Mr. Beast Meets Disney in This Time Capsule-Like ‘SNL’ Sketch

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Part of growing up watching Saturday Night Live reruns on Comedy Central was that I was exposed to pop culture jokes I had zero reference for. Some things were still relevant, like wave after wave of jokes about the O.J. Simpson trial. But then, I’d see a sketch about George H. W. Bush puking at a Japanese banquet and be lost entirely. That moment has its own Wikipedia page, so it’s not as if it didn’t retain its relevance, but, at the time, I was pretty lost.

It’s an aspect of a unique issue SNL has. There needs to be a mix of jokes that are both evergreen and topical. They’re continued staying power lies in the former, but the latter keeps them hip with the cool cats out there. It

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