In this episode of the Ten to One Podcast, Brad, Nate, and Ben dive deep into the January 31, 2026, episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by the surprisingly weird Alexander Skarsgård.

The guys go sketch by sketch through the night, discussing Skarsgård's best and worst performances from a brooding, Viking-themed pre-tape to the high-fashion absurdity of Jane Wickline being an Olympic luger and Ashley Padilla being a mom with a change of heart.

In this episode, we discuss:

1. The Host: Alexander celebrating the 1,000th episode of SNL in a low-key way
2. The Sketches: A full breakdown of the night, including Mom's Confession, Immigrant Dad Talk Show, and Tarzan.
3. Weekend Update: Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the latest headlines, plus we review the desk segments—including the return of Sarah Sherman doing her thing with Colin Jost, and the hilarious return of Two People Who Just Hooked Up.
4. The Awards: We crown our MVP of the Night and debate which sketch deserves the title of Sketch of the Night.

Whether you're a fan of the Succession star or just an SNL junkie, join us as we break down one of the most unique episodes of Season 51!

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Foreign.

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

And here's the podcast.

Welcome back, friends.

We did it.

We're here.

Good to see you.

Well, no, good to hear you.

Yeah, no, we don't even hear anybody.

I don't know what we're on.

I can see you.

Great start, boys.

I'm watching you right now.

Great.

Whoa.

Nice shirt.

Where did you get that?

And how many buttons does it have?

Where'd you get that?

The toilet store?

Cool pattern on those pants, Thelma.

Anyway, Alexander Skarsgard.

Just gonna jump right into it.

I am.

I've got things.

Yeah, we got a whole other thing.

Gotta do listener mail.

And we have listener mail.

We also sponsor.

And that's a different podcast, buddy.

Yeah, we don't really have a sponsor for this one.

Really cute.

Hey, you know what?

We're looking for sponsors.

If you'd like to sponsor the 10 to 1, please let us know at the 10to1pod.com.

Yeah.

If you have a sex shop or a coffee shop or a bookshop.

Or a coffee sex shop.

Yeah.

Or a book sex shop.

Yeah.

You know what?

Anything with sex, Brad, is really pushing that.

And actually those go to the top of the list and sometimes the bottom.

But we're.

Yeah, we're looking for sponsors.

Yeah.

Sponsor us or at least leave a comment.

Oh, by the way, Ben, you posted the last podcast.

You were brave enough to post it to the subreddit, right?

Yes.

New York.

How did that go?

Did we get any comments?

We got.

We had two comments from people we know.

Or.

No, I'm.

I don't know them, but I know them because it's Reddit, so the handles are weird.

No, no, we know one of them.

One of them was Ryan.

Ryan.

Yeah.

We appreciate that.

Right.

But that.

Yeah, but then the other one, I really don't know who that is, but it's a friend, clearly.

Yeah.

And I think that we got, like.

I don't know, it was 85% upvoted.

Really?

Yeah.

That's not bad.

So that's good.

I. I really thought we were gonna get, like, neg.

So we were.

I messaged.

I messaged the mods first and asked him if I could do it.

You know, I don't want to spam anybody.

And we just put it out there.

You know, we just want other people because there's.

There's 1.1 million people that subscribe to that subreddit.

Yeah.

So if we just got a little.

Did we get any more listeners than normal?

Probably not.

I didn't.

We won't really know until, you know.

Did we get any more new blisters?

Lots more.

That's all.

Some time has to pass.

Yeah.

No, Just feed my ego.

Yep.

Well, speaking of listeners.

Yeah.

We do have some listener mail here, so, Brad, do our listener mail song, please.

Hey, look out.

Here comes a letter from the viewers.

That was a very sad, like, morning show song.

It's just.

Hey, put your coffee out.

It's time for the soft news.

All right, let's go to some YouTube comments first.

This is from Mr. Tran Kong.

Jeremy Colleen is the MVP of the episode, and he's giving me Bobby Moynihan vibes, you know.

Guys agree?

Yeah.

So later on, when I remembered how good that character we can update was, I was like, maybe it should have been Jeremy Culhane as the mvp.

It was pretty stellar.

Yeah, no more of that, please.

I just.

I love me some Cole Hayne.

We want to get blasted.

Yes.

Ashley Padilla's confidence sketch was definitely the highlight of this episode for me.

You guys are great.

I just found this podcast, and I love it.

Looking forward already for your takes on Alexander and Cardi B next week.

All right, that's one.

See one new listener.

We did it.

All right, let's go to Spotify.

Kimberly Spotify Eagle says, I agree that James Austin Johnson is super talented.

If you haven't listened to his Tis the Grinch holiday podcast yet, you must.

He does an amazing Grinch impression and interviews celebrities.

I stumbled upon it one day, and I'm just loving it.

Also, appreciate your support for Democratic values and using your platform.

Didn't announce ice.

Thank you.

That's right.

Yeah.

Did you guys listen to that podcast or no?

The Grinch podcast?

No, I, I. I only just found out that he was doing that, like, during Christmas.

I found it out by accident, so I imagine it's probably pretty clean, because I think it's, like, officially sanctioned.

Well, Nate, this is right up your alley.

I mean, you love everything Christmas, so.

You'Re gonna have to.

Yeah, but.

All right, I'll try.

And then.

Last one.

Tyler Whitney from Spotify says, love this episode.

I actually thought Tiana was just fine for most of the sketches, but the writing was strong, and I appreciate her not holding back.

We did mention that I think she gave it her all.

Yes.

Jeremy Collaine is my favorite new addition by far.

He was pretty big on TikTok as well.

As a pretty consistent improv guy on Dropout before snl.

Yeah, that's our friend Tyler.

Oh, Tyler.

Yeah, we love it.

We.

We're part of the.

We're part of group of boys with Tyler.

Don't say it like that means.

But the beefy boys.

All right, that is worse.

I'd like to apologize to everyone else.

That is our listener mail.

So if you want to leave us a comment on Spotify or Facebook or YouTube, you might get your comment read on this podcast as well.

We.

We just.

We just genuinely appreciate all the listeners and all the.

Just feedback we get about what you liked in this episode or in our episodes, but also in the episodes, snl.

As long as you agree with us.

If you don't.

If you disagree with Brad is fine.

Yeah, I know.

That's.

Yeah, that's the one thing.

Or, like, if you don't like Ben's jokes, like, that's also something that you're hearing.

Check.

That's what I'm saying about that.

What?

Exactly.

All right.

Alexander Scarsgard.

What?

You get to say it now.

I said it earlier, and it was too soon.

What is.

What is the letter?

I've got a question for you.

What do you call the letter volcano.

With the a with the.

With the O above it?

A rune.

Well, that's my kid's name.

No, I actually don't know what it's called.

I don't either.

The only thing that I thought you would know, the only thing I know about symbols like that is that the two dots is called an umlaut.

Okay.

Is that really?

Yeah, I thought it was like, an omelette.

No, that's an egg sandwich.

Yeah, you're gonna put some ham in that Oomlat.

All right.

Did you guys like the north van?

Yes.

Yes.

Did you.

He's been in a ton of TV shows too, right?

Succession, Murderbot.

What was the one he did?

Oh, that was even murder about.

With Michael Pena.

War on everyone.

I can't remember.

Netflix show or Netflix.

I don't remember which is very good.

Would you rank him as other than his dad style?

Would you rank him as the large, the.

The biggest, most successful of the Scars Guards?

I mean, his brother plays it, so probably just because of that.

Yeah.

No, but Stellan's done a lot more, and Bill's career is still kind of growing.

Yeah.

Like, it was like, his first big thing.

So you think it's.

You think it's Alexander, Bill and then Frank.

Frank Skarsgard.

Yeah.

Underrated.

He doesn't do any entertainment stuff.

No, he's a lawyer.

Yeah.

He's very much like Frank Stallone, you know?

Yep.

You guessed it.

Frank Stallone.

All right.

This was the thousandth episode of Saturday Night Live.

Yeah.

And they did a really big celebration for.

Was that weird to you guys?

A little bit that they didn't?

No, because it's not as if they.

I know we've been celebrating a lot.

It's not as if they've celebrated any of the other Centennial episodes.

250th or the 750th or anything like that.

I don't know.

A thousand episodes seems like a big deal.

I mean, he does mention it and we'll get to that, I imagine.

Only because they kind of had a bigger deal.

Yeah.

I think that if.

If the earlier anniversary didn't just happen, they might have done something for it, but.

All right, let's get started here.

Cold open ice Reset meeting.

Former cast member Pete Davidson makes a cameo.

As borders are Tom Holman.

He holds a meeting with a room full of clueless, aggressive ice agents played by Keaton Thompson, Mikey Day, Jeremy Gillian, and Ben Marshall in Minneapolis to try and rebrand the agency's image.

Do you think within the last 10 years, Pete Davidson is the worst impressionist they've ever had?

Yeah, 100%.

And I don't even understand why they asked him to do this, because there's nothing about Pete Davidson that is like, oh, yeah, he's going to be great.

Great as Tom Homan.

Oh, my God, he looks nothing like him.

And I say this as somebody that loves Pete Davidson.

I love Pete Davidson.

I was very concerned that this was happening.

I was like, what happened?

Part of me wonders if maybe they had somebody else lined up and then it didn't work out and they're like, well, Pete lives here in New York.

Let's just.

He owes a lot of favors.

Yeah.

Just cuz it makes no sense whatsoever.

It is.

It's not a good impression.

He didn't even try.

Nothing.

Nothing that Pete does comedically lends itself to.

To the characterization of Tom.

Also, if you've got Pete Davidson, who's fish out of water in this role, and you.

You can draw attention to it by saying, it's so bad that we've got me playing this guy.

Like, they didn't even go that angle.

Yeah.

It's just jarring.

It's just.

It's really strange.

Like if.

If they were going to use something that was like, signature of like, Pete's comedic presence on SNL or just his general personality, that would be one thing.

But there.

There's nothing to this whatsoever.

It's just.

It's almost doa, honestly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

She's a very weird person to put into that role.

That being said, SNL has been catching a lot of heat lately for how they're handling or not handling this.

Didn't help the.

The overall situation in Minnesota when there's a lot of people saying, and I don't like saying that that phrase.

There's a lot of people saying.

People I've read articles online that say this is a very dire situation and SNL is not stepping up to the plate.

They should be going for the jugular more and more.

We've heard that, though, a lot over many years.

Right.

Where.

Yeah.

Where they're like, oh, they really could get mean here, but they're not.

Why are they holding back Type stuff.

And the thing is, I guess if I had one defense of snl, even though I absolutely agree that their political satire and stuff like that leaves more than enough to be desired, is that SNL has never necessarily been a show that has, like, really been super mean or like, the sharpest teeth.

Right.

Yeah.

You know, like, they don't.

They don't really go for the jugular, you know, even when they were doing Sarah Palin.

When they were doing George W. Bush.

Yeah.

I mean, look at that.

Will Ferrell's George W. Bush is a somewhat kind George W. Bush.

Yeah.

And it's.

And it's.

It makes him look like an idiot for sure.

But, like, they've done that with counter politics.

A lovable idiot.

Yeah.

You know, it's nowhere near the level of, like, sharp teeth that, like Colbert last week.

Tonight, Tonight, the Daily show, you know.

So, like, they know what their lane is.

And unfortunately for the show, a lot of people are kind of tired of shows like that and like the Jimmy Fallon's of the world that are just kind of making light of it but not taking it seriously because enough is enough at a certain point.

Yeah.

And I get.

I do really get both sides of that.

It's got to be extremely frustrating for a writer to have those parameters and say, like, listen, I have.

Here's the jokes.

I could say that I'm never going to work here again because I'm going to just go down in flames, but this is really what I think.

Or here's what's going to get on the show.

And there are two wildly different cards to play there.

Yeah.

Yeah, a couple things that I think, like, were little standout bits I thought were amusing.

Is James Austin Johnson's character always saying, now, this could be wrong.

I could be wrong.

But army, like, that's very funny.

Also, I noticed a discrepancy between live and online, because when it happened live, I was like, oh, they fucked that queue up.

Or they messed that cue up.

Sorry, how dare you?

But the.

When they do the cut to everyone raising their hand in the live show, it was an awkwardly framed shot with Ben Marshall kind of centered in the background.

And the.

And James Austin Johnson and whoever was to the right of left of him, like, not framed, right.

I was like, oh, they messed that up.

But I went to the online version and checked, and they cut to the wide, and they fixed it online.

So there you go.

There's a little Brad nitpick for you.

Since they did decide to talk about ICE and do a sketch on it, I would just like to reiterate the position of this podcast, which is.

And forgive my language, you already said the F word once.

Oh, okay.

A fist.

Ice right in the butthole.

Okay.

With glass knives.

All right, all right, Call me.

But I especially want to say this after watching a documentary that I saw during.

You saw the Melania documentary.

Finally, the 20.

20, 26th.

Tonight's film festival just happened, and there's a virtual component.

I didn't go to Park City this year, but there was a documentary that I watched called Everybody to Kenmure street, and it's about the situation that unfolded in Scotland where there was an impromptu immigration enforcement protest, where on Mayday, which is a big bank holiday in Scotland, an immigration enforcement van showed up in this small neighborhood in Scotland, and they were attempting to detain two Sikh men and deport them from the country.

All right, let me just be clear, because this is not a bit.

Obviously, this is American immigration, or this is Scottish immigration.

Scotland.

Scottish immigration.

Sometimes Americans think that, like, this immigration stuff is only happening here.

It's happening all over the country.

And this was home office from London.

So this is like a big international kind of thing.

And so they're there.

The van's in the middle of the street.

The community sees that immigration is there, and so some people get curious.

They come out, find out what's happening, and very quickly, people start showing up and protesting and rallying around the van.

A guy had gotten under the van and wrapped his arms around the axle of it so the van couldn't move.

And the crowd just how Was he a Viking?

Oh, is it Me, no, he wasn't stopping it from moving, but, like, they're not going to move it because he has arm wrapped around the axle.

Well, see, that's the difference.

No, and so in America, they would have just driven.

So this is what I want, I want to point out, is this protest builds and builds.

There are hundreds of people in this small street in this town in Scotland, and you have tons of police that are there.

And at one point, the police try to make their way with a huge group of cops through the protest crowd to the van where it's at, and a show of force, essentially, like, trying to push through them as people are laying down and they're, like, crawling over people, pushing through them, everything.

Not one of them has their weapon drawn.

Not one of them is trying to hit or pepper spray any of these protesters.

And these are protesters who are physically trying to hold them back, laying on the streets in front of them, like, literally putting their body in between other people.

Not one police officer has any weapon drawn.

There's no physical confrontation from these cops whatsoever.

There were only three people who were arrested and, like, actually had to be pulled away in the situation.

And, like, this is.

This is how this situation is civilly handled, where people are allowed to protest, voice their opinion, stop law enforcement from doing something they think is immoral, and the law enforcement acts accordingly.

Now, Brad, are you saying that this is something the rest of the world is getting right and America by itself is getting wrong?

Because I don't know.

Have you seen the lack of gun violence in America?

I feel like we've pretty much nailed that one.

That's a good point.

Rest of the world's kind of got to catch up to us on that one.

You know what?

The defense rests.

But, yeah, so I. I'll say, yeah, fist ice with a bunch of times.

Don't.

Don't stop.

And, yeah, so that's.

That's that.

But, yeah, no, I. I know that.

Obviously, we.

We talk about SNL with reverence always.

We're just big fans of it.

It's.

It's very, very easy to sit here and say, they should go for the juggler.

They should do this, they should do that, but not necessarily knowing their place, but understanding how to weave.

That is the hardest job in comedy.

For sure.

It is.

But I also do agree that there is more that they can do and that they should be trying.

I think they're doing too much.

I'm joking.

Here's a joke.

I was just joking.

I was just joking.

Well, that's the Show.

Anyway, this sketch was bad.

All right, moving on.

Alexander Skarsgard monologue.

Alexander Skarsgard acknowledges the thousandth episode milestone briefly, but spends the monologue interviewing the SNL band, claiming they never get enough love.

It devolves into him awkwardly insulting them and kind of playing a fake saxophone.

Well, the saxophone's real.

The sounds coming out of it are not.

Okay.

I thought it'd be fun to see how many, because I know you guys are longtime SNL fans and their band has been there a long time.

Yeah.

How many SNL band members can you name?

Oh, it's just GE Smith and Lenny Pickett.

Yeah, there you go.

Okay.

Listen.

But I know that he was.

Only because they used to say G.E.

smith and the Saturday Night Live band.

Right.

Which, I mean, I'm not saying I'm a good person, I should know the names, but I do not.

Oh, actually.

Nope.

Okay.

Who is David Letterman's guy?

Paul Schaefer.

Paul Schaefer.

He was part of the band at one point.

Wasn't he cool?

He's not part of it today, but.

Did you name Howard Shore yet or.

No.

No shit.

Howard Shore.

Famous composer Howard Shore.

I don't know if you guys ever.

Did the scores for the Lord of the Rings movies, amongst many other films.

Yeah, he was a backup keyboardist.

He was there at the very beginning.

He was the musical director for the first five years.

But.

Yeah, so right now, the younger girl that is behind the leader is Maddie Rice, and she's a very famous guitarist.

And.

But most of the members they've had on here have been on there.

I mean, like, Lenny Pickett's been on since 85.

Leon Pendarvis, the keyboardist, has been on since 80.

Steve the trombonis, has been on since 85.

Same with the alto saxophone.

Just think about that gig.

Like, I mean, it's just amazing.

This band has been together for as long as they.

And they just.

I mean, you can tell.

The other thing we don't really talk about.

I think we've only mentioned it, like, once.

Go ahead and in your head, go ahead and play the Saturday Night Live theme.

Go.

Go for it.

I don't know that anybody really can.

It's just.

It's just freeform jazz.

Exactly.

I would like to give Brad a challenge.

I want you to come to lyrics for that, if you will.

Not now.

So.

But, like, you know, you think about it.

It.

It wasn't.

It was nothing to write home about.

Yeah, but it was.

It was just silly.

That's all it was.

I thought the band was a little awkward.

I mean, it's supposed to be.

I know, I know.

But, like, I didn't.

I didn't feel like they were.

Their interplay with him was all that good.

They're not actors.

No.

Yeah, I know.

So then they haven't made sketch awkward then.

But I like, was it.

Was it more or less awkward than Andrew having the popper in his hand and then awkwardly trying to produce it from his pocket, which it's been in his hand the whole time?

Did you see that part?

Because that was very awkward.

I saw it.

Yeah.

It was cool.

All right.

As soon as that happened, right off the bat, I'm like, it's starting well, okay, here we go.

This is going to be good.

Brad, what'd you think of this monologue?

It was fine, you know, it was.

It was amusing.

It was.

I do agree with Ben.

It felt like a throwback and it was.

It was endearing.

If anything.

I do like that the actual saxophone has got the walk through right at the end.

That was kind of cool.

Yeah.

All right, moving on.

Mom's confession.

Ashley Padilla.

I had said before in the last.

She wasn't a lot of sketches before this.

Yeah.

And so it's good to see her back.

This episode played a suburban mom who gathers her family, played by Alexander Scar, or.

Sorry, Alexander Skarsgard was the dad and the kids were Jane Wickline, Andrew Smukes, Sarah Sherman.

To announce she might have been wrong about Trump.

The family is terrified to agree with her too quickly, lest she snap back on her.

This sketch made me laugh so much.

Ashley Padilla was perfect in this.

It was also very.

This was good political satire.

I think this was done so well.

Also, I loved.

If I hear a single I told you so.

I will go see the Melania movie tonight.

Just the, The.

The funny, subtle little things that a mom would say.

She did it perfectly.

What did you guys think of this one?

No, she was absolutely fantastic in this sketch.

It lives and dies on her shoulders and she made it work so well.

The long.

She's so patient.

Yes.

The long lead in to like, like, listen, you know, and just like laying it out.

We're going to try.

Okay.

Eight bugs.

Okay.

My butt fell off.

Like, those are great lead ups.

And letting it breathe.

Sarah Sherman barely holding it together during.

Those first two, so good in the qualifiers.

There are times.

I'm starting to think just really, really solid stuff.

The slow, slow roll worked so well.

I saw a funny comment on Live From New York, too, where someone showed a picture of Alexander Skarsgard in the sketch, and they were like, I'm really glad they got Beck Bennett back for.

This sketch, not giving him a ton to do.

However, the lines that he did deliver were definitely added to the sketch.

I did, like, I definitely didn't need him in this sketch, but it was.

But I like that.

And I also like that he made it a character like he did.

He didn't just, like, talk, like, English or American accent.

Alexander Skarsgrd.

He gave him, like, a dad voice and everything.

Like, she's not going to dance on me later.

No, you wouldn't be here without it.

I mean, do you think this is political satire or not?

Oh, yeah.

I think so, too.

And it's one of those things, too, where it helps that this show can be pulled off and created in a week, because it does hit a moment that is happening because of the stuff that's happening in Minnesota with ice and whatnot.

That there are a lot of people who are like, you know what?

I think I'm done.

Yeah.

No, I've talked to two of my friends and their parents who are more conservative.

And what does that.

The same thing, you know, that their.

Their parents are saying, I don't.

Don't love this.

Right.

But also, they're so invested into it.

Right.

That it's hard.

It's really hard for some people that have been drinking that kool aid since 26.

I mean, you've had to.

You've had to compromise a lot.

It's been a decade, and you've let a lot of things slip, and now it's like, I don't know, they're shooting people in the streets.

This might be.

That.

This might be the thing.

But you know what's even worse, though, is thinking about the people who have had those conversations in their head, and they just double down harder, and they're just.

They just come up with the worst excuses.

Yeah, we should be killing people.

That's probably what you.

What I love about it, too, is the interplay of the kids, because there's this.

There's this, like.

Right.

You can respond in two different ways.

You can be like, oh, finally, Brad, you got it.

You got it.

I'm so grateful that you're finally getting it.

Or you can be like, they're responding angrily because we've been telling you.

You're kidding me, Mom.

Which it feels good to be right.

Yep.

And so you can.

You can be, you know, you can be happy for somebody, or you can be right.

And the kids chose to be right.

Yeah.

It was like.

It's kind of the difference between, like, Brad and I. Yeah, I see it.

All right, let's move on.

Winter Olympics promo.

This is a pre tape.

Are you guys Olympics fans or.

No, I don't give a shit.

Okay.

Jane Wickline plays Gertie, a terrified luge athlete.

Oh, you want to celebrate America right now?

I do.

I want to celebrate Olympic.

I think.

I think the Olympians are amazing.

I think Olympians are amazing.

I don't care if they're from America or not.

I mean, that's.

That's the kind of pride and patriotism that we need to get back to, like, being proud of a sport thing, rather than.

I hope America loses every event this year.

Really?

Yeah.

Out of spite.

We have.

These guys have tried hard.

Really trying hard.

And go to a different.

Go to a different competition.

They can't.

They can.

No, they can't change their nationality.

Olympics.

It's like, if you're in the luge, as Gertie is, it is like, you.

Can'T just wake up one day and be like, you know what?

I'm gonna be German.

You got to be American, because that's where they're from.

Disagree.

All right, fair enough.

Move on.

Jim Wickline plays Gertie, a terrified luge athlete who is convinced the sport requires zero skill and is just sliding down a tube.

Alexander Skarsgard plays her frustrated coach, trying to get her to embrace the slide.

Look, a spider.

Go.

Jay McGlynn was brilliant in this.

It's very, very funny.

I laughed so hard.

Her deadpan style was just perfect in this.

Her delivery reminded me of.

And I forget the actress's name, but it's the woman in I Think youk Should Leave that does the Shark Tank sketch.

The.

It's just this amount of money for the rest of my life, less and less every time.

But this goes back to something I have said before that I know you disagree with.

Brad.

I think Janewick Lane does better in pre tapes.

I think that another sketch in this lineup will prove you wrong.

And I think that.

I'm not saying she doesn't.

Good.

I said what I said, and I just.

And Jane Wickline has been funny from the start, and she proves that she's funny overall in this episode.

Two great.

She had a great episode.

But I said what I said, Ben.

I think she does better.

Or at least you can accentuate her comedy and her chops a little bit more in a pre tape.

I think that it's okay to say that she's better in pre tapes, but also very.

Yeah, that's what I'm trying to say, Brad.

You know, what you can say is that she's just funny in general, because she is.

There's some things that she does that are funny.

Thank you for coming around, gentlemen.

I've always been there.

You guys are late to the party.

Oh, my God.

All I'm saying.

All right, what did you do this, Benny?

No, I mean her comment about, like, you just get a.

What did you say?

Dead body.

No, you can just get a dead corpse.

Yeah, a dead corpse.

It has this body shape and put it in there and it would win.

I. I just really.

It's just the lamentation of the whole thing is just.

And then I love when they bring in the coaches, too, and the coach is like, yeah, someone with that shape.

You know, it's just great.

She leans really into it.

What made me laugh, too, is I'm going to think of this every time, because I will watch the Olympics and every time I see the luge, I'm going to think of this sketch.

But also, it is such a funny sport, right?

It is like you just get on a sled and you go down and I know luge athletes are gonna be like, no, there's so much more.

Of course there is.

But like, it is, though, just that weird kind of sport where this.

Her scream, too, is just great.

What's the name of the fucking Olympic place again?

The one that we'll see you in.

Cortimol.

Yeah, Milan.

Cortina, sure, whatever.

But we'll see you there.

Except not me, because I'm sick.

I'm sick.

Yeah.

No, this was very, very well done.

All right, moving on.

Scandinavian movie 2 featuring Stellan Skarsgard.

A sequel to a previous sketch.

Skarsgard and Chloe Feynman play serious Scandinavian actors filming a gritty drama.

And between takes, they get very giggly and.

And silly.

Was it Ryan Gosling that did the first one of these?

I think so.

That.

That feels right.

That's what I thought, but I can't remember off the top of my head.

It's a good question.

But.

But you're right.

Wig Wickline, take W. Yeah, yeah, she's funny there.

Very, very good.

Those are.

She Delivered that if you.

If you watch the episode again, the audience audibly laughs at her delivery every single time that she does it.

It's great.

Cuz it's hilarious.

Yeah, it's great.

So, but, but.

But again, it's funny.

I like that she.

She brought that.

She elevated the sketch there.

I didn't think the rest of it was all that funny.

It was Glen Powell.

The.

Just a few years another later.

Ryan Gosling.

Another gorgeous man.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This was not a sketch I was expecting them to bring back again so soon.

It's.

It's a.

It's one of those sketches where it's mildly amusing.

You know, I'm not like over the moon for it.

I think what.

What does sell it is the impressions that are in it and the level of giddiness.

You know, I still think when Glen Powell did it, the.

The sharp turn from being giggly and cut to dramatic.

Yes.

Was sharper.

Yeah.

And so that actually does elevate the sketch.

This one was a little bit more like they gave them a little bit more time to sit down and kind of get serious.

It wasn't cut right to the serious stuff.

And I think that hurts the sketch a bit.

Yeah.

What do you think of Stellan's cameo?

Oh, I mean, hilarious.

Like, it's.

I was hoping that Stellan was gonna make some kind of.

But yeah, having him there and do.

Do that is really funny.

Can I get a theme for Brad's nitpick corner?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, here it is again.

Something nobody wants.

Brad's nitpick.

Kona.

That's about right.

That's really good.

So I'm gonna nitpick.

Pick the nits friend.

The.

Logistically, the sketch doesn't make any sense because they mess up every single take and they're like.

They're like, all right, we got it.

Let's move on.

It' didn't get it.

You did one take, you messed it up, and you're moving on.

So either you're doing that and fixing it in post, or you're gonna do reshoots later because you didn't get any good takes out.

But Take Wound is.

Is so much more funny than take two hour.

So that's what they had to do.

But they should have done it again.

Okay, fine.

All right.

Immigrant dad talk show.

Marcelo Hernandez hosts his recurring talk show about having an immigrant father.

Alexander Skarsgard plays a guest.

Was he a Finnish or Swedish?

He was finished.

They make fun of.

He just started.

Oh, my God.

Go home.

Oh, no.

That's Making it so much worse.

I'm sorry, everybody, but of the white perspective of Mikey Day and Andrew Smooks who plays a father's son who kiss on the lips again, Alexander or Stone SKarsgard gets his second sketch of the night.

Come into here.

This is what, the third time they've done this type of immigrant talk show.

Yeah.

So do you like this?

I love Marcel Hernandez as this character.

It's.

There's a.

There's a lot to do here.

Yeah, I love, I mean, Brad, you own that melt ice shirt.

You wear it every day.

Hilarious.

Single handedly saving things.

Of course.

Definitely making a difference with your quarter zip jumper.

Yeah.

But no, Skarsgrd didn't do great in this one.

I didn't think.

Yeah, they don't, they don't give him a lot to do.

And that's partially the point because he's supposed to be a stoic kind of father and that's that I do like the variation that they're able to do with the characters who come to hang out with Marcelo Hernandez on the show.

It offers a nice, a varied approach to like what you're doing.

So you're not just doing the same thing Marcelo is doing.

Right, right.

And I did, I did real quick to that.

I did.

Read on, on, on Life from New York.

There were a lot of Scandinavian people that were like, that's pretty much.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I mean, as somebody who's sitting your shame.

Yeah.

As someone who comes from a Hispanic family.

I mean, that's why Marcello Hernandez character is so great.

You know, I think they need to figure out how to make the other side of the sketch funnier because they just repeated pretty much the exact same joke that they did before with it.

Like, sure, why isn't them kissing the mouth funny?

But come up with a different, you.

Know, it's no longer like.

Okay, yeah, exactly.

So, yeah, this, I think this was probably my least favorite iteration of it, but it wasn't necessarily terrible.

It is a good recurring thing, especially when you bring on Cardi B at.

The end was very.

The best part.

But having her just come out and like yell, steal his cigarette.

Yeah, exactly that.

Yeah.

No, she's great.

All right, moving on.

The Viking raid.

A pre tape where a group of Vikings, including James Austin Johnson and Jeremy Gillian are celebrating a bloody raid.

Alexander Skarsgard plays a sensitive Viking who feels left out of the group dynamic and behavior.

This, this made me laugh quite a bit.

Did you guys watch Vikings or any of the shows like that?

No, I did I did, and it felt very.

They did a great job of being, like, in the first kind of 20 seconds of this, like, it felt very, like, similar to that.

The level of violence in this sketch is alarming, honestly.

Like, there's a lot going on there and sad.

Alexander Skarsgard just made me laugh.

I actually really like the sketch quite a bit.

I laughed very hard at the beginning where he's just playing with, like, a little string with his sword, just kind of poking at it, like, whatever.

That's really funny.

Like that.

I don't know.

It just.

It goes to show you that even.

Even just setting it up without even saying anything.

They're doing a lot of work there.

The hand on the shoulder thing, that's funny.

Playing fetch, the playing football, it's good.

But I grew up with a rune of you on my wall.

Like, that's really good stuff, man.

Yeah, I thought it was clever.

I really liked the idea behind this sketch.

I thought it was just a kind of.

And again, everyone looked good.

I don't know.

I just liked how they packaged all this.

I didn't love the ending.

I thought that the cornrow haircut was like, oh, okay.

You know, I felt like they could have done something a little better.

That was the only thing I was like, yeah, this needed a stronger, you know, joke.

Hey, at least they didn't say, like, White Castle.

What, you.

Yeah, exactly.

Parody or whatever.

Yeah, no, I agree the Corden Road thing was a little bit weird, but in general, I really like this one.

All right, it's time for Weekend Update.

Ben, explain what we're doing here.

Brad, get out your computer.

Yeah, computerize it, buddy.

It's an old computer.

I think we're good on that sound effect.

I don't think we need that.

Oh, my God.

Mom, get off the phone.

We gotta do the pedometer.

You can talk to Grandma later.

So the pedometer is a score of 0 to 100.

100 would be the best score humanly possible in the game, which is, hey, did Michael Che and Colin Jost have a good repartee this week?

Is we can update Overall, very, very good.

Are there good punchy jokes that are meaningful?

And also, how are the Weekend Update bits?

How are the characters?

Does it all come together as one good vibe?

But mainly, and I say mainly, it is.

It's a great episode.

Meaning the predometer is high if the interplay between Jost and Che is also very high.

So that being said, I'm going to give this one a little bit higher.

I'm going to go higher.

I'm going.

I think I'll go 86.

Can I.

Can I get you do whatever you want.

I'm going to go 87.

Only because that's okay.

I think a.

The bits were very, very good.

Colin, Michael.

Che made fun of Colin quite a bit.

Compared him to a white supremacist, an.

Ice agent, Sarah Sherman.

Stuff that makes fun of Jost again, elevates it again.

So I might be a little low at 86, but I think it's at least 86.

I'm going to go.

Actually.

I'm going to go 88.

Brad.

Sorry, I lost my calculator.

84.

84.

We liked it better than you did.

Was last week 82?

Yeah, I think so.

Wow.

Not much of an improvement.

This is way better than last week.

Well, so here's the thing, and maybe this will help clarify to how, like, the scoring happens.

I didn't see it.

The biggest part of the Bredometer is solely the interaction between Che and Jeff.

They had fun.

They did have fun, but it wasn't a lot of fun.

It wasn't like a.

You know, they weren't like, jabbing each other all the time.

They weren't laughing.

They were laughing at each other's jokes.

But it wasn't.

It wasn't a lot.

It wasn't a lot.

You've seen.

You've seen when it's a lot.

The Sarah Sherman stuff is really.

Are we bringing back the nitpick corner over here?

The Sarah Sherman stuff is really funny, but that's not part of the Che and Jost dynamic, that Sherman and Jost have their own thing going on.

So you can't, like, count that as, like, a big contributor to the overall score.

I mean, what.

Having said that, Weekend Update overall was still very good.

That's why it's an 84 and it's not like an 88.

You know, I mean, I gave a pretty apt description of what the barometer is, and I described pretty much all those things.

And then he's over here just counting them.

Well, it's not really about how much the joke.

You're contributing too much weight to certain aspects of weakness.

Because I used to do the pedometer where it was pretty much just the interplay between.

And you're like, it's not just that there's so much more that goes into it.

No, I said, and now I do that.

And you're like, it's actually not.

It's the other way around, saying it's a bigger part.

And so you just.

You need to figure out moving target.

You need to figure out what it is.

No, what is.

What do you do?

Figure out it is what you do.

Don't talk.

You listen.

I know the math.

I'm sorry that you guys haven't figured out the algorithm yet.

You know, so maybe, maybe you need to take some coding classes.

I don't know, like, do, like learn something.

Crack open a book.

I hope.

You know what?

I hope we get like 10 comments and they're just 86.

87.

86.

That's all it says.

Literally.

No comment has ever given their own score.

I would love that.

I would love.

That's what we want this time.

Let us know what you think that's.

What we want this week.

Please, please, give us your.

Just give us a barometer score, okay, so that we can prove this chucklehead wrong.

They'll all be wrong.

Because you know why it's called the Bradometer.

It's not called the Ben.

If we have any listeners.

It's not called the.

The Nate Codex.

If we have any listeners named Brad.

You can own this.

Just put it there and you can own the Bradometer now.

No, because it's the Brad O meter.

My name is Brad Ohman.

It's trademarked and copyrighted, so try it.

Other Brads, you come in here on my show and you take my bit, I'll send you to the fucking jail.

Watch the language.

Okay.

All right.

So Prison Brad, tell us why you didn't like Weekend Update.

No, I didn't like.

No Weekend Update overall was good.

I just.

The interaction between them was not like, like the biggest.

Like, best.

Did you like any of the bits?

Did you like any of them?

Yeah, absolutely.

The Sarah Sherman stuff is amazing.

Oh, my God.

No, we're going to get to those.

But, like, did you like any of the jokes rather than.

Yes.

You don't remember him?

I don't remember him by.

By, like in my head.

All right, let's get to the bits then.

All right, Sarah Sherman played.

Weather correspondent Sarah reports from outside Rockefeller Center.

She actually is outside on this one, but it is mostly her screaming insults at Colin Jost.

This is just her, like, another avenue for her.

Her and Colin to do their thing.

Harder than when you were watching Cardi B's first performance.

That wasn't the best one.

The best one to me was the.

You even told me how you like it.

20, but it feels like 15.

That's a rough joke for Colin.

Jost.

Great joke.

And Jack McBrayer makes a cameo on this as well.

Love that.

So.

And technically, I believe he's making a cameo as Page Kenneth.

He said, I'm not working.

Yeah.

But I really loved this.

This was really good.

I love that.

She was genuinely.

I think.

I mean, she was outside.

Right.

I'm not being naive here.

Right.

She was outside, and it was just a clever way of doing this bit that they like to do together, so.

I know.

It was awesome.

All right.

I love that.

I mean, they.

I mean, let's just take a second.

They constantly find ways to get this dynamic.

I love it.

They keep going back to this well, but they keep changing the well.

It's a better well every time.

I love it.

I agree.

All right, moving on.

Second bit.

Two people who just hooked up, they've done this before.

Andrew Snoop, Andrew Dismukes and Ashley Padilla return as the awkward couple who clearly just slept together.

They try to discuss super bowl predictions, but keep making it about their weird sexual tension and relationship status.

They've done this.

What, two other ones, I think.

I thought it was maybe.

Okay, maybe just other.

One other time.

Did this work as well for you as it did before?

Yeah, it really did.

Like, there's.

They have an incredible chemistry with this sketch.

Their delivery is so good.

As she was.

These characters.

Yeah.

I mean, he's great too, but she's just so funny.

Just the way that they flip back and forth between, like, being frustrated with each other and feeling insecure and being flirty and being cute.

There's so many layers to these characters, and it works so well.

Yeah.

This.

It's.

It's so much fun to watch.

And the way that they're able to turn the phrases of what they're supposed to be they're talking about and make it about the relationship.

That's really good writing.

Yeah, no, it's very, very quick and clever writing.

And then the turn where it falls apart.

Yeah.

At the end is always hilarious.

You know it's gonna happen.

But still, I'm like, how are they gonna make it all fall apart?

The ring.

Okay, that makes sense.

I thought it was more of a casual thing.

Like, it's so good.

I love the.

And then maybe the Patriots get tired and the Seahawks can play with themselves for a little bit.

So good.

All right, moving on.

Play date.

Oh, I remembered one of the jokes that I liked from.

It's the insurance one from Che where it's like, where you can't die unless you have a pre existing condition.

We backtracked for that.

Yeah, because it was really good.

I'm sorry, listener.

All right, moving on.

Don't apologize to them.

Apologize to me.

I'm sorry, Brad, that you felt the need to go back.

No.

But now we know why the bometer is so broken.

Yep, we get it.

I get it now.

Totally get it.

Yeah.

Cuz I'm on a show with two morons.

All right, play date.

I'm above this.

Alexander Skarsgard plays Agnes, a tall, awkward, aggression prone pre teen girl meeting the neighborhood.

Click.

Played by Veronica Slowska, Jane Wickline, and.

Chloe F. Just so you know, it's Slow Kosa.

I'm sorry, but it is just derailing.

The show every single day.

They say her name at the beginning of every episode.

The least we can do is say it correctly.

He says it perfectly.

It's just your countenance.

I mean, geez, Louise.

Like, are you really going to be mad about that?

Geez, Louis, I call you Brad Amin sometimes.

That was really funny because he proved a point.

But he also made a good joke.

All right.

I don't even know where it was.

I guess Agnes doesn't know what blue your hairstyles are and eventually throws Sarah Sherman out a window.

There's a lot of physical bits there as well.

What did you think of this?

Jan Wickline does have another funny line in this.

Oh, my God.

She has several funny lines.

Stop asking her if she knows things.

But it's not even.

It's not even very funny.

It's the way she says it too.

Stop asking if she knows things like.

Hey, guys, what are we doing?

But yeah, that.

That is so funny.

I. I didn't know where this was going.

And when it finally did, I was like, oh, okay, that's.

That's pretty good, dude.

I was talking to Ashley about this as we're watching it, and the setup for this, the physical setup for this, the couch being where it is, the windows being where it is.

This is perfectly designed as a set.

Yes.

Even if he misses the window, he.

Wants to go behind.

Exactly.

But he yeets that thing.

And so the very first one that happens, it happens so freaking quickly that we literally like, oh, I was a little jarred because it looks for real.

Like he's grabbing Sarah Sherman.

No, the cut.

The cut was perfectly timed.

Perfect how they got it in there.

And he was able to grab it without you seeing that?

Like, it was.

Yeah.

Without knowing what was going on.

It takes about 0.1 seconds to be like, oh, no.

Okay.

Because it was awesome.

This and the Vikings sketch I thought were Alexander Skarsgard.

Yes.

Two best sketches.

I thought he was very good in both of these.

I think he was just really funny.

There was one thing that bothered me a little bit about this one, and it was not his fault.

His implant.

Yeah, obviously.

They kept getting his mouth.

Drove me crazy a little bit.

But he was so funny in this.

Chloe Feynman was, I think, having a lot of fun, trying not to laugh.

It was.

It was just incredible physical comedy.

Slowly.

Is.

Is they're going slowly.

I'm gonna say it from now on.

We're in like Polish world here.

Yeah.

Also, her and I are friends.

She said it's cool if I pronounce it that way.

You don't even pronounce your own name correctly.

It's Konavitz.

Anyway, slowly.

Koska.

Koska.

That's what I said.

He probably says it Chicago instead of Chicago.

Yeah.

Look at you, Hoser.

Wait, what?

But I will say her delivery of we're having a good time.

When is it over?

Like, that's just everything.

You really imagine that these could be, you know, preteen girls, like, just being really awkward.

I don't get hurt.

You know, the whole sketch works perfectly.

Yeah.

I agree.

This.

I'm not.

I would not be upset if they brought Chloe, Veronica and Jane back and made this a recurring thing and figured out other ways to do that.

I think the three interplay of them.

Three just in the physical comedy of it.

It was just really good.

You don't want Sarah back and Sarah.

Sorry.

Sarah Charman.

No, that's great.

Tarzan.

Alexander Skarsgard plays Tarzan.

He tries to break up with Jane Wicklin, or Jane Wicklin.

Jane, played by Sarah Sherman.

Because he feels he's outgrown her intellectually and emotionally.

He lists different red flags in their relationship.

This is like a kind of a caveman trope a little bit.

The caveman is becoming smarter and he doesn't like Jane anymore.

What did you think of this one, Ben?

So this is a sketch that somebody either got high and was like.

It was like.

If you think about it, Jane's kind of a friggin loser because why would she give up everything?

Like, she didn't have any friends.

No, no.

Romantic.

You know, it's.

That's a great take.

And then scars are.

Did play Tarzan in the movie.

So this Tarzan movie that he was in.

So this.

This all lines up.

It didn't go really as far as I wanted it to, maybe, but the Premise is very clever.

It's.

There's enough of me going, oh, man, that's so good.

Right.

That it was enough for me.

But it wasn't necessarily Laugh Out Loud.

Wasn'T my favorite sketch, but there was a lot in there.

But I was like, especially when he just brings up the fact that, like, I think I could do better typing it.

So good.

Yeah, the.

The premise is really funny, and I wish that they could have done a little more with it because it definitely feels like there's more meat on that bone.

The one only aspect I didn't really like is the.

The bit with Keenan felt kind of forced, and it didn't really feel like it landed very well.

It was very awkward to have that coming.

I don't know.

Yeah.

What was the point of it, really?

Yeah, I get what they were trying to do.

They clearly wanted that aspect of, like, the awkward move out to, like.

And, like, the movers show up in the middle of it, like, while it's happening kind of thing, but it just.

Felt forced or too out of left field.

Yeah.

And, like, it.

It kind of broke the.

The world of the sketch because, like, at first it felt like a regular Tarzan thing, but then it's like, oh, this is the one where there's talking animals also, apparently, it just felt weird and out of place.

But, yeah, it's the.

The.

The interaction bolts are there.

The nuts and bolts are there.

100.

Very, very clever.

But the.

Love.