"SNL" reveals eyepopping Sarah Sherman sketch viewers didn't get to see during live show Ryan ColemanJanuary 26, 2026 at 7:14 PM 0 Sarah Sherman and Kenan Thompson on 'Saturday Night Live' Saturday Night Live/YouTube (2) Key Points Sarah Sherman stars in a newly released sketch cut from Saturday's new episode of Saturday Night Live. "The Incident" stars Sherman as an innocent child traumatized after walking in on his dad (James Austin Johnson) and stepmom (Teyana Taylor) having sex.
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Sarah Sherman and Kenan Thompson on 'Saturday Night Live'
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Sarah Sherman stars in a newly released sketch cut from Saturday's new episode of Saturday Night Live.
"The Incident" stars Sherman as an innocent child traumatized after walking in on his dad (James Austin Johnson) and stepmom (Teyana Taylor) having sex.
The couple drives Sherman's Benny mad with accidental double entendres, like when Taylor suggests Johnson "throw a little weird banana" in their breakfast smoothie.
All eyes on Saturday Night Live.
The sketch comedy institution has been packing its weekly episodes to the brim with sketches since it premiered on NBC back in 1975. More often than not, there are so many good bits concocted by its league of legendary writers that some sketches get shelved before air.
But in the era of YouTube, viewers are treated to after-the-fact access to those cut-for-time sketches — and some have proved more enduringly beloved than the sketches that made the final cut. Case in point, "The Incident," a hilarious sketch cut from Saturday's episode featuring host Teyana Taylor and cast members Sarah Sherman and James Austin Johnson.
"The Incident" made its way onto the official SNL YouTube channel, where it's been making eyes pop.
The sketch features Sherman, a featured cast member since 2023, as the innocent son of Johnson's affable family man, traumatized after accidentally walking in on him and his new wife (Taylor) having sex.
"I want to be a good stepmom. You sure he didn't see anything?" Taylor frets to Johnson, who assures that they're in the clear. Just then, Sherman's Benny walks into the room with wrenched-open eye prosthetics affixed to her face, giving her a look of unending shock and horror. Dramatic string music fires off as Benny asks "for a bowl of nothing" for breakfast. "For some strange reason, I've lost my appetite, forever," she explains.
Johnson suggests his son throw back a glass of orange juice so that the vitamin C can help him "get back on top," kicking off the sketch's main bit. The double entendre stuns little Benny, whom the camera zooms into a tight closeup on, as Johnson and Taylor's heads swirl around the frame, taunting him with the dirty connotations. "Mmm, I could get on top," Taylor purrs, while Johnson goads, "The girl can get on top?"
Taylor and Johnson can't stop punning, as the One Battle After Another Oscar nominee suggests Johnson "throw a little weird banana in there." The camera crashes back onto Sherman, who shakes and shivers while Johnson's disembodied head asks, "Are you sure? I don't want to hurt you," and Taylor jokes, "That thing ain't hurting nobody, baby."
Taylor's and Johnson's accidentally erotic conversation winds up triggering the family pet, who pants through the pain with the same prosthetic eyes bulging off its face. Kenan Thompson even reveals himself as one of the affected, when he turns up as the family's nosy neighbor, celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Carrying a telescope, Thompson reveals that he caught at least some of the act when one of his eyes is popping out like Sherman's.
Sarah Sherman on 'Saturday Night Live'
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"The Incident" would have made a great fit on Saturday's episode, which also featured Taylor as a flight attendant, an NFL commentator, and even reprising her role as Perfidia Beverly Hills from One Battle After Another.
Saturday Night Live airs Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC and Peacock.
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Published: January 26, 2026 at 09:36PM on Source: PRIME TIME
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