Proud Parents - SNL

A small dinner party goes off the rails when a son (Chris Redd) tells his parents (Daniel Kaluuya, Ego Nwodim) he has changed his major.
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[@edgaralanfrog]

“Promising Young Writer? Who promised you what?”

[@worldcitizeng6507]

every immigrant parents statement

[@bunnyluver2176]

Seriously FSE. 🏆

[@ciaartin2221]

Absolutely!!!

[@jordashw6541]

We saw the video

[@utubefreshie]

Hahahaha. I lol-ed on this. Too funny!

[@Babybuks]

“If you really don’t want to be a doctor, you have to” ...classic Nigerian parent line.

[@shadtowa8986]

You can just be a disappointment instead

[@anthonygordon9483]

Both of Daniel Kaluuya parents are african immigrants. So I am sure he probably got this debate with his parent when he told him we was going to be a actor.

[@spyro115]

i say the world needs more doctors cause most if not some who are doctors of this generation nowadays act like they couldn't careless about treating a patient who came to a hospital for urgent care.

[@harniejr.6279]

Not just Nigerian but African. Kaluuya is Ugandan as his parents are.

[@Babybuks]

@@harniejr.6279 I can't speak to what a classic "African'" parent line is as i have Nigerian parents so that is my only experience and Africans are not a monolith.

[@TurboShotIncredible]

This is probably the most culturally accurate sketch of African parents!

[@rthomas986]

Caribbean parents too!

[@calibreezi5179]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKrJoImdncmlh8U

[@topekabasiclegalserv]

Both Daniel Kaluuya and Ego Nwodim have African parents. I am sure they are re-enacting something.

[@thekrakenhead4318]

indian parents too

[@aggoldstein]

Jewish parents too!!! We really are all much more the same than different.

[@tylerderubio2534]

“You can be a doctor for 40 or 50 years and then write when you retire” 😂😂😂

[@vl5008]

Lmao yeah that’s real Nigerian parent sentiment lmfao.

[@byanymeansnecessary9329]

@@vl5008 and a smart one

[@ziyeren5509]

Really good idea tbh

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@byanymeansnecessary9329 Writing doesn't work that way.

[@AdumbDriver]

My mother actually hit me with a similar line. She said she'll pay for med school and once I made my own money I could do creative writing.

[@zeynep7213]

"Yes, if it's anything we learned in this pandemic that the world needs more poets" lmaoo

[@KimBlaQue]

As a poet, I gagged 🤣

[@randomizedcontentyt]

@Changing Growing Congratulations, you got the joke!

[@KimBlaQue]

@Changing Growing I write about love, life, dreams yet to be fulfilled. I'm almost done with my second installment.

[@fdsjlaf]

Cuz scientists are doing such a great job fucking up the world

[@zazatv6822]

This was funny af.

[@mohamedosman2613]

I love how Kenan's character is just mindin' his own business, until he hears the poem "nuttin wrong wit being a doctor"

[@casey4602]

LMAO

[@princeekeson12]

Keenan's character was sneak-dissing.😆

[@les7613]

@M77, I know, that is when I busted out laughing!! It made it funnier because it looked like Keenan wanted to laugh so bad also!!🤣🤣

[@chiefnarx]

My favorite part!!!😂

[@yodhin79]

My parents are immigrants from India. My best friend growing up was Musa who's parents are immigrants from Nigeria. They literally had monthly get togethers to discuss how disappointed they were in both of us for "becoming too American".

[@francelinamommyof3204]

I didn’t want to laugh, but I had to! @ the monthly meeting😂😂🤣

[@MojoMachin3]

🤣🤣

[@FrankJerry]

That was hilarious. 😂😂😂

[@Teddybreezy]

lmaoooo

[@sheriamatthews1695]

😂😂😂 omg

[@kwadwoadjepong-boateng8737]

As a Ghanaian, when she said “Eheeeee!” I died. Couldn’t be closer to the truth. They should’ve added “look at your life”

[@EreneWOlson]

As a Liberian, same 😂😂

[@ikeononye959]

And Nigerian, the same too. Lol

[@nyaaabeyaa]

As a Cameroonian SAMMEEE LMAOOO 😭😭

[@louisacampbell9565]

Absolutely!!🤣🤣🤣

[@iunderstanphotography2780]

Hahaha I love hearing the accents. Same reason I loved the parents on Bob hearts Abishola

[@Ms-er1bq]

"Oh no! We are bleeding!" "Is there a poet in the house?" ROTFL! And I'm an English lit teacher! But I'm also the daughter of Nigerian parents so this skit was HILARIOUS!

[@dionlow]

I'm an English teacher too...i was rolling

[@advikdeshmukh805]

@@dionlow I hope you’re not an English teacher... because it’s “I’m a teacher too” not an

[@michaelwilliams369]

That part had me dying! 🤣 Perfect way to end that skit.

[@dionlow]

@@advikdeshmukh805 definitely am. Typo. Thanks for the catch. That's why we teach editing and review

[@chincity]

They need more African skits! This was phenomenonal

[@barbieblue3336]

Other cultures are like this also

[@72jurg]

@anime dumpster fire I felt this skit and I´m white central european :-) some things are universal

[@yourrrsmile]

@@72jurg ok and?

[@yourrrsmile]

@@barbieblue3336 ok and?

[@Iamwhoiam993]

@@yourrrsmile My sentiments exactly! Very well said! 🙄

[@nyanteea226]

i have completed 6 years of schooling in design, gotten a masters in design, and i'm currently working in design and my Liberian mother still says "it's never too late to become a nurse like your cousin". lol im triggered

[@afrochica]

Girl I'm Liberian...I still get suggestions to go back for nursing. And I major in nutrition decades ago. So you can imagine how conversations go with family. 😏

[@cmwashington]

It crosses cultures... I'm Black-American and in HS, I said I wanted to be a doctor (which was BS - if you were a HS honors student, they only directed you to medicine or law... I chose medicine, but I never even LIKED science.) Got to college and changed my decided that I need to be realistic and chose law. Then changed my major to philosophy and FELL IN LOVE. Landed a doctoral fellowship in right out of my BA program. Free tuition and living expenses paid. I did drop out, but landed a decent gig with TONS of upward mobility and I took advantage of it and moved up quickly - based on accomplishments. One day - YEARS LATER after MANY professional accomplishments - I was complaining about my job and my mother reminded me that I was supposed to have been a doctor. As I was an adult at the time, I LOST IT! I listed every accomplishment I'd had thus far and told her "With that statement, you have negated EVERY SINGLE THING I HAVE DONE. I DON"T EVER WANT TO HEAR THAT AGAIN." It's been over 15 years - and she's never said it again. Sometimes, you gotta pop-off.

[@x-x101]

@@cmwashington 👊

[@HEYBESTFRIENDHEYYY]

At least you had the guts to pop off I'm still scared😬😂

[@solomona85]

Lol! I’m Liberian too and I’m triggered too!! I received my undergrad degree in Marketing. I worked as a travel retail buyer for 6 years before transitioning into nursing, my family tells me I finally have a real career smh

[@yiweitang8070]

As an Asian kid heading for law school this fall, I must say, actually you can totally be a creative writing major, and that will be magically totally fine with your immigrant parents, as long as you go to law school after college.

[@amanday3103]

That’s assuming you get into law school.

[@stebossm3195]

American law ..limits you.to.america ... American doctor..the world is your oyster

[@augustalavenderblue7353]

As the Slavic daughter of a math teacher and an electrical engineer who can’t do math to save her life and is heading to law school with a history major, I can attest to this.

[@justjackiie]

@@stebossm3195 You can study international law.

[@51OAKLANDER510]

Says the person barely having any life experience, acting all high and mighty now because your about to go to law school. I could already tell your gonna be a good lawyer by your attitude and bossy mentality. Telling people how to live thier lives, shhiiieeeet. We need more people like you.

[@OvSpP]

Ok, if you really don’t want to be a doctor, *you have to.*

[@ntuma9170]

🤣🤣🤣😂😂. That line felt too real.

[@blmm47]

the orignal. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2aXY4yHbNBkp7s

[@NellieKAdaba]

😆

[@PAWNB3YOND]

I read this multiple times 🤣🤣🤣

[@susiedupuy9532]

I tried that with my son. He joined the army.

[@shazzari]

Listen in African families, you’re either going to be a doctor or a lawyer. “What is creative writing? Eeehhh” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@xxxafterglow]

Same in Asian households - engineer ok, too. Damn, we should form a support group.

[@Kembo14]

My sister wants to be Neuro surgeon, my brother a lawyer, and there me non-profit social worker 😃.

[@TK-do4qk]

Or an engineer

[@brielleo2926]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@baronesselsavonfreytag-lor1134]

@@Kembo14 Equally important and necessary, thank you 😊

[@simmonedavis98]

"Promising Young Writer, who promised you what?" Lmaooo I love her

[@kerina6594]

They got the Nigerian family spot on: Firstly the son being called David secondly ‘can you pay the bills with an award?’ 😂😂😂😂😍

[@WonLotto100M]

They’re a Ugandan family.

[@fakeemochick]

@@WonLotto100M they literally say in the first 30sec that the mom made Nigerian stew. I think they are half Nigerian, half Ugandan

[@sydposting]

@@fakeemochick Ego Ndwodim is Nigerian-American and Daniel Kaluuya is Ugandan-British, so this absolutely checks out.

[@sergiodelrioreyes7655]

Why the son called David?

[@norasmith2474]

As the daughter of an immigrant I relate to this deeply.

[@ForNoOne1]

That's because immigrants know what it's like to be actually poor

[@Purple_haze81000]

Omg, yes. My Peruvian mom wanted me to major in Accounting.

[@Jonadawong]

Oh yes, as an immigrant this is real. The pressure and expectations.

[@canelover9033]

Because yall are elitist

[@abbyc4457]

Every immigrant family ever. Lol

[@beasamsung3803]

No true Nigerian child will break that kind of news... In front of “company” or In that much close proximity to a slap or death! 🤣🤣🤣

[@chibaby0306]

facts hahahahaha

[@kasemalin3293]

You mean African

[@tinyqx5427]

All u see is blinding white light if too close to ur parents

[@casey4602]

@@tinyqx5427 seeing Tweety birds and stars. LOL

[@afrochica]

Hell no... I don't think so. That would be a "dirty" secret i would have to live with until death. 😆

[@riveselliot]

The funny thing is you know these actors had the same convo w their parents

[@dharanishakthivel7263]

Ego was in med school when she got into SNL

[@vl5008]

Damn.

[@canaisyoung3601]

@@dharanishakthivel7263 And on the Elon Musk Mother's Day episode, her mom actually was there to say that, while she's proud of her daughter for being an actress on a sketch comedy show, she would be prouder of her if she became a doctor.

[@joykelly440]

They are the most successful comedians alive! Regular work & the longest running show on tv. Well done comedians that aren't doctors. Haha. I know a few doctors who would have been better off as something else--they sure aren't happy or good at what they do.

[@hi2978]

@@dharanishakthivel7263 she was pre-med she never made it to medical school

[@ayoifeoni]

As a Nigerian who actually got into uni to study medicine but is now a multimedia artist, I can relate 😂

[@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460]

On behalf of your parents, "You are a complete disappointment and it is not too late for you to become a doctor. Now please pass the Jollof Rice." 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@ayoifeoni]

@@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460 😂 good one

[@jeremyp2164]

no theirs jobs in the multimedia field.

[@WaluJohnSingogo]

@@jeremyp2164 lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@crosstudio]

@@jeremyp2164 "multimedia artist? so you paint my house? how much you charge? waaah! In american dollars? I'll do it myself. Who brought him here?" ---in my grandfather's voice.

[@imfromdowntown]

“I wake up and my emotions are as blue as blue paint.” 😐 “You know, uh, ain’t nuttin’ wrong with being a doctor.” 😆

[@KSP30]

Hilarious 😂

[@junkmail1164]

My African dad to me: “You have 3 choices for your profession” 1. A doctor 2. An engineer 3. A disappointment

[@kathrynburton7167]

Wow!!!

[@angelliquec305]

I guess everyone saw the GIna Yashere special

[@princeekeson12]

What...no lawyer? 🤣

[@canaisyoung3601]

Which did you pick?

[@TuberosityTime]

As the child of an Asian mother, I totally identify - LOL!

[@nathanb5923]

“We were lying” and then went on to call Nick’s sculpture ridiculous and ugly. This whole sketch from start to finish killed me 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@BlackSniperStudios]

Very very ugly 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💔

[@1talldaddy]

the funny thing is that Nick's parents didn't deny anything they said.

[@wwechampion]

What makes this skit even funnier is that Daniel and the actress that plays the Nigerian mom probably got a similar lecture from their folks when they told them they wanted to pursue acting.

[@Johanna288]

Wow! Fortunately, my half-sister Gessy was raised by a doctor, so she became one easily. As for me, I was mostly raised by my biological dad Luc, so I had to become like him, Mr. Porter. Or more like HHA or The Help like my deceased mother, Lourdes.

[@yagirl3612]

@@Johanna288nobody asked your life story

[@cokesquirrel]

@yagirl Okay fatty whatever you have to say. Good luck on the rest of the month hopefully nobody mistakes you for a whale

[@xletragedyx]

I hope not. Daniel's been acting since he was a kid. Ego definitely got and still gets that talk though

[@wwechampion]

@@yagirl3612 😂😂😂 what a hilarious shut down haha

[@taranwakudu]

As a Nigerian who did not become a doctor, I can say this is super accurate 😂

[@orishejuukuedojor2736]

On the money. I'm an Artist....

[@princeLC]

Yo this was so genius in every way! And being African I remember telling my family I wanted to be a writer and they told me “Do you want to be homeless too?” 😁😁😁

[@monahyancy4268]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣ahhhh! African parents oh!

[@niax6920]

I’m cracking up! 😂😂😂

[@princeLC]

@@monahyancy4268 ehhhhh ma sista I am telling you ohhhh!!!

[@monahyancy4268]

@@princeLC I remember my uncle wanting to have a conversation with me in front of my dad when I was in undergrad about me pursuing acting in college lol. My dad said "my man, it's what she wants to do with her life." I wish you the best with your writing and see you on the red carpet my friend!❤🙏🏿

[@princeLC]

@@monahyancy4268 Aw likewise love I’m actually a filmmaker! Check out my work! My family still asking me how much money I’ve made and honestly with all the money I’ve lost maybe I could have chosen being a doctor as a minor! Lol kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2LYhqyfbLaans0

[@ARCReviews]

This sketch hurts so good! Dad is Tunisian. Mom is Filipina. Both are doctors. Me? "I'm enlisting in the Air Force!" Yeah, that didn't fly.

[@GuerillahTacT1kz]

But you will!

[@dollarama5604]

Love the pun lol

[@angelicaterry3367]

What? lmao i see what you did there. By the way they should be really proud! Good luck

[@Michelle-xx5ye]

😂

[@acidbebop3593]

Congrats man! It might not seem like it, but you really did make the right choice!

[@africannonsense6025]

“Promising young writer, who promised you what?” 😭😭😭😭

[@seabunnie1218]

as a korean person and aspiring english major, this is dead accurate (edit: equally as useless- an aspiring history major now)

[@barbieblue3336]

Get out now

[@winsuma8253]

Emphasis on the deadly. My mom is gonna kill me when I tell her I want to major in theatre.

[@9jah4lyf]

@@winsuma8253 😂 better make it a double major

[@sheilagreenedartley9104]

My mom is Korean and I felt that in my soul. LOL

[@nitha609]

My daughter is also an English major 😩

[@oe5801]

All that's missing is his Mummy screaming "You've killed me "😭😭

[@davidchiazor]

Yes o 😂

[@its__justb]

The icing on the cake!

[@jenniferkuhn2768]

I swear Daniel Kaluuya is so amazing in every skit. He is one of the most versatile actors out there right now.

[@GaryPhelpsII]

So it WAS Daniel Kalluya! That’s the sign of a great actor.

[@GaryPhelpsII]

Kaluuya; sorry 🤷‍♂️

[@gv3793]

This hit too close... I went to school to become a doctor and then changed to history. My parents, “it’s in the past, how you going to pay for your bills? With a story about a dead guy?!”

[@gigiisaiah1476]

💀💀😭😭😭

[@whatevezzz]

I switched to computer science and my dad still got mad.

[@ijeonu2405]

​@@whatevezzzyour own is different. Computer science is relatively new. When they see tou bringing home cash, it will be added to their list of profession.

[@toryrods]

"The world needs more poets" "Yes, because the pandemic really showed us how we need more poets" LMAOOO

[@Kit.E.Katz45]

This was THE BEST LINE EVER!😂😂

[@Funkshyn]

i DIED...

[@mckennaj75]

that was fucking hilarious.

[@sisterstaketoo1981]

I was hollering lol

[@EntertainmentTadayyyy]

😩😩😩

[@robertwilliams2457]

Daniel Kaluuya's parents: "Can you pay the bills with an award?" "Will you buy a house with an award?" Daniel Kaluuya: YES!

[@timotheedusserre1512]

Actually, Daniel kaluuya plays the father, cris redd plays the son

[@jojomakes]

Timothee Dusserre Are u being serious or trolling?

[@protoguy]

My brain immediately went - A DEGREE IS AN AWARD.

[@protoguy]

@@jojomakes He's 100% correct.

[@ahmadsumadi1292]

@@protoguy the OP is talking about Daniel Kaluuya winning awards as an actor in real life. Not this skit.

[@alexandriadanyelle5406]

I told my mother I wanted to be a writer, she told me I could write law books AFTER becoming a lawyer lol.

[@eminosose]

Me: This is not how Nigerians speak *Ego says "Ehen"* Me: This is exactly how Nigerians speak

[@OvSpP]

Time stamp?

[@vl5008]

Same.

[@mario0318]

@@OvSpP 3:13

[@canaisyoung3601]

Ego Nwodim actually is Nigerian-American.

[@OvSpP]

@@canaisyoung3601 and?

[@ciararose9978]

“i can be an author.” “no!” “a journalist.” “no!” “a professor!” “HELL NO!”

[@robinpreese]

😂😂😂😂

[@calebboller]

Everyone with an arts major is "going to be a professor" 😂

[@reginaldcharles1133]

Haha...Hell no

[@larrymcjones]

My parents are professors I just showed them this skit lol

[@GalvestonGuy]

Lol...this was a pro-conservative sketch...I bet the writers had NO idea.

[@amberrockson5088]

Having gone to Drexel as a pre-med with a Ghanaian father... I am triggered LMFAO

[@triggeredmother1558]

yes I'm committed to Drexel for next year in chem

[@superduperjoi6800]

specifically for you

[@kodeh7931]

My lil brother was accepted to Drexel for engineering back in 2001. He came to my parents talking about he wanted to do criminal justice. That’s when my parents turned exactly into the ones in this skit.

[@Akshunpakd]

@@kodeh7931 My parents are descendants of slaves and if I had said I wanted to major in criminal justice they would have turned into those two as well.

[@angelliquec305]

he'll be happy as long as you finish

[@NyamatsatseWacho]

I'm Zimbabwean 🇿🇼 and it's the "Eheee!!" that sold this skit for me! 100% African 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ssm1093]

When she said, “Ok! Linda Pine!” hit me hard 🤣🤣🤣

[@user-dt5wo5ju1p]

As an African this hits home so hard... I told my mom I didn't want to study medicine she literally wailed and passed out.... Im an internist now.... She won lol

[@francesehima5106]

That's why I'm an attorney 😂

[@kodeh7931]

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@AProjectFor]

@@francesehima5106 SAME

[@Faridbuza]

African mothers are dramatic like that 😂🤣😅

[@angelicaterry3367]

If i were Ego i would live in these comments because the comedy just keeps on giving. "Wailed and passed out", that's impressively passive aggressive, lmao.

[@OvSpP]

You just know this happened to Ego and Daniel in real life. *WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE GONNA BE AN ACTOR?!*

[@thecharchive1020]

haha ur right - on Seth Meyers’ show ego said that she was prepared to pursue organic chemistry before getting hired lol

[@serenakengne5835]

As for Daniel, he said multiple times that when he got his first Oscar nomination, his mother asked him "is it going to get you a job now ?"

[@OvSpP]

@@serenakengne5835 well now he’s won an Oscar, but after that speech she might be asking the same question!

[@crystalclear5677]

I HAD to pause the video at 1:30, bc I'm a Nigerian student who changed their degree course from a science to creative writing and I had to clutch my head in emotional distress😭😭😭

[@bellaendale7174]

When SNL roasts your culture it means you've made it to mainstream America. Wow ...big ups to all our groundbreaking Nigerian stars representing us well.

[@MGi23]

“If you really don’t want to be a doctor... you have to.” “You can be a doctor for 40-50 years and then do your little poems when you retire.” 😂😂😂

[@oyinlolalonge200]

Sounds like a plan

[@monahyancy4268]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@thesuncollective1475]

follow your passion or save lives..they got a point

[@deathwizard1996]

Why pay to be a poet That is free Do a poetry in the free time of life

[@ironmantis25]

And earn 300+ grand a year for 40 sounds like a plan. Write poems when you are loaded.

[@winsuma8253]

A few weeks ago I told my Ghanaian mom that I want to be a playwright (needless to say, she wasn’t happy). When this sketch was over, she called me and when I picked up the phone she said, “That one reminds me of you!”

[@volleybrawl1]

Your Ghanaian mother watches SNL? lol

[@OvSpP]

She called you? Your mom is classy

[@youaintasbadasyouthink]

While she is entertained by a show written by modern day playwrights of comedy

[@Bree8tiveBEing]

I hope you continue pursuing your dream/goal. The world does need more poets and playwrights, the world just don't be knowing that until they experience the work/art created that changes their lives.

[@BluDrg777]

My Ghanian dad sent me this after he sensed I stop premed and doubled majored humanities

[@MunaAgbo]

As the daughter of two Nigerian parents, this is 100000% accurate

[@jhenrymusic7588]

My neighbors are from Nigeria and when they have gatherings I love to hear this kind of conversation go on. Some of the older ones do "NOT" have a filter and DO NOT CARE that you are literally right there in front of them and I swear it's so uncomfortably hilarious lol. But I love em to death.

[@Quartzquiz333]

Black, White, Asian, Hispanic...doesn't matter. Parental disappointment is universal.

[@killyourjoy]

Stay strong 👊

[@marcalvarez4890]

"IMMIGRANT parental disappointment is universal."

[@Quartzquiz333]

@@marcalvarez4890 My folks are from the U.S. Trust me, it happens here too

[@minervaloves]

@Deport ALL Trump Voters even white? 😂 😂

[@byiza9484]

@@marcalvarez4890 nigga wut?!

[@gshak33]

“Is there a poet in the house?!”

[@devinsimmons1009]

I love how Daniel and Ego are representing their African roots in this sketch, at first they said Nigerian dish, then Daniel said Ugandan dish.😆 🇳🇬🇺🇬🇳🇬🇺🇬🇳🇬

[@micmaliss]

😆 "OH NO, WE'RE BLEEDING!" "Is there a poet in the house?" Best ending to a sketch from SNL in a while.

[@livetime5815]

A major problem. "Is there a poet in the house?"

[@madgemackles4337]

“Is there a poet in the house?” Yeah I cackled

[@emmk7744]

As a former pre-med major with African parents (🇨🇩🇷🇼) who switched to economics, I feel seen 🤣🤣🤣

[@monaerobinson1085]

There's a lot of careers in economics 🤣

[@barrykooky5802]

It’s the sound of death when he mentions “creative writing”, the whole village in Nigeria already knew that David is a Doctor in the making & then this😂😂😂

[@GL-yt]

As a Chinese guy I relate to this 120%

[@KOVIDGOON]

Are you doctor?

[@RaymondHng]

@@KOVIDGOON No, engineer.

[@15thCrypt]

2 Haitian parents so I can also relate If it isnt doctor, lawyer, or engineer its nothing. I showed my mom a drawing when I was younger just because I thought it was a good drawing and she said something about art not being a good job or something (I was like 14). My dad doesnt know what computer science or IT is so we just tell him my major was computer engineering because it has engineer in it

[@JarrodHahn]

I'm studying for med school. Can I rent out a strict Asian parent to roast me like once a week? It might help.

[@ltoe1219]

I’m white and I can agree

[@RawBerserker]

Never thought they'd drop a perfect "God forbid" on SNL.... ever. But of course Daniel makes us proud with his.

[@janeslane4983]

I swear

[@kasin360]

Very accurate :D

[@mikoism]

It was FLAWLESS

[@ambientsentient]

“You can do whatever you want AFTER you retire” oh my gooooosh, the amount of times I’ve heard this 😭😭😭

[@James-xo6mx]

“Yes, if there’s anything we’ve learned from the pandemic is that the world needs more poets” 😂😂😂

[@pcstdma2010]

I know a Nigerian whose parents generously gave her 3 options. She could be a doctor, a lawyer or a disappointment.

[@AdrianColley]

That's a Gina Yashere joke, and you forgot the "engineer" option.

[@LahTafari]

Yes, for a while Computer Engineering jobs were hot

[@chizobaea]

Sounds about right

[@nakitenderitah6620]

Me as Ugandan who just had the same conversation with my parents LITERALLY LAST NIGHT

[@Iamwhoiam993]

✊🏿🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬✊🏿

[@angelliquec305]

It's not too late to be a doctor

[@lindsay3314]

🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬facts

[@MaxOakland]

I hope you get the life you want whatever that ends up being

[@user-wj9yn6lm7o]

Had no idea Daniel Kaluuya was this funny 😂😂 He has a great comic skill. They need to have him hosting again and write good sketches for him 😂👍

[@robertwilliams2457]

Ego and Daniel probably went through this their entire life growing up. Both are now successful and getting revenge on their parents.😂😂😂

[@emchatman]

“Okay LINDA PINE” Lord these African skits are hilarious

[@Steph_ani3]

As a Nigerian, I love this skit. Has my parents name all over it

[@TheSuperNats]

Im a Haitian-American Psychologist and my cousins are computer engineers, pharmacists, nurses etc. I have two cousins who want to be in the arts and it’s not easy for them in our family with our parents 🥴

[@mwalker7518]

Sounds about right. 🇭🇹

[@sscswimmer1]

The creativity to think of a line as bad as "as blue as blue paint" is actually quite high.

[@oyinlolalonge200]

Indeed... he wouldn't even make it as a doctor is the message...

[@user-pg7uj4bp4q]

the more i read it though. like something Becket would write. it pokes fun at the poetic contrivance of attributing colors to our emotions by using a deconstructed simile to emphasize the superficial. just as we might paint a wall blue regardless of the wall's inherent qualities, so too do we paint our poems with overwrought literary devices that ultimately stultify emotion, which naturally eschews the order poems impose it. "Blue as blue paint" suggests the paradox of using a written form to express the ineffable.

[@tyo789]

Kenan: “why, you know it’s not gonna taste the same when you do it” 😂😂😂

[@angelliquec305]

that line was hilariously awesome

[@Siran4228]

“Oh no we are bleeding! Is there a poet in de house?!!” 😂😂😂

[@treymarks4122]

3:15- The African jumped out lol I love it

[@liliybugg1153]

“Oh no we’re bleeding!!... is there a poet in the house?!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 this was great.

[@kjrey9878]

The skit made me laugh...that line made me spit out my beer. XD

[@liliybugg1153]

@@kjrey9878 🤣🤣🤣 that’s amazing

[@passiveagressive4983]

Why do I feel Daniel had this exact conversation with his parents when he told them he wanted to be an actor 😂😂😂😂😂🇬🇭

[@dazem8]

I especially love Ego in this... must have pulled inspiration from her own parents being Nigerian 😆

[@ldemanddanzig4978]

"Those sound like great careers" "NO, Debbie, they are not."

[@kwazylele805]

As a Nigerian, I love this so much!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@dr.ijeziedesbois]

Same!

[@janeslane4983]

Me too

[@neceynecey4679]

Your parents 2?😷😂😷

[@kwazylele805]

@@neceynecey4679 not at all, but it is common in Nigeria

[@chioma2844]

same here here same

[@eljefesinnaman2603]

This speaks to me. The humor and sarcasm. Feels like home. “Oh we are bleeding.” “Oh no, is there a poet in the house?”

[@Akshunpakd]

Sarcasm - the universal language.

[@genesisthepoet815]

As a poet … I find this hilarious 😂 Lmao @ “… is there a poet in the house…” 🤣

[@guyfam2]

I’m not Nigerian, but when my 11 year old told my educated aunts that she wanted to be a house wife I thought they were gonna burn the house down.

[@spcbelton]

Ur 11yo is goofy as hell.

[@guyfam2]

@@spcbelton ooo k, well she’s no longer 11. But again oooo k.

[@eschwarz1003]

This may be Egos experience with her Nigerian parents after she got a Bio degree from USC; she had talent though and made her comedy career a few yrs thereafter

[@9jah4lyf]

Trust me... her parents are probably secretly hoping she will still become a doctor. Nigerian parents are hilarious

[@ambrosia417]

It's loosely adapted! She wanted to be an actor. The only way her parents agreed was for her to study pre-med in the city of her choice -- LA. She kept her major and hustled in comedy in LA.

[@LahTafari]

It's basically her life style

[@OvSpP]

May be? I’m all but certain this was her experience, at least to some extent.

[@jones2277]

i'm lucky this wasn't my experience. we have writers, visual artists, and actors, and supportive family.

[@sunkissedqueen2885]

Did Ego write this? This is BRILLIANT

[@AddBowIfGirl]

She finally had a fellow African who could play her husband. 🤩

[@mchoffner8497]

Ego is hilarious. To fully appreciate her talents, listen to Comedy Bang Bang. Entre P Nour is a a timeless fan favorite.

[@deborahstephens863]

AS A NIGERIAN I AM SO TOUCHED THIS IS SPOT ON!!!! the accents, the parents, *creative who* *God forBID* THANK YOU SNL!!!!!!

[@neokrix]

Ego and Daniel are a powerful duo!

[@ladykat16]

Yes they are!!

[@TsetsiStoyanova]

African parents are like Chinese Tiger moms!

[@msontopoftheworld]

Maybe we should call them African tiger parents because certainly not all/most of them are like that. Mine certainly weren't 😊

[@vivekgovekar6342]

I have flashbacks from my Nigerian professor whose daughter got into med school 😂

[@Fresharies]

@@msontopoftheworld well you’re one of the lucky ones

[@duyle-ej6ty]

@@msontopoftheworld No copycat. Tiger mom is for Asian. You may try lion moms/dads for African parents.

[@SocialismKills]

I thought that muhwhite supremacy is holding them back. And if it does, how come that Asian and african migrants in the US earn more than the white population?

[@clothilde1623]

“If there’s anything we’ve learned from the pandemic it’s that the world needs more poets” 😂

[@TonyGue]

I laughed out loud this Haha 😂

[@braindeadmikelarsen4288]

Perfect line

[@csic123]

@@TonyGue Me too. 🤣😂

[@funtoo.5570]

I'm a Nigerian - born and raised and this is on point! Love it! Nicely done!!

[@weston.weston]

I absolutely love Kennan Thompson! He buttons up every sketch with such comedic precision.

[@danyellejones2799]

“Oh no we are BLEEDING‼️🩸Is there a poet in dee house? Someone call a poet!”🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭

[@ambrosia417]

These are TRUE African parents, tho! I'm a child of Ghanaian and Cameroonian immigrants. I studied Journalism, not pre-med, engineering, or law. Love SNL for creating this sketch. UPDATE: I shared this skit with my W. African parents on Sunday -- my mom was laughing with tears in her eyes! Then she shared it with her friends! She said she saw herself in the skit. Even funnier? My brother's name is David and he changed majors in college.

[@kaushikmalepati2495]

Breaking the cycle, you go girl!

[@barbieblue3336]

We all have two parents

[@Iamwhoiam993]

Great combination princess! Lol 👸🏾🇬🇭🇨🇲👍🏾

[@fuddyduddyhorsemanship]

@@barbieblue3336 maybe only one is African or maybe the other has died?

[@fuddyduddyhorsemanship]

Dianne O, there are some very good black reporters on the US TV news networks. Maybe something to aspire to??

[@ThatBeeyatch]

African parents all went to the same school of how to handle your children . This is my mum I swear . 😭😂😂

[@emanny1986]

As a Nigerian, I must say, this is so freakin accurate!

[@jessicakoo9023]

A few months ago I saw an Instagram live with Ego and Bowen abt how they were both supposed to be pre med in college but then decided to pursue comedy. Both having immigrant parents they talked abt their experiences and this skit perfectly captures it

[@OvSpP]

I saw that live! I’d it just me or does that feel like A catalyst that sparked the royal friendship?

[@DeniseNsabimana]

This is so accurate 🤣.. the African parents😂...

[@camille9803]

Caribbean parents too. Soooo relatable. Painful.

[@monahyancy4268]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@omotayoaweda6249]

This has to be my FAVOURITE SNL skit of all time!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Those Nigerian parent accents and mannerisms are so spot on!!

[@queeng1713]

As a West African poet, feel both seen & come for simultaneously

[@dena81]

Having parents that were immigrants from Egypt...I feel this so much. This is when my mom would say "That's a hobby not a career"

[@indigo8256]

We need an Indian version of this. I, as an Indian, can verify that the only career options are Doctor, Lawyer, Accountant and recently Engineer has been added to this 'extensive' list.

[@dewilew2137]

Why? It would be the exact same skit with different accents. Most immigrant families share these sentiments.

[@metraharvard2991]

@@dewilew2137 You are 100% correct. I'm German American and it was Pre-Med or Pre-Law. My parents weren't going to pay for anything else. But at least you end up with a career and no debt...unlike your friends that had fun in college LOL

[@canaisyoung3601]

But SNL doesn't have any cast members who are from India or its surrounding areas. At least not yet.

[@themelanatednomad6989]

@@canaisyoung3601 They should.

[@themelanatednomad6989]

For Nigerians it’s Doctor first, Lawyer, Engineer. It used to be accountant, but the money went down.

[@sweatshoes26]

“Creative who?” Is a line I think about all the time lol

[@i.b.i.c.s7778]

Am Nigerian and that is spot on. 🤣😂🤣 from London with love 👍🇬🇧🇳🇬😎

[@MsTimelady71]

It probably didn't take much for Daniel and Ego to get into their roles.