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* [[Trans-Atlantic Equivalent]]: A short-lived [[Channel 4]] show called ''Saturday Live'', which moved to Fridays and became ''Friday Night Live''. It started the careers of Jo Brand, Jack Docherty, [[Stephen Fry]], [[Harry Enfield and Chums|Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse]], amongst others. A couple of relaunches have been attempted.
* [[Turn Your Head and Cough]]: One skit involved a doctor performing this test on a male patient, asking him to cough over and over again. Another doctor soon enters the picture and both continue to perform this one part of the exam over and over. Then, a third doctor enters not recognizing the other two doctors already in the room, revealing the first two doctors to be impostors who just like to sneak into examination rooms and feel people's balls.
* [[You Might Remember Me From]]: Almost all hosts who are actors will take a moment to name-drop their latest film or television show, just to give context to the folks at home struggling to recall whether they should recognize the person. A few hosts have cleverly subverted this, like [[James Franco]] completely making up the name of a movie just to see if people would applaud, or [[Scarlett Johannson]] plugging ''Due Date'' not because she was in it, but just because she was excited about it.
=== Individual sketches on the show are examples/subversions of common Tropes such as: ===
* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: The Tiger Woods press conference sketch on the episode hosted by Blake Lively (who played Tiger Woods' ex-wife Elin Nordegreen). [[Harsher in Hindsight|It doesn't help that the musical guest for that episode (Rihanna) is the same Rihanna who was beaten up by her now ex-boyfriend, Chris Brown (who would later be the musical guest for the season 36 episode hosted by]] [[Russell Brand]]).
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** Another sketch, spoofing John McCain ads in 2008 made countless [[You Fail Logic Forever|flawed arguments]] against his opponent [[Barack Obama]].
{{quote|"Barack Obama says he wants universal health care. Is that so? Health care for the ''entire universe''? Including ''Osama bin Laden''?"}}
* [[Bankruptcy Barrel]]: The Weekend Update segment on the [[James Franco]]/[[Kings of Leon]] episode from season 34 had Lehman Bros. CEO Richard Fuld (played by Jason Sudeikis) wearing one of these. He even lampshaded that he was wearing a barrel and couldn't sit down because "chairs won't take me."
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Chris Parnell's "Merv the Perv" (and his brother, Irv, played by episode host Johnny Knoxville), Christopher Walken's "The Continental" (mixed in with [[Handsome Lech]]), The Roxbury Guys (Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan), and The Wild and Crazy Guys (Dan Aykroyd and Steve Martin).
* [[Catholic School Girls Rule]]: Molly Shannon as Mary Katherine Gallagher.
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