SNL knows how (un)excited you are for high school graduation season

SNL mock graduation ad

High school graduation season is upon us, and Saturday Night Live knows how, uh, great it's going to be!

With all the enthusiasm and fisheye lens of a monster truck event commercial, SNL's mock ad for James Madision High School's graduation touts each excruciating part of the ordeal. "It's gonna be hot as hell," the announcer yells, with "100 grads, 400 family members, all in direct sunlight for three-plus hours! Grandpa might pass out!"

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Bonnie Kristian

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.