‘SNL50’: Eddie Murphy Joins Kenan Thompson And Will Ferrell In Crazy “Scared Straight” Sketch​on February 17, 2025 at 4:49 am

Eddie Murphy returned for another sketch on the SNL50: The Anniversary Show, this time as one of three prisoners trying to try to scare a trio of young male shoplifters “straight.”

The sketch was a spoof of the documentary Scared Straight, the program in which prisoners scream and yell at teens in an effort to get them to avoid a life of crime. It’s become an occasional SNL spoof over the years.

Of course, the prisoners in this sketch go a bit too far, concocting wild narratives before berating the young men, in an explicit and graphic terms, what awaits them behind bars.

Joining Murphy, as “All The Way” Ray May, were Kenan Thompson as Lorenzo McIntosh and Will Ferrell as Red, with Jason Sudeikis as the police officer who invites the inmates to give the youngsters a talkin’ to.

“When I was a boy, I wanted both of my parents die on these streets,” Ray May shouted at the men.

“That’s right, and the family that adopted him made him sleep under the staircase,” Lorenzo said.

Then, Ray May said, he “got a letter from an owl telling me I had to report to a school for some kind of wizards.”

Lorenzo admonishes the men, “Is that what you want? You and Hermoine got to stop he who must not be named before he gets his hands on the Sorcerer’s Stone. Cause this here is real!”

Watch the full sketch above.