Nate Bargatze is aware of what his followers need: For his second journey to Saturday Night time Dwell, the comic dusted off his waistcoat and breeches for one more skit about “Washington’s Dream.”
Within the return of the sketch that first debuted final November, Mikey Day, James Austin Johnson, Bowen Yang and Kenan Thompson are dressed as American Revolutionary troops as Bargatze’s George Washington evokes them to recollect what they’re combating for. This time, nevertheless, he reminds them what they get to do as they create their very own nation: “do our personal factor with the English language.”
“I dream in the future that our nice nation may have a phrase for the quantity 12,” Bargatze begins. “We will name it a dozen.”
“And what different numbers will we have now a phrase for?” asks Yang.
“None,” Bargatze deadpans. “Solely 12 shall have its personal phrase as a result of we’re free males and we might be free to spell some phrases two other ways.”
“Which phrases, sir?” Day asks.
“Donut,” Bargatze replies. Or is it doughnut?
Test it out above.
When the skit first debuted final November, Bargatze’s Washington dreamt about “selecting our personal methods of weights and measures.” Right here it’s:
