They're on a long-running late-night sketch show that has very talented hair, make-up, and costume people. If it were you, you'd do the same.

yup! if I was part of the cast I'd try to get into fun costumes as often as possible as well.

This is one of Ben Marshall’s previous characters - the original sketch is super funny as well

I honestly don't know what I just watched, but they looked great!

Yeah it's comedy

Yes!

Is that being fair, really? To be honest with you!

💯 that was me

Thats exactly what I was thinking

completely true for everyone I have known that dresses that goth. no offense but sometimes I wonder why are you dressing so extreme if you are trying to act so vanilla

As most goths are lmao

Then you need help ,ASAP !

Except for judging that one guy's hat.

Most goths I've known (me at one time included) are really nice. I think because we're expressing ourselves, and it's mostly about self-expression, not making a statement, like punks (who are in-general, also surprisingly chill -unless you're a douche)

Love goths!

Goths actually do that!

Uh, is that irony? THEY'RE THE WRITERS.

@@rickrose5377 What’s your point?

@@coojar These guys are not part of the regular cast, they are the writing staff. The office is their workplace at Thirty Rock -- it's where they dream this shit up. The bits are their fantasies as writers for the show. Of course that's where the bits take place.

@@rickrose5377 Yeah, no shit. I just said that I liked that it took place in an office.

Everyone give the original commenter a break. Lonely Island had two out of three ppl who were just writers but their sketches were out in the world. It’s noteworthy that all their sketches take place in their office

Also Bats Day in the Fun Park or Goth Day at Disneyland which started in 1999

@@gargoylguy Came here just to say this

If you went anywhere in the late 90's there were a lot of goths.

I assume that was the Nightmare Before Christmas effect, lol

Oh I remember that trying to find somewhere to smoke a clove

They're old enough to remember those.

The only thing missing is Bob Saget! (RIP)

@@LazyIRanch he was a pedo I heard

I'm thinking more of the '80s. '94, the yr Full House ended, began the era of more sophisticated sitcoms and their theme songs.

🎶 _"Sometimes the jokes don't land"_ 🎶

One of my favorite sayings lol

that bit absolutely paralyzed me. we need more of this.

Laughing in Irish.

can you explain?

*SPLAT*

Totally did not. But….. we still love them

@@kaylaswanson9918 it did if you're goth or goth adjacent or know any actual goths.

Just DO NOT interrupt when the music is playing. 🖤 🦇 ⚰️ 🥀

Hahahaha for real, also as a goth, my reaction through the whole sketch was, Oops, well, I guess the whole world knows the truth now hahaha!

@@crystalanderson1770 we just mundane people who snuggle our cats but wear cool clothes and dance like a bird

@@RedMoonCreates Slightly more skulls than expected in the home decor. Takes a parasol on hikes. I'm seriously a regular old basic bitch who wears all black and thinks it's Halloween all year

@@RedMoonCreates Live, Laugh, Love... FOR REMEMBER YOU SHALL DIE

We know.

They have a youtube channel where they have more varied stuff. I don't want to get in trouble for posting links, so I'll just post both channel names: Please Don't Destroy Ben Marshall

@@kellylockwood8287 oh I've seen everything they've put out, but they still deserve a high budget series.

Right

They are also writers on the show. They don’t just do these shorts

But their skits are vastly superior to 99% of all the other sketches. They need their own vehicle to maximize their talents.

Exactly... but the irony misses them.

@@peanutbutterdragon4105 the irony is part of the skit. Love SNL.

That's why they're 3 normal goths!

@@joeblow5087 the goth character's they portray miss the irony.

TBH I’ve never met a goth who’d judge someone for wearing a fedora. Judge someone for wearing blue jeans, yes, but they’d love the fedora.

a whole detective agency

Children of the Goth Detectives

@@elherb4811 "goth detectives" yessssss

Oh shit yess!!!

this comment thread makes me happy

I feel like Lorne deserves a lot of credit for managing to shift with the times for so long. I can't imagine just about anyone else managing.

They’re hilarious!! Im sure it doesn’t hurt that the shorter one with brown hair is the son of Jimmy Fallon’s lead guy. The older one with the glasses 👓.. all 3 are talented but definitely had a foot in the door

I'm guessing it also give them a bit more time to do setup and get ready for the next skit maybe?

Same on the trying part but during every one of their bits all I can hear is the 3 sad virgins song.

Yes, I need this to be a reoccurring bit! With rotating cameos from SNL regulars and/or the guest hosts.

@Menilek Mulugeta Of course she is!!

You’re welcome to switch lives with me here in cold, gloomy, authoritarian northeast China.

@@roxythefoxsayfurismurderan3187 nah, I'm good over here. I do like the dark.

@@elizabethbathory6144 heeeeeeey, girl, hey! ♥

You liked this sketch? Then I hates it.

Agreed. That's why family guy fizzled out. It got to where the gist of the punchline was going through your head while they were still setting up the joke Edit; except Adam West. Dudes character always cracked me up, all the way through

I couldn't. I'm happy it ended.

I'd like to see em leave the office and go on adventures together 😺

Same. 😮

Story of everyone's life. That's why they included it in this sketch about how normal these guys are.

Yessss

Yes!!!

Remember when Hillary Clinton was photoshopped as a goth. She looked so much better 🤣🤣🤣

huh

Exactly my thoughts! 🤣

Its not that were criticizing someone elses fashion were criticizing the fact that people call themselves goth without listening to at least one goth song. It doesn't matter what you look like. Personally as a goth i dont judge others based on their clothing style. I only judge them on their knowledge of gothic subculture. Yeah you can look like a totally normie basic average person but if you dont listen to the music i hate to break it to you but you're not a goth. Its like calling yourself a metal head without listening to metal. Wearing black doesn't make you goth listening to bauhaus does.

​@@coffintears5821 Ah, this again... so I prefer Nox Arcana and other such orchestral and neoclassical darkwave music to traditional Goth music. But I listen to Dead Can Dance's Dionysus EP ALL the time. Is my love for that one EP enough for me to qualify as a Goth?

@@coffintears5821 That's not being goth. killing Romans is goth. It's Not always about wearing black and listing to Christen death.

@@nyxshadowhawk Yup, in my book. Maybe spread out to more of their catalog though? At least start with the greatest hits... Goth is a large umbrella that can have goth folk and also electro-goth in it. And some goth that is borderline metal, but I draw the line at black metal/death metal. That stuff isn't really part of Goth to me, much like Marilyn Manson never was, either. He was a poser/hanger-on whose only contribution to the scene was bringing in some baby bats who then got curious and learned about stuff.

@@coffintears5821 While I agree with you in some aspects, I think it is also important to evaluate if they are WILLING to listen to stuff. Our job, as goths or elder goths, can be to shepherd people and try to turn them into baby bats, educate them about the music, etc, and try to do it in as understanding of a way as possible based upon the openness of the person in question. No need to ooze pretension or else you'll just turn them off to the best music they might ever get to hear. And gateway them into it with some Cure, New Order, Banshees, then you can pull the "oh you liked New Order? This is them before their old lead singer took his own life, you've probably seen the T-shirts" and boom, Joy Division. Then it is a short step to Bauhaus and then they can handle ANYTHING. Well, almost anything.

Bat Days

That actually makes a lot of sense

Probably Haunted Mansion the most

only the normal ones

im goth and can’t stand disney also do not dress in this extreme. but my jokes land

I was thinking similar.

And go shopping for a vacuum with JAMIE! at BB&B

Or, if anyone besides me remembers, Goth Talk.

@@eboethrasher well now I do! Azrael Abyss and Circe Nightshade reunion for sure!

Why did I immediately think of the Stefon sketches when I read “This sketch has everything”

@Marc W I did too. Even read it in Stefon's voice. Am I dating myself? 😳

I'm literally a goth that says doggo. LOL.

They missed a great joke there. Definitely should’ve said that at the beginning.

*audience members are all dressed up as zombies*

And Ryan Reynolds is the nosy neighbor as himself

No I really don't think they do.

Did they meet in college? How did they come together?

Ben Marshall has another sketch like this on his UKposts channel.

Then go meet some goths?

@@SynthApprentice except these are 3 normal goths, not just goths

@@DaringDanielletravels You say that like there's a difference.

That comes part and parcel if you're a writer for SNL.

Time constraints, digital sketches will never take priority regardless of how good they are.

Usually they do air these shorts to the live SNL audience (you can hear the laughter), but this time they didn't.

There are some they air live and some they don't. This is one of the cut after dress rehearsal ones (along with Rami Malek Wants a Treat, Future Selves, And New Personalities).

They're actually funny and funny things aren't allowed on SNL anymore.

Because of the intro music

@@OBSaxman yeah, the intro music was a dead giveaway on that one

@@OBSaxman My b, I was disassociated from reality at the time and missed that part

Better days.

@@MothGirl007 oh yes ! 🤘🤜🤛

Same. I was the weird kid in school. Now I’m the weird mom. lol, definitely toned down as an adult but still definitely stick out at parent teacher meetings.

Same...I'm 47

@@laurawallace1346 haha oh goodness I can imagine 😂 I am one of "those mums" too ☺️😆 I would rather be as I am , than like other mums 😏😳😂

That. Dialogue. Bravo. Tarantino-ish.

Yeah.

Well we've got The Addams Family and What We Do in the Shadows.

​@@nyxshadowhawk I don't think we should settle for just those two. Or Dark Shadows. Or any witchy show. Or any other vampire show for that matter. We should have some wholesome goth shows, damnit.

I guess you and I have different ideas of what constitutes “wholesome.”

"FASCION POLICE"

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I originally thought this was Fred and Carrie when it showed up in my feed.

I could hang out in their office all week long bouncing ideas off them. It would be a pleasure.