Community Affairs Cold Open - SNL 

As a Black graduating student at Columbia, you sound JUST like my parents 😂 lol I feel seen

Please keep us posted on Alexis Vanessa and her future endeavors. I feel invested now.

And as a black mom with a student on a campus where they're protesting this is EXACTLY me and her dad!😂

We he said "I pay $68k a year for her to go to Columbia during COVID and she was taking zoom classes" I felt that😔

"Cause I'll tell you what ain't free, Columbia." Go Kenan! 😂😂😂🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Girl, you been Black your whole lfe. You know what it is. ✊🏿🤣

All I know is Alexis Vanessa Roberts better graduate 😂😂😂

Finally someone represents parents like my dad!!! My dad is like 'you wanna go protest? Nonsense. You better go to class'.

“I bounty hunt whenever possible” 😂😂😂

As a parent of a current 2024 Columbia graduate ....All of the statements from Mr. Roberts are FACTS, except tuition isn't 68k...it's leaning more on the 90k end, and you better believe, I'm feeling all this and more. My baby has been robbed of both his graduations. HS and College. He was valedictorian of his HS and never got the chance to complete his speech or walk in a ceremony. Now this, and he wasn't protesting, he was in his brownstone, because-"AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT". Just give him his degree, BYE 👋🏾👋🏾👋🏾✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾 Thanks Keenan- you nailed this skit👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🥲

Keenan is probably 95% of parents of Columbia students.

Applied history of the BET awards 😂😂

We need an Alexis Vanessa Robert's character ASAP! We need to see him in his church clothes with his 3 pumps of Cool Water! 😂😂😂😂

“Let me find out she is in one of them damn tents instead of the Dorm that I am paying for!”🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

As a senior getting ready to graduate college- he spoke to my soul when he was saying she started during covid so she better walk 😭😭 i know thats right!

"Applied history of the BET awards" had me dying 😂😂😂 " she's been black her whole life" priceless ... He is so hilarious...

Hollering at this accuracy cause thats how my dad would’ve been if interviewed 😂😂😂 all blasting the full government name lol

Alexis Vanessa Roberts is 100% protesting.

Everyone in this cold open was super nervous about this subject except for my man Kenan

4:32 "three pumps of cool water, 98 Ford explorer blasting Anita baker" -- dude, this is literally my next-door neighbor 😂 ❤

Kenan been making me laugh since elementary school nickelodeon and still making me laugh today. He's the best. 👌

"Sister Girl" 😂

🤣🤣🤣🤣 My daughter goes to Columbia, and all I can say is, "What HE said!" And yes, I do have a bottle of Cool Water in my rotation. 😆

"Daddy, I just got arrested for protesting at Columbia." "New phone, who dis?"

Always two and sometimes three names! That’s how you know Dad ain’t playin.

"you're watching ny1 because your wifi is down" 🤣🤣💀 thats accurate

“If she don’t walk, Columbia will be on the news for something else!”

That man said exactly what’s on every parents mind right now.

Kenan’s “What’s that now” never gets old 😂

Three pumps of cool water cologne, smelling good as a mug 😂

Kenan has been playing these characters since '95 and makes it land every time. The only gem we can speak of from that 90s nickelodeon era!!

You know what ain’t free?? Columbia 😂😭😂😭😂😭😂

Keenan remains one of the reasons why I still watch SNL😊

Kenan really has some welcome insight. I know a LOT of parents who say their child BETTER be in their dorm that's paid for and studying!

I plan on hooting and hollering when they say their name even though I was specifically told to wait till the end." There's always that family at graduations. (or two or three)

That sketch would have BOMBED without Keenan

Kenan's going all out in this 😆

I don't think anyone gives Michael Longfellow enough credit, his delivery is great. "Yeah.. I feel you, Alphonse"

"she know what it is" please 🤣 culturally, some of this seemed to go over heads in the live audience but iiiiii had a great time 😂

Y’all’s kids …. They ain’t my kids !! ❤❤❤

My favorite thing about Kenan is how he’s constantly trying not to laugh at himself and how funny he thinks the whole thing is. Just never, ever really able to hold character. Like a true comedian and actor.

"You're watching NY1, because your wifi is down..." 😂

Bounty hunting whenever possible 😂

Keenan is a absolute comedic treasure!

When he said the 98 Ford Explorer tho! Bumping Anita Baker… that’s a REAL THANG. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️😆🤣😂

Go back and listen to how he pronounced tuition 😂. It was more like ‘tushion’ 😂 Kenan you a mess.

Alexis Vanessa better not be in one of them tents instead of the dorm room LMFAO😂

This is a classic and good representation of many black sentiments lol

My niece and nephew are graduating and what a crazy college experience they’ve had. Keenan nailed it with tuition costs and zoom at the house

this man!!! Kenan is 100% on point! they have to bring Leslie Jones back to do a cameo as the mother of Alexis Vanessa (from the Meet Your 2nd Wife skit).

*”that’s good for y’all’s kids” 😂😂😂 - MELL DUNEY 616*

How many daughters will be named “Alexa Vanessa” after this clip.😂

This cold open felt like it was a replacement for a sketch they dropped, but Kenan carried it

Once again, my man Kenan never fails to disappoint! He got me laughing throughout this whole cold open sketch! 😂 I hope he never leaves SNL, because no one knows how to do sketch comedy like him! 😊

Producers rarely get any love, and it seems like a fairly thankless job pulling together all the details that comprise a great show, so I wanted to mention that the soundtrack SNL uses as an intro for this kind of community-broadcast sketch is just perfect. Every time I hear that kind of staccato-rubato flute music, it evokes memories of a community-affairs program that was broadcast from a local affiliate in my hometown and, I imagine, all those that were based in other peoples' hometowns. 👌👏🏻💖

"Ima be in there, hooting and hollering after they explicitly told us to wait!"

I tell you what aint free: Columbia. Free Columbia! ✊🤣

"You been black yo whole life. You know what it is." 😂😂

“Baby girl you been black your whole life, you know what it’s” Slayed 😂😂

This skit sounds just like the conversations I have had with my daughter who is now a senior at UT! 😂😂😂

Every college parent be like... yup.

The most alarming thing about this sketch is that Columbia is $68,000 per year. That's almost $10,000 MORE per year than the average American individual income. What a huge ripoff.

"three pumps of Cool Water cologne" 😂😂😂😂😂

The way he said "sixy Eight THOUSAND dollars" tickles me everytime!

Kenan is the King. I will always stop what I was looking for if a Kenan clip drops in my feed.

You gotta love Kenan's old school slang... funniest part for me

Kenan said it all. I called my daughter and said the same thing.❤

Heidi plays the mom/wife/woman next door so very well. She's hilarious.

Keenan was killing it tonight

She got me out here paying $68 towel-sin (thousand) dollas 💸 let me find out she in a tent ⛺️ and not that dorm room I pay fo!!! LOL 😆 🤣 😂 😹

Clearly SNL was really afraid to make fun of this issue but they had to put something out there so they can say they did.

ABSOLUTELY on the money. LITERALLY. ON. THE. MONEY.

He is the typical Black parent with a kid in college. He's going to graduate her himself. 😂😂😂

At first I thought this was going exactly where I thought then for 15 seconds it had me fooled...then it went exactly where I thought it was going 😂 Missed a huge opportunity to show footage of Alexis Vanessa wildin out protesting on campus and Keenans reaction 😂

Thank You Keenan and SNL! But, what is crazy is that Columbia is not $68K (that is tuition only), but $89K (for tuition, room and board)!!! (So, congratulations, Alexis Vanessa must have gotten at least a partial scholarship.) COLUMBIA: Estimated Expenses for the Academic Year An itemized estimate of the cost of attending Columbia College for the 2023-2024 academic year of nine months is as follows: Fees FEE COST Tuition $65,340 Mandatory Fees $3,060 Average Room and Board Cost $16,800 Books and Personal Expenses $3,742 Travel varies Total $88,942 + Travel There is an additional charge of $540 for new students who are required to attend Orientation.

right on point! "free this free that... but what ain't free, Columbia!" and I love Kenan's line ain't sleeping in homeless tent instead of the paid dorm!

I feel like that’s Kenan’s first solo live from New York in a long time

Back in college, i remember saying to friends, "im not skipping class. I'm paying a lot of money for each class hour. You can throw your money away, but im going to class."

The New School's annual tuition is about $30,000. Hunter College's annual cost is $7,400. Columbia's annual cost is $65,000. Alphonso was making a point.

Kenan has such great comedic timing. With anyone else in that bit - it could have been a bust - but not with Kenan. Over and over again, with his timing and facial expressions, he has saved many SNL sketches that would have bombed without him.

I’m just over here engaged with Kenan talking to screen like, “ok, I know that’s right! Vanessa better go to class” 😂😂

My husband and I both work full time and we don't even make $68,000 a year

LOL...that is that old school black dad right there!

Kenan’s comic genius is priceless. Hoping for Part 2 where Alexis Vanessa makes an appearance! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

" Alexis Vanessa roberts" just sounds hilarious out of kenan"s mouth.

God bless kenan doesnt matter what lines you give him he always find a way to make it funny via his delivery.

Kenan Thompson never fails,he always makes me laugh on his sketch’s on SNL,still hilarious 😆,he is a comedy genius & a legend! 😊

I don't blame Alphonse. All that money he's paying for her education.

I ❤️ black parents.

Rule 1 of protests: when asked, you weren't there

Keenan’s perspective was so on point🎯 ❤️❤️❤️

Other than Weekend Update, I very rarely laugh out loud at SNL. But I sure did at this. Great writing, great Kenan.

The way Kenan looked at the camera 😂😂

I didn’t want this to end lol

$68K a year for a College Degree?! That’s almost $300,000 for a 4 year degree! That’s insane! They should be protesting the High Cost of Education!

God Kenan is the best. This could be the entire show and id watch it.

Never heard tuition pronounced that way but I I love it

Kenan deserves an Emmy for this skit

Everyone was reading the teleprompter EXCEPT Kenan because it’s so accurate 😂

3:39 - “Little girl, you been black your whole life. You know what it is!” 😂😂🤣