This week, we’re recapping the January 24, 2026, episode of Saturday Night Live with the talented Teyana Taylor as host.

We break down each sketch from the night and talk about how Teyana’s experience in dance, directing, and acting shows up on the SNL stage. From her energetic monologue to the wildest characters, we look at what worked, what didn’t, and which sketches stood out thanks to her charisma. We also check out the cut-for-time sketches on YouTube and ask if the best material made it to air or if the real highlights ended up online.

Finally, we open the Ten to One Mailbag to answer your questions, share your thoughts on Season 51 so far, and pick our MVP and Sketch of the Night.

Whether you’re here for the technical breakdown or to hear best friends argue over their SNL opinions, grab your headphones and join us for the ultimate SNL post-game show!

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Foreign.

It's the 10 to 1 podcast with your host, Brad Owen, featuring Ben Konowitz and Nate Laos.

And here's the podcast.

That one sounded like you were doing a haunted house.

You said that several times.

That's a used bit.

I like to bring it up when you do sound spooky.

That was like a Scooby Doo opening sometimes.

It was.

It sounded spooky.

It sounded a little spooky.

I'm just saying I'm.

I'm allowed to point it out even though it's happened before.

You've also said the exact same phrasing, so, I don't know, come up with something different.

All right.

It sounded like a hooky spooky entry.

What are you.

I'm almost debated.

Just restart this.

I mean, what are we doing?

You could said it sound like an episode of Scooby Doo.

Like, at least, like, vary it up a little bit.

I did say that.

It sounded like an episode.

We've never had to restart before, but maybe.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

You tell us.

Yeah, you just send us your emails and your messages and say, hey, hey, Ben.

That was really dumb.

Don't do it again.

I'll take it.

You know what?

Sometimes we don't.

Okay, you know what?

Have fun podcasting.

All right?

I'll be over here.

Not everything you said.

No, it's fine.

It has to be funny.

Okay.

And it's not.

Okay.

Message received loud and clear.

Have fun with your podcast, guys.

Let me know how it goes.

Ding, ding.

Oh, Nate.

Yes?

We've got some listener mail.

Oh.

Are you ready for me to read it?

Yeah.

All right, before we get to Tehana Taylor, we've got some comments here, and I love your comments.

Whether you put them on Spotify, YouTube, Facebook.

We read them all.

Or at least I read them all.

And I try to bring some of the best to the podcast.

So what do you do with the ones that aren't good?

I file them in a folder.

Now we read them all.

Yeah, we do read them all.

No, those are the ones that keep me up at night.

And I'm like, they're probably right.

My dad doesn't love me.

Somebody commented that.

No, it was his dad.

It was my dad.

I don't love you.

But he put it in parentheses so it was like he was whispering it.

Eel Neil Lokes.

All right, let's go to some comments here.

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But we're hoping to start a video channel here within this.

Maybe let's say the next quarter or two.

Yeah.

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So if you've not done that, we encourage you to do that.

We'll still have the audio feature as well, but go look at our 10 to 1 and go flix yourself YouTube pages and like them.

Yeah.

And once we do the video podcast, It'll be the 10 to 1 podcast now with more man tits.

Calm down.

You don't want to.

No.

All right, here we go.

This is Fallen for you, but instead of an A at the fallen part, it's a four.

I just want you to know that.

Not sure that we need to do all that.

And instead of A A O for U, there's zero.

People won't comment if you keep doing this.

I just want.

I don't know how to say.

What do you want me to say?

F forlin y0u.

All right.

Why am I just seeing this?

This is so incredibly cool.

What?

The show Saturday Night Live.

All right.

Saturday Night Live has been around since the 70s.

No, I think it was the podcast.

Oh, it's about us.

It would be funny if it was about Saturday Night Live.

What is this?

Wait there.

It's live every week.

What the heck?

I will say some of my favorite comments on YouTube is, you know, we put an image, which is an SNL image of the host on YouTube because we don't have a video part of it.

So it's just the audio and that image.

Let's be clear, even when we do have a video part of it, we're not going to put ourselves on the thumbnail because it's just going to turn people over.

We're not.

No.

But anyway, I told my mom we were.

My favorite comments are those that come there.

Like, what is this?

This isn't the actual sketch.

Boom.

Try to watch the episode.

Oh, you know how the Internet works.

All right, here we go.

Here's another one from YouTube.

Kara.

My favorite is the Overlord food skit, which is a sketch I got yelled at the first episode of the 10 to 1.

Because I call it a skit too, Kara.

Because I do love that type of slapstick comedy.

That is the one with the delights.

Yep.

So that was a great sketch.

We agree.

Yes.

Moving to Facebook, our friend, friend of the pod.

We actually get to know you pretty well if you are a listener of this.

But also we have some actual friends that listen to this as well.

Joe Wicker says was definitely pleasantly surprised with this episode.

Don't worry, Ben, you're not old.

Yeah.

The boys just aren't teenagers yet.

When they are, you become relevant adjacent because they talk to you about this stuff and they listen to these artists.

I still don't watch or listen to these things, but I'm aware of them to be in on the jokes and cam was great as Michael Irvin.

Sketch of the night was the space emperor and MVP was slow.

Koska.

I agree, though.

And he actually made me think about that when I read that comment.

Oh, yeah.

The boys are 11 years old and 9 years old.

And so once they are, you know, 13 to 15, I'm going to just like standby.

Have standby relevance because they're going to talk about that.

I'll probably know a little bit more right now.

I feel very out of touch.

All right, those are our listener comments that I picked this week.

We again encourage you, let us know what you liked about the episode, give us any comments, any funny things.

We definitely love it.

If you want to talk about how much my dad might not love me, that's fine too.

And you don't have to try to be funny.

Just leave a comment and we'll love it.

We'll love you.

Yeah.

My favorite one is that they like the podcast.

Yeah.

You can be more of that.

That's my self esteem takes a nice big boost right there.

You don't have to pull a Ben and try and be funny with every comment that you make.

Make.

Okay.

All right, moving on.

Ben your give me top five Teyana Taylor movies.

All right, I'm gonna go with One battle after another is number one.

Okay, good.

The rip is number two.

Okay.

Followed by Sheboygan Heights.

Yep.

Wickelstein and Lampman.

Yes.

Yeah, Lampman was a surprise.

Yeah.

People weren't expecting out of Sundance, but it was a big hit.

Pretty big hit.

Diana Taylor is her second time on snl.

First time as a host.

Do you know this?

No.

Was she a fly girl with Jennifer Lopez?

No.

That's not even this show.

What are you doing?

Yeah.

I can't believe they didn't bring that up.

Who was the musical guest?

Ludacris.

I will tell you what, you will know exactly why in a second.

R. Kelly.

Oh, wait, Yeah, I was going to say, it's got to be somebody that's not popular.

Keep going.

Kevin Spacey.

He just wrote an apology.

Kanye west in the Wall Street Journal.

Yes, Kanye West.

She did a song with him, and she sang it on SNL with him.

That's why they didn't bring it up.

That's exactly what.

Well, Kanye west apologized for having frontal lobe damage legitimately.

He.

He set out an apology on the New York Times saying, you know, I. I do probably have.

Actually, the letter was pretty good.

No, no, honestly, like, it's a very.

Like, he's definitely on medication, and he's probably with a therapist, and it sounds.

It sounds.

There's contrition there.

It sounds so much genuine.

And so I literally, like, as soon as I read that, I was like, you know what?

I'm gonna listen to the Kanye west on.

On Pandora and not feel bad about it.

And I feel bad about it.

I really do.

Let's be clear.

You were still listening.

I just had conflicted.

No, I just.

I put on.

What is it?

What is that album?

What it was.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

But on the whole album, just.

It is.

The comments were, like, finally create some music for us again.

Jeez, leave the Hitler stuff alone.

But.

Yes.

Yeah.

But wouldn't it suck if now he's on that medication?

He's just terrible.

Because here's the thing is, like, my.

Name'S Kanye, and I'm here to say I'm going to do raps another day.

I've always said this, though.

Like, west to the east and east to the West.

Kanye west is the best.

I don't know about you, but I like Ladies Chest.

Now you.

Nate.

No, that's just embarrassing.

Just fold your arms and, like, do the.

You guys.

No, not like that.

No, not like that.

Oh, my God.

He's doing, like, the sitcom dad.

I know.

He can't even do a fake, like, huh?

I won't endorse Gilly.

Gilly.

I won't endorse it.

Get out of here.

All right.

But I also like, my last comment on Kanye, though, is I don't think we're ever gonna survive unless we get a little crazy.

Cool.

Do you even know that song?

Do you?

I think it's probably the way you said it that, like, lost all the musicality.

So this whole point is it's a lyric, but it's from a guy named Seal.

Have you ever heard of Seal?

Anyway, it's not just Ben's dad, mom's name.

Gonna get out of here.

It's a kiss from a rose.

There we go.

All right, let's get into it.

You ready?

Yeah.

You?

I want more of.

I want more of this type of cold open.

Oh, you know what?

I don't want this cold open.

All right.

Award ceremony hosted by Trump, played by this episode, James Austin Johnson.

Honoring his best moments and enablers.

This featured J.D.

vance, played by Jeremy Colan.

Christy Gnome, played by Ash Padilla.

Stephen Miller played by Andrew SMEs.

And Glattus, played by Sarah Sherman.

And surprise.

Mike Myers cameo as Elon Musk.

Yeah, I like the premise of this a lot.

Conceptually.

I was like, oh, cool.

Like, this is what exactly we want to see.

But then the problem was, is because it's this award show premise, it relies on making old references to stuff that we already kind of covered and did jokes about.

And so it still kind of feels stale.

And so that's why I was just like, this is not working the way that I hoped it would.

Yeah.

And I think, again, we're idiots.

We gotta preface that again.

Writing sketches is hard.

We don't know anything about it.

But I thought they were gonna take this in a Trump kind of award show where he gives his best person of the year.

It's four terrible people, and there's SNL cast members that get to do great impressions of those four terrible people.

Kind of.

Right.

But it went war with Trump's getting nominated pretty much himself.

And I wanna be clear.

I want more of this.

Meaning I like when they take political stuff and make it in a different venue.

Right.

Like that.

Very much so.

I hopes for this.

And then, of course, I'm with you.

I didn't hate this.

You.

You sound like you hated this.

I didn't hate it.

Yeah, I didn't hate it.

But it's just.

It's.

It's nowhere near as good as, like, I wanted to be once the premise became clear at the top.

And it's just.

Yeah, it's.

It still has that same stale feel.

I think.

I think I liked it better than you, though.

I think that.

I think.

I think that.

I think.

I think that this did more good than bad as far as taking it out of the normal press conference BS and turning it into something different.

It was clever enough that I enjoyed it.

What about Mike Myers?

What do you think of his Elon?

Was that a good addition?

You know, it's fine.

He's doing an Elon impression that would have been done for Elon if Elon was prominent in the 90s.

It's a very different kind of impression comedy that Mike Myers is used to doing.

And as we've referenced before, there's a bit of the Cat in the Hat in there.

Yeah.

So like every time he's doing the.

Oh, yeah, you know, comedy is legalized.

What's funny is I actually just recently listened to the Cat in the Hat audiobook.

Good one.

With just David Fox, because James Austin Johnson shout out to that show, by the way, such a good podcast.

If you love stand up comedy, just tell the people what they.

Not even just stand up comedy, but Jesse David Fox, who is the senior editor at Vulture, he has a podcast that he's been doing for years now where he talks to comedians about their stand up specials or sketch comedy on SNL comedy movies and whatnot.

And they really just get granular about, like, their career and joke writing.

So there's a lot of SNL people.

On YouTube still this, though, because.

Because the original conceit of the show was, we're going to take one of your bits and really break it down.

So he still does that.

But then they also still have, like a broader conversation about larger stuff.

And so when he had James Austin Johnson, they spent about half the podcast talking about Trump and their process of crafting this cold opens.

Back in the day, they had, you know, they had Jim Gaffigan on and he talked about Hot Pockets.

Right.

Like the most famous bit you're known for.

And I'm sure they've gotten away with that because you need to.

You need to expand the show.

But I remember being like, yeah, how did Mike Berbaglia come up with the sleepwalking with me or whatever?

Yeah, because, like.

Because when he had Kumail on recently, it was more so about Night Thoughts overall and like a specific joke from it.

I mean, still, Jesse, Jesse, David Fox is awesome.

Yeah.

But yeah, so he was on and they were.

He was talking about how a really surreal kind of moment for him was at some point he got a call from Mike Myers and Mike Myers asked me, he was like, hey, if you were doing Elon, like, what would your approach be for the impression?

And so James Austin Johnson basically did like a breakdown of like, thinking about it and talking to him.

And he's like, well, he was like, you basically, you want to do like, he's like, I, if I were doing it, I would do, like, take a South African accent.

But then Addie and he, like, did it, you know, and talked through it and everything.

And obviously Mike Myers went a completely different direction.

But just the fact that he wanted to reach out to somebody like Johnson and, like, pick his brain and see where his head was at and use that and figure out his own approach.

Yeah, I love that.

But he also talked about the hed.

Some really fascinating insight into just their process of, like, figuring out the Trump sketches and, like, for him, what makes him tick as a character and what they try to do.

And they had just talked about the Christmas episode with Ariana Grande and the stuff that they had, like, added at the last minute and whatnot.

Like, one of the last minute additions was the joke where he speaks the stage directions out loud or cross to flag.

You know, they added that between dress and live.

So, like, it was really cool to hear him talk about.

So if you haven't listened to that podcast or whatever, go listen to good one, check out that episode.

And yeah, they have a bunch of different SNL people that have been on.

So sweet.

But yeah, so I, again, James, Dustin Johnson is good as Trump, you know, in the sketch, and I like that.

It gives him a lot of different things to do in it, but for me, just, it felt stale because they kept having to repeat bits that they had already been covered before.

Here's a fun fact for you, James.

Austin Johnson's been on the show for quite a few years, but not, what, five, maybe six?

Has it been or has it been longer than that?

I mean, it would have to have been 20.

20, 20.

Was it.

Did he get brought in when?

Okay, he is now 5th all time in saying live from New York, it's Saturday night because of the Trump stuff.

Right.

And so it's, it's pretty, pretty crazy that he's done it so many times.

We need to point out very quickly that if you haven't, if you were to take Trump away from him as far as impression, he'd still be on the show.

Oh, yeah.

And it would be still doing incredible things.

He's insanely talented.

So many different.

He's hilarious.

And not even when he's doing impressions.

Almost just like when he's doing these lately.

Especially when he did the boy band dad.

Yeah.

He's just a really, really funny comedian.

Yeah.

All right, moving on.

Monologue.

Diana Taylor talks about her New York roots.

My super sweet 16.

And she's got a multi hyphenate.

Career.

She's got singing, directing now culinary school.

She talked about.

That's real.

Probably.

You know what?

Like sometimes it's like they just, they throw in kind of jokes about stuff that you're doing.

Like, oh, I'm taking an online, you know, bookkeeping.

No, I'm gonna guess.

But that's probably her personal.

Legitimately in cooking class right now or culinary school right now.

She did not talk about Kanye, but she did get, she did mention her Oscar nomination.

For what?

One battle after another.

We're not a movie podcast.

Let's go fix yourself.

But would you recommend people seeing this?

Yeah.

As soon as possible.

And also it should be in theaters right now again, so make sure you do that.

I saw it.

It's again, it is very good.

Very, very, very, very, very good.

So she mentions her kids.

She has her kids there.

I think it's the first time somebody's kids have been in the audience.

It was a long time that somebody's kids has been there.

Has been.

Cute bit.

Yeah, it was cute bit.

What'd you guys think overall of the monologue?

Let's start with you, Brad.

I mean, I liked that she was very comfortable.

I didn't really feel like she had any problem being there on stage.

Not any nerves or anything like that.

Obviously she's kind of used to that.

That's the spot, that kind of spotlight.

So, yeah, it was, I think it was maybe more cute than laugh out loud funny.

It was more of just like one of those monologues where like you get to know someone better if you're not familiar with them.

Because even though she is, you know, now an Oscar nominated actress, she wasn't necessarily a household name before one battle after another.

So, you know, I, I thought she did a great job of.

I always look at the model I read as the opportunity.

Okay, what kind of host is this going to be?

Is this going to be somebody who's clearly very nervous?

Does this give me, you know, get me hyped for the rest of the episode and give me, you know, the, the thought that they're going to be in to do down to do anything.

And right off the bat you could tell not only is she down to do anything, she wants to do everything.

Yeah, like this is a performer at heart.

Like she wants to be in every sketch.

She wants to be front and center in every sketch.

She's.

She wants the, you know, it to rest on her shoulders and that's a big ask for a first time host.

And so I was a little nervous going, all right, well, if you, you're biting off a lot here, you know, what are you going to be able to do?

And overall though, I thought that, you know, this is a good tone set for the night because that's how excited she was just to be here.

I love that stuff, man.

How about you, Nate?

I thought it was fine.

A little bit saccharine at times.

It was fine.

Like you said, sometimes they give.

They want to introduce you to a host that they know you're not going to know real well.

So they'll give these kind of things.

There wasn't a.

She didn't have to do a lot, but what she did, the bits that they did.

I thought the kids thing was funny.

I thought it was really nice.

But there was nothing that, I'm thinking back of that really stood out though about the monologue.

The only issue that she had, she does what I do when she's nervous.

She talks faster.

And so I had a hard time understanding a few of the lines that she was saying just because she was kind of racing through them.

And I literally done the same thing.

When I get.

I'm excited, I'm nervous about that.

And you're like, whoa, just take a, take a deep breath and like, let's go over these lines.

Because once you're racing through things, then the camera cuts and things and we'll talk about that a little bit.

They get a little late, a little early because you're finishing your line well before maybe you should.

And again, that's probably just a very high energy, nervous situation there.

But I don't blame her for it at all.

I didn't.

Yeah, I didn't.

I think maybe the audience thought the same thing a little bit because they were a little behind sometimes trying to.

Catch up on the punchlines a bit.

I think she was going a little quick, you know, because again, let them laugh a little bit.

But I don't chastise her for that at all.

I have no, no idea what that would be like.

My goodness.

All right, moving on.

Gate agents.

Winter storm delays at Mel Gibson terminal.

Something only existing in Ben's fantasies.

Come on, gate agents.

They're always playing Braveheart and Ransom Maverick.

Yeah, Fat man.

Just like Christmas, though.

Yeah, of course.

Gate agents.

Shrimp played by Teyana Taylor, and grits, played by Kenan Thompson.

Announcement updates as R B songs.

Ben, let's start with you.

What, what did you think of this one?

Did I have enough escalation for you?

So I like right off the bat that this is something giving something to the host to do that's not just saying lines, actual performance.

And so this gave again, kind of like an extension of the monologue.

This gave me real hope for the rest of the episode.

Oh, they're gonna let her get in there and actually do some stuff.

So that was great.

And I, I, I don't mind that there wasn't a ton of that escalation.

I think this was a very smartly positioned sketch to be the first one because if you're not going to escalate tremendously, you can still showcase what the host can do.

And the back and forth between Keenan and her was, was great.

And I, I enjoyed the lyrics.

And then when James Austin Johnson comes in there, it's enough escalation for me to be happy.

It wasn't laugh out loud.

Out loud, but I still really did enjoy it.

Yeah, I, I thought Diana Taylor pushed a little bit on this one.

I thought she was a little, sometimes a little much.

Right.

Like pull it back a little bit and let the comedy do that work.

But there is gonna be what the telltale for this rest of the episode was.

That's the narrative.

Like, she's very excited, very fast, but it can't hurt the comedy when you're overtaking a bit rather than being a part of the scene.

You are the scene.

Right.

But I did love some of the, There were a couple one liners from the cast that made me laugh.

Introduce mukes.

Why would you say that?

Those kind of little bits, they're, they're not original, but they always, the way that the cast delivers them often just makes me laugh.

Anyway.

Brad, what'd you think of this one?

Yeah, I thought this one was fine.

It was, it was solid.

Yeah, I, I enjoyed the, the premise.

I liked the level of, you know, absurdity it reached.

And yeah, I did, I think, like Ben said, you know, it did set a good vibe of that, that Tiana was really ready to, like, put herself into the sketches and have fun and, like, do some, you know, some stuff that is beyond what you might expect of like, a regular host.

Absolutely.

All right, let's move on to pre tape one battle after another toy commercial.

This is a Mattel parody for Paul Thomas Anderson's film.

They had kind of inappropriate toys.

Pregnant belly for Teyana's character, Motel sex reenactments.

Parents played by Ashley Padilla and Mikey Day were kind of horrified in this.

Let's start with you a little bit, Brad.

What did you think of this one, it's pre tape.

You first, actually.

Nate, let's talk.

Have you seen the movie?

No, I actually like to start with you, because if you haven't seen the movie, did you still find this funny?

Yeah, They've done stuff like this before, so, yes.

I mean, I found it funny, but I knew exactly what they were going to do.

And so, like, it wasn't a lot of the pre tapes.

I don't know exactly where they're gonna go, especially when a Sarah Sherman or, you know, the Please don't destroy guys do it.

This one, I kind of knew exactly what they were going for.

I didn't know the characters, but I'm sure the characters had something about them that they were gonna put into a child toy.

And that's the.

That's the bit.

Right.

I think that if you see this film and then you see this parody, it really.

There's a huge difference in how much you're gonna enjoy it.

Enhances it because.

Tremendously.

Yeah.

Just because hearing the kids make references to specific things from the movie, it just makes it that much funnier, because obviously what they're saying is kids is very adult in nature anyway, so there is a little bit of humor in that, but knowing where it comes from in the movie and the context of it is that much funnier.

Just like the.

You know, her saying, my name's jungle pussy.

That was great.

Just like, do you like black girls?

Y.

The kids.

Oh, my God, the kids are perfect.

I laughed very hard because again, and I'm just on the heels of seeing this movie or this movie a week.

So a lot of it was fresh.

It's so good.

It's spot on.

And it's even stuff like the car that he drives.

Right.

And the.

Well, the.

The playset with the moving.

I mean, yeah.

Oh, yeah, that's perfect.

The small beers thing, like, just everything, man, it's.

Yeah.

I've abandoned my boy.

See?

And you've seen that movie, so at least you get how good that is.

Right, Right.

And I did rewind and then pause to see what they look like in the Magnolia and the Boogie Night.

Oh, yeah.

And I want.

I want those action figures.

Yeah, yeah.

It says.

And did you see it said the Mark Wahlberg figure comes with a removable sensor bar?

It says that on the package.

That's hilarious.

Yeah, this was.

This was absolutely hilarious.

I love this.

I did like this sketch.

Like I said, though, having not seen the film, obviously, seeing kids do adult stuff is always kind of fun.

Someone did a callback because they referred to.

Talked about how SNL has done stuff like this before, and I hadn't seen this one, but I guess back when Philadelphia came out, they did a similar 90s action figure commercial for Philadelphia.

Oh, that's.

And, like, the action figures are even more absurd because they give them, like, ridiculous weapons and powers that aren't even in the movie at all.

And so there's a different version to do that.

Right.

Like, you take the very serious, you know, Philadelphia story about, you know, it's a legal AIDS courtroom drama, and you give them superpowers or whatever.

C.I.

joes.

And to clarify, we don't mean legal aids, and it's about legal aids.

It's a legal case about aids, the disease.

Yeah, no, definitely not a case about legal aids.

That would be helping with a brief.

Right.

Paralegals, a movie about paralegal.

Paralegal jetpack sold separately.

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All right, moving on.

NFL on ESPN.

Come on down to the hidden international venue.

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You're making an assumption that's what hiv, Brad.

All right.

Troy Aikman, played by Anders Mewes, and Joe Buck, played by James Austin Johnson, awkwardly promote Hulu's new show, Quefs.

During NFL coverage.

Teyana was a sideline reporter.

Lisa.

This certainly kind of makes the joke.

The joke is funny, and it just calls back to that joke over and over again.

And there's a little bit of escalation here where the, the, the escalation is in the responses of.

Right.

The people there.

But the joke doesn't change necessarily.

I'm so, weirdly, I'm very okay with the way they did this.

Yeah, I like it because it's.

There's two things going on.

First of all, it's the, the quests and, like, the way they're responding to it.

And someone's asking questions like, well, we don't need to talk about that.

Then there's also the ongoing thing about Bo Nicks and the Bronco stuff, which was also pretty funny in itself.

Like, just like that.

Constantly, like, talking about how, you know, he's not going to be around and, like, just basically already giving up on the Broncos and everything.

I thought Tiana did really well in this sketch.

Yeah.

Honestly as well.

I thought she was.

She was great.

But come on.

Come on.

That was great.

But no, I think that the thing I like the most about it was I kind of like when Mikey Day or Andrew just mukes.

Even in the airplane or airport sketch is like, why would you say that?

It's.

It's the characters being grounded.

Yeah.

And it's like, these are too many promotions.

Right.

And it's about a weird show called Quest.

And so.

Okay, here's another one.

And we're going to keep going.

They're not, like, passionately involved in saying, like, we're the ones that want to tell you about this.

They're begrudgingly doing it.

And that does add a layer of humor to it.

I really enjoyed their back and forth with that.

And then Troy being like, well, I'm going to get out of here.

Like, of course.

That's exactly what.

I actually would have also liked to have seen a clip from Quest.

Yeah.

And just her calling it out, it sounds.

You had an E. It's not.

We're not going to go there.

I think it was implied.

Yeah.

No, it was good.

It was very good sketch.

Dismix and James Nelson Johnson also just do a great.

Like, they're very good together.

Yes.

So, all right, moving on.

You know, it's been six sketches now, and we haven't seen, I guess, a ton from Ashley Padilla, which is.

She is, you know, kind of the it person on us.

She was Kristi Noem, though.

Yeah, but I'm just saying, not a ton, though.

She was in the one battle after another sketch as the mom.

Yeah, I guess.

Just didn't see.

You wanna.

Do you want to talk some more about how she wasn't in.

You wanna walk it back?

You've had.

No, you had six sketches.

Wait.

Chrissy Noem a.

The worst thing she.

Wait, you got cold open.

You've got the monologue.

Hold on.

You've got the cold open.

You got the monologue.

You've got.

First guess, the airport.

Isn't she in the airport?

Hold on, guys.

Cold open.

I don't know.

Monologue, airport sketch, and then battle after another place.

And this is the.

The fifth one was what?

The Quest.

When we just talked about Quest.

So this is the sixth sketch of the night.

She was in two of them.

Okay.

Yep.

Okay.

Just put.

She might even be in the airport.

Were you literally just counting the sketch When I said it's the six sketch.

I just wanted to clarify.

Said that.

But I want to clarify that you're mad that she's.

She was literally in a third of the sketches already.

Okay.

But she was not the feature part of any of the sketches.

And you know that.

Why are we doing this?

You know that.

That's.

That's a weird.

It's a weird caveat to say, like, oh, we just didn't even see her.

James Austin Johnson has been the featured part of.

I would say he's been a featured part of this episode so far.

Would you not agree?

I think that he was in two of the sketches so far.

He was in the cold open.

He was Trump.

He was in the gate agents.

He was the airport guy.

Yep.

Right.

Oh, he was Joe Buck.

Okay, so three out of the six.

Yeah.

Yes.

And.

But he was also the featured part of those sketches.

Oh, you're right.

That's a lot more than just two.

Anyway, so you're.

You know, for the first time ever on the show, her first episode, Ashley Padilla.

What'd she do, Nate?

I don't know why I host so many podcasts with her, too.

You are literally the worst people.

All right, moving on.

Confidence class insecure coach Kathy, played by Asha Petilla.

Where you been?

Oh, interesting.

I heard that she was only in two sketches so far.

Yeah, she's gonna lead this sketch.

I don't know why you don't get this.

All right, leads a class attendees Mikey Day, Marcelo Hernandez, Keenan Thompson, and Telo boost confidence by comparing to her mess sometimes, like we do with one of the co hosts here.

What are you trying to say?

You didn't.

You don't even know which one I'm talking about.

Yeah, I do.

For the listener.

He's staring at me, so that's awkward.

All right, what'd you guys think of this?

I don't know if you guys notice.

Ashley Padilla wasn't in a lot yet.

Well, I gotta say, so when I saw this sketch, I was like, finally, Ashley Padilla.

But no, I thought this sketch was really funny.

Oh, absolutely.

She's great in it.

But also just the way everyone continues to ask their questions about stuff, too.

It's like, this is great escalation, by the way.

This is.

Sorry, but this is the sketch of the night.

I'm gonna ruin it.

Okay.

This is my favorite sketch.

I know, but this is incredible.

Here's why this is incredible.

This is how you do SNL currently, because you have to.

You want to include as many sketch performers as you can.

This is a great way to do that, where you've got a focal point, but you have a lot of cast members that add to the sketch.

And everybody was funny by asking those questions.

And then, of course, you add the visual media with it, which takes it to the next level.

That racing through when she's going through just absolutely perfect.

I was.

And she's sitting there and just the look, that's how you know she's going to be an all timer on this show.

The way she just, without even saying a word, flips through stuff like.

I guess I'm just.

I'm gonna take a couple of these off here.

I guess we're done.

I laughed.

I mean, I'm not joking.

I was laughing hard at this out loud.

Laughing.

This is a great sketch.

Yes.

It's really, really funny and I love that it escalates.

But without needing to take it to the level in the way that you might expect.

Like when she starts talking about her boyfriend and they're like, can he come in?

No, no, he can't come in.

In other sketches they might have.

That might have been the turn.

Bowen Yang shows up as a goblin and like that's the impetus for the funny part of the.

You don't even need that here.

I love it.

But yeah, the, the slides that are there in the rest of the presentation.

So I did go back through and watch them and pause them all so that I could catch them all.

And of course they're so funny because there's already callbacks to things in her little spiel.

But then I tried to scan the.

There's a QR code and I tried to scan it and it doesn't.

It didn't go to anything for me.

I don't know if anybody else.

If you comment that you got it to work for some reason, but I thought it was just a. I think it's just a fake QR code, but I thought maybe for an eagle eyed viewer it was meant to like it would go somewhere but I couldn't make sure.

Someone's hog.

Yeah, something like that.

But it was utterly fantastic.

Did you like this one?

I know you're happy to see Ashley.

You sound like you didn't like this one.

I liked it a lot and I wanted to bring that up because, you know, it was the first one that kind of featured Ashley Padilla.

But I just feel like you guys took the wind out of my sails.

This bit is not fun.

Also, stop using a sailboat.

Ben's got one.

All right, moving on.

It is time for Weekend Update if you can.

Bradley.

Okay, cool.

I know I called you Bradley.

I felt really bad about.

No, no, let's just out there that.

His name is Bradley.

It's not Bradford.

Okay, put.

Take your computer out please and Put a number on there.

Ben, will you explain that, please?

Sorry, aol.

I don't want to do this anymore.

You guys are laughing too hard at that.

That's not even good.

You do it.

Do it.

Do a dot matrix printer impression.

Okay, fuck it.

Pardon my language.

All right, so 0 to 100.

100 is the most interaction they've ever had.

It was the best weekend.

Weekend Update episode ever.

0 would be.

They weren't even in the same building.

They didn't even do it.

All right, Taylor, slow down.

I just want to get through this because everybody that listens to the show understands the Bardometer.

We can't.

You know, maybe.

Yeah, maybe there's somebody new who's like.

You know, our numbers are growing.

What's the pedometer?

And why is Ben making stupid jokes?

Okay, like, it's, like, smart less than us.

Yeah, that's right.

So anyway, we're going to give a good old college try here at the number we think is closest to what Brad has already predetermined.

The number is influenced definitely by the interaction that Colin Jost and Michael J.

Have with each other, as well as the overall content of Weekend Update and any bit characters that are on Weekend.

All right, sidebar.

Did you find that there was a ton of interaction here?

So there was one big one where they.

That I believe they.

They did really talk to each other, and that was about the only big thing between each other.

But the Weekend Update, the jokes were pretty damn good.

The jokes were some of the best they've been in a while.

That was good.

With the ice stuff that's going on.

That's.

It's.

It's hard to do that.

And so I wish that.

I wish that that punchline was more harsh because the punchline was.

You guys ever think you're like, you're.

Are we dicks?

That's.

That's a really weak.

Are we the baddies?

And again, I am not saying whatsoever.

That, like, Ben's, like, I can write it better.

No, that the writers didn't write something.

And then it just got.

Well, I mean, because who knows?

So we didn't get a chance to talk about this because it didn't come out until after we recorded.

But there was a sketch that was cut from last week's episode with Tommy Brennan talking about ice that I imagine they cut because maybe they wanted to.

I don't know.

I don't know.

But just.

Just so that we do have it on the record, and I will apologize for my language for this instance, but in this case, I think it's called for.

I'd like to say fuck ICE and the government that represents them.

And all the shit that's happening in Minnesota is absolutely heinous and evil and garbage.

So if you were listening to this and somehow you're okay with all of that, I would like to say how to fuck you.

And don't even worry about listening to this podcast anymore, because this isn't for you.

I still want you to listen.

We'll get you over on our side.

Be nicer.

That's all they were saying.

Be nicer to the ICE supporters.

I'm saying to them, be nicer.

Brad, you are correct.

This is a travesty what's going on in the nation currently.

You should not be able to just openly murder.

The government is responsible for this.

This is embarrassing as a nation.

At the very least, and at the very most, we are headed for, like, this is how Rome collapses.

This is an insane ye position.

And we're starting a new podcast on politics.

We're just a very silly podcast.

We're gonna.

But we just, you know, that's our brand.

I's personal stances on the matter.

And it's pro ice.

I get it.

Other.

Other than that.

No, no, it's fine.

Why?

No.

Why?

I don't know.

Why am I the one being picked on this episode?

You should just probably look at yourself in the mirror before you start talking.

Also, you literally text us the other day, like, your ideas for the podcast title.

And like, you were like, the ICE is right.

And yeah, I was just like, okay, it's clever, but I don't agree with it.

I mean.

No, no, he was clever.

Well, he wanted it.

He wanted to call it ICE is Right.

And he's like.

It's a play on words.

Because ISIS is also good.

That's a tough one, man.

But anyway, I will say I was hoping for more biting humor because they.

I think we said this before.

Saturday Night Live does have a very unique opportunity because although they are not the super bowl, as far as people watching, this is still one of the only shows that is on the air that is live that has something to say very quickly.

South Park's the only other one that is.

That is even broaching this.

And there's doing it tremendously well.

That being said, I still very much enjoy your Weekend Update and everything like that, but I wish they would have just really gone for the jugular a little bit more.

And if that's Lauren.

Maybe that's Lauren.

I have one more question.

For you about this, seriously.

But like, we've seen a lot of late night hosts get attacked and you know, these kind of things about, like, funding or, you know, licenses being pulled and things like this.

Do you think that plays at all with, with NBC and saying, okay, make jokes?

I'm, I'm not trying to tell you what to say or not, but also keep that in mind.

I'm sure that there's an aspect of that that your lawyers are talking and I'm sure Lauren probably has to play nice to a certain extent because it is a network show and they have advertisers to answer for.

However.

But it, but I, I agree and.

I'm not, I'm not excusing them, by.

The way, not at all.

But.

And it's also the kind of thing, it's like, now's the time to not be cowardly about those kinds of things and make a stand and say, okay, well, if you want to push back on this, then you.

And we're not doing the show historically.

And I mean very, very recently historically, you know, Jimmy Kimmel's on abc, Colbert's on cbs.

Jimmy Fallon is on NBC.

Jimmy Fallon is the one out of all of those that has done nothing.

Right.

As far as, like, speaking out, I will say no.

No compared to no, no, hold on and let me finish.

And then you can promise you.

The idea, though, is that if that's even up to Jimmy Fallon.

I don't think that it is.

I think that it is absolutely somebody above and Jimmy Fallon is going on, get along.

He's like, well, I guess I'll just do, you know, funny games and stuff, because that's who I am and whatever.

I don't want to get into politics, but that might be the narrative overall from the corporate structure of SNR, of NBC.

And then SNL is part of that as well.

That's all I wanted to say.

No, for sure.

And I do agree with you because I think Fallon, I'll say he's the weakest of the late nights, especially when it comes to his commentary on things.

He's much more of a, like, fun games and like, let's just have a good time kind of guy.

He has taken shots in the monologue and he has some things to make fun of him for sure, but it's definitely, it hasn't been as sharp, as biting or brave as what Kimmel, thank.

You for, thank you for that.

Because I don't want to say he's done nothing.

And that was, that was poor choice of words.

I meant compared to what Jimmy Kimmel is doing.

My goodness.

So, yeah, I'm sure that there's some of that.

But, like, yeah, this is the time to, like, stand up and say something.

It's okay, man.

Tell him to go.

You know, it's okay.

Yeah.

So the pedometer.

I don't know.

2.

I'll say you go for it.

I always go for 83.

I'm going to say.

I'm going to say 79.

Oh, okay.

82 is what I had closer thought going over.

I win.

Yeah, it was.

It was the.

The brief interaction because there was the back and forth.

I did, like, the Colin briefly wine.

He's like, well, that wasn't at dress rehearsal.

Yeah, exactly.

And I like.

And then there was.

I think it was the most molested boy Scout.

That was great.

Where Colin was like, like, like, I can't believe that didn't get him back.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And that's.

That's the interaction between the two also in my.

My.

My boys are in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts.

And so, like, I look at it going like, don't make that joke.

It's not.

That's not how it is anymore.

It's like Canteen Boy.

No, I know, but it's one of those things where when it's about something in your life, you're like, well, yeah, I wish that narrative wasn't out there like that anymore.

Well, it is different because they asked for consent now.

Good God.

All right, let's talk about the Weekend Update segments.

Let's start with Marcelo Hernandez.

First, I want to give a shout out to what I. I thought was the best joke in Weekend Update.

Oh, go ahead.

Which is when they were talking about the suicide pods for couples, and then they talked about the suicide pods for single guys, which was the test.

The Tesla.

Yeah, that was a great.

That was aggressive.

That was good.

So good.

All right, Marcelo Hernandez as Gen Z translator, which really would have helped Ben last week.

That's true.

A lot, actually.

Unk.

Marcelo Hernandez teaches Colin Joseph Michael Che slang, including chopped, cooked, fa.

Glow up.

What'd you guys think of this?

Was this Marcelo at his best?

Did you think this worked?

Well, not at his best, but also pretty decent.

A pretty basic, basic bit.

You know, acting as Colin Jost being out of touch and, like, explaining those things.

I'm sure, like, we're the same age.

Yeah, exactly.

And I'm sure.

I'm sure it's also a helpful thing for people who don't understand.

But.

Yeah, sometimes some might say we have somebody on this podcast, apparently.

I read this on Live from New York.

People at dress rehearsal said that they swapped out a punchline during this, where at the end of the thing, it says that slang is dead when Elon Musk says it.

They actually said slang.

This slang is dead when Jimmy Fallon says it, and they swapped it out.

So shout out to subreddit Live from New York.

We are avid readers, and I think.

I'm gonna post this episode on Live from New York and we'll see what happens.

All right, sure.

What do you think of Marcelo Hernandez?

So, yeah, no, I. I like Marcelo's comedy when it's more about his life.

I think that he's just.

He can do anything as far as making things funny.

It's definitely more funny when he's speaking from personal experience.

But they.

They need a.

Almost like the Pete Davidson resident young person type thing, and he is that one of the youngest members of the.

On the cast.

And it does, because he's not white.

It also makes it way better, you know, in order to.

Because, like, as.

As white culture, all we do is steal from.

From anybody who's not white, and then, you know, it's dead.

No doubt, fam.

No cap.

No cap.

Brad's not white.

But, I mean, it's fine.

I just.

I want to know when things are cooked, you know?

All right, moving on.

Jeremy Collain is Mr. On blasting commentator with light roasts.

Jeremy Callane is really becoming a member that I love in this guest.

Darn.

He has that Bobby Moynihan innocence, and I really missed that.

You go keep going, then tell me, walk me through the sketch or walk me through this bit.

Let me know what you thought.

Well, it was just.

That's literally what it is.

He's just giving these light roasts, but it's innocent.

It's funny.

And again, I'm thinking of.

Picture him naked.

Literally named his name Bobby Moynihan.

Bobby Moynihan.

Other than Bobby Moynihan.

Who would you say is similar to Jeremy Colane on this show, though?

Like in previous cast members?

So there are.

There's a bit of Beck Bennett ness to it, like, all.

But only when Beck Bennett and Cal Mooney are together, where it's that false confidence.

Yeah, but it's.

It's because this is.

This is a guy at a desk wearing that outfit being like it's on blast, you know, like, it's a bit of Beck Bennett and calm Mooney ness because.

And there's.

They're overconfident in who they Are.

I think there's a little bit of Tim Robinson in there, but, yeah, this is.

So much of this is hinged on how dedicated he is to the physical performance.

And he did such a good job.

As did the audio cue of, like, hitting.

Yeah, that was.

It was.

Oh, the last one was always perfectly done.

And then, of course, I'm.

I'm 99% sure that that last one, that was 100% improvised, which is great.

But, yeah, I'm here for that.

I love when.

I love when something can happen on the show where I have a notion where I think this is going.

Yeah.

And then I'm like.

And I honestly, I was prejudging the lead a little bit.

I was sitting there going, I don't think I'm going to like this very much because I think it's just going to be too basic.

And I freaking loved it.

He took it in a completely different direction.

I thought he was going to.

I loved it.

Yeah.

The physical dance moves.

So the last one, I couldn't believe how long he.

He did it for.

And it was just.

It was just hilarious.

And so now while I was watching it, I was thinking to myself, I wonder truly how many hours he just practiced, you know, just to make sure it was perfect.

That's a lot of time probably doing that.

What is he from, like, where.

Where is he going?

Is he just a Groundlings guy?

I don't remember where.

I forget where, but I know for a while he was doing stuff over at Dropout, so he's.

He definitely has some origins over there with a lot of really good comedians.

But it was more of this.

If you want to do that on the show, buddy, here.

I mean, between this and, like the grocery store thing that he did with Melissa McCarthy, like, he's definitely coming into his own.

I'm.

I'm really happy with the.

The feature players and how they're.

They're growing.

Cam Patterson maybe is still the only one that.

Yeah, he did a great job with Michael Irvin.

I hope there's more of that type stuff where he can really dial in either another impression or whatever.

I don't know.

I really like the way Camp Patterson looked directly into the camera for most of the wedding dance.

Yeah, exactly.

It's not.

Not great.

But, hey, at least he hates the show.

I don't think he hates it.

No, I know he was.

He was just doing stand up.

Yeah, he did get jokes about it.

Yeah, I'm going have to go listen to that.

So that comment that, you know, everybody was making about Camp Anderson, like, I don't know, man, he's probably not going to last.

It's like they've never seen stand up comedy before and like, yes, you're 100%.

He's going to on the show like that.

Like, I'm, I'm not white.

Like, this isn't for me.

These are great bits also.

Yeah, that's the thing is like, he's not even really on it.

He's talking about the practicality of who it's not.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

That was a very, very funny bit.

When ego left the show, we literally talked about like there's, there's an absence.

Right.

Of, of black cast members, all these kind of things.

So it's, it is a, it is a commonly known thing that there's a minority issue sometimes.

Well, sure.

I mean, they had to do a photo of Cash Patel.

That's true.

I never thought about that.

All right, moving on.

Grandpa at the wedding, newlyweds Asha Badia and Cam Patterson.

Toast.

87 year old grandpa played by Teya Taylor.

Earth, Wind and Fire was a DJ played by Mikey Day.

Revised him via dance.

Did this.

This is obviously Teyana Taylor doing a lot of physical comedy doing dance.

She was very kind of.

She got to overact on this one a little bit.

Right.

What do you think?

Did she hit the mark on this one?

Let's go with you, Brad.

I think that this sketch is cute.

It's, it's not particularly hilarious.

I think that Tiana Taylor did a really good job of like throwing herself into it physically.

It was fun watching her do that, but I just didn't think it was all that great of a sketch.

And also in the bald cap coming, that's, that's.

The other thing is like, it didn't get helped by the fact that there was the distraction of the bald cap having the weird fold in it.

Her glasses flying off.

I don't know how they didn't figure.

That out during here is a physical manifestation about how being too excited and rushing a bit can actually hurt the sketch.

So like just in the other ones where she maybe is talking a bit fast because she's nervous, this is a physical embodiment of that.

Flipping her head around a little too fast breaks the wig adhesion, flipping the glasses off, which if she slows down ever so slightly, both things stay in place and don't ruin the illusion of the sketch, which again, maybe it's a little bit on her to go a little too crazy.

But again, to play my own devil's advocate, you're exactly right.

How do you not figure out to loop the glasses on and, you know, I don't know.

Yeah.

Because I don't want to blame her.

But I don't blame the ball cap on the, on the, on the staff.

That's her, like, throwing her head around.

I don't want to blame her for that either because I also think that, like, it's okay if you're going to go harder during the live show than dress rehearsal, because that's exactly what happened with cowbell.

Absolutely.

Christopher Walken wasn't giving his full Christopher Walken during dress rehearsal, and the sketch didn't go.

Will Ferrell put on a shirt four times.

Smaller shirt.

Yeah, exactly.

You know, so there's.

It's fine to escalate your performance live and.

But I feel like they should have anticipated like that and like, it should have been more secure.

The glasses should not have been flying off every time.

It was a little weird because normally that's.

And maybe that's.

Was that maybe by design.

I doubt it.

Because you walked over and somebody like.

Yeah.

An audience member had.

If, if they don't know, she's going to go to 120%.

Right.

They.

They think maybe it worked really well.

It could have worked really fine and they're not worried about it.

But I think my favorite part of the bit, though, was when they do the moment where the Mikey Day is.

The DJ is like, oh, I guess I'll have to do something about this.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, yeah, I didn't hate the sketch, but I think it was.

It was pretty good.

Weird thing is this is after.

This is after a weekend update.

So, you know, they had the time because sometimes they have to do really quick changes and put on cap.

I thought that immediately, too.

I was like, oh, they had all this time to put this together.

Yeah.

But, yeah, what was this guy.

What was the sketch that was it after this one where they, they.

The camera stayed a bit and you could see them trying to pull her away and she was still kind of active.

It was this one was that.

I love that so much.

That's her having so much fun and.

The guy's like, okay, come on, we gotta go.

And they grab her by the arm and move her and she's still kind of dancing as the old man.

Like, that means that she was literally in the moment, and I love that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right, moving on.

Backstab Island Survivor style show.

Tiana Taylor's is the nice contestant, and she wants friends amid backstabbing.

So this kind of plays on this idea that, you know, on all these kind of wilderness shows and things like this, you're competing against each other.

I'm not here to make friends.

Yeah.

And so people are very competitive.

Taya Taylor plays a character who is not.

She's just, like, there to make friends.

I am here to make friends.

Friends and also, evidently, to have a lot of sex.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

People are always having a little fun on.

So my favorite.

My favorite part about this, I actually.

Didn'T dislike the premise of this.

I thought the premise.

I think.

I think the premise is good.