Saturday Night Live<\/em>, the cast member Andrew Dismukes played a suburban husband who threw a successful dinner party. As he basked in the company of his friends, he proposed a sweet, well-intentioned idea.<\/p>\n\u201cGuys,\u201d he said. \u201cAm I crazy? We should do this, like, every Sunday!\u201d Instead of agreeing, however, his friends reacted with a mix of confusion and discomfort, leading him to gesticulate desperately: \u201cThis! Us! Sunday Supper, every week!\u201d As he repeated \u201cSunday Supper,\u201d the anodyne phrase eventually became funny through sheer force of desperation.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for Dismukes\u2019s character, the inconvenient demands of grown-up life make such commitments hard to stick with. One friend (Sarah Sherman) raised the difficulties of securing a babysitter (\u201cThose teens drive a hard bargain\u201d); another (Ashley Padilla) noted that she and her husband usually had dinner with her parents on Sunday. In response, Dismukes\u2019s character quietly cycled from disappointment to wounded understanding to a complete unraveling, as his wife (Melissa McCarthy, the episode\u2019s host) looked on disapprovingly.<\/p>\n
Eventually, after disappearing to his room, he returned carrying his clothes in a bindle and wearing a drifter\u2019s jacket. \u201cI am running away and never coming back,\u201d he announced, his voice dripping with earnest sadness. \u201cBecause I\u2019m embarrassed I got too excited about Sunday Supper, and no one else wanted to do Sunday Supper.\u201d After a bizarre monologue about befriending and then murdering a fellow drifter, <\/em>he mournfully sauntered off into the night, having accepted his fate as a social outcast.<\/p>\nMuch of the sketch\u2019s humor was powered by Dismukes\u2019s ability to use his lanky, nervous frame to suggest that his character was still a scared little boy who never grew up. A regular cast member since 2022, he specializes in satirizing men who worry they can\u2019t live up to some imagined ideal of masculinity and who implode as a result. The best moment of his run might be a \u201cWeekend Update\u201d bit where he created a puppet of his dad, who told Dismukes he was proud of him for being \u201cthe 17th-most-famous current cast member on SNL<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\nRead: What does SNL <\/em>think of straight adult men?<\/p>\nLast night\u2019s sketch used these talents to tap into the ongoing concerns surrounding the loneliness crisis, as many Americans feel more isolated than ever. In particular, some men have been hit hard by the trend. One oft-cited statistic claims that 20 percent of young men say they have no friends. Many guys deal with a less extreme version of the problem, as adult responsibilities get in the way of hanging with the fellas. (Up to 70 percent of men say they don\u2019t see their friends enough.)<\/p>\n
The result is that modern life can make a full-grown man feel like an awkward teenager who worries that no one likes him. Though McCarthy was hosting the show for a sixth time, she gave Dismukes the space required to portray a guy whose inability to handle polite rejection leads to a complete breakdown. In the sketch, McCarthy\u2019s character, who called her husband \u201ca burden on my life,\u201d also pointed out that he had threatened to run away before following such crises. Sure enough, he returned shortly after leaving: \u201cThe neighbor\u2019s dog was outside, and I got scared,\u201d he said. If it\u2019ll make our friends feel better, maybe it\u2019s worth just calling a babysitter and committing to the dinner party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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