Or "major world event", as the iceberg The Titanic crashed into was real. But they did have movies about that, with 1997's Titanic as the most popular.
anyone else catch that this wasn't the line in the closed captions ? It was about a soda that can make people fly, which was in the 1971 movie but not the book it was based on.
It feels like the writers might finally be understanding Bowen's voice. Or if he wrote this, then they're finally letting him use it. This was right out of the park.
He wrote this. He writes most of the sketches he’s in. He was on the writing staff on SNL for a few years before becoming part of the cast-and he is still on the writing team
@@Missmethinksalot1 “The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada (IATSE) was founded in 1893 when representatives of stagehands working in eleven cities met in New York and pledged to support each others’ efforts to establish fair wages and working conditions for their members.” Their symbol is the * with letters in it at the end of the credits in movies. It’s basically a union for film and theatre people and they were supposed to be on strike but a deal was settled so he’s still here. I figure he still wanted word to get out about working conditions.
I hope this isn’t a controversial thing to say, but he seems to bring such a positive perspective to the gay culture, on top of his general talent. SNL has never had anything like that before!
@@vjreimedia , yes I am. I have watched SNL for years and years. Bowen's the type of character actor/comedian they like and they'll keep him for a while yet; even if some viewers don't like him... Look at Leslie Jones. She stayed for years and yer a lot of people didn't like her "angry black woman" character that she played all the time. That was Leslie's stand up so I wasn't surprised that was all she did but there were always comments from people who loved her. Pete's in that same boat. A lot of people hate Pete but he has solid fans and Lorne Michaels and the head writers Colin and Che like him so Pete isn't going anywhere until he's ready to leave.
Notice how he never got around to announcing the labor strike and exposing the terrible working conditions at the factory. Well played, corporations. Well played.
Bowen could play a shopping bag caught in a gentle breeze and make that hilarious. P.S. I love that they can both make commentary on the gay experience, like being forcefully outed & the consequences of that, while also making fun of how people like Elon Musk built their names off the backs of other people's hard work & ingenuity, yet take all the credit and most of the reward.
@@abracad5309 wow... I thought the original comment was a joke about having an Oompa Loompa as a cast member. Like, "Why haven't we seen more of this orange guy?" LoL
Actually, he's in quite a few sketches considering how many cast members they have.. He is one of my favorites in the current lineup. He's very versatile!
@@justinharris2320 He/she edited the original comment. That said Yang is the most underrated cast member and should be in more sketches. Think He/She realized they were wrong
Ok I don’t usually like characters on weekend update but this guy’s got me in stitches. He’s still relatively new but he has found his voice and he can hold his own playing against seasoned cast members. Good for him!
Bowen Yang is by far the best addition in years and these skits and knees characters are absolutely all I look forward to when they pop up I get so excited! He just nailed it every time! Such incredible comedic Talent!
AS someone in the LGBTQ community... AND AS someeone who is actually played in Oompa Loompa in a school play. THIS is absolutely pure awesomeness for me! Five stars baby five stars!!! XO 😘😉❤️😎😍
@@tdyblgm24 He probably has more range than we see here... SNL like to type cast people. For a while, we'd only see Ego in Angry/Crazy Black Woman roles, but now that she's included in other types of roles, you see she has range.
Okay but they were in situations where one drowned in a chocolate river only to be pumped up a small pipe and sent to a room where they will be made into chocolate bars, one chewed gum that filled their entire body with blueberry juice to the point of explosion, one was sent down a garbage chute into the factory's incinerator, and one's particles were torn about and rearranged into a television set and then stretched about in a taffy puller.
Hadn’t watched SNL in a long time and just came across Bowen Yang… man, he’s very good! His acting, voice dynamics, and enunciation is like an A-List voice-over actor.
My friends and I LOVED this part, as a transgender person with a gay friend, we LOVE Bowen Yang! The Iceberg was also another "Greatest Hits" as well, thank you for being accepting, inclusive and downright hilarious and still bringing us the news (Probably the best news we watch all day!) We LIVE for SNL 😃🤩 EDIT: I was outed on social media by a fellow LGBTQ+ support group member, and my gay friend was outed by his sister at a Christmas party, so we can totally relate to this skit.
@@DC-pp8xf yes, don't even get me started on conservative media. But from liberal media, you'd expect that they cover these important topics & injustices.
@CriticaLxThoughX - Of COURSE the so-called "liberal" media reports on those issues. How else do you think you know about them? FOG News protects corporations from ethics.
I mean the only reason we talk about people coming out as gay is because of social injustices… are we not allowed to bring light of homophobia because there are other people suffering too? What a shitty and selfish way of thinking lmfao
@@Hi-uv7nn of course, and i'm all here for ending these social injustices. it only gets perfidious when the ones in power use one thing to erase another. it depends on the context. but thanks for turning my initial comment around and insulting me haha.
Not really. The now established SNL policy is not to make someone a full time cast member until they've proven themselves as featured players for two seasons.
I don't even know what to do with Bowen. He's got his own little corner of the comedy world and it glows hot in a way no one else's does. Even his gay comedy hits different. And his timing is so good that right when you think you're going to get over the last one, the next one's on you.
This was HILARIOUS! I love that Bowen Yang utilizes his platform to mock the tyranny of oppressive cultural norms with such acerbic wit. This was no exception. I just wish he could have gotten in a reference to Kellogg's and John Deere current strikes before he was cut off. And it would have been a perfect setup to throw a little shade at Amazon. Hopefully, another time soon. Bowen, you ROCK! 👏👏👏❤
I love these “Bowen Yang plays a disgruntled minor character from a major film” sketches. He’s one of the best newer cast members.
Or "major world event", as the iceberg The Titanic crashed into was real. But they did have movies about that, with 1997's Titanic as the most popular.
Check daddy long legs
@@yvankrzeslo6366 that was HILARIOUS
I absolutely love him
HAHA YES
"Meanwhile.... we're up all night rehearsing the little song-and-dance we do when a child dies... The whole thing is SICK!" Had me 🤣
To call it a straight shtick might be an oxymoron
That part had had me howling out loud at an somewhat embarrassing volume!! 🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's all for the children!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Very clever
Bowen's found his calling with these bits. Iceberg and Oompa were both pure gold.
That Iceberg one was AMAZING!
@@sidneyboo9704 Iceberg is my favorite SNL sketch ever! 😂🤣😂
Favorite line “yeah bitch what about it “
Forreal he can just be the gay version of anything
China's Trade Daddy was also killer.
When Timothee hosts again when his Wonka movie comes out he better do a sketch with Bowen as Wonka and Oompa Loompa. And it better have a song!
For sure!
That would be hilarious!
Why?
The Oompa Loompa character doesn't get used nearly enough.
Why? Bowen isn’t funny. He’s one of the worst cast members in recent memory.
"but now I guess I gotta... call my parents" hilarious!
They just got Will and Grace
Gosh, I hope Bowen has several years on SNL ahead of him. He is way too damn good.
Either you're related to Bowen or you're Bowen himself. Yang lacks ANY talent, he can only play GAY things. He is a one trick poney.
@@izregistered I don’t really like him in sketches but he is hilarious in Weekend Update. That is more than I can say for most of the current cast.
@@izregistered it's his delivery and the writing - he's hilarious!!!
@@izregisteredMichael Jordan lacked ANY talent, he can only play BASKETBALL. He is a one trick poney.
…what are you good at? Certainly not spelling.
@Blia Yang This isn't even close to a valid comparison. It's more like if Tom Brady could only do brillant hand-offs and nothing else.
“Well maybe you can come out too Colin”.- I SCREAMED
Im sure Scarlett did too!
Can't blame an Oompa Loompa for trying...
He's so cute
ME TOO
I loved the, "In sorry boys, I tried." I absolutely adore Bowen.
oh what about a gum ball that makes children dream silly dreams “YEAH BITCH WHAT ABOUT IT” i screamed
anyone else catch that this wasn't the line in the closed captions ? It was about a soda that can make people fly, which was in the 1971 movie but not the book it was based on.
@@CyclopsWasRight616yeah so weird
very much giving Steve Jobs "revolutionizing" tech and inspiring us all to 🙌 "think different" 🌟
🧘🏻♂💻📱✨🍎✨🔥🔥🔥
It feels like the writers might finally be understanding Bowen's voice. Or if he wrote this, then they're finally letting him use it. This was right out of the park.
I agree totally! Had the same thought.
Between this, Daddy Longlegs, & Uncle George it was a great night for Bowen
Being gay isn't a replacement for a personality. Every sketch he's in is something about being gay it's exhausting
He wrote this. He writes most of the sketches he’s in. He was on the writing staff on SNL for a few years before becoming part of the cast-and he is still on the writing team
This was great but NOTHING will top the iceberg! That was iconic but this was also great! He is hilarious
In closing, everyone brought their A game: props, sets, writers, actors, musical guest. Great episode.
Couldn’t agree more, best episode in a long time
Soo much better than last week show
So this “future of comedy” just puts the gay spin on every character ? How progressive
why is Gabe closing...not Bowen? 💅
@@motorcity7137 come back with your real name, coward
Very cool to hear him mention he's in IATSE!!! Props! Because they need the support.
Yes I was wondering if that’s what he said! So happy
what is that?
?
@@Missmethinksalot1
“The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada (IATSE) was founded in 1893 when representatives of stagehands working in eleven cities met in New York and pledged to support each others’ efforts to establish fair wages and working conditions for their members.”
Their symbol is the * with letters in it at the end of the credits in movies.
It’s basically a union for film and theatre people and they were supposed to be on strike but a deal was settled so he’s still here. I figure he still wanted word to get out about working conditions.
@@moss_yt I'm glad it shortens to IATSE because that is a lotse
This did not go in the direction I was expecting it to go and honestly, I’m really glad about it.
But are you GLAAD about it?
What were you expecting?
“And it’s like, yeah bi***! What about it???”
^^^ 😂 too accurate!
“…when a child DIES” had me crying!!!
The whole thing is SICK 😂😂
I hope this isn’t a controversial thing to say, but he seems to bring such a positive perspective to the gay culture, on top of his general talent. SNL has never had anything like that before!
But his parents didn't know that he was gay until now. Bigger things are at stake now...
Everything is controversial now. Lol. Ridiculous. Not you dear just this new time of offended
@@katemiller7874 what?
@@vjreimedia , Bowen isn't going anywhere and Brie has a new Marvel movie coming out next year. I look forward to more from both of them.
@@vjreimedia , yes I am. I have watched SNL for years and years. Bowen's the type of character actor/comedian they like and they'll keep him for a while yet; even if some viewers don't like him... Look at Leslie Jones. She stayed for years and yer a lot of people didn't like her "angry black woman" character that she played all the time. That was Leslie's stand up so I wasn't surprised that was all she did but there were always comments from people who loved her.
Pete's in that same boat. A lot of people hate Pete but he has solid fans and Lorne Michaels and the head writers Colin and Che like him so Pete isn't going anywhere until he's ready to leave.
Bowen's characters hit different I swear 😭 "TWonka" I wouldn't mind trying his snozberries 😏
I'd like to get hold of his everlasting gobstopper.
🤣🤣🤣
He hits the same joke in every character
"i'm in IATSE, i'm in the union" CRYING
Love union recognition on television. Collective action for the win!
Bro what’s ur profile picture like I’m confused
YESSSSS #UnionStrong
I love how Bowen Yang's Weekend Update characters aren't full-on impressions, they're all more just him being a sassy gay version of that character.
You’ve never talked to the iceberg or a gay Oompa Loompa this could be spot on
and that's the problem... so one dimensional. is this the 70s?
He’s a sassy gay every time he’s on the screen he has no range or at least they aren’t allowing him to show it
“Point blank, the man doesn’t know how to make chocolate. He’s an ideas man.”
I’m getting real Apple/Steve Jobs vibes here. Lol
Bill Burr skewered Jobs just like this...
Anyone who's ever worked at a software company really felt that "Yeah, bitch, what about it??"
@@kafittylol
Notice how he never got around to announcing the labor strike and exposing the terrible working conditions at the factory. Well played, corporations. Well played.
Bowen could play a shopping bag caught in a gentle breeze and make that hilarious.
P.S. I love that they can both make commentary on the gay experience, like being forcefully outed & the consequences of that, while also making fun of how people like Elon Musk built their names off the backs of other people's hard work & ingenuity, yet take all the credit and most of the reward.
Bowen is not funny at all.
You cannot be serious
I can just SEE it. "Here with us now to discuss gay patriotism is The Plastic Bag from Katy Perry's Firework!"
Bowen is the quintessential American beauty.
@@Lolcow43 You are not smart at all.
I love Bowen so much he's always puts 100% into these roles.
He’s the gift to SNL, his timing is impeccable
Bowen's delivery of the punch lines for all his jokes is absolutely brilliant.
"It's LIVE?!" Perfect delivery hahahaha
Oompa Loompas look good in a silk robe.
He is properly rated as an average cast member. He is gonna need more characters than the gay X....
Beck Bennet was an underrated cast member.
@@abracad5309 wow... I thought the original comment was a joke about having an Oompa Loompa as a cast member. Like, "Why haven't we seen more of this orange guy?" LoL
Actually, he's in quite a few sketches considering how many cast members they have.. He is one of my favorites in the current lineup. He's very versatile!
@@justinharris2320 , it was. Many people miss simple things.
@@justinharris2320 He/she edited the original comment. That said Yang is the most underrated cast member and should be in more sketches. Think He/She realized they were wrong
Ok I don’t usually like characters on weekend update but this guy’s got me in stitches. He’s still relatively new but he has found his voice and he can hold his own playing against seasoned cast members. Good for him!
Bowen Yang truly IS the moment
he has such a long SNL career ahead of him
I hope not. Hopefully his talent is so noted that his career catapults to more than SNL, soon.
Bowen Yang is by far the best addition in years and these skits and knees characters are absolutely all I look forward to when they pop up I get so excited! He just nailed it every time! Such incredible comedic Talent!
If that's how he described guys, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say his family PROBABLY knew.
Yeah, that's what I was thinkin'. 😉
Yeah I was going to say.
I love how Bowen Yang didn't break character. Not even a snicker!
i’m so happy bowen yang is on the cast. his performance is perfect and i can’t wait to see more from him
Bowen Yang's expressions are amazing. Instant classic!
Love Bowen. He never disappoints. Thank you to everyone responsible for making him one of the SNL casts. His future is looking so bright.
Speak for yourself i think all he does is disappoints
Are we still in this phase of it's good because it's gay?
His performances are cringe, like he was at the Emmys.
This was very relaxed and effortless. Bowen has found his niche.
Nice IATSE shout-out at the end, there!
This was also a good dig at prima donna directors and what the workers have to deal with the and the iatse strike looming.
I thought the same thing.
But thankfully the strike was called off at the last minute.
Oompa Loompa’s have always terrified me but I love Bowen Yang so much I had to click on this anyway.
I’m bit sad that there was no Oompa Loompa song for this sketch.
I know. I was waiting for it all sketch.
Because whoever wrote it was an imbicile that missed a comedic opportunity.
Ikr? I mean, the Iceberg put out a whole album! 🏔️
I kinda thought they'd pop out from underneath the table and start singing near the end
SNL probably didn't have the budget to pay for the rights to play the song.
AS someone in the LGBTQ community... AND AS someeone who is actually played in Oompa Loompa in a school play. THIS is absolutely pure awesomeness for me! Five stars baby five stars!!! XO 😘😉❤️😎😍
Iceberg got a sequel
“Now that I’m out of the closet, maybe you can come out too”. Love it! 😂
Every sketch i fall in love with Bowen just a little more. The writing and delivery on this was top notch!
Great shout out to IATSE at the end. Bowen Yang killing again.
0:48 “But, now I guess I gotta call my parents!” 1:31 “So yeah, it’s GONNA be a conversation!”
"the little song and dance we do when a child has died" --dying here, too
Bowen is one of the best things to happen to snl in a long time. Dude is hilarious.
He does the exact same flamboyant guy character for literally everything he does. Zero range.
@@tdyblgm24 He probably has more range than we see here... SNL like to type cast people. For a while, we'd only see Ego in Angry/Crazy Black Woman roles, but now that she's included in other types of roles, you see she has range.
The sudden realization that now I live for Bowen’s bitchy rants 😂
Bowen Yang is freaking hilarious! He had me in tears! XD
why does everyone keep saying the kids in the Wonka factory died? none of them died, they were all just horrifically disfigured
Oh well as long as its JUST that 😂
Okay but they were in situations where one drowned in a chocolate river only to be pumped up a small pipe and sent to a room where they will be made into chocolate bars, one chewed gum that filled their entire body with blueberry juice to the point of explosion, one was sent down a garbage chute into the factory's incinerator, and one's particles were torn about and rearranged into a television set and then stretched about in a taffy puller.
I thought Wwacf was a horror film as a kid. Not sure why ppl think it's a kids movie.
@@reflectsonlife its a kids horror film since all the kids are shown alive at the end.
@@Mskittenlover12 that's the joke
Hadn’t watched SNL in a long time and just came across Bowen Yang… man, he’s very good! His acting, voice dynamics, and enunciation is like an A-List voice-over actor.
My friends and I LOVED this part, as a transgender person with a gay friend, we LOVE Bowen Yang! The Iceberg was also another "Greatest Hits" as well, thank you for being accepting, inclusive and downright hilarious and still bringing us the news (Probably the best news we watch all day!) We LIVE for SNL 😃🤩
EDIT: I was outed on social media by a fellow LGBTQ+ support group member, and my gay friend was outed by his sister at a Christmas party, so we can totally relate to this skit.
no one asked and no one cares
I was outed on television.
All those children with tickets go into the factory and only one survives to the end. It's like a sickly sweet squid game.
Bowen reminding everyone that Willy Wonka is, in fact, a f-ing twisted story.
I still love Willy Wonka, the Gene Wilder one, not the Jonny Depp one.
Bowen Yang is a f’ing rockstar. We need more of this character please!
" I have to tell my parents " something tells me they already suspect
"Mom. Dad....I'm gay"
"A DOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!"
@@verdatum right LOL 🤣
“Proud, gay Oompa Loompa” and I immediately hoped it was gonna be Bowen.
I mean, that does kinda describe him...
They just got Will and Grace .. Im dead 🤣
I love this oompa loompa we should have him back again
Oompa: When does this air?
Colin: oh, it's live
Oompa: (shocked in a FML way) IT'S LIIIVE??
😂😂😂😂
Bowen playing fabulous characters losing their calm demeanor on Weekend Update gives me life!
I love how he critisized that liberal media focuses on "who's come out as gay" ignores injustices like horrible working conditions, classism etc.
Wouldn’t that criticism apply to both liberal and conservative media? 🧐
@@DC-pp8xf yes, don't even get me started on conservative media. But from liberal media, you'd expect that they cover these important topics & injustices.
@CriticaLxThoughX - Of COURSE the so-called "liberal" media reports on those issues. How else do you think you know about them? FOG News protects corporations from ethics.
I mean the only reason we talk about people coming out as gay is because of social injustices… are we not allowed to bring light of homophobia because there are other people suffering too? What a shitty and selfish way of thinking lmfao
@@Hi-uv7nn of course, and i'm all here for ending these social injustices. it only gets perfidious when the ones in power use one thing to erase another. it depends on the context. but thanks for turning my initial comment around and insulting me haha.
this whole sketch is GOLD but "I"m in IATSE!!" at the end made me spit out my water
Fact: Timothy looking like a little tasty snack
How was this video made 2 years ago ???
Welcome to the regular cast, Bowen!
“A twink Willy Wonka." I’m dying!
Writers and cast are on point this season.
Bowen always kills it.. love when he emphasises the last word....
The way Bowen shouted out union strikes 😭✊
Bowen as the unsung characters of anything is great
I now walk around the house randomly saying..."I'm in IATSE!!!".
This is brilliant. I love everything this guy does. Thank you. : )
Bowen Yang needs to be in everything. By far my favorite cast member since Ferrell.
One of the best sketches ever. Im dying.
Bowen is so fucking good
He needs more air time, for sure
And you stepped out of the shower that way Colin?
Bowen is legit a whole mood
Great to learn that Scarlet Johansson is a beard
Bowen Yang cracks me up!!
Bowen is the best. They waited way too long to make him a regular player. I hope he stays on the show for a long time.
Not really. The now established SNL policy is not to make someone a full time cast member until they've proven themselves as featured players for two seasons.
Bowen Yang never disappoints
i love bowen so much
I can name several Oompa Loompas. Including Jeff, Dave, Carl, Lofty, Bill, Larry, Joe, John, Bob, Mel, Steve, Doris, Sandra, Jerry, Pete, Jessica, Leonard, Rob, Alice, Harry, Jimmy, Duncan, William, Jack, Daisy, Denise, Stuart, Wendy, Roger, Ben, Finn, Doug, Chris, Gary, George, Rita, Mary, Charlotte, Ruby, Alex (That's my name too), Arthur, David, Eugene, Victor, Bella, Ronald, Courtney, Moe, Lucas, Lizzie, Martin, Ed, Tom, James, Tim, Oliver, Rusty, Brian, Debra, Barbara, Betty, Henry, the list goes on.
Bowens been killing it this year, looking forward to seeing what he does next
Gotta hand it to SNL: they found the one way to pull off yellowface in 2021.
Ha
Bowen can even make an iceberg funny! Great addition to the cast.
I don't even know what to do with Bowen. He's got his own little corner of the comedy world and it glows hot in a way no one else's does. Even his gay comedy hits different. And his timing is so good that right when you think you're going to get over the last one, the next one's on you.
Bowen on fire tonight. ❤️🔥
I love Bowen and so glad he is on the cast!!
“Sorry boys I tried” thanks man I’m sad now but it’s reality I guess
Bowen Yang is incredible
This dude always hits it out of the park. Has me lmao for 20 minutes replaying his skits.
This was HILARIOUS! I love that Bowen Yang utilizes his platform to mock the tyranny of oppressive cultural norms with such acerbic wit. This was no exception. I just wish he could have gotten in a reference to Kellogg's and John Deere current strikes
before he was cut off. And it would have been a perfect setup to throw a little shade at Amazon.
Hopefully, another time soon.
Bowen, you ROCK! 👏👏👏❤
Diversity hire thats the only reason he's on the show
@@Lolcow43 Not at all. He is sharp, witty, and incredibly entertaining. He ADDS depth and dimension beyond our usual fare.
@@at0micbunnygirl no he doesn't.
Bowen Yang can play any character, he will Nail it! I love him so much!!!!
Colin: you just have a lot of product in your hair
Me: do you... do you have something to say, Colin?
Twonka? Tell me more...
Bowen is definitely one of the best cast members
I hope this is a reoccurring character, great way to talk about workers and other good topics.
Love bowen🥰