The Best 12 Sketches of the 2020–2021 SNL Season

Despite a bloated cast — can we officially declare that the show’s vets have zero exit strategy? — this has been a surprisingly successful season of SNL that was a much-needed respite through the ups and downs of Covid and political upheavel.

Here are eleven of the best sketches:
Wario on Trial (Elon Musk): This sketch reminds me of the College Humor sketches that crossed a newer media concept with an older genre (a few alumni from the YouTube sketch channel have crossed over to SNL so it’s no surprise). The way the sketch stays consistent with the lame Italian pronunciations is a nice touch as comedy needs to get the fine details of its world-building squared off before it can launch to the humor.

The sketch already had me sold about halfway through which meant that everything that followed was icing on the cake, and boy was it a lot of icing. Chloe Fineman played Princess Peach like a Barbie Doll partially come to life with the same stilted Italian accent and the inability to move her arms that one can imagine is an 8-bit programming limitation. And then, whammo! The smoking gun: Raunchy text messages exposed between Peach and Luigi about a secret affair and I’m doubling over.

Lastly, this was good gruntwork by Heidi who often is cast in ditzy roles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrTXBFcvoMQ

Lesbian Period Drama (Carey Mulligan): This is a great sketch in that it gets…