-There's gonna be a celebration.
We're gonna drink like Masons.
Gonna be a revelation.
Jubilation! It's gonna be a holly jolly.
-When I'm giving a character for the first time,
or when I'm generating a character for the first time,
I usually try to figure out, like,
not necessarily just what's funny about the character,
but what's, like, gonna be the meat and potatoes
of why we want everybody's attention for three minutes.
-Give it what you can now. -Okay, that's how it is.
Now, I'm trying to talk about helping people here.
So don't you dare cut me off! -I won't cut you off!
♪ But I gots to say ♪
♪ What's up with that? ♪
-They want to see who you are as a real person.
Me as a real person -- I'm black, I'm from Atlanta.
My parents are from Virginia. You know what I mean?
Like, we love "Coming To America."
We love "48 Hrs."
We love "Soul Train," Motown. You know what I'm saying?
And, like, it's real like that.
So, but for me, it's like I'm, you know,
number seven coming through there
with that same background. You know what I'm saying?
So I was like, "Well, how can I be different?
How can I move things forward, have a more open or, you know,
intelligent approach to, like,
similar kind of references and stuff.
Stuff like that.
-Welcome to a special Thanksgiving edition
of "Family Feud."
-Not Steve so much because I know him.
You know what I mean?
But anytime I don't know somebody,
like doing Big Papi and figuring out how to do him.
You know what I mean? That took some time.
-The Red Sox win another World Series, man,
and you know how we celebrate in Boston?
-You had a big parade, right? -We had a big lunch.
-He sounds like Scarface to me, so I knew that was one thing
that makes me laugh or whatever.
But then, like, what's the things
he's gonna be talking about?
And then I was like, "Well, he's big and he's joyous
and always smiling. You know what I mean?
But he's a champ at the same time, so, like,
big, giant champion, he's probably eating a lot.
You know what I mean?
So, like, what kind of food does he eat?
Like, we started just going down that though process,
and that's where we started to find the gold.
-Now, Big Papi, can I ask how much money you got from Samsung?
-Oh, they gave me 100,00.
-Wow. -Chickens.
-Wow. Okay.
-You know what you can be with 100,000 chickens yours?
You can make mofongo.
-That's what resonated
with every Latin person that's ever seen it.
Like, every time I run across somebody, they're like, "Yo.
Mofongo.
Like, you killed it, man.
Like, our whole neighborhood loves him -- Big Papi.
You know, I get a lot of laughing love from that one.
-I think it's cool that we're talking about things
that are important.
-[Singing indistinctly] -Yeah, y-you got it.
-Yeah! -You're wrangling.
When it's your sketch, you're wrangling.
It's that kind of thing, when it's your sketch,
your responsibility is to show everybody where to laugh
and when to laugh and when to move on.
You know what I'm saying?
And opening and closing, the A and Z of it all.
-Let's just take a moment and hear about today's prizes.
Johnny. -Black Jeopardy!
came from Bryan Tucker.
Him and Michael Che, like,
both collaborated and crushed the first one.
But I remember him telling me, like,
"I think we want to do Black Jeopardy!"
And I was like, "Anything Will Ferrell
is just kind of Holy Grail-ish to me just as a fan.
You know what I'm saying?
So it was like, I don't know if I wanted to really do that.
But when he was telling me how to break down,
I'm like, "Man, that's kind of brilliant."
And it is a platform for the other cast members to score,
like, really, really hard because the jokes are so good.
That was one of the good times we got it right,
and we were able to do it multiple times,
and each time it just got better and better to the point
where Tom Hanks was a Trump supporter.
It was the funniest thing ever.
-The board is yours.
-Well, thank you so much, Darnell.
You people are fun.
Can I say that?
Is that okay? Can I say that?
-We'll give you a pass this time.
-And that chat with Boseman.
-Greetings, Darnell. I am a big fan of this program.
-Well, this might be the blackest Black Jeopardy!
yet.
-"Black Panther" biggest movie ever.
You know what I mean?
At the time, and it was like, "We can't fail this dude."
-"The policeman says there's been some robberies
in your neighborhood and asks if you have any information."
-What is not only do I tell this man what I know,
but I also assist him in tracking down the offender.
After all, our ministers of law enforcement
are only here to protect us.
Is this correct?
[audience laughs, applauds] -I mean, it should be.
-I don't know if there's any practice
that you can do to be ready for it.
You just have to be ready, you know.
I guess that just comes with experience,
being around great improv-ers like "SNL" is always hiring.
You know, between the writing staff and the cast,
there's usually, you know,
a good chunk of really awesome improv people,
and I really like being around them.