@@atkingofheartsSNL actually uses a live audience? Edit: before yet another person comments saying “yes they do [[insert thing about stupidity]]” just because the L stands for live doesn’t mean I immediately assume they actually preform everything live. As I’ve never gone out of my way to see if they have tickets or whatever. Laugh tracks exist on multiple shows and I assume that they used one here, not a real audience.
It's the magic line in the whole thing. I can't quite work out why it's so funny. I guess it's because I was trying to think of what he'd say, and all I could come up with was "occasionally".
5" = 127mm 10" = 254mm 20" = 508mm 25" = 635mm 50" = 127cm 100" = 254cm 5' = 1524mm or 152.4 cm 25' = 762cm or 7.62m 125' = 38.1m 25 yd = 22.86m or 2286cm 1250 yd = 1143m 15625 mi = 25146 km 1 NM = 1852 m 5 NM = 9260 m or 9.26 km 25 NM = 46.3 Km 25 kt = 46.3 km/h 4500 kt = 8334 km/h = 2315 m/s Anywey metric is better 36 km/h = 10m/s 72 km/h = 20m/s 144 km/h = 40m/s 180 km/h = 50m/s 360 km/h = 100m/s 3600 km/h = 1km/s 2 metric tons @ 2km/s = 2000x2000^2/2 = 4 GJ For relativistic speeds there is another formula, exponential with c, but that is for much higher speeds.
@@carloscaramelo2866 well a McDonald’s quarter pounder is apparently 4 inches in diameter, so with 36 inches to a yard, there would be 9 standard burger units to a yard
@@IntrinsicPalomides Kenan has been an SNL regular for quite a few years now. Kel has done things here and there. He was a kids game show host for some time. Don't know what he is up to now. They had a reunion some time back.
@@bandotaku Keenan is in fact the longest running SNL cast member ever. And the show he is looking for is All That which was pretty much Nickelodeon's SNL with kid actors. Then him and Kel went on and had their own show and also a movie from an All That skit, Good Burger. But hes pretty much been doin SNL stuff his entire life.
@@NeoHellPoet wait till you here about how many times the metric was changed Metric System (1790s) The meter was defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a meridian. > Physical standards for the meter (a platinum bar) and kilogram (a platinum cylinder) were created in 1799. Redefinition of the Meter (19th-20th Century) 1889: The meter was redefined as the length of a new platinum-iridium bar. 1960: Transitioned to a definition based on the wavelength of krypton-86 radiation. 1983: Redefined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 seconds, making it dependent on the speed of light.
@@knightwolf3511 pretty sure everthing from metric is now based on unchanging values like the speed of light. where as before we used things that could decay or rot or wither or somehow change. pretty sure thats how imperial is defined now too. so its basically defined in science and metric terms despite how unscientific it is
@SahlGood-m3p Oh, over and over and over. I was keeping a tally on the original post but then I could no longer find my comment. It's like every few days, was everyday, but it just makes me laugh. It's smart and the delivery of all is amazing. Idk how they haven't broken character. I know it was close a few times but I couldn't do that. Lol
@thebigphish3652 For sure. 🤣 I absolutely love Kenan Thompson man. His delivery is always spot on. I think he really developed it during the Kenan & Kel years.
"football" refers to a game played with your feet, not on horseback. America's three football at the time was Grid Iron Football , Soccer and Rugby which where all called football and America simply refers to one as football today
@@84MadHatter Well in the beginning there was Football which had been around hundreds of years prior to Europeans landing on the americas, then later on some chap changed the rules slightly which went on to be known as Rugby Football but only called Rugby these days. Then americans adapted Rugby for some insane reason by kitting out people in full body armour. The same insanity that led to that decision is why they think that lemon/egg shaped item is a ball. Call it what it is, Handegg.
And there are 55 yards in 1/32nd of a mile. Now just double that 5 times. Add 1 subtract 3 and add 2 and you will have the number of yards in a mile. It’s really easy to remember.
I read where the skit was on the cutting block for the actual show but Nate saw potential and asked that it please be added to the dress rehearsal and it killed so it made it to air. Even if he didn’t write it, he saw its value and executed it to perfection. I love witty, clean observational humor like Nate, Morgan, Gaffigan and Seinfeld offer.
As a German you should know Fahrenheit is German, which is why it is impossible to spell. So this one is literally Germanys doing. USA uses it because it came before Celsius and would just be too much of a PIA to switch. Similar for the Imperial system, England used it and America was an English colony. 220V is more efficient than 110v. However, America was the first to get electricity in its towns while the cavemen in Europe didn't. So by the time it was seen 220v was better, America had put a lot of work into the 110v system already, and Europe and Asia got to benefit from it by adopting it late.
Leaves out the part where initially the first delivery of the metric system at least weights was plundered by British privateers. Which halted early endeavours to introduce it to the country.
@@badmaniak Many of the writers of the Constitution and signers of the Declaration of Independence didn't address the question of slavery because their plantations depended upon it. It took another 70 years to change ideas and sell them or shift the labor on those farms. Actually Great Britain led the way by a few years.
@@a7hazen You sheep know nothing of the Founding if you think Slavery wasn't debated for years. Why do you think A Convention of States can amend the Constitution?
@@rodneyradnowski8334 but the race grifters and those wanting a degree but too dumb to get into a STEM field still need something to show they are dumb engough to get worthless paper to prove how superior they are over others, The DNC will not allow this sir, race hustlers and trans politics thrive, now be good little conformists an vote blue always.
Proof that SNL actually can be funny again. Great job to Nate for perfect delivery and Keenan for his funny facial expressions and body language adding to his lines. Every part of this entire bit is worth watching over and over.
Every season of SNL has a few good skits, some mediocre, and a ton of bad ones. You only remember the good ones, so you think modern episodes aren't as good.
People say this every other week when SNL comes up with one good skit after 20 mid ones. SNL has always been average with occasional iconic homeruns. We just don't remember all the old mid ones from the 90s and older because there was no social media for everyone to document and roast them
@@nastybeatsmore like its a comedy sketch parodying the fact you said, and the original comment is saying its perfect comedy, and it is, had me laughing 😂
You are so lucky in America… you could live here in the U.K. We buy car fuel by the litre, but our cars' economy is measured in miles per gallon. We buy wholesale vegetables by the 1/2cwt (56lbs),and sell them by the kilogram. We also use letters that have no meaning in the English language as an abbreviation for these measurements. We measure water in litres used, and buy beer by the pint. We buy materials by the metre, but travel by the mile. Unless you’re in a horse race, they run by the furlong. We use 12” rulers to measure 30cm. Luckily, our spelling of the English language makes total sense…
You do know apart from Fahrenheit, all the measurements the USA uses came from Britain and not America, but we had the good sense to ditch most of them apart from miles. But we still all know what a kilometre is.
@@martinsfridenbergs1052Yeah, the one country, of the five largest native English speaking countries, who calls it by something different than the other four is obviously the one who is wrong.
@@DavidWalton-g8w They are all types of football. The term "football" is a generic term. It is not specific, it refers to a field game, with a ball, that is played on foot instead of on horseback or in the water.
@jooohan-i9o is it? as someone who is completely comfortable with ANY system of measurement, i find the whole "controversy" to be a non-issue. indeed, the people who make the most fun about americans in THIS regard have no understanding of the practical consequences of retooling an ENTIRE SYSTEM. if you need to make "fun" of americans, there are a million REAL issues, such as corporate control of the media ... or their religion of "free speech" or the junk they put in their food ... or their health care system
don't take what i said TOO seriously. while the points i raised ARE deadly serious, including the fact that far too many people just ignore them, i DO appreciate snl, and it absolutely WAS a "brilliant delivery". in the contradiction lies the hope
@@JordanHarristhat's why it's funny... Everything was all laid out with perfectly fine units of measurements that the entire world could use and then we came and were like nah.. we gonna do things a bit different. Growing up with this system it's the norm but if you imagine a situation like this in the early colonial days it's an interesting and humous take on it.
@@rubytiger13 yes so that when it gets so cold that your fingers freeze off you can fumble and try to get that thermometer to look and see it is because it is the possibile coldest very helpful in everyday life
"Liberty son, liberty." So true, the freedom to have the worst systems of measurement 😂😂😂. "You asked about the temperature... I did not." F***ing hilarious.
@@krippkeeperThat part wasn't funny to me. It is like nails on a chalkboard to hear such inaccurate claims about the imperial and metric systems. "Why don't we just use the metrics system?" Uh, gee, I don't know, MAYBE BECAUSE IT WASNT FKN INVENTED YET STEVE OR WHATEVER YOUR NAME IS😂😂😂!
Right. Only feet, yards, miles, farenheight, etc, all came from Europe. We didn't invent these things in the US. But farenheight was intended to be the temperature of the human body, but the inventor had a fever that day.
@@zonked1200 And metrification was adopted as an official international agreement after the US independence. And the US was going to adopt it until stuff happened while the weight standards were being delivered that made it so imperial was too standard by the time it would have been fixed.
@@zonked1200Super weird you saying that like it means anything. We know the US uses Medieval measurements and didn’t decide to move away from *them once things started being standardised.
our measurements might be archaic, but tbh as long as we get to live in a free society with minimal governmental interference + low taxes and booming economy, then dare I say how fortunate are we
Just a fun fact: 1 mile was originally defined as 8 furlongs (a furlong being 660 feet). This originated from the Roman "mille passus" or "thousand paces".
@@TF2CrunchyFrog A Roman pace is the heel of one foot to the heel of the same foot when it next touches the ground. It was equal to 5 roman feet, or around 58.25 inches. That is 11.65 inches for a Roman person's foot. Around a size 12 shoe.
It's great, but "all time" SNL bits are the Billy Crystal days. IYKYK. They wrote bits and spent the entire broadcast trying to get each other to break character.
@a7hazen I like some telling other people that their personal opinions are wrong. Instead of just saying I personally liked another skit in the 50 year history of a show
@Grimlock794 it's about the delivery. SNL today, they break delivering their own scripted lines. SNL back then, they break each other by ad libbing. There's no comparison. It's why Che and Jost are so great- it's the magic of the old days.
@@knock3x Yeah some of the skits have been good recently. Obviously SNL was never 100% funny all the time, but no sketch comedy is. Im just glad to see them breaking away from their politically correct mold, making fun of everyone, and having fun again.
@@bmc8982I mean I guess you could say this skit points to American exceptionalism the idea that US is exceptionalism country that deserves to basically do whatever it wants to the world as being kinda silly like many other things in the USA
They were ok in the early 2010s. They still had people like bill hader who were always funny. Then the dreaded year of 2016 came and SNL became what the news were. 24/7 “orange man bad”. They got way more political than they needed to and focusing on politics isn’t funny when it’s the main joke over and over. I got a bad feeling it’s going to go back to that in 2025 because they just can’t help themselves.
@@jaimeromanini4093 which is great for parts of chemistry, but not so much for every day life. I know that water boils at 212F, but that rarely ever comes up. Meanwhile we have a temperature scale that realistically goes from -30 to 120 for everyday life that makes it very easy to know the difference in weather feel.
British pirates are also the primary reason Congress never changed to the metric system. They stole the weights that were going to be presented to Congress so there was no reference. Literally every aspect of this is the fault of the British 🤣
These are sooo good man!! Done just right.. see when you try to mention these things in conversation people get all defensive. This is actually so spot on and shows the imperial system to be a nightmare. Love it thanks guys. What about driving on the wrong side now hahaha
if this is not the best SNL skit i dont know what is... Nate crushed this, just so good. This will be a turning point in his already rising career. The guy is just flat out funny.
I’m a 3rd grade math teacher overseas and I have to teach the imperial system to kids that use the metric system. I always apologize to them for how ridiculous it is. At least now I know why 😂
The imperial system and farenheit are scaled to the human body and base 12. I.E. The ancient Sumerians used a base 12 system as 12 is the number of lunar cycles in a year, and finger segments (three for each finger) that one can count on one hand excluding the thumb. (4 fingers × 3 segments = 12). Fractions of 12 are divided into 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4 segments equally. For practical use Imperial is actually a superior system. 12x5=60. the measurement used for seconds, and minutes, and 12x2=24 the number of hours in a day. I bet you use both of those measurements "overseas" without considering why. For navigation purposes and things like naval longitude use minutes and seconds as notation.. why are there 360degrees in a circle and not 100? Because it comes from Babylon. Maybe you should link up with a 3rd grade history teacher and share some notes. There are other reasons as well. I didnt even get started on temperature yet
@ you do realize we’re watching an SNL sketch and not a TED Ed video right? I don’t actually think George Washington proclaimed things to be so 😂 I do know the actual reasons behind the thinking but it’s still funny to me that I have to teach it to children that will never use it unless they move to the US. Believe me, I also believe in the superiority of the imperial system but we’re also allowed to laugh at it a bit
Cool to see Nate on SNL. I had no idea. I guess the days of having to explain who he is and why people should watch him are in the past. Great delivery and timing by everyone in this sketch! Hilarious!
Ounces are used in both weight and volume scales. Speaking of volume, we have ounces, tea spoons, table spoons, cups, pints & half pints, quarts, gallons, barrels, and yes, sometimes litres as well. Often when something is highly voluminous, we specify its equivalence in Olympic sized swimming pools.
Don't forget the much used units elephants for weight, Empire State Buildings, aircraft carriers and Eiffel Towers for lengths and football fields, Vermonts, New Jerseys, Texases and Alaskas for large size areas.
Imches, feet, and yards WERE the world scale. You count twelve knuckes using your thumb on one hand, thats a foot, each handful counts a knuckle on the other hand, one finger on the second hand is a yard.
This should go down in history as one of the best sketches of all time right along side of the Abbot & Costello "Baseball" sketch. (More commonly referred to as the "Who's on first" sketch)
I love Fahrenheit because it’s like a percentage scale. 50° is pretty okay. 70 is alright. 30 is alright. Anything higher or lower is uncomfortable and if you get above 100 or below 0 most people would rather be dead! The English talk about temperature and 35 is beastly hot unless you’re on vacation and 30 is just kinda warm 😂
If you are comparing inches on the one side, you'll have to compare it to centimeters on the other side, which would make it 12.7 and 25.4. Yes, rules have small line markings for millimeters, but the numbers written on the rulers are for centimeters.
@@julianegner5997 thats quite the nonsense, top search will literally tell you it's defined as 2.54 cm. Like, what difference does that make? Centimeter and Millimeter are interchangeable. But on a Ruler, it's common to write the numbers of the centimeters.
@@denissinner4625 Denis is going to find out the magic of the metric system when he realizes 2.54 cm is exactly 25.4 mm. And cm and mm are not interchangable.
“You asked about temperature” 😂 they both had to pause to not break
😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
It is very funny, but I don't think they were about to break, I think they were waiting for the audience laughter to die down.
@@atkingofheartsSNL actually uses a live audience?
Edit: before yet another person comments saying “yes they do [[insert thing about stupidity]]” just because the L stands for live doesn’t mean I immediately assume they actually preform everything live. As I’ve never gone out of my way to see if they have tickets or whatever.
Laugh tracks exist on multiple shows and I assume that they used one here, not a real audience.
@@mowermen1762 I mean, it's Saturday Night LIVE
I thought they paused because Nate forgot his response line.
"I did not" ...
For some reason this was the funniest part to me.
He teleported to the 2000s with that one.
How much sunscreen do you use
I assume you are from the USA, the rest of the world finds the rest very amusing.😁
I was going to type the same thing, but here you are right at the top. That was laugh out loud funny at work to me!
Me too!
Something is in his delivery of the "there's a little kicking." that always makes me laugh😂
It's the magic line in the whole thing. I can't quite work out why it's so funny. I guess it's because I was trying to think of what he'd say, and all I could come up with was "occasionally".
...and not by any *real* players.
Look up Nate Bargatze. His comedic timing is incredible. Love that line
@ haha. Thanks for that tip. Just been binge-watching Nate on RUclips. Great stuff. I like his even-toned “temperature”. He undersells every line.
I didn't get to hear the rest of the short.
"There's a little kicking." Is delivered with such beauty
😂😂 it really was
"You asked about the temperature" had me laughing for about 5280 seconds
it makes you wonder, what if there was different time scale as well
That's a whole mile of laughing.
It's a simple number that everyone will remember
That's exactly 88 minutes off the top of my head
@BeachLookingGuy I love that idea. Liberty time. A day is 78 hours, hour is 39 minutes and minute is 83 seconds
"They don't line up and they never will" - as a seamstress I felt in my soul!
actually, they do. 24.5mm to an inch. exactly. as defined.
5" = 127mm
10" = 254mm
20" = 508mm
25" = 635mm
50" = 127cm
100" = 254cm
5' = 1524mm or 152.4 cm
25' = 762cm or 7.62m
125' = 38.1m
25 yd = 22.86m or 2286cm
1250 yd = 1143m
15625 mi = 25146 km
1 NM = 1852 m
5 NM = 9260 m or 9.26 km
25 NM = 46.3 Km
25 kt = 46.3 km/h
4500 kt = 8334 km/h = 2315 m/s
Anywey metric is better 36 km/h = 10m/s
72 km/h = 20m/s
144 km/h = 40m/s
180 km/h = 50m/s
360 km/h = 100m/s
3600 km/h = 1km/s
2 metric tons @ 2km/s = 2000x2000^2/2 = 4 GJ
For relativistic speeds there is another formula, exponential with c, but that is for much higher speeds.
@@loochan325now I'm really confused.. 💭
@@loochan325This was completely unnecessary.
Betsy??? Is that you?
“How many yards in a mile?”
“Nobody knows”
I’m dead 💀😂
A mile is 1,760 yards.
Muricans doing Murican things. How many burgers in a yard?
@@carloscaramelo2866 well a McDonald’s quarter pounder is apparently 4 inches in diameter, so with 36 inches to a yard, there would be 9 standard burger units to a yard
@@connormoon8363 so that would be 15840 burger units to a mile.. thanks for clarifying .. will measure speed in burger units from now on
@@atk9989 no. it's 2763.66 in a hot day but only if it doesn't rain.
"I did not"... i couldn't hold my chuckle. Kenan's timing is amazing
I thought it was Kenan, i only remember the show he was in i guess the 90s? or was it early 2000s? what happened to Kel!?
@@IntrinsicPalomides Kenan has been an SNL regular for quite a few years now. Kel has done things here and there. He was a kids game show host for some time. Don't know what he is up to now. They had a reunion some time back.
@@bandotaku Keenan is in fact the longest running SNL cast member ever. And the show he is looking for is All That which was pretty much Nickelodeon's SNL with kid actors. Then him and Kel went on and had their own show and also a movie from an All That skit, Good Burger. But hes pretty much been doin SNL stuff his entire life.
@@amwhite760 Pretty sure they were thinking of "Keenan and Kel," but yes, all of that as well.
He's just one of those few people who are blessed with being naturally funny. A rare quality indeed.
"Spell that for me"
"Impossible" 😂
Because it's a German surname, sorry about that.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@thepinkgangster Farenhyte? 😂
He should have said we just abbreviate it to "F"
Farenhight 🗿
"Our great nation will use the random one." LOL
Not so great if we do everything the opposite like everyone else...
Nonsensical is the rule in our great nation.
It's 3 systems.
Kelvin is the third one and it's used in science because zero is actually zero so you don't get situations like 0C + 0C = 64F
@@NeoHellPoet wait till you here about how many times the metric was changed
Metric System (1790s)
The meter was defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a meridian.
> Physical standards for the meter (a platinum bar) and kilogram (a platinum cylinder) were created in 1799.
Redefinition of the Meter (19th-20th Century)
1889: The meter was redefined as the length of a new platinum-iridium bar.
1960: Transitioned to a definition based on the wavelength of krypton-86 radiation.
1983: Redefined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 seconds, making it dependent on the speed of light.
@@knightwolf3511 pretty sure everthing from metric is now based on unchanging values like the speed of light. where as before we used things that could decay or rot or wither or somehow change.
pretty sure thats how imperial is defined now too. so its basically defined in science and metric terms despite how unscientific it is
You asked about the temperature? I did not. Holding back the laughter was classic.
Best part.
Neither of them held back laughter they were waiting for the crowd to die down
*_Fahrenheit_* > *_Celsius_* !!!
Metric System:
Length:
1 mm → 10 mm = 1 cm → 10 cm = 1 dm → 10 dm = 1 m → 1,000 m = 1 km
Volume:
1 ml → 10 ml = 1 cl → 10 cl = 1 dl → 10 dl = 1 L → 1,000 L = 1 m³
Weight:
1 mg → 1,000 mg = 1 g → 1,000 g = 1 kg → 1,000 kg = 1 ton
Conversions:
1 cm³ = 1 ml = 1 g (water)
1 dm³ = 1 L = 1 kg (water)
It’s all powers of 10! Move the decimal point, and you’re done.
Imperial System:
• 12 inches = 1 foot
• 3 feet = 1 yard
• 1,760 yards = 1 mile
• 16 ounces = 1 pound
• 14 pounds = 1 stone
• 2 cups = 1 pint → 2 pints = 1 quart → 4 quarts = 1 gallon
Conversions require memorization and messy fractions:
1 gallon = 231 cubic inches ≈ 8.34 lbs of water.
Metric: Simple, logical, and scalable. Imperial: Why?
Because
America just wanting to be different
Liberty, son. Liberty 🗽
Because America, fuck yeah. But I always think it's just an easier way to weed out people who have a harder time memorizing
Inertia.
One of the best sketches ever. Simple yet hitting 5-6 jokes a minute at least
Yes. It has a nice meter to it,
5-6 unfunny jokes a minute
That’s about one a League.
@@solidtank7957 The audience is never wrong.
AI?
I think this is the best SNL skit. I can rewatch it over and over.
Definitely legendary status.
How many times did you watch it over though?
@SahlGood-m3p Oh, over and over and over. I was keeping a tally on the original post but then I could no longer find my comment. It's like every few days, was everyday, but it just makes me laugh. It's smart and the delivery of all is amazing. Idk how they haven't broken character. I know it was close a few times but I couldn't do that. Lol
Idk you may be right but Dave Chappelle doing Negan and characters from the Chappelle Show was really good too
@TitusArsole I only know Chapelle show skits like the Diddy Making the band. Cambodian breast milk 🤣
Lmfao. I actually lol'd on this one. "And the slaves, sir. What of them?"
"You asked about temperature?"
"I did not...."
😂😂😂
Easily the best line delivery from both lol
@thebigphish3652 For sure. 🤣 I absolutely love Kenan Thompson man. His delivery is always spot on. I think he really developed it during the Kenan & Kel years.
I don't get the joke, please explain
@@elmixer9875 It's a pretty simple one. Lol. It's just basically how it was back then, just ignoring the slave issue.
This by far was one of their better skits. I laughed through the whole thing!😅
Lifetime classic of a skit here 👏
"There's a little kicking" 😂
"football" refers to a game played with your feet, not on horseback. America's three football at the time was Grid Iron Football , Soccer and Rugby which where all called football and America simply refers to one as football today
@@84MadHatter Well in the beginning there was Football which had been around hundreds of years prior to Europeans landing on the americas, then later on some chap changed the rules slightly which went on to be known as Rugby Football but only called Rugby these days. Then americans adapted Rugby for some insane reason by kitting out people in full body armour. The same insanity that led to that decision is why they think that lemon/egg shaped item is a ball. Call it what it is, Handegg.
Dare I say, this might be the best SNL skit in nearly a decade.
That bad? Ouch haha 😂
How many years in a decade? I hear it's 3.744
I think that's half a score, yeah?
It was so good, I had no idea it was SNL
That's sad since SNL hasn't been funny for decadeS.
"will we use millimeters?"
"Yeah, but only in the most American activity of all..."
oh shoot, I had to think about this for a while
This joke really went under the radar
I don't get it. What's that ?
@@aliakbar307 bullet sizes.
@@aliakbar307 Guns
"Our enemies will never understand our way of thinking… cause we ourselves won’t understand it either. "
As a Canadian I am happy to finally learn that there a 5,280 feet in a mile, and three feet in a yard.
And there are 55 yards in 1/32nd of a mile. Now just double that 5 times. Add 1 subtract 3 and add 2 and you will have the number of yards in a mile. It’s really easy to remember.
@@ecospider5 I don't even remember where I put the aspirin.
As an American, I'm happy to finally know this.
Salt-N-Pepa lied to me! They informed me that there were 12 inches to a yard.
And 1,760 yards to a mile. Oh, and 220 yards to a furlong. (8 furlongs to a mile.)
Nate’s timing and delivery are PERFECT in this sketch. 🤣❤️🏆
I read where the skit was on the cutting block for the actual show but Nate saw potential and asked that it please be added to the dress rehearsal and it killed so it made it to air. Even if he didn’t write it, he saw its value and executed it to perfection. I love witty, clean observational humor like Nate, Morgan, Gaffigan and Seinfeld offer.
I am from Germany. This is soooo funny. All my questions were answered.
As a German you should know Fahrenheit is German, which is why it is impossible to spell. So this one is literally Germanys doing. USA uses it because it came before Celsius and would just be too much of a PIA to switch.
Similar for the Imperial system, England used it and America was an English colony.
220V is more efficient than 110v. However, America was the first to get electricity in its towns while the cavemen in Europe didn't. So by the time it was seen 220v was better, America had put a lot of work into the 110v system already, and Europe and Asia got to benefit from it by adopting it late.
naja das gesundheitssystem fehlt noch
Leaves out the part where initially the first delivery of the metric system at least weights was plundered by British privateers. Which halted early endeavours to introduce it to the country.
@@FlatMoki Trump said he had a concept of a plan so maybe in 50 years it will come
Impressive . Some germans know a joke. A cultured one, i assume
Kenan is amazing. He elevates the funny with just a few simple words delivered hilariously.
My goodness how did he deadpan with such perfection??
His netflix standup is exactly this throughout.
Nate Bargantze is a master of deadpan delivery of crazy ish.
@@sergeyevangelista8915 chiding his parents for falling in with the wrong crowd, his sister. Gold, gold, I say!
Nobody knows.
He seemed to stop a bit longer than needed on the temperature joke. I'm pretty sure he was recomposing himself in that moment mentally lol
You asked about the temperature got me for real😂
Can you say it again for us Europeans?
@@badmaniakWhat you don't understand?
I did not😅
@@C00kiem0ns3r4 He avoided answering the slavery question by changing the subject. It's not about the "temperature". It could have been anything.
@@badmaniak Many of the writers of the Constitution and signers of the Declaration of Independence didn't address the question of slavery because their plantations depended upon it. It took another 70 years to change ideas and sell them or shift the labor on those farms. Actually Great Britain led the way by a few years.
A masterpiece of script and timing.
The fact that this is probably the best, if not only explanation for the system 😂
Well none of these factors were decided by the United States, it's just we still use them for whatever reason sooooooo.... yeah.
Units of measurement were inhereted from England, majority of them were developed through agriculture dating back centuries.
Second explanation:
The British.
(Some Brits still use the imperial system too! With stone!)
Nate Bargatze is so funny without even trying. He is just being himself here and it's hilarious 😂 😂
One of the funnier skits I've seen by them in a long long time lol
My favorite modern one for sure
The original Washington's dream and the Beavis and Butthead skit was aome pretty funny stuff.
The deflection on slavery caught me😂
It's the placement after "Liberty, son" that gets me.
Grade A writing.
@@a7hazen You sheep know nothing of the Founding if you think Slavery wasn't debated for years.
Why do you think A Convention of States can amend the Constitution?
That may have been my favorite part. It’s what we need to do as a culture. Move on from slavery.
@@rodneyradnowski8334 but the race grifters and those wanting a degree but too dumb to get into a STEM field still need something to show they are dumb engough to get worthless paper to prove how superior they are over others, The DNC will not allow this sir, race hustlers and trans politics thrive, now be good little conformists an vote blue always.
@@rodneyradnowski8334ppl seem to think black oppression is a huge issue right now. I don't see it
The smirk on the black dude is priceless: "I did not"
lol that isnt keenans smirk. thats keenans "dont you try to evade that question" face lol
You not knowing the name of "the black dude" is disappointing
You mean Kennan? He's a very well known person.
@@JustinWilliams-o3j Clearly not well known enough to spell his name correctly...
Crazy thoughts boys... But not everyone in the world knows him.... Just be glad he wasn't called Michael Jordan
I watch this over and over again and I lough every time. Brilliant.
I loughed multiple times...even laughed once it was so good
@@raptorsan85 loughing out laud
Loughing my a55 off!!! 😂
Wait till you get to bushels, acres and hectacres(sp?).
This was probably the best opening SNL sketch in a long long time. Wonderful!
Yes indeed 😂😂😂
That's how you know it wasn't written by the normal SNL writers. Someone else had to have written this for them, possibly an actual comedic writer!
a bunch of jokes that have been going around the internet for 20 years? yea hilarious..
That one lady’s laugh after almost every jokes got me rolling !! 😂😂😂
I love this kind off comedy!!
Proof that SNL actually can be funny again. Great job to Nate for perfect delivery and Keenan for his funny facial expressions and body language adding to his lines. Every part of this entire bit is worth watching over and over.
Every season of SNL has a few good skits, some mediocre, and a ton of bad ones. You only remember the good ones, so you think modern episodes aren't as good.
SNL is to comedy, as brutalism is to architecture
These are like dumb people jokes what are you talking about?
People say this every other week when SNL comes up with one good skit after 20 mid ones. SNL has always been average with occasional iconic homeruns. We just don't remember all the old mid ones from the 90s and older because there was no social media for everyone to document and roast them
Nate is just a cameo though?
perfect, just perfect from start to end.
More like this is really messed up how they seperated americans fro the rest of the world
@@nastybeatsmore like its a comedy sketch parodying the fact you said, and the original comment is saying its perfect comedy, and it is, had me laughing 😂
“You asked about the temperature”
“I did not” 😂😂😂😂
yes, that's what he said but thanks for letting the deaf people know lol
You are so lucky in America… you could live here in the U.K.
We buy car fuel by the litre, but our cars' economy is measured in miles per gallon.
We buy wholesale vegetables by the 1/2cwt (56lbs),and sell them by the kilogram.
We also use letters that have no meaning in the English language as an abbreviation for these measurements.
We measure water in litres used, and buy beer by the pint.
We buy materials by the metre, but travel by the mile. Unless you’re in a horse race, they run by the furlong.
We use 12” rulers to measure 30cm.
Luckily, our spelling of the English language makes total sense…
And wtf is a "stone" I can pick one up easy but it's a big deal if someone sheds a stone 😅
Heheh!
I hadn't thought about it that way.
Cheers from across the pond!
You do know apart from Fahrenheit, all the measurements the USA uses came from Britain and not America, but we had the good sense to ditch most of them apart from miles. But we still all know what a kilometre is.
@@adamprint644 That's because of all the war films where they use a military "klick".
I had an allotment that was measured in rods
This whole skit is superb 😂
"It's a sport where you throw a ball with your hands. And this ball is no exactly a ball…"
Good old Hand Egg
@@RicPendragon American football, there is also Canadian football, Association football, Rugby football. Many types of football.
@@MoltenMetalCasting yup and and only real football they don't call football.
@@martinsfridenbergs1052Yeah, the one country, of the five largest native English speaking countries, who calls it by something different than the other four is obviously the one who is wrong.
@@DavidWalton-g8w They are all types of football. The term "football" is a generic term. It is not specific, it refers to a field game, with a ball, that is played on foot instead of on horseback or in the water.
Wonderful acting. Enjoyed the timing as much as the content.
As some who.lives outside of the US, that was just brilliantly delivered.
you live in britain, right?
@@victorfinberg8595 Australia
@jooohan-i9o because the IMPERIAL system originated in ?
@jooohan-i9o is it?
as someone who is completely comfortable with ANY system of measurement, i find the whole "controversy" to be a non-issue.
indeed, the people who make the most fun about americans in THIS regard have no understanding of the practical consequences of retooling an ENTIRE SYSTEM.
if you need to make "fun" of americans, there are a million REAL issues, such as corporate control of the media ...
or their religion of "free speech"
or the junk they put in their food
... or their health care system
don't take what i said TOO seriously.
while the points i raised ARE deadly serious, including the fact that far too many people just ignore them, i DO appreciate snl, and it absolutely WAS a "brilliant delivery".
in the contradiction lies the hope
Highly skilled and experienced actors with impeccable timing !!
As a physics teacher and former distance runner AND swimmer, this was hilarious 😂😂😂.
This SNL skit and the "More Cowbell" skit are the best of all time.
As lackluster as SNL skits have been over the last decade, this is truly one of the funniest skits I’ve seen from them, so good
I don't get it. They're just talking about how American units are dumb. This is our life. Why is this a joke?
@@JordanHarristhat's why it's funny... Everything was all laid out with perfectly fine units of measurements that the entire world could use and then we came and were like nah.. we gonna do things a bit different. Growing up with this system it's the norm but if you imagine a situation like this in the early colonial days it's an interesting and humous take on it.
Even a broken clock gets it right twice a day
@@jordanhendrick7248 except it isn't all that funny because imperial units originated in Britain long before the metric system.
"Spell that for me"😂😂😂
impossible.
Thats another joke for me, as "Fahrenheit" is super simple to spell in german, but we use Celsius, of cause.
To be fair to Fahrenheit he set 0 to the lowest possible temperature that his thermometers could accurately go
@@rubytiger13 yes so that when it gets so cold that your fingers freeze off you can fumble and try to get that thermometer to look and see it is because it is the possibile coldest very helpful in everyday life
@Bomber-Trebor that's only like -20 I've worn sandals in colder weather heck I've gone skiing in minus 40
"there is a little kicking" 😆😂😭💀❌
Have to love american footbal.. match takes 4 hours and there is in total 3 minutes of play..
"Liberty son, liberty." So true, the freedom to have the worst systems of measurement 😂😂😂. "You asked about the temperature... I did not." F***ing hilarious.
This is one of the few newer skits of snl that actually was VERY funny while also being a little daring.
Every decade someone says this about a skit.
It's funny though wildly inaccurate. It's also funny that people believe that the US just randomly invented the mile and fahrenheit.
@@krippkeeper We don't believe that. The big question we ask why the fu** you still use them. But, then again.. it's 'murica which explains a lot.
Daring? Dafuq?!??
@@krippkeeperThat part wasn't funny to me.
It is like nails on a chalkboard to hear such inaccurate claims about the imperial and metric systems.
"Why don't we just use the metrics system?"
Uh, gee, I don't know, MAYBE BECAUSE IT WASNT FKN INVENTED YET STEVE OR WHATEVER YOUR NAME IS😂😂😂!
These skits are some of the best stuff SNL has put out in a long time. This and the Beavis and butthead skit
From outside of US: *it's a documentary...*
Right. Only feet, yards, miles, farenheight, etc, all came from Europe. We didn't invent these things in the US. But farenheight was intended to be the temperature of the human body, but the inventor had a fever that day.
Most of y'all also came from Europe. Too bad you missed on the latest version update @@zonked1200
@zonked1200 FYI: US mile is *not* UK mile. Dunno about knees, foreskins and the others...
@@zonked1200 And metrification was adopted as an official international agreement after the US independence. And the US was going to adopt it until stuff happened while the weight standards were being delivered that made it so imperial was too standard by the time it would have been fixed.
@@zonked1200Super weird you saying that like it means anything. We know the US uses Medieval measurements and didn’t decide to move away from *them once things started being standardised.
Keenan had me rolling 😂😂😂.......seriou face and all........ I did not 😂😂😂😂
I never thought Americans actually appreciated the lunacy of all the points raised here. Amazing
We got this system from the British.
@blackrock1961 you sure did, when was that again?..
We know that our system is shit. we're just too accustomed to it.
@@blackrock1961 Yeah we had it before we were nation.
our measurements might be archaic, but tbh as long as we get to live in a free society with minimal governmental interference + low taxes and booming economy, then dare I say how fortunate are we
The 2 George Washington Dream skits are some of my all time favorites.😂
“You asked about temperature…”
“I did not.”
**crickets**
Hilarious. Such conviction.
Just a fun fact: 1 mile was originally defined as 8 furlongs (a furlong being 660 feet). This originated from the Roman "mille passus" or "thousand paces".
So that would make one "pace" the length of 5.28 feet. The Romans must've had very small feet...
@@TF2CrunchyFrog
A Roman pace is the heel of one foot to the heel of the same foot when it next touches the ground.
It was equal to 5 roman feet, or around 58.25 inches. That is 11.65 inches for a Roman person's foot. Around a size 12 shoe.
Why no 1000 then😂?
And there was a measure between yards and furlongs called a Rod
And 1 Furling is a yet-unmet ancient alien species in the Stargate universe :p
This is one of my all time favorite SNL skits.
It's great, but "all time" SNL bits are the Billy Crystal days.
IYKYK.
They wrote bits and spent the entire broadcast trying to get each other to break character.
@a7hazen I like some telling other people that their personal opinions are wrong. Instead of just saying I personally liked another skit in the 50 year history of a show
@Grimlock794 it's about the delivery.
SNL today, they break delivering their own scripted lines.
SNL back then, they break each other by ad libbing.
There's no comparison.
It's why Che and Jost are so great- it's the magic of the old days.
@@a7hazen again that's your opinion. Is that so hard to say?
OMG that TEMPERATURE bit got me laughing out loud! 🤣
…”impossible!”
Yep. Sums up this entire conversation pretty well!😂😂😂
saturday night live has gotten so good recently, glad they are returning to their roots of being hilarious
I feel like this is one of the few exceptions. Some of the newest cast us really funny though so im hopeful!
@@knock3x Yeah some of the skits have been good recently. Obviously SNL was never 100% funny all the time, but no sketch comedy is. Im just glad to see them breaking away from their politically correct mold, making fun of everyone, and having fun again.
@@bmc8982I mean I guess you could say this skit points to American exceptionalism the idea that US is exceptionalism country that deserves to basically do whatever it wants to the world as being kinda silly like many other things in the USA
They were ok in the early 2010s. They still had people like bill hader who were always funny. Then the dreaded year of 2016 came and SNL became what the news were. 24/7 “orange man bad”. They got way more political than they needed to and focusing on politics isn’t funny when it’s the main joke over and over. I got a bad feeling it’s going to go back to that in 2025 because they just can’t help themselves.
He almost lost it at the temperature bit.
Farenheit is just an old German scale... Really crazy it is still in use. My Grandmother in Austria sometimes still used Reaumur..
There is a shirt that reads
Fahrenheit 0 (very cold)-100 (very hot)
Celsius 0 (very cold)- 100 (dead)
Kelvin 0 (dead)-100(dead)
@@orlock20 Celsius 0 = ice melts / water freeze 100 boiling water at sea level
@@orlock20 That sounds like XKCD. And it's also absolutely correct and why Fahrenheit is better.
@@jaimeromanini4093 which is great for parts of chemistry, but not so much for every day life. I know that water boils at 212F, but that rarely ever comes up. Meanwhile we have a temperature scale that realistically goes from -30 to 120 for everyday life that makes it very easy to know the difference in weather feel.
Great sketch. As a Brit, the Imperial system is one of the few things we don't mind Americans taking undue credit for.
*laughs in stone*
British pirates are also the primary reason Congress never changed to the metric system. They stole the weights that were going to be presented to Congress so there was no reference. Literally every aspect of this is the fault of the British 🤣
@@AfUlveneNo
This American still doesn’t understand why imperial hasn’t been phased out. Could have done a 10 year phase out, and we’d all be better for it.
As an American, it's funnier knowing soccer and the imperial system are both from the UK and we use it simply out of spite.
Love the drama effect. It’s sooo awesome guys.. love to you all ❤❤❤
One of the greatest skits ever
"Fahrenheit". "Spell that for me sir" "Impossible"
"Nobody Knows" Winning answer! 🤣🤣
This is classic, I've watched 100s of times 😂😂😂
One of my all time favorite skits in the last 10 years, easy! (Well, and part 2 lol) Right behind the Stefon skits!! 😁😂🤣
One of the very best skits ever on SNL
Something about “there’s a little kicking” is just so funny! 😂 I’m not even exactly sure why
It's almost like he has to concede that there's a bit of kicking lol
These are sooo good man!! Done just right.. see when you try to mention these things in conversation people get all defensive. This is actually so spot on and shows the imperial system to be a nightmare. Love it thanks guys. What about driving on the wrong side now hahaha
“Certain unpopular sports” lmao
We use the metric sh!t for the unpopular sports 😂
if this is not the best SNL skit i dont know what is... Nate crushed this, just so good. This will be a turning point in his already rising career. The guy is just flat out funny.
My favourite were the alien abduction ones with Kate McKinnon but yes this one’s awesome as well.
Cowbell
Best snl episode ever
A wonderful time watching and listening to this great sketch. ❤😂🎉
I’m a 3rd grade math teacher overseas and I have to teach the imperial system to kids that use the metric system. I always apologize to them for how ridiculous it is. At least now I know why 😂
The imperial system and farenheit are scaled to the human body and base 12. I.E. The ancient Sumerians used a base 12 system as 12 is the number of lunar cycles in a year, and finger segments (three for each finger) that one can count on one hand excluding the thumb. (4 fingers × 3 segments = 12). Fractions of 12 are divided into 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4 segments equally. For practical use Imperial is actually a superior system. 12x5=60. the measurement used for seconds, and minutes, and 12x2=24 the number of hours in a day. I bet you use both of those measurements "overseas" without considering why. For navigation purposes and things like naval longitude use minutes and seconds as notation.. why are there 360degrees in a circle and not 100? Because it comes from Babylon. Maybe you should link up with a 3rd grade history teacher and share some notes. There are other reasons as well. I didnt even get started on temperature yet
@ you do realize we’re watching an SNL sketch and not a TED Ed video right? I don’t actually think George Washington proclaimed things to be so 😂 I do know the actual reasons behind the thinking but it’s still funny to me that I have to teach it to children that will never use it unless they move to the US. Believe me, I also believe in the superiority of the imperial system but we’re also allowed to laugh at it a bit
@TravelingTeachers haha yea ok fair enough I just like to spread awareness of the imperial system
Genius skit here! 😂
It’s funny bc these are actual jokes and not merely funny interactions.
omg an actual snl skit thats funny.... its been a looooooong time
"There's a little kicking", "You asked about temperature", "Liberty" ROTFL -- that was so good
His comedic timing is impeccable
Nate is the best!!
One of the best of all time.
Cool to see Nate on SNL. I had no idea. I guess the days of having to explain who he is and why people should watch him are in the past. Great delivery and timing by everyone in this sketch! Hilarious!
Comedy genius right here , because is all actually true haha
I love this country and every single one of my fellow Americans. We might not agree on everything but we’re Americans and that’s good enough for me.
Everybody loves the mud they live in!
There's a little kicking..lmfao
"How many feet to a mile?" "5,280 Of Course." Had me dying.
THis is gold
Ounces are used in both weight and volume scales. Speaking of volume, we have ounces, tea spoons, table spoons, cups, pints & half pints, quarts, gallons, barrels, and yes, sometimes litres as well. Often when something is highly voluminous, we specify its equivalence in Olympic sized swimming pools.
1 kubikk is 1000 liters
But..... Why???
Don't forget the much used units elephants for weight, Empire State Buildings, aircraft carriers and Eiffel Towers for lengths and football fields, Vermonts, New Jerseys, Texases and Alaskas for large size areas.
Reminds me very much of Bob Newharts humour ❤❤
Funniest SNL skit in ages. I wish for another installment.
This is one of the best skits I've ever witnessed.
Imches, feet, and yards WERE the world scale.
You count twelve knuckes using your thumb on one hand, thats a foot, each handful counts a knuckle on the other hand, one finger on the second hand is a yard.
back when all hands were aliexpress sized. one size
This should go down in history as one of the best sketches of all time right along side of the Abbot & Costello "Baseball" sketch. (More commonly referred to as the "Who's on first" sketch)
One of the best sketches in a long time
I love Fahrenheit because it’s like a percentage scale. 50° is pretty okay. 70 is alright. 30 is alright. Anything higher or lower is uncomfortable and if you get above 100 or below 0 most people would rather be dead!
The English talk about temperature and 35 is beastly hot unless you’re on vacation and 30 is just kinda warm 😂
It’s literally a scale of habitability. That’s the entire point of it, 40-60 is the most comfortable and habitable temp range for people.
Celsius makes more sense since freezing is zero.
@@Palmer132 How about Kelvin. No atomic movement at zero. Sounds better! 😂
Fahrenheit is more logical since it’s geared to be practical. Celsius is just clumsy.
@ buddy no it isn’t.
Millimeters and inches line up twice on a ruler. Once at 5 inches and once at 10 inches, which is 127mm and 254mm.
If you are comparing inches on the one side, you'll have to compare it to centimeters on the other side, which would make it 12.7 and 25.4.
Yes, rules have small line markings for millimeters, but the numbers written on the rulers are for centimeters.
Thats because an Inch is DEFINED as 25.4 mm.
@@julianegner5997 thats quite the nonsense, top search will literally tell you it's defined as 2.54 cm. Like, what difference does that make? Centimeter and Millimeter are interchangeable. But on a Ruler, it's common to write the numbers of the centimeters.
@@denissinner4625 Denis is going to find out the magic of the metric system when he realizes 2.54 cm is exactly 25.4 mm. And cm and mm are not interchangable.
And if you engineer electronic devices you know those very well. They are the overlapping standard.