Saturday, January 31, 2026

Ghost Roddy Piper Sketch (iO Theater Class Project)

INT. WEEKEND UPDATE NEWS DESK-NIGHT 

COLIN JOST sits at the news desk. 

COLIN 
World Wrestling Entertainment recently announced that they will use AI to write their scripts for their wrestling shows. Here to comment on this is the ghost of WWE Hall of Famer Roddy Piper. 

GHOST RODDY PIPER enters with his ENTRANCE THEME MUSIC playing. 

GHOST RODDY PIPER 
Howdy Colin, mighty nice to be here on Saturday Night Live. Here’s the thing. I don’t get why WWE needs to use AI to make matches. All I needed in my day to help me wrestle was a simple notebook, a pen, cocaine, and steroids. Can an AI do cocaine there Colin? 

COLIN 
I don’t know Mr. Piper. 

GHOST RODDY PIPER 
Here’s the thing, I seen AI make crazy videos. In fact, that’s the only thing airing on TV where I am at... 

COLIN 
Are you in Hell? 

GHOST RODDY PIPER 
No Cleveland, Ohio. Nah, I’m just messing with ya. But once you see an AI video of Macho Man Randy Savage as Mister Rogers on Facebook, you’ve already entered the seventh layer of Hell. But I can see why WWE would want to use AI to write their shows. Because an AI is just as heartless, soulless, and cold as any comedy writer. 

COLIN 
Wait, I’m a comedy writer and I have a soul. 

GHOST RODDY PIPER 
Do ya, Colin? Nah, I’m just messing with ya. Here’s the thing, first the AI will write the scripts, then it will make the matches altogether, wrestlers will then become unemployed. And when a wrestler is unemployed, they get angry. And you wouldn’t like a wrestler when they’re angry. 

COLIN 
Isn’t wrestling fake though? 

GHOST RODDY PIPER 
Not as fake as AI. But like AI, wrestling looks real and sometimes causes real harm. So the moral of the day is, oh no, I forgot the moral. And the cocaine is wearing off. But did ya hear that Lorne just announced that AI will write SNL sketches now? 

COLIN 
No way, that can’t be true because if it is I’m angry. 

GHOST RODDY PIPER 
Nah, I’m just messing with ya Colin. But knowing Lorne, he’s getting ideas. 

COLIN 
The ghost of Roddy Piper everybody! 

GHOST RODDY PIPER 
Just when you think they have all the answers, I change the questions. 

END

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