‘No house in San Francisco looks like that:’ SNL holiday cold open gets panned
Someone at “Saturday Night Live” needs a beginner’s course in San Francisco real estate.
The NBC sketch comedy show’s cold open for its Dec. 14 episode was a bit in which different households across the United States gathered for holiday meals and talked about the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
The tense family political dialogue was believable enough. But the home exterior chosen to represent the San Francisco gathering, not so much: The house was a large, two-story stucco building with a huge two-car garage, a sizable yard and towering palm trees out front.
Perhaps the only thing that screamed “San Francisco” about the home was the caption at the bottom of the screen, which read: “San Francisco, California.”
“This sketch was funny but FYI, no house in San Francisco looks like that,” one Twitter user responded after a clip from the sketch was posted online. “That group of friends would be living in a small one-bedroom apartment that rents for about $4000.”
Local news site SFGATE ran an article with the headline: “’SNL’ has no idea what San Francisco houses actually look like.”
The stucco facade and large floor plan would be more at home in the suburbs of the Northern California city — or, more likely, in a sprawling subdivision in Nevada, Arizona or Texas. The house would be out of place among San Francisco’s ornate Edwardian and Victorian row houses and dense blocks of apartments.
Watch the full cold open here:
This story was originally published December 16, 2019 at 8:16 PM with the headline "‘No house in San Francisco looks like that:’ SNL holiday cold open gets panned."
