Saturday Night Live loves to utilize its tall guest hosts and cast members for the “tall love interest” joke. When Jacob Elordi hosted, there was “Short King Bachelor.” The premise was essentially that even when a woman falls in love with a short man, they will always choose a taller, boring man.
That concept was revisited for one of the cut-for-time sketches for Season 51’s third episode. Starring Sabrina Carpenter (who pulled double duty as both host and musical guest), the sketch was called “Tall, Plain Boyfriend.”
Helmed by newbies Ben Marshall and Jeremy Culhane, the sketch starts with Culhane delivering a cringe-worthy joke before the camera pans to Carpenter. “Ha ha! Dating can be tough,” Carpenter explains. “Some guys try too hard to be funny or interesting, especially the little ones.”
Cut to Culhane using chopsticks to impersonate a walrus.
“It feels like they’re doing the most,” Carpenter continues. “But sometimes you just want less. So that’s why I switch to Tall, Plain Boyfriend.”
Carpenter then yanks a blanket away from a box revealing Ben Marshall in a Barbie-style box.
The sketch was instantly popular across social platforms. “This sketch exudes big-time iCarly energy. Hope the writers and cast lean more into this type of stuff,” on person posted on X.
“This feels like an All That sketch, and I mean that as the highest compliment,” another person added.
Meanwhile, someone in the r/LiveFromNewYork subreddit wrote, “Funnier than several of the sketches that made it to air!”
“‘Just a long body, with hair on head’ is a great bit of language,” a different Redditor chimed in.
Over on Instagram, the sentiment was almost exactly the same on the official SNL account’s post of the sketch:
“this is so funny why was it cut????”
“This sketch was way better than some that actually aired”
“This is such a funny sketch why tf did they cut this for time?”
People love tall guys! Who knew!
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