Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant try not to vomit with the smell of rotten meat.

Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant stopped at the Weekend counter last week. Saturday Night Live play against the owners of Smokery Farms, an organization that offers animal lovers an ethical way to enjoy meat, promising to kill only "individually stupid and wicked animals". It might have been a good segment, and maybe a bad segment. The world will never know, because a criminal seems to have left a too important accessory under the light of the scene a little too long: a gigantic basket of raw meat. Thus, instead of telling jokes about the ethical consumption of animals, Bryant and McKinnon spontaneously improvised a totally different skit, trying to cope with the stench of rotten lamb chop without losing live on television. It was a awesome sketch.

Once the meat has arrived, no actress can inhale without unintentionally rolling back a horror, which makes it difficult to spread sentences like "Yum!" Or "I'm getting hungry!" McKinnon and Bryant are all two hilarious, but no one gets more laughs than the fast decaying meat basket, which is almost a character in the full-fledged sketch. Unless Lorne Michaels has lost his hand, the rotten meat basket will become a recurring character, adding his hilarious and putrid stench to any skit that does not kill in rehearsal. Congratulations to everyone at SNL on the discovery of this new exquisite talent.

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