Will Ferrell and Other ‘SNL’ Celebs Pick Their #1 Sketches of All Time

Will Ferrell

Ferrell picked this Dan Aykroyd classic from Season Four. “He was a male prostitute, and he never could get to any (sex acts) because would do these poses, and as he started to undress he had this series of — he had a hernia belt he had to undo. It was so elaborate,” Ferrell explained. “This is early days. I’m still so little that I don’t even know (what it’s about), but the way he said it — it was way over my head but so funny at the same time. That’s one that sticks with me to this day.”

Kristen Wiig

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Wiig had trouble coming up with an all-time favorite before landing on this sketch from Season 45. “It’s a very random one,” she told the paper. “It’s called ‘Dance Rehearsal,’ with Chance the Rapper. And Kenan (Thompson) is the dance teacher, and he’s slowly turning into a werewolf.”

That’s the best of all time? “I can’t pick one, because it’s too hard,” she admitted. “Of all the years being there, there’s probably one every show that I — it’s too hard. I can’t even begin to have a favorite. It’s like picking my favorite child. I can’t.”

Bowen Yang

“I’m going to say, after much thought and consideration, Maya Rudolph singing the national anthem,” said Yang. “That is one of the simplest, most straightforward sketches and it’s pure performance and it’s just on one person. Technically, it’s simple, elegant, but so funny. Endless rewatch value.” 

Gabriel LaBelle

LaBelle, who plays Lorne Michaels in the upcoming Saturday Night, went with a commercial parody from Season 46. Feels pretty timely right about now. “I think about the Bill Burr pumpkin spice Boston beer ad often,” he explained. “Where he’s like (imitates Boston accent), ‘It’s like the kind of beer where you have a party and someone brings a beer, but no one drinks it and then it stays in your fridge for like seven months. And then your friend comes over and is like, ‘You have a beer?’ And like, ‘Well I got that pumpkin (bleep).’”

Lamorne Morris

The actor playing Saturday Night’s Garrett Morris chose a Jimmy Fallon/Horatio Sanz gigglefest. “I would say mine is probably ‘Corksoakers,’” he said. “Remember that one? With Jimmy Fallon. Janet Jackson was the guest on that day. And there’s this old Italian group of people — Horatio Sanz, and I think Fred Armisen was in it — and they were talking about how you soak cork for wine bottles. But the more they said it, it kept sounding like — he’s like (imitates Italian accent), ‘My mama, she was the best cork soaker. Sometimes she soak two cork at the same time!’ And Janet Jackson couldn’t get through the sketch without laughing. Every time she started, she would cover her mouth and do the tee-hee-hee giggle.”