It's more of a parody of how often period pieces use flowery language in their dialogue but your average Civil War soldier would never have such a good vocabulary
@@WaitingtoHit Plus it took forever to get a letter so if you knew how to write you'd generally want to write enough that the other person could read it for a while and you were taught to value long sentences with a lot of descriptive language. And if you didn't know how to write or read you were probably paying someone to write/read the letter for you and then it would be awkward to be more explicit and you'd likely be more brief and to the point such as "Take care of the children and please confirm we haven't lost more cows"
@@leif1075 no idea. Not basing it on who wrote it. Just basing it on him being the main person. I like that setup more, where he's the straight guy and the wives have the absurdist role.
Funny Lee SNL has never been shy of pushing the boundaries. It all depends on how they present it. A trash talking chick is not necessarily sexist. There are all kinds of women out there.
that would be a funny angle. him being all poetic in a traditional war glamorizing sort of way, and her being like 'yo, send me a dick pick next time!'
Fady Gabr The actress - sure, she can't help it and who cares. Actual people of those times though were forced to become right handed as children largely because writing in ink with left hand is pretty much impossible.
@@Ironmillos This isn't the middle ages my guy, Civil War was in the 1860s, nowhere near a "few hundreds of years" before Google. Last veterans died in the Cold War, when nukes and jet fighters were around. Stalin had died by the time the last verified vets did.
Not sure if I’m just really high but I genuinely think the joke that makes the entire skit is Bill Hader just inexplicably walking into the set as Abe Lincoln and weeping over the soldier’s body. I didn’t laugh at all throughout the skit but as soon as he showed up I was on the goddamn floor in hysterics
on a serious note: don't ever send pics of yourself to anyone who asks you for them. If they keep insisting against you refusing, then that's a big hi t that they are toxic and bring you no good. Stop wasting your time with someone who does't deserve you and QUIT the relationship.
I've seen quite a few of these old war romance letters skits. But this is the first I caught the flip side of the male letter sender being the incredulous exchange.😅
*Sincere question:* Did Tim write this sketch with Mikey *or did Mikey just love the sketch and remembered it when updating the pitch* for the brilliant THE WAR IN WORDS sketches❓❗️ *_It’s fun to think about other SNL sketches that could get an updated version of them:_* #Bowen as Darren Downer❓❓ or #Andrew as MANGO❓❗️ My suggestions are awful but there’s no doubt some that *actually could be good* 🤷🏻♂️
I hate when people say why was Tim Robinson let go from SNL, it's cause of skits like this. He just didn't do a good job with the skits he had. I like his show but I understand why he was let go and its definitely best for both sides anyways.
The Claire Foy/Mikey Day one is the best
Mikey and Phoebe Waller Bridge one was amazing too.
Hahaha true!
Who asked?
@@JuanTorres-hs3lc deez nuts
@@anandiganguly3086 And now the Mikey and Carey Mulligan one is a real rib breaker.
Her: What 14-year-old me thought I sounded like when I texted my crush.
Him: What I actually sounded like.
It's more of a parody of how often period pieces use flowery language in their dialogue but your average Civil War soldier would never have such a good vocabulary
It sounds like you’ve never read any old letters. The average person had a much better command of the English language back then.
@@WaitingtoHit english was just different, not necessarily more complicated
@@noahsvirsky9962 I didn't say that the language itself was significantly more complicated. Look up, and reread my comment.
@@WaitingtoHit Plus it took forever to get a letter so if you knew how to write you'd generally want to write enough that the other person could read it for a while and you were taught to value long sentences with a lot of descriptive language. And if you didn't know how to write or read you were probably paying someone to write/read the letter for you and then it would be awkward to be more explicit and you'd likely be more brief and to the point such as "Take care of the children and please confirm we haven't lost more cows"
@@WaitingtoHit False. The average person was illiterate back then.
My favourite was Mikey Day andPhoebe Waller-Bridge from WWII.
Not nearly as funny as the Mikey Day stuff. Those are amazing
True, one for every war.
How do you know who wrote this one?
@@leif1075 no idea. Not basing it on who wrote it. Just basing it on him being the main person. I like that setup more, where he's the straight guy and the wives have the absurdist role.
so true
This precedes Mikey Day by 5 years.
It would have been funnier if the roles were reversed. Him being the sensitive soldier and her being the trash talking docile chick.
+Archana Abhyankar but that could have been interpreted as sexist and inappropriate...
Funny Lee SNL has never been shy of pushing the boundaries. It all depends on how they present it. A trash talking chick is not necessarily sexist. There are all kinds of women out there.
true.. i guess you are right...
That sounds like real life Jennifer Lawrence though
that would be a funny angle.
him being all poetic in a traditional war glamorizing sort of way, and her being like 'yo, send me a dick pick next time!'
She doesn't even try to look like she's writing.
that's kind of the point.
You're going to be ok, pal
@@stevenfernandez4845 wait till he learns snl is for comedy; not oscar winning talent
She's a left handed, thats why right handed ppl find the way she writes weird
You wonder if any Civil War letters were actually graphic like this lol. I mean, people are people in any era!
Obviously the eloquent soldier would have said "flower of your womanhood" for the Vjay and Milk Bags instead of the crude "titz".
Madeline's hand should be all black from writing in ink with the left hand =]
Mine is.
She's left handed, she can't help it.
Fady Gabr The actress - sure, she can't help it and who cares. Actual people of those times though were forced to become right handed as children largely because writing in ink with left hand is pretty much impossible.
Evija3000 Maybe this is part of the comedic aspect in the sketch? Who knows? Jennifer Lawrence is smart like that, you know! :P
Fady Gabr I don't find it comedic, but who knows.
No one does this better than Mikey Day
I could listen to Jen speaking in this accent all day
and he died without getting a tit pic :( this just might be the saddest story
If he had waited a few hundreds of years he could just google them.
if only he could have hanged on for a few more months
*****
you guys are sick hope u know that.
i cried
@@Ironmillos This isn't the middle ages my guy, Civil War was in the 1860s, nowhere near a "few hundreds of years" before Google. Last veterans died in the Cold War, when nukes and jet fighters were around. Stalin had died by the time the last verified vets did.
You could tell they were working out the kinks with this sketch. Future ones with Mikey Day were gold .
Not sure if I’m just really high but I genuinely think the joke that makes the entire skit is Bill Hader just inexplicably walking into the set as Abe Lincoln and weeping over the soldier’s body. I didn’t laugh at all throughout the skit but as soon as he showed up I was on the goddamn floor in hysterics
we may both be really high... cause I though the Abe Lincoln walk-on was hysterical
I feel like Bill Hader was promised he could be in the sketch if he could find a decent Lincoln costume by Friday night
Jennifer Lawrence is left handed? :P
Yes :)
yes i noticed it in an Unscripted interview! i'm a lefty too so it's exciting :P
Yeah wheeeeeyyyyy 🔥
Thomas MacGillavry my whole family is left handed, but I’m right handed 😂😂
@@thankspete7447 you are adopted?😂lol just kidding
dahm that guy is committed
This series is one of their best for sketches
The Mikey Day ones were so much better
Absolutely
Mikey Day revived this sketch
on a serious note: don't ever send pics of yourself to anyone who asks you for them. If they keep insisting against you refusing, then that's a big hi t that they are toxic and bring you no good. Stop wasting your time with someone who does't deserve you and QUIT the relationship.
Its always relevant to say this, boundaries and respect for ourselves is worth everything and more!
Them not taking no for an an answer is a red flag, but asking for pictures _at all_ is not a red flag lmao
Apparently sending "nudes" was an actual social issue in the 1860s, irl.
Get a life.
The more you know 🌈
Lmao she doesn’t even try to look like she’s writing
Love her
She's left handed?
Wow left handed representation right here but unbelievable? Maybe she is not writing but that is how they write
@@jocelynmagtajas9123 left handed people can't write with a fountain pen
@@victorfergn Damn, so all the text I produced in my youth must have been fake.
@@MQsto Yes, I mean... you can barely produce text now.
So many privates were wasted during that dreadful war...
And not enough pictures were taken of them... alas, all those TP's lost to history!
2:00 the song is called “The Minstrel Boy” for those curious
SNL's Civil War sketches start and end with Colonel Angus.
Just how it is.
I've heard of him, wasnt he from the hot and moist parts down South?
i’ve watched the ones with claire foy and carey mulligan a hundred times, how come i didn’t know a reverse existed?
at the beginning he is amazed they had a real camera, but by the end he says his mom has a camera in her house so it doesn't seem like a big deal
Clearly an indication that Mikey was needed on the show!
Bro the ending makes me dieee for some reason. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Mikey owned this role.
Tim robinson is so good
Omg,look at her , She's so Adorable😘😘😘😘
Can't compare to the newer one 😆
Jennifer’s left handed. Cool.
Not gonna lie… Gregory really is sooo… ROMANTIC! ♥️.. 😂•😂•😂
I liked the William and Lydia skit better.
There's a short clip from good-nights with Bill dressed as old Abe somewhere on here, must be from this sketch. :D
Bill saved it at the end
Totally didn't make any sense. Hilarious.
Treemeadow yes. Best part, and he didn't say a word.
I wish they would show what was really scribbled on the papers by the actors at the end of all love letters skits.
The ones with hilariously unattached and unperturbed wives are so much funnier
My dear Lydia why do YOU miss our dog? Is he not with you at home?
@Gina Richards Right!! -Your horrified husband, William 😂
@@ginarichards6307that was one of my favorites hahaha
I've seen quite a few of these old war romance letters skits. But this is the first I caught the flip side of the male letter sender being the incredulous exchange.😅
How did THIS "cast member" NOT become famous?????
you're talking bout Tim Robinson? Dude he has his own show on Netflix "I Think You Should Leave", he IS famous lol
Her letters: ☺️🌸🩷🎀
His letters: 😈👿🖤🔥
The Mikey ones are great but this is going for something different. They can both be great
It would be so great if there was a movie on this
Lincoln crying over his corpse.😂
Kinda see why they fired him now
What’s his name?
@@TheJoker718 tim Robinson his show I think you should leave on Netflix is hilarious
why?
I was looking back on the 'War in Words' sketches (which I love)... this one did not hold up well. Maybe it was the first...
Hysterical!!!
This was the worst one ever. I usually love these.
Damn... just when I thought all of the war letters were
Going to be good.
Definitely needs Mikey Day to work
Well..this is my last breath
Lol
Oh dear
She looked like +Emily Blunt
Is this the guy from I Think You Should Leave? Tim Robinson?
no its rim tobinson
oh hey, she's left handed
*Sincere question:* Did Tim write this sketch with Mikey *or did Mikey just love the sketch and remembered it when updating the pitch* for the brilliant THE WAR IN WORDS sketches❓❗️
*_It’s fun to think about other SNL sketches that could get an updated version of them:_*
#Bowen as Darren Downer❓❓
or #Andrew as MANGO❓❗️
My suggestions are awful but there’s no doubt some that *actually could be good* 🤷🏻♂️
Brilliant
Wow, inspiring. Goes to show you, reach for your dreams. Private Greg Dorfman got his wish, some years later.
she should have sent a TP of his mother for him.
Funny how the music changes from soothing to Funny when the scene shifts from Maidlyn to her fiancé .
I love these. They're so dumb too
this must be the first instance of these; the future ones are better
This was just dumb, rather than funny! I prefer The War in Words skits...that's real comedy!
how are there a million views but only 142 comments
Isn't this a Greg Giraldo bit?
Pretty much how it is now trying to text a guy.
Madeline deserves better.
i feel like that story about the map is a historical joke i'm not getting...
I think the implication is that he showed a confederate soldier or sympathizer a map that included Union army positions or battle plans.
This guy was the funniest thing happening at SNL since Andy Samberg
Don’t worry. Shes all over the internet.
What music genre is that southern music style?
Greg Giraldo did a bit like this.
Jen😚
is that jennifer lawrence?
Yeah
Yes indeed
yes
It wouldn't have worked out anyway. She's left-handed and he is right-handed.
Meanwhile in 2022 🙏
She’s left handed!!
Has anyone realised that in the description it says it was aired 1/19/13 ?
Yes, that is when it was aired...
+Sara the 1st of the 19th month? It doesn't make sense
Oh, haha! In America they do the month/date/year and in Europe (like you are used to) they write the date/month/year in that order
+Sara , oh... That would Make A LOT more sense XD
I know, Americans are strange lil things haha
funny to watch this now after J.Law's leaked photos. i mean i love J.Law but still ironic
If you two are suppose to be funny, your aren't in the slightest.
Leaked photos?
To be honest, most people wouldn't use such flowery language even back then.
Is Jennifar Lawrence leftie?!
Yes she is ;)
She's left handed 😮
This is a little ironic, considering what went down about a year later.
This is the type of woman that the guys from war of words should be with.
BAE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seth Strauss yes love😂😂
he totally looks like young idgie from fried green tomatoes
I like her more now that I know she's lefthanded :)
Jennifer Lawrence the best.
3:40Why would Abraham Lincoln be crying for a traitor?
I hate when people say why was Tim Robinson let go from SNL, it's cause of skits like this. He just didn't do a good job with the skits he had. I like his show but I understand why he was let go and its definitely best for both sides anyways.
Five minutes? I feel like that’s more than enough time to tell him to put his balls away.
Why is map treason?
That's how my name sounds by an American. I like.
More like...Privates Greg Dorfman
Dear pregnant lady, hope your kid is normal.
Is this where Mikey Day got the idea from? My dearest, answers please.
When the man is crazy the woman left him. Not fair. Mikey Day wold never done that.
Didn't know Jen was a southpaw
sort of emotional.
jennifer lawrence is so beautiful