What’s more powerful than a Saturday Night Live punchline?

The Times of Israel · Shuly Babitz · 2026-11-04 01:52 UTC

Our Jewish identity and commitment to Israel! We don't need Michael Che and his false definition of 'genocide'; we can watch Israeli sketch comedy instead

It was a busy fall Sunday. Errands, meal prep, middle school baseball. After my son, Nati, finally “locked in” to finish his homework, we rewarded ourselves with some ice cream and the previous night’s episode of Saturday Night Live.

We were looking forward to laughing together. Instead, we ended up turning off the TV.

SNL is a guilty pleasure for some of us in our family. We generally watch individual sketches rather than full episodes, sharing our favorites with my daughter and son-in-law in Israel and asking each other if we’ve seen the latest one. Sketches like Domingo, Snack Homies, and Marcello Hernández impersonating Sebastian Maniscalco just make us laugh. The catchphrases become our own inside jokes.

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