SNL Season 44: Best Sketches, Ranked
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#5. BEST CHRISTMAS EVER
Matt Damon and Cecily Strong played marrieds sitting down to reflect on a joyous Christmas Day, with their conversation punctuated by flashbacks to what was actually a hellish 24 hours. — WATCH
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#1. CAREER DAY
Adam Driver's commitment to the role of aging oil baron Abraham H. Parnassus was on another level. His constant outbursts ("Look at me, boy!"), coupled with Melissa Villaseñor's reactions, elevated this late-in-show sketch to an instant classic. — WATCH
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#4. HOUSE HUNTERS
Each potential home was more nightmarish than the next in this bizarro HGTV parody, which took a truly dark turn to pay off a running joke about the husband (host Liev Schreiber) and his desire to have a man cave. — WATCH
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#9. HUCKAPM
The concept here — that Sarah Huckabee Sanders has told so many lies that she'd need the equivalent of a horse tranquilizer to put her mind at ease and get some sleep — was brilliant. — WATCH
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#2. KAVANAUGH HEARING
On a scale from one to 10, Damon's performance was easily a 15. Among the highlights: his emotionally charged shout-out to high school drinking buddies PJ, Tobin and Squi, and the cardboard cutout of Alyssa Milano placed behind him. — WATCH
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#7. MESSAGE FROM JEFF BEZOS
Host Steve Carell portrayed the Amazon CEO, who responded to Trump's criticisms by doing everything in his power to overshadow and humiliate him. — WATCH
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#3. SPACE STATION BROADCAST
A NASA captain (Carell) attempts to get through a livestream with grade school students, but is disrupted by an airlock breach which results in the death and disfiguration of several animals and a poor, Russian cosmonaut named Svetlana. — WATCH
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#6. THE WAR IN WORDS
Mikey Day reprised his role as a World War I soldier who grew increasingly apoplectic with his dimwitted wife (host Claire Foy), whose letters lacked in substance. — WATCH
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#10. THEM TRUMPS
This Empire-inspired satire imagined what it would be like if President Donald Trump was black. The sketch was then cut short, as Darius Trump was immediately indicted for his crimes. — WATCH
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#8. MIDTERM AD
Heidi Gardner was a riot as a fidgety suburban mom who worried that her children playing outside would somehow jinx the Democrats and their chance at a "blue wave." — WATCH