World War II 101 - SNL 

too true

totally true

LOL, I didn't realize that. When I was in school, the students weren't so nice. They would probably be yelling, fighting, or fighting and yelling.

or actually IN class!

My history teacher plays a CNN 10 video and the screws around at his desk for the rest of the time. Fun stuff.

But where does the French people live?

@@jeghaterdegforfaen somewhere in western europe

Why are you trying to lie to people sir?

What a damn shame

@@tahimig1 Is france an instrument?

Hahahahahahha

That is so sad

that is hilarious!

I imagine she was referring, but did not know the details, to the battle of Gettysburg. The turning point of the war, where the union had the high ground, and the confederates were fighting uphill. Your teacher was smart, but by assuming the girl was making a baseless comment missed that rather her misunderstanding was to underestimate the scope of the civil war.

@@danieldressler4349 That is a very generous and extremely positive guess as to her thought process but I can assure you this was an extremely ditzy mind 'thinking out loud.' Why I pointed out that she did graduate with honors was to say that she wasn't a complete simpleton by any means, just someone who did the base level and didn't think much beyond that.

History is certainly a subject that I really like and know a good deal about, but I think many have been to a class they felt that was hard. Then the teacher says something which is super basic knowledge but you don't know, so you take all the wrong notes about it 😅

Sadly, I know.

If he really needed to remember that there still are French people it doesn’t matter if it’s on the test or not. That would actually be good note taking. I think people need to realize there are still French people. 😂

​@@Rex1987Yeah, and some students don't get the history basics, like these students in this skit. -_- so they feel they have to write verbatim what the teacher has on the board. I'm a senior and see kids do that no matter what. '-' I asked one to name a state, she said Africa, I've never wanted to scream in a pillow so much before

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You don't even need "smart" kids. You only need them to _attempt_ to read a bit and follow the program. Some of it will thus sink in through osmosis. But there are too many distractions in school. Social media, girls, boys, hormones, video games. I think I'd homeschool my kids at least 50% of the time, if I was ever dumb enough to have any.

@@OMGWTFLOLSMH Yeah but who always answers the teacher's questions and moves the class along? The smart kids.

@@OMGWTFLOLSMH School is not to study, it is just to know what to study and gain a grasp on becoming comfortable with other people. You study at home.

As one of the smart kids, I concur.

I was that smart except I think I drove him to alcohol because of my constant bugging

Yup.... That's right.... The way he acted from the start to the end was so perfect with the lines and the topics.....

Definitely. Much more convincing than he is as a ‘comic’.

He would have made a GREAT history teacher.

He has a lot of experience dating children

the looks of despair, the slow realization that he's not gonna get anywhere on this topic, yeah that tracks :/

true story.

Yea this was 93 , same yr I was in school ! So I can relate to this behavior and our World history class ☺️

This was how we behaved in the class in the 80s.

Oh, they're supposed to be kids...

It’s this bad? Really?

At least they're well behaved.

It was the elementary school, I guess

​@@waltermoldren4991is it this bad?USA is the most powerful nation in the world.There's no way people in the USA are that dumb.

​@@thepolarbear8449Whats funny is that people may think "omg millenials and zoomers are so far gone", this is satirizing gen X.

You mean Jerry Thompson.

Quite believable! He seemed to know his lines so well he hardly seemed to be reading cue cards 🤔

You're convinced? Well unconvince yourself because it is obviously a SNL skit.

I'm confused; what else did this Seinfreld fellow do besides teach history?

Bizzaro World or The Nexus of the Universe?

Yeah, those kids in the skit didnt know basic history, but at least they weren't constantly disrupting and arguing with each other. I'll take dumb students over students that harm others or actively disrupt or fight against the learning process.

@@CooterCoy Wow...your reaching

as a tv viewer of snl for the last 40+years i have to do the same.

When I was in the eighth grade, I was placed into the "average" class because I messed around in the seventh grade. I remember the teacher asking VERY simple questions and I was the only one to answer. Kids used to talk about how smart I was, and I just remember thinking--"No, y'all just dumb!" Luckily the teacher decided to move me back to the honors class. I learned my lesson and never messed around again. As pretentious as the honor students were, it was better than the alternative.

I really hope this isn't the tip of the iceberg, but it's the whole thing. If your kids don't know where Europe is or can't name one country in Europe then the school system has failed them terribly

shutup, shh shutup stop it you know what your doing stop it. shutup ,

Eh, I don't think so, if he had a show it would be about nothing. Ba-dum-doo-ba-*pop*

yes, but what would they ever call it?

​... France?

@@lifechiropractic1279The Bee Movie: The Show

I wish Norm MacDonald was in that skit as well

@@grantk932 *Norm had more funny in him than that whole room. And they knew it. Not knocking any of them btw.*

Thought I saw Kathryn Hahn there, too...

​@@John-ik2egslow down kid

It goes hand-in-hand with Ben Stein's class in Ferris Bueller.

@@jedijones Bueller......Bueller...

An American classroom, of course. Even Canadians lead Americans around Europe by the nose.

@@jedijones that's Seinfeld here after another few years. As all semblance of life escapes his voice, then his eyes, eventually his every thought is monotone and dry - each day becomes just another day calling out yet another forgettable name, wishing he spent his youth pursuing literally anything else.

@@kzero1499 Ben Steinfeld.

BABIES!

@Godly Star fury @5:02 "They put up the berlin wall" - Chris Rock

@Godly Star fury @3:57 "Sweeden?!" - Chris Rock

Godly Star fury yes he was 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Godly Star fury yes he was lol

I have a question for you Mr or Mrs World History teacher, did you ever have to teach Australian history? And if so, did any of your students think the country was really upside down? If not, could you please share the most outlandish, incorrect thing you've heard? XD

@@AdamHolland-Adz Teacher, "Who won the Civil War?" Student, "France"?

I would've been one of your best students. I loved learning about history and know a lot about it.

Well at least they're trying lol

This clip reflects reality. I taught 3 years of history. & I agree, this would’ve been a good day

You were half-right there.

Where the fucks my comment Sean dont answer me slave

They predicted the future 😔

@@AConquerorsVendetta they didn't predict the future. Art imitates life.

Jerry wishes he was still allowed to hit kids

I think he was gon say that arab guy with the big knife

My students wouldnt get this at all

CyberCheese lmao

You get a star for the day because that was pure GOLD 👍

This is the greatest and most clever comment I've ever read.

hahahhahaah

Even the day of the week seems too specific. Having class on a Saturday, at night.

That’s why I saved the vid to my mvp playlist 😂

Nah

Yeah, except for John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase, Eddie Murphy

@@TimothyReeves never heard of em

Chris Farley could have worn a bra...

He tried to meet them where they were ... it was just that their particular ignorance was a bottomless pit ... so, you know, .. but he tried, he really did!

Maybe your teacher had already been ground down and had given up...

That's because he is a performer and is very good at creating an engaging atmosphere. Honestly imo all teachers should take crash courses in public speaking, theatre acting before getting their teaching license as conveying the information effectively is just as important as having those information.

@@baishihua I agree. I LOVED history. But I never had a history teach worth listening to for more than five minutes. It's like they majored in "boring the class."

Nice

I had a "Mr.Mac" best math teacher i had in middle school.

Chris Farley is a national treasure

Best part of the sketch

That was so good

That's my favorite part

Any major dude will tell you Chris Farley was a gift to us all

thejobloshow hahahaha

Art imitates life

😂😂😂😂😂😂 EXACTLY what I was thinking. I want to laugh, but that's really what it's like

So that's why it wasn't funny. There were more laughs at the Eskimo guy abusing dogs in the first documentary.

Best comment^^^^

Even working in adult education, the lack of engagement is horrible. I start every class with "good morning everyone. how are you today?" and no one even looks up at me. maybe a couple people mumble a word I can't hear. I don't get it.

I'm an educator today...the new thing is kids looking up answers in chatGPT....in class!

​@troyfergus4712 serious question, why do you guys let them have their phones in class? Our teachers would have killed us for bringing an electronic device to school back in the day.

That's right. Can you imagine someone bringing a Walkman, Discman, Rubik's cube or whatever into a classroom? @@binabina4445

​@@binabina4445I graduated high school in 2018, and we were just starting to have Chromebooks in every classroom. From what I heard from my younger sister, the school seemed to try to integrate those more and more into classes even if they made no sense. My best guess is the districts feel like they need to justify spending so much on laptops/tablets/etc. so they expect them to be used for notes and other stuff while trying to prevent distractions with terrible web filters

The class is high for sure.

It's a skit. Not real students

It was a joke relax

Where's the footage of Jerry Seinfeld dating a high school girl

Makes Sense

It's so true. I just graduated high school and I was the only student who not only knew the material, from HABIT. I was even able to teach the teacher sometimes.

No way kids were not this stupid but there was no internet

@@daveyhouston I don't call my kids stupid just under informed and with no real desire to correct their current ignorance.

I feel bad history teachers y'all have it rough

Lucas Bell sounds like you could be one of the stupid ass kids in his class, he said he knows history and your ass talks about how cool he thinks he his. I might not be a genius, but I think I can say that he didn’t try flexing his game with history facts

So in your class there was complete silence and people rivaled to be correct? Good for you. It doesn't matter if they were clueless by the way, this is actually a healthy learning environment. Knowledge here has value.

Now adays its just forced revisionists

@@docjohnson1 You mean like holocaust deniers and Republicans who claim to be "the party of Lincoln" while ignoring the trade in party values since then?

What an original comment! Keep it up!

My classmate in high school could not show in the map where africa is. that is fucking insane

Not for long, though.

And they are as annoying today...

“Don’t write that down”

One K thumbs up in 2 days, nice👌

@@abrahamlincoln7907 lol thanks. AMA

Why would you not need to know dates in a History class?

@@KISSARRAH I'm a history major. Exact dates usually aren't very important.

@@faceoctopus4571 but knowing when the nazis took power and when the Berlin wall came up are pretty important

KISSARRAH Exact dates are sort of old fashioned. Most history classes today focus on bigger pictures and ideas. It’s more important for Sophomores to know why the war started than when the war started.

@@faceoctopus4571 I think that's the educational system making excuses for itself.

I was the guy in most history classes who knew everything, so I'd always raise my hand. The teacher would inevitably call on other people and after 2 or 3 guesses someone would get the answer....and I'd pull a Farley. Then I'd get a low mark on class participation.

@@kgatch113a Same. I actually got sent to the principal's once in grade school for getting frustrated at knowing but not being called on. I learned to work on other projects during most classes. Teachers weren't really necessary.

@@joelwillems4081 In 6th grade my teachers used to ask me questions, to make sure they got things right. Not just history, geography too. On the other hand I could spell worth crap and had no idea what 3rd person plural meant in English class.

yep thats exactly what i just saw in the video i just watched, thank you

I spit out my water at work during this part, never saw this clip before. Christ I miss Farley.

I thought you said we didn’t have to know dates

@@toastedjoe1013 I've never heard of a teacher having 3 months off. Usually their summers are 8 weeks of unpaid time. Oh, and they put in a lot of unpaid hours during the school year.

@@AAAA-gj7tn It's not unpaid time. Their salary includes their summers off, school year breaks, long weekends, snow days, etc. Every salaried position works "unpaid hours".

@@joelwillems4081 It is unpaid time. Teachers don't receive paychecks during the summer (unless they are teaching summer school) - and if they do, it's because they deliberately chose to have their pay spread out throughout the entire calendar year (and therefore receive less money per check). They work on 10-month contracts. They don't get paid summers off. Oh, and every salaried job has paid breaks and long weekends. They're called paid vacation days, paid sick days, and paid holidays. Snow days don't really matter because teachers are required to work the same amount of school days each year anyway. A snow day is the equivalent of an office worker being given Friday off, but being told they have to come in to work on Saturday. It doesn't reduce a teacher's total number of workdays. And yes, every salaried position works unpaid hours - including teachers - but teachers seem to work more unpaid hours than a lot of other professions. I'm an engineer, and I rarely have to work on weekends because I am given enough time during my workday to properly do my job. I know teachers who spend their entire Sundays grading and lesson planning for the week, because they don't have time to during the school day to properly complete these tasks. Those are unpaid hours.

@@toastedjoe1013 Do better

@AA AA If I was teacher, I'd choose to get paid over 12 months. That's tight that they get the option of doing that

It's like that one guy in Hamilton during the second or third cabinet battle where Jefferson asks who provided them with help and he just says France kinda like Kermit the frog

Sad thing, France is still happening

He was a voice actor for a bee.

@@carultch no duh

@@carultch Really? I want to know all the details! Don't leave anything out!

@@kdwaynec There is an animated Dreamworks movie called "The Bee Movie" that Jerry wrote, starred in, and produced. Jerry is the voice actor for a bee named Barry B. Benson, who learns to communicate with a lady named Vanessa, and talk her in to filing a lawsuit against humanity for enslaving the bee population in the honey industry.

@@carultch Are you thinking of a B movie by any chance? As in, one that doesn't have high production values? I'm pretty sure there are no movies about bees.

@Tong Zou East meet West.

Ah. That's why it wasn't funny.

There were none

No it's fantasy. Students responding to questions so rapidly?

I mean normally you have the boys who are massive world war two buffs. But I'm Irish so maybe it's different here.

Sadly.

Yes, me too... somehow I feel less alone now

@@elliot1481 Everybody gets a participation trophy

OK I don't know if this is just me actually knowing the answers or if this is an americasn thing but my god if what you're saying is true people are dumb

Me too

Probably was just tired of hearing it at the end....

Unlike modern SNL- SNL with Adam Sandler, David Spade, and Chris Farley had a license to be that bold.

They weren't legends yet at this point.

Watch "Total Bastard Airlines" from SNL. It's another roundelay of legends.

@@FjodorDostojewskij That's because it's around the same era. Almost everyone in that skit is in this one.

True dat. I miss those days.

If only the skit were actually funny.

So accurate

@@Dezmont01 i'm just saying, if you want to have a life, complete the work then, play

@@Dezmont01 i'm not a fucking teacher, i'm just stating what u could do better as I consistently get good grades

@@Dezmont01 1. You're gonna have to deal with reading you don't want to do your entire life, so suck it up buttercup and 2. There is like less than an hour to get all this done, especially with history, how the hell do you think they'll get through the required material if that doesn't happen? What magical solution do you declare for that?

@@Dezmont01 also in ap classes they have to copy straight from the material other wise they are being unfair and sending you to take the test completely unprepared. This year my school started super late because of renovations and we only get 44 days of school in the entire year. We are actually fucked right now. Those hellish courses are to prepare strictly for the ap test, because otherwise it's totally unfair

Jerry was cloned after Seinfeld

After watching Seinfeld? Yes

something about seeing THIS version of seinfeld in an snl skit is kinda jarring, its like he only exists within seinfeld the show, hes just frozen in time forever

He'll outlive us all, you know that, right?

Death comes for us all eventually but history stays forever

I do

The red headed girl accurately depicts the girl in every classroom.

It seems that all of the kids care about the material, when in the real world they would be caring about other things

This is clearly remedial history… I know because I was in remedial classes basically it’s a bunch of kids lumped together that really really struggle with whatever subject math English science history etc

Our English teacher talked with the class about this sketch my sophomore year.

My dad left to go get a pack of cigarettes 17 years ago. He'll be back any day now.

Danny Thill Shouldn’t he have been teaching you history?

TSG... goat application

Is it because he lost all hope and knew this was relatable?

Dporticus Ellen Cleghorne can have that effect on younger folks.

This level of comedic legends can never happen again sadly.... RIP

Dang, Ellen Cleghorn was crushing it in this clip!

ohnoestheydidnt who was she?

Yeah and it's got Adam Sandler in it.

Serenity now

you want a big salad huh?

George would probably hand out work sheets then read the paper and sleep at his desk or something

Dammit! Someone said it already. Nice Dominic.

"george is getting angry"

Aidan Fogleman thats chris rock you uncultured swine

That's Chris Rock you uncultured swine

That's chris rock you uncultured swine

That's Chris Rock you uncultured swine

That's Chris Rock you uncultured swine

He makes it a lot. He thinks it's a lot funnier than it is (and I love Jerry).

I mean beyond the eye roll, he's risking a punch in the mouth!

I have heard community college math professors say that their students can not even add or subtract whole numbers without a calculator. How do you teach them College Algebra?

@Devil Dub Yes, math is racist. So is the Math SAT. I am the son of a lowly Jewish elementary school teacher. My friend got a higher score on the Math SAT than I did. Stanford accepted him and rejected me. The Math SAT, math and Stanford are all racist. We should do away with the SAT, AP tests and ACT because they are all racist.

Brad Kassing and someone that won’t quit asking to use the bathroom

What are air pods?? 🤔

And looking at their phones instead of paying attention....

Exactly. But when I showed middle school kids Jay Leno's Jaywalking videos, they took notice. No one wants to look that ignorant. They started paying attention to geography!!! And the classroom was so quiet! very. weird.

@@ceebeeii6723 OK boomer

The Human brain unable to think logically. The brain has associative structure, and need to implanted what are the "correct" ways. By itself cannot figure it out if not clear methods to follow. As an adult we can do heuristic approaches toward resolutions but for youngs not teached directly. So this is why the present education system is painful for each.

Honestly most kids just don't care if your teaching method is talking at them. You need to engage them in ways other than just conversation.

You sound like a shit teacher

From the student side, sometimes it's just exhaustion.

@@MrGksarathyeah, you have to add something funny or something that helps to spark memories in people's heads...I used to use jokes to ace all my tests.

I thought ya like jazz

And he seemed to have memorized his lines because wasn't making it totally obvious that he was reading from cards as so many guests do.

Today some of the regular cast looks like they are reading cards. @@The_Notorious_N.O.E.

@@The_Notorious_N.O.E. Yeah he was very natural like he did it before Im sure there was a readthrough but this was different.

It's just that when you can tell they're reading from cards it takes away the suspension of disbelief and ruins the acting

Christopher Ramsey he said it so innocently.

@@towerprep45 I a French and that kid is right !

Well, we tried to stop that political group, but we were hindered to do so 😬🤷🏻‍♂️ Greetings from Germany

Thanks to the USA. Same goes for the Germans , the rest of Europe and probably Britain as well. Could have been occupied by NAZIs and then by the Soviet’s if not for the USA.

Pretty sure Seinfeld was just the guest host.

stacked with shit

@@shaystern2453 Big fan of today's woke SNL, are you?

I'm sure Farley could use a bra, but the others mentioned?

@@-oiiio-3993 Don't you mean a Bro?

Australian123Gamer It’s funny cause it’s true.

I bet jerry wrote this skit

I know XD

Yes, an Australian would somehow know if this is accurate... No, it isn't...

@ it is though. Sadly

Thank you! /genuine

It's an exaggeration for the typical classroom, but not by as much as one might think. There certainly are classes this bad, or close.

Thanks for repeating the same comment that's already been posted 100x

You were once a kid did you actually care about ww2 in school ? I no I didn't I was way to busy sleeping! And drooling!

Jesus... everyone’s got some kinda hate boner for America

Wayne Joseph No I loved history and anime in school and enjoyed many of the books. I also hated high school kids when I was in school it was like all of them just wanted to sleep and do drugs the whole time they’re all so boring and basic

Any good stories?

@@bigchezzy8989 hola hola hola. European well know about cointinents and World. Dont put in one basket with ignorant anglo-saxons who see only own country and think that others are nothing. so in england and USA you have most stupid and ignorant people about history, geography and economy.

@@mariooshx5947 you're who he was talking about stfu

@@bigchezzy8989 lol that's funny that you're a fucking liar and made that up

@@bigchezzy8989 Except English are more like Americans than Europeans. And pretty much no country in Europe likes them.

Agree. Though it was off-topic, which frustrated Jerry, the history of the name is interesting."Europa was initially a Cretan moon goddess, who was incorporated into the Greek mythology as a virgin Phoenician princess. She was the daughter of the King Agenor of Sidon and Europe was named after her."

@@Mama2CDHsurvivor In the words of Adam Sandler. "I was gonna say that."

I think Gov. Bush had it right Yerup.

@@Mama2CDHsurvivor Who came up with the name Asia?

How did they get that name? Earth?

Akhil Raman you like jazz?

I don't know how teachers do it. I'm ready to run screaming in the night when helping my kids with homework. So...much....slow-walking.

@@stellaliebler1336 Lol. :)

Raiders of the Lost Rigor ( I really hated that word when I taught)

@@Gumbier_Than agreed

Jokes on us. This was the government trying to use SNL to teach Gen X that French people still exist via “comedy.” Government education was so desperate to get unsupervised 90’s latchkey entertained to death Americans to learn… something… somehow… somewhere. 😭 🤣

me has a dutchman it is it realy is

Me as a Brit: yes it is

@@sohums.6107 What's the Problem nes pais?

LOL. Don't bash our endearing neighbors.

Me as a Frenchman: Yes it is

🖐.....I thought you said we didn’t have to know dates?