Top 20 Darkest SNL Sketches Ever 

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There was one sketch from the current season called 'Wing Pit', an innocent big game (since advertisers can't use the phrase "Super Bowl", as the NFL currently trademarked it) advert for a fast food restaurant from the start, then it went sinister at the end.

This list is pretty weak, the Weekend Update has made jokes darker than any of these sketches, especially when Norm was doing it. Next time just show the sketches in order without saying anything, that would be much better.

Yes the one with the Bobby Moynahan as the boss and Beck Bennett as the employee he sexually assaults.

Spelling Bee with James Franco is missing

No question

Old Opie and Anthony was the best at that I think. There were times in over 1,000 hours 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week for over a decade where I had to cover my mouth while I’m laughing and go “Jesus Christ man!” Old Stern too. Billy West was great and when Artie Lange became a 3rd mic, it was my favorite era.

Same. Alot of these were hilarious

Dark comedy is like food for children. Not everyone gets it

@@NotCoolNancy that describes it perfectly

Was that the one with Kristen Stewart?

Tu es mon Totino...

It could have been an appropriate addition for this video too

So he was playing Jimmy Saville

It was actually based on a Canadian talk show host

@@welcometothemovies9157 I don't think Jimmy Saville was ever a game show host.

@@FatherTime89 well he was a host on TV

@@welcometothemovies9157 Well yeah but this isn't a parody of Saville, it's a parody of someone else. And not just because Saville wasn't a game show host, he didn't act like this on air. This is a parody of a different host that did.

Will Farrell

@@Pedalbored isn’t Will Ferrell still alive?

@Pedalbored and P Soujourner yes Will Ferrell is still living. Norm MacDonald just passed away recently, though. Signed Gary’s family member T

Gilda Radner

LOL...that would be Belushi, Gilda Radner, Charles Rocket, Danitra Vance, Jan Hooks, Gilbert Gottried, George Coe, Tom Davis, Tony Rosato, Michael O' Donoghue, the short-lived (oops....pun ALWAYS intended..) Dan Vitale, Peter Aykroyd, and Norm MacDonald I guess you could count Don Pardo too....the "announcer" is certainly a mamber of the cast...AND he appeared on camera...

I noticed it as well lmao

Speaking of Will Ferrell, I'm surprised that the workout routine sketch with Jim Carrey didn't end up on this list. The revelation that drugs were involved and Will having either a psychotic break or becoming The Devil was enough to make that one truly memorable.

Will didn't really do "dark"...nor did the writers during that era....more "over the top" stuff...

i can if you have been watching him since 1998

@@Kobe24brady12 same

That and the "Evil Child Molesting Robot" sketch

@@Breexbloodlust ppp 11:02

@@meerkatman9843 lol

Haha…me too

It made me jump then cry laugh. When he says “I’m gonna take off” 😭😂😂

Kanyes favorite snl skit

Most ceiling fans wouldn't do that. They would have to have industrial fans. Its funny though cuz it sets up the indifference to the bloodbath.

I think that in reality, That sketch is the darkest on this list by far. Hilarious!

@@johnnytmcq especially the one that wasn't even born yet🤣

@@multifandom12380 It's just honest... 😬

@@johnnytmcq I think number one is darker. Number two happens....likely on a daily basis. Age gap relationships are commonplace; we just rarely make the correlation that when men are in their 30s and 40s, their future wives are 14, 5 or not even born. The Rock's robot is darker IMO. Evil intentions like shrink rays and freeze rays aren't REALLY evil; robots that do unthinkable things to our youth that will eventually perpetuate the cycle of abuse is truly evil, and thus, darker.

It's dark but the third wife is the nail in the coffin

Yeah seriously. This channel sucks. Playing the clips is all that’s needed. I don’t need their commentary and weak analysis

Most of these are from the recent past.

LOL...how do you KNOW that her life flashed before her eyes?? The camera never leaves Aykroyd/Child...

@@bradyguy7701 why would the camera staying on her have anything to do with it? she talks about remembering when she was a little girl, basically reliving the memory LOL

“Save the lover!” Edit- I meant, “Save the liver!” but I’m leaving the typo for the humor.

Well, if it was never aired, then they didn’t miss it. They’re talking about sketches that did air.

I'm a HUGE SNl fan/historian, Frank....I can't believe I've never heard of that one... Do you have any more information on that sketch? Who was the host?? When was it rejected?? Thanks.

@@bradyguy7701 it’s just a joke

@@babby4450 Ahhh....got it. You never know., considering that SNL DID censor jokes on WU about Jonestown. It sounds like something O'Donoghue would want to do.....but he was fired at the end of the previous season. (Although his version would have been much darker...) OR it sound like a bad one-joke (or often NO joke) sketch from Doumanian's horrific 1980-81 tenure and cast...

Except that Jonestown happened in 1978...in fact, they interrupted SNL with Breaking News about the massacre... Oddly relevant...

True. Little of that year was "funny"....but some dark stuff for sure...

Agree after the mid 2000’s group left the show. Kristen, Jason, Andy, Bill, Fred, John, Bobby and finally Seth the shows not been the same at all! Plus these lot was the last group that really pushed the boundaries to the point that they just managed to stay on that line and not cross it. But a certain group of people trying to cancel Bill’s Stefon character due to the M word he used to describe “little people” and it wasn’t the actual group of people who he was talking about that tried to cancel him. It was other people getting offended for and on behalf of said community that they wasn’t even apart of themselves! A lot of people (and there’s plenty of videos online) from that community actually sticking up for Bill and telling other people to mind their own business as they wasn’t offended by what he was calling them. Some even either dressing up as things he’d called them like “human fire extinguishers” showing themselves reacting to his Stefon videos or doing both. And that same group of people being offended by Bill and Fred’s “two guy’s from New Jersey” characters. Again tried to get Bill as well as Fred canceled because they found the characters offensive even though they’re not part of the LGBTQ+ community. Again people in the 6ay community having to come out and defend both guys and telling others to mind their own business because they can speak for themselves. And that’s just two off top of my head at almost 4am I can think of. People have been trying to cancel Bill for years over some of his SNL characters. Leave the man alone! He’s given us some of the most memorable and iconic characters the show’s ever had and a small group wants to have them canceled and never shown again. People need to get a grip! Bill has admitted in multiple interviews that most of his iconic characters would never work now and wouldn’t even get pass “Idea Mondays” as it’s called if he or him and John was to come up with the characters now, especially Stefon. That’s how messed up the world is today with the way some people think and get offended by everything. Can you imagine the show without Stefon? the most popular character that’s ever been created on SNL and is the reason why he always makes it to number one on lists of SNL characters.

@@user-fp5vf9qh3i Stefon was great. But he is NOT SNL's "most popular" character. Not by a long shot. Maybe not even Top Ten.... But yes...funny.

oh right yeah that one was messed up

LOVED IT!! But not 'dark"...played for silliness like a bad 80s sitcom...