Lisa from Temecula - SNL 

Why didn't I realize that there were probably people moving the table until this comment. That explains a lot lol

They broke Bowen! 😆😆😆

They were doomed from the start 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Lol 🤣

I just died! 🤣🤣🤣

That and "Antonio Banderas".

In an interview, I think they said that the line was actually written, but the decision to cut to that side of the table for a reaction was made right before the sketch aired, and Bowen was not aware of that. So he wasn't expecting to be on camera. Everything about that moment is so absurd and Bowen's reaction just takes it over the top!

u can see the background actor visibly choke whilst fake sipping on his cup

Yeah she totally improvised. I love when they break each other. They probably have a contest where the 1st one to break has to buy the booze and party favors after the show

We over here minding our business

Antonio Banderas over there!!!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂!!! Both of you! I can't!

😂😂😂

WITH CUJO IN DA BASEMENT?

😂😂😂

I'm glad they kept it in cuz the girl that played her was funny asf lol

​@Quality Concepts Ego Nwodim, a KING!!!

which show was he on?!

@lauren m this was from SNL one of the skits.

​@lauren m he was on Seth Meyers

"y’all need to do better.” - Ego Nwodim [dramatic pause] :o

COOK MA MEAT😂😂😂

COOK. MY. Meat

I missed that. Great line overshadowed by laughter.

We need a recurring sketch with Lisa and Shayna

'Lisa? Yes, Antonio'...@3:21.

The table was crazy but when she said "why? Because we're black?" Broke down everything 😂😆

Debbie Downer Disney World rings bells

@CoolBoss999 OMG yes!!! I was thinking that when everyone broke!

I just did this today 😂 I hope you have a great day tomorrow!

SRSLY!!!! #same

Me too!

Fix your life so you don’t have bad days, don’t cure them with positive stuff, remove the negative stuff.

@Nikolai Stoykov everyone has bad days, it's normal..

She had her foot on his knee because her chair fell, hence why he was stabilizing her. I had to watch it again to notice haha

It’s the hottest thing I’ve seen to this day. If a man does this to me I’ll marry and have kids immediately 🫣

@Allie G same

Yep, ovary overload!

@Allie G Ok good, I was worried I was the only one simping about this

Pedro swears it was Bowen breaking that put him over the edge because he "Never" breaks.

I remember when they hired cast members with the self discipline to STAY in character. Anyone can blow the role.

I need Lisa from Temecula in the courtroom

The audience didn’t laugh that hard tho

Your wish. Granted.

They did. They did one where she is tossing a salad and it bombed horribly. Look it up. CRINGE

@Zephyr Hills I appreciated the effort, but yeah it didn't work. It felt like a bad carbon copy. I feel like that character could be in a different setting and play very well. Let's see her in the courtroom (like someone else mentioned in the comments), let's see her shopping, let's see her at a family reunion, let's see her being dragged by her sister to volunteer, etc. Also, while her new accent was probably there to set up the salmon joke, it made it feel like a different character which was disappointing :( So give it another shot, SNL! THE THIRD TIME COULD BE THE CHARM...hopefully.

I love how the chair fell, she put her foot on his knee and he reached out to hold it steady.

Sometimes I wonder if they’re told to break…

That in Bowens laughter. I'm trying to cover his face as well thought out laughing.

@Shdldhdjsn7786 they were usually told not to from what I know over the years but when they do I personally love it, this is hilarious 😂 Bowen usually holds it together 😂

@Shdldhdjsn7786 Thank you! It's happening WAY too often, and it just detracts from the skits, imo. It's hard to immerse myself in whatever bizarre situation they're trying to create when they can't commit to their own characters.

LUCAS!? FROM LIVEJOURNAL? Wild to stumble upon this comment

Definitely in tears🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

She won the lotto. Even though they're free, It sounds like a pain in the butt to get tickets to watch a live taping of SNL. That's cool she got a great host and good musical guest to watch live

@AbbaZabbaOlyFrn how do u get them

What a weird thing to lie about

🤣🤣🤣🤣YES!!! Always ordering terrible meals!

One of the problems with new SNL is they dont have recurring characters anymore

I agree

@The Trend personally I think they need to lean into the weird but stuff out of nowhere references 🤣🤣🤣

I was thinking this!!!

I can’t have CHILDREN

@I’mTired 4402 Had me CRYING all buhjillion times I've watched that. Rachel Dratch is a goddamn treasure and I miss her comedy.

This steak is BUSSIN'

Oh I’ve watched it at least 20 times.

Her Teacher with Andrew Dismukes is super funny too. She had superb chemistry with Jason Sudeikis in the parent/teacher conference and her Dionne Warwick is genius. She can play anything and now that Leslie Jones, Cecily and Kate are gone Ego, Punkie, and Heidi can shine.

Bussin 💀

😂😂😂

That's not even what she said. If you're gonna quote something at least say it right

Lmao the shock on her face when Bowen breaks is too funny!!!

Yeah and Bowen throwing the fork was a great gesture for the moment. The comedic timing was on point this skit.

His little giggle and "wrap it up" hand gesture at the very end is so cute. It's like he was begging the director to just please end this because he couldn't make it through another second. 😂

Bowen & Pedro gave up even trying to hold it together almost immediately. Even at the end Bowen is just openly signalling to keep shaking the table 😂🤣

His break was everything!

Really? It's gotten to where I thought he was giving them bonuses for blowing the skits. Laraine, Gilda, Danny and John never sat around laughing at their own jokes, because they were professionals. But these days, more often than not, the cast just doesn't give a shit about keeping it real.

@Nancy McMonarch - What difference does that make?! If the audience genuinely and unexpectedly laughs then that should be the end result….

@W Carroll Laughing because the cast is so unbelievably lazy and the whole thing has gone to hell is very different than laughing because the sketch is funny.

​@Nancy McMonarch Consider this, the reading rehearsals of certain skits coupled with time constraints, we're able to get this to live taping on the quick. It was during the performance that the cast realizes just how abysmally written it was and couldn't help but laugh. In truth, the sketch wouldn't work even if they didn't break character.

@fen war That would almost make sense if they hadn't repeated the same horrible sketch just weeks later. Beating a dead horse won't make it tap dance.

Omg this! 😂

Absolutely, that was my vibe about it.

Yep... I said it above, but I really wonder if 'why cuz we black' was a line that was not in the script. That moment seemed to break everyone, even the people in the background. It really feels like no one expected that line... esp Bowen who threw down his fork and gave up lol

I was thinking that Ego changed up some shit after Dress Rehearsal! Took everybody by surprise.

​@PowerDiva it seemed as if much of what she did was improvised. And it all was amazing. 😂

@GalaxyNexus1 it's interesting... I know that SNL is famously strict on stuff like that. Because it's a live show, Lorne Michaels expects them to stick to the script and you can get fired for going off book. But I also think maybe he's softened up recently, because there's been a few skits like this where it really seems like someone threw their castmates for a loop. It may also be a situation where she approved it ahead of time and they just didn't tell the cast. I can see the show allowing that. Either way she's pretty amazing, and this sketch was hilarious.

And the guy behind her was about to spit his coffee.

@Longo Chu You can actually hear that extra behind her choke right after she says it!

@Longo Chu I saw that too😂

It’s Ego looking right at Bowen before and after saying nothing. He really did break everyone in that moment.

Even the extra behind her loses it in his cup of coffee 😂

Omg same here

Reminds me of the Debbie Downer in Disney World Skit. They all just lost it!

This reminds me of the Debbie Downer at Disney World vibes!

Looks like the stage hands missed shaking the table at the end

@Nate 10x funnier than Debby Downer ever was

Or sometimes the skit will be terrible but the actors laughing saves it.

I hope you're right because I watch this sketch over and over when I need a laugh. lol

lol mine was when Ego's face comes into the corner of the screen as she's gnawing on this steak brick and you can hear Bowen crack and then Pedro laughs at Bowen laughing. She's fuckin hoovering that thing right here: jpvid.net/video/%E3%83%93%E3%83%87%E3%82%AA-zxxCaw74ptk.html

Pedro was on Seth Meyers tonight and specifically blamed Bowen for taking them all down fully when he throws-down his utensil 😂

Seeing Bowen break was my favorite part.

Pedro is amazing in this cause on top of ALL the chaos he picks up the stool that falls and then holds her ankle like autopilot making sure she doesn’t slip even though he’s hanging on by a thread himself

🤔

And a sitcom.

"Cook my meat!" Is this week's "Hold on Madonna's calling me". Ego was a STAR in this skit!!

I need a movie of Lisa from Temecula absolutely destroying Walmart in court

@Noncreative Guy can you imagine the mayhem!

🤣 True. We need more of Lisa

SNL needs to continue with this skit. I believe there is only 2.

I think that was my favorite part!

you can see the extra behind her almost choke on his drink when she says it LMAO

That was amazing!

Definitely seemed ad libbed. Molly's face was also a sight to see! Ego is amazing, and it's nice to see her shine now that she can. Sad to see Kate, Aidy, and Cecily go, but it gives some of the others a chance.

@Brian I thought nobody noticed, that guy choked in his coffee 🤣🤣

Pitchers are designed to have a low center of gravity when filled up to prevent their tipping over. This is a brilliant demonstration of the effectiveness of their engineering

so true! I kept eyeballing it waiting to see it tip off the table 😅

The pitcher tipping was written into the sketch, that is one funny woman

Word

All I hear is OH YEAH in the Kool Aid man voice. 😂😂

Same LOL😅

Literally It highkey felt like golden age snl where the jokes were hitting and everyone was having a fucking blast

AA The Carol Burnett Show was like this in a lot of the sketches where they were never ‘retaken’. The TV audience saw the sketches as they were ‘filmed before a live audience’. The ones where Harvey Korman was almost NEVER straight-faced when he was in skits with Tim Conway. Tim could never NOT crack Harvey up. Hilarious! Carol, herself, had a hard time keeping a straight face, too! Loved it!!! Check out Tim as a dentist with a syringe of novocaine; and Harvey as his patient. A classic.

At 0:03 you see Molly Kearney doesn't have a wine glass, so she tries to cheer into the air. Three seconds in, and this skit is already going off the rails. XD

Debbie Downer Disney World

@marquizzo omg 😂😂😂

Yes, this character was an INSTANT CLASSIC. Like up there with Debbie Downer. Amazing character.

Have you seen "Loco"?

1 million percent recurring character

I agree it should be recurring

Agreed!! I'm not even mad that everyone broke.

Edith pushy

I love her

And all it took was a bunch of the cast leaving before they, finally, gave her more time.

I sing Loco all the time

@Jake B 🤣😂🤣

Had me in tears.

ME, TOOOOOOOO! 😂😅

And COOK MA MEAT !😂😂😂

SAME 😂

She had me when she first said "Mm-hm, COOK my meat"

Me too. Everytime I watch it I crack up.

Yeah, I can't tell you how many times I've watched it. I was in tears from laughing.

And the loud thump of the steak falling on the table sounded like a brick 😆

the man in the back when she said that had me

You think it’s gone be nasty without ketchup?

@Cory The way she delivers that line kills me every time