{"id":2126818,"date":"2025-10-31T12:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2126818"},"modified":"2025-10-31T12:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:47:13","slug":"the-10-best-saturday-night-live-sketches-so-far-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-10-best-saturday-night-live-sketches-so-far-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Best \u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019 Sketches So Far this Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 51st Season of\u00a0<\/span>Saturday Night Live<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/i>is three episodes in, and so far it\u2019s been pretty mediocre, with a lot of underwhelming sketches and underutilized talent. The best I can say is that it\u2019s been a bit better each week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The premiere, hosted by Bad Bunny, fell flat with nearly every sketch. The second episode helmed by Amy Poehler had some solid hits and a lot of misses. The most recent episode hosted by Sabrina Carpenter was pretty great top to bottom.<\/span><\/p>\n

With all that in mind, here are the ten best sketches so far this season.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Just barely making its way into the top 10 this season is the pre-taped sketch \u201cSocial Experiment” in which\u00a0<\/span>SNL<\/i><\/span><\/a> writer Martin Herlihy plays an investigator conducting a social experiment where he \u201cfilled a theater with professional actors dressed to look stereotypically dangerous or scary.\u201d Building to be a sketch about racism, the truly hilarious reveal comes when the first patron enters the theater to find nearly every seat filled with people wearing green Frankenstein makeup. It\u2019s legit LOL funny, but the sketch suffers a familiar SNL fate from there: it goes on three minutes too long.<\/span><\/p>\n

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While it doesn\u2019t really have any huge laughs, the \u201cGrind Song\u201d starring Sabrina Carpenter and Bowen Yang was solidly amusing. Both of them play preteens going to a school dance where they grind on each other in front of the chaperones. One of the best parts of the catchy song is the bridge, where the bankable Kenan Thompson plays a checked out principal.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s rare to see Colin Jost out from behind the\u00a0<\/span>\u201cWeekend Update\u201d<\/span><\/a> desk, but the Season 51 premiere launched with a cold open where Jost-As-Pete Hegseth yelled at all of America\u2019s generals, calling them fat and gay. James Austin Johnson then did his solid Donald T impression. It\u2019s not amazing, but there are some solid laughs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Host Sabrina Carpenter put her comedy chops on full display in the \u201cGirlboss Seminar.\u201d She played a motivational speaker named Queen Lisha who spouted platitudes about female empowerment in between dance routines with two male backup dancers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

During one of the dance segments, the dancers swing Queen Lisha (as a dummy) around and throw her through a window. Queen Lisha reenters through the window and resumes the seminar, but one of the women in attendance (Sarah Sherman) is worried Queen Lisha has a head injury. After that, Queen Lisha\u2019s motivational patter makes less and less sense, and we\u2019re left trying to figure out if she actually has a head injury.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Perhaps it\u2019s not a ringing endorsement for Season 51 that two of its top 10 sketches were cut for time. In this \u201cWeekend\u201d spot, James Austin Johnson plays a fast-talking biohacker named Chuck Spyro who gives the audience all kinds of funny, moronic tips on how to better themselves. Michael Che is especially good as the straight man that Spyro ignores and talks over.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the tradition of \u201cD in a Box,\u201d the \u201cShop TV: Pillow\u201d features a perfect prop that makes the sketch work. Mikey Day and Ashley Padilla play the hosts of a home shopping show and they welcome a designer (Sabrina Carpenter) who has designed a new neck pillow. Once the tube-like pillow is snapped together at the bottom, it very obviously looks like a lady part and everyone but Carpenter understands that. Kudos here to\u00a0SNL<\/i>\u2019s prop department for nailing the sight gag.<\/span><\/p>\n