‘SNL’: Mikey Madison Comforts Wounded Crime Boss Husband With Catchphrase Comedy

Saturday Night Live host and recent Academy Award winner Mikey Madison portrayed the wife of a fatally wounded crime boss who, in his final moments, wants to hone his stand-up comedy routine alongside her.

After patriarch Marco (Andrew Dismukes) is shot through a window by unseen assailants, he admits to his two sons (James Austin Johnson, Marcello Hernandez) how he is “full of regrets.” Among them are not being able to see his grandchildren grow up, and not being able to do stand-up.

“Always wanted to try it. Never did,” he tells them, lying on the ground while riddled with bullets. He then starts to work out some bits.

“Had that idea for one thing. It’s like – you know, you got those signs on the bus? It’s like illegal to beat up the bus driver?” he says. “So the joke would be like, okay, now I won’t!”

That receives a lukewarm reaction, so he tries another.

“It’s like, you ever see a bird walking across the street?” he says. “It’s like, why?”

Soon after, his wife Marie rushes in to console her husband, who, with his time running out, desperately wants to know: “What was that great joke you came up with last night?”

It’s about bowling shoes, she remembers: “It’s like, when you go bowling, they make you put on those goofy shoes. And it’s like, why?”

“Oh, so I can whip a 15-pound bowling ball down a lane and the floor’s fine, but God forbid I wear my Skechers? You know, like, what’s going to happen?”

She then reminds Marco about his catch phrase: “Make that make sense!”

Their sons are surprised by her involvement in his act, and how their mother is also his “writer.”

When the clan’s rival gang arrives, they ask if the father has any last words.

“Yeah,” he replies, pausing a moment. “You ever notice how smartphones make you stupid?”

The gunman (Mikey Day) can’t believe it. “Those are your last words?”

No, Marco clarifies. His last words, of course, are his catch phrase.