History Characters / SaturdayNightLive

* SatelliteCharacter: As weird as they are, two even weirder characters tend to follow them to each new job - the one actually getting fired, played by Tim Robinson, and Andrew, played by Creator/TaranKillam, who's ObviouslyEvil.

Famed announcer for the [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Chicago Cubs]]. At first he provided commentary for Weekend Update, then got his own show ''Space, The Infinite Frontier with Harry Caray''.

* AnythingThatMoves: She puts the moves on whoever's the last guy at the bar at closing time. Cemented in season 43 when she does it to a ButchLesbian (SpecialGuest Creator/AmySchumer).

* AnythingThatMoves: Not only has Brasky slept with all his friends' wives and multiple other women, but he's also raped men and somehow had sex with a cigarette machine.

* CrisisOfFaith: They went through one when Da Bears fired Ditka.

* EveryoneHasStandards: While the fans' predictions are always ridiculously impractical, Bob did once chastise Todd for predicting that UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan would score just under 200 points against the Pistons as 100 points was (and as of 2019 still is) the single game record.

[[WMG:Macgruber]]
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->Played by Creator/WillForte

Making life-saving inventions out of household materials; getting in and [[CoversAlwaysLie out]] of ultra sticky situations; the guy's a friggin genius.

Eventually [[Film/{{MacGruber}} got his own movie]].

* TheBusCameBack: For season 47 in 2022. That's a whoppng 12 years.
* ComicalOverreacting: Macgruber often overreacts to innocuous things other people do, like handing him an object. The innocuous thing is often something Macgruber had just asked them to do.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Played for laughs - when he returns in 2022 he's gone completely MAGA.
-->"Have you ever heard of [=QAno-=]" (''kaboom'')
* DramaQueen: Macgruber takes just about everything, good or bad, as a personal attack.
* ExplosiveStupidity: Every time. PlayedForLaughs.
* InformedAbility: We're told that he is great at [[MacGyvering getting out of sticky situations]], but we never actually see it....
* {{Jerkass}}: He's racist, homophobic, stupid, incredibly arrogant, and in one sketch goes broke due to playing the stock market and turns to theft and drugs, even stealing from his own friends to get by. Its a wonder anybody wants to work with him.
** Turned up to eleven in his Season 47 sketch, where he becomes a far-right wing conspiracy theorist who thinks average Americans believe in limited government, only men having a say in "my body, my choice" in terms of health and vaccinations, and supporting suppressing voting rights for non-white people.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Macgruber at first seems like a straight parody of 80's hero [[Series/MacGyver1985 MacGyver]], but a later sketch pairs them together and [=MacGyver=] reveals that he is his ''father''.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero:
** In one episode, after finding out his son, Merrill (played by Creator/ShiaLaBeouf), was gay, he sent him a gay conversion camp and forces him to quote bible verses and talk about women.
** Another episode has him dealing with working with a Black coworker named Darrel (played by Charles Barkley). In the first sketch, he uses questionable slang when addressing Darrel, whose name he continuously mispronounces, he starts to tell a questionable joke before the bomb explodes right before he could get to the racist punchline. In the second sketch, as Darrel hands him a black pen to use, he maces him with pepper spray, and does it again in the third sketch when it looked like they were about to make ammends.
** In his most recent [=SNL=] episode, he becomes a far-right wing MAGA conspiracist who doesn't believe in Covid and vaccines, only believes in anarachist limited government, having "my body, my choice" only be applicable for men, and suppressing voting rights for non-White people, and also declares himself an Oath Keeper, which he is proud of being, also causing him to guess that it makes him part of the Proud Boys too.
* ProductPlacement: During one episode, Macgruber was sponsored by Pepsi, and, being Macgruber, he went all-in on the sponsorship, changing his name to Pepsuber and eventually not saying any words other than Pepsi (or Diet Pep--).
* StereotypeReactionGag: Whenever there's a black, gay, Muslim, etc., person around, you can expect this.
* TimeBomb: A common sticky situation Macgruber finds himself in.

[[caption-width-right:350:"Cook my meat"]]

A lawyer from Temecula eating dinner with her sister's friends.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The table shakes a lot more than Lisa's sawing action should produce, even when it's an extra, extra well-done steak.

* {{Determinator}}: She's gonna cut that extra, extra well-done steak.
* MistakenForFlirting: Lisa takes everything Paul (played by Creator/PedroPascal) says as an attempt to "get some butt tonight".
* NeverMyFault: Lisa blames the restaurant on all the spilled drinks and scattered food caused by her own shaking of the table.
* PlayingTheVictimCard: When the restaurant's manager came to the table to report people were making complaints, Lisa asked if it was because they were black; the manager (who was black) just walked away.
* {{Slapstick}}: Most of the humor comes from the exaggerated physical effect of the table shaking as Lisa saws into her extra, extra well-done steak (and from subsequent {{Corpsing}}).

* PoliticiallyIncorrectHero:

** Another episode has him dealing with working with a Black coworker named Darrel (played by Creator/CharlesBarkley). In the first sketch, he uses questionable slang when addressing Darrel, whose name he continuously mispronounces, he starts to tell a questionable joke before the bomb explodes right before he could get to the racist punchline. In the second sketch, as Darrel hands him a black pen to use, he maces him with pepper spray, and does it again in the third sketch when it looked like they were about to make ammends.

* LukeIAmYourFather: Macgruber at first seems like a straight parody of 80's hero [[Series/MacGyver1985 MacGyver]], but a later sketch pairs them together and [=MacGyver=] reveals that he is his ''father''.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Likely the real reason the Chinese government sent him.
-->"It's called a power play!"

* TeenyWeenie: In the first sketch, his wife mentions that he was born with ''only'' testicles, though the second sketch has the CampGay interior designer give him a feel and declare him "just average."

* SerialSpouse: Married to Creator/MargotRobbie in the first skit and then to [[Music/JenniferLopez JLo]] in the next.

* UnfortunateNames: Among the many things that perplex people is his last name, Schatt. A scene reporter interviewing him tells him frankly that spelling it with two Ts doesn't make it any better, and an anchor wonders why he doesn't go by "Matthew".

[[WMG:Jebediah Atkinson]]

Speech critic for the Patriot and Union who wrote a negative review of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, who vists Weekend Update to read his reviews. It turns out Jebediah has been a critic for quite a long time, but for some reason he dresses like it's the early 1800's.

* FloweryInsults: Jebediah gets very creative with all his insults.
* {{Immortality}}: Jebediah was witness to the [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Sermon on the Mount]], so he's been around for a long time.

* PetTheDog: One Weekend Update actually ends with Jebediah quickly yelling "Go see ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'', it's adorable!"[[note]]Taran's wife Creator/CobieSmulders happens to star in the movie.[[/note]]
* SelfDeprecating: Jebediah's review of Series/SaturdayNightLive: "The same tired characters doing the same tired {{catch phrase}}s. [[LampshadeHanging Next!]]"

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Being born in 1920, Herb has shown some outdated beliefs, in one case saying a female news anchor should StayInTheKitchen, much to the another anchor's disapproval.

* EroticEating: One part of his seminar is on how to make food sexy, including [[GagPenis putting two grapes between a hot dog]], and [[GagBoobs putting two red lifesavers on a halved cantaloupe]].

* GagBoobs: Ms. Rafferty claims that her guides for all of these misadventures like to play with her boobs, and re-enacts this on an unwilling Sharon.

* MatzoFever: Mary Katherine has a crush on a Jewish basketball player from a rival school.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The table shakes a lot more than Lisa's sawing action should produce, even when it's an extra, extra well-done steak
* BizarreTasteInFood: Lisa prefers extra, extra well-done steak, with ketchup
* {{Determinator}}: She's gonna cut that extra, extra well-done steak
* MistakenForFlirting: Lisa takes everything Paul (played by Creator/PedroPascal) says as an attempt to "get some butt tonight"
* NeverMyFault: Lisa blames the restaurant on all the spilled drinks and scattered food caused by her own shaking of the table
* PlayingTheVictimCard: When the restaurant's manager came to the table to report people were making complaints, Lisa asked if it was because they were black; the manager (who was black) just walked away
* {{Slapstick}}: Most of the humor comes from the exaggerated physical effect of the table shaking as Lisa saws into her extra, extra well-done steak (and from subsequent {{Corpsing}})

* BareYourMidriff: Gene wears a shirt way too small which rides up and bares his midriff.

* Catchphrase: ''"I'm Gemma. I'm Bri'ish."''