I just rewatched this and I feel like Adam was just messing with Pete "look upon your father". He saw Pete breaking already and just went in for the kill.
This skit really illustrates the difference in skill between Adam and Pete. Driver is giving everything he has to this skit and totally killing it. Meanwhile, Davidson can’t go a minute without breaking character
The fact that he never broke character once while screaming some of the most hilarious and outrageous sentences I've ever heard just proves how great of an actor he is.
You mean in this scene? Bcz you could see the pain in his eyes in the SW movies clearly. Here I think he is reading his lines from cue. His eyes are fixed off to the side rather than at the other people. So while his performance is amazingly funny I don't think he's actually putting alot of effort into it.
@@intheredcold9216 Yeah, if anyone doubts whether Driver emotes with his eyes, they should watch the Han/Kylo Ren scene in The Force Awakens. But I actually think he was staring off because he was trying not to break character. Others in the skit were constantly trying to stifle laughs/smiles and it's pretty hard not to laugh when others are laughing. Based off the reactions, I'm pretty sure that smashing the crow with his cane was improvised, so I think he was putting in at least some effort.
@@intheredcold9216 They change the lines right up to air. It would be nearly impossible for him to memorize everything in that time period. He is putting a lot of effort into this.
What I love is that Adam Driver is saying some of the most insanely funny things ever and he never breaks or loses intensity once. It’s just so funny how he can keep it up with how funny this sketch is.
@IAmaPersion to be fair to Pete, he has said many times that he's not a great actor. He never wanted to be one, he wanted to be a stand up comedian. He's good in the digital shorts which aren't live.
My parents are both professors in aerospace engineering (rocket science) and I imagine they probably teach similarly Hey Dr.Person how do you make a rocket? YOU CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES IN TO THE GROUND What if I don't know how to do that? Then you are WEAK like HR PICKENS WAS and you are not fit to physicist like me
@@KhanSphere Shut your damn dirty lying mouth. Rewatch that performance and honestly tell me that guy's soul doesn't have its own heart, nor his heart its own soul. It's Heart-soulception up in this bitch.
Its great but it was random af. It's like he needed one more triumphant statement before he finished his presentation and announced the snack he brought.
@@TedBrogan The way I interpret it is Parnassass is able to recognize strength and weakness: he knew the class would point to his son as the weakest in the class, and he recognized strength in the girl. He knows the girl has what it takes to succeed as an oil baron.
I didn't even think about how early that was when I first watched the video. It didn't occur to me until I saw your comment. Looking up an image of a 2-month old fetus makes this all the funnier to imagine him being born like _that_ and surviving in a cast iron pot in a pizza oven.
His commitment to the character instantly made this one of the best skits of all time. The script was good but Driver went all Olivier on us and even the cast couldn’t help but breaking a few times.
Aidy and Pete sure! lol. But I think that getting surprised at the fake bird getting stabbed was part of being in character. I’d be shocked, too, if I was up close watching it get beaten up.
@@kylekiritz2672 I'm wondering if it was even scripted. If they planned for it, they would have made the end of the cane sharp to pierce the prop easier, but it just looks like a normal cane. I wonder if he was backstage before he went on, felt the prop, and just thought "I could probably stab this thing with the cane".
It definitely made me think of There Will Be Blood. Man, the main character in that movie was such a horrible person. I'm now always going to imagine Rex Tillerson being just like this when the cameras aren't on.
@@LAkadian I think you're right. I guess Atlas Shrugged painted wealthy industrialists is a heroic light, but for some reason I always thought There Will Be Blood was inspired as a kind of anti-Ayn Rand horror...I could be projecting my own experiences on things.
@@somethingelse4424 Ha. Idk. Could be similar with me (goth guy here who used to hang out with all the punk anarchists and go to seedy hole in the wall concert venues)... but I do imagine there was some truth in it. I was a lover of Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story". Never saw Atlas Shrugged, but was aware of it. May have to watch it out of curiosity now that it's been mentioned again... Oh and if you've never heard of Edward Bernays, there was a super creepy lecture he gave about the U.S. educational system. Don't want to spoil it, but worth a listen.
You know you're a good actor when you're keeping a straight face while shouting nonsensical rhetoric and the rest of the cast in the skit is doing all that they can to not bust a gut laughing and failing miserably. I have mad respect for Adam Driver. Mad respect.
He was a marine that was honorably discharged for a training injury. I imagine the level of discipline he learned to keep his composure under stress and berating from instructors helped with acting later.
I like how Adam does such a good job that Pete can't help but to break character throughout the whole sketch trying to hold in his laughter the whole time.
That pete guy said he likes to break character on purpose to break the others . Not because they are good but because it’s boring and he needs to make it seem funny which is hard thing to do since it’s dumb ass jokes for sheep 🐑
@@thetruthhurts3939 Hack it? Adam Driver was a US Marine before he was an actor. Not everyone is good at acting. It is an art just like being a musician. Just because someone can play an instrument, doesn't always mean that are good at it.
This easily goes in my SNL top ten, I love Adam Driver's delivery so much! "I filled her belly with my festering seed and sired a boy" always gets me in stitches.
It would have been better if he, after impaling the bird with the stick, raised it up and started addressing it as HR Pickens rather than trying to stab it again....just sayin'....
I won’t get over the fact that puncturing the crow was never a part of the script and that Adam perfectly improvised that scene.... their reactions are priceless!
It was obviously not scripted, but that's what Julliard teaches you, save a surprise for the performance. It makes for a more authentic reaction. 😻 They should be proud. I would have loved to see the cast's reactions at the first table read.
This skit has me in TEARS from laughing so hard! The yelling when talking about crushing his enemies, the stab on the bird with the cane, the fact Pete couldn't even look at him without cracking a smile, "I wanna be you when I grow up!" "AND SO YOU SHALL!!!!!!", there's just so much to laugh at in a short time. This is one of those rare skits that gets even funnier with each re-watch
Pete is very unprofessional. Breaking in this skit could kill it. Thankfully Adam is professional. This is one of my favorite SNL skits off all time and Pete looked like a hack.
Dan Vaught geeee I can only wonder how long you’ve been watching SnL for, cuz if you stop throwing Baseless Criticism at Pete, then you would see throughout Snl history plenting of the cast has broken their character Mid skit 😒 and continued as Pete did, girl next to Pete broke character as well but you don’t come at her, I want to see you up there, trying to get through a skit with Adam effing Driver....
@@lysolflavoredpoptarts Or to a natural history museum where they see dinosaur bones and then goes on a rant about being weak and how they sorta make oil lol.
This sketch was written by Eli Mandel. It was the first sketch he submitted after being hired as a writer for SNL. He based the character on an "old man" character he used to play during improv sessions in Chicago. Interestingly, he said he thought the script was terrible, and that SNL would instantly reject it. But some of the other writers thought it was funny. Mandel said that it was ultimately Adam Driver's brilliant performance that made the sketch.
Brian Rommel”Look upon me Lorne Michaels...you may have been here since 1975, but I was crushing the bones of enemies when your parents were merely learning their first *words* !”
@@BurritoKingdom Cecily Strong was on a talk show (Seth Meyers, I think) and talked about how Ryan was literally shaking in bed next to her before they were filming just to get into character.
Alessandro Paolino honestly down with it Samantha will marry Mordecai have a child with him and break his spirit and Abraham’s legacy and fortune will be hers. Just to find out that she is related to HR PICKENS AND THIS WAS HIS ULTIMATE REVENGE!!! (A lil incesty but all in a days work to get revenge 🤷🏽♀️) also if my scenario wasn’t true Mordecai and Samantha are a true ship.
What makes this is classic, is Adam's ability to keep a straight face and murder those lines while knowing he's shocking the hell out of everyone around him. It's a brilliant performance.
@@jasongoldman3850 She clearly was interested and in awe of Abraham from the start. Meanwhile, Mordecai was just embarrassed by his presence the whole time, even insulting him for not being able to get out of bed. The class even pointed out Mordecai as being the weakest. Once Samantha said she wanted to be just like him, Abraham knew he'd found his true heir.
I never tire of watching this sketch. I just realised Abraham H. Parnassus says he has been an oil man for 82 years. That means, factoring in that he started at a young age but still a man, he is over 100 years old with an elementary aged child! He's a boss!
I swear, he HAS to revisit this character in a future hosting! This is a gold mine. I can see a feature film based on HR Pickens ALONE. OIL HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH PROFIT, MARM!
you need to watch There Will Be Blood! it stars David Day Lewis and is about an oil baron in the 1800’s who become a ruthless tyrant. It’s literally one of the best movies ever made!
If Driver had just a monologue for this sketch, I could somewhat understand how he keeps a straight face with momentum, but that he is doing back and forth lines in a scene with other actors who are breaking, and he stands unyielding in his performance...simply outstanding.
I've seen this clip 3 times. I've seen star wars movies 2 times. Yet I still had to google "Adam Driver", just to be sure we are talking about the same person.
i teach primary. truth. i rarely ever get really angry, but sometimes you have to pretend to lose it so they know you mean business. "sometimes you have to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys", as they say here in china
Baby Aidy's one of the most consistently hilarious performers on the show. If ever there should be anyone put in a movie, it's her. I guess maybe she doesn't have her own developed character. She needs to work with a group of writers and develop her own thing. She's an amazing actress. Not to make her into a type, but I find her funnier than Melissa McCarthy.
@@disturbedpyro4511 u mean where she's one of the fbi agents? lol. i love her in the one with Brie Larson. i think it's called Oregon Trail, where they sing songs for her dead husband :)
This has to be hands-down the funniest skit I have ever seen, Adam driver deserves an Oscar for this performance, and whoever wrote it deserves an Oscar too😊. Just when you think he’s finished he just goes on and on and on, and it just gets funnier😂😂
Adam being able to deliver the line "I filled her belly with my festering seed" while screaming and not breaking character at all is a testament to him being a great actor.
@@MonteLeeMyPOV The man is an absolute treasure. Kylo Ren was simply him giving the best he could with what he was given. Which is often the best thing an actor can do.
We got the origin story... he was born 7 months too early, so he was incubated in a cast-iron pot in an oven until such time as he was able to fend for himself. What more do you need?
“Greetings Children, I am Mordecai’s father. Hello Boy...How are you. LOOK AT YOUR FATHER BOY...LOOK UPON YOUR FATHER WITH PRIDE...” This sketch killed me 🤣
That's because it's true. People try to look good so they can't actually say it. But you have to be a real douchebag to rise to the top of any industry. No one got to the top by being nice. Except maybe Mr. Rogers. And he's not in the kind of business Parnassus is in LOL
"For 82 years I have been an oil man". That's just his career, NOT how long he has been alive bearing in mind he was born 7 MONTHS premature. This is what IMMORTALITY really is
I just rewatched this and I feel like Adam was just messing with Pete "look upon your father". He saw Pete breaking already and just went in for the kill.
I SEE YOU, MAN!!!
100% had the same thought right away
Which fits in with what that character would do.
This skit really illustrates the difference in skill between Adam and Pete. Driver is giving everything he has to this skit and totally killing it. Meanwhile, Davidson can’t go a minute without breaking character
@@breezingby2611 okay
The fact that he never broke character once while screaming some of the most hilarious and outrageous sentences I've ever heard just proves how great of an actor he is.
And while everyone else was.
TOTALLY. My respect level for him just shot up more points. Incredible!
Pete could hardly keep it together
@@joshhunter8789 he can never keep it together.
best snl skit ever
man Adam Driver brings his acting game no matter what.
I would agree, but he never emotes with his eyes...EVER. They are constantly frozen in place.
You mean in this scene? Bcz you could see the pain in his eyes in the SW movies clearly. Here I think he is reading his lines from cue. His eyes are fixed off to the side rather than at the other people. So while his performance is amazingly funny I don't think he's actually putting alot of effort into it.
No I don’t think it was cue reading since he killed Pete at the start
@@intheredcold9216 Yeah, if anyone doubts whether Driver emotes with his eyes, they should watch the Han/Kylo Ren scene in The Force Awakens. But I actually think he was staring off because he was trying not to break character. Others in the skit were constantly trying to stifle laughs/smiles and it's pretty hard not to laugh when others are laughing. Based off the reactions, I'm pretty sure that smashing the crow with his cane was improvised, so I think he was putting in at least some effort.
@@intheredcold9216 They change the lines right up to air. It would be nearly impossible for him to memorize everything in that time period. He is putting a lot of effort into this.
"AND SO YOU SHALL!" Never fails to make me laugh
You and me both bro you and me both as I’m laughing out loud typing this
It's nice to get words of encouragement from someone you hope to emulate, especially on Career Day.
BASED
What I love is that Adam Driver is saying some of the most insanely funny things ever and he never breaks or loses intensity once. It’s just so funny how he can keep it up with how funny this sketch is.
and pete is just losing it
@IAmaPersion to be fair to Pete, he has said many times that he's not a great actor. He never wanted to be one, he wanted to be a stand up comedian. He's good in the digital shorts which aren't live.
IAmaPersion he is hilarious what kinda drugs are u on
Pete on the other hand INSTANTLY broke xD
He's a marine. You learn to keep your facade real quick there.
My Dad is a professor at two different colleges, he's never let me see him teach but I've always imagined he does it something like this lol
Barbie Gee Show this to your dad❗️
YOU ARE WEAK LIKE HR PICKENS!
Exactly like that lol
My parents are both professors in aerospace engineering (rocket science) and I imagine they probably teach similarly
Hey Dr.Person how do you make a rocket?
YOU CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES IN TO THE GROUND
What if I don't know how to do that?
Then you are WEAK like HR PICKENS WAS and you are not fit to physicist like me
...brings in a bunch of guest speakers?
This was just 5 full minutes of Adam trying to break Pete and flexing his acting skills *hard*
Mission accomplished!
What are you talking about, he’s barely trying
I was literally just thinking that! He made him break so many times.
But it doesn't take long to break Pete Davidson.
@@BlitzStudiosIsinsideyourhome I think Adam became the costume he was wearing. Its honestly quite impressive.
Either Adam Driver is a fantastic actor, or deep in his heart, Adam Driver is an oil Baron in his soul.
Yes
Two things can be true at once.
He graduated from the Al Pacino School of Strategic Shouting. Being a Marine helps too.
Deep in his heart in his soul?
The boy can't write.
@@KhanSphere Shut your damn dirty lying mouth. Rewatch that performance and honestly tell me that guy's soul doesn't have its own heart, nor his heart its own soul.
It's Heart-soulception up in this bitch.
“Married your granddaughter and filled her belly with my festering seed” I lost it at that point 🤣
🤮
I laugh just re-reading the line.... LOL...
Me too! I was like wow, this shit is intense! lol
He is my final revenge HR ! 😂
I fucking hate myself for finding that last part hot 😭😭😭
I love how he's so supportive ahah "I wanna be like you when I grow up" "AND SO YOU SHALL"
Its great but it was random af. It's like he needed one more triumphant statement before he finished his presentation and announced the snack he brought.
Best line.
@@TedBrogan The way I interpret it is Parnassass is able to recognize strength and weakness: he knew the class would point to his son as the weakest in the class, and he recognized strength in the girl. He knows the girl has what it takes to succeed as an oil baron.
@@williamroberts2878 LOL I love it! See, what a fantastic character!
@@williamroberts2878 He will scout the girl by letting her marry into his family....He will get her married to Mordecai .
“I was born 7 months too early” was when I completely lost it
Lmao!!
"when I was rrrrripe enough" that got me good
I didn't even think about how early that was when I first watched the video. It didn't occur to me until I saw your comment. Looking up an image of a 2-month old fetus makes this all the funnier to imagine him being born like _that_ and surviving in a cast iron pot in a pizza oven.
That's an abortion not a birth. But he lived regardless because he was destined to crush H.R Pickins into the ground!
@@sarahdaniel9912 And marry his granddaughter, also fill her with his festering seed
"Incubation technology was still in its infancy" is a great line 😂
"What I do is of much import."
- Baron of Oil, one of our greatest imports
Pay attention children for my occupation is of much import. For 82 years I've been an oil man, a baron some might call me.
My bones never hardened BUT MY SPIRIT DID
I completely broke at, “So they placed me in a cast iron pot inside of a pizza oven, until I was RRIPE enough to walk!”
Well he was born 7 months too early!!😂😂😂
"Only the strong may suckle at mother's teat."
His bones never hardened but his spirit did
Incubation lol
Hahahaha yas!!
Adam Driver should have gotten an Emmy for this performance.
While Pete Davidson does his best to ruin another sketch.
@@jackiecartwright9343 I mean I know what you mean but I would crack like an egg if Adam Driver yelled at me like that in my face 😂
@@jackiecartwright9343 Pete is hilarious you’re tripping
IF ONLY
Maybe that's why they hired him to do the sequel trilogy.
Samantha: “Who is H.R. Pickens?”
Mordecai’s Dad: *”EXACTLY!”*
This skit is a classic. It never gets old!
That makes H.R. Pickens Mordacai's great grandfather on his mom's side.
His commitment to the character instantly made this one of the best skits of all time. The script was good but Driver went all Olivier on us and even the cast couldn’t help but breaking a few times.
@@nontoonz2739 Mordecai... the product of Abraham's festering seed!
Ive watched this every Monday for two years.
I didn't figure out this joke.
Its almost scary how well Adam Driver can tell and carry a dramatic story on a live sketch comedy show.
When he stabbed the fake bird EVERYBODY broke character. That was friggen perfect!
Watson TV Except Driver.
Aidy and Pete sure! lol. But I think that getting surprised at the fake bird getting stabbed was part of being in character. I’d be shocked, too, if I was up close watching it get beaten up.
You can tell he didn’t do it in dress rehearsals, he waited to go live
@@kylekiritz2672 I'm wondering if it was even scripted. If they planned for it, they would have made the end of the cane sharp to pierce the prop easier, but it just looks like a normal cane. I wonder if he was backstage before he went on, felt the prop, and just thought "I could probably stab this thing with the cane".
Melissa seemed to be in character by jumping with each strike, others harder to tell.
Adam Driver is an acting genius
and YOU maam, are a vocal genious.
@@HSmith-un8kh Agreed!
@@HSmith-un8kh I believe it was "marm," as in schoolmarm.
@@alienkatt7362 ummmmmm, yes
The man is awesome.
"You are weak like H R Pickens"
"Who is H R Pickens?"
"EXACTLY"
Who is John Galt? I'm guessing this was inspired by Atlas Shrugged and There Will Be Blood.
It definitely made me think of There Will Be Blood. Man, the main character in that movie was such a horrible person. I'm now always going to imagine Rex Tillerson being just like this when the cameras aren't on.
@@LAkadian I think you're right. I guess Atlas Shrugged painted wealthy industrialists is a heroic light, but for some reason I always thought There Will Be Blood was inspired as a kind of anti-Ayn Rand horror...I could be projecting my own experiences on things.
@@somethingelse4424 Ha. Idk. Could be similar with me (goth guy here who used to hang out with all the punk anarchists and go to seedy hole in the wall concert venues)... but I do imagine there was some truth in it. I was a lover of Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story".
Never saw Atlas Shrugged, but was aware of it. May have to watch it out of curiosity now that it's been mentioned again... Oh and if you've never heard of Edward Bernays, there was a super creepy lecture he gave about the U.S. educational system. Don't want to spoil it, but worth a listen.
Whats the girls name that asks I can't remember what else she's in besides snl
Been watching SNL since the very beginning in the 70s.
Adam Driver's performance on this episode is my absolute favorite of all time.
It never fails to make me laugh hysterically.
“LoOk aT YOuR faThEr BOy¡!” Pete Davison almost loses it.
I love how he can't literally look him in the eye because it makes him break character.
@@TenaciousTheSketcher the way he says "I see you man" sounds like he's begging Adam not to require eye contact lol i love it
That part makes me loose it 🤣
I fucking lost it when he said that 🤣🤣🤣
you boyi.
You know you're a good actor when you're keeping a straight face while shouting nonsensical rhetoric and the rest of the cast in the skit is doing all that they can to not bust a gut laughing and failing miserably.
I have mad respect for Adam Driver. Mad respect.
He's really good.
The make up might also be helping, but I'm entirely sure it's all him.
He was a marine that was honorably discharged for a training injury. I imagine the level of discipline he learned to keep his composure under stress and berating from instructors helped with acting later.
Yes outstanding indeed ...
Unlike Pete, who almost sunk the skit by "breaking".
Can't believe my ancestor just got called out like that
Who?
@@lordjagi78 EXACTLY!
Lord Jagi HR Pickens. You must be weak like him
😂
look mortichai! im Pickens riiiiiiiick!
"And in MY opinion, thats how you make the fire go away" is an underrated line lol
Like a firefighter asked about gonorrhea. 😂😂
🥂🥂
I like how Adam does such a good job that Pete can't help but to break character throughout the whole sketch trying to hold in his laughter the whole time.
Kyotosomo he was corpsing so hard.
"it wasn’t because everyone else did such a good job it was because jimmy Fallon sucked ass" Much like Pete Davidson...
That pete guy said he likes to break character on purpose to break the others . Not because they are good but because it’s boring and he needs to make it seem funny which is hard thing to do since it’s dumb ass jokes for sheep 🐑
Pete ALWAYS breaks character
Funny how they managed not to laugh in sketches for the first 25 years of the show, and now it's a "thing".
Adam Driver is a AAA actor and takes his art seriously. This is proof that he can dominate even the silliest of roles.
You say silly.. i say thats how they act
Acting is about domination of the spirit.
@@thetruthhurts3939 Hack it? Adam Driver was a US Marine before he was an actor. Not everyone is good at acting. It is an art just like being a musician. Just because someone can play an instrument, doesn't always mean that are good at it.
He is beyond awesome
This is the first time I've actually laughed at an SNL skit genuinely laughed and so long and so hard 😂😂😂😂😂
This may be the most passionate performance from any skit in SNL history.
just a rework of "i drink your milk shake". another remix sketch. its like a theme this episode.
It's based on the movie "There Will Be Blood".
puke
The Shrek skit is still my favorite.
Nope. Every skit Chris Farley was in.
This easily goes in my SNL top ten, I love Adam Driver's delivery so much! "I filled her belly with my festering seed and sired a boy" always gets me in stitches.
4:00 Anyone else impressed by Adam Driver's direct hit impaling the raven on the first strike? *CRUSH your enemies!!!!!!*
and by the looks of others reaction, i don't think it was rehearsed :D everyone seemed surprised by that xD
It would have been better if he, after impaling the bird with the stick, raised it up and started addressing it as HR Pickens rather than trying to stab it again....just sayin'....
@@pdxtim97209 That would have been so funny! Agreed. 😂 🤣
So funny.
HR Pickens😂
i just love that pete is fucking DYING the entire time
me too lololol
Adam Driver was probably like I’m gonna rant and pick on you a little and then pulled out this gem of a performance 😂
@Tut Pook you are useless atleast he is doing what he loves so shut up nigga
He broke the moment Adam opened that door.
It was awesome.
Davidson sucks. And if you think he’s funny you must be dead from the neck up or weak like H.R. Pickens.
This is by far my favorite SNL sketch ever.
Also “in my opinion, that’s how you make the fire go away” is such an underrated line.
@Elijah Lochner I've watched this script umpteen times and just realized he said "In my opinion that's how you make fires go away" I died
Completely agree
I watch this way more than I care to admit. Adam driver absolutely kills it
Yeah, everybody is sleeping on the firefighter's lines.
THANK YOU I couldn't get over that "in my opinion" line until Adam started yelling lol
Still laughing as hard as I did the day it aired… NEVER gets old. Adam did not break character… brilliant
"AND SO YOU SHALL" was the most inspiring thing I'd ever heard.
Indeed. Inspired.
They should do a sequel where she becomes an oil baron lmfao
I know!!
@@negative6442 AND HAVE HER CRUSH HIM LIKE HE DID TO PERKINS. And have him say "i taught you well, the rule of two is true"
@@thattheatrenerd1418 I'm in tears my friend
"They placed me in a cast iron pot, inside of a pizza oven, until I was R-R-R-RIPE ENOUGH TO WALK!" 😂😂😂
I just can't stop watching this
My bones never hardened but my spirit did!
2:55 for anyone who wants to see it rq lol
I’d like to know who wrote this skit. It’s great.
Katarina Ramos its improv
I won’t get over the fact that puncturing the crow was never a part of the script and that Adam perfectly improvised that scene.... their reactions are priceless!
It was obviously not scripted, but that's what Julliard teaches you, save a surprise for the performance. It makes for a more authentic reaction. 😻 They should be proud. I would have loved to see the cast's reactions at the first table read.
@@necromaya agreed
I never knew that! Where'd you find that out?
He pretends well. When you lose yourself in a character like that, you can ignore how good you're doing because you're living art.
@@ellalivingston3947 You can tell by how shocked they are, especially the teacher.
If it were accepted they wouldn't have reacted like that.
This skit has me in TEARS from laughing so hard! The yelling when talking about crushing his enemies, the stab on the bird with the cane, the fact Pete couldn't even look at him without cracking a smile, "I wanna be you when I grow up!" "AND SO YOU SHALL!!!!!!", there's just so much to laugh at in a short time. This is one of those rare skits that gets even funnier with each re-watch
Pete Davidson: *Breaks*
Adam Driver: *So you have chosen death*
Well the makeup does make him resemble Shakespeare..........
Pete is very unprofessional. Breaking in this skit could kill it. Thankfully Adam is professional. This is one of my favorite SNL skits off all time and Pete looked like a hack.
Dan Vaught geeee I can only wonder how long you’ve been watching SnL for, cuz if you stop throwing Baseless Criticism at Pete, then you would see throughout Snl history plenting of the cast has broken their character Mid skit 😒 and continued as Pete did, girl next to Pete broke character as well but you don’t come at her, I want to see you up there, trying to get through a skit with Adam effing Driver....
@@daddyrabbit835 Pete constantly admits in interviews he's not a good actor at all. It was weird to have the polar opposite in his face.
Your comment amuses me boy. However, laughter is for the weak. Like H. R . Pickens you are weak.
"Look at you father boy...look upon your father with pride"...I lost it😅
So did Pete. 🤣
Best snl line ever
I was finished lol
Lost what? Your brain?
Adam took the “I used to walk five miles in the snow to school and back” to a whole new level.
Don't forget it was uphill both ways
@@TheNevar18 And the amount of snow increases every time the story gets told.
@@TheNevar18 Believe it or not, you can go uphill both ways on a 5 mile walk.
*Abraham
“And in my opinion, that’s how we make the fire go away” is a hell of an opening line 😂
I want to see Adam Driver reprise his role as Abraham H. Parnassus but this time he's a chaperone for Mordecai's class field trip to (insert location)
Omg that would be amazing!
@@ieatgrass_8360 pete Davidson
@@lysolflavoredpoptarts Or to a natural history museum where they see dinosaur bones and then goes on a rant about being weak and how they sorta make oil lol.
Yes!!!
Or a chaperone at a school dance
This sketch was written by Eli Mandel. It was the first sketch he submitted after being hired as a writer for SNL. He based the character on an "old man" character he used to play during improv sessions in Chicago. Interestingly, he said he thought the script was terrible, and that SNL would instantly reject it. But some of the other writers thought it was funny. Mandel said that it was ultimately Adam Driver's brilliant performance that made the sketch.
Does he still write for SNL?
@@chadross No. Just the 2018-2019 season.
@@apologeticsroadshow they definitely will have to bring him back when Adam hosts again.
This is incredible. How did you know all this? Bravo to the writer and bravo to Adam Driver.
@@sketchur The writer talked about it during an interview after this sketch blew up.
Id loved hear how this was pitched.
“So career day but the dad is a 90 year old 19th century oil baron”
Brian Rommel”Look upon me Lorne Michaels...you may have been here since 1975, but I was crushing the bones of enemies when your parents were merely learning their first *words* !”
Hehe I love to think about a lot of the sketches.
2ndRatePetronius can you provide a link, because that sounds like a great read.
**leans forward curiously**
He said 82 years in the business, so probably even older, lol
"You're weak like H.R Pickens.". More apt than she realized 😂
Who's H.R. Pickens?
@@jasonmarin8187 "Exactly!"
No one has ever acted this hard on snl before.
What about the emboldened white lady in the "Impossible Hulk" skit? 😂😂😂
Papyrus!!! th-cam.com/video/jVhlJNJopOQ/w-d-xo.html
@@BurritoKingdom Cecily Strong was on a talk show (Seth Meyers, I think) and talked about how Ryan was literally shaking in bed next to her before they were filming just to get into character.
They never had to LMAO
Benedict Cumberbatch in the Chad and the professor skit was pretty iconic
I started CRYING when he was explaining his incubation process 😭😂😂😂
It was in its infancy.
rrrrrrRiiiiiipe
That’s when I started laughing the hardest too lol
Mind over Flesh!
His bones never hardened but his spirit did!
Abraham is gonna cut Mordecai out of his will and leave everything to Samantha.
Ultimate revenge to HR PiCkEnS
nolaughingmatter no no his revenge was having mordecai with the granddaughter of H. R. Pickens
She'll marry the guy, break his spirit til he will barely even have an opinion, and keep her FIL's legacy strong!
Alessandro Paolino honestly down with it Samantha will marry Mordecai have a child with him and break his spirit and Abraham’s legacy and fortune will be hers. Just to find out that she is related to HR PICKENS AND THIS WAS HIS ULTIMATE REVENGE!!! (A lil incesty but all in a days work to get revenge 🤷🏽♀️) also if my scenario wasn’t true Mordecai and Samantha are a true ship.
Mordecai will sell pizzas, and the circle will be complete
I watch this sketch over and over! They need to bring him back every time Adam hosts. His personality needs to play out in different scenarios.
So many potential options. Parent/Teacher night, chaperoning a school dance, his son's little league game, guest speaker at graduation...
What makes this is classic, is Adam's ability to keep a straight face and murder those lines while knowing he's shocking the hell out of everyone around him. It's a brilliant performance.
wish I was a fly on the wall for his rant lol
Well he did go to Julliard.
No doubt, stoic AF lol, not even a smirk throughout. Just killed it.
Yes
Just like he murdered H.R. Pickens.
New way to diss someone: “You are weak like H.R. Pickens.”
Unacceptable. No one will understand the reference as no one remembers HR since I CRUSHED HIM INTO THE DIRT!!!!!!!
Yes yes yes!!!!
NO NO NO NO NO F@$% YOU
@@JOKERNYCC Yes Yes Yes thank you
My wife and I do that to each other
I want a full movie about this character with Adam Driver as the star.
I'm surprised that SNL doesn't make movies based on their skits anymore.
10/10 would watch.. I need full backstory on that H. R. Pickens vengence.
There Will Be Blood 2: Pernassis vs Plainview
Ryan Vaughn He could be the one who changes it.
a longer sketch with hr pickings
This is a man who knows that everyday is a job interview. His character work is awesome.
The little pause he takes before he yells "EXACTLY" is genius delivery. Incredible performance.
A lesser actor would have shouted it back immediately but that slight pause produces so much drama. He's a genius.
Exactly
“Married your granddaughter and filled her belly with my festering seed” The end of ROS makes sense now...
oop-
😂
Ahahahaha
Omg 😂😂
shut up XDDD
Minutes later he changed his will, leaving everything in Samantha's capable hands.
As it should be. She's not weak like H.R. Pickens
What is so special about Samantha?
@@jasongoldman3850 She clearly was interested and in awe of Abraham from the start. Meanwhile, Mordecai was just embarrassed by his presence the whole time, even insulting him for not being able to get out of bed. The class even pointed out Mordecai as being the weakest. Once Samantha said she wanted to be just like him, Abraham knew he'd found his true heir.
@@clevelandbci9562 Samantha was being a suck up then. I hate when parents pick favorites.
@@lilmack2221 She doesn't even know who that is.
I never tire of watching this sketch. I just realised Abraham H. Parnassus says he has been an oil man for 82 years. That means, factoring in that he started at a young age but still a man, he is over 100 years old with an elementary aged child! He's a boss!
It was high school but yes he's old
Let’s not forget he was 2 months when he was born 😂😂😂😂
@@TheInnerPactthat part kills me.
LOL!
@@TheInnerPact They put him in a iron pot & through him into a pizza oven 🍕to incubate!! 😂🤣😂
I feel like Driver was the only one in this skit that knew what was going to happen to that bird.
Yep it was an improvisation by Driver 😊
I don't think Melissa was even acting. She was genuinely enjoying herself.
That's exactly what makes her such a good actress.
Meryl Streep wouldn't act in this skit lmao it's almost impossible not to be delighted
@@hellowendy1029 Yes👍👍
Or is Melissa's acting so good, that she makes it look like she's not acting, and just genuinely enjoying herself? LOL
She does TH-cam videos every week we should ask her.
I swear, he HAS to revisit this character in a future hosting! This is a gold mine. I can see a feature film based on HR Pickens ALONE. OIL HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH PROFIT, MARM!
It’s more like an oil mine.
Either an origin story or taking his son to college. But he has to play this character again
you need to watch There Will Be Blood! it stars David Day Lewis and is about an oil baron in the 1800’s who become a ruthless tyrant. It’s literally one of the best movies ever made!
@@XxfishpastexX Yes, yes! I SEENT IT!
Have him and Mr.plainview from there will be blood go at it
If Driver had just a monologue for this sketch, I could somewhat understand how he keeps a straight face with momentum, but that he is doing back and forth lines in a scene with other actors who are breaking, and he stands unyielding in his performance...simply outstanding.
Adam Driver has two Oscar nominations, but this is still the best acting he's ever done
I've seen this clip 3 times. I've seen star wars movies 2 times. Yet I still had to google "Adam Driver", just to be sure we are talking about the same person.
"..and in my opinion, that's how you make the fire go away."
why is this glanced over
Because adam driver
Adam Driver came in and completely dominated everyone in the entire skit, so people forget that the opening line is funny too. lol
becuase hot man comes in dressed as old man and does good acting
It is glaced over in favor of "I WILL CRUSH YOU INTO THE GROUND!"
Lol I heard that and was like uuuh
“Dad you couldn’t get out of bed for a week because the mattress was too soft” underrated joke beds cause the rest of it is so damn good!
Mind over flesh boy!
The *rest* of it. Ha get it ha get it ha get it?
I’ll walk my self out🚶♂️
What was even better was he was prematurely born 2 months after conception so they had to literally stick him in an oven
This is one of the top 5 SNL sketches I go back to when I need a mental health boost. Adam Driver absolutely crushed this!
"LOOK AT YOUR FATHER BOY"
that part killed me every time.
Made a seasoned live sketch comedy performer break character *immediately*. That's how funny Driver is.
"Look at your father boy! Look upon your father with pride!" 🤣🤣🤣 "I see you man!"
How Adam Driver didn't get an Emmy for this episode is insane.
The judges were weak like HR Pickens
Vincent Ramunno who is HR Pickens?
@@jjmanzano9 EXACTLY!!
Agreed!!!
jjman9 EXACTLY
The way he went from pure rage to a soft "its time for snacks" voice in a nanosecond is basically how I live my life as a primary school teacher
Niiice
I'm here for you girl. Hug it out, everyone, hug it out.
Facts.
i teach primary. truth. i rarely ever get really angry, but sometimes you have to pretend to lose it so they know you mean business. "sometimes you have to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys", as they say here in china
😆😆😆
Literally EVERY time I watch this I end up crying from laughing so hard! It never gets old!😂
unlike abraham h pernassus
I want Adam Driver dressed as an old man to yell encouragement at me
I think that's called meansporation
Same
AND SO YOU SHALL!!
Me:
Lying in bed lazily.
“DO I SMELL PROCRASTINATION BOY!?!?!?”
I didn't know I wanted that aslo, until just now. I do NOT want to be weak like H.R. Pickens.
Everyone's talking about Pete being on the verge of breaking- meanwhile I'm just watching Aidy slowly descend into madness in the corner XD
Baby Aidy's one of the most consistently hilarious performers on the show. If ever there should be anyone put in a movie, it's her. I guess maybe she doesn't have her own developed character. She needs to work with a group of writers and develop her own thing. She's an amazing actress. Not to make her into a type, but I find her funnier than Melissa McCarthy.
@@CUStudioFilms yeah she's also great in the Close Encounter skits!
@@disturbedpyro4511 u mean where she's one of the fbi agents? lol. i love her in the one with Brie Larson. i think it's called Oregon Trail, where they sing songs for her dead husband :)
@@CUStudioFilms yes! With Kate McKinnon and Ryan Gosling.
he's Weak, like H.R. Pickens...!
"FILLED HER BELLY WITH MY FESTERING SEED." My personal favorite line.
Yeah I was already wheezing and diaphragm convulsing but that’s when I fell out of my chair and was fetal 😭😭
that was like EEEwwwwww..But I like it
Same! Lol
That’s when it got dark wit me lol
And Mordecai's personal nightmare💀💀💀
This has to be hands-down the funniest skit I have ever seen, Adam driver deserves an Oscar for this performance, and whoever wrote it deserves an Oscar too😊. Just when you think he’s finished he just goes on and on and on, and it just gets funnier😂😂
Adam being able to deliver the line "I filled her belly with my festering seed" while screaming and not breaking character at all is a testament to him being a great actor.
pretty sure he never looked at anyone the whole time, just at the back wall. Probably helped a lot
@@clintmurdock119 cue card
I wonder how many tries they did at rehearsal before everyone stopped collapsing in hysterics?
@@necromaya This was live
@@DK_75 Oh i know !
Dude absolutely bodied this. He went 1000 times harder than he had to and I will love him forever for it.
Serious. I met him through star wars and wasn't happy about that. But i see that he is a very talented actor and respect his skills to the fullest.
@@MonteLeeMyPOV The man is an absolute treasure. Kylo Ren was simply him giving the best he could with what he was given. Which is often the best thing an actor can do.
Adam Driver went hard for a 5 minute skit & i love him a lot more now lol
@@MonteLeeMyPOV not forget before he went into acting dude was a FUCKING MARINE MASSIVE RESPECT BY DEFAULT
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“Incubation technology still in its infancy.” Delightful play with words.
Fire
The writing was actually really good for this skit.
2:59. CAST IRON POT INSIDE OF A PIZZA OVEN
@@Kcoads UNTIL I WAS RRRRRIPE ENOUGH TO WALK!
One of the funniest sketches ive ever seen on SNL. This one is destined to be a classic.
This was such a fully formed character- I want an origin story
THE RISE OF THE PARNASSUS
It’s based off of a character/the story in There Will Be Blood.
We got the origin story... he was born 7 months too early, so he was incubated in a cast-iron pot in an oven until such time as he was able to fend for himself. What more do you need?
Watch the movie its brilliant.
I literally laughed out loud thank you
This is the only SNL skit that matters.
Lol hell no. There are better ones than this.
You must have missed like EVERY Californians sketch ever...
Stefon as well!!
@@ted6607 Don't be H.R. Pickens.
Hey what about the Bill Hader puppet skit.
“Look upon your father with pride”
*smiles* *”I SEE YOU MAN”*
_Leers at son_
"Look at your father, boy. Look at _meee_ !"
Abraham H. Parnassus: Fetch my shoes, boy!
Chuck Norris: Yes, sir 😢
TH-cam has recommended this video to me 17 times. I have watched it 17 times.
TH-cam recommend this once. I've watched it around 50
I've watched your videos. Fancy seeing you here.
You only watch this when it's recommended? I watch this regularly.
Lies. Only 17?
I come back here occasionally just for motivation lol
Took Mordecai his whole life to earn 1% of his dad's respect.
Took Samantha 5 minutes to get the other 99%.
Yes 🤣
And she will be next to have her belly filled with his festering seed!
Samantha is the son he always wanted
LMAO
Because she's a G.
“My bones never hardened but my spirit did” PERIODT.
Adam’s unworldly performance and Pete’s constant struggle not to break combined made it so hard not to laugh
"OIL IS NOT FOR THE WEAK..... it is the earths milk..." Shit is fuckin poetic.
"And only the strong may suckle at Mother's teat"
Why is your World of Warcraft UI your profile picture, smelly horde warlock.
"And only the strongest may suckle at mother's teet."
Even more poetic.
The 1000th thumbs up woot 👍 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Why is Adam Driver always so damn great?
Mishawaka's Finest.
I think he's just a really good actor :D
I don't know!!! He's just Sooo good at whatever role he does, kylo ren, morticies father. M. Oh my god he's Sooo funny!!!
The Action Brick: I've never seen Adam Driver before, but he's pretty damn awesome.
Low key one of the best guests on SNL
All I want is a sequel to this bit where Bill Hader returns to play H.R. Pickins...
@@noahrevan5452 - so he is going to play Abraham H. Parnassus and Pickens?
@@nickforster9 I was confused I thought he meant Bill should play Parnasses. Thanks for the correction.
he cant bc he was *CRRUSHED INTO THE GROUNDDDDD*
How can he? Pickens HAS BEEN CRUSHED INTO THE GROUND
YES!! and cecily or kate can play mordecai’s mom
One of the most well acted sketches in snl history.
“Greetings Children, I am Mordecai’s father. Hello Boy...How are you. LOOK AT YOUR FATHER BOY...LOOK UPON YOUR FATHER WITH PRIDE...”
This sketch killed me 🤣
🤣😂I never heard the "with pride" part until just now!
It's Mordechai.
How much you wanna bet that line was improvised
Shaune Pratt I say this with my son he’s like whyyyyy
0:38
98% of Driver’s Emmy nomination is from this performance.
I don't think so. It's from a couple of years ago. His nomination is for when he hosted this year. He should've gotten a nomination for this, though.
billiey giles
Ohhh... you’re gonna get whooshed....
**salutes**
billiey giles whoosh
If he doesn't win an Emmy for SNL, I'm going to cry. Seriously, he deserves it.
What's the other 2%?
I love how Adam Driver is the only one not laughing
He was a theatre actor
@@freddyrichards878 he still acts in theatre
Melissa also not laughing, it is her normal face ;-D
@@freddyrichards878 no no no that's all Marine Corp boot camp right there
I wouldn't be laughing either after having to act in the disney SW.
The way he gets angry whenever he slips back into oil barren mode. 😂
Dear lord, Pete didn’t have a chance lmao
Fresh ‘Steezen Nicole
None of us did
He was weak like HR Pickens
I usually don’t like Pete cracking up, but I’ll give him a pass on this one. Driver was amazing!
Look at your father boy!
I can act and so can he.. But when he stabbed the bird I lost it. That was pure magic
"CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES! GRIND THEIR BONES INTO DIRT! MAKE THEM REGRET THEY WERE EVER BORN!"
Strangely motivational.
I've been a day trader for ten years and I start every Monday morning with this video, to set the mood.
Oh, SICK!
@@theengine the oil barons of this century
@@theengine the baron we didn't need, or DC didn't deserve
That's because it's true. People try to look good so they can't actually say it. But you have to be a real douchebag to rise to the top of any industry. No one got to the top by being nice. Except maybe Mr. Rogers. And he's not in the kind of business Parnassus is in LOL
“Who’s Han Solo?”
“EXACTLY!! I CRUSHED HIM TO THE GROUND!”
AND NOW YOUR BONES TURN TO OIL BENEATH MY LIVING FEET.
still too soon(
@@sota2729 You right.
"One man came close to breaking me, Luke Skywalker, he did not succeed."
it was H.R. Pickens but ok
Him calling the teacher “Marm” has grown to be one of my favorite parts of this sketch. Lol. Dunno why. I’ve seen this sketch so many times though.
"My bones never hardened, but my spirit did!"
Abraham H. Parnassus
🤣🤣🤣
Way too little appreciation for “Oil has little to do with profit, MARM.”
I thought he said "my balls never hardened" 💀💀💀💀💀
They placed me in a cast iron pot, inside of a pizza oven until I wAS RIPE ENOUGH TO WALK! MY BONES NEVER HARDENED BUT MY SPIRIT DID!!! 😂😂😂
Born 7 months too soon. 😂😂😂😂
tonyjrt1 the best 😂
RRRRRRipe enough!!
Sounds like something John Mulaney would right
"For 82 years I have been an oil man". That's just his career, NOT how long he has been alive bearing in mind he was born 7 MONTHS premature.
This is what IMMORTALITY really is
Maybe he's including his oilboy years, in apprenticeship.
He started at the age of 6, like Ron Swanson lmao
Maybe his mom was bathed in olive oil during child birth LOL
@@CUStudioFilms At conception
@@googiegress Excellent point. You are wise and truly understand. How to Crush your enemies, be they child, woman, or Man :)
This is literally the best thing Adam Driver has ever done. 😂❤