Nurse Appreciation - SNL

A group of nurses (Maya Rudolph, Ego Nwodim, Chloe Fineman, Molly Kearney) share why they love being a nurse.
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[@janusconner3710]

"I'm gonna need you to have dementia, Curtis".🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Nataly-lk9yj]

Hilarious

[@laalaa99stl]

"The Jamaican part of Ireland" 😆

[@gregoryuk]

Historical links.

[@alfie6441]

Cork

[@Tomdelongpenis]

It's called montserrat

[@acoupleofschoes]

"Erlind"

[@katep560]

Irieland

[@cas4040]

I work in long term care/rehab. I love the juxtaposition of that versus hospital care. Really well done. The demographic of the staff. This was brilliant.

[@ebhs2202]

100 PERCENT - they did their research right

[@JacquelineHannah-dh5ss]

Yeah,retired RN here. I loved the skit.Especiall the last part about do anything but nsg Sure I had a career of good times, bad times, you know I've seen my share lol Sincerely thanks to all the Nurses and CNA's that I could of not done it without.

[@teekay698]

What about men though? Male nurses.

[@eschrad]

My 95-year-old grandmother was recently in rehab and now assisted living. You all are saints, truly. My grandmother was awful to her care givers in rehab. I know a lot of it was brought on by disorientation (she’s basically blind now and very hard of hearing), but still… I wouldn’t have blamed one nurse for rolling her out into traffic.

[@debschaefer7820]

Am currently in a rehab facility. Hands down, the best nurses are female. My favorite two nurses are Jamaican and African.

[@johnnydarling8021]

1:30 "you need to meet Jesus. If you see the light, go for it." lmao

[@winstonfaulkner537]

😂😂😂

[@RachaelCollins-]

❤ Does he eat salad? Oops I forgot, hoofs horns and an Attitude. 2:56

[@alittlepieceofearth]

yes

[@hollylaws3110]

I've thought that but never said it out loud; so thank you for saying what I have been thinking sometimes😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@cedarandsound]

Thanking teachers, thanking mothers, thanking nurses. What a sentimental episode, with great jokes!

[@But_Stuff]

Bot 🤖

[@cedarandsound]

@@But_Stuff I pass all the "let's make sure you're a human" checks online. So I guess I'm more human than human.

[@FupaDoncic]

They are motherly professions. All improve society

[@Nohandleentered]

Gay

[@danielleandrews2658]

All undervalued and underpaid

[@CuriousGoodsJessica]

"Frankie always lit as hell" 🤣 ❤ Dog is adorable!

[@CharliePetricor]

“Imma need you to HAVE dementia, Curtis” As always, Ego gets the best lines. 😂

[@randygivens8421]

"If you can do any other job, do it!" 😂😂😂😂

[@Evette_Clay]

I’m a nurse and that’s the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!

[@irenebeaubien4954]

I agree

[@theresas740]

I DID clean graveyards Summers and Winter break during Nursing School!

[@katrspaul]

Coal mining😂

[@loislopez4159]

AMEN and AMEN!❤

[@nicholasgarrick8855]

" You dont need Viagra you need to meet Jesus lmao 😂.

[@sexydictator3241]

Why not meet Jesus while using Viagra? 😂

[@israelcm7246]

😂😂😂😂

[@jmbalvarez5228]

If you see a light, go for it

[@shahartley]

"I'm going to need you to have dementia, Curtis." Ha.

[@ShadowRose1622]

This one cracked me up!

[@rantman4521]

So far, she's killing everything she touches. And all of the cast members are just feeding off her. Queen

[@-love-life3267]

I’m assuming you mean Ms. Ego.

[@rantman4521]

@@-love-life3267 I like her as well. She's always great.

[@ShadowRose1622]

I love every character Mikey Day does!

[@rantman4521]

@@ShadowRose1622 Have you ever seen his Medieval Times sketch? He's always hilarious 🤣

[@Tarantulisimo]

there's a reason certain performers brokw out: The Murrays, the Murohys, the Feys, the Ferrells, & the Rudolphs are just that damn good

[@juliekaalaas9071]

I've been a CNa for 18 years and this is SO accurate.

[@rejoyce318]

Thank you for all you CNAs do, including taking care of loved ones as their health failed. I spent summers in college working as a NA and the work was hard, often unappreciated, and definitely grossly underpaid.

[@ericar.6370]

Thanks for what you do.

[@juliekaalaas9071]

Thank you so much for the kind words 💜

[@blueprairiedog]

One of the hardest jobs anywhere. Thanks.

[@katrspaul]

Thank you for what you do. My daughter is a cp patient, and CNAs and HHAs are a huge part of our lives.💜

[@roseJ96]

My friend is a nurse who works with old people, and from what I hear this is pretty spot on. Only part missing is how the ones with dementia sometimes attack you but you're not allowed to fight back.

[@jasonbarnett7747]

The only reason for this entire sketch was so Maya could say "Jamaican part of Urrrrlindd"

[@janelliot5643]

It was certainly the funny part

[@canaisyoung3601]

And for Ego to finally show her mom that she doesn't belong in the medical field.

[@batgurrl]

Maya excelled in every sketch on the show. What a national treasure. The message is actually true. Nurses are angels and overworked and under appreciated ☮️😍🍫

[@sexydictator3241]

And underpaid. 😞

[@benzaiten933]

and often underpaid.

[@Tao_Tology]

Most of them, yes.

[@a.t3415]

​​@@benzaiten933 if you think nurses are underpaid i have some unfortunate news for you regarding basically every other healthcare professional (minus doctors). Edit: also, nurses aren't the most appreciated member of the healthcare team. What a crazy thing to claim on an SNL video that praises nurses

[@a.t3415]

Are you really trying to say nurses are underappreciated underneath an SNL skit praising nurses? Overworked sure, but nurses easily have the best pr of anyone in the hospital. Not going to touch on the "angels" comment past a reminder that a job doesn't make someone a good person.

[@ladygodieva6298]

"I'm gonna need ya to have dementia, Curtis." 🤣 Seriously. As a nurse, any time dealing with severely -ist patients, one only hopes that there must be something very wrong with their brain, so we can be in denial about how awful some people just are.

[@PunguinYoga]

I found out I have some pretty serious health issues after a six-day hospital stay about 2.5 years ago. The nurses were great.

[@theresas740]

Had to give an injection 💉 to the thigh of a woman and "Oh wow, look at all of those racist-skinhead-culture tattoos here on your legs! Well, you don't have that specific haircut today, so Nurse Theresa chooses to believe that this is very old ink and you can't do cover-ups. Little pinch.

[@jenniferredd1430]

When one of my grandma's went to the hospital after a really bad UTI (other meds covered the symptoms so it got real bad before being caught) She was out of it for the first day, then I am pretty sure every nurse that dealt with her wished she would go back to that barely conscious state she came in with. They had my dad, and later me, call her to try and get her to be less awful and cooperate. I don't think they were prepared to hear her tell her grandkid that she just wanted to go home and die. We all thanked the nurses constantly cause we all knew she was a nightmare patient. (note, it was not the UTI making her awful, the UTI mellowed her out and the odd behaviors they assumed were the UTI were just her)

[@stuartomahony5364]

The Jamaican part of Ireland that's hilarious you can't take my lucky charms mon 😂😂

[@HolisticallyNish]

Did anyone else hear a male voice echo ‘lit as hell’ ?? 1:48

[@mollycule2792]

Yep

[@paulorganisation1]

😂😂

[@SwampQueen17]

Came here for to see if anyone else heard it 😂

[@jthomp7019]

Same😂 I swear I heard it twice though....

[@nuthinmuffins5073]

Wasn’t sure if it was a trainer or a ghost. Still not sure it’s repeating the line, but if it is, I’m more inclined to think it could be an EVP. Guess the only way to know for sure is if someone from the crew says something about it.

[@Roe275]

Thank you to all the fellow vet nurses- you are so under appreciated. Sending best wishes and a pay raise your way ❤

[@micheleboyle3547]

As a retired nurse….this was hilarious!😂😂😂😂😂thank you for such a funny true skit! ❤

[@danielleandrews2658]

Nurse here, seriously it's all Curtis out there. If I had to do it again I'd be a plumber, less you know what.

[@brynneholt1990]

That is saying something!

[@mareenalewis4241]

Yes, the ridiculously obvious innuendos and double entendre .🙄🥴 always male, and always of a certain age. Ugh!🤦‍♀️

[@annabanana8700]

"Curtis if you see the light GO FOR IT!"😂😂😂

[@davidlatham3490]

I'm a Nursing assistant, despite the bad moments there is still an indescribable feeling of accomplishment when you make a difference that doesn't get lost on you.

[@melissashanfield1028]

For all the sponge bath and dookie nurses, nurses by day and nurses by night, nurses that are treated like shit by their bosses but still have so much patience and kindness to give-thank you!Yall saved my life and my sanity. Some of the most wonderful people on Earth are nurses.

[@lily-mo2gc]

If you see the light, go for it. Goddamn!!! 😂😂😂

[@asynchronicity]

“I’m gonna need ya to have dementia, Curtis.” 😅

[@jpenhall]

As someone who had to spend several weeks in the hospital recently, God bless all nurses. The skit was funny because of how true it was.

[@medmom11]

For Nurse's appreciation, my boss gave all the nuses on her team cold pizza an hour after our lunch break... maybe they're trying to get us to quit...

[@dianewilliams1125]

That's terrible! Thank you for your hard work! I appreciate you!❤❤❤

[@fuzzydawg2573]

Sounds like where I work as a nurse!

[@dianewilliams1125]

@@fuzzydawg2573 I appreciate you! PEACE!

[@cherylcarlson3315]

Did they try to pass off leftovers for next shift? 39 yrs...

[@TiffaoMurrizawa]

They can thank us by giving us safe ratios and less pizza parties. 😅 - wishful thinking (from the med surg)

[@Plantlover888]

Please I have seen more nurses hanging out at the nurses station than doing any actual bedside work. Yet always complaining about the career they chose 😂😂😂😂 back biting eachother and won't lift a finger to help other nurses ya'll are your own problem.

[@maribellalydiatonelli7750]

Same for us respiratory therapists...saying hi from icu

[@Sassyellechica]

This was a good skit. Happy nurses appreciation week to all. Being a nurse is not easy. When Ego's character said if you can do anything do something else she wasn't lying. Being a nurse is a real calling to put up with a lot. This sketch showed the disparity between white nurses and nurses of color

[@ns2110theonly]

No. Even the uniforms were wrong. The Jamaican nurses are portrayed as PCA's. Nurses don't do the things they were describing with ghe old dude, so the sketch was really off to begin with. In actual real life, there are black nurses and there are white PCAs. This is all BS. And an affront to PCA's, who do way more grunt work than nurses. In the world of this sketch, a nurse would *only* flush & administer his IV and bring his pills. The PCAs do *literally everything* else.

[@aj3974]

I was starting to think I was the only person who noticed that. Sad but from what I've seen, it's very true.

[@brynneholt1990]

We didn’t even get their last names!

[@theresas740]

If you think you can do it for the money, there's not enough money in the World Bank.

[@theresas740]

​@@brynneholt1990No one ever calls us our last names unless we are being deposed.

[@joshuadramis6559]

So my hospital I’m a nurse at, we just finished nurses week and it was awesome. Our managers did something for us each day of the whole week. They even gave us a lawnchair as our nurses gift this year lol. This week was special for me because, I took one of my dying cancer patients outside to enjoy a concert that was organized by my hospital. She was absolutely thrilled to go. The right Nurses have compassion and are fun to be around. It’s a noble profession. I didn’t like that comment at the end, about “choose any other profession”. It was distasteful.

[@eternalperspective4136]

❤

[@EdwardsNH]

Agreed. I choose nursing as a second career, in my 50s. The nurses I know are almost all extremely caring and passionate about their work. Choose nursing.

[@theresas740]

I am so glad for you that your Hospital treats you and your patients so well. That gives me hope. What a wonderful memory to have!

[@kingstonstreet3726]

That old man behavior is accurate

[@gkennedy2998]

I love that SNL did a tribute (albeit humorous) to Nurses and to Teachers. Nice job, SNL!

[@icantfitinabbq]

This is how it feels to be a classified staff member in special education during Teacher Appreciation Week 🤣💗

[@JacquelineHannah-dh5ss]

I admire and respect special education teachers Takes a special person. Thank You Also nurses take care of special needs and developmental disabilities I worked for several yrs in aduly developmental disabilities and for a short while in a private one and got certified in it I am a psych nurse from state institutions and private but working DD was more difficult than forensic psych.Some need much medical care and others not so much.Thats not funny and its not easy.

[@nicholasgarrick8855]

Fun performance from ego , and maya here! Their delivery really make this sketch.

[@squidneysmith1993]

My mom is a nurse of 25 years, and she would approve of this message. The whole message.😂 ❤

[@ChantaBrite]

My mom too, especially the part if you can do anything else,do it!😅

[@dianewilliams1125]

My Late Mother and my ex-husband too! Really! 😮😮😮 Great NURSES terrible people! 😅😅😅

[@DanielleBaylor]

Have worked in both a psych hospital and various nursing homes. This was so incredibly accurate 😂

[@lexxussmith7467]

The Jamaican part of Ireland 😂

[@tracyn5096]

“ you need to meet Jesus “ took me all the way out ☠️😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@chadvanschoor9036]

does anyone else think ego nwodim is literally one of the best cast members to everrrrrrr be on this show!?!? And love you maya

[@ramirezproductions0826]

"You don’t need Viagra, you need to meet Jesus!!!" 😂😂😂

[@-love-life3267]

I love Ego! Naturally funny with very good timing.

[@ascent8487]

I’m a med tech at an assisted living facility. @:26 rang true. 😂😂

[@Dr_KW]

Any snl skit with a dog is next level

[@chelee8804]

As a nurse, this is pretty accurate 🤣😂

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

I could never be a nurse! I really appreciate what they do, though, and have seen a lot of them in recent months. The things they have to do for other people, including me, make me not envy them at all. Same with doctors.

[@CalebJacobs762]

Man. Maya Rudolph is hilarious.

[@DLJ2890]

THANK YOU, NURSES, NO JOKE - THANKS!

[@riverita2044]

Im a nurse, and I approve this message 🤣🤣🤣

[@kitcoffey7194]

Can we have universal healthcare in the US already? Because long term care is going to bankrupt all of us if we keep refusing to do this.

[@kitcoffey7194]

Please stop voting for Republicans if you want corporate taxes, and taxes on the rich, to pay for universal healthcare.

[@janelliot5643]

If you think the big Corporations that now owe us will ever give us Universal Health Care I've got some beachfront property in Kansas you might be interested in

[@Tao_Tology]

​@@janelliot5643Yes, just give up. smh.

[@theresas740]

Not until the current system collapses utterly and entirely. Not until bodies remain in homes because not enough ambulances remove them to hospitals with absolutely zero beds nor stretchers in ERs. But it's coming. The pandemic opened a great many eyes. We are the ONLY Western "modern" nation without single-payer.

[@benzaiten933]

that part about always appreciating nurses is very true.

[@smlid]

LOL...oh my goodness!! Many years ago I wanted to be a nurse so I asked my friend who was probably two years into the school about it. She was interning at a nursing home and told me some of those same stories!! I said HECK naw and became a dental assistant instead...24 years later and i still love it!

[@Pekupekaya]

😭The Dog with the glasses😍

[@burtandernie90]

This is very accurate. The men in long-term care can get real creative to come up with something so female staff will have to touch their junk. not saying all of them, but even one is still too many.

[@theresas740]

I had teenage boy patients who would make up bs to need their bits examined. "Turn your head and cough." Punk-a** little s***s tried me with that, all of them. Exactly ONCE.

[@johnfreeman62]

Unfortunately, I have spent months in hospitals over the last few years. Nurses are the real heroes in my world. I love them

[@abiodunemmanuel8767]

Curtis if you see the light go for it😂

[@michellem4925]

Thank all nurses. And thanks for the laughs.

[@heatherkastenmeier7530]

As a RN, I've encountered many Curtis's in my 25 years.

[@TheTheratfarmer]

Thank you nurses that cARE.

[@johncortez3428]

Bowen should have played a gay Filipino nurse.

[@katecoffee4744]

Yes!

[@user-pp1on4fk7d]

You should shut up

[@Channy-cr1xw]

This skit was brilliant. I really hope people caught onto the spoken and unspoken dynamics….

[@tylerhackner9731]

I love all the thanks given in this episode

[@angellombness4371]

The Daisy Foundation recognizes nurses.

[@Kathi88]

„You need to meet Jesus”🤣🤣🤣

[@moebaba5360]

Bro this is accurate every old ppl home I go to has majority of black women and they have the patience to deal with them old ppl. Respect on em for doing the old ppls home

[@AmusementLabs]

Well, now we know where Mort Fellner has been, being creepy in a nursing home. 😅

[@HappyLife693]

Every skit has been funny. Thanks for the laughs.

[@DannerBanks]

Fun fact, the Jamaican accent is indeed from Ireland

[@natekenworthy7367]

Ego is the best.

[@funk3522]

Ego is awesome. Love her so much.

[@Photo513Graphy]

Thank You! - So appreciative of the talent on SNL- thank you for making me laugh to tears! !

[@arpeykeys]

Was expecting them to directly show love for the CNAs and not pile them together with nurses... Nurses deserve recognition but they ain't shit without their CNAs fr

[@emmanuelmmunoz]

Only thing missing was the Filipino nurse to come lovingly yet passive aggressively lay down the law. 😂

[@echolot]

MABUHAY!

[@mauiskater]

Thank you nurses ! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@MoonDoggieAngel13]

Brilliant & Truth comedy as usual

[@HelenTudor-Douglas]

More Truth, is spoken in Jest.

[@DJMarcO138]

"Cleanup on aisle Me"

[@enckidoofalling2883]

As an RN Thank you SNL for actually acknowledging Nurses week. I’ll give you good meds!

[@steveconn]

Nurses, caregivers, what a complex, interesting life.

[@pernus5856]

Those nurses taking care of an average senator lol

[@loriallenbaugh35]

😂 triple time pay at least!

[@julieathome7793]

Where are the Filipino nurses at? Should have had Bowen play one 😊

[@echolot]

Are there even hospitals in the States without a single Philippine nurse?

[@tonyderexxo7326]

_"-The Jamaican part of a Ireland!"_ _"-Oh, so Montserrat?"_ 😅

[@imdurmac1]

As a RN, this was so needed to feel sane. 😂🤣😂🤣

[@dannyburleigh1]

My Mom was the Head Nurse of Her Floor! She was the finest Nurse that this Country could bring. She corrected many a Doctor and was always Theroux in aiding to what needed to be done to help the patients. In the end it's really all about the patients back then. These days it's best to get in and then get out as fast as possible! Because the Nurses and probably Doctors these days just aren't as smart or as Awesome as my Mom was and some are just careless and have no memory or common sense. I speak from incidents and deaths of people that I used to know well. If you think that you will survive and it's not an ER moment in your life then just keep going! Aid to yourself and move forward. "Come on Tough Guy,be tough!"

[@MelindaLongoria]

Where did the get that ice cream? Lol 😂

[@randommminator]

🔥🔥🔥Frankie is lit AF🔥🔥🔥

[@karenwolsey2283]

Ego as nurse: No, Curtis. You don't need Viagra. You need to meet Jesus. 😁😆🤣😂

[@jimmylee5163]

Curtis be needin Pillow Therapy !

[@PunguinYoga]

"It felt bad." Yes, it does!

[@rowandawson9750]

lol, the Jamaican part of Ireland. Shoulda finished it off with a "see ya at 7:30 me lad, cool runnings man, bobsled."

[@MatchaCocoaDog]

I visited the Jamaican part of “Urland”; they roll the clovers into joints and smoke ‘em.

[@michellem4925]

Nurses are the real heroes.

[@Jack-sy8mr]

Everyone did a great job in this sketch... But you can’t compete with a dog in sunglasses

[@k2kfitchannel944]

THIS was ART❤😂🏥👩‍⚕️🩺

[@colleenhenry940]

I love the" Jamaican part of Ireland"!😂😂😂😂😂

[@Ifuckwithtrinkets]

Nurses are badasses…and they really do spend 75% of the time cleaning up poop and being treated poorly by gross, straight men. They need to be paid a ton more! 🙃

[@theresas740]

Not on Maternity, we don't! Most of the time, the poop is way smaller, many of the males are too young for straight/vs /gay and the grown men are usually quite docile as they're not the patient and very much out of their element.

[@Glenys8080]

I actually currently live in a care/nursing home. I’m one the younger residents at 44. I’m waiting for a wheelchair accessible house being built for me to live in so this is a stopgap between hospital and community. (Spinal cord injury). The amount of elderly men who act the same as Curtis is hilariously high… And yes they don’t have dementia 😂🤣

[@nwauntie64]

Hillarious skit. Just retired after 40 years... was ready after those 1st few years of covid! Would do it all over again if I were young again, planning my future profession. Happy nurses week!

[@dianehartung5954]

The Nuse week was so true!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@laurenw.8178]

“You don’t need Viagra, you need to meet Jesus. Curtis, if you see the light, go for it” Ego’s delivery was perfect 😂😂