[VIDEO] SNL: ‘Jake From State Farm’ Parody — Watch

That Jake from State Farm looks as if a pleasant boy, doesn’t he? Well, not after this he gained’t. This week’s Saturday Night Live host Michael B. Jordan skewers the beloved insurance coverage spokesman in a industrial parody that goes from enjoyable to scary in fairly quick order.

The sketch begins out like an bizarre industrial: Jake from State Farm exhibits up on the house of a pair performed by Mikey Day and Heidi Gardner after some minor family catastrophe. Day heads off to work and finds, when he returns that night, that Jake continues to be there taking part in with the youngsters and flirting together with his spouse.

What follows is your commonplace boy meets lady, boy loses lady to endearing insurance coverage mascot, insurance coverage mascot replaces boy as husband and father, boy is pushed slowly mad and compelled to sleep on the sofa. You know, that outdated trope.

In fact, that is some pretty well-trod comedy floor. Take innocuous family-friendly property, make it horror — and is there something extra harmless than TV characters promoting insurance coverage? But Jordan’s dedication to the scary, intense stalker Jake juxtaposed with the requisite “Bundle Home & Auto” and “Rate Match” graphics of a authentic State Farm industrial actually assist set this parody aside. You’ll by no means see a State Farm polo shirt the identical method once more.

The sketch additionally options cameos from different TV insurance coverage icons; Andrew Dismukes swoops in to avoid wasting the day as one. Which begs the query: Why is there a actuality present about dudes slapping one another, however there’s no present about Flo from Progressive, Mayhem from Allstate, the AFLAC Duck (with the unique Gilbert Gottfried voice appearing, clearly), and the remaining combating it out within the Octagon to determine who has the most effective protection?

The industrial parody wasn’t the one second first-time host Jordan shined. During his opening monologue, the actor joked about his early begin on All My Children and a current breakup.

Watch the skit embedded above, then weigh in on MBJ’s internet hosting debut.