{"id":647615,"date":"2026-11-01T07:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T07:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647615\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T07:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T07:22:08","slug":"snl-celebrates-brewers-world-series-win-with-drunk-uncles-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647615\/","title":{"rendered":"‘SNL’ Celebrates Brewers’ World Series Win With Drunk Uncle’s Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d paid tribute to the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a>\u2019 historic World Series win during a Weekend Update<\/a> segment that featured the return of Bobby Moynihan<\/a>\u2019s Drunk Uncle commentator character.<\/p>\n

\n\tMoynihan spent nine seasons on \u201cSNL<\/a>,\u201d from 2009 to 2017. His recurring Drunk Uncle character was a classic Archie Bunker-esque East Coast guy with blunt observations on pop culture and politics. He last portrayed Drunk Uncle last year on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u2019s\u201d 50th anniversary special.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis time around, Drunk Uncle hailed the Brewers\u2019 first World Series victory in the nearly 60-year history of the team as a win attributed to the power of suds in a town that is synonymous with beer \u2014 hence the team\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn classic fashion, Drunk Uncle told \u201cWeekend Update\u201d anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che that he was happy for the Brewers but deeply concerned about the state of baseball overall. After recent rule changes, the duration of most baseball games as tightened up, something that Drunk Uncle lamented. Instead of running seven hours, \u201cthe game ends in 20 minutes and everybody goes home to watch their gay hockey shows,\u201d Moynihan as Drunk Uncle said in a nod to \u201cHeated Rivalry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs usual, Drunk Uncle got progressively more emotional as the segment went on, tossing out one-liners about Elizabeth Holmes (\u201cI believe her\u201d) and \u201cHelen of Troy was white,\u201d in a nod to the ongoing angry debate in some circles about the casting of historical characters in period movies and TV shows.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut just as Drunk Uncle began to wallow, he was surprised by the appearance of two Brewers players , slugger Christian Yelich and second baseman Brice Turang, and the team\u2019s manager, Pat Murphy.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDon\u2019t worry Drunk Uncle,\u201d Yelich told Moynihan. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMurphy introduced himself to Drunk Uncle, saying that being a baseball manager is \u201ckind of like being the Drunk Uncle of the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMoynihan looked up at the 6-foot-4 Yelich and declared, \u201cI know you \u2014 you\u2019re Pete Davidson.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d paid tribute to the Milwaukee Brewers\u2019 historic World Series win during a Weekend Update segment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[317377,156,59711,111,139,69,45415,437,57603],"class_list":["post-647615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bobby-moynihan","tag-entertainment","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-snl","tag-tv","tag-weekend-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}