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- Mr. Thompson (Jerry Seinfeld), a history teacher, struggles to get his students to recall basic facts about European history. Thompson eventually gives up, realizing that his students are even ignorant about the existence of Nazis. [Season 17, 1992]
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I just returned from France and can confirm that there are still French people, even today.
But where does the French people live?
@@jeghaterdegforfaen somewhere in western europe
Why are you trying to lie to people sir?
What a damn shame
@@tahimig1 Is france an instrument?
This class is above average since every student is actually engaged.
too true
totally true
LOL, I didn't realize that. When I was in school, the students weren't so nice. They would probably be yelling, fighting, or fighting and yelling.
or actually IN class!
My history teacher plays a CNN 10 video and the screws around at his desk for the rest of the time. Fun stuff.
I was in a senior US history class when a girl (who went on to “graduate with honors”) asked about the Civil War, “Didn’t the north have an advantage because they were fighting down hill?” The teacher took a moment, pondering what he was asked, then went to begin to explain that moving from north to south wasn’t ‘moving down hill’ but in that moment he lost the spirit just like Jerry does at the end of the sketch and just sat back down at his desk without another word.
Hahahahahahha
That is so sad
that is hilarious!
I imagine she was referring, but did not know the details, to the battle of Gettysburg. The turning point of the war, where the union had the high ground, and the confederates were fighting uphill. Your teacher was smart, but by assuming the girl was making a baseless comment missed that rather her misunderstanding was to underestimate the scope of the civil war.
@@danieldressler4349 That is a very generous and extremely positive guess as to her thought process but I can assure you this was an extremely ditzy mind 'thinking out loud.' Why I pointed out that she did graduate with honors was to say that she wasn't a complete simpleton by any means, just someone who did the base level and didn't think much beyond that.
The kid writing down that there are still French people is actually how so many students take notes though 😞😞
History is certainly a subject that I really like and know a good deal about, but I think many have been to a class they felt that was hard. Then the teacher says something which is super basic knowledge but you don't know, so you take all the wrong notes about it 😅
Sadly, I know.
If he really needed to remember that there still are French people it doesn’t matter if it’s on the test or not. That would actually be good note taking. I think people need to realize there are still French people. 😂
@@Rex1987Yeah, and some students don't get the history basics, like these students in this skit. -_- so they feel they have to write verbatim what the teacher has on the board. I'm a senior and see kids do that no matter what. '-' I asked one to name a state, she said Africa, I've never wanted to scream in a pillow so much before
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This is why you need atleast one smart kid in the class so the teacher doesn’t become an alcoholic
You don't even need "smart" kids. You only need them to _attempt_ to read a bit and follow the program. Some of it will thus sink in through osmosis. But there are too many distractions in school. Social media, girls, boys, hormones, video games. I think I'd homeschool my kids at least 50% of the time, if I was ever dumb enough to have any.
@@OMGWTFLOLSMH Yeah but who always answers the teacher's questions and moves the class along? The smart kids.
@@OMGWTFLOLSMH School is not to study, it is just to know what to study and gain a grasp on becoming comfortable with other people.
You study at home.
As one of the smart kids, I concur.
I was that smart except I think I drove him to alcohol because of my constant bugging
I'm convinced this isn't an SNL sketch but actually an alternate universe where Jerry Seinfeld is a history teacher
You mean Jerry Thompson.
Quite believable! He seemed to know his lines so well he hardly seemed to be reading cue cards 🤔
You're convinced? Well unconvince yourself because it is obviously a SNL skit.
I'm confused; what else did this Seinfreld fellow do besides teach history?
Bizzaro World or The Nexus of the Universe?
As a former teacher, I can tell you that this skit actually plays out each and every single day in classrooms across America.
It’s this bad? Really?
At least they're well behaved.
It was the elementary school, I guess
@@waltermoldren4991is it this bad?USA is the most powerful nation in the world.There's no way people in the USA are that dumb.
@@thepolarbear8449Whats funny is that people may think "omg millenials and zoomers are so far gone", this is satirizing gen X.
Watching this after having actually worked with kids, I've got to say, this is an incredibly well-behaved class.
true story.
Yea this was 93 , same yr I was in school ! So I can relate to this behavior and our World history class ☺️
This was how we behaved in the class in the 80s.
Oh, they're supposed to be kids...
Jerry is actually quite convincing as a teacher
Yup.... That's right.... The way he acted from the start to the end was so perfect with the lines and the topics.....
Definitely. Much more convincing than he is as a ‘comic’.
He would have made a GREAT history teacher.
He has a lot of experience dating children
the looks of despair, the slow realization that he's not gonna get anywhere on this topic, yeah that tracks :/
As a teacher, this is not even the tip of the iceberg. Fifty times a day, I have to keep a smile on my face while thinking WTF.
Yeah, those kids in the skit didnt know basic history, but at least they weren't constantly disrupting and arguing with each other. I'll take dumb students over students that harm others or actively disrupt or fight against the learning process.
@@CooterCoy
Wow...your reaching
as a tv viewer of snl for the last 40+years i have to do the same.
When I was in the eighth grade, I was placed into the "average" class because I messed around in the seventh grade. I remember the teacher asking VERY simple questions and I was the only one to answer. Kids used to talk about how smart I was, and I just remember thinking--"No, y'all just dumb!"
Luckily the teacher decided to move me back to the honors class. I learned my lesson and never messed around again. As pretentious as the honor students were, it was better than the alternative.
I really hope this isn't the tip of the iceberg, but it's the whole thing. If your kids don't know where Europe is or can't name one country in Europe then the school system has failed them terribly
Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Chris Rock and David Spade....talk about a 90s powerhouse!!Awesome skit and more real to life than one would probably assume.
I wish Norm MacDonald was in that skit as well
@@grantk932 *Norm had more funny in him than that whole room. And they knew it. Not knocking any of them btw.*
Thought I saw Kathryn Hahn there, too...
The guy playing the teacher should have his own show.
shutup, shh shutup stop it you know what your doing stop it. shutup ,
Eh, I don't think so, if he had a show it would be about nothing.
Ba-dum-doo-ba-*pop*
yes, but what would they ever call it?
... France?
@@lifechiropractic1279The Bee Movie: The Show
Why does the description mention when this was aired? I thought we didnt have to know dates?
CyberCheese lmao
You get a star for the day because that was pure GOLD 👍
This is the greatest and most clever comment I've ever read.
hahahhahaah
Even the day of the week seems too specific. Having class on a Saturday, at night.
To this day, this is probably the most accurate representation of a real classroom from a teacher’s perspective I’ve ever come across on TV or in film.
It goes hand-in-hand with Ben Stein's class in Ferris Bueller.
@@jedijones Bueller......Bueller...
An American classroom, of course. Even Canadians lead Americans around Europe by the nose.
@@jedijones that's Seinfeld here after another few years. As all semblance of life escapes his voice, then his eyes, eventually his every thought is monotone and dry - each day becomes just another day calling out yet another forgettable name, wishing he spent his youth pursuing literally anything else.
@@kzero1499 Ben Steinfeld.
My dad was a history teacher, and he laughed at this so hard! He said that it was like having surveillance footage of his own classroom!
The way Farley puts his hand down after “besides the snakes” is all-time SNL gold for me.
Seinfeld teaching David Spade, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, and all these other legends. They all look so young
BABIES!
@Godly Star fury @5:02 "They put up the berlin wall" - Chris Rock
@Godly Star fury @3:57 "Sweeden?!" - Chris Rock
Godly Star fury yes he was 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Godly Star fury yes he was lol
I taught World History for 5 years. This would've been a good day.
I have a question for you Mr or Mrs World History teacher, did you ever have to teach Australian history? And if so, did any of your students think the country was really upside down? If not, could you please share the most outlandish, incorrect thing you've heard? XD
@@AdamHolland-Adz Teacher, "Who won the Civil War?" Student, "France"?
I would've been one of your best students. I loved learning about history and know a lot about it.
Well at least they're trying lol
This clip reflects reality. I taught 3 years of history. & I agree, this would’ve been a good day
I like how Chris Farley’s hand went down incrementally when his answer was wrong 🤣
I think he was gon say that arab guy with the big knife
Honestly, Jerry Seinfeld seems to actually be a better teacher than most of my history professors.
He tried to meet them where they were
... it was just that their particular ignorance was a bottomless pit ... so, you know, .. but he tried, he really did!
Maybe your teacher had already been ground down and had given up...
That's because he is a performer and is very good at creating an engaging atmosphere. Honestly imo all teachers should take crash courses in public speaking, theatre acting before getting their teaching license as conveying the information effectively is just as important as having those information.
@@baishihua I agree. I LOVED history. But I never had a history teach worth listening to for more than five minutes. It's like they majored in "boring the class."
I'm a history teacher. You guys laugh but this is my real life smh
It's so true. I just graduated high school and I was the only student who not only knew the material, from HABIT. I was even able to teach the teacher sometimes.
No way kids were not this stupid but there was no internet
@@daveyhouston I don't call my kids stupid just under informed and with no real desire to correct their current ignorance.
I feel bad history teachers y'all have it rough
Lucas Bell sounds like you could be one of the stupid ass kids in his class, he said he knows history and your ass talks about how cool he thinks he his. I might not be a genius, but I think I can say that he didn’t try flexing his game with history facts
Classic..
as a teacher, I miss when students cared to the point of raising their hands and trying to answer.
we miss the frustration of wrong answers.
it's a real feeling of a generation trying and working hard.
rather than the awful feeling we get today when we ask the question in an air of carelessness.
Even working in adult education, the lack of engagement is horrible. I start every class with "good morning everyone. how are you today?" and no one even looks up at me. maybe a couple people mumble a word I can't hear. I don't get it.
I'm an educator today...the new thing is kids looking up answers in chatGPT....in class!
@troyfergus4712 serious question, why do you guys let them have their phones in class? Our teachers would have killed us for bringing an electronic device to school back in the day.
That's right. Can you imagine someone bringing a Walkman, Discman, Rubik's cube or whatever into a classroom? @@binabina4445
@@binabina4445I graduated high school in 2018, and we were just starting to have Chromebooks in every classroom. From what I heard from my younger sister, the school seemed to try to integrate those more and more into classes even if they made no sense. My best guess is the districts feel like they need to justify spending so much on laptops/tablets/etc. so they expect them to be used for notes and other stuff while trying to prevent distractions with terrible web filters
My 10th Grade World History teacher LOVES this skit. He played it for us at the end of the year. Our class was, of course, nothing like this one. We all were laughing hysterically.
My students wouldnt get this at all
This isn't even a joke. This is literally exactly what high school was like.
So in your class there was complete silence and people rivaled to be correct? Good for you. It doesn't matter if they were clueless by the way, this is actually a healthy learning environment. Knowledge here has value.
Now adays its just forced revisionists
@@docjohnson1 You mean like holocaust deniers and Republicans who claim to be "the party of Lincoln" while ignoring the trade in party values since then?
What an original comment! Keep it up!
My classmate in high school could not show in the map where africa is. that is fucking insane
“Besides the snakes” arm goes down slowly. That gets me every time.
Chris Farley is a national treasure
Best part of the sketch
That was so good
That's my favorite part
Any major dude will tell you Chris Farley was a gift to us all
I had 2 history teachers in high school and they both showed us this because they were afraid we were gonna end up this, by saying “this is the kind of class I don’t want you to be”
Shout out to "Mr. Mac", a truly legendary and kind and engaging HS world history teacher. Teachers like that are one in a million!
Nice
I had a "Mr.Mac" best math teacher i had in middle school.
This skit was frustrating and hilarious at the same time.
You were half-right there.
Where the fucks my comment Sean dont answer me slave
They predicted the future 😔
@@AConquerorsVendetta they didn't predict the future. Art imitates life.
Jerry wishes he was still allowed to hit kids
This has to be the most stacked cast of all of snl history
That’s why I saved the vid to my mvp playlist 😂
Nah
Yeah, except for John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase, Eddie Murphy
@@TimothyReeves never heard of em
Chris Farley could have worn a bra...
By far Jerry Seinfeld's most convincing acting
The amount of comedy legends in that room is crazy
This is actual footage of Jerry Seinfeld teaching a high school history class.
The class is high for sure.
It's a skit. Not real students
It was a joke relax
Where's the footage of Jerry Seinfeld dating a high school girl
Makes Sense
"Mr. Thompson, the French are still in Europe today!"
DEAD
Not for long, though.
And they are as annoying today...
“Don’t write that down”
One K thumbs up in 2 days, nice👌
@@abrahamlincoln7907 lol thanks. AMA
god this teacher has more encouragement and patience than i can ever imagine
when he smacks spade with the stick, "you don't need to write that down!" I was dying. Great timing.
this isn't a sketch, it's a documentary.
thejobloshow hahahaha
Art imitates life
😂😂😂😂😂😂 EXACTLY what I was thinking. I want to laugh, but that's really what it's like
So that's why it wasn't funny. There were more laughs at the Eskimo guy abusing dogs in the first documentary.
Best comment^^^^
"Who was Indiana Jones fighting against?"
*Chris Farley frantically waving his hand*
"Other than the snakes?"
*Chris Farley slowly lowers his hand*
yep thats exactly what i just saw in the video i just watched, thank you
I spit out my water at work during this part, never saw this clip before. Christ I miss Farley.
I love Chris Farley's sheepish hand withdrawal.
you’re missing the three kids who know more than the teacher-
otherwise, this skit is scarily accurate XD
I do
The red headed girl accurately depicts the girl in every classroom.
It seems that all of the kids care about the material, when in the real world they would be caring about other things
When Farley shoots his hand up and then slowly brings it down is a classic bit.
I was the guy in most history classes who knew everything, so I'd always raise my hand. The teacher would inevitably call on other people and after 2 or 3 guesses someone would get the answer....and I'd pull a Farley. Then I'd get a low mark on class participation.
@@kgatch113a Same. I actually got sent to the principal's once in grade school for getting frustrated at knowing but not being called on. I learned to work on other projects during most classes. Teachers weren't really necessary.
@@joelwillems4081 In 6th grade my teachers used to ask me questions, to make sure they got things right. Not just history, geography too. On the other hand I could spell worth crap and had no idea what 3rd person plural meant in English class.
My World History teacher in 9th grade showed us this very clip one time and after we were all laughing our butts off, the teacher laughed while he said to us “This is what it’s like teaching you guys a lot.” I feel sorry for high school teachers.
@@toastedjoe1013 I've never heard of a teacher having 3 months off. Usually their summers are 8 weeks of unpaid time. Oh, and they put in a lot of unpaid hours during the school year.
@@AAAA-gj7tn It's not unpaid time. Their salary includes their summers off, school year breaks, long weekends, snow days, etc. Every salaried position works "unpaid hours".
@@joelwillems4081 It is unpaid time. Teachers don't receive paychecks during the summer (unless they are teaching summer school) - and if they do, it's because they deliberately chose to have their pay spread out throughout the entire calendar year (and therefore receive less money per check). They work on 10-month contracts. They don't get paid summers off. Oh, and every salaried job has paid breaks and long weekends. They're called paid vacation days, paid sick days, and paid holidays. Snow days don't really matter because teachers are required to work the same amount of school days each year anyway. A snow day is the equivalent of an office worker being given Friday off, but being told they have to come in to work on Saturday. It doesn't reduce a teacher's total number of workdays. And yes, every salaried position works unpaid hours - including teachers - but teachers seem to work more unpaid hours than a lot of other professions. I'm an engineer, and I rarely have to work on weekends because I am given enough time during my workday to properly do my job. I know teachers who spend their entire Sundays grading and lesson planning for the week, because they don't have time to during the school day to properly complete these tasks. Those are unpaid hours.
@@toastedjoe1013 Do better
@AA AA If I was teacher, I'd choose to get paid over 12 months. That's tight that they get the option of doing that
This is probably the best acting Jerry has ever done
I'm a teacher and from time to time I return to this video, just to remember that what happens to me is something relatively common and that I shouldn't take it personally that my students are so... unaware of world and scientific events.
Did every classroom have the "You said we weren't going to have to know dates" kid?
Why would you not need to know dates in a History class?
@@KISSARRAH I'm a history major. Exact dates usually aren't very important.
@@faceoctopus4571 but knowing when the nazis took power and when the Berlin wall came up are pretty important
KISSARRAH Exact dates are sort of old fashioned. Most history classes today focus on bigger pictures and ideas. It’s more important for Sophomores to know why the war started than when the war started.
@@faceoctopus4571 I think that's the educational system making excuses for itself.
They are all so sweet, polite, and really want to please their teacher. A good day for a public school teacher.
This is like the time in my class where the teacher and a student got in a SERIOUS argument about whether or not Alaska was actually to the "bottom-left" of the United States.
That is why I love being a teacher. Never a dull moment! Lol
"What was happening in Europe the decade before WW2?"
"France"
It's like that one guy in Hamilton during the second or third cabinet battle where Jefferson asks who provided them with help and he just says France kinda like Kermit the frog
Sad thing, France is still happening
This dude who played the teacher would make a great voice actor for a bee
He was a voice actor for a bee.
@@carultch no duh
@@carultch Really? I want to know all the details! Don't leave anything out!
@@kdwaynec There is an animated Dreamworks movie called "The Bee Movie" that Jerry wrote, starred in, and produced. Jerry is the voice actor for a bee named Barry B. Benson, who learns to communicate with a lady named Vanessa, and talk her in to filing a lawsuit against humanity for enslaving the bee population in the honey industry.
@@carultch Are you thinking of a B movie by any chance? As in, one that doesn't have high production values? I'm pretty sure there are no movies about bees.
I'm a teacher and this felt sooo real.
As a History teacher, this comedy is my "daily reality"... It's sad, but this clip still makes me laugh real hard!
This is the exact age and appearance of Jerry Seinfeld that is burned into my mind.
It's exactly how we'll remember him when he's gone.
Jerry was cloned after Seinfeld
After watching Seinfeld? Yes
something about seeing THIS version of seinfeld in an snl skit is kinda jarring, its like he only exists within seinfeld the show, hes just frozen in time forever
He'll outlive us all, you know that, right?
Death comes for us all eventually
but history stays forever
This is so incredibly accurate didn't even need jokes
@Tong Zou East meet West.
Ah. That's why it wasn't funny.
There were none
No it's fantasy. Students responding to questions so rapidly?
I mean normally you have the boys who are massive world war two buffs. But I'm Irish so maybe it's different here.
That comedy bit Jerry missed from the Abstinence episode landed him a job as a substitute teacher lol
90s snl sketches are the greatest thing to ever happen
I thought you said we didn’t have to know dates
This is honestly what it's like when a teacher assigns reading for the night before and no one reads. Except usually there is one kid who actually did the reading that everyone tries to copy.
So accurate
@@Dezmont01 i'm just saying, if you want to have a life, complete the work then, play
@@Dezmont01 i'm not a fucking teacher, i'm just stating what u could do better as I consistently get good grades
@@Dezmont01 1. You're gonna have to deal with reading you don't want to do your entire life, so suck it up buttercup and 2. There is like less than an hour to get all this done, especially with history, how the hell do you think they'll get through the required material if that doesn't happen? What magical solution do you declare for that?
@@Dezmont01 also in ap classes they have to copy straight from the material other wise they are being unfair and sending you to take the test completely unprepared. This year my school started super late because of renovations and we only get 44 days of school in the entire year. We are actually fucked right now. Those hellish courses are to prepare strictly for the ap test, because otherwise it's totally unfair
As a former community college instructor and an IT instructor with high school & college students, this is SO realistic.
I have heard community college math professors say that their students can not even add or subtract whole numbers without a calculator. How do you teach them College Algebra?
@Devil Dub Yes, math is racist. So is the Math SAT. I am the son of a lowly Jewish elementary school teacher. My friend got a higher score on the Math SAT than I did. Stanford accepted him and rejected me. The Math SAT, math and Stanford are all racist. We should do away with the SAT, AP tests and ACT because they are all racist.
This is an accurate representation of my English class. The students are all engaged but miss the point and say stupid things while the teacher forgets what he says.
they're good kids. well behaved and respectful and genuinely want to learn. god bless their dim witted little hearts.
there is way too much comedic star power in this clip for me to handle
Dporticus Ellen Cleghorne can have that effect on younger folks.
This level of comedic legends can never happen again sadly.... RIP
Dang, Ellen Cleghorn was crushing it in this clip!
ohnoestheydidnt who was she?
Yeah and it's got Adam Sandler in it.
I teach history at the university level, this really happens
Sadly.
Yes, me too... somehow I feel less alone now
@@elliot1481 Everybody gets a participation trophy
OK I don't know if this is just me actually knowing the answers or if this is an americasn thing but my god if what you're saying is true people are dumb
Me too
Jerry captures that feeling of "all that college.... passion.... love for learning.... if I could back in time, forget killing hitler i'd slap myself!"
I love 90s snl. Watched it as a kid growing up in the early 2000s, and Sandlers comedy albums. Good memories, classics
We’ll never get an SNL skit with this many legends like this again
They weren't legends yet at this point.
Watch "Total Bastard Airlines" from SNL. It's another roundelay of legends.
@@FjodorDostojewskij That's because it's around the same era. Almost everyone in that skit is in this one.
True dat. I miss those days.
If only the skit were actually funny.
Imagine if George Constanza had been the teacher there...."Does anyone know anything at all??? Come or tell me! I'm losing it!!!" Hahahaha
Serenity now
you want a big salad huh?
George would probably hand out work sheets then read the paper and sleep at his desk or something
Dammit! Someone said it already. Nice Dominic.
"george is getting angry"
So many legendary comedians all in a room at the same time. It's beautiful. RIP Chris Farley
I remember my high school biology teacher sharing this with the class my sophomore year. I'm now surprised how many of the students I now recognize.
Jerry Seinfeld: "Yes, Germany! Let's talk about Germ-"
Some random kid: "swEDeN"
Aidan Fogleman thats chris rock you uncultured swine
That's Chris Rock you uncultured swine
That's chris rock you uncultured swine
That's Chris Rock you uncultured swine
That's Chris Rock you uncultured swine
My history teacher showed this to us in sophomore year of high school. 🤣
Our English teacher talked with the class about this sketch my sophomore year.
My dad left to go get a pack of cigarettes 17 years ago. He'll be back any day now.
Danny Thill Shouldn’t he have been teaching you history?
TSG... goat application
Is it because he lost all hope and knew this was relatable?
The high number of high quality funny people in this room is outstanding.
@2:57- Jerry made the same face in The Limo Episode when George told him that no one gets shot in the city.
He makes it a lot. He thinks it's a lot funnier than it is (and I love Jerry).
I mean beyond the eye roll, he's risking a punch in the mouth!
Very bold to begin a sketch with "this is not funny."
Probably was just tired of hearing it at the end....
Unlike modern SNL- SNL with Adam Sandler, David Spade, and Chris Farley had a license to be that bold.
One of the best SNL sketches
This sketch was hilarious because it’s true. In a way that’s what was fun about school, the number of times the teacher would try to pry an answer out of the class saying there are no stupid answers or questions only to be immediately hit with one. 😅😂
As a teacher I find this to be accurate. You spoon feed them clues and they still can't figure it out.
The Human brain unable to think logically. The brain has associative structure, and need to implanted what are the "correct" ways. By itself cannot figure it out if not clear methods to follow. As an adult we can do heuristic approaches toward resolutions but for youngs not teached directly. So this is why the present education system is painful for each.
Honestly most kids just don't care if your teaching method is talking at them. You need to engage them in ways other than just conversation.
You sound like a shit teacher
From the student side, sometimes it's just exhaustion.
@@MrGksarathyeah, you have to add something funny or something that helps to spark memories in people's heads...I used to use jokes to ace all my tests.
This isn't a SNL skit. This is an accurate representation of the education system in the USA.
It's an exaggeration for the typical classroom, but not by as much as one might think. There certainly are classes this bad, or close.
Thanks for repeating the same comment that's already been posted 100x
You were once a kid did you actually care about ww2 in school ? I no I didn't I was way to busy sleeping! And drooling!
Jesus... everyone’s got some kinda hate boner for America
Wayne Joseph
No I loved history and anime in school and enjoyed many of the books. I also hated high school kids when I was in school it was like all of them just wanted to sleep and do drugs the whole time they’re all so boring and basic
This is even my life as a kindergarten English teacher in South Korea. It’s all teachers.
So many of the SNL greats! This is when SNL didn't suck!
Yes, this is what teaching high school is like. Except now there needs to be a student with, what he thinks are, invisible Airpods.
Brad Kassing and someone that won’t quit asking to use the bathroom
What are air pods?? 🤔
And looking at their phones instead of paying attention....
Exactly. But when I showed middle school kids Jay Leno's Jaywalking videos, they took notice. No one wants to look that ignorant. They started paying attention to geography!!! And the classroom was so quiet! very. weird.
@@ceebeeii6723 OK boomer
It's weird that they just recorded a normal high school classroom in the US and used it as a SNL bit.
Jerry Seinfeld: any questions?
Me: ya like jazz
This feels like I'm watching a secret episode of Seinfeld
“Mr Thompson, the French are still in Europe today” lmao
Christopher Ramsey he said it so innocently.
@@towerprep45 I a French and that kid is right !
Well, we tried to stop that political group, but we were hindered to do so 😬🤷🏻♂️
Greetings from Germany
Thanks to the USA. Same goes for the Germans , the rest of Europe and probably Britain as well. Could have been occupied by NAZIs and then by the Soviet’s if not for the USA.
Wow Jerry Seinfeld on SNL what a treat.
I thought ya like jazz
And he seemed to have memorized his lines because wasn't making it totally obvious that he was reading from cards as so many guests do.
Today some of the regular cast looks like they are reading cards. @@The_Notorious_N.O.E.
@@The_Notorious_N.O.E. Yeah he was very natural like he did it before Im sure there was a readthrough but this was different.
It's just that when you can tell they're reading from cards it takes away the suspension of disbelief and ruins the acting
I mean they were at least engaged in the lesson. As a teacher, that’s honestly a win!
I teach elementary music - this is absolutely every Kindergarten class I have ever taught
“The French are still in Europe today.”
Me as a German: I know it’s disappointing
me has a dutchman
it is it realy is
Me as a Brit: yes it is
@@sohums.6107 What's the Problem nes pais?
LOL. Don't bash our endearing neighbors.
Me as a Frenchman: Yes it is
You’re thinking of the Communists that’s 1961 in the classic Jerry delivery. Love it
🖐.....I thought you said we didn’t have to know dates?
4:30 When you think you know the answer, but they haven't finished the question.
They could have done so much more with this skit! They squandered that amazing cast.
Oh god this is way too realistic.
Australian123Gamer It’s funny cause it’s true.
I bet jerry wrote this skit
I know XD
Yes, an Australian would somehow know if this is accurate...
No, it isn't...
@ it is though. Sadly
Seinfeld, Farley, Sandler, Spade, Rock, this whole cast was stacked.
Pretty sure Seinfeld was just the guest host.
stacked with shit
@@shaystern2453 Big fan of today's woke SNL, are you?
I'm sure Farley could use a bra, but the others mentioned?
@@-oiiio-3993 Don't you mean a Bro?
I'm a history major, and this is what I'm expecting the rest of my life to look like
I’m 44, and this is pretty much how I feel when I’m around kids today, or even people now in their early 30’s. I’m absolutely astounded by how little they not only do not know about history, but a whole range of other things. I’ve never considered myself a super smart person. I wasn’t even in the top 10 of my high school graduating class, and I’ve just had limited college. But I’ve always been curious and learned a huge amount on my own, watching documentaries, listening, observing, reading, etc. Going out into the world today, lots of times I feel like a genius compared to others whom I run into. Or is it “who I run into”? See, I’m not perfect, but I do feel like I outshine even some of my friends with masters degrees with many things.
I think it would be "whom" since "run into whom" is functionally the same as saying "run in to whom".
As a 34-year-old, I was fairly clueless about history and geography until I took an interest in learning about them on my own after I graduated high school. And I was an honors/AP student who had taken honors/AP history classes, but never cared to connect the dots or learn beyond the exams until it was no longer compulsory.
I'll never forget I asked my Thai coworker at a Thai restaurant if he had ever been to Taiwan. That was during my last year of high school. Nowadays, that memory makes me cringe.
"How did they get that name? Europe?"
As a Social Studies teacher, that's actually a great question!
Agree. Though it was off-topic, which frustrated Jerry, the history of the name is interesting."Europa was initially a Cretan moon goddess, who was incorporated into the Greek mythology as a virgin Phoenician princess. She was the daughter of the King Agenor of Sidon and Europe was named after her."
@@Mama2CDHsurvivor In the words of Adam Sandler. "I was gonna say that."
I think Gov. Bush had it right Yerup.
@@Mama2CDHsurvivor Who came up with the name Asia?
How did they get that name? Earth?
Is this a comedy sketch or a real life documentary from inside an American class room? I can't tell the difference.
Sincerely,
superdudeman666
#irony
+davick1 Do you even know what irony is?
It's a sketch off the British comedy show Mind Your Language.
Good question. It was comedy 25 years ago, when it aired. But, to borrow from Marx, what was once comedy now repeats itself as tragedy.
100% documentary
1:27 three great comediand in one single frame! Amazing!
It's impressive he actually has his lines memorized for a 6+ minute sketch versus the hosts that fumble through a 3 minute sketch obviously relying on the cue cards.
I think he has an interesting way of combining the script cards for him to use with his memory. Several times he would pause for a second or so and look opened eye at the same place toward something not there-such as at 1:00, 1:35 or 4:02.
In the first season of Seinfeld you can sometimes see Jerry mouthing other actors lines while they were speaking. He got better.
You can see him reading the cue cards lol, every time he looks towards the corner of the room
Nobody on SNL memorizes all their lines. They're all specifically told *not* to memorize their lines, because sketches frequently get altered right before going on the air.
@@CaptHayfever I remember Janeane Garofalo saying one of the reasons she quit SNL is because she would memorize her lines and Al Franken would bitch to her about it all the time.
Attempting to increase the rigor, then defaulting to spoon feeding. Yep..I have done this...
Akhil Raman you like jazz?
I don't know how teachers do it. I'm ready to run screaming in the night when helping my kids with homework. So...much....slow-walking.
@@stellaliebler1336 Lol. :)
Raiders of the Lost Rigor ( I really hated that word when I taught)
@@Gumbier_Than agreed
So much talent here but holy shit Chris Farley I'm dying 😂😂😂