Lost Elevator - Saturday Night Live

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Finally some answers about the show "Lost". Aired 12/02/06
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[@marc.levinson]

I love how Armisen didn't just give spoilers to the people in the elevator but like half of America that night.

[@theMattman]

Bruh i was just about to watch se7en

[@CUStudioFilms]

I know he's playing a character but he really looked he was having the most fun ever on a sketch LOL

[@danagray9709]

I think that "spoilers" ends after 6 months. This chick was years behind.

[@marc.levinson]

@@danagray9709 😂

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Boxing Match

[@jakepullman4914]

Should have ended with Andy saying "no I told you, you all died and you're in purgatory, that's why this elevator never stops."

[@carollollol]

Wasn't that a docter who episode?.... it sure sounds like one

[@jordangate7742]

That would be genius, why didn't the skit have that?

[@Chentzilla]

It does, though.

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

Better than no ending at all, I suppose.

[@Tooba.Dodds.]

Nice solve , Peralta .

[@roeiirani7505]

Tooba Ahmed peralta you’re a genius

[@jacobschellen4076]

Genius/Detective

[@charlottex5137]

Ahh I found this comment an dgt replies and I'm ammaazzed

[@SK-rd9ny]

Oh damn, oh damn, OOOH DAMN

[@charlesboyle9980]

Thanks dad

[@jemster38]

This has got to be the tallest building in the world.

[@Crimson11100]

Jemster Or the slowest elevator.

[@TCt83067695]

gotta be the slowest for Maya's character to have been able to run up the stairs and still catch it. Again up *not* down. Up!!!

[@thisisajang]

Jemster cue burj Khalifa

[@youngmasih]

Or maybe this has to be a comedy sketch on snl

[@annaf3915]

Why was I so sure that the elevator was going down?

[@fromspace7]

I have a feeling that the Lost guy wrote this sketch based on actual experiences he's had lol

[@comedianfunnyguy1232]

I actually met a guy who talked to Jr Abrahams and he validated the hell theory

[@ryanblair8805]

@@comedianfunnyguy1232 that might be why he looked so sure of himself in the skit when he said purgatory

[@comedianfunnyguy1232]

@@ryanblair8805 yea it is thats what I was thinking the certainty he has

[@tradutorajuliana]

yeah it must be so annoying for famous people to simply go outside

[@tyrant-den884]

Best joke was "we know what's going on on the island".

[@blazaybla22]

"We knew it was actually about a... glowing puddle of piss with a drain plug all along"

[@Raison_d-etre]

Well, we knew...the writers had no idea what it was.

[@ThatPianoNoob]

the biggest mystery to this day is why people were watching the fucking thing

[@sammed92]

@@ThatPianoNoob come on. Intial seasons were good and the opening episode is one of the best ones. That's how people got hooked and getting off the hook is really difficult. But after a couple of seasons even writers "Lost" their way... Amirite?

[@ThatPianoNoob]

@@sammed92 ive only watched episode 1.. I've lost interest on those mystery shows years earlier because every single one of them either gets cancelled or devolves into absolute nonsense. Like Buffy, charmed, Stargate (for some reason), X-files; just off the top of my head.

[@Balaskh]

I feel bad for the people that won't understand this sketch because they didn't ride the Lost hype train back in the late 00's. What a time it was

[@msk3905]

That would be me haven’t seen this show

[@sewgatormomm]

You mean “waste of time”. That ending was BS. So many questions left unanswered.

[@englishwithviviana]

Never watched it, still enjoyed the skit!

[@shanehughes3511]

Well the mid 00s to early 10s haha. 2004 - 2010. Back when we appreciated tv shows more as we had to wait months for answers, one episode a week, no binging a season in a day or two. That said the fact we used to watch 20 episodes of a tv show back then over 3 to 4 months a year and then they'd have a new season out 7 months later was just madddd. Lower budgets I guess. Imagine if a Netflix show or HBO show had 20 episode seasons in 2022.

[@ontheruntonowhere]

Back when Lost was still funny.

[@SonOfDune]

Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph are comedy legends. This skit was so good!

[@emelizabeth7267]

God I love when Fred does his dumb look he has mastered this 1:27

[@barbibrewerhaase6571]

Fred is amazing!

[@Frank.Ridgington]

I watched this video, because I thought it was going to be an elevator that got lost and they all found themselves in a building where they had never been before. But that would have been absurd.

[@MushookieMan]

That would have been funnier

[@C.Church]

I thought the elevator would get "Lost" too. But I was open to how that would happen. This was good but by titular expectation, it was a little disappointing. Good thing the Live version doesn't give sketch titles. 😂

[@argentinakcoy3629]

This is also why I clicked on it I need this sketch made

[@unwmarvel5542]

ME TOO!! Hahahaha

[@beanbun8395]

There's a movie like that

[@ammealmichieka2116]

"You see what I like about this elevator ride is stuff is actually happening unlike your show where stuff pretends to be happen" 😂😂

[@nathandomke2721]

The best part was Andy Samberg getting on the elevator and playing it super cool XDDD

[@PjPerez]

cool cool cool cool

[@BugOperator]

“I think it’s nightmares plus trees...”

[@sassora]

Maya is GORGEOUS here

[@Anubis415]

Maya is always gorgeous

[@Nonyah123]

She's so pretty

[@AddBowIfGirl]

@@vintage7919 The girl of his dreams told him that she’s not into incels.

[@KenworthW900HG]

That blouse...

[@bashnagata3496]

She's still gorgeous.

[@swapnilnarendra]

Damnit, I havent seen Seven, yet.

[@AshishSharma-nm5eo]

Swapnil Narendra oh boy 😂 You should check it out after 20 years

[@danhay9576]

6 is afraid of 7 cos 7 8 9

[@oodell160]

Gwyneth's head is not in the box...

[@timsimms412]

@Positive kid no, Gwyneth Paltrow's head is still on her neck

[@emiliorod6979]

“What’s in the box” 👩🏼⤵️📦with there baby

[@MaluMartins23]

lolol showrunners probably got the purgatory idea from this sketch 😅😅

[@tfb5769]

4:38 I can totally relate to, "I'm just gonna lie down"... For some reason 😂

[@leanne8005]

I have never seen Lost but Matthew Fox is gorgeous!

[@AshishSharma-nm5eo]

Leanne you should it's amazing except for the last season.

[@flisko123]

i thought u got bruises on your face

[@dyinhope6840]

Looks alot like freddie prince jr. or whatever to me.

[@Raison_d-etre]

@@AshishSharma-nm5eo Nah, it started going downhill before that, because of exactly this.

[@guineawuv]

You should check it out. It was great.

[@billybones1694]

After Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig, Fred is easily my favorite cast member of at least the past 20 years.

[@joeb.evrythngEclectic5571]

Kate McKinnon and Melissa V. and Heidi Gardner for me right now. Even though Kate and Melissa V. Left last season.

[@alidedereal]

They were both right. Writers didnt know shit and it was actually purgatory.

[@Korcsmaros]

+AAD Except it wasn't.

[@maddyc2412]

No it wasn't

[@sitcomsTV]

The writers had to go to this sketch to give it some type of meaning because the guy was right: It had none. For me it was obvious by the middle of season 2. Stop watching it. I can spot tv-shit-shows a mile away. Where is this guy now? I didn't even knew who he was eheh.

[@AshishSharma-nm5eo]

AAD nope it wasn't. Everything that happened on the island was real And then they were in purgatory till all of them died.

[@AshishSharma-nm5eo]

AAD READ THIS, THE ISLAND WAS REAL www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11084320/Lost-10-years-on-all-the-mysteries-explained.html

[@sarahnugent1702]

How have I never seen this skit!!! Love it long live LOST and they weren't dead the entire time!!!!

[@jonwright6472]

Matthew Fox is awesome. Just pointing it out there that he was amazing throughout the series even when his character made it impossible to understand.

[@noellerose3453]

The smoke monster is nightmares plus trees😂😂😂

[@ArtAttack98]

I’ve just finished Lost. One of the best tv shows I’ve ever seen!

[@MustbeTheBassest]

In the end, the first guy was proven right. They had no idea what they were doing!

[@Trucmuch]

First season: Best show ever Season Two: WTF? Stopped watching during season three. Huge disappointment. Kept adding more stuff without even trying to make sense of the earlier episodes.

[@quincyking010]

Actually it was all purgatory

[@ninov7795]

No it wasn’t all purgatory! Why are people still spreading this misinformation..

[@MrEazyE357]

@@ninov7795 So what was it?

[@pokytheturtle1757]

@@MrEazyE357 Everything was real, except the Flash Sideways in Season 6. THAT was purgatory, but everything else really happened.

[@themfatale865]

Daaaang, Maya looks extra cute in this for some reason.

[@anthonygordon9483]

It's definitely the hair and outfit .

[@GinoZump]

Andy was right all along :)

[@fosibodu]

Holy crap! Andy was totally right!

[@ClaytonWitt]

Andy knew it!!!

[@absurdrhino]

Andy and Fred were right, the writers had no idea what they're doing so they stole Andy's idea

[@themarkmushroom]

The island wasn't purgatory.

[@user-cq1hz7pi2d]

GinoZump the island wasnt purgatory they weren't dead the whole time they survived on that island just go watch what jack's dad tell him at the final episode during the church scene

[@maryjulia745]

Just finished LOST in Disney+. It's one of the best tv series really. Kind of shocked to see Evangeline Lily in it. All along I thought she was a new actress in the Hobbit, then Ant Man. It's like she haven't aged a bit. Still so beautiful.😆

[@82pythons85]

If I remember correctly the whole premise of the show was these people crashed on this island, they were all very unhappy or “lost” in their lives before crashing. As time went on some of them found peace and happiness on the island and some them died on the island. The people who died on the island were meant to die and the folks who found happiness on the island would have been fine if they would have stayed, but instead they left the island and in turn lost what they had gained in isolation. In the end they all ended up dying and meet up in purgatory before crossing over together. The island was basically like Adam and Eve’s paradise and supernatural things were able to occur there. There were allot of different plot lines they took the show, it’s like multiple writers were vying for what the twist was going to be. They should have just stuck with the purgatory plot since it made the most since and before that hadn’t been done before.

[@penguinodave]

So Andy was right ?

[@matthewcassidy1282]

@@penguinodaveno, they didn’t die in the plane crash. They weren’t dead the whole time, everything really happened except for parts of Season 6

[@alposphere]

Wow, Andy knew it years ago!..

[@NBACoDGaming]

+alposphere It wasn't purgatory...

[@AshishSharma-nm5eo]

alp READ THIS THE ISLAND WAS REAL www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11084320/Lost-10-years-on-all-the-mysteries-explained.html

[@King-jk9or]

zTxmi it was purgatory dïpshit, their decisions on the island effect them and if they go to hell or heaven eventually when everybody dies on the island

[@TabalugaDragon]

@@King-jk9or how does what you say in any way proves that they were in the purgatory all the time since the plane crash and not just in season 6?

[@CharlieAUS]

Everything that happened on the island was real. How does nobody get that?

[@BlackAdder665]

They nailed all of the types, haha!

[@SamsonovAnton]

I started watching this because of Mathew Fox, but I keep watching it because of Amy Poehler.

[@quokka_11]

♫ What are you DOING, Anton? ♪

[@markukrainetz5058]

I would bet that I’m the only person to never see a single episode of Lost.

[@niedermitderjagd1968]

Nah were two!

[@ampleoloruntogbe1434]

And then there was 3. Not a single episode.

[@p.b.6188]

Four...

[@shayaankhusro4104]

Five...

[@nabila1379]

Six, lol.

[@KhairulnizamBakeri]

Dammit, Fred. Spoiler on Se7en. Haha.

[@theyearwas1473]

Everyone goes nuts for Sawyer or Jack, but Kate omg too perfect

[@videoinformer]

I thought the elevator was going to be "lost". I didn't know how or where. That's why I clicked.

[@DominicGo]

this is the same elevator they used in 30 Rock, when Liz and Conan talked in the elevator 😂

[@tomaszskowronski1406]

of course they did. If its the 30 Rock elevator then it was close to studio 8H

[@EzraDair]

If you noticed some characters pressed the buttons on the left while others pressed it on the right hehe

[@louiefurio3013]

"Im just gonna lie down"

[@FOX11GUY]

The elevator door shadow is top notch. Set designers were on it.

[@SharinganMan]

What's funny is, as we can see from this video, this was also an era where SNL had no idea how to end sketches.

[@irynakalychak6821]

Dr. Shepherd! I also kept watching the show mainly because of him.

[@julianachandler2975]

So much talent in this skit

[@wasteofspace20]

Fred is insanely talented man.

[@changwilliamwang]

I’ve never watched Lost before but this is still funny😂

[@KK-et6zo]

In that case, you should watch... It is one of the best shows ever made

[@emilys3638]

Halfway through I realized I better not watch the rest until I finish the series or it'll get spoiled for me!! 😂

[@triciaramgoolam4045]

Seconds before Fred says 'you're the guy from lost.' I said the exact same thing. 😂😂😂

[@echospaw899]

He's so dang cute! You know, he found me in the jungle and would visit me regularly without anyone knowing about it. 👀

[@drumdust]

Amy going for it with the doc is so cute.

[@ronlawrence342]

Have to admit I never watched a show with so many loose ends that was so entertaining . This was a top notch witty sketch , everyone one on the elevator nailed it! 🤣

[@TrixiLovesYou]

What a cast.

[@randomtology2173]

dude walking out at :07 could play al gore in a biopic

[@dancepiglover]

I actually replayed it to get another look because I thought he looked like Gore, too.

[@randomtology2173]

@@dancepiglover same here lol. i was like, whoa, wait a sec...

[@jchase5468]

I love how armisen just stays on the elevator

[@valmarsiglia]

"Could we just not talk about Lost anymore?" -- looks like you got your wish, Dr Jack.

[@ninov7795]

It just had its 15 year anniversary for the pilot and there are a bunch of rewatch podcasts going back to watch it again. There are still a ton of fans that engage with the community.

[@AllenChibi]

i love this so much lol

[@babetravelling]

Need to watch Lost

[@Dominexanbarbie27]

I still don't understand lost but I watched every episode.

[@TipsyRiver]

OK, holy shit dude. That guy is so good looking, I can't stop looking at him. I don't find him attractive, he just looks so perfect. I really don't get why women are into Cooper, Gosling and all these guys.

[@tommasofaoro3278]

yes, Kenan Thompson is a real sex symbol

[@NameUserOf]

Married, two kids.

[@beautifulmirage1087]

I am not fan of copper or gosling. They seem pretty but I think they are just okay. I think Mathew is really good looking. I think people have diff taste.

[@ct-lu8go]

ikr

[@v5q211]

LOST had the most handsome men

[@makiburgess5733]

I had never seen the show but tuned in one time in French on Radio Canada. It was like season 2, half way through. I was lost, let me tell you.

[@lysawoolley2113]

That was excellent

[@alexvaldes5183]

they called it.

[@penguincommunity6218]

Awful ending. But that’s because the elevator is really a trip to purgatory

[@premsun]

Probably the best SNL crew !

[@jimd7875]

Fred is so Great!! ❣

[@sgtpepper91]

samberg was in on it from the start

[@user-cq1hz7pi2d]

Sgt. Pepper no he didn't they weren't dead from the start they actually survived on the island

[@AshishSharma-nm5eo]

Sgt. Pepper NOPE. READ THIS. www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11084320/Lost-10-years-on-all-the-mysteries-explained.html

[@nebulousisgod]

What a dumb show

[@springdayisnottoday371]

Lol this is relatable on all tv shows.

[@springdayisnottoday371]

And books too.

[@casey5535]

"So now I'm the invisible man?" 😆

[@inamartina9985]

"wow" "double wow"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@wheezy4906]

And I’m out here recognizing him from Party Of Five lol

[@zeamays8404]

I’m glad I already saw Seven

[@AnthonySforza]

Damn... Andy called it

[@AlEtteso]

Loved LOST and Matthew Fox

[@shanehughes3511]

Lol, little did they know that Andy Sambergs character had partially solved the entire ending. Some of the characters were indeed in purgatory just not all, only the living could leave 🤣 This makes me feel old knowing this skit is 16 years old. I was obsessed with lost in my early teens. An evil teacher of mine spoiled the ending for those of us who didn't stay up in Ireland to watch the finale (the finale aired same time as the US to prevent spoilers, but most went to bed and watched the next day when it was shown on its usual UK/Ireland schedule). He done it out of pure spite, knowing we had invested years of our lives into the show. Damn I hate him still 12 years later and I'm a grown adult.

[@ANogueira-nz8vm]

Saying that the island is purgatory is just wrong, you should probably give the show a rewatch

[@lucs028]

wtf apparently you didn't really understand anything. The purgatory thing only happens after the island

[@Arkarass]

imagine this is what rly happens to him and other stars... good to be unknown :)

[@Degjoy]

This was great

[@fruityrazzmatazz9183]

Holy crap, remember using DVDs to watch stuff

[@NoahReadsSlowly]

Lost’s ending was spectacular. You can’t change my mind.

[@dakotabruce7773]

Fred stayed in the elevator at the end

[@gloriaroma-sandiegorealest4037]

Genuinely funny

[@aabhiedantinho2026]

You are something special, and always will be.🌹

[@GeorgeGiann]

.....and the bicycle guy had the answer all along. Nice.

[@olgawankenobi]

Nice.

[@penske_material]

He was wrong

[@LadyVoldemort]

I was a huge Lost fan...I bought all 6 seasons DVDs. I watched it countless times but still scratching my head every time. 😂😂😂 I think I'm lost in it...

[@AngeL_Fallen.]

Omg why u killed nr echo 😂🤣🤣

[@CantDraw-bq6pj]

Jake Peralta is an amazing Person/Genius

[@theactorjohnlarroquette]

Can we just point not only did Andy get the purgatory thing correct, but the island was in fact on The toe of an enormous giant Anubis statue

[@juliewheaton641]

Nope wasn't purgatory. The toe of a giant thing though...

[@theactorjohnlarroquette]

Sounds like someone hasn’t finished the show...

[@krisweber1336]

Only the secondary timeline in season 6 was purgatory, after they blew up the hydrogen bomb. The entire series up until that point, and including the continuation of the main storyline in season 6, happened in real life.

[@theactorjohnlarroquette]

Kris Weber yes but the point was that did in fact happen at the end and thus Andy was right

[@TJMalana]

Show us receipts that proves your theory that they were dead the whole time. I really wanted to know how people came to this conclusion.

[@allme2547]

-Wow Andy got it right 4 years before beforehand- -Wow Andy was in on it from the beginning- -Wow Andy figured it out ahead of time- Wow *LOST* was about an island that existed in the living world & the people who survived a plane crash _living_ on that island. Some made it off. John Locke even died after leaving the island, and his corpse was brought back. In the last season, the show started off showing that the island was destroyed. It was _THEN_ that they were all dead & in some sort of purgatory/afterlife. Where they were all reunited after having met in _REAL LIFE_

[@krisweber1336]

THANK YOU! It drives me crazy when people say they were in purgatory, THEY. WERE. NOT.

[@Shasha-jo5iv]

how funny that the only correct explanation of the show can be found in a youtube comment under a video that is almost ten years old🤣

[@courtneycallen]

How did they all die? So the island was real and they were all on it but in the last season the island started to deteriorate and then they died and then were reunited in a purgatory/heaven? Sorry I stopped watching the show after the whole hatch plot line bc my life got stressful and I didn’t have TiVo.

[@allme2547]

@@courtneycallen it's a bit convoluted, but I'll give it a try. The show approached the concept of the afterlife /eternity as being distinct from time. So, the 2 things are not linked together. For example, if someone died at 10 p.m. last Tuesday. They might find themself waking up in the afterlife instantly, yet 30 yrs might have passed. This was demonstrated by how Some of the characters which had died in the earlier seasons, at various points throughout the course of the show, made appearances in the last season. It was portrayed by the show alternating between 2 completely different storylines. (similar to the use of flashback storytelling from previous seasons). It switched back & forth between 2 concurrent storylines. But, presented in a way that wasn't very clear to viewers until the finale. So, for the final season, it was as though there were 2 versions of reality. But as the season wrapped up...it became evident that the 2 story lines were *Time (life)* & *Eternity (afterlife)* . The storyline... on the time side of things... was just a continuation of the stories from previous seasons. The other storyline...on the eternity side of things... had the characters living a life in some kind of alternate/ dream-like reality. They were pretty much the same characters at their core, but lacking the experiences from the previous seasons which had shaped their connections to one another. While they did have moments of deja vu, they couldn't clearly recognize one another. In the final episode of the last season, they gradually all came to the same realization...of who they had been & that they were now dead & in the afterlife together. That's the shortest clearest way that I can describe it. It's also been awhile since I've seen Lost...& the last season is my least favorite.

[@courtneycallen]

@@allme2547 you are the greatest human ever! Thanks for taking the time to explain it to me!!! I looked up an article about the ending and I still didn’t understand it bc they didn’t tell it as elegantly and as clearly as you did! The only question I can think of right now is were the supernatural elements real? I vaguely remember a smoke monster that was gigantic but I don’t remember if it could actually be seen. I think when I watched the show I was assuming we were going to find out that they were somewhere like the Bermuda triangle. I know the Bermuda triangle is an actually some mysterious area of the world but I figured they were going to make it into an urban legend being real kind of thing. Do we ever see anyone get rescued or make it off the island or an explanation for things like how Locke was suddenly ambulatory? Sorry for the questions; I feel like I could hang out with you for a day and be enthralled by you explaining to me all the big plot lines of the show.

[@precursors]

"So now I'm the invisible man??" HAHHAHAHAH

[@pretenditsagoodworld]

I should see all of lost sometime.. i only saw like three seasons befor i gave up

[@Mushruums]

Maya calls herself the biggest fan yet she’s only half way through season 2

[@andrewthomson870]

Saved myself a lot of time by getting out of Lost at the end of season 1 when I realised it wasn't going to resolve satisfactorily. 😎

[@ImSoOld2007]

I had a ton of friends who were really into it and they wouldn’t shut up about it. I gave in and tried to watch at least the first season but once I saw a guy get sucked into a jet engine that caused the engine to explode like an enormous bomb, I decided to call it quits. That being said, all my friends loved John Locke and there’s an episode with a flash sideways where John Locke gets hit by a car whilst in a wheel chair. I made my friends watch it over and over again cuz it made me laugh uncontrollably lol that was probably the greatest high light of my Lost viewing experience.

[@TxWIll]

You missed a great show

[@drangel1345]

Your loss

[@reywhites6032]

kenan .. put his hand on the wrong side to press d button ... 😂😂😂

[@hr6334]

Fred is the best!! Miss him on SNL and Portlandia

[@Tooba.Dodds.]

Fred is hilarious in this. Amy is ❤

[@knightsoftheroundpeople2676]

1:54 how close they are together seriously gives me anxiety

[@AtomicPunk23]

"You seen that seven movie? That's Gwineth's head in a box" 🤣

[@pikapika508]

Andy called it 😂

[@maddey2016]

When you just want to ride the elevator but are still famous. Poor dude.

[@prettybkchick6348]

I love fred 😂

[@blue-zu7te]

I loved fred in this sketch lol

[@the406seadonkey6]

Third-best era in SNL history. 'Portlanida' is great and I never thought I'd like Fred Armisen as much as I do. Carrie Brownstein and him age gold, as was this cast regarding the aforementioned 'SNL'.