bland ass potato to yourself”

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Superpe0n Apr 20, 2026 +2

I aint got it Im ded you talking to a ghost

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CarrieDurst Apr 22, 2026 +1

Also the comedian has aged badly but eh Louis CK one was good

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push138292 Apr 20, 2026 +372

This might be the greatest SNL sketch of all time. It’s both hilarious and incredibly insightful.

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HighMarshalSigismund Apr 20, 2026 +403

Skinny Women can do this for you? >what is not a damn thing.

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PurpleBullets Apr 21, 2026 +24

You Damn right!

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Princess_Beard Apr 20, 2026 +176

Its kind of a class consciousness thing. If you were to remove all the racism and bigotry that get us all to infighting, being working class people gives us more in common than separates us. Doug is so close to seeing the light, but is your average MAGA that has fell for the old "that foreign/black/gay guy is trying to steal your cookie" angle, while the ruling class and billionaires have possession of the cookie jar.

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push138292 Apr 20, 2026 +86

The whole thing is summarized in the Illuminati joke. Both sets of the population were completely disenfranchised from the political system and felt there needed to be a change in the status quo, which ultimately led to Trump’s election in 2016. His entire platform was that Clinton was the establishment and he wasn’t a pawn of the ruling class.

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POEness Apr 21, 2026 +8

Turns out, trump's 2016 and 2024 win were both due to vote shifting in republican made tabulators

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lord_james Apr 21, 2026 +11

Look, 2016 was close enough that I’m not comfortable saying anything decided Trump’s win. But 2024 was a rout. Are you saying Trump stole 2.3 *million* votes?

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POEness Apr 21, 2026 +10

2024 wasn't a rout at all. Trump barely won with exactly the right votes in exactly the right places, exactly past the margin for automatic recounts. It is essentially statistically impossible for him to have gotten the victories he did with the small vote lead he had. Like ten thousand lightning bolts striking the same place all at once kind of odds. And yes, when you're electronically shifting votes, large amounts of votes being stolen is exactly what the goal is. ElectionTruthAlliance.org - it's all there. Multiple independent analyst groups have confirmed this. In the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections, votes were shifted on the top two brands of tabulators, accounting for over 70% of all counties. The code waits until a minimum number of votes have been counted on a given machine - this is to avoid being caught by audits - and then begins shifting votes for Trump 60/40. In 2016, the minimum vote number was 600. In 2020, the surge in mail-in voting from covid beat the cheat. It's counted in a different way. That's why Trump is fixated on 2020, and that's why Trump hates mail-in voting. In 2024, as a response, they lowered the minimum vote count to 400. This got them caught... but Harris vanished like a fart in the wind without requesting even a single recount, for reasons I'll never f****** understand. BTW this system was first put into use (that we know) in Kentucky 2015. There, it was caught by a mathematician named Beth Clarkson. In that instance, the vote minimum was 250 before shifts were made, likely because a state election is smaller.

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lord_james Apr 21, 2026 +22

Except 2024 also followed exit polling and made sense with the pre-vote polling leading up to the election. Election denial undermines democracy.

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FreeStall42 Apr 21, 2026 -3

Election denial will happen more now due to Trump being rewarded for it.

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Lematoad Apr 21, 2026 +12

That website doesn’t appear particularly credible. It seems to be the only election analysis site promoting these claims, and it was launched in 2024 as a “nonpartisan” response to alleged voter fraud… despite similar claims having been made in earlier elections. A ton of the claims presented there are circumstantial at best, and at worst rely on little more than unverified statements. Meanwhile, institutions often characterized as liberal went to great lengths in 2020 to verify election integrity. The fact that those same organizations are not supporting these claims in 2024 is a reasonable basis for skepticism. It also ignores exit polling consistent with the election results. I’ll say to you the same thing I said to the election deniers in 2020 - accepting defeat against political opponents is a core idealism in democracy, which both parties are seemingly forgetting.

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Junglebook3 Apr 21, 2026 -2

It's just 2020 election truthism for the left. When it's your side, it's a political mandate. When it's the other side, it's election fraud.

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quechal Apr 21, 2026 +4

You know this sounds a lot like what Trump was claiming after 2020. Nit sure if that means you are also crazy or maybe he was right.

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FreeStall42 Apr 21, 2026 +3

2024 was due to Biden's shitty health coverup and subsequent dropout.

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Chosenwaffle Apr 20, 2026 +61

There's an inverse of that thought pattern (that we don't talk about here) poisoning the foreign/black/gay guy against Doug, too. All according to plan.

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-SneakySnake- Apr 20, 2026 +36

You're certainly not wrong. Doug has about as much power within the system as they do. Set them against one another, and you make sure they're all working in opposition rather than in concert.

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Shtune Apr 20, 2026 +13

And Doug gets to wear a hat that makes him feel like he's "in on it", despite being treated the same as everyone else

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atlhart Apr 20, 2026 +6

100%. No wars but the class war ✊

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DealerCamel Apr 20, 2026 +9

I agree. Especially right before the 2016 election, a sketch that used MAGA as a prop without outright pointing at them and calling them stupid was a rarity, and a sketch invoking political humor that BOTH sides found hilarious was damn near miraculous.

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vmachiel Apr 20, 2026 +33

Edit: Comment has been cleaned

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therobshow Apr 21, 2026 +3

I don't know man. The one with the rock as a scientist that creates a child molesting robot had me in actual tears

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I-Have-Mono Apr 20, 2026 +3

Agreed, and that’s a hard feat out of so many /r/SNL game show classics.

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SilentRaindrops Apr 21, 2026 +1

I would put it towards the top as with most of the Jeopardy parodies, especially the Sean Connery ones. But, my all time favorite is still the Patrick Swayze & Chris Farley Chippendales Tryouts.

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angershark Apr 21, 2026 +1

They're all so good. Topfoil gets regular usage in my house.

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KingRabbit_ Apr 20, 2026 +40

Whew. You alright, Doug!

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SpaceForceAwakens Apr 20, 2026 +79

Life is better when Tim Hanks is being funny. I wish he’d do it more.

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No_Stand8812 Apr 20, 2026 +11

He’s about to enter the funny old man phase of his career. I hope he handles it better than Pacino did. Tom Hanks might go down as the most versatile actor in US history. The only movie role I can’t recall I’m in is action hero. But comedy, drama, sentimental, weird, dark, light, he really has done pretty much every kind of role and done them well.

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pinkkittenfur Apr 21, 2026 +14

>action hero Saving Private Ryan? That kinda counts.

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No_Stand8812 Apr 21, 2026 +2

Good point

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SpaceForceAwakens Apr 21, 2026 +2

I would say the Dan Brown films are action as well.

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hoopstick Apr 21, 2026 +7

>Action hero Does the name Sheriff Woody Pride ring a bell?

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donotgotoroom237 Apr 21, 2026 +3

I unironically wish Tom Hanks pops up in a Sandler or Farelly brothers movie.

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chalkletkweenBee Apr 21, 2026 +3

Forest Gump in Vietnam gets no love?

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lu5ty Apr 21, 2026 +1

He actually pulled off what probably only tom hanks could (and nic cage) - an action hero with no guns, in the davinci code movies

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PalOfKalEl Apr 20, 2026 +28

Time to rewatch The Burbs.

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Saganists Apr 20, 2026 +6

Just did a couple nights ago. Well there go the goddam brownies!

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sonic_dick Apr 21, 2026 +2

I want to kill everyone. Satan is good. Satan is our pal.

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InterestingTry5190 Apr 20, 2026 +2

Hey Pinocchio! Where are you going?

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band-of-horses Apr 20, 2026 -7

But not the series they inexplicably recently released.

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FZeroDMX Apr 20, 2026 +9

Joe vs. the Volcano is an all timer.

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Debalic Apr 20, 2026 +4

Turner and Hooch is one of my favorites.

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dwhite21787 Apr 20, 2026 +3

Volunteers is my #1

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Ben_SRQ Apr 20, 2026 +36

One of their best sketches! If you like this, watch the [black jeopardy with Chadwick Boseman (RIP)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzMzFGgmQOc).

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ToastedSpam Apr 21, 2026 +28

I thought the skit was a great social commentary that MAGAs and African Americans have a lot more in common than they think. But it was totally on point at the end about Doug having something to say about “These lives matter.”

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FudgeAllOfYous Apr 21, 2026 +22

"Well… it was fun while it lasted"

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Khalku Apr 20, 2026 +35

I can't believe we've actually been seeing maga for a decade now... Insane...

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Funandgeeky Apr 20, 2026 +10

“What is not a damn thing?”

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herseyhawkins33 Apr 20, 2026 +19

The original sketch with Hanks was great. The one at the 50th missed the mark, just bad timing. Black jeopardy overall is such a good series of sketches though.

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ReflexImprov Apr 20, 2026 +28

The one at the 50th was more of an homage to the entire franchise of Black Jeopardy, and Eddie Murphy fully channelling Tracy Morgan's random statements, while Tracy stood two feet away about to break was a moment I'm really glad we got.

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LindyNet Apr 20, 2026 +12

The fact that Murphy is Tracy's idol must have made it so surreal for him. Eddie absolutely nailed that impression

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herseyhawkins33 Apr 20, 2026 +9

Oh, to be clear the Eddie Murphy/Tracy Morgan part was incredible. Was referring only to Hanks' appearance in that one.

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ReflexImprov Apr 20, 2026 +12

*"You gotta have a lot of money to live like I live. I eat four cheese lasagna! If it only got three cheeses, I ain't eating it! I refuse to ingest three cheeses!"*

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ReflexImprov Apr 20, 2026 +7

One of the best, most intelligent SNL sketches ever written. And funny as hell.

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shouldbeawitch Apr 20, 2026 +7

Whomever wrote this bit deserves an Emmy

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OvenFriendly1818 Apr 20, 2026 +6

So great!!

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Charrbard Apr 20, 2026 +7

Kind of love this one. Grow up poor, you're going to have some similar experiences.

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CitizenCue Apr 20, 2026 +8

Interesting how the red hat was a reasonable prop back then, but I highly doubt it would make an appearance today. Amazing how things have shifted and symbols like that mean a lot more than they did.

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bking Apr 20, 2026 +24

That hat had a full life as an ironic "this idea is so silly" prop way back when Trump was running and nobody thought he had a chance. Liberals in Silverlake (the hipster-Brooklyn of Los Angeles) were wearing them for laughs.

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radda Apr 21, 2026 +4

It literally appeared a year ago on the 50th anniversary special when they brought the character back.

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CitizenCue Apr 21, 2026

Yeah but you can’t do the callback without the hat. I doubt they would bring out a new character like that today, and I doubt the audience would enjoy it if they did. Tensions are too high.

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Spodson Apr 20, 2026 +5

"Well Doug, it was fun while it lasted." Seriously, this is one of the most socially insightful things SNL has ever done.

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Tumifaigirar Apr 20, 2026 +3

LMAO first time seeing this as an European, f****** lol.

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I-Have-Mono Apr 20, 2026 +4

Absolutely top tier /r/SNL! Hanks always shines. Edit: What?? Why downvote?? My god.

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tim119 Apr 21, 2026 +1

I don't get it

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WankelsRevenge Apr 21, 2026 +1

Yes Doug!

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paolocase Apr 21, 2026 +1

The role Tom Hanks was born to play.

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ArchDucky Apr 21, 2026 +1

I heard they write in the scripts "Kenan Reacts" instead of like an actual stage direction or a joke. They know they can just cut to him and people are gonna love it.

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darlin133 Apr 21, 2026

Such an epic sode

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bluehawk232 Apr 21, 2026 -1

Snl just likes black stereotypes

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Dramatic_Smell2775 Apr 21, 2026

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kPY8qUG_Koo&pp=ygUYcGF1bCBtb29uZXkgbGFzdCBzYW11cmFp

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WankelsRevenge Apr 21, 2026

He was also great playing himself on Celebrity Jeopardy

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Alternative-Rock-406 Apr 21, 2026 -1

This is gold, Jerry!

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Media-critique Apr 20, 2026 -39

SNL is hilarious too me, which is why I’m always disappointed that I don’t enjoy this ~~skit~~ sketch. Idk why, but I just can’t get into the joke. trump and his people are truly heinous, and I’ll never be able to see him and a *huge* amount of his supporters as anything but annoying assholes who are f****** everything up.

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leondrias Apr 20, 2026 +51

I mean, you could always just view it as a commentary on the fact that working-class black Americans and working-class white Americans have a lot of the same struggles, but that folks like Doug prefer not to recognize that and side against their own interests. It’s funny as a bitter truth, even if you’re not keen to empathize with Doug.

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timodreynolds Apr 20, 2026 -17

This is the only way to look at it and find any humor. But honestly people this dumb/brain washed/uninterested are hard to feel connection with/sympathy for. Call me an elitist if you want, but it's each person's job to pay attention to the reality around them with some level of critical thinking.

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sygnathid Apr 20, 2026 +13

Unless you plan to kill them all, we're gonna have to find a way to reach at least some of them to get the USA out of this nonsense. Even if Trump doesn't try to shenanigan up a third term, he will have a huge influence on politics going forward, and if we don't change anything then even after his death we will be plagued by others following in his footsteps.

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Media-critique Apr 20, 2026 -2

The influence part I can understand. Just anyone other than him. The amount of genuine cognitive dissonance that is being shown to keep siding with trump still is pretty damning to me. I can understand the bit is that the working class white and black Americans aren’t that different from each other when it comes to the distrust, but one of my biggest issues with MAGA are how lockstep a lot of these people are to think trump’s a messiah. I don’t even want to think about what he could do if he tries to run a third term, but if it were to happen like 2020, I’m not sure I’d be keen to hear Doug out. I just want to note again it’s nothing against you, SNL, or others that find it funny at this point. It’s just hard for me to see the full humor in this when all of this history is still happening.

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dancingbriefcase Apr 20, 2026 -5

Sketch* not skit. Seriously, people in improv are very serious with not calling sketches skits

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SnooPies6274 Apr 20, 2026 -31

Snl not funny

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gcbofficial Apr 22, 2026 +1

Agreed. Maybe 20 years ago they had a few good bits, but it's just been corpo-slop political commentary for ages now, pretending to be in touch.

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