# What Is This Saturday Night Live Sketch Spoofing?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 10, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-saturday-night-live-sketch-spoofing/784147 "2017-04-10T02:51:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-saturday-night-live-sketch-spoofing/784147/21 "2017-04-13T17:27:58Z")

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I thought that who show sucked eggs except for the monologue.

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**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-saturday-night-live-sketch-spoofing/784147/22 "2017-04-13T18:46:58Z")

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> [@snoe](#):
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> Just absurd, a la David Pumpkins, as stated above.

David **S.** Pumpkins

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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-saturday-night-live-sketch-spoofing/784147/23 "2017-04-13T19:51:27Z")

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When I watched this skit live, I assumed in the beginning it would be a spoof of the Montgomery mini mall viral video. But nope. Maybe other people had the same idea.

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**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-saturday-night-live-sketch-spoofing/784147/24 "2017-04-14T17:34:10Z")

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We were uncertain about it as well. I thought it might be parodying some televangelist (e.g., bad wig).

Louis C.K. seemed to be in just about every skit, and each seemed to… not jump the track, but be a little, umm, off the rails, not necessarily in a bad way.

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