Last week’s episode of Saturday Night Live was the last of the season, which means this weekend has no new Bernie Sanders impersonations, no inspired lunacy from Kate McKinnon, no undeserved platforms for Donald Trump. But there’s no summer vacation on the internet, where one iron law applies: Video must be posted, and video must be shared, and video must go viral!
So instead of the usual semi-topical sketches about the week we’ve just gone through, here’s something timeless: Andy Kaufman inventing an entire new genre of comedy on live television in 1975. Later comedians picked up on cringe humor, but no one before or since has done anything as inspired as the ending of this sketch, a joyous triumph of the weird.
