The Dolphin Who Learned to Speak - SNL

Three scientists (Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Tiffany Haddish) look back at an experiment that attempted to teach a dolphin to speak.
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[@AnonymousAnonymous-xy9tz]

"NO, no, no that's nasty!" killed me omg

[@faithruckdeschel1294]

I spit my lemonade out allover myself, because the look on her face and how she said it. 😂 💀

[@rachelwaln4728]

It happened in real life

[@djdangergaming8708]

I choked on my smoothie cuz of that

[@girl6girl6]

Watch the drunk history version, it's even funnier.

[@TaylorKnightCosplay]

Well it’s true!

[@t13596]

Whose doing nasty things in here? Bad Gerald, Gerald really like shame. That was actually my most favorite line out of this.

[@umpus]

"Gerald liked the shame" 🤣

[@theprinceofdarkness4679]

So long and thanks for all the fish and other stuff. Hmmm Douglas knew what he was talking about.

[@bethnorrod5942]

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman!

[@wetlazer]

Funny thing is this is based on a real study. It was one woman, living with dolphins, not two. Yes, it was real, people.

[@saraha180]

This is based on the research of John C Lilly and the research assistants he had live in a special house designed for a woman and a dolphin to live together. John Lilly's career is an interesting and unusual one in science.

[@brittanykayy2866]

This is so funny lolololol

[@3257bm]

This kind of really happened actually.....Look up Atrocity - John C Lilly and the Dolphin House

[@christhensaid]

Check out the dollop podcast episode titled dolphin to learn more about messed up dolphin experiments

[@billy9497able]

Didnt they do a drunk history on this?

[@ryanhau1073]

This actually did happened

[@TheButtDepot]

I think the funniest part about this is the fact they didn't even get to mentioning the LSD stuff 🤣

[@phoebejanemiller1671]

"Gerald really.... liked shame." I'm sobbing. The world didn't deserve this sketch.

[@mloftin6472]

HAAAAAAAAAAAND!

[@damienomen68]

Years ago was wandering around for my job-meter reader. This bitsa dog-no collar or ID follows me around in Spring time. Dodgy neighbourhood that everyone has dogs, mild to savage, understandably. Apart from the minute by minute nuisance, dog is grinding/rubbing itself practically everywhere & just being a pain for 3 hours. haha

[@jeffhandley3224]

@@mloftin6472 best part ball haaand

[@nostalgiamakesmecry3795]

It’s not a sketch

[@youreapunkishthing9438]

@@nostalgiamakesmecry3795 it is a sketch of real life events, moron.

[@Makaveli7Soldier]

This is based on a true story. Search Margaret Howe, Peter the dolphin.

[@jesseward4115]

I don't want to.

[@vadl9947]

no way

[@FarhanShaikh-mi4jn]

I just searched and found that peter(the dolphin) really loved that girl. And peter (the dolphin) committed suicide when they separated him from that girl. 😓 First time i got to know something like that.

[@ImTheCookieMonster95]

@@FarhanShaikh-mi4jn no he commited suicide when they moved him to a place without sunshine and windows.

[@FarhanShaikh-mi4jn]

@@ImTheCookieMonster95 Both reasons are possible, I guess.

[@arianaminhas6495]

Up until like, a minute, this could’ve been a real documentary

[@epicgamer7216]

This is based off an actual story lol it *does* have a real documentary

[@arianaminhas6495]

Epic Gamer About Margaret Howe, right?

[@melanie6014]

It is real

[@emmag9362]

It's pretty accurate minus the bit about him enjoying being shamed

[@dildonius]

@@melanie6014 Except, you know, the part where they taught a dolphin to speak by rewarding it with a fucking hand-job! Pretty sure that part was just made up by SNL's writers to tickle our collective humeri.

[@stilllearning2855]

"no no no That's NASTY! All of you are Nasty sick people! HELL NO!!" 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ParallaxiMaxime]

The only thing not in the original story

[@bryana50cents16]

ftuck off

[@kimberlykrapohl3238]

You should find out what happened to the Dolphin if you think this is sick.

[@tripwire4727]

shsh...just let it happen

[@cherahsBroll]

Kimberly Krapohl What happened?

[@jackd6269]

The fact that this is based on a true story makes it so much funnier

[@leonelakebi7830]

What really ??😂😂

[@moneyman1995100]

@@leonelakebi7830 Peter the Dolphin!

[@Jessica32409]

Look up the documentary with Margaret Howe and Peter the dolphin, it was a science experiment involving a doctor On LSD in a float tank on the top level of a flooded house while Margaret Howe and Peter lived side by side in the lower levels where she tried to teach him to speak English while bonding with him-even sexually! It’s a crazy story, can’t make this shit up! 😂

[@GBart]

Except for the part where the dolphin kills himself

[@joshuaoha]

Thanks for funding that one NASA

[@supertotoro123]

It's funny yet gross because this actually happened

[@stephanieann6622]

supertotoro123 wait seriously though?

[@UltraBebo]

supertotoro123 what?

[@stephanielim4104]

......holy shit....

[@twdjt6245]

jeremy mercier lmao the dolphin committed suicide after he got taken away from her......why wasn't that woman arrested for beastiality though?

[@6InchTruth]

What the ENTIRE fuck??

[@formoftherapy]

OK who else knows this is a true story because of the RT Podcast?

[@criskp6861]

Who is RT ?

[@lcephoenix]

...I did not expect to see an RT fan here, ngl. Definitely pleasantly surprised though!

[@avabradford6830]

Drunk history

[@avabradford6830]

@Seano Mac what the fuck

[@thejenr8tr922]

Russian Television. They post a lot of videos geared towards an American audience--a lot of it propaganda.

[@TsetsiStoyanova]

And here i thought this was about Gerald learning to speak...!

[@MultiSkyman1]

Forget speak, he wanted to freak!

[@redblue5594]

you’re on every single snl video ive binged

[@stickypoopoo8982]

I thought it was gonna be about a racist dolphin

[@Chris_Noir]

It’s not…

[@cheyennetricks9757]

@@MultiSkyman1 of course he liked to freak, didn’t you pay attention, Gerald Really Liked Shame. Yeah he one of those dolphins

[@Brandon-rq3ys]

*Work awhile, yank awhile, work awhile, yank awhile..."* *Did they get their hands on my diary??*

[@availanila]

Lol

[@gracie3798]

Oh god

[@autumnskyphotography719]

“A tug or two”

[@mintfreightage7670]

Might want to keep that one to your self.

[@luisgab707]

😂😂🤣

[@NotAustinV]

Believe it or not, this skit is actually based on a true story. Only in reality, they gave the dolphin LSD as well. No joke. Look this shit up.

[@SavageThrifter]

Austin Vawter And the dolphin committed suicide because of it

[@TaylorKnightCosplay]

This is why I’m against animal testing.

[@xoroxbleach]

Best part: LSD doesn't work on Dolphins. Literally nothing happened.

[@JarrodHahn]

The friendship between Aidy and Kate pushes all their sketches to the next level.

[@bashful_michael]

I did not expect this sketch to be about pleasuring a dolphin but these girls sold it and I found this to be hilarious.

[@pcbassoon3892]

This is based on a real experiment. There really was a female scientist who was working with dolphins and ended up giving the dolphin hand jobs.

[@jonathanbekowitz7376]

Someone's uncomfortable by dolphin jerking off humor....then it worked!!!

[@Leedeygara]

MGTOW King It is true, check radiolab, they did an episode on that.

[@RowBlanka]

MGTOW King what do u mean? shes absolutely right

[@Chemicalkinetics]

Rebecca O'Sullivan is correct. It is a true story. Here: nypost.com/2014/06/10/the-dolphin-that-fell-in-love-with-a-human/

[@matthewscott1091]

👵🏾 *“No, no, no that’s nasty! All of you are nasty, sick people! Hell no!”* 😂

[@Ramonerdna]

This SENT me

[@TaylorKnightCosplay]

She’s not wrong

[@kyleroberts3814]

God, her delivery of that line was gold!

[@senselocke]

1) This shit actually happened. Project head, John C Lilly. Dolphin-jerker, Margaret Howe (Lovatt). Dolphin's name: Peter. Documentary titled "The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins" is on BBC. 2) After funding dried up, Lilly started painful, abusive experiments (probes in the brain, gave them LSD, used jackhammers nearby to fuck with their sonar) on the dolphins. 3) Dolphins were moved too-small tanks, no sunlight, swimming in their own shit. Peter missed Margaret, became increasingly depressed and eventually inhaled infested water, drowning himself. 4) Lilly was a Ketamine addict, put himself in deprivation tanks, and believed he was being contacted by aliens. This was all inspiration for the Sega Genesis game "ECCO the Dolphin". No, seriously. Yes, a (completely untrained) woman did masturbate a juvenile dolphin during the experiment. Yes, he became unhealthily fixated on her. Yes, he was tortured, removed from her, stuck underground in shit-infested tank, and inhaled shit-water and killed himself, all while the project head was getting high off his ass and believing aliens calling themselves the Earth Coincidence Control Office sent him messages and images of castration as jokes. Lilly eventually realized what a horrific shithead he was, and spent the rest of his life making life better for dolphins, but only after mutilating, torturing, and killing several whilst high.

[@dmsdana4501]

#proudtobehuman

[@inperpetuummillie9948]

+

[@llabronco]

I'm glad somebody knew the actual story and took the time to share it. Thanks!

[@veljkosimovic6779]

And here I am, all thus time thinking that I was nuts for liking some weird porn. Thanks! :D

[@TCt83067695]

Really appreciate your comment senselocke

[@andreabradley5837]

i do wish they would have thrown the LSD thing in..

[@lime__time]

@Dragon born it did in the real life experiment

[@pinkattics9708]

I hate that this is based off a very real story

[@rebekahlikesmusic2723]

Are you serious?!

[@user-mh9dx7nz2r]

@@rebekahlikesmusic2723 Yep

[@rachelwaln4728]

@@rebekahlikesmusic2723 yep

[@tomaskuli177]

The black hair looks just like the real woman.

[@rileygshep7606]

@@rebekahlikesmusic2723 Margaret howd and Peter the dolphin. The experiment was funded by nasa

[@arceuslordofcreation8824]

“You don’t have to work for fish, they’ll do *other* things”

[@Ash-gk8jp]

Hbbui

[@bkjstudio]

This was so weird... I loved it

[@cs82271]

CollegeMovieGeek you saw the whole thing in the minute its been uploaded...

[@bkjstudio]

Corey Seet uh... I watched it live

[@tasbur]

The weird thing is that it's inspired by actual events. The original researcher talked about it on an episode of Radiolab. Crazy story. www.radiolab.org/story/home-where-your-dolphin/

[@tmseh]

No yanky my wanky.

[@VianneyCreates]

I remember reading something about some lady back in the day who would have sex with a dolphin she was training. No lie, that's pretty sick. I wonder if that prompted this skit.

[@tiapesi2738]

The "flashback" photos of Kate with the short dark hair are incredibly attractive

[@sparklemotion101ni3]

Kate is gorgeous irl. She's so talented that I never really thought about her looks, but then in early 2020, just before Covid hit nyc, I was at an an open house for a condo & to my delight Kate & her partner were there, shopping for apartments, too. I said nothing, but I took frantic mental notes: Kate is tiny (shorter than I expected) & very, very slim, and her skin is ridiculously perfect. Before Covid I used to see famous people out on the street frequently; Kate is the prettiest person I have ever seen in person, bar none.

[@mdlr92]

This was.... uncomfortable.

[@veljkosimovic6779]

And apparently - true...

[@stellaroj]

Not for Gerald

[@heyitsashtonhere5253]

haaaaaand *HAAAAAAAAAND* I'm sorry I had to but imagine waking up in the middle of the night and hearing that echoing throughout your house

[@stellaroj]

@@maniamani3749 only if it's good for... the science.

[@vtn05001]

@@maniamani3749 the "Gerald" in this story irl actually....how does Casual Geographic describe it?.....unsubscribed from life once the experiment was over

[@herrp8765]

Aidy's versatility is nothing short of amazing.

[@EulalioMagana]

"You don't have to do tricks for fish, they will do other things."

[@jasonalcime7461]

Eulalio Magana to funny

[@BlackRosesBloom-Emily_Rose]

Alright, well everyone knows that dolphins do speak all of the time. No one cared to listen until they finally all left, and sang as a parting way: ~So long, and thanks for all the fish~

[@Riley-yy7zj]

👏👏👏yes 42

[@cazembemonds8652]

FOR THE SCIENCE!!!!

[@TheMisslilbit]

Cazembe Monds work a while yank a while 😂😂😂😂

[@laurao2088]

"Gerald really like shame!" Hahaha

[@absolutelynotanyone]

Kate is flawless

[@JEMurl]

i have that glassy look in my eyes 👀

[@JohnSmith-td7hd]

Moreso when standing next to the other one.

[@Alex73154]

No Body not really

[@retep1221]

Ok

[@christmastreeking]

Except she acts the same in every sketch

[@aquablue1252]

Dolphins are also known to assault divers too when they have urges.

[@sinonslife4812]

anyone else think Kate with dark short hair is incredibly hot??

[@alexandracoker7177]

Kate with any hair is hot. Duh.

[@donnellcoleman7784]

No she ugly

[@tylervile2578]

yesss! be still my little lesbian heart

[@erinbrownlee779]

She looks better like that

[@jesterd.growlithe62]

You sure it isn't the dolphin thing that's hot? *Waggles eyebrows wildly*

[@zarinaa1135]

Is no one going to talk about how amazing that animatronic dolphin is? I honestly watched it a few times before I realized it couldn't be a real dolphin.

[@cardinalfox0734]

No... it looked really bad from the start

[@ryboul]

um Kate looks SO GOOD with short black hair

[@americawtay]

HAAAAAAAND

[@michaelstarina9675]

i love aidy and kate's work, they're phenomenal.

[@telmovaz]

my takeaway from this is kate mckinnon looks great with short dark hair

[@EricaGamet]

Agreed! I was getting vibes of her old character "Fitzwilliam."

[@joycor1419]

Rooster Teeth anyone? I think this is based on a true story of one time when scientists tried to teach dolphins to speak and they made a dolphin and a woman live together. The dolphin kept having sexual urges and so they would take him out on conjugal visits. However they believed that this might interfere with their test results so instead they had the woman give the dolphin hand jobs. Then they dropped LSD together. It got weird. I believe it's true.

[@jakemarsing2615]

I did a literal spit take when Kate said “yank it off.” Literally spit Mountain Dew all over my bedroom. Just a great sketch.

[@veljkosimovic6779]

Meh... It's Mountain Dew. Not such a big waste. ;)

[@robertrobertson2117]

Yes you spit "mountain dew" all over your wall..... lol

[@johnnycto7576]

No it was "yank *him* off". Nobody was yanking it off that would be animal cruelty!

[@mikophilo348]

A literal spit take? What's a figurative spit take if you don't mind me asking??

[@michaelwolf2311]

sick fuck

[@jheal62]

Imagine the look on Lorne's face when this was pitched.

[@Vealkutlette]

This is an actual story. This really happened.

[@matthewzeller5026]

Yeah but they forgot the part about LSD.

[@etanaedelman9011]

And the dolphin committing suicide.

[@tinajeppesen5948]

That is soooo sad animal abuse in a very twisted way! The dolphin committted suicide :( seriously?! Probly cuz it was living a very unatural weird life for a freakin dolphin:( omg I wish I didn’t read the comment section on this one

[@spaceman-pe5je]

@@tinajeppesen5948, listen to the Radiolab podcast on it.

[@TaylorKnightCosplay]

@@tinajeppesen5948 and they say vegans are the weird ones?!

[@briannazavala80]

"We had to, for science" YOU BETTER STAHHHHHPPPPPP

[@cintula82]

Gerald liked shame

[@mlee-w664]

The sad thing is that part of this really happened in the 1960's when researchers were trying to teach dolphins to speak.

[@miltondelacruz7033]

This was creepy.

[@pcbassoon3892]

Milton De La Cruz This is based on a real thing!

[@heyyou9693]

Aidy and Kate have such great chemistry.

[@johnbertrand7185]

This harks back to SNL's old days. This skit works because everybody plays it straight and lets the absurdity of the situation get the laughs.

[@CraftedKingdom]

Came for an episode on a dolphin talking. Found a story about people having sexual interactions with dolphins.

[@GreeshmaRamakrishna]

This is actually based on a true scientific story. Radiolab even made a podcast out of it!

[@kurtreber9813]

SNL did a really good job. I really gotta hand it to them.

[@eli3568]

lol hand it to them

[@justinbuergi9867]

Craziest thing is that this is actually a true story

[@ik7968]

The fact that this is based on true scientific experiments with dolphins in the 60s...never cease to amaze me

[@njw387]

i just watched a 4 minute long video kinkshaming a damn dolphin

[@LILFOC1]

At least this had a better ending for the dolphin than what really happened.

[@whitleymichael]

"I wasn't sure it was ethical" 😂😂😂😂

[@chain-wallet]

Some say Gerald still stalks the beaches of the world. On a quiet night you may be able to hear his beatiful dolphin song....HAAAAAND!

[@tfchin]

This is actually based on a true story. Google it or KZbin it if you don't believe me.

[@Dc0sby]

How I don't put that in my history and believe you.

[@davidj5910]

"NO,NO,NO THAT'S NASTY!" LMAO!

[@ComicBooksPlus]

This is actually based on a true story, that is a lot weirder. The person who made the Flipper show gave this scientist acid and he figured we could teach dolphins how to talk. As were the government thought this would be a good idea for getting messages around this guy wanted to do this so we could get ready to talk to aliens if we came into contact with them. They used the 3 dolphins that played flipper on the show 2 females and one male. The 2 females stayed in a lab but the male they moved into a house that they fixed up to retain water knee high to live with a female research assistant for months. It started out fine but he was hitting that age where he would get urges and start rubbing up on her. So at first they would take him back to the lab and let him go at it with the 2 lady dolphins. But this was taking a lot of time, money, resources, and adding stress to the male dolphin. So she decide to just give him hand jobs at the house to easy this process and it "worked". Eventually the projected was shut down and the dolphins set back to a tank. Sadly tho the male dolphin had became attached to his "room mate" romantically and became depressed and died from a "broken heart" after being apart from her. She on the other hand (no pun intended) married the photographer from the research projected and wrote a book about it. There's also a film made about it The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins

[@MrsPinkmuffinify]

He didn't die of a broken heart but because he was moved into a much smaller tank without natural sunlight.

[@ember-brandt]

@@MrsPinkmuffinify - Could have been both. Both things could have easily caused enormous emotional stress.

[@kensegovia341]

A “Tug” or Two and “Teach a “Dolphin” to “Speak”🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc]

What's funny is that this isn't very different from what really happened in John C. Lilly and Margaret Howe Lovatt's 1960s dolphin research (if anything, the true story is even weirder than this skit). Loved the realistic recreation of '60s home movie camera documentary footage, with the glaring exception of the anachronistic A/V mixer at 1:56. Kate looks equally cute with that short black pixie cut! 😘🐬

[@caseydilla5726]

Thank you to the entire comment section for telling me this really happened a k’spillion times

[@simonsaidsleep]

Hmmm I watched a Drunk History about this

[@CatwmnCleo]

I love Aidy and Kate together. They remind me of my sister and me

[@cs82271]

Nobody cares if you're first

[@Dc0sby]

First

[@randywein]

After his release into the wild, Gerald moved next door to an octopus commune and lived very happily ever after.

[@johnnyfavorite1194]

The manual release not only helped Jarold concentrate, it also helped reduce drag making him a more efficient swimmer. Fun Fact: In Teutonic the name Jarold means strong with a Spear.

[@SchibbiSchibbi]

That sketch you laugh 5 min after watching just by reminding how bizarre and and funny it was🤣

[@tellatubbies5918]

At first I thought this was a real BBC show... But for real u guys nailed the editing

[@chelseam6287]

This is real. It happened in real life

[@tellatubbies5918]

Chelsea M like a real BBC show

[@bongobrandy6297]

They should have called him Flipper, faster than lightning, under the sea!

[@yAbighoul]

“fish!” “hand!” “water!” “HAND!!”

[@stevebuck87]

Every time I see dolphins all I can say is "HAAANNND!" LOL!!

[@joshn2764]

This disturbed me more than I thought it would. Like actually

[@sue4470]

Nibbles and then you find out it’s a TRUE STORY 🤢 look up peter the dolphin

[@una-5023]

This is funny. Love the response from "Sharon Hogg"

[@saveit4thefridge]

This is so spot on perfect satire

[@zaniahsims]

this literally looked like a real documentary movie

[@skinnybeats4202]

The two best females on the cast love them

[@juustgowithit]

Oh my god I listened to that radiolab episode two days ago, this is so hilarious with more context

[@jesselaine1234]

This actually based on a true story. I went down the KZbin rabbit whole once and saw a documentary about a dolphin who actually fell in love with a scientist

[@Sentientmatter8]

This is supposed to be a joke version, but it's actually exactly like the real thing. Word for word.

[@setpunks13]

"Gerald really liked shame" Good lord

[@Unicorn-ui6il]

I love it when they run out of ideas it ends up so random and hilarious😂

[@proudtobeme92]

This is based on a real study.

[@LITLPoett870]

This a real story ab a woman and dolphin.

[@RustinChole]

I wonder why they didn’t satire the actual event🤷🏻‍♂️? All the jokes would’ve worked all the same. Weird choice. Funny tho. Edit oooooooh I bet they couldn’t get the whole LSD part passed the censors?

[@KatherineUribe-1]

So long and thanks for all the fish!

[@KaylaSaysRawwr]

Funny but the sad part is he wasn’t released into the wild (Peter the dolphin) he committed suicide when they transferred him to a smaller enclosure and stopped the studies

[@alroker890]

"Dr. Sharon Hogg" underrated name

[@angelas.1581]

I just read up on the true story behind this. Disgusting and almost unbelievable. She shouldn’t have been allowed anywhere near dolphins, ugh 🤮👎🏽

[@zacksamuel5322]

i could tell where this joke was going as soon as she said "breeding age" lol

[@rose-ui6hk]

"He said, 'Despacito, mami,' which is funny because we weren't teaching him Spanish at all." kzbin.info/www/bejne/o526fJqrh7hsjJo

[@verneshabritt3262]

They nailed those pictures I really felt like they were taken back then

[@nicoledouglas2896]

The funny part is this is actually true. The government did this... 😂