Here is a new family dinner conversation skit from the 48th season of SNL. It's been almost a year since I posted anything on this blog and this simple vignette seems like an easy clip to talk about as I move into finally getting this Saturday Night Live blog back on its feet.
In this short comedy skit from episode 9 of season 48 Austin Butler plays the archetypal brilliant son who has just helped discover a breakthrough in fusion energy. His position at the department of energy has him manning the lasers that create the fusion reaction that attempts to harness the energy of a star.
His underappreciated and idiot of a brother is played by Andrew Dismukes. The clips from this last season are bittersweet as they are the last time we will get to see Cecily Strong as a regular on the show. In fact this is her last episode. Let's hope we get to see her in a guest appearance in later seasons.
As the family praises their intelligent and successful son on his codiscovery of free energy their other much less appreciated son interjects that he does stuff too like deliver so many pizzas.
This skit has a simple formula but it's hilarious and should not be missed. I won't ruin it for you by giving away to many spoilers but for an under six minute skit it is full of laughs.
Butler, Cecily and Dismukes are joined by fellow cast mates Heidi Gardner, Marcello Hernandez, James Austin Johnson, and Sarah Sherman who play his family members sitting around the table for dinner.
