SNL’s You Can See Everything Parody with Druski Resurrects a Classic Eddie Murphy Bit

3 min readBack in 1984, Eddie Murphy had fun with John Howard Griffin’s 1961 book Black Like Me with a Saturday Night Live sketch titled White Like Me. In it, Murphy caked on makeup to pass as a white man, flipping his world upside down. It’s still pretty funny to watch after all these years, even if putting on makeup to resemble another race for a joke is walking a tightrope. So it’s damn impressive that Saturday Night Live just got away with it again, with Druski.On the most recent Saturday Night Live, guest star Druski was at the center of one of the night’s best sketches (and maybe the only one worth watching), which was also the inevitable parody of You Can See Everything, titled Dru Can See Everything.The premise is simple: What if, before Nathan Fielder, Druski first filmed the final days of freedom for Elizabeth Holmes? Cast members Ben Marshall and an incredible Jane Wickline co-star and elevate the sketch from a mildly funny “haha” to “holy shit they’re actually committed here.” Clocking in just four minutes long, the sketch runs through the highlights of You Can See Everything’s first hour: Elizabeth (Wickline) and her partner Billy (Marshall) living at home, cooking eggs, showing off the controversial Theranos machine, and even Billy’s barenaked shower. But the one change is swapping out Fielder for Druski. And it makes a huge difference.You can see everything (the sketch) below.While Fielder’s social awkwardness and determination to ensnare a charlatan without falling victim himself is part of the movie’s drama, SNL knows that Druski would just call out Holmes and Evans’s bullshit straight up. No hesitation. “I just want people to see me as an ordinary person. Can you do that, Druski?” asks Wickline’s Elizabeth Holmes.Says Druski, “Based on what I’ve seen so far, I’mma go ahead and say no. Y’all got some of the weirdest, freakiest vibe I’ve ever seen.” Grabbing the bowl of eggs, he then turns to the camera: “Whatever they said this bitch did, she done did that sh-t.” (Remember the eggs scene is like, ten minutes into the movie.)Funny as Druski is, the real MVPs are Wickline and Marshall, even if all their jokes are about the size of Elizabeth and Billy’s saucer-pan eyes. The now spoofed-to-death “I’m always real” scene gets its SNL roast too, with Druski asking literally point-blank, “Are you trying to f-ck me?” Then, when Elizabeth shows off Theranos’s supposedly miraculous machine, Druski doesn’t hold back. “Listen white girl, I’mma say this with all love, right? This the most Temu ass piece of sh-t I done ever seen in my life.” Cut to “Billy” and his weird lizard.(By the way, we know Saturday Night Live’s production design is top-tier, but it’s frankly amazing they were able to build a virtually precise replica of Holmes’s oceanfront rental and recreate the lighting conditions to make the shots look passably real. Remember that they shoot these things in under a week. I demand a behind-the-scenes video of how they pulled this one off.)The sketch peaks at the end, when Druski emulates Fielder’s method for staging reenactments by putting on White Chicks-style makeup (to better understand Elizabeth, of course). There’s no getting around it: the man looks freaky. Uncanny. He’s like Fiona from Shrek in a J. Crew sweater. Which makes the joke’s reveal a funny jump scare. Post-midterms, it’s honestly awesome that this kind of woke comedy is “back” (if it actually ever left). I’m not smart enough to suss out if whiteface is actually acceptable. I just know Druski and the SNL team killed it this week.