Settl, the dating app for settling
Saturday Night Live , compared with Ben Zweig & Matt Condon
A parody dating app called "Settl" (no "e") strips dating down to settling, with no option to swipe left.
“normal guys with characteristics I'm now willing to overlook”
SNL — "Settl" (Ryan Gosling episode), 2015quote source ↗find on YouTube ↗
“because at this point you're deluding yourself if you think anyone cares about your hobbies”
Comedy Hack Day LA 2015 finalist, 2015quote source ↗▶ watch ↗
Same name, same missing e and same no-reject idea, but different formats and different jokes; earlier settle parodies existed too.
- Premise 38/40
- Structure 18/30
- Punchline 12/30
- Premise38/40Same parody: a dating app named Settl, with no e, built around settling and no left swipe.
- Structure18/30SNL is a testimonial fake ad; the original is a live hackathon pitch, so the shape differs.
- Punchline12/30Recorded lines differ: SNL's overlooking normal guys versus nobody caring about your hobbies.
Setup
Fake ad for Settl, a dating app for settling.
Setup
Hackathon pitch for Settl, a dating app for settling.
Turn
Women cannot reject anyone; men upload only passport photos.
Turn
There is no left swipe, mocking tired millennial daters.
Punchline
Testimonials praise normal guys whose flaws they now overlook.
Punchline
Users are told nobody cares about their hobbies anymore.
In the words themselves
0% of the meaningful words are shared. Shared words are highlighted in the quotes above.
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Context
When and where
Matt Condon and Ben Zweig pitched 'Settl' live at Comedy Hack Day Los Angeles in 2015, to judges including Cameron Esposito and James Adomian, and the video went up on YouTube that September. SNL's 'Settl' parody ad aired in the Ryan Gosling episode in December 2015.
What followed
Zweig wrote on Medium that it was either "a degree of comedic plagiarism" or a striking failure to do basic research. NBC did not respond, and earlier "settle" dating-app parodies, such as one from Ryan Higa, made the premise hard to own.