SNL understands the white hot rage you feel watching couples choose a home on House Hunters
Who among us has not experienced pure, unmitigated fury at the sight of a couple on House Hunters choosing a home for utterly irrational reasons that have little to no connection to their stated desires or reality? Saturday Night Live understands.
Host Liev Schreiber and Leslie Jones appear as just such a couple, seriously considering houses with features like windows that are drawn on, vertical floors, and a ceiling toilet. The house they settle on is a few billion more than they planned to spend, but it's perfect — except for the lack of man cave. "If I can't have the cave," Schreiber muses, "I'll just keep the man in the basement."
Watch the full skit below. Bonnie Kristian
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
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