Somehow, this sketch gets funnier every time I watch it.
The premise: Maya Angelou has a prank show and she does it in a very … Maya Angelou way.
Juxtaposing Angelou’s gravitas and dignified cadence with a wacky prank show was a genius idea and I want to hug whomever in the SNL writers’ room came up with it.
Also, Bill Hader plays Stephen King in it.
This fake trailer for YA phenomenon The Group Hopper from SNL drags some of my favorite (Hunger Games) and least favorite (Maze Runner) dystopian YA novels/films, and I am. Here. For. It.
Also, Bill Hader’s in it.
“From the director of Maze Runner, the producer of Divergent, and a casual fan of The Giver, adapted from a YA novel written entirely in the comments section of a Hunger Games trailer, meet: The Group Hopper. Put him in a group, and he’ll hop his ass right out.“
That Book Broad 