The Whitest Kids U'Know

One of the joys of having older children is that they can sometimes turn you onto to something new.  Usually, it's the parents who can't wait to share something they think their kids will enjoy...movies from childhood, etc. etc.

Well, the tables were turned on us recently, and I'm really glad they were!!!  Our daughter was home from college for the holiday and she showed us a sketch on YouTube.  It was called "The Grapist."  I could only hear it while it was on, and I thought it was some kind of animated sketch.  I thought it was pretty funny.  Turns out, it's a sketch comedy troupe called The Whitest Kids U'Know.  Apparently, they have been around since 2007.  I have never heard of them, and we all know my love of all things sketch comedy.

Here's the Grapist sketch:

Fast forward to a few nights ago and my youngest son is on the couch in absolute hysterics, watching something on his iPod.  Turns out, it was another Whitest Kids U'Know sketch.  We found their most recent season on Netflix and man, are they funny!!  They are completely sick, twisted, and perverted, but they make me howl.  I need to invest in finding their previous seasons and see what else they have done.

Here is my favorite sketch, by far.  What REALLY happened to Abe Lincoln.  This is NOT safe for work/kids/etc. so be warned:

Oh, what the heck - one more.  A boss and his employee discuss their activities from the night before, complete with stick figure drawings:

Back on the SNL topic...

Let's talk Weekend Update correspondents.  They are often my favorite part of the broadcast.  I need to go back and watch all the ones from the 80's again because I don't remember too many from back then, so for now, I'm going to concentrate on the 90's and forward, except for one.....

Annoying Man.  Self-explanatory:



Possibly my favorite - Grumpy Old Man.  Dana Carvey.  He would often start to crack up while doing this character, which always makes it better:

One of the least appreciated correspondents from the 90's was Drunk Girl.  I think this character was on only a handful of times, but I loved her - it was probably the hair arms and the exposed, flabby belly that won my heart:



Completely un-PC, but Ike Turner has a special place in my heart:



We'll wrap up today's discussion (there will definitely be more) with my current favorite.  Stefon:

Oh, Kevin Nealon, you break my heart

My latest obsession has been watching older Saturday Night Live episodes from the 80's and 90's.  Being that I'm almost 40 years old, I remember these episodes well.  Hulu Plus has all the episodes, with mostly all of the sketches (they do edit out a few of them for length).

I've enjoyed exposing my boys to the early days of Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, and Mike Myers, whom they had no idea were ever on SNL.

However, I've run into something that's been painful and irritating.  Kevin Nealon doing Weekend Update.  Weekend Update is one of my favorite things about SNL, and always has been.  The commentators from the early 90's (such as Opera Man, Ike Turner, and David Spade) are hilarious.  But, Mr. Nealon...ugh, he's horrible.  It's not so much the jokes - you can't blame that on the host - that's the writers' issue.  It's the delivery.

He stumbles constantly, sometimes starts saying the wrong part, and in general is just horrible with the presentation.  It's quite painful to watch.  Surprisingly, he never messes up the Mr. Subliminal editorials, which are always funny.  Thank goodness!!!

My favorite will always be Norm MacDonald.  He did a great deadpan. Plus, the OJ jokes never get old.  Although not an OJ joke, this is probably my favorite bit that he did: