The Matt Walsh Show - Matt Walsh Tries to Laugh at Saturday Night Live! (WARNING: 98% Will Fail)

Episode Date: June 23, 2021

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There have been more funny moments in like death row execution chambers over the last 20 years than in SNL skits. For our next edition of Try to Laugh, we are going to try to harpoon the great white whale. This is the Moby Dick of unfunny, woke garbage. We've tried and failed to laugh at jokes told by feminist comedians many times, but this is a little bit different. This, I think, is a greater change. challenge. This time we're going to try to laugh at Saturday Night Live. The modern current version of it. What I have to say right now? It'd be a little cringe. Now, as you know, SNL has not been funny

for about 20 years, and that's probably being generous. Samantha B has told more funny jokes in the last two decades than SNL has. Yeah, they're landing on my face now. That might be going a little too far. Put it this way. There have been more funny moments in like death row execution chambers over the last 20 years, than in S&L skits. First time. I have no idea how it manages to stay on the air, except that it comes on at night, and everyone's either asleep or drunk when it comes on late on a Saturday night. Boring, boring.

So I think maybe no one's, like, noticed how bad it's gotten. It's allowed to just linger on, lifeless, half dead, dried up, shriveled, confused. There's an obvious Joe Biden joke here, but I'm trying to think of another analogy. Chew an international effort to pressure. I can't, so yeah, like Joe Biden. We're going to look at the most recent season, which is now mercifully over. And we'll check some of the skits to see if we can find something, anything worthy of even a modest chuckle. That's where I'm set in the bar.

Not even laugh. It's like this is a try-to-chuckle thing. We'll start with this skit titled No More Masks. And now, a message from Dr. Anthony Fauci. It's your boy, Fauci, the patron saint of Purell. As you probably heard, we got some very good news this week, and I'm not just talking about J-Lo and Ben Affleck. The CDC announced that people who are vaccinated

no longer need to wear masks, outdoors or indoors. Pretty great, right? This is Kate McKinnon, right? Why is she the resident impressionist over at SNO? Something should work, but do they? Isn't an impressionist supposed to, you know, be good at impressions? I always say life is like a box of chocolate. Do you have what it tastes?

A guy legislates from the bench, but he measures from the balls. Isn't that what you want out of an impressionist? Yeah, no, I don't know. Hers are all terrible. Kate McKinnon is about as witty and funny as like your drunk aunt at Thanksgiving. That one didn't count. Anyway, the point is, she's not very funny. We're going to give this a chance because there should be a lot of potential here to make some funny jokes and have a funny skit.

So we'll keep watching. A lot of people had questions, such as, what does that mean? What the hell are you talking about? Is this a trap? So, to clear things up, I found a few doctors at the CDC who minored in theater, and I asked them to reenact various scenarios in order to demonstrate correct mask behavior. And remember, they only had 24 hours to put this little show together,

so please welcome the CDC players and their first scene, man walks into a bar. Welcome to a bar. Thank you. Do I still have to wear a mask indoors? You actually do not. Great. Well, as long as you're vaccinated. Not, not. Oh, then that's bad.

Well, I'm entering a bar at 11 a.m. Did you really think I was vaxed? Because that's on you. You're right. I deserve COVID. End scene. Just pausing to see if I can hear actual crickets. This is like the comedic stylings of Kamala Harris. No. This seems like the White House just gave them a PSA to perform as comedy.

And this is one of the problems for SNL is that comedy should be transgressive and countercultural and, you know, rebellious and kind of, that's what it should be. And yes, offensive. I mean, comedy should be all of those things. And SNL is not that. S&L is now a mouthpiece for the elites, for the government. But let's move on to another sketch. And here we go. If you watch The Undoing, you might have noticed that one of the stars of the show, Nicole Kidman, sang the theme song.

We did. Inspired by Nicole, stars of your other favorite shows are now singing their theme songs on. Now that's what I call theme songs sung by the stars of the show. So enjoy this original theme song that was cut from the opening of Queens Gambit. Chests and drugs and drugs and chess. Girl playing chess, then doing drugs, then playing chess. Now when you see people playing chess, you'll know that there are trucks. Hey, if you like Stranger Things, you'll love the new season four opening credits, performed by Sheriff Jim Hopper. Welcome to the 80s, I'm about to blow your mind.

In Hawkins, Indiana, scary aliens you'll find. Lots of kid actors, but they're actually good. There's something strange in your neighborhood. This script was written in 15 minutes before Showtime, right? It had to be. Well, do it's a lot. F*** it. Probably by the janitor or someone.

They have a team of writers, right? A team of writers came up with this, and they all said it was good. And it made its way through a purposeful process onto the air. Did hackers, like, hack into the SNL broadcast and pipe this skit in to embarrass the show? I'm just trying to figure it out, because this is bad. Well, try something that seems, okay, I have no idea what this is. This is a skit called The Uli Show. Don't know what it is.

Wildcard. Let's try it. You're watching Icelandic public television. Pop culture, bops, celebrities, games, candy. It's the Uli show. Let's meet host, Iceland's number one social media star Uli. Welcome to the Uli show. Precure.

I'm Uli. I'm Vish. is my side guy, Bjorn. We have big show today, Uli. So cool. Ocelain's number one company duo is here. Thorbaugh and Greta.

You have a good weekend, born? Yes, I visited my elf shrine, Oolie. I can't continue with that. Is this a recurring bit they do? Is there some context I'm missing, maybe? Context like LSD? That's the context in which

I need to be viewing this particular. skit. So it seems that the S&L kind of fluctuates between banal, politically correct, tripe, and then stuff that's weird but forgets that weird in and of itself isn't funny. You have to be funny as well as weird. You still have to make jokes within the weirdness. But you know what? I want to be fair. I want to really give them a chance. Because I see that we have a, they did a bit on gay pride. So they have a skit on gay pride. We're in Gay Pride Month, as I'm sure you're aware. You could not be aware that we're gay Pride Month,

because every time you leave your house, you're beat over the head with it by two-by-fourths. Here's a chance for some topical and really edgy humor about gay pride. Does SNL have the balls, so to speak, to make jokes about gay pride, to actually satirize the concept. There's a lot to satirize, certainly. And we will not get my hopes up, but we'll see.

Hey all you she's gays and maize. It's the month of almost June. And you know what that means? Pride is around a corner. But last year pride didn't happen, so now we're making up for lost time. Pride is a celebration. Yeah, that's what it's about.

Last year we couldn't meet up, but this time it's allowed. With my queer friends and allies, now it's time to go out. Ooh, ooh, ooh, we get to do it all again. Now we're out on the floor. on the floor but I don't see my crush he's not texting me back well I'll just brush it off I have a mental breakdown make my friends take care of me and I think woo yeah yeah it's pride again we've been waiting so long it's pride again for so much to go long it's pride again

Santa Kamba for queers this is our st patty's day acting Because we're gay. Okay, so they made the bold choice to be not funny once again. It's a bold strategy, cotton. By the way, I hope all the people in that sketch are actually gay. Otherwise, this would be appropriation, which is very offensive. I'm guessing they're probably safe as far as that goes. Out of all the funny and controversial things they could have done with a gay pride skit,

this is what they do and said. I'm not even sure what the joke is supposed to be. All my queer friends and allies. That's hilarious. Yeah, that's not funny. It seems with every sketch, they kind of studiously examine all the potential places to take it, all of the possible directions,

and then they choose the least funny one every time. It's kind of impressive, actually. They succeed in being mostly inoffensive, but they fail at being a comedy show, which is what their job is, I think. Or so the Germans would have us believe. The good news, though, is that you can put it on while you fall asleep and you don't have to worry about being kept awake by your own laughter.

And that, my friends, is looking on the bright side.