# ID this comedy sketch (sperm donor) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** talk-variety-show\ **Created:** [October 8, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedy-sketch-sperm-donor/1023785 "2025-10-08T15:25:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedy-sketch-sperm-donor/1023785/1 "2025-10-08T15:25:16Z")
Last weekend on SNL, there was a sketch where a young couple in a restaurant discussed their infertility problems, and Bad Bunny (and later Kenan Thompson), looking and acting really skeevy, volunteered to be sperm donors. Thing is, I vividly remember another sketch comedy show–maybe _Kids In the Hall_–doing a very similar bit. In it, the young couple talks about possibly using a sperm donor, and a cartoon mobster at the next table just happens to have a jar of his own spunk with him, and pushily offers to get more. Does this ring any bells with the Teeming Millions? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedy-sketch-sperm-donor/1023785/2 "2025-10-09T21:23:09Z")
I can’t help you find that particular comedy sketch, but I would like to suggest a film on a related topic, “A Sinful Life,” with Anita Morris and Blair Tefkin. Baby Bump is conceived in an unusual way when mom is trapped in a sperm bank during a Los Angeles earthquake. Available on YouTube and elsewhere. The story was originally a sketch at the LA improv theatre, _Groundlings._ ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedy-sketch-sperm-donor/1023785/3 "2025-10-10T19:07:10Z")
That rings zero bells, which tells me at least its not a Kids in the Hall sketch because I watched the hell out of that show. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedy-sketch-sperm-donor/1023785/4 "2025-10-10T19:20:17Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > a cartoon mobster Are you saying the mobster was a cartoon (think: Roger Rabbit) or that the mobster was cartoonish? Off the top of my head, I can’t recall KITH having anything animated, much less interacting with the live actors. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedy-sketch-sperm-donor/1023785/5 "2025-10-10T21:05:49Z")
Could it be from Family Guy? I was once wracking my brains trying to remember what show had a bit I remembered. I would have sworn it was a live action sit-com, but it ended up being from King of the Hill. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedy-sketch-sperm-donor/1023785/6 "2025-10-10T23:52:33Z")
It was definitely live action. I wrote “cartoon gangster” to describe how he was dressed. Apparently this is a much more popular trope than I would have guessed. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedy-sketch-sperm-donor/1023785/7 "2025-10-10T23:54:48Z")
He was cartoonish. Pushy, pinstriped suit, wide fedora. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedy-sketch-sperm-donor/1023785/8 "2025-10-11T00:00:49Z")
> DigitalC > Guest > 5h > > That rings zero bells, which tells me at least its not a Kids in the Hall sketch because I watched the hell out of that show. Maybe it was _MAD TV_? It was from one of the shows I watch less faithfully than _SNL_. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedy-sketch-sperm-donor/1023785/9 "2025-10-11T01:56:13Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > Maybe it was _MAD TV_? It was from one of the shows I watch less faithfully than _SNL_. Will Sasso played a “cartoon mobster” type in MadTV’s “pool hustler” sketch, complete with pinstriped suit and fedora. Maybe they brought the character back? ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedy-sketch-sperm-donor/1023785/10 "2025-10-11T03:32:28Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > I vividly remember If we were on the Mandela Effect subreddit, this would be conclusive proof that it never happened. The amount of I “DISTINCTLY” remember and I “VIVIDLY” remember from the true believers on that sub is astounding. And it’s always stuff that clearly never happened. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedy-sketch-sperm-donor/1023785/11 "2025-10-11T04:24:41Z")
> EllisDee > Guest > > If we were on the Mandela Effect subreddit, this would be conclusive proof that it never happened. > > The amount of I “DISTINCTLY” remember and I “VIVIDLY” remember from the true believers on that sub is astounding. And it’s always stuff that clearly never happened. Conversely, I have vague recollections of things that actually did happen… ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedy-sketch-sperm-donor/1023785/12 "2025-10-11T06:30:58Z")
There were a ton of sketch shows concurrent with _Kids in the Hall_ back in the 1990s because Comedy Central was a guaranteed market for syndication after a first run on the CBC, HBO, or an American network. _Vacant Lot_ with Mark McKinney’s brother was almost indistinguishable from _KinH_ to the casual viewer. There was also _Exit 57_ with Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris on HBO, _Almost Live_ from Seattle, _In Living Color_ and _Mad_ TV on Fox, and many more. Good luck with your search.