This cannot be ignored: during a typically hit-or-miss Saturday Night Live episode hosted by Blake Lively, they aired a sketch that made me cry laughing and nearly fall out off my couch in the process. I’m pretty sure that the “Under-Underground Rock Festival” ad, as seen above, is really freaking funny on its own, but it held a special place in my heart for its semi-obscure inspiration. It’s actually a hilariously close parody of a web ad for a yearly (and quite popular) music festival curated by shock-mook-rap act Insane Clown Posse, which I wrote about over on my personal blog a little while ago. The real ad is funny enough on its own, by the fact that SNL writers saw fit to parody this at all really tickled me, and they did a bang-up job with the target, however broad, with such zeal it almost came off as a sort of deranged affection (but maybe that was just my deranged projection).

It was a delirious high in an episode that had several, including a wonderfully strange last sketch of the night featuring Will Forte and Jason Sudeikis as Southern dandies/hillbillies (dandbillies) grappling over a stolen potato chip at a NASA job interview. I love pretty much any SNL sketch that reminds me of the Kids in the Hall. It’s also possible that I particularly love this sketch because there’s almost no chance for a repeat engagement; Forte and Sudeikis last made a bid for too-strange-to-reprise with their ESPN Classic characters, forever announcing female sports sponsored by feminine care products, and while I enjoyed the fact that the second go-round somehow scored a leadoff spot, it makes me wonder if there’s anything this cast wouldn’t be game to do over (hopeful answer: a sketch about potato-chip stealing at a hilariously crummy version of a NASA office).