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Saturday Night Live: Will Final SNL Season 48 Sketch Be T-Mobile Ad?

Will this ad from SNL's Bowen Yang & T-Mobile be the last "official" Saturday Night Live Season 48 sketch? We have an idea to put out there.

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Once the WGA/AMPTP strike kicked in on May 2nd, late-night was expected to get hit the quickest – and the hardest. NBC's Saturday Night Live was looking to wrap up its 48th season with three shows hosted by SNL alum Pete Davidson (Bupkis), Kieran Culkin (Succession), and Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus). But with two of those Saturdays down and not much hope of the strike ending in time for next Saturday, it seems Ana de Armas (Blonde, Knives Out) and Karol G will be the official host & musical guest for the Season 48 finale. And just to twist the knife a little more, we're also getting a look at what might just be the last (though some would argue "unofficial") the last sketch for the season, too – and it comes courtesy of cooperation between SNL and T-Mobile.

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Image: SNL YouTube Screencap

In the following sketch/ad "Phone Case," SNL star Bowen Yang demonstrates the extreme lengths that folks will go to protect their phone when they're caught up in crappy phone plans that make them wait forever for a trade-in. Of course, things go from extreme to nightmarish conditions – that is, until Yang wakes up with the comfort of knowing that T-Mobile has got their back (and make sure to stick around for a cute pup reveal). Here's a look at the clip – and a suggestion for SNL if it's not too late? For this Saturday, put together an episode of sketches that didn't make it to air but that were so close that they made the taped rehearsal cut.

NBC's SNL Season 48 includes Michael Che, Mikey Day, Andrew Dismukes, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Marcello Hernandez, James Austin Johnson, Punkie Johnson, Colin Jost, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow, Ego Nwodim, Sarah Sherman, Cecily Strong, Kenan Thompson, Devon Walker, and Bowen Yang. Executive produced by Michaels, SNL is directed by Liz Patrick, with alum Darrell Hammond announcing. Based out of Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, the long-running late-night sketch comedy/music series is produced by SNL Studios in association with Universal Television and Broadway Video.

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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE — Season 48 Cast Shot — Pictured: (top row l-r) Michael Longfellow, Sarah Sherman, Punkie Johnson, Mikey Day, Ego Nwodim, Heidi Gardner, Colin Jost, Molly Kearney, Andrew Dismukes, James Austin Johnson; (bottom row l-r) Marcello Hernandez, Michael Che, Bowen Yang, Cecily Strong, Kenan Thompson, Chloe Fineman, Devon Walker — (Photo by: Mary Ellen Matthews/NBC)

"When it's your own show, and I'll be sitting in the back watching the cold open and topical political humor or whatever in the culture, and they're making fun of you, and you gotta walk out and do a sketch next and hit your mark [and] the show just made fun of you, so why [is the audience] going to laugh at you? They just dogged you," Davidson shared with Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead, The Punisher) on the Real Ones With Jon Bernthal podcast earlier this month. "And you're like, 'I'm a f***ing loser, man.," Davidson added.

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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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