My wife and I had this discussion just yesterday. A few decades ago, entertainment was mass consumed and there were cultural touchstones. Now everything is so fragmented and algorithm based, it’s impossible to get a common consensus anymore. Very smart and subtle sketch!
to be fair, back then, everything was by and for white men and sometimes white women. This segmentation has allowed people who never had a voice to finally have one. Eg. could you even imagine Ms. Marvel being a thing in the 90s even in Pakistan?
@@jhonshephard921 I don’t think it has anything to do with diversity. I am from India, and even here we have the same issue. Earlier, our movies and TV used to be consumed by the entire household. Even the grandfather would look forward to a new episode at 9pm, just as much as his teenage grandchild. Today, everyone is catered to separately, often never in a communal viewing experience. It’s been segmented so much that finding common likes has become very difficult. Secondly, we used to also consume “foreign” (American) content for the escapism. None of us actually bothered whether Friends was white or Bel Air was black - they just delivered laughs and we loved them all. Representation today is a great thing of course, but I’m trying to say that it didn’t impact our entertainment consumption habits. It was ultimately all the algorithm based streaming services (and screens on our hands) that really broke the mass consumption nature of entertainment.
@@jhonshephard921 The problem is oversaturation and everything being divided up and locked behind the paywalls of competing streaming services. It has nothing to do with skin color or culture, or gender, or sexuality. I'm a white guy that enjoyed watching What's Happening and The Jefferson's just as much as the show's people currently label as 'made for white people'. The hard truth is that we used to set aside time to watch shows for free back then and now we set aside shows til we have the time or budget to actually see them which forces us to be far more selective in what we choose to watch. Add to that the number of decent shows just simply getting buried in the algorithm in favor of mediocre shows getting pushed to the front by marketing and people become less likely to care about watching anything anymore. Produce quality over quantity and you'll see all this fictitious 'hate' disappear.
I don't really agree with this I mean people still watch Stranger Things and know about big movies coming up. I get the point and slightly agree but I still think there are touchstones that are impacting people like even Avatar 2 and any of the marvel movies
Lol same here. First thing I did was Google it, hoping it hadn't been that long. But with the amount of tv I watch I still felt old, having trouble thinking of 5 semi recent movies.
One thing this sketch really nails is how we've entered an era where, there being so many streaming platforms putting out content, people don't all see the same movies or shows anymore. Kids are going to have different childhoods just because they're not all watching the same channels!
I feel like tv shows have replaced movies now a days in terms of being the cultural focus. If this sketch had been about TV shows i feel like a lot more people would know the answers
@@lucydonohue4919 Yeah, the big watched-by-many tv shows tend to be way more similar, and people don't really watch movies anymore. I know at least from my experience that barely anyone talks about what movies they watched now, it's way more about tv shows.
Don't worry, you grew up and lived a lot of years where there was still generally films or shows that most people watched or knew about. Now there's a bazillion platforms and increasingly algorithm-filtered content, who has the time to keep up with everything that's on?
@@Tao_Tology There are still films or shows that most people watched or knew about: _Avatar: The Way of Water, Top Gun: Maverick, Wednesday, Stranger Things, Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever_ , et al
Harrison Ford was everyone's cranky uncle when he was young. "Great, kid! Don't get cocky." His roles in the reboots of Star Wars and Blade Runner have cemented him into that cranky but loveable grandfather position.
I think he's the next Mandy Patinkin, except not reportedly difficult to work with. That may just be because I would slap a nun to get The Princess Bride remade with Pedro as The Spaniard.
This sketch is SO on point. Everybody remembers the finale of MASH and All About Eve, but we don't share those experiences as a society anymore. Not when there's hundreds of streaming choices on dozens of platforms anybody can watch anytime. Everything is so diffused. Probably the last shared experience America had was how much we all hated the movie version of "Cats."
@Moni Lein The Last of Us is streaming on HBO Max, and it's breaking viewership records every week. It was also renewed for a second season after the 2nd episode aired. The fan base is huge.
@monilein3302 - Quit watching cable ... And pick 2-3 of the big movie/tv streaming services. You'll pay less and still get a lot of the good stuff! : )
As someone who remembers when MASH episodes were still coming out…this one made me laugh so hard it hurt. Maybe it just hurt. They nailed this one. This sketch wasn’t just about Hollywood, or entertainment. It used them with painful precision to represent something many of us are feeling, which may not be clearly put into words until enough time has passed that it has become our history, but, this sketch is close to being the haiku version of that history. Hilarious! And, ouch.
I recently ran out of shows and I'd heard that Sam Jackson was in something and I googled "new Sam Jackson movie or TV show" to find it. What's worse is I just binged it and still didn't know the Ptitle
OMG this sketch is so on point. The variety of platforms the mix of movies from traditional and TV sources or originals from streaming services is overwhelming. I can binge a series, watch a couple of new theater released and made for streaming platform movies, and first season new series and yet can not answer what did you watch this week?
@@dreamquesttv Yep, she's been acting in film and television since 2005. She was in such films as Oblivion (opposite Tom Cruise), Birdman (which won four Oscars), and Nocturnal Animals (which was also Oscar nominated) and played the title role in Mandy (opposite Nicholas Cage).
I feel like i used to know what was out cause I'd see trailers. I dont really anymore, but maybe thats cause we don't watch regular TV anymore. they need to find better ways to advertise. I still see plenty of ads, but not so much for movies
@@phatdog45 Pretty much. Streaming services advertise their own shows mostly, and the places you used to get ads for movies, tv and cinemas, are mostly dying. Heck, pre-covid, I used to semi-regularly check out what movies were coming out in theatres. But now? Nah.
Kate McKinnon could play everything from a Gisele type supermodel to Rudy Giuliani and everything in between. Bowen Yang can do either an ambiguously gay character in whatever his costume requires him to be, or an over the top flamboyant gay character in whatever his costume requires him to be, and that is his range. Comparing him to Kate McKinnon is laughable.
@@cleverusername9369 Kate McKinnon level. Keyword level. Like big in the cast. Read the damn comment before speaking. While true and Kate McKinnon could kill me and I would apologize still didn’t read it fully dude.
This hits way too close to this Xennials heart. I rewatched Juno the other day and instantly remembered seeing and debating so many of the movies that came out that year (No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Dark Knight, Sweeney Todd, Ratatouille) and then when this year’s nominees were announced, I had only seen Maverick of the best picture nominees and everything else was I meant to see that but didn’t or I don’t know if I I know that one. Life comes at you fast.
Not only all of that, but movies and shows come out so fast now, movies straight to streaming, and there’s a ton of different shows to watch on so many platforms. Just too much! lol
Just wait until you're older and go from knowing all the Grammy nominees in every category to practically none. (I've still heard of Taylor Swift and Beyonce so there's that)
@@davidwaters8902 I hear that! I looked at the best new artist award and realized I had never heard of any of them! And then Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, one of the seminal albums of my college experience, won an award for the compilation of its 20th(!!!!) anniversary release. My college rock is classic rock now!
I'm in my 40's and always wonder if everything is becoming super niche and there's no monoculture, or if I'm just old and don't know what's hip. This sketch leaves me feeling semi-validated.
Tv show wise, yeah there's too many shows to know what's popular. Movie wise, you're just old. It's not difficult to know which movies are popular these days, there's not that many
I laughed so hard 💀Yeah, although her performance was good, the way she got nominated was actually kinda whack: Despite "To Leslie" being a small independent film that only made $27,322 during its run, the director's well-connected wife, Frances Fisher, rallied her A-list friends, mainly rich white actresses, to vote for Andrea Riseborough at the last hour of Oscar nomination voting. Even sadder, someone from Andrea's campaign consistently described Danielle Deadwyler [Till] (another unknown actress) and Viola Davis [The Woman King] as nomination 'lock ins' even though they clearly weren't. It was so high school and reeked of 'women who brunch'. What's even more eye-rolling is that it seems like this shady campaign strategy has always happened behind closed doors, but because it was done openly, the Academy is publically clutching their pearls, acting like this hasn't happened in the past and to a much greater degree with Harvey Weinstein.
@@binaryvoid0101 Just because you don't know who she is doesn't mean she's an "unknown actress". Andrea Riseborough has been acting in film and television since 2005. She was in such films as Oblivion (opposite Tom Cruise), Birdman (which won four Oscars), and Nocturnal Animals (which was also Oscar nominated) and played the title role in Mandy (opposite Nicholas Cage). She's currently #74 on IMDb Star Meter!
That last speedround would have also been funny if Pedro guessed the same movies from 89 and won. 2 were remade in the 2020s. Batman would have counted. The Little Mermaid is a month too early but is technically 2020 too. His 1st answer, Top Gun, fits the theme too. Originally from 80s, with a sequel in the 2020s.
Not only are they real but that actress they didn’t recognize (Andrea) had to be investigated by the academy awards because they too were confused as to how she was even nominated for best actress in the first place since no one’s even heard of her or her movie 😭😂
This kind of reminded me of the Celebrity Jeopardy skits they would do, with Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek. Which made me think that Pedro Pascal would do an amazing Burt Reynolds.
@@usagi907 So he could be "like" an argentinian Burt Reynolds. (Given that an 'argentibe Burt Reynolds' would at least kiiiiinda look like the actual Burt Reynolds, as does Pedro )
Even the academy awards were confused by Andreas oscar nomination that they had to launch an investigation since no one’s even heard of her or her movie 😂
Apart form just being hilarious,I appreciate this being about there being so mich content you can't consume it all instead of of one of those "nothing original" gripes that get old instantly. This is the better way to do it. Good stuff overall.
I love how this has layers of commentary on birth the current culture of cinema and how it's transformed, and also about many people who are basically over 45 yrs old and how we approach cinema in today's technology era. Very interesting
I feel exactly like these contestants. Couldn't tell you wth is going on these days with "movies," new actors/actresses, new streaming releases. Love d Pedro Pascal in this SNL episode!!
I love this sketch. But surely I can't be the only person who noticed that Pedro Pascal only named two correct movies in the final round that required him to name three.
This hits HARD!!!! We are so oversaturated with crap that I was right there with the contestants! 😆 🤣 😂 I can name 3 movies from the last five years, though, because that's the exact number I went to the theater to see! *Black Panther in 2018. Spider-Man: No Way Home in 2021. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in 2022.*
As someone who is twenty two, I had almost the exact same answers as them. The first two were easy, but apparently I have no idea what is happening these days.
I've asked this before and I'll ask again because they brought up Wednesday again. Can we get Jenna Ortega to host an episode before the season finale? 🥺
Ooh, burn. To the 2020s. But also smartly played in promoting those films! Brilliant. And way to go, Bowen! Wonderful musical singing and hosting voice 😁
So much truth to this sketch. There is so much material that it's impossible to keep up with it all.
and no one wants to pay because we're all squeezed slaving away for some slumlord #TheRentIsTooDamnHigh
Well yeah. That’s why it’s funny. It wouldn’t make sense if there was no truth to it.
and no good movies
@@AmericazGotTalentYTThere are
I didn’t know any of these or if they were even real shows/movies lol 😂
Pedro consistently saying "Wednesday" as an answer is just hilarious. Great skit.
Ikr
The best 🤣who doesn't l🌑ve Wednesday, or Trivia lol 🧩
no shit
My wife and I had this discussion just yesterday. A few decades ago, entertainment was mass consumed and there were cultural touchstones. Now everything is so fragmented and algorithm based, it’s impossible to get a common consensus anymore.
Very smart and subtle sketch!
Love this comment!
to be fair, back then, everything was by and for white men and sometimes white women. This segmentation has allowed people who never had a voice to finally have one. Eg. could you even imagine Ms. Marvel being a thing in the 90s even in Pakistan?
@@jhonshephard921 I don’t think it has anything to do with diversity. I am from India, and even here we have the same issue.
Earlier, our movies and TV used to be consumed by the entire household. Even the grandfather would look forward to a new episode at 9pm, just as much as his teenage grandchild. Today, everyone is catered to separately, often never in a communal viewing experience. It’s been segmented so much that finding common likes has become very difficult.
Secondly, we used to also consume “foreign” (American) content for the escapism. None of us actually bothered whether Friends was white or Bel Air was black - they just delivered laughs and we loved them all. Representation today is a great thing of course, but I’m trying to say that it didn’t impact our entertainment consumption habits.
It was ultimately all the algorithm based streaming services (and screens on our hands) that really broke the mass consumption nature of entertainment.
@@jhonshephard921 The problem is oversaturation and everything being divided up and locked behind the paywalls of competing streaming services. It has nothing to do with skin color or culture, or gender, or sexuality. I'm a white guy that enjoyed watching What's Happening and The Jefferson's just as much as the show's people currently label as 'made for white people'. The hard truth is that we used to set aside time to watch shows for free back then and now we set aside shows til we have the time or budget to actually see them which forces us to be far more selective in what we choose to watch. Add to that the number of decent shows just simply getting buried in the algorithm in favor of mediocre shows getting pushed to the front by marketing and people become less likely to care about watching anything anymore. Produce quality over quantity and you'll see all this fictitious 'hate' disappear.
I don't really agree with this I mean people still watch Stranger Things and know about big movies coming up. I get the point and slightly agree but I still think there are touchstones that are impacting people like even Avatar 2 and any of the marvel movies
“The hangover? No, That was 20 years ago.” That line hurt my soul 😂
Thank god it was only 14 years ago 😖
@@tahoebenyeah i was about to say 🤣
Lol same here. First thing I did was Google it, hoping it hadn't been that long. But with the amount of tv I watch I still felt old, having trouble thinking of 5 semi recent movies.
Should have continued with "The Hangover 3?"
One thing this sketch really nails is how we've entered an era where, there being so many streaming platforms putting out content, people don't all see the same movies or shows anymore. Kids are going to have different childhoods just because they're not all watching the same channels!
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I feel like tv shows have replaced movies now a days in terms of being the cultural focus. If this sketch had been about TV shows i feel like a lot more people would know the answers
@@lucydonohue4919 This sketch was about TV shows too. You didn't know the few Apple TV+ shows that were mentioned here, did you?
@@lucydonohue4919 Nope.
@@lucydonohue4919 Yeah, the big watched-by-many tv shows tend to be way more similar, and people don't really watch movies anymore.
I know at least from my experience that barely anyone talks about what movies they watched now, it's way more about tv shows.
Bowen killed it. “Yikes” “Yeeeeees” “Ptotally serious” all had me cracking up!
"Career?" Ego is having a very very good season so far. Very funny.
What? What's that on? Never heard of it
Never heard of what your bragging about.
lego my eggo
Bro what are you talking about☠️
She said one scripted word. Really? Are you serious? I mean I think she does a decent job, but come on.
I love how Pedro was just waiting for "Wednesday" to be the answer as the only show in recent memory. 😆
The “Nope” line was perfect 😂
To good tobtrue
time stamp?
@@babythebullytv 5:17
the way he said "yaaay!...why" 🤣🤣🤣
@@babythebullytv 5:20
Pedro Pascal is an international treasure.
As someone in his 40s this sketch hit a little too close to home. I knew all the old movies but had no clue on any of the 2020 shows!
Don't worry, you grew up and lived a lot of years where there was still generally films or shows that most people watched or knew about.
Now there's a bazillion platforms and increasingly algorithm-filtered content, who has the time to keep up with everything that's on?
That's no problem, I'm in my 20's and even I had trouble with some of the answers!!
Yeah, I even knew they got the quote wrong from "All About Eve." But new shows? Nah.
I used to be with it, then they changed what it was and now I find it scary and confusing. It will happen to you too
@@Tao_Tology There are still films or shows that most people watched or knew about: _Avatar: The Way of Water, Top Gun: Maverick, Wednesday, Stranger Things, Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever_ , et al
Pedro Pascal kind of feels like this generation’s Harrison Ford. Effortlessly cool, and able to pull off anything he’s tried so far.
PP is way better than Harrison Ford!
@@jaceeaster2246 😂😂😂
Harrison Ford is this generation's Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford was everyone's cranky uncle when he was young. "Great, kid! Don't get cocky."
His roles in the reboots of Star Wars and Blade Runner have cemented him into that cranky but loveable grandfather position.
I think he's the next Mandy Patinkin, except not reportedly difficult to work with.
That may just be because I would slap a nun to get The Princess Bride remade with Pedro as The Spaniard.
Bowen Yang excelling as host and the contestants were funny as hell. Pedro doing a fantastic job tonight
They need a new one for if keenan ever leaves
Bowen is stealing Keenan's job.
reminds me of bill hader's host characters
Yeah, he absolutely killed that.
Bowen yang is unfunny, despite what his bots comment.
This week's episode of SNL was one of the best in years! Pedro Pascal absolutely killed it! I hope he'll appear again on the show in the future!
He crushed it
He needs to aim for the 5 Timer Club.
Really cleverly written and Pedro absolutely nailed that naive ignorance in his delivery lol. This season is off to a great start !
We are more than halfway through the season. It ends in 3 months.
@@WoodenFilms I laughed so hard at your comment because I really had to stop and think what month am I am??
@@WoodenFilms Thank you. How does that comment get 248 thumbs ups?! Oy vey.
@@jbuster9 A lot of comments praise SNL in a way that feels like bots or fake accounts.
@@WoodenFilms good call
This sketch is SO on point. Everybody remembers the finale of MASH and All About Eve, but we don't share those experiences as a society anymore. Not when there's hundreds of streaming choices on dozens of platforms anybody can watch anytime. Everything is so diffused. Probably the last shared experience America had was how much we all hated the movie version of "Cats."
Huh, here was me thinking it's about how stuff blows these days so most peeps just tune out of ut
HBO is going strong
And how people hated the HBO Max "Adult" Animation "Velma" recently
the last positive collective shared experience was "Lost" and "Friday Night Lights"
Hey. I liked that movie....
Pedro is doing fantastic job tonight he acting ability playing each character was brilliant.
@Moni Lein same 😆
@Moni Lein He's The Last of Us and he plays the main character in The Mandalorian
@Moni Lein that’s probably because he’s always hiding his face in his roles
@Moni Lein The Last of Us is streaming on HBO Max, and it's breaking viewership records every week. It was also renewed for a second season after the 2nd episode aired. The fan base is huge.
@monilein3302 - Quit watching cable ... And pick 2-3 of the big movie/tv streaming services. You'll pay less and still get a lot of the good stuff! : )
This skit did so much so well! Loved the concept, Pedro was great, Bowen really got to shine, and Ego was effortlessly funny!
Loved Bill Hader and Kenan Thompson as game show hosts but happy to see the torch passed to Bowen!!
*Kenan
They didn't pass the torch. Bowen plays all the gays.
@@joeybaseball7352 this sketch has zero mention of him being gay or anything to do with sexuality
@@npincusroth everything bowen does is gay.
He's been growing on me as of late. I think that SNL was such a pillar of life at times that I resent any changes until I get used to them.
Ginny and... Juice? Yes. I cried!
And Bowen seems to be the breakout cast member this year. And Ego!
😂😂😂😂
I’ve literally never heard a single person say they watch Ginny and Georgia yet it’s had 3 seasons or more.
Pedro is going to get ALL the roles because he IS that fluid with his acting. Gah!!! I can't help but to be so psyched to see him blow up !
Bowen Yang has got his finger on the comedy button…
He ate it all up. No crumbs left. 😂❤️🌈
Too bad he didn't spit it back out.
@@NONANTI Oh my... aren't you a kinky one
Keenan is far superior in this role as talk show host
Bowen doesn't seem that funny to me. Keenan is much better.
Keenan is on an entirely different level than Bowen
THEY READ MY MIND....! This is exactly how I feel trying to keep up with all the streaming stuff. Every person in this was unique and hilarious.
As someone who remembers when MASH episodes were still coming out…this one made me laugh so hard it hurt. Maybe it just hurt. They nailed this one. This sketch wasn’t just about Hollywood, or entertainment. It used them with painful precision to represent something many of us are feeling, which may not be clearly put into words until enough time has passed that it has become our history, but, this sketch is close to being the haiku version of that history. Hilarious! And, ouch.
Now I want Pedro on Celebrity Jeopardy
Yooo...He'd be great as Burt Reynolds like Norm McDonald use to play.
He looks like him.
@@thetylife ngl i was talking about the actual jeopardy show but that'd be sick too
I want him on celebrity family feud and jeopardy
@@thetylife I believe you mean Turd Ferguson.
Which one: the real one or the SNL version?
Pedro is so much fun! LOVE him in The Mandalorian. He seems like he has a great sense of humor, a great survival tool in life in general.
A Ptotally great and honest sketch
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I see what you did there!!! 😆 🤣 😂
I recently ran out of shows and I'd heard that Sam Jackson was in something and I googled "new Sam Jackson movie or TV show" to find it. What's worse is I just binged it and still didn't know the Ptitle
Pedro's "YAY!" in the end was so cute 😭😭😭
Ego and Bowen really really shining this season GOOD!!!
They've really come into their own since becoming main cast members!!
I hope they go far, cause they’re amazing! ❤️
Loving Bowen Yang’s game show voice 😂
LOVE the montage of genuine Hollywood talent behind these (excellent) performers! It really helps to satire hit home.
OMG this sketch is so on point. The variety of platforms the mix of movies from traditional and TV sources or originals from streaming services is overwhelming. I can binge a series, watch a couple of new theater released and made for streaming platform movies, and first season new series and yet can not answer what did you watch this week?
As someone who grew up at a time when there were only 3 tv networks, this hit home.
That was really good, and true! Love the "Career?!" 😆
No shit, I had to look her up. She was in Birdman!?!?!? WTF? 😂😂😂😂😂
@@dreamquesttv Birdman was terrible. Just an awful movie, made by Hollywood for Hollywood.
@@dreamquesttv Yep, she's been acting in film and television since 2005. She was in such films as Oblivion (opposite Tom Cruise), Birdman (which won four Oscars), and Nocturnal Animals (which was also Oscar nominated) and played the title role in Mandy (opposite Nicholas Cage).
2:28 The best thing is the confidence of Pedro’s answer
Bowen yang is such a great cast member I honestly watch everything he's in 🥰
You’re trying too hard
Yes especially since the iceberg skit
He's perfection
I'm only 30 but I feel personally attacked by this sketch 😂😂😂
Ego ,and bowen really shine this season they are killing it love them.
Omg. Whoever wrote this sketch…. Mad props!!! Lmao Idk if I’ve ever related more. 😂🤣
There was some shocking reality to this skit
Pascal's delivery of be more specific had me cracking up
Excellent fresh smart funny sketch. The legitimately high quality well written movies get no attention anymore
I feel like i used to know what was out cause I'd see trailers. I dont really anymore, but maybe thats cause we don't watch regular TV anymore. they need to find better ways to advertise. I still see plenty of ads, but not so much for movies
@@phatdog45 Pretty much. Streaming services advertise their own shows mostly, and the places you used to get ads for movies, tv and cinemas, are mostly dying. Heck, pre-covid, I used to semi-regularly check out what movies were coming out in theatres. But now? Nah.
@@youtube-kit9450 Yeah it kinda sucks, because there is so much great stuff out there.
3:59 lol the noooo yesss back and forth is so random I love it
Thee most accurate life to skit ever! I don't know none of these new "critically acclaimed" movies and shows.🤣🤣🤣
There being so much stuff to watch is incredible honestly it's going to make for tons of hidden gems from this era in the future.
Love the Bowen getting the big characters and spotlight this episode. Getting future Kate McKinnon level vibes
Hahahahahahahahahaha. Bowen?! You’re having a laugh right? Yeah maybe Bowen is the next Robin Williams too.
@@mikecatterson1 that was a cringy ass comment please never talk again
Kate McKinnon could play everything from a Gisele type supermodel to Rudy Giuliani and everything in between.
Bowen Yang can do either an ambiguously gay character in whatever his costume requires him to be, or an over the top flamboyant gay character in whatever his costume requires him to be, and that is his range.
Comparing him to Kate McKinnon is laughable.
@@cleverusername9369 Kate McKinnon level. Keyword level. Like big in the cast. Read the damn comment before speaking. While true and Kate McKinnon could kill me and I would apologize still didn’t read it fully dude.
Bowen Yang does a great job when he's the host and the other contestants were hilarious!
This hits way too close to this Xennials heart. I rewatched Juno the other day and instantly remembered seeing and debating so many of the movies that came out that year (No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Dark Knight, Sweeney Todd, Ratatouille) and then when this year’s nominees were announced, I had only seen Maverick of the best picture nominees and everything else was I meant to see that but didn’t or I don’t know if I I know that one. Life comes at you fast.
Not only all of that, but movies and shows come out so fast now, movies straight to streaming, and there’s a ton of different shows to watch on so many platforms. Just too much! lol
Just wait until you're older and go from knowing all the Grammy nominees in every category to practically none. (I've still heard of Taylor Swift and Beyonce so there's that)
@@davidwaters8902 I hear that! I looked at the best new artist award and realized I had never heard of any of them! And then Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, one of the seminal albums of my college experience, won an award for the compilation of its 20th(!!!!) anniversary release. My college rock is classic rock now!
I'm in my 40's and always wonder if everything is becoming super niche and there's no monoculture, or if I'm just old and don't know what's hip. This sketch leaves me feeling semi-validated.
There are 20 new shows a month and like 80 new movies, no one can keep up, not even my students who only watch tik tok and youtube
@Mark if you can't find good movies that says something about your algorithm lmao.
Tv show wise, yeah there's too many shows to know what's popular. Movie wise, you're just old. It's not difficult to know which movies are popular these days, there's not that many
Pedro giving the Nightman as an answer now has me wanting to watch It's Always Sunny lmaoo
I thought of the night man cometh too
I wonder if that was a coincidence or an on purpose wink
Came for this comment, thank you 😅
Now I want Pedro Pascal to have a role in Wednesday S2 and I don't know why.
shading Andrea Riseborough with the “career?” line was priceless
I laughed so hard 💀Yeah, although her performance was good, the way she got nominated was actually kinda whack:
Despite "To Leslie" being a small independent film that only made $27,322 during its run, the director's well-connected wife, Frances Fisher, rallied her A-list friends, mainly rich white actresses, to vote for Andrea Riseborough at the last hour of Oscar nomination voting. Even sadder, someone from Andrea's campaign consistently described Danielle Deadwyler [Till] (another unknown actress) and Viola Davis [The Woman King] as nomination 'lock ins' even though they clearly weren't. It was so high school and reeked of 'women who brunch'. What's even more eye-rolling is that it seems like this shady campaign strategy has always happened behind closed doors, but because it was done openly, the Academy is publically clutching their pearls, acting like this hasn't happened in the past and to a much greater degree with Harvey Weinstein.
@@binaryvoid0101 Just because you don't know who she is doesn't mean she's an "unknown actress". Andrea Riseborough has been acting in film and television since 2005. She was in such films as Oblivion (opposite Tom Cruise), Birdman (which won four Oscars), and Nocturnal Animals (which was also Oscar nominated) and played the title role in Mandy (opposite Nicholas Cage). She's currently #74 on IMDb Star Meter!
@@biglliam the person you're replying to didn't even call her an unknown star tho
@@nkechi4635 They called Danielle Deadwyler "another unknown actress", thereby implying that Andrea Riseborough is an "unknown actress".
@@binaryvoid0101 The expression if “ladies who lunch”, not “women who brunch.”
Pedro did a fantastic job been awhile since I watched SNL but he definitely nailed it 🔥
That last speedround would have also been funny if Pedro guessed the same movies from 89 and won. 2 were remade in the 2020s. Batman would have counted. The Little Mermaid is a month too early but is technically 2020 too. His 1st answer, Top Gun, fits the theme too. Originally from 80s, with a sequel in the 2020s.
Bowen Yang is hilarious ! Even the way Bowen says, “Quuuwizzz” at the top of the sketch is funny. Classic game show host schmaltz.
He's a natural entertainer
Great SNL skit on the commentary on today's media!
I love the fact they all are wearing letterboxd coded clothes
The fact that the 80s movies even mentions Batman and yet Pedro didn't know of the most recent Batman film is a nice touch
The Batman was the worst one yet. So boring!
Pedro Pescal is like Norm Macdonald playing a Cuban Burt Reynolds and I love it! ♥️ 🎉
I had to check if these shows and movies were actually real😂
Not only are they real but that actress they didn’t recognize (Andrea) had to be investigated by the academy awards because they too were confused as to how she was even nominated for best actress in the first place since no one’s even heard of her or her movie 😭😂
And most shockingly, the movie did really earn just over $27000
Bowen Yang is in every sketch. He’s so versatile!! He plays a different character every time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pedro Pascal is such a massive fan of Wednesday!
Ego is like whipped cream. She just makes everything better.
That was an appropriate reaction to “it’s a podcast”.
A podcast is just a "radio morning show" but online and anyone can make one.
@@johnd5931ye, which is what makes it less impressive
Pedros episode has really funny sketches, snl is getting its groove back
I love when Bowen gets to be the host in any game show. 😄
I really wish they'd credit the writers of the sketches in the captions. This was brilliant.
bowen was amazing tonight ‼
This kind of reminded me of the Celebrity Jeopardy skits they would do, with Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek. Which made me think that Pedro Pascal would do an amazing Burt Reynolds.
Pedro is like an Argentinian Burt Reynolds lol. I love it.
Update: Chilean
He's Chilean lol
@@usagi907 so a _Chilean_ Burt Reynolds. 👍
One of the directors, PP worked with, recounted saying, “Who is that Burt Reynolds guy?” when he first saw him in a film. 😅
Chilean Turd Ferguson, you mean
@@usagi907 So he could be "like" an argentinian Burt Reynolds.
(Given that an 'argentibe Burt Reynolds' would at least kiiiiinda look like the actual Burt Reynolds, as does Pedro )
@3:08 that was my exact reaction too
This is one of the funniest skits they’ve done in a while. Jon Lovett did a whole bit on To Leslie today. It’s directed by a Breaking Bad creator.
Lovitz.
Where did he do the bit? On his podcast?
No, Breaking Bad creator is Vince Gilligan, Michael Morris directed 5 episodes of Better Call Saul only.
Possibly the most brilliant sketch ever. And Bowen nails it as usual!
Damn, To Leslie has made just $27,322 as of taping.
It's actually a beautiful little film....
Even the academy awards were confused by Andreas oscar nomination that they had to launch an investigation since no one’s even heard of her or her movie 😂
@@barryallen1070 They will know who she is.
Maybe not this film though.
2:28 His face with the utter confidence/acceptance of how wrong his answer is but buzzing anyway gets me every time.
Its appropriate Pedro answers like a dad would... that's why we call him daddy 😏😏
thats enough
THAT'S why??
Apart form just being hilarious,I appreciate this being about there being so mich content you can't consume it all instead of of one of those "nothing original" gripes that get old instantly. This is the better way to do it. Good stuff overall.
I love Bowen Yang so much!!
The fact that every time Pedro is closed up, the women's crowd giggles and screams shows how much this guy is a gem! 💕🤣🥰
Loved Bowen in this. "I'm ptotally serious"
No one said "Fasten your seat belts it's going to be a bumpy ride." Bette did say ".. Bumpy night."
80 for Brady was what popped into my mind the second before he said it.
Movie looks so shit
I love Bowen! And Pedro was fantastic in all his skits!
As a film buff myself, happy to say I knew the answers to the ‘past’ media questions and the 2020s questions
Good job 👏
feel free to enlighten us with gems we may have missed.
what even is this - and i’m a film buff
Did not know a single 2020 question, but got all the rest 😅
This sketch is so accurate. That’s what makes it great.
1:26 Pass The M.A.S.H!
I love how this has layers of commentary on birth the current culture of cinema and how it's transformed, and also about many people who are basically over 45 yrs old and how we approach cinema in today's technology era. Very interesting
Go Pedro ✨
As a gen z myself, I didn’t even know the answer to most of the 2020’s questions 😭
I feel exactly like these contestants. Couldn't tell you wth is going on these days with "movies," new actors/actresses, new streaming releases. Love d Pedro Pascal in this SNL episode!!
I love this sketch. But surely I can't be the only person who noticed that Pedro Pascal only named two correct movies in the final round that required him to name three.
This hits HARD!!!! We are so oversaturated with crap that I was right there with the contestants! 😆 🤣 😂 I can name 3 movies from the last five years, though, because that's the exact number I went to the theater to see! *Black Panther in 2018. Spider-Man: No Way Home in 2021. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in 2022.*
They're all Marvel, of course. Those are pretty much the only movies that everyone knows!
As someone who is twenty two, I had almost the exact same answers as them. The first two were easy, but apparently I have no idea what is happening these days.
Once again Bowen is the mvp
Ego Nwodim is so good. She's one of my favorite cast members now.
I would've lost on this show too. I can name actors and movies from years past, but 2020s is overwhelmingly saturated.
"Career??👀" KILLED ME 🤣
I've asked this before and I'll ask again because they brought up Wednesday again. Can we get Jenna Ortega to host an episode before the season finale? 🥺
Do you realize u manifested this? March 11 she will be hosting
Ooh, burn. To the 2020s. But also smartly played in promoting those films! Brilliant. And way to go, Bowen! Wonderful musical singing and hosting voice 😁
This sketch is so relatable 😂