Common Knowledge - Saturday Night Live

The game show with answers supplied by 17 year old kids. Aired 10/17/87

[stevenspenneberg]

“Oh well sorry Jean!” No one could deliver that line like Steve Martin.

[bethl]

It makes a lot of sense, a guidance counselor being the best at guessing the answers from a teenage perspective.

[klaytaylor]

I'm a high school teacher and this is one of my favorite snl sketches ever!
"Oh well, sorry JEAN!"

[Retrotude]

This is basically what would happen if Jeopardy's answers (or rather questions) were left up to the Family Feud survey.

[geminianpoet]

"Answers are determined by a national survey of 17-year-old high school seniors" :D :D :D
As a high school teacher, this had me rolling with laughter! :D

[ThePsho]

I love how into it Jean gets once she figures out how the game works lol.

[nicsushi]

Can we take a second to acknowledge that NBC did a really good job restoring all these old sketches!

[charlesmurphy]

Nora Dunn is absolutely excellent here. One of the most underrated cast members ever.

[alitlweird]

Hands down, one of the greatest sketches in SNL’s archives. Clearly Steve Martin was one of the writers on this sketch.

[LA]

"It's not what you know, it's what you THINK you know." Boy that aged well when considering our current state of affairs.

[donaldjacoby]

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, ” Carlos Santana

[aquamarine]

"The British are coming!" "Grant". I died.

[nadiasilvershine]

"No one has ever gone broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." -- H.L. Mencken

[MuzhiLi]

This is actually how stock markets work...the value is determined not by the intrinsic value, but what others think the assets worth.

[colincampbell]

The flow and timing of this scene was so good. No one looked like they were struggling to read their lines.

[Clem-Kadiddlehopper]

I love it when I run across skits from SNL that I somehow missed.
This one's a gem... and so much a reflection of society... and just plain funny!

[kjamison]

This needs to be revisited for a modern audience! That was quite funny.

[pakde]

Sad thing is the jokes at the beginning failed because the audience wasn't sure if the answers were right or not...

[Drewkas]

I love how before the internet we thought you'd have to survey 17 year olds to get such answers.

[robcat]

One of my very fav sketches. It gets more real every year.