History Teacher Reacts to Washington's Dream | SNL | Nate Bargatze

[@MrTerry]

Check out my reaction to Shane Gillis's bit on George Washington: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWHJe4iXh6mrbck

[@ymeynot0405]

@MrTerry The entire SNL cast is expected to write. Part of the hiring process is showing up with your own material. They have additional writers as not everyone one can come up with a winning idea every week, but think historically some of the best SNL bits were written by the cast. Wanye's world == Mike Meyers Church Lady == Dana Carvey Now, they do less characters but rather single skits (age of the viral video)... Chloe does a lot of impressions and the writing for those.

[@Cory182]

Mikey Day wrote this sketch. He was the one on Washington's left. They're basically all writers who compete to get their sketches on air. ;)

[@TDHSFV]

There a part 2. A different Washington sketch Nate did when he hosted again.

[@DHizzle82]

There's a really good story behind this sketch. During table read, it wasn't landing that well with Lorne Michaels. He wanted to cut it early on, but Nate knew it needed an audience. He convinced Lorne to let them try it during Dress Rehearsal, and Lorne agreed. It did so well in Dress that Lorne approved it for the live show. Nate's delivery was amazing. The cast were amazing as well.

[@lemiless]

Nate Bargatze came back on SNL and did a Washington's dream part two .. maybe you wanna heck that out, too

[@DanSolo871]

This sketch almost got cut. It wasn’t working with a dry read through. But Lorne asked Nate which sketch he wanted to do and he said the Washington sketch. During the dress performance done in front of an Audience before air, it was the last sketch on the flow chart. Nate knew that in front of an audience, and with his delivery, he can make it work. And it did. It went over so well, that it got moved to the third slot. Opening sketch, opening monologue by host, the Washington’s dream. Day and Skeeter wrote it.

[@Fxcloud9]

Can't wait for part 2. Nate is so good with his deliveries.

[@clarkbarrett6274]

The inspiring music carries so much in this sketch. Gets you fired up for those weights and measures. Coulda been a scene in The Patriot.

[@tylerpaschall4363]

In Britain, there was association football and Rugby football at the same time. American football is more closely related to rugby, so we kept the football part of that, while keeping the association part of the other.

[@HastDuWasSuchen]

Interesting. Just like in Australia where football often refers to Australian football.

[@BruceMcFarling]

@@HastDuWasSuchen Yes ... lots of different local varieties of football were played in Britain in the 1700's and 1800's, and later in the 1800's rules for Rugby Union Football & Association Football were codified. But the American colleges were not members of either, and once they started playing rugby union football, they were free to tinker with the rules, which early on included moving from a side feed to a center feed if enough progress was made in previous efforts, creating the first down. It was a Teddy Roosevelt led effort to reduce injuries in college football which eliminated the scrum altogether by creating the neutral zone, and extended the first down distance from five yards to 10 yards. With Rugby Union making blocking illegal (The "shepherding" foul in Rugby) with a similar motivation, and then with the American development of the forward pass, the American style descendant of Rugby Union became more and more different from 15 a side Rugby Union Football.

[@BruceMcFarling]

@@HastDuWasSuchen It seems like Australia basically plays a version of most every form of codified football except American football ... Ozzie Rules was developed from the Gaelic Rules football played in Ireland, but modified to fit onto a cricket pitch, because it was developed in part to keep cricketers fit during the winter months, while in the east of the country, the 13-men-a-side professionalized version of Rugby Union called "Rugby League" is the dominant form of football. Rugby Union is also popular in the Eastern states, and Association Football is also played, with the former semi-professional league replaced by a fully professional league and Australia moving from the Oceania Football Confederation to the Asian Football Confederation around the turn of the current century.

[@Doughboy1917]

This is correct. American football developed from rugby rules instead of assocation rules. The name's a holdover. Probably would have been better to call it American rugby, but it's too late now.

[@Kingdom_Of_Dreams]

Nate did a similar skit in his Christmas special, which was about the nativity story 😂

[@jessetorres8738]

Just in case you're curious: 1 Liter is 0.26 Gallons while 1 Gallon is 3.79 Liters. Also, 1 Kilometer is 0.62 Miles while 1 Mile is 1.61 Kilometers. I used to work at a water heater plant in Central Texas, & we shipped them internationally so everything was measured in Metric units, so I had to memorize the conversion rates.

[@RedBeardTheFirst]

I prefer Knots and Nautical Miles

[@Asmodis4]

@@RedBeardTheFirst and i use gon instead of degrees in circles.

[@romanmartynenko3575]

Also, US is officially a metric country. All imperial measurements are defined through their metric primary counterparts. Scientists use metric.

[@scottnowell4975]

You shut up

[@jeremiahkivi4256]

Is it not 1.75 liters to a gallon? Pretty sure that's what it says on a gallon of alcohol.

[@Shifty69569]

I love Nate lmao his bit on the snake bite in South America is hilarious

[@mikepaulus4766]

I remember looking up the basis for the Fahrenheit. Zero is ice with salt, how cold can that get. Boiling, well the difference needs to divisible by 9. Now gradute it.

[@ppsh43]

I understood that 100 was set to normal human temperature.

[@MrJoeandJenn]

They are all called football, soccer is the real name given to the other football. Rugby is also a type of football.

[@UnwashedPearl]

When I was a kid in the 70's, the SUA was scheduled to switch to metric. Foe example, highway signs stated to list miles and kilometers. I was in grade school or jr high and the thought of learning a different system was daunting. Apparently, to our leaders as well. "We're 'Murica, dammit," ...probably.

[@RCon25]

Now you gotta watch SNL Washington's Dream part 2 with Nate Bargazte again!

[@TheRedStateBlue]

Mikey Day (guy to Nate's left) and Streeter Siedel wrote this sketch. it was terrible at the table read and got pushed to the last sketch of the show. then they did dress rehearsal and it killed and got pushed up to the third sketch of the night.

[@h0tel1]

Yes, it needed the audience.

[@masamune2984]

They/Nate said the dress rehearsal actually also bombed though, and it wasn’t until the live performance that it killed.

[@TheRedStateBlue]

@@masamune2984 no, he didn't. he very clearly stated that as soon as there was an audience, it murdered, was his exact word.

[@jackson857]

Do part 2 as well!

[@douglasg.9271]

This is one of the best skits ever from SNL

[@tkreitler]

I agree. It was brilliantly done.

[@TayNez63]

you have to watch part 2!!

[@november.foxtrot1]

You should check out the other SNL bit with Nate about Washington

[@fredericlatreille]

You need to react to "part 2" as well. There is a second sketch as hilarious as this one!

[@RyanMcMahon-bz7ri]

I love this sketch

[@michaelfletcher9640]

Comedy is more recreational when You listen to the words during the routine and do the monologing at logical break points, separately! If you do those things simultaneously, both are lost in confusing babble!❤

[@Sedona_FD3S]

Terry is the CEO of history.

[@haydenbsiegel]

I loved this sketch. It was one of my all time favorites!

[@marchbriner3603]

I think I heard that this sketch had been written for months, but the writers were waiting for the right host to play George Washington.

[@abrahamtorres4744]

Nate Bargatze talked about the sketch on the Rich Eisen Show. SNL writers wrote it, and didn't play well during table reads. It was going to get scratched from the show, but they decided to run in during rehearsal with the audience and it killed. So it got moved up and well, the rest is history.

[@LobsterSpecial]

My understanding is that, starting in the UK, football evolved into separate sports, what in North America is called soccer, as well as Rugby football. Rugby football was played primarily in the universities in England and was brought over to North American universities before it had fully evolved into a separate sport and while it was still just referred to as 'football'. Because the rules were still informal the North American schools came up with their own versions of the rules of the game, and eventually the North American universities agreed on specific rule changes (such as the forward pass) that caused the game to evolve into a separate sport, Gridiron football, or what we now know as American football and Canadian football. Meanwhile, in the UK Rugby football evolved into its own sport distinct from what they then called 'association football' (or 'soccer' for short).

[@iesickboy]

Sometimes the football gets kicked without the possibility of scoring a point, unless a player picks it up and runs with it.

[@Drexskii]

Football as a name doesn't really have a known origin, but it seems to be the name taken for completing a goal (scoring points) by using your foot (running) not necessarily using your foot to kick for points

[@misterkite]

American Football got called Football because it wasn't played on horseback.

[@Underpantsniper]

Yet I've never seen a horse play water polo. Strange.

[@stevenmclennan1953]

Jay Mohr's autobiography goes into a lot of detail about how they create the sketches and who has to get involved. Essentially yes, the comedians are completely involved in coming up with stuff, there are dedicated writers but everyone has to pull their weight.

[@Parker--]

He meant the guest hosts.

[@J.Battles]

Nate is great!

[@007NowOnline]

Lmao!! Great reactions. 😂

[@EMarvinJohnson]

Nate Bargatze is hilarious.

[@Qirronis]

Also, Baseball is essentially Cricket on steroids. And without the Tea.

[@brewstopher2233]

I believe the hosts have input on the sketches, like when Steve Seagal hosted and he took control of the whole show for his ego.

[@mastadonman]

We were taught in school that we have different measurements due stave off invasion with confusion about distance for fuel and such

[@bukka6697]

Hahaha, love it!

[@natejanke3907]

3:42 We do how many yards are in a mile (1,760), it's just that not many people care to do the math.

[@shamusmcwright2640]

ya thats the joke

[@Unknownentitties]

My 5th grade teacher always said when we turn 17 we can drive 60 and it made so little sense that I have never forgotten.

[@jessetorres8738]

I wonder if James is supposed to be James Monroe since he served under Washington?

[@XhodanXeus]

I remember i was still tought "color" as in "colour" (but in germany before i moved to america, as far as i know it might be different now but in most schools around the world they teach British English)

[@binaway]

1 British pint=1.2 US pint The British Aristocracy engaged in equestrian sports. The peasant played sports on foot. If a ball was used it was called football. That would technically make even basketball a type of football.

[@chrisdunn3817]

4:58 NFL, American Football, is a derivative of Rugby Football [RFU]. Originally a "try" in rugby scored no points, but gave the attacking team a "try at goal", which was a kick through the top posts. So points were only scored by kicking between the posts....hence "football". Rugby in the UK was for years an "amateur" only game, until the working men in the north of England broke from the Rugby Union and formed Rugby League, a professional game with a greater emphasis on territory capture rather than a running game, and far more like gridiron. Rugby League "RFL" is the elder brother of NFL. RFU on the other hand has family in Australian Rules Football AFL, and Gaelic Football which still uses a round ball instead of the torpedo ball. To this day, the AFL champions play the Gaelic League champions in the annual International Rules Exhibition Match where they alternate the ball shape and rules according to whether it is played in Australia or Ireland.

[@Jan_Koopman]

American football, rugby, and (association) football all evolved from the same sport, which was simply named football iirc. The American variant was hence named "American football", the rugby variant was named "rugby (football)", and the association variant was named "association football" or "soccer". In the USA, American football was and is the primary version they play, so it's shortened to simply "football"; same goes in the rest of the world for "(association) football". "Rugby football" was shortened to "rugby", 'cause that's a unique enough name.

[@karateman302]

I am not 100% sure on this but my recollection is that they didn't necessarily descend from the same sport but that the term 'football' was just used to a variety of different games and sports before things started to get standardized and rulesets codified. May be wrong on that though.

[@Parker--]

Not sure if you're saying the rest of the world called soccer football, but in the UK specifically, it was known primarily as soccer up until the late 80's before the term football even got used again. They had abandoned the term football for the bigger part of a century before reusing the term.

[@ScottLahteine]

5280, of course. Because it’s so conveniently 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 x 5 x 11.

[@jarsenaultj]

7:20 From what I heard, the 'u' was dropped from most words due to printing (especially newspapers). Every letter typed costs money, so dropping a letter from a bunch of words (which would be used many times and reprinted many more times for each copy) would save a lot of money.

[@MrTerry]

Interesting

[@AdamPFarnsworth]

Now you need to watch the new one!

[@gggooding]

A fourth of a gallon shall be named a quart because it is a quarter of a gallon. An eighth of a gallon shall be named a pint because...nobody knows.

[@liferiot]

Washington was smart enough to know when to retreat and save lives instead of sending wave after wave into the meat grinder.

[@dandavidson424]

That wasn't all that big a deal. The fact that he kept his army intact the whole time he did it though, was an incredibly big deal.

[@michaelsedor6807]

There’s another SNL George Washington sketch with Nate.

[@jamesalthaus1229]

@MrTerry football is called football because it originated/spun off from rugby football and was later shortened to just football.

[@weepingscorpion8739]

Rugby football... aka ruggers.

[@zap117]

do the second one !

[@mawortz]

the military using the metric system tells you all you need to know about imperial

[@Nostripe361]

i mean most countries have some weird measurements that your regular person can use. Britain uses stones sometimes.

[@LeighMet]

It was to distingiush itself from rugby called Rugby Football and then dropped the rugby.

[@TheCatholicNerd]

5:10 American football got its name because it was originally a off-growth of rugby football. So in England you had association football and rugby football, both of which evolved from a game that was basically bedlam. I can't remember the guy's name but the guy that basically created American football created the football down system to replace the scrum and the rest is history

[@LB1973]

Walter Camp - he changed the Scrummage (Scrum) to Scrimmage

[@bigredtlc1828]

2.54 cm to an inch. It's burned in my memory. I did try to see it on a ruler and it was perplexing to figure out what 2.54 looks like. And yet, we were born into it so we didn't care. I posted on Twitter a few years back about mm/dd/yyyy is better than dd/mm/yyyy and got some flack. Amazing how we are so different.

[@mattadulting]

Metric didn't exist yet. The French developed it later and British pirates kept is from getting metric.

[@RyanMatthewCampbell]

American football is called football because it was based on Canadian rugby football.

[@LJ-pi6np]

Thanks, hilarious sketch. Probably only the Key and Peele sketch on if teachers were treated like sports stars sketch is as funny😮!!! See Suggestions!

[@willcityaway7971]

American football was adapted from Rugby League rules. Only way to move the ball forward is to kick. Why the forward pass was so important. Jim Thorpe played rugby more than modern football. A working class code.

[@Rabessey]

I like how they covered women's rights.

[@Dallen9]

there's a Goofy cartoon from Disney that covers the History of American football and in proxy covers the history of Rugby also. might be fun to do a react video on it.

[@Qirronis]

Also, there is a name for a dozen dozens, which is a ”gross” (144 of something).

[@stuartcollins82]

As much as we joke about it, i think football is called football because it's a ball game played on your feet, not with your feet.

[@chriswaight2762]

I think you might be wrong

[@anathardayaldar]

For those who really want to know, a quick and dirty conversion of pounds to kilogram: First divide by 2. Then subtract 10% of what's left. Example: 180 pounds: Half is 90. Less a tenth is 81 kg. Close enough to the actual 81.63kg for government work.

[@Ichigo2k9]

Is SNL done in front of a live audience and that’s real people laughing? Because if so these guys never breaking is amazing.

[@deniseporretto6738]

You’ve never seen SNL? Yes it’s done in front of a live audience!

[@spinalobifida]

At first the name soccer came from England. Then for whatever reason, they named it football

[@Parker--]

Yeah, they started to reuse the term football in the late 80's and then acted like Americans, who had been using the term football well over half a century before England started reusing the term, stole that name from them. It's arguably the Crown's last semi-successful colonization attempt; taking the term 'football.'

[@mike5d1]

American Football is a derivative of Rugby football. Soccer has never been a popular name in Britain, it is just Football.

[@TheDanEdwards]

FWIW, the US is a signer to the Convention of the Meter (Treaty of the Metre), and was from the beginning of the latter. Our customary units are defined in terms of the SI units.

[@Kliphie]

Then the boat with the standards was taken by pirates.

[@Batmans_Pet_Goldfish]

​@@Kliphie actually it's worse... It was the British.

[@danielstartek9729]

History Teacher ate a dozen donuts, pies, cakes, cows! Oink Oink!

[@Yardnoc3103]

There is a part 2 Also Justin Timberlake's Great-Great-Grandfather sketch if you want celebrity specific.

[@2buxaslice]

A football is a foot long.

[@vivianjones9749]

You hoser! You’re right! Had to measure it for myself

[@olpaint71]

The metric vs. customary unit argument comes down to whether you want your measurement system based on water (1 cubic centimeter of water = 1 gram) or alcohol (100cu.ft. of shipboard cargo volume taken up by a barrel/"tun" of wine = 1 long ton =2240lb.) By the way, 1lb = 7000 grains of barley. Which is commonly used to make what? That's right...beer. 🙂 Customary units have a lot of benefits, like being divisible by a variety of factors. Take time measurement for example. An hour is evenly divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, and 30. So are minutes. Angular measurements in degrees, minutes, and seconds have the same advantage compared to measuring in radians. Gallon, half-gallon, quart, pint, cup, fluid ounces are all related by a factors of 2. It's pretty easy for people to divide by two, either mathematically, or physically. That can be carried down to the tablespoon (16 to the cup). People are pretty good at halving or doubling quantities, which is why many customary systems are fractional. Money used to be this way, too. Pieces of eight. Two bits = 1 quarter dollar. The old pound-shilling-pence system was the same way (1 pound = 20 shillings = 240 pennies). Measurement of fractions of an inch is a base-2 system, but can also be done in thousandths for precision work. The foot, yard, fathom and fractions thereof are also easily utilized when precision measurement tools are not readily available. Incidentally, the marine business still uses shots of chain (90' or 15 fathoms) for anchor chain length measurement. The metric system suffers from excessive arbitrariness of the units. The meter is a little too long for convenient measurement, decimeters and centimeters too small. The stud spacing in the wall of your house is typically 24" on center, which nicely divides a 4' piece of drywall or plywood in half, but can also be done on 16" centers, making three bays per 4 feet. You could specify spacing to be 400mm or 600mm, so you could exchange your 1219mm x 2438mm (4'x8' or 48"x96") sheet, for 1.2m x 2.4m. So still working with multiples or fractions of twelve, just with an extra dot in there. 1 statute mile = 8 furlongs = 80 rods = 320 chains = 1760 yards = 5280ft. What convenient metric measurements fall between the kilometer and the meter? You know anyone using decameters? Quick, how far is 4 Hectometers?

[@iesickboy]

Don't forget stones are still measured in pounds. 1 st. = 14 lbs. or 6.35 kg. I'm a boxing fan.

[@grimreaper6461]

Football is a foot long so 5280 footballs in a mile

[@Thatoneidiot001]

You should react to hikma history and his video on why Jordan is a pretty stable country

[@Lightningrod75]

A lot of sports were played on horseback, 'football' let you know that it was a sport played on foot.

[@jamesallen2909]

American football is called football because it’s based off of Rugby, which also used to be called football. The British were and still are fucking confusing

[@RedWhiteBlueJew]

Not sure if somebody has mentioned this, but in the original form of football, there was no forward pass, so you could literally only move the ball forward by your foot/feet while carrying the ball. OG Football was intense and dangerous before the forward pass

[@jimb9063]

Medieval football was played for centuries and often banned, usually because it was deadly, and at least once because people weren't practicing archery enough. No rules as such, just get the ball to the opposition "goal" which might be a tree or the town gates, and you win. Inspired by this, many different ball and field games loosely called football were played in Britain's private schools, all with different rules, some of which prevented forward passing as you mention, like The Eton Field Game. Rules were formalised in the 19th C, both inside and outside the private school system, as the teachers and vicars took the sports with them and reintroduced them to the general public, completing the circle.

[@andrewshaw1571]

@@jimb9063 There are still a few old styler football games played every year on shrove tuesday, though theyve had to alter their rules for health and safety over the years, the closest to its original form being the atherstone ball game, which, once it got its ball instead of the original bag of gold, had to adjust its rules to ban motor vehicles and impose confines to stop the ball going in the canal (and limit property damage to a single street).

[@Kliphie]

This speech would have been before metric existed

[@chriswaight2762]

Nooooo, metric has been around since the caveman. They just didn't use it

[@WookbooKtheeKpopTrucker]

Probably not the first to comment this. There is a Part 2 of this skit. When Nate hosted a 2nd time he did another one of these skits.

[@sudano9958]

Julia Louise Dreyfuss who is super talented but only lasted a year on SNL before getting pushed out explained why she wasn't on much. She didn't realize you basically had to befriend or make a writer write something for you and kinda become annoying to them and pitch ideas and basically become a co-writer coming up with funny ideas and lines. No one told her, she thought writers wrote and Lorne decided who acted in them. Doesn't work like that.

[@jurgnobs1308]

I think Football is called Football because the ball is supposed to be about a foot long or something?

[@okay5045]

You step on the jokes . Chill before you speak.

[@deniseporretto6738]

Exactly! Thank you!!!

[@Onikame]

Nobles played sports on horseback. Peasants played sports on foot. Basically every sport where you ran around was football. Doesn't have to do with the BALL, so much as that you played on foot. Football makes the same sense for both american football and soccer.

[@youvegottimetoescape]

A Kip 😁

[@jen2322]

Football came from rugby football .. we dropped rugby when we changed the rules

[@paulbernard677]

Just saying. I have had “Pure Bred”, and mutts. Mutts are cute. If having pure bred or mutts as a nation is a choice, let’s me mutts and invite the pure-breds

[@joshhamby9403]

You should react to Hamilton

[@rhov-anion]

Thanks to Lost in the Pond, I know all about football/soccer as well as why we have weird measurement. In summary, it's always the fault of the British. Rugby School, a private school in the British Empire, came up with a game where you carry the ball as well as use your feet, and it was Rugby School Football. and if you weren't allowed to use your hands it was Association Football, which the Brits attending Oxford shortened to "soccer." (They also changed the ten pound note to a "tenner" and in general like to add -er to the end of words.) Americans adopted both, but since we had no idea what Rugby School was, we called it simply football, and since it was Americans attending Oxford who saw the game there, we adopted the Oxford slang "soccer" for the other game. In the later 1800s, the Brits tried to standardize the dozens of different types of football and hundreds of varying rules, and they began to change the names. Americans "either didn't get memo or just didn't care" as Lawrence in Lost in the Pond likes to say. If you watch American football, Australian football, and Rugby football, they are very similar, except that over time Americans made it waaaaaay safer with more padding as we realize players were getting brain damage. Talking about Australia, it's not just the USA who calls it soccer. Most of the colonies that broke away early on do: Canada, Australia, South Africa, and in Ireland and New Zealand they the name for both games, all defending on which one is more popular in a given area.

[@kalebraf15]

Even with the padding, American football is more dangerous.

[@bobbuilder6761]

SNL cast proposes and writes sketches. The guest stars have some input but don't do as much writing.

[@MrTerry]

It was such a great idea!

[@charlesmaurer6214]

Early on a drop kick pass was done in football instead of the hand pass. Also the shape of the ball changed with that move as well with the older balls being more round.

[@cerberus144]

"Football" is an old term that refers to any non-equestrian sport played with a ball on foot, which is how "Association Rules Football" can to be, to identify it from other games at the time also called "Football"

[@jeremielucas4569]

I think football was just a generic name for any sport not on horse back and then it stuck

[@ronmaximilian6953]

Most of our measurements already existed and came from the United Kingdom. But we didn't think about these and one of the powers of Congress is to set customary weights and measures, which they have done. The metric system came after the American revolution. In fact we might have adopted the metric system but for our quasi war with France and the United Kingdom intercepting a French ship traveling to the United States with a set of weights and measures for the metric system. I would note that The United Kingdom and many of its former colonies still use British imperial measures in an informal basis and often for things like and alcohol. The Founding Father certainly thought about slavery and equality. Many like Washington hopes that slavery would end as it was becoming less popular. And Washington freed a number of his slaves in his will. It certainly wasn't perfect, but it was a step towards the right direction.

[@WanderingWriter]

We so smart

[@hornetgags]

You should talk over it a bit more...

[@Jan_Koopman]

12 inches to a foot 3 feet to a yard 1760 yards (5280 feet) to a mile 12 inches to a foot? Sure, 12 is a holy number. 3 feet to a yard? Inconsistent, but ok, another holy number. 1760 yards to a mile? WHY?!

[@ronmaximilian6953]

Because a mile is 640 acres. And an acre is roughly the area that a person could plow in a day.

[@Jan_Koopman]

@ronmaximilian6953 , so then... miles were originally a unit of area? Or is it like: "A perfectly square acre is X by X yards and a mile is Y × X yards = 1760 yards"?