Michael Che was the main writer on this sketch, and said that it came from observing how many similarities there were between the inner city neighborhood where he grew up, where there was a lot of religion, a distrust of the government, a lot of pickup trucks, and everyone had guns, and rural white neighborhoods that featured the same things.

@steelyspielbergo

2 ай бұрын

and the women are fat

@TheeTwanSolo

2 ай бұрын

It's very true. I'm a black man from Kentucky. I've lived in the projects & in a rural trailer park. I've always told people that THE only difference besides skin color was simply the music.

@setsjunk

2 ай бұрын

Because when slaves were freed, the only people black people were allowed to live next to were poor whites. So they adopted a lot of the culture of those poor white people. Which is why they are so similar.

@hamfox9714

2 ай бұрын

Same same.

@MiddleAgedBob

2 ай бұрын

@@TheeTwanSolothe only part of that surprises me is the pickup trucks.

"That's how they get you." Should be relatable to everyone in the world.

@Souledex

Ай бұрын

Dangerous to assume it’s always true, cause then people can manipulate and take advantage of you just as much. But that doesn’t mean it’s its not often true.

@koushinproductions

Ай бұрын

Only in america.

@Souledex

Ай бұрын

@@koushinproductions and the even dumber response rolls in.

@koushinproductions

Ай бұрын

@@Souledex Oh no, the government is after me! No one is interested in you and your kinky secrets. Ah typical american obsession and paranoia.

@0Clewi0

Ай бұрын

And that's how they don't get me... in part because my fingertip is just not reliable.

If Tom Hanks is on SNL, you know it's going to be a great one.

@moparbabe72

2 ай бұрын

Always

@Talenin2014

Ай бұрын

And David S. Pumpkins is his own thanggg

Have to remember that Tom Hanks started off doing comedic movies before drama. This takes him back to his roots

@leeyaferguson9019

2 ай бұрын

Boosom Buddies ❤❤😂😂

@Marcellat

2 ай бұрын

That’s true! He was HILARIOUS!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

@bossfan49

2 ай бұрын

Remember? That's common knowledge.

@joemckim1183

2 ай бұрын

And Tom Hanks has hosted SNL a million times and always puts on great performances when he does.

@joegreene7619

2 ай бұрын

@@bossfan49 You would be shocked at how many young folks have no idea.

Fun fact, the part where Tom Hanks pulls back when Keenan went to shake his hand that was an ad lib , Keenan didn't expect it

@TrackMaster844

14 күн бұрын

Yeah, you can tell one of the other contestants is trying hard not to laugh 😂

@rwhirsch

2 күн бұрын

hanks is an icon

Olli hit it straight on -- the REAL divides in our country are based upon economic lines, which is why the people at the top have to stir every other pot to divide people; race, religion, sexuality, etc... anything to prevent the bottom half of this country from rising up against the top.

@jduncanandroid

2 ай бұрын

For two good bits on this, check out George Carlin, 'similarities and differences'(especially the first 2 minutes) and 'American dream'.

@marcussabom2696

2 ай бұрын

I mean, there are some things that are unique to each race and whatnot as far as the oppression they've had to endure, but poverty looks like poverty no matter where in the world you are.

@theoblongbox4909

2 ай бұрын

That's partially true, but doesn't tell the full story. As the sketch shows at the very end, it goes a little deeper than that.

@17thknight

2 ай бұрын

Bingo. MLK Jr started talking about the economic divides, shows up to a union strike and that's when he's assassinated

@MrCvjalexander

Ай бұрын

Bacon’s rebellion

Tom Hanks is such a good guy, that if you woke up tomorrow and read “Tom Hanks Slaps Nun” as a headline your first thought would be, “… Man, what did that nun DO that Tom Hanks needed to slap her?”

This is probably one of the better skits from the last decade or so...for a wide variety of reasons.

Martin Crane, Archie Bunker, George Jefferson and Fred Sanford all sat in "the good chair."

@Abri412

2 ай бұрын

As does my dad and my grandpa before him. 😁

@tru3sk1ll

2 ай бұрын

I'm a white guy and sanford and son was the funniest show I've ever seen, we lost something in America when we stopped laughing at each other, that's how you really understand each other

@H-Vox

2 ай бұрын

​@@tru3sk1llAgreed but I will say the Weekend Update banter between Michael Che and Colin Jost is amazing, doesn't shy away from irreverence

@christiancampbell466

6 күн бұрын

My dad was so surprised the last time he plopped down in his chair and it exploded into pieces. We were just surprised every time it didn’t.

Props to writer Che and Kenan Thompson (Darnell) who nailed it.

@nuniobinez4066

Ай бұрын

I like Keenan. He always delivers.

Tom Hanks, bringing people together. We can't have too much of Tom.

@erikahutchcraft1742

9 күн бұрын

Eeeew ….he’s one of those island boys….just eew

"Not a damn thing" 😂

The part where Tom raises his hands like he’s afraid was completely improvised and not in the original script.

The categories always crack me up. "They out here sayin'" 😂 When Keenan went to shake his hand ..😅😅😅😅

I love what you'all talked about, if you are from the same social class, you got a lot in common. A friend of mine put it like this: They put $10 on the table, and get us fighting. Because of my race I think I should have 6 and you 4. Because of your gender You think you should get 7 and me 3. And they egg us on because if we stopped fighting we'd notice.. wasn't there supposed to be $100 on this table? where'd that other 90 go? And the answer is always the ones stirring us up to fight over the $10.

@JayBigDadyCy

Ай бұрын

Exactly.

@antonego9581

Ай бұрын

its why a lot of politicians don't even bother talking about governing or policy or anything useful. they just lean into culture war crap because it gets people riled up and emotional and they go vote based on that and meanwhile everything just slowly gets worse

@TheTm9090

Ай бұрын

No war but class war ✊

That skit is hilarious. ❤😂 And Corey has it right about how much we have in common.

No matter how much money you have your kitchen still has a packet dwar

@n.ayisha

2 ай бұрын

i'm still trying to figure out why everybody has a bunch of those silver ramen flavor packets in their junk drawer. what happened to all the noodles?

@moparbabe72

2 ай бұрын

Junk drawer is what I call it lol

@rosemanos5123

2 ай бұрын

Exactly. We save all that stuff.

@wahn10

20 күн бұрын

This is true. We have one. Isn't that what drawers are for?

Very important point raised relating to the unifying nature of 'class', it's the system that maintains and propagates the divisions in society, loved the sketch (-:

Even though I do not watch SNL anymore, they did a good job on the skit.

We have a miscellaneous drawer. Holding various packets, twist ties, fast-food straws and many other items we'll never need, unless we throw it away.

@kristin1533

2 ай бұрын

My mom used to call ours the "junk drawer."

@rosemanos5123

2 ай бұрын

Don't throw it away. You may need it some day.

@johncalhoun916

2 ай бұрын

I have lived with multiple cultures, everyone has a misc drawer. It is necessity of life and living.

@grimmmetals5290

Ай бұрын

I actually reach in there for the taco bell fire sauce packets but I'm pretty sure there are some soy sauce packets in there older than me 😂🤣If you need soy sauce after the apocalypse go visit your local hood or trailer park 💁‍♂

Brilliant! Leslie Jones cracks me up. Next up- Black Jeopardy with Chadwick Bozeman as T’Cholla!😂😂😂 Thanks for doing Tom’s! ❤❤❤ Yes- Darryl Hammond was the very saucy Sean Connery on Celebrity Jeopardy. 😂 Will Ferrell is hilarious on “ More Cowbell”. A must watch!

@bossfan49

2 ай бұрын

The bland potato salad!

@DandreaMBrady

2 ай бұрын

I totally agree! Chadwick’s skit as T’Challa in Black Jeopardy was good. But, the Tom Hanks’ one was the funniest one I have ever seen. It was shockingly funny and thought provoking. It was so to the point. One of the best skits from the series!!! Tom Hanks has always been my favorite actor!!!

@katherinemcintosh7247

2 ай бұрын

Oh, the one with Chadwick Boseman is THE BEST! He was such a talent. I don’t know how he did that without laughing.❤️

Oh yeah. When Dad’s in the house ain’t nobody sitting in his chair except for him!

all in... im a old white bread middle 'merican. ... i think we just need to break bread together, ten minutes together... needed this and love it.

Nice little reminder of class solidarity. Very cool.

The reason i love this skit is that i grew up in the projects in my town. We were all in the same situation.

This sketch is probably one of the best moments in SNL. I so hoped it might be a start to showing each other we aren't different at all. It took longer for the message to be heard than I would have liked, but it's being heard, and that's really what's important. Kinda of a shame they went back to the same old slop afterwards, but it was great in the moment.

As soon as I saw the title I clicked because I've seen this many times and Tom Hanks is amazing in it😅😅😅

Good reaction. You people are funny. Am I allowed to say that?!

@bossfan49

2 ай бұрын

You can, my bah-rutha.

@robjohnson5872

2 ай бұрын

We'll let this one slide

There are actually multiple of these and they are all hilarious.

White Canadian here, grew up with not much to our names all up and down British Columbia. We also had “the good chair”, “oven heat”, “car tape”, down/upstairs neighbors hitting the ceiling/stomping the floor cause the only rent I could afford isn’t in the best of neighborhoods, “my mechanic friend” who’ll do near anything for a flat of beer and some smokes, like all of this stuff in the Black Jeopardy sketches is super relatable to me and it makes me laugh my ass off. I’ve had to scrimp, claw, and sacrifice much of myself to crawl out of the poverty line, but let me tell ya, this province man.. this province goes out of its way to render whatever gains I attain mean nearly nothing by the time I get it. It can be depressing, so my mom taught me to look back on it all, and laugh at it. Because it’s all so ridiculous. And you better believe now that I’ve finally become a homeowner at nearly 40, one of the first things my wife and I agreed on was which one was the “packet drawer” ;)

When I saw this as a white man I recalled the time me and my best friend, also white, realized we were black.😉 We went into a grocery store at 2 in the morning and came out with fried chicken, crystal hot sauce and orange soda. This may seem racist but it's the opposite. Who doesn't like fried chicken, hot sauce and orange soda. We are not black but why is this a racist trope. Not saying that we have any idea what it feels like to be from black ancestors but when you're 20 years old, it's a bit of a wake up call. Love this sketch.

I could watch this over and over again and it's not easy to do and Tom was so believable😅😅😅😅

Tom Hanks pulled that off

When we focus on the differences we unfortunately forget everything we have in common in this human experience.

This never fails to make me laugh. Watching you all laugh your butts off makes me laugh even harder. I adore you men. Thanks for the chuckle. Enjoy the day.

This is becoming one of my favorites channels. Awesome reaction as usual. Look forward to your new content gentlemen.

The SNL skit was funny as hell , and this reaction video just put the icing on the cake!! I look forward too your next video!!

Car tape!🤣🤣🤣

One of my favorite all time sketches…and I have been watching since 1975…I was a 5 year old that year, have always had sleeping problems, used to sneak when my folks were watching SNL.

Olli laughing like he's been through a roll or two of Car Tape in hard times. 😀

I’ve watched this a million times and this was the first time I heard “the sound of the broom 🧹 hitting the ceiling…” I just moved into an expensive gentrified old apartment and I can’t tiptoe across the livingroom floor from 10pm to 7am without the lady in the studio below me banging on her wall.😫😫😫

@marcussabom2696

2 ай бұрын

Get her some noise cancellation headphones, it is impossible to not make noise when you're the upstairs neighbor. My heart goes out to you.

You’re right .. we collectively have a lot in common.. same creator, built the same from inside out. Thanks for doing

She's Sturdy 😂😂😂

You guys are great. 😂

The best I've seen in years is a skit called "Close Encounters" with Kate McKinnon. Imagine if Cecil's kids got abducted by aliens. 😂

Your reactions are spot on.

Sooo true!!!!! Love you guys!

Priceless!!!

Important stuff. Loved the reaction.

Classic SNL skit! One of the best

Enjoyed this! This just appeared in my feed, so I clicked. Then I saw Corey! HEY COREY!

This sketch was brilliant

We need more skits like this one.

I've seen different people react to this sketch and this is the first time I saw anyone give the good chair the attention it deserves. Respect.

The Black Jeopardy with Chadwick Boseman in character as The Black Panther is also hilarious!

It’s true. You can listen to Chris Rock, George Lopez, and Jeff Foxworthy and relate to all of their stand up if you were poor. On a serious note, if you solved our differences in race, nationality, religion, etc. There will always be a difference in classism and that scares the shit out of the ruling class. That’s why they peddle fear and division. They don’t want us united over class because they are greatly outnumbered. Anyway, great skit. Also, the ongoing joke with this sketch is that the white people on Black Jeopardy always have the worst answers. Any other character is the same. They switched it up on this and it was the whitest person you can think of. 😂😂😂

@kelly9876

2 ай бұрын

that was why Fred Hampton was so "dangerous" to the powers that be - he was reaching out to Black, Hispanic and white groups in Chicago on the issues which should unite the poor and middle classes.

@Nickel138

2 ай бұрын

@@kelly9876 Exactly! Well said. Same thing with all our great leaders who were giving power to the people.

Thanks for the laugh guys. This old fool needed it.👍👍👍

Great one!

Best sketch ever!

Thank you for this… Doug reminds me soooo much of my Uncle David, may he rest in peace.

The car tape kills me 😂😂😂😂 living in south Florida i see taped up car windows every damn day lol

My car window, no tape. I did the pieces of cardboard wedged down in, so it could not fall on its own, tryin' to make it look like it was straight. But no. Meanwhile, when I had good windows, I had mo-fos bust in my sh*t during the rain, goin' through my dash and shiz like I got treasure up in there. The one damn window they broke that one time cost more than the f-ing after market stereo with a cassette thing bitch stole! Dayam! I liked y'all's show. Thanks for being you.

Fundamentally we are all pretty much the same. Great reaction to a great skit. Subscribing to you guys.

omg this shit is hilarious, well done

One of the all time funniest skits ever 😂😂

Haha I never noticed Leslie almost broke when Tom did the handshake bit.

This was an instant classic, i grew up poor, and i kept tape in my toolbox

OMG, this was hilarious

This is one of my all time favorite sketches. lmfao Reminds me of the Lowder with Crowder street interviews "Black and White on the Gray Issues." Allot more similarities than people think.

The White Black Supremacist with Dave Chappell ❤ Please review that incredible performance 😂

@TheDivayenta

2 ай бұрын

Yes!! “ Did he say we were n-words? AWESOME!”😂😂

LMAO! That's my window right now! Not to mention its control panel has been hanging on by the wire harness for...I honestly don't even know. 😂🤣

"not a damned thang." 😂😂

We are all more alike than different. My dad sat in the good chair. And always got the first chicken breast! 🐔

I cannot agree more. We are so much alike it is crazy. My family is a tapestry of different races, colors and creeds. If people stopped for a moment while we are being divided, we all want to help each other out when necessary, to help take care of homeless people, bring prosperity to our families and generations after and love one another we'd realize that the enemy is within. There are those that profit so much from the division that they created. Loved your reaction to this one. Glad I was able to stop by and share a laugh with you.

@thisisitreactions

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and speaking those words of truth

Hell of a skit big ups to that whole cast staff and writers standing O. UniteOrDie

my ex's dad had the best 'good chair' ever. i used to fall asleep soon as i sat down.

That was funny😂

....and...Doug my packet drawer is just a baggie in the fridge.

Love the big chair joke! That's right "You get your young ass up!" Just like" Turn the heat up Grandma's cold!" Meanwhile you're so hot you're dizzy. But it's the right way act!

Leslie Jones losing it at 6:45 is great. America isn't really racist, it's the economic class and culture you are from.

@philwill0123

2 ай бұрын

Actually, the end point made is that America is racist. With all the similarities of economics and culture, the Tom Hanks character was going to fail that last question by saying either white lives matter/blue lives matter/ or the fox get out clause of "all lives matter". The point should be, if we had more exposure to all people than negative news bubbles like Fox, we could concentrate on improving all economic class.

@CorsetGrace

2 ай бұрын

@@philwill0123 I'd still disagree that this is a racist country. There are racist people sure, but there are racist people of all races, colors and creeds. Racism was mostly dead until people and media conflated bad police training with racism when a few unarmed black people were killed by police, even though nearly twice as many unarmed white people were killed by police at the same time.

@kellharris2491

Ай бұрын

This just shows how uninformed you are. This country still has many laws in place that are racist. People don't understand that racism is about class at it's core. There are still laws put into place strictly to keep black people from rising up to middle class. This is why most either do it by sports or music. Education is a huge limiter and so are housing laws and discriminatory employment practices. And why wouldn't there be more white people killed then black people? This country's black population is only 13%. Even with twice killed that's still more black people killed percentage wise. But regardless no other country has nearly as much police deaths or incarcerated people percentage wise. So many police deaths is unusual and a result of immunity allowing them to break laws and avoid punishment. The police target poor people because the are less likely to be able to fight back. And the vast majority of poor people are minority. That is why racism exists because at its core it's about deciding who or what kind of people have power. Racism is not so simple as I don't like you because you look different. It's about power. Economic power. Financial power. Social power etc. The haves and the haves nots. The mistake is in thinking the haves will care about you because you are also white and that you too can become part of the 1%. It bothers you that your country is considered racist but it's the truth. The most decorated unit in the Army was a group made of Japanese Americans. While they served and died for this country their families were imprisoned in interncamps. The Nazis learned about gas chambers from us and many US senators were actively working with Hitler. So many civil rights leaders were actively assassinated by the Feds. Instead of living in denial why don't you look at the truth and real history and decide that you want more from your country? When I was in school they used to teach that the civil war wasn't about slavery but states rights. The state right to do what exactly? The state right to own a human that's what the true history was.

@Elena-er7zp

Ай бұрын

@@CorsetGraceOh no. US most definitely has racism. But different races do share commonality due to their economic situations.

@CorsetGrace

Ай бұрын

@@Elena-er7zp I agree it has racist individuals, I just don't think it is a racist nation. Racism was almost a forgotten thing in the early 2000s until certain people, who were being ignored, decided to bring it back because their victimhood was being threatened.

you guys managed to bleed 18mins out of a 6 and a half min video..thats wild reaction content..gotta love it

I've had my good chair for 20 years. I bought it on sale, because it was the floor model and the last one left. Best purchase I've ever made. It has no cracks in the leather, after all this time. I've babied that chair. My son's grandparents come over, guess where the grandfather sits. In my chair. I get a little triggered, but I let it slide. They've been in wars and I have to give respect. My lady has had her leather couch (throne for her) for 17 years. No cracks. Matches my chair. Also, this is one of the best SNL skits ever.

Shout out for saying “it’s all the same shit..”

The people at the top need the people at the bottom to keep fighting; otherwise, we might realize we have a common enemy, and turn on *them*.

I'm a white guy and I grew up poor, but I didn't grow up in the hood or anything. The "good chair" was sat in by my dad, the couch was my mom's spot and I sat in a lazy boy recliner while my two younger brothers laid down in the floor. When my dad passed away, my mom took over the "good chair" and I took the couch while my younger brother got my lazy boy and my youngest brother laid on the floor.

Great writing

Wonderful to start my day with a good belly laugh! Tears rolling down my face, thank you fella for your reaction!

Funny stuff!

Comedy. Are we talking about my man from "Big". 😂

Tom hanks is an amazing improve actor i swear 😂

Kenan Thompson is hilarious.

Life without my 500 mph tape is not worth living. :D

You might want to watch Rolls Royce blowout with Randy Quade. Living in Oregon this 1 hit home.1 of my favorite skits.

Take the media out, we would all be friends. Well, most of us anyway.

Hey guys. Been wondering when someone would do a deep dive and reactions to the Disc Jockeys of the 40’s, 50,s 60’s. They were so famous and they were A PART of music. You guys would be perfect to do a series like that. My generation listened to Wolfman Jack.

I love ya guys !!!😂😂😂😂😂😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤

Always said we got more alike than we got different.

I've seen some of that car tape out there while I'm driving around.

I grew up a white kid in the 1970s in an all white area. I was in my teens when we moved to a city where there were people different than me. It was not so much about skin color but people who saw the world different, had different ways of thinking, and even different senses of humor. Glad my parents took me out of that boring all white town. Met so many great friends and learned so much about the world. I never learned anything from someone who agrees with me all the time. I see that in the worst kind of politics today.

I think you guy overlooked the best moment. Darnell crosses to shake Doug's hand and Doug backs up; hands in the air. From what my black friends tell me watching this, it's true. They cannot help an old lady without her clutching her purse.