Top 10 SNL Sketches of the Last Decade

live from New York it's well even know what it is welcome to watchmojo.com is club inspired food for this list we're taking a look at Saturday Night Live sketches aired between 2010 and 2009 teen that had the greatest impact on comedy pop culture and the show's legacy you know what I'm gonna go ahead and call it Florida's going blue to Latinos number 10 diner lobster sometimes the best SNL sketches are the ones that initially showed little promise diner lobster was rejected when John Mulaney and Colin Jost wrote it in 2010 but Mulaney dug up the old sketch when he hosted in 2018 it starts off simply enough as Pete Davidson orders a lobster even though diners don't exactly have the best reputation for seafood despite everyone's warnings Davidson insists on having lobster which turns out to be Kenan Thompson channeling Jean Valjean [Music] this musical sketches just starting to get weird as then the lobsters devastated daughter pleads for his life and a barricade of lobster traps enters the scenes we're not sure how we got from lobster to lemmy's a table just like Davidson however we can't hide our laughter number nine the Californians Stuart's dad the Californians evolved into a recurring sketch parodying Valley speak and soap opera cliches above all else it's a sketch series about California Highways stick manzanita down to Olympic make a ride over by the vines pavilions take that all the way down to Robertson chicken evenly Stewart's long-lost father played by Mick Jagger pays an unexpected visit doesn't take long for several california streets to force their way into the conversation years I was a lost soul then one day I decided to take a ride on Hillhurst a truly great comedian can make reading the phone book funny but this sketch somehow makes driving directions hilarious as per usual the exaggerated accents turn even the most straightforward lines into comedic gold what propels this particular Californian sketch into top-10 territory though is a last-minute cameo from Steve Martin as a man with amnesia he may not have his memory but he does have the hair of a 20-something year old number 8 Liza Minnelli tries to turn off a lamp how long does it take you to turn off a lamp a few seconds at most probably yep this sketch squeezes four minutes of non-stop laughs out of the most basic premise imaginable as the title suggests the sched is about liza minnelli played too over-the-top perfection by kristen wiig trying to turn off a limb liza can't simply flip a switch however this run-of-the-mill task becomes a jazzy not to mention tipsy routine right out of a cabaret all the while Jonah Hill just sits in a chair with his cigar even though he could easily get up and turn off the lamp himself between wigs dedicated impression and physical comedy gifts we can't help but get a kick out of every ridiculous moment number 7 meet your second wife now this one pushes some boundaries when we see an older man dating a significantly younger woman most of the time we don't think that much about the actual amount of year separating them I understand your lovely wife Samantha is in the audience today yeah Brian she seems great for now but when you consider how young the woman would have been when the man is already an adult the relationship in this light can seem a little off-putting to say the least currently an eighth grade student at Wellington middle school but one day years in the future she will be your second wife in this uproarious sketch three men are given a chance to meet their future second wives on a twisted game show how many years old are you Stacy five fingers I believe she's trying to say she's five the oldest is in the eighth grade while the youngest is still a fetus making matters even more uncomfortable their current wives are all in the audience Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and always reliable comedic duo play the show's chipper hosts not leaving Elaine you're right you won't sadly Elaine will pass away in a tragic kayaking accident number six her weird a Adam driver may be best known for portraying the brooding kylo Ren but the Star Wars actor has demonstrated surprisingly strong comedic chops on SNL driver went undercover at star killer base in another sketch but he completely transformed himself in this instant classic with the physical appearance of Albert Einstein and devilish persona of daniel plainview an unrecognizable driver plays abraham h Parnassus an oilman who visits his son school on career day does annoying dude his class presentation quickly escalates into a Shakespearean speech as Parnassus describes how he crushed his enemies and overcame a premature birth oof II his driver looks and acts he actually manages to bring a genuinely menacing quality to the stone-faced Parnassus which makes the sketch all the more hysterical number 5 close encounter kate mckinnon has been an S NL MVP throughout the past decade and her cast mates could barely contain their laughter in this sketch I came to and saw a beautiful being made of like a beautiful calming light yes I'm here McKinnon Cecily strong and Ryan Gosling play three people abducted by aliens I started peeing him one of the grey aliens slapped the wall and pointed the bowl so I got the hint I kind of ducked walked over both we're as strong and Gosling looked back on the experience as profound and enlightening MacKinnon's abduction was more like a really intrusive medical examination these fancy cats are seeing God meanwhile I'm starting phase two which is me sitting on a stool while 40 grey aliens take turns gently batting my knockers we never actually see what happened listening to MacKinnon recount her ordeal while casually smoking a cigarette is arguably even funnier points especially priceless is how matter-of-factly MacKinnon delivers her jaw-dropping dialogue one grey alien by a door just kind of I think he was the lookout even after getting fondled by aliens and landing on a Long John Silver's without wearing pants she treats the whole night more like a wild bender than first contact number for black jeopardy with Tom Hanks Sean Connery maybe m.i.a but black jeopardy has become one of the most popular recurring SNL sketches of the past few years as humorous is Drake and Eddie Murphy's appearances work the game shows most memorable contestant the spar would have to be Doug played by Tom Hanks are you ready to play they told me a fella can win some money so let's wouldn't me someone to get her done from the second the camera pans to Doug and a make America great again hat the audience can tell they're in store for a wicked sketch instead of going for the obvious Trump jokes the sketch continually subverts expectations as Doug fits in surprisingly well on the black Jeopardy set I can laugh and pray in 90 minutes that is money well spent I really appreciate you saying just when it looks like the sketch is gonna slide by without any awkward moments however Doug is given the category lives that matter number three the day Beyonce turned black that's Super Bowl 50 Beyonce performed her new quote unapologetically black single formation hot sauce in my bag swag although the track was met with acclaim for its celebration of african-american culture its political subtext also attracted a fair deal of controversy what about single ladies she was black in that movie okay yeah she was white net SNL poked fun at just how overblown this controversy was in a sketch where white people around the world suddenly realize gasp Beyonce's black Beyonce had never made her pride in her identity a secret but here when she releases a song more explicitly about her race white folks react the little strongly which plays out like a suspenseful horror movie what are you listening to and if you're not a huge Beyonce fan expect to hear from the agency soon number two I just had sex The Lonely Island delivered some of their best satirical material during Andy samberg's final years on SNL [Music] while it's tempting to single out Jack Sparrow or three-way the golden rule I just had sex is truly something boastfully awesome [Music] this digital short finds Akon and members of the Lonely Island standing on a roof announcing to the world their exploits if I had to describe the feeling it was the bank as excited as they are their sexual partners Blake Lively and Jessica Alba aren't all that impressed the same can be said about the other many listeners who are forced to hear about the guy's activities but the enthusiasm proves infectious though and by the time the song nears it then everyone is singing along ok here are a few clues about the sketch we've got at number one on this list it features a very famous oscar-winning actor being ridiculous it's seasonal and it makes no sense much like all the best SNL sketches when you say anyway let's watch through the honorable mentions and then we'll see the best Saturday Night Live sketch of the decade that's a well what do you mean you don't think so she coughed into your hand don't shake it after a pause you remember the abattoir logo yeah it was tribal yet futuristic papyrus [Music] we have to protect ourselves or we'll die quick let's gather all our weapons rock hammer Swiss Army knife slingshot firecrackers ship-in-a-bottle protractor picture of edith piaf assault rifle little flag darn we should have left sooner I'm always like texting texting texting lol nobody was laughing out loud that day in Grenada many people were saying OMG me I was saying ttyl to my innocence in the sense of rocky the movie because I came out here to punch you and also I don't talk so good before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one haunted elevator featuring David s pumpkins on a haunted house elevator ride a couple comes across many of the usual scary suspects but they're thrown for a loop upon encountering Tom Hanks's David s pumpkins and his dancing skeletons the couple doesn't understand why pumpkins is present and the audience is equally baffled by the sketches intent when this hit the airwaves a lot of people weren't sure what to make of it who are you yeah yeah and David pumpkins is this old thing and the skeletons are part of me was this a work of brilliance or a work of random madness in retrospect it's a little bit of both it's also developed into an iconic sketch that we look forward to revisiting every Halloween or basically whenever we need a good laugh the scariest thing to the mind is the unknown something similar can be said about comedy do you agree with our picks check out this other recent clip from watch mojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos [Music] you

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Length: 14min 35sec (875 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 18 2020