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Saturday Night Live: ESPN First Take Responds to SNL's Late-Night Take

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While our coverage focus is shifting towards Spider-Man: No Way Home star Willem Dafoe & musical guest Katy Perry as they get ready to take the stages of Studio 8H this weekend, we have a fun update on this past weekend's Will Forte-hosted (with Måneskin as the musical guest) episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live. Though oddly enough, it's about a sketch getting a lot of attention even though it never made it to our screens that night. In the "Cut for Time" sketch that was released, Forte's Todd LeVane (from "Sportshorse") joins ESPN First Take co-hosts Molly Qerim (Chloe Fineman), Stephen A. Smith (Chris Redd), and Michael Irvin (Kenan Thompson) to debate Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But as we've come to love about "talking head" sports shows, it doesn't take long for the yelling and hot take one-upping starts. On Monday, the cast from SNL got a chance to find out exactly what Smith, Qerim, and Irvin thought.

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Just in case you need a refresher or you haven't had a chance to check out the "Cut for Time" sketch yet, you can check it out below before getting to know how the folks over at ESPN First Take felt about it:

Here's a look at Smith's tweet giving his thumbs up (especially with Thompson's Irvin):

And now the script gets flipped as Smith, Qerim & Irvin gets a chance to react to Fineman, Redd & Thompson's impressions of them from over the weekend:

NBC's Saturday Night Live Season 47 cast includes Aidy Bryant, Michael Che, Pete Davidson, Mikey Day, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Colin Jost, Kate McKinnon, Alex Moffat, Kyle Mooney, Ego Nwodim, Chris Redd, Cecily Strong, Kenan Thompson, Melissa Villaseñor, and Bowen Yang; feature players include the returning Andrew Dismukes and Punkie Johnson, as well as new players Aristotle Athari (Future Man, All Rise), James Austin Johnson (Silicon Valley), and Sarah Sherman (The Eric Andre Show).

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Ray FlookAbout Ray Flook

Serving as Television Editor since 2018, Ray began five years earlier as a contributing writer/photographer before being brought onto the core BC team in 2017.
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