I was expecting the joke to be that the person who went after Keenan was going to steal the sickle cell cure from him, but this was a better direction.
I was just going to comment the same thing man! I thought for sure after the heartfelt dedication of the cure the next person was going to be like "oh never can be too safe, I'll just keep this & safe out for a rainy day😂😂😂
Truly hilarious, great concept and writing in this sketch. And Kenan was the perfect person to give that punchline, his timing and delivery is always spot on.
Kate's trying not to get upset that Kenan doesn't want the cure after all the work she went through to get it is so hilarious...but who can say no to a "Boogie Woogie Santa?"😊😊😊😊
Man, this sketch was absolutely hilarious! They really had me in the first half before they decided to do a 180 with that unexpected gift swap! 😂 I swear Kenan and Kate are the most funniest people on the face on the earth! 🤣😂🤣
"the most funniest"?....🤨.... .....for the record.... it'z "the most funny" or "the funniest"....NOT "the most funniest"..... ....but, English sentence destruction aside, I agree..... ....they've got tu B the most funniest..... 🙂😁🙂
Wow. You must find christian/churchy jokes and mad libs the pinnacle of comedy. Do you say "thats a real knee slapper!" Alot? Do you think "Git er dun" is just about the funniest thing ever? THIS SKIT WASNT FUNNY. IT WAS A FLAT, UNFINISHED IDEA.
As a person with relatives who suffer from sickle cell anemia and wants to see them happier, I see that BOOGIE WOOGIE SANTA AS THE BEST GIFT FOR THE HOLIDAYS! 🎅🏿🎅🏿🎅🏿
@@Rsmith420it's more like the commenter was going along with the joke in the video that people would rather have boogie woogie santa than the cure, and it seems like the joke went over your head because your reply seemed too serious
@@DaniCat99 you think _Kate_ is grating and obnoxious, but actually _like_ Sarah?!? Out of everyone, SARAH?!?!? Very strange. Even if you don't like Kate (which alreadyseems crazy to me), Sarah is just *the **_worst._* She only has one setting and its "grating and obnoxious" 🤦🤣😏
@@Tao_Tology Depends on the rules, I guess. There's usually a limits on steals so by the last person, everything good is stolen at the limits but it generally sucks to be first.
As someone that works in the CRISPR realm and did two White Elephants this holiday season (and ended up with a hilarious but ill-suited gift for one of them), this was hilarious 😂
@@madgang201broadly, it’s a gene editing technology (with special programming, it can go in and fix genetic defects without impacting other parts of the genome) that is used in the vertex pharmaceuticals sickle cell disease treatment that was fda approved around the time this skit came out. It is the first fda approved crispr-based therapeutic.
VERY well explained! I looked at four videos before this, because I couldn’t find anything to break it down in a quick and easy way, and you made it clear. I’m ready to play now! Thank you.
This was my favorite sketch of the episode. Even without a better ending, I thought the idea was great and the performances were too. The whole moment where after the emotional speech about sickle cell, Kenan trades the cure for Boogie Woogie Santa - Kenan at his best. And the audience reaction made it even better. Good work from Punkie too.
Having worked on CRISPR/Cas9 projects, this was absolutely hilarious 😂. All that hard work to design a novel treatment for a painful genetic condition, the blood, sweat, tears over grants and experiments, and no one wants it 😂😂😂.
As a person who has sickle cell i did not find this skit to be funny because they saying black people don't take it seriously or black peoples would rather have what makes them happy instead of what can save them
I jammed with Blues and Jazz musicians born in 1910/15/20 and they all valued their health. Also they could be funny with no bitterness. A conversation in a barber shop in Roxbury: "How are you brother Bill?" "I got the damn Gout, I always heard it was the desease of rich white people. I'm living proof that it ain't true!" They are all gone now but once in a while we talk and jam in my dreams.
I don't get why people do this type of Secret Santa. I would rather just not get a gift than have everyone shame the gift I bought and take away the gift I received.
YEah. I thought the joke was going to be the reverse. Someone would have the cure for something and WOULDNT trade it to the person. @@carolmaryjunitresskidwellk5498
To be clear, we Black people like a lot of weird stuff, but we are NOT rabid fans of Sickle Cell. (Gotta admit though, that Boogie Woogie Santa is pretty sweet.)
Never watched an SNL sketch that made me sad. Laughing about racial disparities in healthcare just seems crude. Plus the very groups who will need this treatment will have tremendous financial barriers to accessing the care. All this to say, some jokes really are "too soon." And this is one of them.
I started laughing so hard I had to pause to run to the restroom! Great skits from last night with Kate! I do wish though this one would have ended with Winston making his double swap to get that boogie woogie Santa back which would have been the hilarious cherry on top for this skit! P.S. I am so happy for all those that will be cured by this amazing new cure! ♥
I was expecting the joke to be that the person who went after Keenan was going to steal the sickle cell cure from him, but this was a better direction.
I was just going to comment the same thing man! I thought for sure after the heartfelt dedication of the cure the next person was going to be like "oh never can be too safe, I'll just keep this & safe out for a rainy day😂😂😂
That's what I thought too
I thought everyone would get mad at Kate because of the $$ limit or something but this came outa left field. So good
it's Kenan* :)
This is a brilliant twist!
As a person who has Sickle Cell and is so excited about the new cure, THIS WAS HILARIOUS!
Wishing you success with the new cure if you’re able to use it!
Hope it doesn't bankrupt you...after all, this is America
Hope you can get it soon and it doesn’t break the bank! Sending my best wishes
As a person with cystic fibrosis who benefits from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, that was really surreal hearing them mentioned like that
I didnt know that sickle cell had a new cure in the making! Thanks for the heads up
Truly hilarious, great concept and writing in this sketch. And Kenan was the perfect person to give that punchline, his timing and delivery is always spot on.
Nope.
Are you real. You laughed at this where?
"I'm just gon swap this out for that boogie woogie santa"
Bruh 😂😂😂
The way I was expecting a box of bees to actually feature lmao
2:39 ~ the cue card getting captured in the shot 😆
I was about to say, haven't seen that before on SNL
I was looking for this comment to see if anyone else caught it lol
Wally!
I saw that lol
@@johnumoh1926I’ve seen it loads 😂
I love how it was no hesitation to swap the gift for Kenan.
Kate's trying not to get upset that Kenan doesn't want the cure after all the work she went through to get it is so hilarious...but who can say no to a "Boogie Woogie Santa?"😊😊😊😊
Martin Crane would be proud
Yes, we got the joke
Is this an AI comment? You just summarized the video.
@@blairhicks7129 I’m thinking the same thing some of the comments must be fake.
Thanks for that summation, I wondered why I kept laughing
Ok, I knew there was going to be a swap joke with the cure, but the twist cracked me up.
I dunno, I saw it coming from a mile away both times... just thought they were gonna make another better joke before ending it like that
This is a good reminder to always buy a boogie woogie Santa for Christmas present swaps
Man, this sketch was absolutely hilarious! They really had me in the first half before they decided to do a 180 with that unexpected gift swap! 😂 I swear Kenan and Kate are the most funniest people on the face on the earth! 🤣😂🤣
"the most funniest"?....🤨....
.....for the record.... it'z "the most funny" or "the funniest"....NOT "the most funniest".....
....but, English sentence destruction aside, I agree.....
....they've got tu B the most funniest.....
🙂😁🙂
It was a little too obvious, what would happen, though. 😉
@Zett76 ....at that moment, I forgot they wurr playing Yankee Swop....
😀😃😄😆
@@Zett76 I assumed someone would swap it from him, so it still caught me by surprise somehow.
Wow. You must find christian/churchy jokes and mad libs the pinnacle of comedy. Do you say "thats a real knee slapper!" Alot? Do you think "Git er dun" is just about the funniest thing ever? THIS SKIT WASNT FUNNY. IT WAS A FLAT, UNFINISHED IDEA.
That's one of the best first philosophic sketches in awhile. Good job with unexpected twist.
Everyone’s fascination with the Boogie Woogie Santa had me laughing hard 😂😂😂
Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm with all of us
"My wife is a big wig at CRISPR" 😂
As a scientist, that was may favorite line 😂
Same lol @@rachelmaddowswife8713
I love the awareness of Sickle Cell Disease in this skit. Funny and informative.
The best thing about being retired is never having to endure another one of these office gift swaps.
Hell yes
Getting to work from home (though not as great as being retired) is another advantage LOL
As a person with relatives who suffer from sickle cell anemia and wants to see them happier, I see that BOOGIE WOOGIE SANTA AS THE BEST GIFT FOR THE HOLIDAYS! 🎅🏿🎅🏿🎅🏿
Tf are you talking about? You don’t really know your family members if you think that.
@@Rsmith420 woosh
@@Rsmith420 Tf are you talking about? You don't really know what sarcasm is if you think that.
@@jasonpittman7853 where is there any sarcasm?
@@Rsmith420it's more like the commenter was going along with the joke in the video that people would rather have boogie woogie santa than the cure, and it seems like the joke went over your head because your reply seemed too serious
cue card drop lol at 2:38
I caught that too!
Yup 😭😂
Came here to comment
I had a feeling Kenan’s character was gonna swap the sickle cell cure, but this sketch was still great 😂
Since when you cured anything 🙄
One of the most original sketches I’ve ever seen! Just brilliant!😂
Nope.
Almost like Kate McKinnon never left. She’s fitting in like when she was cast member.
I mean she did it for a decade right?
they need Keenan and Kate, the New SNL cast is trash and bland
@@caseherc5991Sarah and Bowen are great and very talented..imo Kate is overrated. Her sense of humor I find grating and obnoxious
Why wouldn't she? She has tons of practice. It'd be kinda funny and weird if she was bad at hosting 😂
@@DaniCat99 you think _Kate_ is grating and obnoxious, but actually _like_ Sarah?!? Out of everyone, SARAH?!?!? Very strange. Even if you don't like Kate (which alreadyseems crazy to me), Sarah is just *the **_worst._* She only has one setting and its "grating and obnoxious" 🤦🤣😏
I've done these holiday gift swaps at work multiple times and they totally can get heated with all kinds of hurt feelings, it's nuts!
Ikr?
Pretty much the only winning move is to get to be the last one to pick.
@@Tao_Tology Depends on the rules, I guess. There's usually a limits on steals so by the last person, everything good is stolen at the limits but it generally sucks to be first.
This is like the worst holiday game ever. Especially cuz it quickly becomes obvious who bought the sh*iest gift, must suck doubley for that person 😜
it happened at my workplace too, it was so awkward
It's a multi-million dollar medical procedure. Take it and sell it you complete fool! Buy an entire warehouse full of them boogie woogie santas!
😂😂😂😂😂
Best sketch of the night kate ,and kenan are such hilarious duo that unexpected gift was so funny 😂.
yeah…the other actors were struggling as usual. overacting…out of character…sigh.
If this was the best sketch i will pass on the rest. Horrible writing.
“My whole family’s white” why did I cackle as hard as I did? 😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
🎶 _it's the boogie woogie santa and I'm comin' down the chimney to-niiiiight_ this is now stuck in my head ffs
As a sickle cell patient, I’m so grateful for the awareness and it’s HILARIOUS 🤣
4:10 "Oh c'mon, don't do that to Winston.." - Chloe almost slipped into Jennifer Coolidge ;)
As a person working at Vertex! I had no idea how big this is, until SNL wow, I feel privileged
lol I knew he was gonna swap and I still laughed! Great timing on that one.
The script dropped from the sky on the right was my favorite part!
2:37
The awkward slow build up was totally worth it!! Well done that first initial laugh almost took me out
"My wife.."!!!!! 😆😆😅😂😂🤣🤣🤣😄😆🤣😅😅 Funniest SNL sketch ever!
As someone that works in the CRISPR realm and did two White Elephants this holiday season (and ended up with a hilarious but ill-suited gift for one of them), this was hilarious 😂
What is CRISPR?
@@madgang201broadly, it’s a gene editing technology (with special programming, it can go in and fix genetic defects without impacting other parts of the genome) that is used in the vertex pharmaceuticals sickle cell disease treatment that was fda approved around the time this skit came out. It is the first fda approved crispr-based therapeutic.
STOP CUZ I HAVE SICKLE CELL AND THIS IS FUCKING GOLD🤣🤣
Excited for this so called "cure"!!
I would give you a boogie boogie santa if I could
that's CRAZY @@MistressNilah
VERY well explained! I looked at four videos before this, because I couldn’t find anything to break it down in a quick and easy way, and you made it clear. I’m ready to play now! Thank you.
caught me totally off guard. amazing writing and execution
When you see the punchline coming a mile away but it still kills 😂
I have a singing Santa with a pot full of tamales singing Nelly’s“it’s Getting Hot in Here” that might be a good substitute lol
Dude. That Chris Farley looking guy has a hilarious outfit on. This show is so funny!
Was too obvious that the swap for the boogie woogie santa was coming so I started laughing so hard 30 seconds too early but still hilarious 😂
As always Kenan knows how to save a sketch 🔥
How? How??
How does this non-acting, non-funny man with the face of a botox victim have fans?
…I‘m seriously curious. :)
He didn’t have to save it. Anyone who follows the news would recognize that the concept is inherently funny.
@@WaitingtoHit He couldn't save it. It was too predictable. The satire was good but funny? No. Maybe I've seen too much comedy, I don't know.
@@thewildchimp Satire is a type of humor. If the satire was good, then it was funny.
SNL has only been funny or twice this year. This wasn’t funny.
I unironically love Boogie Woogie Santa and I want one.
This was my favorite sketch of the episode. Even without a better ending, I thought the idea was great and the performances were too. The whole moment where after the emotional speech about sickle cell, Kenan trades the cure for Boogie Woogie Santa - Kenan at his best. And the audience reaction made it even better. Good work from Punkie too.
It’s like you knew a punch line was coming, but they actually had you sucked in then BAM!
I thought for sure the next person was going to steal the cure gift, but this was even funnier.
I thought the premise would have been better if he had wanted the cure gift, but then someone else stole it because they hated their gift
Cue card guy, you’re a star! 😂 2:39
I'm tired of Kenan 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was not ready, but I was expecting something and he nailed it 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I feel like I’ve been tired for 15 years lol
Rockin' Santa looks good in a silk robe 👘🙌
Great HR person. Keeping it positive.
Kate McKinnon plus Kenan
Rocking it. His lack of rhythm was hilarious
2:54 “doubt it, my whole family is white” is such an underrated and hilarious line
The "burrito" blanket wasn't the most pleasant item to look at however, lol lol lol lol lol very hilarious. Thank you
Having worked on CRISPR/Cas9 projects, this was absolutely hilarious 😂. All that hard work to design a novel treatment for a painful genetic condition, the blood, sweat, tears over grants and experiments, and no one wants it 😂😂😂.
As a person who has sickle cell i did not find this skit to be funny because they saying black people don't take it seriously or black peoples would rather have what makes them happy instead of what can save them
I felt the same way about this skit. I was surprised at SNL for this one.
Kenan is my idol. I just can't love him enough.
I completely lost it!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I hope the Boogie Woogie Santa company paid good money for this endorsement.
"Boogie Woogie Santa: better than a cure for sickle cell anemia."
The way I hollered when he swapped 😮💨🤣
Boogie Woogie Santa sounds like Phil Hartman
I thought so too! Maybe it was clipped from a old SNL skit?
@@annec8127 It must be
It sounds like Beck Bennet.
Keenan slays all day😅😅😅
Saw that joke coming a mile away…..still HILARIOUS!!!!!
I have one of those Burrito blankets. They’re the best.
2:39 seeing the q card.
3:20 absolutely channeling Bill Hader with this line delivery
I jammed with Blues and Jazz
musicians born in 1910/15/20
and they all valued their health.
Also they could be funny with no bitterness. A conversation in a barber shop in Roxbury:
"How are you brother Bill?"
"I got the damn Gout, I always
heard it was the desease of
rich white people. I'm living proof that it ain't true!" They
are all gone now but once in
a while we talk and jam in my
dreams.
Wow, most of us loved seeing that dancing Santa as kids 🤣😅😅
I don't get why people do this type of Secret Santa. I would rather just not get a gift than have everyone shame the gift I bought and take away the gift I received.
My company put a ban on them after a fight nearly broke out over a heated blanket
@@rosesweetcharlotte Fights are a problem, plus with all the guns people have in their cars... smh
Shout out the person who has to write the cue cards …penmanship pressure 😂😂
i was expecting someone else to take the cure from him, but the fact that he traded it out for the santa is funnier
Loved this sketch. Didnt seem to have an end or Lorne cut it short. Feel like one of the presents should have been a box of bees.
I thought for sure there was about to be a box of bees!
Then they could also traded epipen for boogie woogie santa
YEah. I thought the joke was going to be the reverse. Someone would have the cure for something and WOULDNT trade it to the person. @@carolmaryjunitresskidwellk5498
"...just gonna swap this out with the Boogie-Woogie Santa" ROFL! Was not expecting that (though maybe I should have)
I saw it coming and I still laughed! 😭😭😭
SNL has forgotten how to end a sketch...geezus!
Molly Kearney Needs To Wear Playtex 18 Hour Comfort Lace Bras And Ballet Shoes With Bows And Black Pantyhose
Kenan deserves an Emmy for that!
Uhh, what the fuck are you talking about?
@@proutytyler1what are YOU talking about? Kenan is a comedy genius since the 90s.
Black folks are just hypnotized by a boogie woogie Santa!
SNL is RACIST
Someone in my family got the burrito blanket this year. And also traded it for the sickle cell cure.
The only thing this sketch lacks is the actual box of bees
I knew the punchline coming, but I still laughed.
Ok, but hear me out...
Boogie Woogie Santa in a burrito blanket!
😂😂😂
Yup!
The Santa's pretty catchy honestly
As a native southerner we don’t play Yankee swap. …. We play sister swap or mommy swap …. Great fun.
FYI: "My wife is a big wig at CRISPR" makes no sense. CRISPR is the "technology" used in the technique.
it's Crispr therapeutics, the company who came up with it
@@glennhassan That probably makes more sense.
Hilarious 😂, the moment he swap! Hilarious
I loved that the opening picture is the Fargo Public Library in Fargo, ND
Will never hear the words boogie woogie the same way again lol
To be clear, we Black people like a lot of weird stuff, but we are NOT rabid fans of Sickle Cell. (Gotta admit though, that Boogie Woogie Santa is pretty sweet.)
I thought this sketch was fucked up. otoh, so is this "game" in real life.
@@victoriabaker4400: LOL. Indeed! Yankee Swap is exactly the OPPOSITE of what the holiday season is supposed to be about.
Chloe, you sneaky little fox.
Great sketch, indeed.
I kind of wish the twist was that the next person was white and wanted his sickle cell cure for some bizarre reason
For a while I thought Kenan was going to admit that he actually DIDN'T have Sickle Cell and was just using it as an excuse to take off work ;-)
Anyone else see the cue card in the corner at 2:39 lol 🤣
Santa rocks!!! LOLOL
Aww damn fam you just violated bro 😆!!!
The piano music sets it up too good!
That wild hip! LOL
Never watched an SNL sketch that made me sad. Laughing about racial disparities in healthcare just seems crude. Plus the very groups who will need this treatment will have tremendous financial barriers to accessing the care. All this to say, some jokes really are "too soon." And this is one of them.
SNL just “knows “ that black folk love dancin Santas
can see cue card at 2:39
I love her so cute...🎉🎉🍾🍾..Happy new year...🎉🍾🎉🍾
I started laughing so hard I had to pause to run to the restroom! Great skits from last night with Kate! I do wish though this one would have ended with Winston making his double swap to get that boogie woogie Santa back which would have been the hilarious cherry on top for this skit! P.S. I am so happy for all those that will be cured by this amazing new cure! ♥