Black Snape calls Harry Potter a racist, proud boy
Kam Patterson played Professor Snape from ‘Harry Potter’ during ‘Weekend Update’ on ‘Saturday Night Live’.
Patterson’s casting as Snape is a reference to HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter series, in which the formerly white character is played by black actor Paapa Essiedu.
After being introduced by Colin Jost, Patterson’s Snape began by speaking overly formally, saying, “Good evening, Mr. Jost – no, I’m playing. I don’t talk like that, man. It’s called code-switching.” Codio switchio!”
When Jost asked how his year at Hogwarts went, Snape said, “Not great. We have this new boy. His name is Harry Potter, and he’s racist as hell. Harry Potter – or the Proud Boy Who Lived – spent the year telling everyone that the only black teacher at school was secretly evil.”
Jost said, “I think he’s just worried because he knows someone is trying to steal the Wizard’s Stone.” “So someone stole something, and the main suspect is Black Snape? They didn’t even look at the white man in the turban. So offensive. He has a wizard on the back of his head,” Snape said, referring to how the villain Voldemort appears on the back of Professor Quirrell’s head at the end of the first Harry Potter story.
“I’m really sorry he just jumped to conclusions like that,” Jost said. Snape replied, “All’s well. It happens all the time. I showed up at Hogwarts and on the first day they looked at me and said, ‘You’re the professor of the university.’ Dark Art.’ I never even studied that! I studied African Muggle Studies.”
“The whole wizarding world is racist,” Snape continued. ‘There is An another black man, Kingsley Shacklebolt, a name they presumably got from the Wu-Tang name generator. Everyone wears these dignified robes. They dressed him as if he were selling cocoa butter incense from a barbershop.” When Jost asked, “That’s a pretty cool outfit, right?” Snape said, “Yes, for a Haitian taxi driver. And why did they have to put ‘fetters’ in his name? That’s crazy, man. Closure? Closure!”
Jost said: “Well, for the first time ever, I’m starting to think JK Rowling might be a problem.”
Snape continued, “The entire wizarding world is in disarray. We have magic, we have wands that can do anything, and people in my world still have slaves.” He rejected Jost’s claim that they are actually called “house elves.” “Yes, some people have house elves. I bet you didn’t know they had field elves too. They didn’t put that in the book, did they, Colin?”
Patterson’s cameo ended with Snape shouting a final message for Harry: “Your mother was fat as hell, dog. I miss her so much.”
Check out the sketch below.
