I Love Lucy - SNL

[@DrakeVideos]

Jean Smart totally nailed this. The timing, the delivery it's so good i would watch a whole season of THIS version of I Love Lucy

[@constantreader8760]

"Whose Afraid of Lucy Woolf?"

[@KoolKats5]

"you're accent is a little" hand drop. Hilarious 😂

[@M24071]

yeah that part killed me

[@IgoZoom1]

That was my favorite part! Her facial expression as she did it made it even more perfect! I've been a Jean Smart fan since Designing Women and she just keeps getting better!

[@aleejjj]

💅🏻

[@Scipio488]

"You have some answers to provide" is my new marital catchphrase.

[@The_Names_Bogdo]

😂 it was so good

[@vibin_psilocybin]

Her delivery on “Are you gay?” Is effing incredible

[@chipmunktubetop]

As a gay, I was howling.

[@andrewvelonis5940]

Of course, that term was not used yet, but we'll let that slide.

[@GaryDelabate]

“ Eh-cue me?”

[@vibin_psilocybin]

@@GaryDelabate my mama used to say that all the time.... We lived in Miami 🥲

[@margieoverhauser7388]

Made me ugly laugh fo sho

[@davidserlin8097]

I Love Lucy as written by Tennessee Williams.

[@barbraseville8984]

Perfect

[@Norvo82]

Cuban on a hot tin roof

[@Buckboy2024]

Right on.

[@Buckboy2024]

@@Norvo82 Perfect.

[@trfreitas1983]

🎯🎯🎯

[@jimjones308]

Every Latino actor has to, at some point, trot out a Ricky Ricardo impression. Imagine how much of a cultural icon he was that here we are 70 years later and he's still being parodied.

[@MelissaThompson432]

Lucy said he was a creative and comedic genius, he just made bad business decisions. This was long after she had moved on; it was in an interview where she and her current husband, Gary Morton, were both present. She gave Desi credit for the popularity of _I Love Lucy._

[@ItzzPaytons]

They do even in Fuller house 😂

[@cranjismcbasketball2565]

Jean Smart was awesome! Her delivery of these lines were incredible!

[@MicahBenally]

Who's Afraid of Lucille Ball

[@markmh835]

Perfect! 😊👍❤

[@Buckboy2024]

Good one.

[@anthonyhuenneke1524]

yes, a young edward albee was the original head writer before jess oppenheimer was brought on board.😉

[@psychedelicshacksnycshelte2171]

Horrid. Wtf?

[@kathyjarvis1745]

@@psychedelicshacksnycshelte2171I thought it was excellent. SHE is excellent and Lucy is appreciated more:)

[@A_cord_of_3strands]

When Lucy pulled out the revolver, I lost it 😂😂

[@Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles]

That really caught me off guard- I had been laughing already, but that gave me the biggest laugh

[@HoneyHoneyBaby]

💀

[@JB-LaFritz]

Hasta la vista Papi! 😅😂😅😂😅😂

[@susanhiggs6873]

I guessed Lucy had a gun. I don't know if that's a good thing or not.

[@edynlopez1702]

Jean Smart is brilliant. Tu Soy Gay 😭😂😂😂😂

[@RichardX1]

Well, she's not named Jean Stupid...

[@davidm3493]

Which means "You I am gay" 😂😂

[@wrathofviolets]

omg i dieddddd :'D

[@benfir8920]

Exactly what a 50s drunk housewife would say

[@shannonardo]

@@davidm3493this part was cracking me up too YOU I AM GAY 😂😂

[@patrickmgaddis]

I really like how they recreated the set.

[@strawberryseason]

Yeah I thought that was really good. Seemed very authentic.

[@Alexagrigorieff]

In black and white, even

[@stevenj9970]

OMG, the SNL set builders did AMAZING I Love Lucy set, WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@davidm3493]

If Joan Crawford had played Lucy

[@madgang201]

NO WIRE HANGERS EVER!!!!!!

[@KittensWithHelmets]

@@madgang201 that’s the rule in our house 😏

[@christopherfortunato6018]

Bwahahahaha

[@dylanhostetter8933]

2:58 Me screaming at the screen "Please be a gun, please be a gun, please be a gun" and then laughing uncontrollably when it is, in fact, a gun.

[@mahirop5743]

No cause i too thought it was gonna be a gun 😭

[@zidane4028]

I think we all thought it was gonna be a gun. And yet she still delivered 😂

[@PaultheNerdyCat]

We have the same pfp!

[@ronnieferguson9337]

RIGHT!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@luckyjasonfan]

Yep! I was like... she has a Gun!! 😂

[@thereyofwater]

The way Marcello Hernandez is a better Desi Arnaz than Javier Bardem in Being the Ricardos. Lol

[@HerbalMoon17]

He's just adorable!

[@squanto2]

Um..NO, it's terrible.

[@coloursfilm]

He's soooo good!!!

[@liamsmom6177]

Funniest part to me is Marcello is what 25 years old? I wonder if he had ever even seen “I Love Lucy” before they wrote the sketch.

[@canaisyoung3601]

It helps that Marcello Hernandez is actually Cuban (Cuban and Dominican, but mostly Cuban) like Desi Arnaz was. Javier Bardem is Spanish (as in "from Spain"), which might seem the same, but it isn't.

[@MadameX_]

Jean smart can do ANYTHING! She’s beyond fabulous

[@foxibot]

She is, I’m watching her new series on hula I think. It may be on max or Netflix because those are the ones I have. I’m about to cancel worthless starz app which is long overdo.

[@02chevyguy]

She was great as "Charlene" in "Designing Women".

[@aleejjj]

Preach 🙌🏻

[@bl3343]

1:52 Everyone slept in separate beds on television in those days. The first sitcom to feature a married couple in the same bed was The Flintstones.

[@PictorialMuseum]

It’s a GD joke

[@Directorkey718]

That's the joke.

[@bl3343]

@@elizabethchase6528 kzbin.info/www/bejne/g36mXnihfsR_fsU

[@tomripsin730]

@@elizabethchase6528 But the Flintstones were the first ones to vacuum with a mastodon.

[@anthonytorti8706]

@@elizabethchase6528I thought it was The Munsters.

[@richardgadberry8398]

"Lucy, you knew I was down at the club." "For 15 goddamn hours?! Do you think I'm an idiot?!"

[@andrewvelonis5940]

Yeah, we know, we watched the clip and those lines were indeed spoken. What makes you think you need to repeat it here? Are we supposed to think you are clever?

[@Earthneedsado-over177]

@@andrewvelonis5940 I never understand why people give thumbs up to someone repeating what we just watched.

[@propogandalf]

​@@Earthneedsado-over177I just did because it made me laugh replaying that scene in my head after it already passed. Also I process things differently when just seeing it visually vs seeing it written in words.

[@cnote4461]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@MarioQuinteroo]

what's up with these unhappy commenters just because someone quoted a funny part, geez

[@MintakaSaiph]

Jean Smart is not getting enough love ❤️

[@Mntguy-nr9vl]

She's won three Emmys in a row I think she's doing okay.

[@jonesfactor9]

Because she wasn’t funny.

[@tammylewis2408]

​​​@jonesfactor9 Designing Women...... HELLO!! She was funny as Charlene. And in the words of Julia Sugarbaker, "WE DON'T CARE!!"

[@zoyadulzura7490]

I can't believe she hasn't hosted before.

[@ideasinca]

She was incredible in the second season of Fargo. Highly recommended!

[@Tamales21]

"You have some answers to provide"😅😂😂😂😂

[@JohnBrown-ig5nc]

They were trying to avoid a potential copyright lawsuit which as I think on it, could've been the joke.

[@matthewjchung]

@@JohnBrown-ig5ncOr could be a nod to the Mandela Effect. In college, my friends and I watched I Love Lucy reruns every weeknight in the 2000s, and I swear I can hear Ricky saying “you got some ‘splainin to do”.

[@Tamales21]

@@matthewjchung that was what he actually said in the show

[@laalaa99stl]

We are lucky to have Marcello's authentic Cuban.

[@lizziej72]

Truly!

[@TheSaxon.]

In EVERY sketch, it seems.

[@mariee.5912]

Cuban and dominican

[@michaelbayer5094]

He's getting typecast. Or is that the extent of his range?

[@scarlettyang9910]

@@michaelbayer5094 SNL didn't have a cast who was so Latino and here he is.

[@mereilluv]

0:21 femininenomenon mentioned⁉️⁉️⁉️

[@reut0094]

Was it on the cue card, or is Bowen just that obsessed, is my question 🤔

[@cookinma]

I think he owed it to Chappel after parodying her serious ask to not be harassed on weekend update

[@marioargiropoulos7555]

@@cookinmaHe didn’t owe her anything. He wasn’t parodying her. The point of the sketch was to show that even a baby hippo is now dealing the type of parasocial bullshit that she was talking about. It only affirmed what she said. Just because someone is mentioned in a joke doesn’t mean the joke is on them. The joke was on obsessive fans who don’t know how to act.

[@cookinma]

@@marioargiropoulos7555 definition of a parody: an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

[@nataliaalfonso2662]

@@marioargiropoulos7555he did parody her. And that was perfectly fine. In fact he was parodying both Chappell and Moo Deng in that skit. And it was hilarious.

[@shahartley]

"Are you gay?" lol I feel like Lucy Ball would've written that if the show had been made in the 90s.

[@figuenew]

Lol in the 50's "gay" meant happy

[@milascave2]

Lucy might have preferred if he had been just a little bit gayer. He was way too NOT gay for her.

[@lamo1724]

...but not in the 2020s because "gay" hasn't been a punchline in years (except on SNL) xxx

[@yusufkadar]

That was a recurring joke on The Nanny, which aired in the 90s and was directly inspired by I Love Lucy

[@nicholasprakash3411]

That would be Will & Grace. Jack was Ethel, and Karen was Fred.

[@sorenadix6411]

More of these, please!🎉 Suggestions: "The Honeymooners," and "The Jeffersons."😂

[@Leshog70]

That is a good idea

[@katrinasammons1448]

All in the family

[@The_Official_Mando]

“You have some answers to provide!” 😂😂😂. I’ve always loved toying with the saying, “ you have some essssssplaining to do”. Well executed.

[@Naminski1a]

This is the best I Love Lucy sketch on Saturday Night Live on NBC. FUN FACTS: I Love Lucy was originally series premiered on CBS in 1951, the year Jean Smart was born and Desi Arnaz, Sr. was the host of Saturday Night Live on NBC with his son, Desi Arnaz, Jr. as a musical guest in 1976.

[@Luverofmysoul2]

"You'll have to tell me because I can't go on living this way?" 😂

[@MycontentisgoldJerryGold]

The comment about watching in your parent's hospital room hits close to home.

[@Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles]

So it wasn't just me. That line registered incredibly too well with me (but in a good, funny way!)

[@houdannycomedymagic8642]

LOL! The "are you gay?" was a lose my liquid moment. 😆

[@ethanglucroft151]

That set is impeccable

[@bjornjohansen9688]

The serious dramatic acting is just awesome

[@PaigeWashington-q2k]

Jean Smart has been a fav forever. She is too funny glad to see her again

[@RichieTrashmouthTozier]

Desi Arnaez hosted SNL in the 70's and did a good I Love Lucy parody with his son.

[@ellicel]

I have to try and find this!

[@genghiscan2918]

​@@ellicelits in the first season

[@ellicel]

@@genghiscan2918 thanks!

[@DanielOrme]

I remember it well. Desi jr played Ricky and Gilda Radner played Lucy.

[@gracie2865]

"fun fact: edna went on to name hundreds of people in the industry she suspected of being communists. and this was 1992."

[@barbraseville8984]

I screamed.

[@kitlee172]

That twinkle in his eye when he just knew we were expecting him to say “… suspected of being gay” 😂🎉

[@clickclackherecomesjac]

an extra layer, Lucille Ball was a well documented communist. So the joke hit a couple levels 😂

[@andrewvelonis5940]

You have quoted a line from the clip.

[@cyboman75]

@@andrewvelonis5940 and it scared @barbraseville8984

[@katharinehildebrand8853]

This is the only sketch that made me laugh out loud… absolutely perfect!!! Brilliant delivery, Jean & Marcella. 😂

[@katharinehildebrand8853]

Oops typo: Marcello

[@christopherwall444]

I bet the stage guys LOVED making that set

[@veronicaoliver5172]

Yes! From the Asian figurines on the mantle to the ruffle curtains, they nailed it. I didn't even realize how familiar I am with the set till I saw this.

[@gdave53925_]

Jean Smart is just simply amazing! I can't believe it took this long for her to get to host SNL.

[@mothra_mothra]

They got the set, so spot on!! Even the little statues on the mantle.

[@tonywilliams5959]

"Are you Gay".....LMAO😂

[@negano5654]

"Tu soy gay!" 😭🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@amfm889]

"I Love Lucy" meets "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

[@blackjoy9079]

I'm LOVING her in Hacks!!! I'm so glad the gave her an SNL episode! I love this for her!!!

[@mereilluv]

marcello as desi arnaz??? I LOVE IT

[@bearlh40]

01:35 Best line of the season.

[@ZukoHalliwell]

The season just started. Don't you think it's a little premature to say that? 😝

[@NitroGummyBear]

We were here

[@harveytherobot]

"You have some answers to provide!" Nice touch.

[@lukeparis8996]

So Marcello didn’t deliver that line well (like shut off the accent or seem to clean up his language). It was a joke instead of “Splainin’ to do” then.

[@rosalindalay4499]

Bowen looks great. Sooo handsome..

[@terrancekayton007]

Chole Fineman is amazing, she sounds just like Ethel, but shes always super amazing as the supporting character, too, she seems very aware of the fine details .

[@ddewittfulton]

I usually don't say this about an SNL skit... but this could have been longer! Jean Smart was terrific!

[@Pink-Indiana]

Jean Smart was brilliant on the show. The entire show was the best in years. 💯

[@Hollygli]

Hands down, best skit of the night

[@mikalliz2167]

1:42 that is sooo much my Grandmother Nonny god rest her troubled soul 😅 after she'd have a couple several bloody Mary's the dark drama was on

[@mikedtw]

I'd pay money to see the Jean Smart version of I Love Lucy!!!!!!!!!!

That was brilliant. OMG Jean Smart! Vicious!!

[@brynneholt1990]

The improper Spanish conjugation was hilarious.

[@Beth-zg6gb]

Love Jean Smart! 💕

[@Bringmethehorizondude]

This is top tier SNL right here

[@zkbf2000]

This was very funny, Lucy as sad, depressed but confident enough to stand up to Desi. Love it

[@alyzu4755]

I love Bowen's TCM-esque host. ☺️

[@lojendu]

"Eskiusmi?!"... 🤣

[@daveshelly9074]

This is comedy disguised as over earnest/serious acting on Jean Smart's part. Every part of her delivery is gold...but, "are you gay?" is so subtle delivered with just the right amount of Bette Davis. The remark about his accent with the wrist flip and then followed up by the half-drunk slurry "Tu...soy...GAY"? Comedic brilliance!

[@sngray11]

Marcello played Lucy’s husband perfectly! 🫶🏽

[@cathocopter]

Props for the set design - so close to the show’s look

[@steveconn]

Kind of amazed there hasn't been a good Lucy parody until now.

[@dragonray9450]

This was bad, probably why there hasn't been a parody.

[@michaelbayer5094]

And there still hasn't been a good parody. This was bad.

[@WaitingtoHit]

MADtv's was pretty good.

[@HanifBarnwell]

In Living Color hands down has the best Lucy parody, this one is a distant second...

[@raykahn455]

Laquita​@@WaitingtoHit

[@dreamyjeannie3385]

Jean Smart is wonderful.

[@Thehealingcenter-e6y]

“Lucy you’ve got some splaining to do!”

[@olivergarrick1175]

Really enjoyed jean smart's performance tonight awesome Lucy.

[@kevinriley6320]

Actually this was Lucille Ball behind the scenes. Also, Fred was a grump & Ethel would snap @ him.

[@theVanishingGladiator]

It’s true ~ Lucy was tough.

[@davidpumpkinsjr.5108]

I like to think that Lucy herself would have liked this sketch. I'm almost positive Desi would have.

[@curtmiller6484]

The set was INCREDIBLY accurate!

[@csadaybyday]

I was on the floor from, “Where the HELL have you been?!”🤣🤣🤣

[@captainmercy87]

Where’s Reese DeWHAT?

[@Wintersincla]

Bless you for posting this, my exact reaction!!!

[@judedeluca4408]

@@WintersinclaHis wife finally had enough of his bullshit

[@Sentientpotatoh]

I havent laughed this hard at a sketch in a while 🤣

[@rudy6884]

Jean Smart is the queen.

[@amaz3624]

Some actors aren't familiar with the show. Fred was not a smiley guy, especially if Ethel spent money

[@GregorBarclay]

In JAJ’s defence, I Love Lucy is tens of thousands of years old.

[@Cw311z]

It's Just A Parody & SNL. Relax.

[@oakboyh]

I agree. His Fred sucked. He could've stole some of the scene

[@propogandalf]

​@@GregorBarclayAnd yet iconic, hence why they're parodying it

[@bucsr.6106]

It is a parody. Lucy also is not dramatic. 😂

[@mauiskater]

So good. Omg really perfect with Marello. References to historical facts are amazing too 😂😂

[@FionaKelleghan111]

MARCELLO!!! You rock!! You give us such a varied cast of characters -- not only Latinos, though we've NEEDED a really talented Cuban-American at SNL. It's about damned time. I'm in South Miami, which is sorta the vibrantly multicultural, We Never Close, We Want to Make the _Softer_ Side of the News version of Miami. Great to see you rocketing, amigo!

[@blueelf217]

I forget Lucy actually pulled a gun on Desi in real life. 😂 Jean Smart is too good for SNL! ❤

[@NCS61]

What a gift Bowen Yang is! Loved him on Nora from Queens.

[@acboone7]

EK’CUE’ME?! 😂😂😂

[@Becky_Cal]

Exactly! Every Latino person in the U.S. has a family member that says “eh-cue-MEE” 🤣🤣

[@steventhomas4499]

Best sketch of the night. Jean Smart shined.

[@THT01]

She was also great in designing women.

[@rick0e295]

Jean is SO Smart! Though she stars on HACKS, she's far from a hack. First fell in love with Charlene on DW. And YES, I AM a Gay MAN! 🏳️‍🌈 💪

[@IgoZoom1]

We all fell in love with Charlene...and I loved her as the "unstable" First Lady in 24, too!

[@TracySims-g3q]

Jean Smart is good!

[@S.E.C-R]

I actually love this Lucy and old sitcoms, you should do more of these old style recreations!

[@paulaazevedo3872]

Marcello is just perfect.😂❤

[@sirjedisentinel]

I figured this type of sketch would have been perfect for Reese DeWHAT But I loved Bowen's deadpan

[@nodatastored684]

Netflix presents : I Love Lucy, by Ryan Murphy ❤ 😂 💀

[@Buckboy2024]

Right on.

[@nodatastored684]

Another GREAT MarcellO role. When she pulled the gun, i cracked up 😅 "OmG! "

[@CalebJacobs1981]

I love Jean Smart as lucy. I am guessing she probably knew her.😂😂 Nice recreation of the set.

[@GregorBarclay]

Probably knew her? Lucille Ball was 40 years her senior, and was basically dead before Jean Smart had any significant credits.

[@christopherverdery1294]

"You've got some answers to provide!" I see what you did there, SNL.

[@laurataylor29]

the wrist..im hollerin' 😆 🤣

[@darksideon]

The first argument is really how Lucy & Ricky fought in real life😆

[@robinalecia7554]

Love Jean Smart

[@MarcLopez-c7j]

That set is pretty spot on. Looks just like the larger apartment they moved into in a later season.

[@bucsfan1967]

Well done skit and kudos to props, they went all out on that set to look rral

[@shannonardo]

Truly, if Lucille Ball had the societal freedoms to write any comedy she wanted… it would be this

[@sekenamcmurren2217]

😂Jean Smart is hysterical!

[@thexsalamedia]

3:00 the way Lucy holds a gun Disclaimer: no episode of a gun was found on “I Love Lucy.” Even Paramount Global rechecked.

[@cnote4461]

"Where the hell have you been" took me out!!! Lol .... she nailed Lucy's stance. The bad wig helped. Lol

[@benjaminlebaron7128]

I love the audience’s reception to Marcelo!