The Alex Honnold SNL Skit Got A Few Things Right—And Others Very Wrong

You know climbing has officially entered the mainstream chat when it gets its own SNL skit that includes a hilarious Kenan Thompson and a Stranger Things character cameo. Airing less than  week before the Netflix special Skyscraper Live, the January 18 episode of Saturday Night Live included a sketch satirizing Alex Honnold’s upcoming livestreamed climb on January 23.

From a climber’s perspective, we’ve created a scene-by-scene look at what SNL gets right—and oh so wrong—in its spoof of this historic moment in our sport.