“Three McConaugheys and a Baby" and more brilliant early sketches and side gigs by the current "SNL" cast

While SNL is on a break, these hilarious videos will give you your comedy fix

Published March 13, 2015 3:53PM (EDT)

Kyle Mooney, Vanessa Bayer, Taran Killam    (AP/Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Reuters/Jonathan Alcorn)
Kyle Mooney, Vanessa Bayer, Taran Killam (AP/Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Reuters/Jonathan Alcorn)

"SNL" is on a two-week hiatus, which means two weeks without Drunk Uncle, The Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started a Conversation With at a Party, or even Angela Merkel (well, the fake one) to keep us company on this dark and lonely Saturday evening. But thanks to the wonders of the internet, you can still get your fix of the current cast with some lesser-known web series and shorts that we've pulled from the bowels of the web. You’re welcome!

Kyle Mooney
We first got a taste of Kyle Mooney’s man-on-the-street videos back on the short-lived "Sports Show with Norm Macdonald," which featured Mooney as Macdonald's “nephew” Kyle: The worst (but actually, the best) field reporter ever. His coverage of UFC title fight is a feat of awkward brilliance:

Taran Killam
As we’ve seen on “SNL,” Taran Killam’s Matthew McConaughey is pretty damn perfect. Thankfully there's plenty more where that comes from, in Funny or Die's trailer for the fictional film “Three McConaugheys and a Baby." We wish this movie was real.

Sasheer Zamata
Before "SNL," Zamata co-starred in the “Pursuit of Sexiness” web series with "Girl Code" star Nicole Byer, a series with echoes of "Broad City" about two "broke, single, and (adorably!) self-absorbed" young woman looking for money and men -- and, to a lesser extent, romance -- in the big city.

Bobby Moynihan
We may not miss "Entourage," but we do miss College Humor's "Every Week on Entourage" series, starring Moynihan as Turtle, which parodies the show and its tediously repetitive plot tropes. (Hopefully they reprise it for the forthcoming "Entourage" movie).

Kate McKinnon
Prior to taking “SNL” by storm, McKinnon and some of her fellow UCB comics starred in a delightful web series called Vag magazine (which guest-starred Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson), about the staff of a hipster third-wave feminist magazine. Have you ever wanted to know if orange juice is more feminist with or without pulp? The Vag girls have your answer.

Vag Magazine Episode 1: "Fumbling Toward Ecstasy" from Vag Magazine on Vimeo.

Vanessa Bayer
In her ongoing “Sound Advice” web series, Bayer acts as a media coach who gives terrible PR advice to famous musicians, from Drake to HAIM to Weird Al. In the episode below, she comes up with some alternative rap names for Drake ("Graham Cracka?") and suggests he go on J-Date:

Michael Che
Hey, remember when Michael Che was briefly a "Daily Show" correspondent? We do!

Beck Bennett
Before "SNL," before those AT&T ads (you know the ones), Bennett had a short-lived web series called “Fresh Perspectives,” where he solicited children's expert opinions on global issues, from American debt to gay marriage. As usual, he does an impressive deadpan (although sadly his "businessman with the body of a baby"is not involved).


By Anna Silman

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