Saturday Night Live Urkel Reboot On Peacock

 These days it seems every streaming service and network is rebooting some old television series from the 80s or 90s. Saturday Night Live has some ideas of their own for the next big reboot. They want to see a new gritty updated version of Family Matters.

This updated version has a new spin on the popular sitcom with the Winslows living on the bad side of Chicago instead of their upper class California neighborhood. Although Urkel still has his nerdy persona the mean streets of Chicago have hardened him up and in one scene he repeatedly hits Mikey Day’s character while saying his catchphrase 'did I do that'

All the major characters from the original show are acted out by the SNL crew. Ego Nwodim plays Laura Winslow. Kenan Thompson plays Carl Winslow. And of course Urkel himself is portrayed with great comedic effect by Chris Redd.

I really love this skit. I often watched Family Matters when I was younger and seeing the characters I enjoyed watching so much parodied by the SNL cast was a real treat. Don't pass this one up. It's worth a watch.

Saturday Night Live Skit Biden Spider-Man Cold Open

This season 47 episode 10 Saturday Night Live skit is another cold open featuring James Austin Johnson as President Joe Biden. 

In this sketch the President has figured out what is causing the spread of the Omicron covid variant. It all seems to have started around the same time the new Spider-Man No Way Home movie came out. He is convinced that the problem will go away once every stops seeing Spider-Man for the 100th time.

It seems that nearly the whole cast was in on this was. The Whitehouse reporters are played by Bowen Yang, Ego Nwodim and Andrew Dismukes. Pete Davidson also makes an appearance as another version of Biden from  Marvel's multiverse. Apparently this dimensions President Biden is not the real one but was created as a joke.

This cold open SNL sketch was a lot of laughs. I really enjoyed it. James Austin Johnson does a tremendous job or portraying the President in a way that really brings out the hilarity of the character. This is a magnified version of Joe Biden that doesn't exactly fit with reality but it works and it has the crowd rolling in the aisles.

I look forward to more Joe Biden parodies like this. It reminds me of the fun the cast use to have in the Bush W. era. Or if you want to go even further back, the Reagan Presidency.