SNL Season 44: Worst Sketches, Ranked

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#3. BROTHERS

Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney's portrayal of roughhousing sixth-graders getting hosed down by their dad grew more unpleasant the longer it dragged on. — WATCH

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#5. CHARLIE'S GRANDPARENTS

This play on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a long, drawn-out, octogenarian sex joke, capped by an unfortunate dust gag. — WATCH

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#4. DAY OF THE DORKS

The audience was practically mute during this ill-conceived Revenge of the Nerds parody, in which Jason Momoa's Beef was triggered by the very mention of dorks. — WATCH

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#6. DISNEY

There was very little humor to mine from this sketch, in which Steve Carell portrayed a family man with severely diminished mental capacities who was unaware that his wife had left him. — WATCH

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#9. JAIL CELLMATE

This unfortunate Bill Cosby sketch felt like a funeral for an impression that's done Kenan Thompson so much good over the years, but had to be put out of its misery following Cosby's sexual assault conviction. — WATCH

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#1. SO YOU'RE WILLING TO DATE A MAGICIAN

Leslie Jones and Pete Davidson could barely hold it together for some reason during this dreadful game-show sketch, which had a running joke about an implied incestuous relationship between a magician and his sister. — WATCH

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#2. SPACE THANKSGIVING

In this actual sketch which actually made it to air, an extraterrestrial species of intergalactic corn (?!) was revealed to be held and eaten against its will. — WATCH

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#10. TRUMP BROTHERS BEDTIME

What little energy this cold open had died as soon as Robert De Niro entered the room. The show's resident Robert Mueller looked as though he'd wandered onto set, then read off his cue cards as if he'd never seen them before. — WATCH

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#7. TEACHER FELL DOWN

Kate McKinnon was unable to work her magic on this bizarre classroom skit, during which a melodramatic driver's ed instructor refused to accept help from her students. — WATCH

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#8. CUBAN VACATION

It's unlikely that this Seth Meyers/Heidi Gardner vehicle was meant to be as grating as their characters — rich white snobs who showed up late to dinner and rambled on and on about their recent trip to "Coooba." — WATCH

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