On “SNL,” Jesse Jackson proved he knew punchlines have power

You will not find Jesse Jackson’s funniest “Saturday Night Live” sketch on Peacock.

“The Question Is Moot,” a fake game show featured in the 1984 episode that Jackson hosted, shows him torturing contestants played by Gary Kroeger, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Mary Gross, by teasing them with seemingly simple trivia questions they were never meant to answer.

When longtime announcer Don Pardo asks Kroeger’s milquetoast contender, “When is the next reappearance of Halley’s Comet scheduled?”...