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Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, and Jimmy Fallon crack themselves up in video chat soap opera sketch

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Uploaded: 2020-04-09T04:14:15+00:00
Description: "Vanessa! In quarantine! BEANS!"

"Vanessa! In quarantine! BEANS!"

Caitlin Welsh

on April 9, 2020

Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, and Jimmy Fallon crack themselves up in video chat soap opera sketch

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Sketch comedy might be a little harder now that you can't get all the funny people in a room together, but these three Saturday Night Live veterans make it work... sort of.

Jimmy Fallon invited Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig for a Zoom-era twist on the classic sketch format: the overwrought soap opera. Fallon, one of the most infamous breakers in SNL history, can't quite keep it together as Ferrell cycles through some incredibly budget long-lost-brother costume changes. Even Wiig has to turn her head to hide a smirk or two, but kills even the silliest line readings ("Vanessa! In quarantine! BEANS!") as well as the final twist (gasp!!!).

If they can manage this, surely they can bring back SNL over Google Hangouts or something.

Topics COVID-19

Caitlin Welsh

Caitlin is Mashable's Australian Editor. She has written for The Guardian, Junkee, and any number of plucky little music and culture publications that were run on the smell of an oily rag and have since been flushed off the Internet like a dead goldfish by their new owners. She also worked at Choice, Australia's consumer advocacy non-profit and magazine, and as such has surprisingly strong opinions about whitegoods. She enjoys big dumb action movies, big clever action movies, cult Canadian comedies set in small towns, Carly Rae Jepsen, The Replacements, smoky mezcal, revenge bedtime procrastination, and being left the hell alone when she's reading.