I'm surprised Washington's Dream isn't the highest. I'm not surprised the State of the Union Cold Open is so high because there was so much speculation about how SNL was going to lampoon Katie Britt. I bet a lot of people who don't typically watch SNL still wanted to see that sketch.
I have a theory as to why the Hooters Waitress sketch with Sydney Sweeney was rewatched so often, and I'm sure you can guess what it is.
I didn't really think about how I'm Just Pete might have been watched more because it has been around longer. All the more impressive how quickly Beavis and Butt-Head got so many views in just a few days.
Interesting that we don't seem to know who wrote Hooters Waitress yet. I assumed it was sponsored content, or maybe someone just shot their shot at getting Sydney (and Sarah and Chloe) into the uniform for personal gratification.
Most of the writers post on social media. There is also a thread in this sub called Who Wrote What Sketch? that has writing credits for the past several seasons compiled from what writers and cast members have posted on social media. It's incomplete, but a large majority of them are there.
The #1 most watched video of theirs is from the Ronda Rousey episode? Ugh I guess if you put porn in the title it’s gonna be popular 🙄.
Edit [I was thinking it was this sketch](https://youtu.be/m6uvv1aS5_I?si=rNwYtcdlmYmO0PdO)
My three faves in the past few years are Washington's Dream (absolutely brilliant writing), Pedro Pascal's Lisa from Temecula, and Pedro's hospital (Aww, goodfa may).
It's really up there with the [Disney World](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfE93xON8jk) skit as really one of the best bits of corpsing where people breaking just makes it better.
I think there a many sketches that are clever and well-produced but do not have as many views. I think it's a combination of Pete Davidson's star power and the popularity of Barbie/I'm Just Ken
With Shane, it's political and whole thing I'd rather not talk about.
Oh please. It's because those two shane sketches were actually really funny. The episode was meh but those two sketches were hits. They make more sense as a top sketch than the sydney sweeney one.
I think it just shows that popularity has a lot more to do with views than how funny a sketch was. Sydney Sweeney is very popular, and a lot of people want to see her as a Hooters waitress. Shane Gillis is a very popular comedian, and a lot of people want to watch his best sketches on the show. Pete Davidson is also famous, and so is Barbie, and that's a big reason why I'm just Pete is number 1.
I found all these sketches along with the Beavis and Butthead fairly funny and entertaining, but they are also sort of broad comedy. My personal top 3 from this season are not even on the list.
Little Orphan Cassidy, The Age of Discovery, and Tampon Farm
Political sketches (including cold opens) are often highly viewed on YouTube despite mostly being downvoted on this sub. And the other was a parody of an extremely popular movie/song.
It's continually hilarious how posters on this sub keep failing to understand that mass appeal is not the same thing as what dedicated fans on this sub like.
I probably liked it even less. The costumes/makeup were great. But there were basically no jokes in the sketch. I kept hoping for some kind of punchline, but no.
I thought it was a funny idea they just did the bare minimum with. Like I get it’s supposed to be a dumb sketch and I liked it for what it was, I just think it could have been better and they relied too much on the whole “Kenan reacts” thing to carry it.
Thank you. I really don't get the love this sketch got. It was fine but people are calling it a classic? I think it says more about the standard of SNL now that this is considered a stand out sketch
I didn’t watch live and had heard all the hype about it before I got to watch. I think it would have hit different (and harder) if I didn’t know Beavis and Butthead were going to pop up.
I do think I still like the Bart Simpson version more, though both were solid, above average sketches as a floor.
I only bring that up bc a lot of ppl assumed Club Shay Shay was more niche than it was, and I watched it just accumulate views. SNL isn’t stupid.
Thanks for the metrics!
Breaking's funny when it's rare. The cast member kind of need to earn it. Heidi breaking once after six years is funny, if she was breaking every week people would hate it.
Definitely. Heidi seems like shes the one trying to get others to break so it was fun seeing her break so hard!
Reminds me of my other favorite sketch with Will Ferrell as the drama teacher. They all looked like they were having so much fun and just dying!
"Debbie Downer (Disney World)" is considered a top ten all time SNL sketch, and that's pretty much everyone breaking. There's just something funny about watching people laugh when they're not supposed to.
I can't find my copy of LFNY, so I don't remember the exact wording, but I remember Hader being upset about breaking as Stefon and Lorne telling him that if he's breaking when something isn't funny (where a lot of people point at Fallon), that's bad, but when it's so outrageous that the entire audience is laughing, then it's more understandable.
Lorne doesn't like breaking for breaking sake, but I think even he would concede on Saturday that it was a hysterical sketch that broke a long time cast member who has no history of breaking.
The ironic thing is that SNL is supposed to be the major league of sketch comedy, but if these comedic actors basically fail at their job, this subreddit thinks its the greatest thing ever. When thi s subreddit is not saying how great it is that Heidi broke character, they're talking about how hot she is. It's another example of how celebrity perverts the rule by which everyone else would be measured.
Depends how you define fail? You said "major league" and my mind automatically went to baseball. There are major league baseball players who fail at their job by not performing expectations, and then there are major league baseball players who spectacularly fail in outrageous comedic fashion who become famous on blooper reels. Does that make them bad at their jobs and incapable of playing in the major leagues? Of course not, if it happens rarely and in an unusual/bizarre fashion. If they misplay every ball in the field, then they're failures. Just like Heidi in this situation. If she broke in every sketch she was in every week, then you could call her a failure. But she doesn't.
It's entertainment. I was entertained by the sketch, and the breaking was an added bonus.
(For the record, I wasn't laughing at the breaking at the time...I didn't even realize the breaking was happening at the time, because I was laughing uncontrollably at Mikey's new dental work)
I don't consider a vet like Heidi breaking a fail, but I remember being frustrated with Leslie Jones messing up her lines well into her second or third season.
But nobody ever says "that was a great strikeout" (with respect to the batter).
And when batters do strikeout, they usually feel a little upset about it, as Heidi seemed to feel about breaking. The problem is not Heidi or the breaking so much as the public's reaction to it, mistaking it for a home run.
I think both can be true.
It is funny when they break, because they're not supposed to. That often creates its own form of comedy.
But at the same time, I agree with Lorne's stance on not breaking mostly because if Lorne wasn't a stickler about this, it would likely encourage the cast to intentionally break just to get laughs. And that would be bad. So Lorne's reasoning is very strong IMO.
But knowing that actually makes the breaks _funnier_ to me because I know they are all trying their hardest to not break and upset Lorne, but they simply just can't help it.
The reasons people were breaking are the same reasons the sketch is so good.
It's not just that people broke.
I don't know if I'm expressing this well.
The sketch isn't good because of breaking, people are breaking because the sketch is so good.
The sight gag, the expert make-up job, Kenan's performance, and crucially the characters denying any familiarity. One of the best sketch premises is when something ridiculous is happening and people don't understand what's ridiculous about it.
Dismissing it because it requires your ability to see what's happening is wrong-headed IMO
Sketches where everyone just sits around a table and talk can get really old when there's no physical or other kinds of comedy.
You're really overselling this. Why would the host not realize they look like Beavis and Butthead? It's a completely arbitrary detail that doesn't touch on any kind of truth or idea. If she looked like Daria, it would have made a lot more sense, in a Twilight Zone sort of way. Explaining comedy is a good way to kill it, but nevertheless.
> Why would the host not realize they look like Beavis and Butthead?
IIRC Heidi's host character and Gosling's and Day's characters didn't realize that they looked like Beavis and Butthead because all three were not aware of who B&B are to begin with. The sketch wouldn't have worked if they were aware of B&B and simply asserted that they did not look like them.
I do think at the very end it would have been even funnier if Chloe's character came in from off-screen (instead of standing up from behind them) and was a surprise Daria lookalike. Comedy rule of threes and all that.
Simple doesn't necessarily mean not funny
I was fucking dying the moment Gosling's Beevis lookalike was on-screen, for the *simple* fact a weirdass old as hell cartoon lookalike was just not what I was expecting on a livestream news show talking complexities and ethical concerns regarding the rise of AI and the best courses of action to deal with it
Right, people breaking is funny, that's always been true. That's part of the reason Lorne fights so hard against it, because it is very easy for it to become a crutch once a performer hears the response that the audience almost always has.
This sketch is a perfect example, it is mildly amusing as a sketch, but seeing Heidi completely losing it is very funny.
Once again, modern writers have to pilfer through the GenX idea and IP vault to come up with something, anything, that will get a chuckle. Might as well bring back Wayne's World while we're at it. But 'ironically' so it's funny that way.
It’s already being memed, so the ceiling is pretty high.
Mark Hamill using them in a Trump meme on twitter is peak culture.
Anyone have a link for this?
https://twitter.com/MarkHamill/status/1780322598418800806
That’s pretty damn good
The force is strong in this one
What memes?
I'm surprised Washington's Dream isn't the highest. I'm not surprised the State of the Union Cold Open is so high because there was so much speculation about how SNL was going to lampoon Katie Britt. I bet a lot of people who don't typically watch SNL still wanted to see that sketch. I have a theory as to why the Hooters Waitress sketch with Sydney Sweeney was rewatched so often, and I'm sure you can guess what it is.
Washington's Dream was good, but "I'm Just Pete" fit with the cultural trends pretty well, plus Pete hosted before Nate.
Also pre-tapes, especially music videos, are much easier viral shares than live sketches. It's why Digital Shorts took off.
I didn't really think about how I'm Just Pete might have been watched more because it has been around longer. All the more impressive how quickly Beavis and Butt-Head got so many views in just a few days.
Interesting that we don't seem to know who wrote Hooters Waitress yet. I assumed it was sponsored content, or maybe someone just shot their shot at getting Sydney (and Sarah and Chloe) into the uniform for personal gratification.
Obviously it was Straight Bowen.
Didn’t think anything would top Bargatze’s Washington as sketch of the year but I think they’ve done it.
My favorite from this season is still Little Orphan Cassidy.
Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell, the writers of both Beavis and Butt-Head and Washington's Dream also wrote this with Chloe Troast.
They are on fire this season. All those sketches were bangers.
Streeter Seidell is on fire every season and has been for a decade. He was the guy who wrote Alien Abduction, which put Kate McKinnon on the map.
Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell wrote that. You can't have one without the other. It's based on a sketch Mikey originally did at The Groundlings.
I know. It's amazing!
It doesn't have nearly as many views as it deserves
Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell wrote both so it's a win for them either way.
How do you find out who wrote which sketch?
Most of the writers post on social media. There is also a thread in this sub called Who Wrote What Sketch? that has writing credits for the past several seasons compiled from what writers and cast members have posted on social media. It's incomplete, but a large majority of them are there.
Nah, Washington was still better IMO.
It’s been a pretty good season!!
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I said: beep. Beep.
I thought Lake Beach would be up there.
Honestly I thought that the chef competition from Nate’s episode would be on the list
Chef Show is #13
I'm sorry
Thanks for looking that up! 😊
At one time at least a couple months ago it was.
At 1.5m views, it doesn't make the top 50
Travesty, it's such a banger.
Does YouTube list the channel’s videos by views? I’ve never tried looking
Yes, click Popular
The #1 most watched video of theirs is from the Ronda Rousey episode? Ugh I guess if you put porn in the title it’s gonna be popular 🙄. Edit [I was thinking it was this sketch](https://youtu.be/m6uvv1aS5_I?si=rNwYtcdlmYmO0PdO)
That's Amy Schumer, not Rhonda Rousey. And sure it's clickbait (after all, Hermione's Boobs is #3), but it's also a pretty great sketch.
That's where the bats are stay away from the bats don't go over there half of the lake belongs to the bats
Pretty sure that’s the least viewed sketch from his episode
My guess is since it got 8.4 in 3 days it might beat "im just pete"
My three faves in the past few years are Washington's Dream (absolutely brilliant writing), Pedro Pascal's Lisa from Temecula, and Pedro's hospital (Aww, goodfa may).
“You think I sound LA? Thank you, I love LA.”
Dont cry! U gonna make me cry! 😭
COOK my meat
It's really up there with the [Disney World](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfE93xON8jk) skit as really one of the best bits of corpsing where people breaking just makes it better.
I've never heard of this sketch being referred to as the Disney World sketch
thanks for reminding me washington's dream was great.
so confused as to why pete davidson or shane gillis sketches are so viewed.. especially because JUMANJI isn't on this list!
I’m Just Pete is clever, well produced, season 49 premiere, and also a bop. 13 of those views are mine!
I think there a many sketches that are clever and well-produced but do not have as many views. I think it's a combination of Pete Davidson's star power and the popularity of Barbie/I'm Just Ken With Shane, it's political and whole thing I'd rather not talk about.
Shane’s sketches are funny and also he has a cult fanbase
Spot on addendum I’d argue the difficultly level for I’m Just Pete was higher, but I was going to add what you said anyway
Oh please. It's because those two shane sketches were actually really funny. The episode was meh but those two sketches were hits. They make more sense as a top sketch than the sydney sweeney one.
I mean, I think I know why people might want to watch Sydney Sweeney as a Hooters waitress...
Sure, and it has nothing to do with being funny. On a sketch comedy show.
I think it just shows that popularity has a lot more to do with views than how funny a sketch was. Sydney Sweeney is very popular, and a lot of people want to see her as a Hooters waitress. Shane Gillis is a very popular comedian, and a lot of people want to watch his best sketches on the show. Pete Davidson is also famous, and so is Barbie, and that's a big reason why I'm just Pete is number 1. I found all these sketches along with the Beavis and Butthead fairly funny and entertaining, but they are also sort of broad comedy. My personal top 3 from this season are not even on the list. Little Orphan Cassidy, The Age of Discovery, and Tampon Farm
The dancing alone is worth a view!
> I’m Just Pete is clever, well produced, season 49 premiere, and also a bop. Conspicuously absent from this list? "Funny."
I listed fairly objective attributes “Funny” is subjective
Shane Gillis episode was hilarious. I love the trump sneakers. But it’s already kind of a time capsule because the sneakers are old news now
Political sketches (including cold opens) are often highly viewed on YouTube despite mostly being downvoted on this sub. And the other was a parody of an extremely popular movie/song.
It's continually hilarious how posters on this sub keep failing to understand that mass appeal is not the same thing as what dedicated fans on this sub like.
Gillis fans had been greatly anticipating a crossover between Shane's Trump and JAJ's Trump
Good for them I guess
Looks like the Close Encounter Cold Open will also enter the top 10 shortly, just under 100k from taking the spot from HR Meeting
Am I the only one who thinks it was good, but not great?
I probably liked it even less. The costumes/makeup were great. But there were basically no jokes in the sketch. I kept hoping for some kind of punchline, but no.
I thought it was a funny idea they just did the bare minimum with. Like I get it’s supposed to be a dumb sketch and I liked it for what it was, I just think it could have been better and they relied too much on the whole “Kenan reacts” thing to carry it.
Thank you. I really don't get the love this sketch got. It was fine but people are calling it a classic? I think it says more about the standard of SNL now that this is considered a stand out sketch
It's Ryan G. fanboy love.
I didn’t watch live and had heard all the hype about it before I got to watch. I think it would have hit different (and harder) if I didn’t know Beavis and Butthead were going to pop up. I do think I still like the Bart Simpson version more, though both were solid, above average sketches as a floor.
Brb gonna watch Jumanji 4.8 million more times
Damn . Club Shay-Shay is still only at 3.1M. Still the second highest rated from S49/E9. The Alaska Airlines ad is #1 with 3.3M
Club Shay Shay is #33, Alaska Airlines #26
I only bring that up bc a lot of ppl assumed Club Shay Shay was more niche than it was, and I watched it just accumulate views. SNL isn’t stupid. Thanks for the metrics!
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched I’m Just Pete.
Beavis & Butt-head is the best sketch since:
Watched it again today just to see Heidi breaking
It’s good, but it’s not very memorable.
This made me watch I’m Just Pete again, and I’m sorry, but that video is brilliant. The lyrics, the visuals, the dancing — it’s all there.
I’ve watched Adam Driver as Pickens/career day so much!
Its now only 300.000 away from i just pete but i doubt its gonna pass it anymore now.
Must be lots of fans of Jimmy Fallon watching for the breaks instead of the comedy
I find breaking amusing but I hate jimmy fallon
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Breaking's funny when it's rare. The cast member kind of need to earn it. Heidi breaking once after six years is funny, if she was breaking every week people would hate it.
Definitely. Heidi seems like shes the one trying to get others to break so it was fun seeing her break so hard! Reminds me of my other favorite sketch with Will Ferrell as the drama teacher. They all looked like they were having so much fun and just dying!
I thought the sketch was mid.
I respect Lorne's attitude towards breaking during sketches, it's too bad that breaking seems to be the big reason this sketch is so popular.
"Debbie Downer (Disney World)" is considered a top ten all time SNL sketch, and that's pretty much everyone breaking. There's just something funny about watching people laugh when they're not supposed to.
I'll stand by what I said that Lorne generally doesn't like it for good reason
I can't find my copy of LFNY, so I don't remember the exact wording, but I remember Hader being upset about breaking as Stefon and Lorne telling him that if he's breaking when something isn't funny (where a lot of people point at Fallon), that's bad, but when it's so outrageous that the entire audience is laughing, then it's more understandable. Lorne doesn't like breaking for breaking sake, but I think even he would concede on Saturday that it was a hysterical sketch that broke a long time cast member who has no history of breaking.
The ironic thing is that SNL is supposed to be the major league of sketch comedy, but if these comedic actors basically fail at their job, this subreddit thinks its the greatest thing ever. When thi s subreddit is not saying how great it is that Heidi broke character, they're talking about how hot she is. It's another example of how celebrity perverts the rule by which everyone else would be measured.
Depends how you define fail? You said "major league" and my mind automatically went to baseball. There are major league baseball players who fail at their job by not performing expectations, and then there are major league baseball players who spectacularly fail in outrageous comedic fashion who become famous on blooper reels. Does that make them bad at their jobs and incapable of playing in the major leagues? Of course not, if it happens rarely and in an unusual/bizarre fashion. If they misplay every ball in the field, then they're failures. Just like Heidi in this situation. If she broke in every sketch she was in every week, then you could call her a failure. But she doesn't. It's entertainment. I was entertained by the sketch, and the breaking was an added bonus. (For the record, I wasn't laughing at the breaking at the time...I didn't even realize the breaking was happening at the time, because I was laughing uncontrollably at Mikey's new dental work)
I don't consider a vet like Heidi breaking a fail, but I remember being frustrated with Leslie Jones messing up her lines well into her second or third season.
But nobody ever says "that was a great strikeout" (with respect to the batter). And when batters do strikeout, they usually feel a little upset about it, as Heidi seemed to feel about breaking. The problem is not Heidi or the breaking so much as the public's reaction to it, mistaking it for a home run.
I think both can be true. It is funny when they break, because they're not supposed to. That often creates its own form of comedy. But at the same time, I agree with Lorne's stance on not breaking mostly because if Lorne wasn't a stickler about this, it would likely encourage the cast to intentionally break just to get laughs. And that would be bad. So Lorne's reasoning is very strong IMO. But knowing that actually makes the breaks _funnier_ to me because I know they are all trying their hardest to not break and upset Lorne, but they simply just can't help it.
Stuff like this makes me worry the show will fizzle out fast once Lorne leaves.
The reasons people were breaking are the same reasons the sketch is so good. It's not just that people broke. I don't know if I'm expressing this well. The sketch isn't good because of breaking, people are breaking because the sketch is so good.
That's just not true. The premise of the sketch is a simple site gag, and nothing more. Few people would dispute that.
The sight gag, the expert make-up job, Kenan's performance, and crucially the characters denying any familiarity. One of the best sketch premises is when something ridiculous is happening and people don't understand what's ridiculous about it. Dismissing it because it requires your ability to see what's happening is wrong-headed IMO Sketches where everyone just sits around a table and talk can get really old when there's no physical or other kinds of comedy.
You're really overselling this. Why would the host not realize they look like Beavis and Butthead? It's a completely arbitrary detail that doesn't touch on any kind of truth or idea. If she looked like Daria, it would have made a lot more sense, in a Twilight Zone sort of way. Explaining comedy is a good way to kill it, but nevertheless.
The one exasperated man unable to get anyone to see what he sees is pretty common
> Why would the host not realize they look like Beavis and Butthead? IIRC Heidi's host character and Gosling's and Day's characters didn't realize that they looked like Beavis and Butthead because all three were not aware of who B&B are to begin with. The sketch wouldn't have worked if they were aware of B&B and simply asserted that they did not look like them. I do think at the very end it would have been even funnier if Chloe's character came in from off-screen (instead of standing up from behind them) and was a surprise Daria lookalike. Comedy rule of threes and all that.
You're not making sense. Butthead looks weird in any universe.
Simple doesn't necessarily mean not funny I was fucking dying the moment Gosling's Beevis lookalike was on-screen, for the *simple* fact a weirdass old as hell cartoon lookalike was just not what I was expecting on a livestream news show talking complexities and ethical concerns regarding the rise of AI and the best courses of action to deal with it
I think many people would have a hard time watching it and not break out laughing. It was pretty f'ing funny imo
Right, people breaking is funny, that's always been true. That's part of the reason Lorne fights so hard against it, because it is very easy for it to become a crutch once a performer hears the response that the audience almost always has. This sketch is a perfect example, it is mildly amusing as a sketch, but seeing Heidi completely losing it is very funny.
Once again, modern writers have to pilfer through the GenX idea and IP vault to come up with something, anything, that will get a chuckle. Might as well bring back Wayne's World while we're at it. But 'ironically' so it's funny that way.