When I saw the news that Saturday Night Live released another sketch dedicated to Mario Kart franchise, I get flashbacks.
I think We all remember the rather scary episode of Saturday Night Live back in 2021 where the world second richest The man and the world’s most punitive poster today Elon Musk hosted the show. It’s not just unhappy that he’s there (though talking to his human for the first time certainly didn’t help), but it almost feels like every sketch he appears in is specially designed in the lab to trigger a feedback-or-flight war for anyone who watched.
In particular, we think about a little. tHe combatant outline. A sketch with a pretty funny starting point (Wario is on trial for killing Mario in a karting accident) and a really bad execution. Weird touches, Fanfiction.net special twists and overall just a bare minimum of comedy. When you hear”Mario Kart comedy sketches” and this comes to mind, one can’t help but tremble with fear and suffer from severe acid reflux.
With that in mind, I think I can comfortably say that SNL has redeemed itself. Its latest satirical attempt Mario Kart in the most recent episode of the show with Pedro Pascal was a win.
Actor Pedro Pascal is best known recently for his role as Joel in the HBO television series adaptation. Our last. In his first time hosting a series of sketch comedy shows, Pascal mentioned a lot of “fancams” about him online in fancams, in which Pascal plays the principal of a school where students won’t stop creating TikTok fancams of him. It rules. With that, he managed to do what many thought was impossible: star in a movie. Mario Kart sketches do not cringe.
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Playing on the lack of narrative in Mario Kart and the deep and enthralling narrative of HBO’s The Last of Us, HBO’s Mario Kart is genuinely a well-executed sketch based on a simple and timely concept. What if something that is traditionally light-hearted and fun was actually serious and gritty? We’ve seen it done before, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be done well. Visually, it looks ridiculous yet high quality. The fake review quotes got me. Me likey!
Of course, comedy is subjective, and things that make me go “tee hee” might not make you go “hee haw”. You might’ve even thought the Musk Wario sketch and thought it was the funniest thing you’ve ever seen in your life, and that’s okay. Legally, I cannot stop you from feeling this way, though certainly I wish you didn’t.
But me personally? I think the HBO’s Mario Kart sketch knocks it out of the park.
This story originally appeared on Australian Kotaku
