Self-Defense - SNL

This Saturday Night Live sketch features Jack Black and Marcello Hernández as unconventional karate instructors leading a highly ineffective self-defense class. Throughout the session, the instructors provide absurd and impractical advice to their students, often leaving the class baffled.

Key moments from the sketch:

• The "Stop It" Technique (1:14 - 1:28): The instructors demonstrate their primary method for dealing with an attacker, which consists simply of shouting "Stop it" repeatedly until the assailant leaves.
• Redirecting Attacks (1:55 - 2:21): The teachers explain that students should use an attacker's momentum against them, though they demonstrate this by forcing students to roleplay mundane activities like golfing or pretending they are on the Titanic (2:30).
• The Knife Defense (3:36 - 3:45): When asked how to handle an attacker with a knife, the instructors deadpan that there is nothing a student can do but die.
• The Final Guest (4:17 - 4:45): The instructors bring in a "tough" student to prove the class works, but the demonstration ends with more bizarre, non-combative instructions that further highlight the ridiculous nature of the course.