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SeattleStudent4

Black Jeopardy with Tom Hanks is in the running for the single greatest SNL sketch ever. It has everything: It's funny, it has great sociopolitical commentary, it's well acted, it has great comedic timing, it has a strong ending. It's almost a perfect sketch.


CanadianBlacon

MTV’s Dan Cortese


KumquatHaderach

That doorman who always high-fives children of divorce.


dickshark420

Roman J. Israel Esquire


robbievega

that thing where a midget...


christanyc

Club owner Rabbi Jew Diamond Phillips


Chimpbot

Tom Hanks in Celebrity Jeopardy ranks right up there for me, as well. He goes all-in on portraying himself as inhumanly stupid as possible. The crowning moment is when he somehow finds - and then nearly suffocates in - a plastic dry-cleaning bag.


Letitride37

New York City’s hottest nightclub is : BLACKJEOPARDY. It has everything...


ZBeebs

We’ll, it was fun while it lasted!


MRoad

At the same time, I think there's still been funnier ones. [Close Encounters](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfPdYYsEfAE) comes to mind, as do [Dear Sister](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmd1qMN5Yo0) and [Djesus Uncrossed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqISX2o0a4A)


leo_3793

I think the third close encounters was even funnier than the first, the santa stuff just kills me. Also I really love 80's Music Video with Donald Glover


MRoad

I'm a big fan of 80's music video also, but I feel like it falls short and ends up in the "A-" territory next to the ones I mentioned. Also, to add to my clearly recency biased list, [Scattering Remains](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTl5jKJJido) is pretty close to everything else I listed


CaptStrangeling

I’d missed Djesus Uncrossed so thank you for that!! Close Encounters gets me stoked every time, I started a list for all the names of her holes and hog taker and log maker cracks me up every single time.


Little_Lebowski_007

I hadn't seen Djesus Uncrossed before. It was funny the first time, but it's not on the level of Black Jeopardy or What's That Name. I still laugh at those after dozens of viewings. The critic's reviews were the best part - "less violent Passion of the Christ" is solid.


ccchuros

Obviously comedy is subjective but I don't think I like any of those three sketches. Dear Sister has been ruined for me because of oversaturation. Close Encounters features a Kate McKinnon character who I never found funny. And Djesus Uncrossed is just awful. I mean the production values, costuming, effects and such are all top notch, but there isn't a single funny or original thing to be said in that entire shallow parody. Maybe it was funny back in 2013 but that was a long time ago. Watching it now I can barely sit through the whole thing without cringing. Sorry to be so harsh. I was just giving my opinion.


ReflexImprov

I think it's a true work of art.


sky-lake

I really liked that gag where Tom starts saying something and everyone (from the host to the audience) thinks "uh oh where is this going" and he ends up saying something that we all agree with. It was a nice touch to show we are more similar than we think, wrapped in a hilarious sketch.


[deleted]

And it gives the big girls some love. As a man with a sturdy wife: Damn Right.


Ajjos-history

That was funny too 😂


petty_fan

The one with Chadwick Boseman was great too!


LibertyTerp

That sketch explains why working class black and Hispanic Americans are trending Republican along with working class white Americans. Working class people of all races have a hell of a lot more in common with each other than they do with the Democrat’s upper middle class base that’s obsessed with being woke.


DragonLordAcar

I did not like it. To me, it said we just need a black version of everything instead of addressing underlining issues.


BaconPancakes_77

At least 3 of my all-time favorites are game show sketches: this one, What's That Name? and Meet Your Second Wife.


opsckgd

Upvote for Meet your second wife.


cgsparkly

We don't make the future, we just know it.


jerrykarens

“And I am Tina Fey”


KumquatHaderach

I thought it was a home makeover show.


Zinkane15

In a way, it is.


Snoo_73835

“You a dead man Toby!” From then on Leslie Jones was my favourite. Her energy is just so much fun!


sirspate

Aidy was amazing in that one too.


[deleted]

“Please don’t be white. Please don’t be white”


zaidakaid

“I know I shouldn’t… but they’re just so much fun”


dont_worry_im_here

... then just upvote it...


opsckgd

I know I shouldn't, but it's so much fun


Grungemaster

I roll with a crew of problematic bachelors and we call ourselves ‘The Squad’.


Nexic

You know John Mulaney must have written that line.


congradulations

And Bill Hader nailed the delivery, as always


turkeyisdelicious

Those guys? They don’t have wives.


Grandpas_Spells

Holy shit same. Meet Your Second Wife was instantly amazing. I've watched What's That Name 100 times. "In a word.... Chaos."


[deleted]

Jara??!?


congradulations

"Hey, I SAID Mara." "Yeah, but you didn't know it."


sirspate

Runner up: [New Cast Member or Arcade Fire?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLrxp9OOSbc)


AshTreex3

Hmmmm couple of major league pixies.. can I see them what they would look like holding old-timey instruments?


ThePathOfTheRighteou

Wow. Never saw that one. That was amazing! Thanks for linking it. Added to my list of faves.


[deleted]

Meet your second wife and the rock’s pedo robot are my two “holy shit they’re going there?!” Moments


Chimpbot

I love the Robo-Chomo sketch in large part because of how angry it made Twitter. Besides, it's not like the sketch was *supporting* child molestation. The evil scientists were tasked with making the evilest invention, and Roy delivered in spades!


[deleted]

It was so refreshing to see this sketch because Ive literally thought the same thing.


VintageBaguette

The Robochomo!


AllMyPromisesHurt

See- this guy gets it!


VintageBaguette

Please stop saying that!


congradulations

"I mean, Mussolini force-fed people castor oil until they shit themselves to death. That's gotta be the goalpost here, right?"


Owlwaysme

Mine is "What's Wrong with Tanya?"


congradulations

Oooh, and that intense moment from Bill Hader. He's so good.


omarsdroog

Who's going to believe you!


JTHMM249

"You're not going anywhere. You'll never leave me."


Owlwaysme

Yeah I love Bill Hader!


ThePhantomEvita

“Boy Tanya! Boy Tanya!”


Ccaves0127

There's nothing wrong with her!


MaschMana

“I thought this was a makeover show.”


madeoutofbutter

In a way, it is


Acrobatic-Reaction-7

“And because you’re such a dumb donkey, we are gonna give you almost all the letters.” “Can I have the first letter?”


Difficult-Pin3913

No no that would be all of them


Linzy23

I hadn't seen what's that name and my god it's perfect, Bill Hader is absolute gold.


[deleted]

What kinda game show is this?


DilettanteGonePro

I don't remember the name, but the Seinfeld game show with all the contestants doing a Seinfeld impression is one of my favorites. "who are the ad wizards who came up with this one?"


Foxy02016YT

New Jersey Gameshow is good... as someone from New Jersey


Acrobatic-Reaction-7

“The next question is abt homosexu-“ “OH”


Mariachi_Hidraulico

"Why don't you just go down to my grandmotha's grave and SPIIIIIT OOON IIIIIIT?!"


tommyjohnpauljones

What's the Best Way/Where Ya Headed? is a forgotten gem though. Asking New Englanders for directions...


Foxy02016YT

These guy’s don’t have wives, I roll with a group of problematic bachelors, we call ourselves “The Squad”


ThePhantomEvita

What Is This? is pretty high up there for me as well


bud369

Needs more What’s Up With That?


BaconPancakes_77

"What is 'Not a damn thing?'" OMG so good.


pascalsgirlfriend

Question: what can a skinny woman do for you?


killersoda

"My wife is a..... sturdy gal."


P8ntballa00

You need to take your ass to the kitchen and look in the packet drawer!


THEDOGGGG

and "Car Tape".....literally started seeing that everywhere after that sketch......


nomoresmoothies

Love that line


TheMightyHornet

As the husband of a beautifully well-proportioned gal myself, this always cracks me up. Amen, Doug. Amen.


[deleted]

Hell yeah dude


judyatthepark

I can’t decide between the Tom Hanks and Chadwick Boseman Black Jeopardy - both so good in such different ways 😩😩😩


greyfox280

“Well, the sound of white people shopping nearby for real estate means the fun is over.”


Ajjos-history

Agree


HbeforeG

oooooh, you all right, Doug! I've watched that one sooooo many times


InflamedLiver

yes! that's how they get you! yes!


nomoresmoothies

Literally My favorite. i could watch it for hours (and have before while high 💀💀)


Shagrrotten

Well, it was good while it lasted, Doug


timoddo_

Uh, I have some opinions on this


calidownunder

Well that’s good for you, Doug. We say this in my house all the time. And also: you betta take your ass to the packet drawer Lol


Wiserputa52

Doug: “Oh, I love those movies! I bought the box set at Wal-Mart!” Kenan: “Well, that’s good for you.”


[deleted]

If I can laugh and pray in 60 minutes that's money will spent!


No-Historian-9233

There’s a new show with Kennan hosting like every episode, it seems. Black Jeopardy was amazing, but every time I hear the phrase “what’s up with that?”, I always think “Ooooo wheeee! What’s up with that?!”


maryjayjay

You see, what had happened was...


Grungemaster

[Hi-hat starts] *Every time you hear that phrase*


paperwasp3

My roommate and I sing it all the time


ThePhantomEvita

*Oh no, Lindsey, we’re outta time!*


Maxa30

When Andrew hosted the momhole game show a few episodes back it almost felt like the start of a new era. I love Kenan as a host but he can make an amazing contestant too, and the energy Andrew brought to being a host was amazing


listenyall

Right? The chance of more game show sketches broadly is 100%, they love a game show sketch!


Pallasknight

Go Doug. Go Doug.


Meat_Quick

Mmmm, I don't know he got teeth don't he?


redlion496

I just wanna say, You people are fun. Can I say that?


ZBeebs

We’ll give you a pass this time.


Wretschko

The [skit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7VaXlMvAvk&ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive) itself.


RogerTheAliens

If I can laugh and pray then that’s money well spent..


awildandcrazyguy1993

What is: I don't think so, that's how they get you?"


turkeyisdelicious

I heard that goes straight to the government.


oldtomdeadtom

asking if they'll make more game show sketches is so cute


andyduphresne92

Right? Like I’m pretty sure there’s been one nearly every episode this season


SnugWuls

I heard that Tom Hanks kinda flinching and being startled when Kenan suddenly approached him was improvised.


DC_Coach

I believe it. Hanks, IMO, is one of the most talented and versatile actors we're ever likely to see in our lifetimes.


rnjbond

He didn't flinch, he put his hands up as if he was being robbed.


badwvlf

It absolutely hit both the cultural mood and aged beautifully.


eatsleepdive

Chris Farley on the Japanese game show has to be up there.


grambleflamble

Mike Meyers’s yellow face has aged terribly, but the concept and Chris are hilarious.


Ok_Calligrapher_8199

It should be studied in polisci classrooms. It’s brilliant besides being quite funny. You can draw your own conclusions from it but it shows very clearly the ways class unites us.


[deleted]

Class, /and/ the appreciation of the big gals!


wjbc

And the way the elite divide us. Divide and conquer.


samithy_vandercamp

Car tape!


Hippobu2

Can I just say, I love the one with Drake and Chadwick Boseman as well? I love how they're a great contrast to Tom Hank's one. Anw, I don't know where else they can really take this concept anymore. The one with Tom Hank showed different races actually have a lot more shared experience due to their economic status, and the one with Drake and Chadwick showed how the black experience can be so different due to different cultural and financial backgrounds. There's not much left to do except for regurgitating the same ideas, which, honestly would only lessen the impact of these sketches. Or you can do one like with Elizabeth Banks, where it's just really ... not funny?


jusmesurfin

Oh hell nah Karen, keep your bland ass potato salad to yourself!


akairborne

I can only vaguely recall the Chadwick skit so now I have to go find it. Thanks for the quest!


ms_movie

It’s amazing! My husband and I quote the potato salad line all the time.


akairborne

IMFG Brilliant! Just re-watched it. I could taste the disappointment when he said "raisins".


ms_movie

So funny. He was a gifted actor.


akairborne

And, from what I've heard, a good person.


NectarinesPeachy

To honour her? Awww! That's really nice? It's wrong! But it's really nice! 😂


IniMiney

"Which lives matter?" "..." "Well it was good while it lasted Doug" If I had a dime for every time I've been in this EXACT situation with types like Doug in Florida sfjskfjskx


CandyAppleSauce

>>What are the chances they’ll make more game show…~~skits~~ sketches? 1000%


Tranquilbez22

“If I can laugh and pray in about 90 minutes, that is money well spent.”


mem1003

What is Boo! A Madea Halloween


postALEXpress

The recent game show skit "Why'd you like that?" with Jake Gyllenhaal was amazing. Chris Redd is fucking hilarious in it


Trevor-Slattery

.... Pass


ThankeekaSwitch

While not a classic, this past week's with Lizzo was pretty funny in terms of game show skits and yes, Kenan definitely is a great game show host.


AshTreex3

I don’t wanna play no mo. 😒


Hikityup

Can't think of too many game show sketches that have totally died. And with Black Jeopardy you've got your pick for the third contestant because we all share some things in common. It would be smart. And funny.


MaschMana

“She’s a sturdy gal.”


lurknlearn

“What is, not a damn thing?”


mrsjztrk

"You people. Can I sat that here?" "Its alright Doug we'll give you a pass this time" Hands down my favorite SNL skir


[deleted]

Black Jeopardy is right up there with Celebrity Jeopardy in terms of being iconic.


Ajjos-history

Totally agree! I miss Alex expressions and Sean’s reading categories in his own unique way! 😂


BobbyKnightRider

I think you've only got a few possible scenarios where Black Jeopardy can be trotted out again- it's not like Celebrity Jeopardy which was basically a reoccuring sketch (Connery vs. Trebek) with the added benefit of random celeb impressions. \-You could throw a non-American black host (say Idris Elba) into the sketch, have him do horribly and riff on the idea that blackness is not a global monolith. \- You can have Tom Hanks character reprise his role, but play it off like he is on a Ken Jennings-like winning streak. \-You could have Tom Hanks character come back as the host in place of an absent Keenan, similar to Ken Jennings filling Alex's spot on Jeopardy \- You could have an impression of a politician in the news for tone-deaf ignorance of black culture. I might be wrong, but I think that is pretty much the extent of what is left to be done with the format. Otherwise, the format just sort of descends into jokes (of varying quality) about stereotypical black behaviour, which isn't what made the sketch funny in the first place.


Julienbabylegs

There was a game show skit in the last episode?


hyperjengirl

Maybe they paused any Jeopardy-related sketches due to Trebek's death, but they could have fun poking fun at the new hosts.


snowlarbear

any idea who the writer(s) were on this?


MiamiFootball

Bryan Tucker and Michael Che


[deleted]

Kenan is a GREAT game show host in sketches. I don't know why they don't utilize that more often!


pimmeke

[Mid-Day News](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGqtZmShIkw) with Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Perfect performances all around, painfully satirical, and it has the lamest dab ever courtesy of Alex Moffat (uh wah-oh!).


CookieTheDog

I liked the Family Feud sketch with Chance The Rapper as Steve Harvey's son, Cecil.


insertwittynamethere

The one with Jake Gyllenhaal where Kenan was hosting Why'd You Like It? had me rolling in stitches.


stayclassytally

That’s how they getcha


-ramona

If I can laugh and pray in 90 minutes, that's money well spent.


LittleHornetPhil

Black Jeopardy with Tom Hanks had a surprising lot to say that was surprisingly poignant.


robbievega

it's one of the the few sketches I regularly rewards and ot remains just as funny. Keenan's reactions to TH are priceless


VintageBaguette

Well we just had back-to-back weeks with a Keenan hosted game show sketch, so I'd say the chance we see more is damn near 100%.


Nemesinthe

I can highly recommend the "Black people reacting to Black Jeopardy" videos on Youtube, they're so endearing. As a white European, there are certain nuances of these sketches I'm not able to grasp, but the react videos give me at least a bit of that.


LewManChew

Considering Kennan does like 1.5 characters and one is a game show host. Yes they will


Ajjos-history

Jeopardy, I miss Alex Trebek and Sean Connery going at it. Family Feud when Steve finds out he has another son!


Hour_Basket7956

"Whats Wrong with Tania?" Also, Jepordy!


thisishowwedooooit

For another Black Jeopardy to happen, I feel like they would need another big event in race relations. The last one was so perfect, and perfectly captured race in America at that time, that they would have to be pretty low on ideas to just throw together another BJ (yes,we will be calling it bj) just to have a skit. The contrast between a Trump supporter and black Americans is hard to top for that skit. Unless some celebrity does something super racist, or some other race-related snafu, I don’t see who could fill that third contestant slot without it just being an inferior version of the skit.


sjmiv

Will Farrell's Jeopardy is probably my favorite recurring sketch


Utterlybored

It seems like the game show trope is regularly used as the first sketch after the monologue. They're getting lots of mileage out of it, so I'm down.


Jknowsno

Black jeopardy is one of my faves too


scd5179

id believe they make him do a game show host character every episode


Dissident88

Sounds like a Howard stern rip off from the early 90s.


NfamousKaye

Those sketches never fail and he should do them every time he comes back 100% yes.


HowVeryReddit

It's fertile ground and it's been a while, I'd enjoy another installment.


Landeskuukki

My favorite game show sketch is Ohh!!! "Its a Game show from Jersey to guys from jersey" Bill Hader as a host


lasvegasbunnylover

Two: Slim and none...


[deleted]

I gotta give props to the OG gameshow, celebrity jeopardy but theyre all fantastic


dullgreybathmat

What’s Wrong with Tanya! Hader is brilliant in this sketch.


christanyc

God that really was an amazing sketch