That got me too...lmbo

:D

😂 💀 that killed me

Keenan's face!!!

the best part

Where would SNL be without Keenan Thompson, he is absolutely brilliant!!

Kenan’s delivery is a cheat code

@@IM1deadMONEY Seriously. He's up there with Phil Hartman as the utility player everyone needs to make their sketches better.

That killed me. Kenan was trying so hard not to break character. He's got that grin that gets me every time. It was one of those funny but realistic dialogs between races. But that's a subject for another time.........

Bwahhhhhhhh

I watch this weekly for that line

Watched this a bunch and i don't get why that line gets such a laugh. There is not much kicking in football. Does that have an extra meaning for New Yorkers? It just doesn't strike me as funny as the rest of the skit.

@@evilhobbes (GREAT name, btw...I think Hobbes was just misunderstood...lol) That IS the point....there is NOT much kicking in a sport called "FOOTball"! The whole sketch is about the absurdities of words/names, and the differences therein...even when BOTH are "English" (And our desire to be SO different from our Euro fathers...even when it's ABSURD!!) He says the game is called "FOOTball"...a name which they've NEVER yet heard...but logically assume to be a game where you KICK a ball. But then he describes it as "a game where you throw the ball with your hands.? But it's called FOOTball?? Absurd. (Truly...I say that as someone who doesn't like football and has always asked that question...) This description sets up the rest of the joke brilliantly: Then the obvious next question..."So...in FOOTBall...there is NO kicking?" (That makes no sense...does it? Because that would be absurd...right?) And finally the reply - "There's a little kicking..." (And what a BRILLIANT read on this line, as perhaps only Bargatze could give...which leads me to believe this sketch was written only this week FOR NATE, - Sometimes old, un-used sketches are recycled for a different host...but this seems to be TAILOR-MADE for Bargatze's style and tone...he's perfect!!) Because in the sport that ALL of America adores...which is a brutal game where men battle each other, and march down the field to invade the opponent's endzone (Thank you, George Carlin...on THE FIRST "SNL" almost 50 years ago)...in that war-like sport of pushing and shoving....if you CAN'T make it into the endzone...you can just kick the ball between some sticks and that will get you points. I've always thought that was silly. What if instead of making it to home plate to score, we just let Derek Jeter see if he can toss a ball into a bucket from...oh....let's say 20 yards away...

@@evilhobbes because it's called "football" but it's a game that's mostly throwing and running, and when he says "kicking" it doesn't make sense, especially when he says that there are 2 different ways to get points (1 for an extra point and 3 for a field goal)

@@evilhobbes It's funny for the reason the rest of the skit is funny. It's an answer the audience knows already, the answer doesn't at all address the absurdity of what he's proposing, but he says it so deadpan and confidently like it settles the matter.

“…..I did not”

🤣😂🤣😂

😂😂🤣🤣🤣

5280

@@Regs-sk4rwspell that for me?

Those are the best kind.

I love your guys' Gen Z slang 😂 "Frfr ong low key okuuurrr, yeet!"

It's one of those skits where the writers were probably like, "why didn't anyone think of this 30 years ago??"

@@Dan-cj9yg as the OP would say, "bet"

nate wrote it. snl isn’t funny anymore

"You asked about the temperature"

@@mc9723 “I did not.” 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

5280 of course! A simple number everyone remember 😂

@@adventurearyck64 Everyone in Denver. 🏔🏀🏆

I’m dying over here 😂😂😂

Nobody remembers it is 1760 yards to a mile... ok I vaguely remember it but I wasn't sure so I had to verify by dividing 5280 by 3. I am free to divide by 3!!!

A statute mile...nautical mile is longer..😊❤

@@danielgregory3295 how may chains is that

everyone does remember lol

@@mstudios5637 Only Denver remembers

I would’ve lost it after “there’s a little kicking”

Jimmy Fallon would've ruined it

@@tonyhall3365😂

Is a killer... As seen in "A Stab at Love"

💯💯💯💯@@tonyhall3365

Agree - best delivery in the skit. Not sure how Nate doesn't break. Good thing Fallon wasn't hosting.

Or the “you asked about the temperature”

LOL!! Yes!@@sydgrim

We were dying lol 😂

Sometimes 1 and sometimes 3 😅

didn't know about this guy just that he's a proper comedian. Goes to show how good SNL can be. No disrespect to other hosts but damn it's good when they get a pro on

the fact that he's a comedian and not an actor is why it impresses me. I didn't expect him to be able to do it so well.

I’ve never even seen him laugh lol

@@aaronsinger blame fallon and sanz

comedians are good at delivering punchlines

We were correct to drop all those illogical and unnecessary “u”s from words.

@@nickfury6434 Except for glamour!!! :D

@@nickfury6434 That was Webster. He wanted to simplify the language. Didn't completely work, but its better.

Surprisingly interesting book called "Whatever Happened to the Metric System?" that goes into the history of how and why each system was adopted.

​@misterdarwin or, watch this sketch and it perfectly explains anything you may ever need to know.

Yeah, except maybe on the next ones, they write something where the premise isn't dumb as fuck. The measurements we use are the BRITISH IMPERIAL SYSTEM. According to the premise of the sketch, Washington was fighting for independence so he could keep using the same system they'd been using for over 100 years ...

It really seems based off a bit that Nate Bargatze would do in his stand up.

Streeter Seidell & Auguste White wrote this skit.

@@ChristopherPatriarca1shocked but happy. I honestly believe Nate gave them the premise. It’s too funny to organically come out of current SNL writers. If it did though, I’m super jazzed.

@@Reality_CStreeter said they’ve been sitting on this for a while, stop simping for Nate

It really is. So many different ways that line could be delivered. Nate’s is by far the funniest way possible

“Sometimes one and sometimes three”…. That cracked me up!

De Niro style. "You insulted him a little bit."

You and me both!

@@gomist2018and me!😂

And, "There's a little kicking." 😂

When Bowen asks why and he’s just says “Liberty” is just America in a nutshell I just want the rest of the world to know that we are equally as confused by our system as they are 😂

They don't line up and they never will 😂😅

yes!

He has to be, because I have not watched in so long due to the stupidity of previoius SNL's. This one was by far one of the funniest!

They need to hire him as a writer. This episode blew the last two out of the water. I haven't seen SNL this good since the Tina Fey days!!!

​@@bloodbentvessels3254 they couldn't pay him enough.

I agree. Last night's SNL was one of the better ones in recent memory along with Pedro Pascals guest hosting.

Solidly written. Not solidly performed.

Neither@@johnjones3813

​@johnjones3813 you're right the performance lacked but still was funny

@@johnjones3813 I was impressed with how Nate Bargatze kept a straight face throughout the sketch, and did NOT look like he was glued to cue cards. I think it was very well performed, by SNL standards.

Ted Kennedy driving off the bridge at Chappaquiddick was funnier than this skit, what a huge heaping pile of excrement 💩

Agreed, mikev! I've been there since 1975, and this whole EP might easily make my top 10 or 15....arguably the best in MANY, MANY years. The B2B2B2B quartet of Chef Showdown, Stab at Love, LAKE BEACH, and Washington is one of the strongest sequences EVER in SNL history...they just got funnier as they went on ... "Airplane" later in the show was pretty solid too....Nate put himself on the all-time SNL great hosts list...

Yes

As long as this great nation stands we will know what they fought for. Freedom, Liberty, Units of measurement, and sometimes kicking. 😂

Agreed! There are so many people trying to revise history and pointing out that famous people were actually real human beings with period-thinking and that is something awful rather than revealing of the true (and slow) maturation of the country. Stuff like this can be funny and insightful and uneasy. No need to pretend our "heroes" weren't actually human beings.

It’s not a skit, it’s a sketch. Learn the difference.

Having watched the whole sketch multiple times, 'Yes, except that they don't line up and they never will" has now become my favo(u)rite line!.Nate delivers it with such conviction!

He did that because he didn’t know the lines and has no acting ability so it was very uncomfortable, but yes it was really funny.

@@realityislost7052 did he say that was the reason in an interview somewhere?

You're missing the true genius, Kenan asks "How many feet to a mile" and Nate answers him correctly, meaning he DID hear and understand all of Kenan's questions

​@realityislost7052 They have cue cards at all time, he wasn't forgetting his line. He was pausing because people were still laughing.

Nate’s comedic timing in this skit was impeccable.

Feels like a missed opportunity to bring up 3/5th.

You asked about temperature.

@@B0eing787Ooh…the fraction…you are so right!

You're easily amused.

with laughter? 'cause, ya know... a whole bunch of emotions would seem to fit here. if ya know what I mean? but yes lol it really makes the whole sketch better. LOL

Chef's Kiss! 🤌🏾💋

That's my favorite part too!

But Americans spell it “glamor.” Only the magazine is “glamour” - even the Fergie song is G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S.

@@originalcyn I'm from the US - it's spelled glamour here. Glamorous in both countries.

@@tripperdelaluna1 I'm also from the US, both glamour and glamor are accepted spellings.

@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist1 Cool story bro.

He really does have one of the best cadences for comedy

There's a little kicking.

Nobody knows how tho

​@wowimsorandom00 look man if you don't go to church and repent then the church can't get your tithe and the church won't be able to do community outrea I mean buy a new car for their pastor

"Sometimes 1, sometimes 3" lol!

I was crying laughing through this entire sketch!

I laughed so loud there and it’s an underwhelming joke on paper! Just the way Nate said it and the set up, I howled 😂😂

@@GDRaptorFan13 that's his talent :) glad the world got to see it

I haven't really thought much about it until this skit, but I bet football is confusing to somebody that is new to the sport. lots of strange rules if you stop and think about it.

wheel well

@@evanfinch4987 Nice.

I was thinking he must have helped write it.

The British wrote it.

@@WillyLoman15no he didn’t Mikey day and his friends wrote it

yes,this. Kenan is one of the best comedians ever on SNL, every sketch he's in comes up because of him.

he's one of the greatest 'glue' players of all time

@@TJMoolTricia Agree to disagree. Mostly disagree. LOL

@@ToddChaddingtonEsq Oooh.....scotch tape, maybe. Please don't insult the great Phil Hartman...

Do you mean KENAN? SP...

For anyone who is curious, 3.8 Liters is the same as 1 Gallon, or 1 Liter is 0.26 Gallons.

Thank you! Cuz, for the life of me, I figured it had to either be 3 liters or 4. Turns out- both wrong!! Yaayyyy America!!!

Look at Jesse showing off.

@@justmejenny7986: I used to work at a water heater plant in Central Texas & since we shipped industrial water heaters outside The U.S. they were always measured in Liters, so I had to memorize the conversion rate for Liters & Gallons.

They forgot to mention we also spell litre differently as well. We write liter for ... Reasons

Try 10 times for me... fucking genius sketch.

Try 20, 5280.. of course

“Nobody knows.”

“I did not”

I sent to my friend who's immigrating. I said this explains how we measure here 😂

Mikey Day was the main writer.

“What’s it called?” “Fahrenheit.” “Can you spell it?” “Impossible.” 😂

"As a European...."

There’s a little kicking….

@@joec8903 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@rg1649 are you throwing a little tantrum

@@rg1649? Just like Americans say ‘as an American’ all the time? If you’re from the continent of Europe then you’re a European 🤪🤪

Keenan is a national treasure

Keenan's facial expressions have been the best thing about SNL for quite a while now.

Keenan is GOAT. Is he the longest running cast member on snl yet? And one of the only child actors who seems like he made it out with all his marbles and dignity into a fully realized and well adjusted national treasure of an actor/comedian. Long live Keenan

surprised they didn't mention "ounce" is both (insanely) maybe volume OR maybe weight

@@khaightlynn5295Yes, he’s been the longest running for a few years now. I think he’ll see the show out if it ends during the 50th season (that’s the rumor). I have been watching him since my girls watched Keenan and Kel when they were little. He’s always been hilarious. Love him!

Really? Dying? Was it that great?

That's all he ever does

@@johnjones3813It may or may not be great, but it doesn't need to be great for someone to enjoy it.

Kenan achieved his childhood dreams. He is one of the greatest comedic actors of all-time. He can captivate and kill with a look, a pause, a phrase. Sometimes even less than that! Sometimes he can do literally *nothing* and somehow steal the scene. He is truly a master of his craft.

I miss the What's up with That skits... very funny and it demonstrated his overall talent .

He has specials on Netflix and Prime. I love his humor

@@jakemorrison548 I watched his prime special after seeing this skit. Funny dude.

He's one of the best stand up comics out there. He also has a podcast that's on youtube with other comics. Dusty Slay is on there too (trucker hat dude).

Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell wrote the skit

Right 😂

Me, as well!

It’s a perfect sketch.

There’s not a wasted , unnecessary word. Pauses and turn of direction is good too. Darn, this one is good. I watched at least 20 times now 😂

This was like the first time I've laughed at SNL in like at least a decade

Nate has the most expression-less eyes I've ever seen. lol. Same in his standup.

It’s so brilliant!

Wait, so this was not pre-recorded but acted on the stage?

@@adamdzurak4950 Indeed, Saturday Night LIVE

@@adamdzurak4950 It's Saturday Night LIVE (so yeah, performed in front of an audience and broadcast live)

I ❤ Keenan!!! One of the best!

@@firmamentsyndicate what happened?

It's that juxtaposition that makes this sketch into art and it's one of the very best ones ever on SNL. imo

I already have forwarded to several teachers I know, to use in lesson plans for various subjects...English, Math, science and of course history. This skit touches on so many great "why do we.." questions that pop up in those classes.

Uh.. it SUCKS

@@OCTAVIOUSMAXIMUS13 Oh man. You're so cool and edgy. I wish I could be as cool and edgy as you.

It was good. An instant classic? I guess time will tell.

It’s basically a Bargatze standup bit in sketch form

“Why??” “Liberty, son. Liberty” 😂 just America in a nutshell

I can envision them starring in a sitcom together. They play off each other well.

Not to mention the stirring music in the background.

You must not be very old, because it was mildly amusing at best, and not even in the same league as some of the best skits in SNL history.

@@tinyrogerts6449Boomer alert 🚨

That’s because it was clean comedy which is still the funniest!

I watched it 10 times, and my brain starts releasing dopamine in anticipation every time I'm getting closer to this bit again. The whole thing is a masterpiece.

His hand gesture during this phrase made it so much more funny and idk why 😂

F=1.8C+32. but the opposite calculation is a damn thing OTL

i wish he would have mentioned the actual F temps for freezign and boiling. it truly is random

​@@retz119 I'm a very pro-metric American, but I do see the benefit of Fahrenheit. Its range of 0-100 incorporates probably 95% of the air temperatures we have on Earth. Plus with 180 degrees between freezing and boiling, it's more precise of a measurement than Celsius is.

@@CraigKostelecky1000%. People seem to lump Celsius in with meters and kilometers like it’s part of the same package, but it’s not. What makes the metric system is good is easy unit conversion, but no one has to convert millidegrees to kilodegrees. It’s a single, self-contained scale. And with Celsius you end up throwing away 60% of the scale and squishing everything we need temperature for down, so you end up needing fractions to set an air conditioner. I’m also not sure why everyone thinks using the states of water is such an obvious thing to do. We don’t even reference the boiling point of water when we’re boiling water. You just set the burner to high.

If it were only so simple

You are man of Free 😂

Nobody knows 😂

2 yards?

Sometimes one, and sometimes three. 😂

I'm a teacher. Our staff meetings are opened up with us watching a clip from Hidden Figures of how black Americans in the 1960s used to be forced to use separate restrooms.

@@itsgoffthat’s what happens when you ask about the temperature

“Dad, how many quarts are in a gallon?” “I’m glad you asked, son. I’ve been meaning to talk to you about our land of Liberty.”

Okay as a teacher, do you at least recognize that feet, yards, miles, pints, quarts, gallons are all from the British imperial measurement system? I admit I forgot this when I watched this skit and laughed so hard, but remembering the actual history sorta turns the whole premise on its head 🤣

​@@Pl4sma69Hilarious 😂

I showed this video to the science teacher at my school in the Bronx. She said that only the honors kids would get it, but I disagree. We have a lot of Dominican students who think in metric.

Accurate? The metric system didn't exist yet

@@gokartninja1 Accurate as in it does not make sense

It's very funny, but it isn't accurate. England did not adopt the metric system until almost 1970. Also, Gridiron football (American football), Rugby football (rugger) and Association football (assoccer/soccer) were all named football back in the day because they were played on foot rather than on horseback like polo.

@@Doug_Hannon You do know accurate can mean different things depending on the context don't you? You ate going way more deep than my comment. What's accurate to me is how ppl question the measurements. You obviously are coming from a different perspective.

can you imagine the writers watching this, knowing what's coming... how the hel did they keep straight faces, and how could we not hear the writing staff crying laughing in the background as nate and the guys delivered these lines so perfectly. Highlight reel with Nate will be on constant repeat forever, he's cemented his place in SNL history with this one. If i'd written this i'd have shit myself watching it.

When? I've watched it twice and can't spot it.

Kenan breaks all the time

​@@christheghostwriterkeenan is every audience member's reactions. Keenan is goat.

@@MrSpazbomb Starting around 3:30; you can see just a twinkle in both their eyes before they got it back.

Ikr?! 😂

Exactly 😂😂

About as funny as a high school teacher, yes. Sad

I'm going to keep that in my pocket for the next time my wife asks me something.

Totally agree!!!

It sure is fun laughing so happily!! Humor is healing, as well! Super funny ;-)

I almost fell asleep during his monologue

​@@tytompkins3992Nights do be like that sometimes

The new King of Deadpan! Love the brilliance of his "dullness"

One of the best sketches I've seen, Mikey is brilliant

Agreed - he’s my favorite comedian!!

I like that he is a clean comedian. I love hard core comedy but it's nice having a guy like Nate around that I can watch with my kid.

Who is he? never seen him 😮

@@soniap1217 He is a stand up comedian. He has a few specials on Netflix.

Has everyone been re-watching this over and over. So hilarious 😂

🧐 Wow - good eye

I think it was a uniform from the war of 1812.

​@@NoPastNoFate I think it's a (Brig. General's) Civil War Union Senior double-breasted Officer Frock Coat

I'm 68, thomaskessler....do you remember the colored rods they used to compare centimeters, etc.???

@@bradyguy7701 I seem to recall clear and red..?

10 years. Everything was going to be metric in 10 years. The FIRST time I was told that in grade school was in the early 1970's. And the kicker is that it truly DOES make so much more sense, compared to the random hodgepodge that we use. This is a sketch that may be more appreciated by older folks than younger ones. It's an instant classic though.

Same!

I keep watching it too. Fantastic.

He has the face for a great dead pan delivery. Or it is a learned skill, I don't know but it works!

Lol.

Ithink i saw there were three people that wrote it. Mikey Day is one and I don't remember the other two.

He said on the Spade/Carvey Fly on the Wall podcast that they wrote it for him, tho it’s certainly in his voice.

@@mleiblie0513 Mikey Day, Streeter Seidell and Auguste White.

often the hosts are involved in the writing process, sometimes even pitching sketch ideas, so def plausible

He was on Carvey and Spade's podcast talking about it. SNL's writers wrote it and absolutely nailed it.

Agree, non political and genuinely funny

I'd say the past 5 or so. The "Worlds most Evil Invention" was amazing

​@jculbrethj non political 😮

SNL has always been political. People just weren’t 🐱 like you.

Absolutely not.

I love that, and when he grabs the guys leg on Glamour. Its those tidbits that sell it.

I absolutely agree, I’m so glad i caught this because I really don’t think it’s that great anymore but this was literally the best sketch EVER

Are you mentally handicapped?

Sounds about America

Same

Just finished rewatching them both. Pure genius

I think Nate will get THE JACKET!❤

The funniest thing is there's an episode of Chopped with 3 black chefs & 1 white. They did NOT show the white Chef AT ALL .....till he won. So the Chef skit was especially funny to my bf & I.

Yes!

"Yes.... Im sorry..."

Me too!!! lol! Watching this is like some kind of ritual that I'm drawn to occasionally, like a horse to the water.

:) dude me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I saw him in Chicago the following week. It was priceless

My kids know this skit by the word.

Me too. I've returned to this video over and over. I had just discovered Nate a few months before he was on SNL. Best comedian I've seen in a good while.

DUDE, the writing in this is freaking SHAKESPEARE level; WHAT are you Smoking?

😂