14/04/2026
The psychedelic, Gaten Matarazzo-starred stoner comedy Pizza Movie is now streaming on Hulu, but if you want to experience a real trip, try writing a couple seasons on Saturday Night Live.
As the two halves of the prolific comedy group BriTANick, the foundation of Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher’s approach to screenwriting is undeniably based in their sketch comedy experience. McElhaney and Kocher emerged as sketch stars during the early, wild-west years of YouTube comedy, back before monetization and algorithms radically reorganized the platform and the most creative comedic minds on the planet were putting out masterpieces like “Eagles Are Turning People Into Horses: The Movie" for nothing but the love of the game.
McElhaney and Kocher recently spoke with Cracked in a follow-up to our interview with the Pizza Movie crew at South by Southwest, and the pair reflected on the most important lessons that they've learned in their journey from sketch writers to screenplay scribes. With their movie about a couple of buttoned-down college nerds taking a mysterious psychedelic substance that sends them on a desperate hunt for pizza drawing rave reviews, BriTANick are ready to let us in on their secrets.
During the talk, Cracked asked McElhaney and Kocher if their two seasons spent in the SNL writers' room in 2016 and 2017 may have influenced the making of their, surreal, psychedelic hit Pizza Movie, to which Kocher responded, “I think, I mean, SNL is kind of a bad trip in and of itself.”
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