Saturday Night Live: The three best sketches from December 2017

When it comes to the great months in Saturday Night Live history, we’re not sure that December 2017 would be in the top 100. While we wouldn’t call the shows hosted by Saoirse Ronan, James Franco, or Kevin Hart the worst of all time, there have absolutely been some better ones that, for one reason or another, were far more memorable. Many of them had funnier sketches and bigger cameos.

For December, the biggest issue with the shows seemed to either be reliant too much on old ideas, tired concepts, or big risks that didn’t quite work. Most of the failures of this month we put on the writers, a group who are often unfairly maligned. This was one of their rougher Decembers in a while and you could feel a sense of lagging by the end of the Hart show.

Nonetheless, there were three sketches that we consider to be especially great from this past month that we could stand to watch many times over. (Ironically, none of them are from the winter finale with Hart — typically, this is the best of the three episodes.)

3. Hallmark Channel Movie Commercial – The irony here is that this is not even a sketch that aired on Franco’s episode; yet, it is a brilliant cut-for-time send-up of the cable network and some of the incredibly cheesy programming they put on the air. It’s the perfect use of Franco as a ridiculous Canadian superstar actor, plus also Kenan Thompson as the Hallmark Channel version of what African-American people are like.

It’s a fairly predictable SNL commercial parody, but in a down month we don’t really mind a predictable double rather than a home run.

2. Floribama Shore – While we’re not sure if all of the people in this sketch from the Ronan episode are actually based on Floribama Shore itself, this is almost one part The Real Housewives of Disney and another part Farewell, Mr. Bunting. It’s probably not as funny as either one of those but it sends up MTV culture perfectly. The real MVPs here were actually Ronan and also new featured player Chris Redd as the normal one in the midst of the mess.

1. Spelling Bee – This was both weird and wonderful, with Franco playing a disturbed spelling-bee operator who overshared about everything related to his life. Also, all of the words applied to his own life.

We don’t know why, but there’s something about seeing Franco break during the Little Pig Boy part of this that absolutely had us rolling — and still does.

What was your favorite SNL sketch from December 2017? Be sure to share in the comments below right now!

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