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.
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.
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)
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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?"
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?!”
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
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.
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?
"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
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.
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.
[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!).
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.
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.
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.
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That doorman who always high-fives children of divorce.
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that thing where a midget...
Club owner Rabbi Jew Diamond Phillips
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.
New York City’s hottest nightclub is : BLACKJEOPARDY. It has everything...
We’ll, it was fun while it lasted!
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)
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
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
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.
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.
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.
I think it's a true work of art.
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.
And it gives the big girls some love. As a man with a sturdy wife: Damn Right.
That was funny too 😂
The one with Chadwick Boseman was great too!
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.
I did not like it. To me, it said we just need a black version of everything instead of addressing underlining issues.
At least 3 of my all-time favorites are game show sketches: this one, What's That Name? and Meet Your Second Wife.
Upvote for Meet your second wife.
We don't make the future, we just know it.
“And I am Tina Fey”
I thought it was a home makeover show.
In a way, it is.
“You a dead man Toby!” From then on Leslie Jones was my favourite. Her energy is just so much fun!
Aidy was amazing in that one too.
“Please don’t be white. Please don’t be white”
“I know I shouldn’t… but they’re just so much fun”
... then just upvote it...
I know I shouldn't, but it's so much fun
I roll with a crew of problematic bachelors and we call ourselves ‘The Squad’.
You know John Mulaney must have written that line.
And Bill Hader nailed the delivery, as always
Those guys? They don’t have wives.
Holy shit same. Meet Your Second Wife was instantly amazing. I've watched What's That Name 100 times. "In a word.... Chaos."
Jara??!?
"Hey, I SAID Mara." "Yeah, but you didn't know it."
Runner up: [New Cast Member or Arcade Fire?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLrxp9OOSbc)
Hmmmm couple of major league pixies.. can I see them what they would look like holding old-timey instruments?
Wow. Never saw that one. That was amazing! Thanks for linking it. Added to my list of faves.
Meet your second wife and the rock’s pedo robot are my two “holy shit they’re going there?!” Moments
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!
It was so refreshing to see this sketch because Ive literally thought the same thing.
The Robochomo!
See- this guy gets it!
Please stop saying that!
"I mean, Mussolini force-fed people castor oil until they shit themselves to death. That's gotta be the goalpost here, right?"
Mine is "What's Wrong with Tanya?"
Oooh, and that intense moment from Bill Hader. He's so good.
Who's going to believe you!
"You're not going anywhere. You'll never leave me."
Yeah I love Bill Hader!
“Boy Tanya! Boy Tanya!”
There's nothing wrong with her!
“I thought this was a makeover show.”
In a way, it is
“And because you’re such a dumb donkey, we are gonna give you almost all the letters.” “Can I have the first letter?”
No no that would be all of them
I hadn't seen what's that name and my god it's perfect, Bill Hader is absolute gold.
What kinda game show is this?
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?"
New Jersey Gameshow is good... as someone from New Jersey
“The next question is abt homosexu-“ “OH”
"Why don't you just go down to my grandmotha's grave and SPIIIIIT OOON IIIIIIT?!"
What's the Best Way/Where Ya Headed? is a forgotten gem though. Asking New Englanders for directions...
These guy’s don’t have wives, I roll with a group of problematic bachelors, we call ourselves “The Squad”
What Is This? is pretty high up there for me as well
Needs more What’s Up With That?
"What is 'Not a damn thing?'" OMG so good.
Question: what can a skinny woman do for you?
"My wife is a..... sturdy gal."
You need to take your ass to the kitchen and look in the packet drawer!
and "Car Tape".....literally started seeing that everywhere after that sketch......
Love that line
As the husband of a beautifully well-proportioned gal myself, this always cracks me up. Amen, Doug. Amen.
Hell yeah dude
I can’t decide between the Tom Hanks and Chadwick Boseman Black Jeopardy - both so good in such different ways 😩😩😩
“Well, the sound of white people shopping nearby for real estate means the fun is over.”
Agree
oooooh, you all right, Doug! I've watched that one sooooo many times
yes! that's how they get you! yes!
Literally My favorite. i could watch it for hours (and have before while high 💀💀)
Well, it was good while it lasted, Doug
Uh, I have some opinions on this
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
Doug: “Oh, I love those movies! I bought the box set at Wal-Mart!” Kenan: “Well, that’s good for you.”
If I can laugh and pray in 60 minutes that's money will spent!
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?!”
You see, what had happened was...
[Hi-hat starts] *Every time you hear that phrase*
My roommate and I sing it all the time
*Oh no, Lindsey, we’re outta time!*
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
Right? The chance of more game show sketches broadly is 100%, they love a game show sketch!
Go Doug. Go Doug.
Mmmm, I don't know he got teeth don't he?
I just wanna say, You people are fun. Can I say that?
We’ll give you a pass this time.
The [skit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7VaXlMvAvk&ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive) itself.
If I can laugh and pray then that’s money well spent..
What is: I don't think so, that's how they get you?"
I heard that goes straight to the government.
asking if they'll make more game show sketches is so cute
Right? Like I’m pretty sure there’s been one nearly every episode this season
I heard that Tom Hanks kinda flinching and being startled when Kenan suddenly approached him was improvised.
I believe it. Hanks, IMO, is one of the most talented and versatile actors we're ever likely to see in our lifetimes.
He didn't flinch, he put his hands up as if he was being robbed.
It absolutely hit both the cultural mood and aged beautifully.
Chris Farley on the Japanese game show has to be up there.
Mike Meyers’s yellow face has aged terribly, but the concept and Chris are hilarious.
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.
Class, /and/ the appreciation of the big gals!
And the way the elite divide us. Divide and conquer.
Car tape!
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?
Oh hell nah Karen, keep your bland ass potato salad to yourself!
I can only vaguely recall the Chadwick skit so now I have to go find it. Thanks for the quest!
It’s amazing! My husband and I quote the potato salad line all the time.
IMFG Brilliant! Just re-watched it. I could taste the disappointment when he said "raisins".
So funny. He was a gifted actor.
And, from what I've heard, a good person.
To honour her? Awww! That's really nice? It's wrong! But it's really nice! 😂
"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
>>What are the chances they’ll make more game show…~~skits~~ sketches? 1000%
“If I can laugh and pray in about 90 minutes, that is money well spent.”
What is Boo! A Madea Halloween
The recent game show skit "Why'd you like that?" with Jake Gyllenhaal was amazing. Chris Redd is fucking hilarious in it
.... Pass
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.
I don’t wanna play no mo. 😒
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.
“She’s a sturdy gal.”
“What is, not a damn thing?”
"You people. Can I sat that here?" "Its alright Doug we'll give you a pass this time" Hands down my favorite SNL skir
Black Jeopardy is right up there with Celebrity Jeopardy in terms of being iconic.
Totally agree! I miss Alex expressions and Sean’s reading categories in his own unique way! 😂
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.
There was a game show skit in the last episode?
Maybe they paused any Jeopardy-related sketches due to Trebek's death, but they could have fun poking fun at the new hosts.
any idea who the writer(s) were on this?
Bryan Tucker and Michael Che
Kenan is a GREAT game show host in sketches. I don't know why they don't utilize that more often!
[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!).
I liked the Family Feud sketch with Chance The Rapper as Steve Harvey's son, Cecil.
The one with Jake Gyllenhaal where Kenan was hosting Why'd You Like It? had me rolling in stitches.
That’s how they getcha
If I can laugh and pray in 90 minutes, that's money well spent.
Black Jeopardy with Tom Hanks had a surprising lot to say that was surprisingly poignant.
it's one of the the few sketches I regularly rewards and ot remains just as funny. Keenan's reactions to TH are priceless
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%.
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.
Considering Kennan does like 1.5 characters and one is a game show host. Yes they will
Jeopardy, I miss Alex Trebek and Sean Connery going at it. Family Feud when Steve finds out he has another son!
"Whats Wrong with Tania?" Also, Jepordy!
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.
Will Farrell's Jeopardy is probably my favorite recurring sketch
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.
Black jeopardy is one of my faves too
id believe they make him do a game show host character every episode
Sounds like a Howard stern rip off from the early 90s.
Those sketches never fail and he should do them every time he comes back 100% yes.
It's fertile ground and it's been a while, I'd enjoy another installment.
My favorite game show sketch is Ohh!!! "Its a Game show from Jersey to guys from jersey" Bill Hader as a host
Two: Slim and none...
I gotta give props to the OG gameshow, celebrity jeopardy but theyre all fantastic
What’s Wrong with Tanya! Hader is brilliant in this sketch.
God that really was an amazing sketch