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Fresh Prince of Bel Air skit in 2018


The episode tonight with Jessica Chastain... It had a Fresh Prince skit that was cringe-worthy and had me shaking my head. It was so out of the blue and so random. It might have been funny in the early 2000's, and even then, the show was already over, but now? It's like they're trying to find something for Chris Redd to do. LOL

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I actually liked it. Definitely not the most timely sketch but my guess is Chris Redd had the idea for this sketch for years.

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Haha, chompin at the bit to get it out.

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We did verify this with Chris Redd.... He did, indeed, have this sketch in mind for 'years.'

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I don't know SNL's exact demographics but however many twenty to thirty somethings that watch the show grew up watching Fresh Prince. Hell, I'd bet the entire cast did. There's nothing timely about it because it didn't need to be timely to be funny. And calling it out of the blue and random as a criticism is kind of odd considering this is SNL we're talking about...

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