When it comes to sketches on Saturday Night Live, you never know how it’s going to go in terms of laughter and audience response. Sometimes a sketch does so well that it becomes a recurring thing, which happens often. This includes Nate Bargatze’s George Washington sketch, which has been done twice. Surprisingly, the beloved sketch was apparently not well-received during the table read.
The George Washington sketch sees America’s first president, played by Bargatze, relaying his “dream” to his fellow soldiers. Namely things that the U.S. has actually done or implemented, such as being a country to largely abandon the metric system and other ridiculous (but unfortunately true) facts. It’s a simple but hilarious sketch that didn’t do all too well during the first read-through. As Bargatze recalled on Travis and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast:
