‘SNL': The 15 Very Best Sketches of Season 42 So Far, Ranked (Photos)
Some “SNL” sketches are hilarious and memorable; others don’t really land.
[...] others get overshadowed because of the speed of the show, with audiences not realizing how great a sketch was until later, or maybe never.
Cena kicking Mikey Day through walls is funny, but his high-energy, high-voiced karate bully is funnier.
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The song celebrates (kind of) Barack Obama during his last Christmas in office, but the person who really gets honored is Joe Biden, thanks to Leslie Jones’ verse about how attracted to him she is.
“SNL” answers a very important question of “Where is Lucas’ family in ‘Stranger Things?'” When they show up looking for their son, they turn out to be the only sane people in the whole supernatural Midwestern story.
“Haunted Elevator (featuring David S. Pumpkins)” Host:
The dancing skeletons gag can’t sustain laughs for as long as it’s dragged out, until the final punchline redeems the whole thing.
[...] Yello’s “Oh Yeah” kicks on and you think it’s going to be some crazy adolescent fantasy — except it becomes horrifying.
Moments like Alec Baldwin’s Trump fidgeting in the background and his scary flyby when Hillary Clinton (Kate McKinnon) has her back turned perfectly capture the actual event.
Cops discover a suspect in a closed kids pizza restaurant, where the animatronics keep switching on.
Aziz Ansari absolutely kills as the Chuck E. Cheez-esque character, but everyone in the sketch is hilariously convincing as the stilted, incredibly unfun-looking robot band.
A first-person look at how Donald Trump sees the world is funny in a goofy way, as he watches super-simplified news reports or Kellyanne Conway runs in to calm him.
[...] it turns the corner into hilarious as Trump looks in a mirror — and what he sees is John Cena.
During the election, it seemed like Trump Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway couldn’t catch a break.
Everything here is great, from Conway’s increasingly care-free activities to the nonsense on-the-fly explanations she gives for Trump’s comments.
Right after the infamous, unverified memo supposedly including compromising information about Trump from Russian intelligence, we get Trump’s first press conference.
Riffing on an episode of “Black Mirror,” Aziz Ansari and his Uber driver (Bobby Moynihan) are both struggling in increasingly ridiculous ways to impress the other to earn a five-star rating.
The best “SNL” sketches are the ones that feel a shade away from real life and this one taps something fundamental about the social media-infused world.
In a charged national moment approaching the election, this sketch gets at an essential truth: