-It is time for the mimic challenge!
-♪ Mimic challenge ♪
♪ Mimic, mimic challenge, yeah ♪
-And here to help me out is the one and only Maya Rudolph,
ladies and gentlemen.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Here's how it works.
We each have a bunch of items to make noise with,
and we're going to take turns making a sound with an object.
Then the other person has to immediately match that sound
as precisely as they can.
Are you ready for this?
-Absolutely. -Okay, good.
Maya, I will be the first -- I will make the first noise.
Okay. Maya? -Okay.
-Make -- Make this sound.
[ Key clacking ]
[ Blowing sharply ]
[ Laughter ]
That's pretty good. I like that.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Okay.
You ready? -Alright, my turn.
Yeah, whenever you're ready. -Ready, Jimmy?
-Are you supposed to, like, not see what I'm doing?
-I'm not gonna look, but -- I don't know.
-This is really complicated.
-Okay. -Alright, ready?
Jimmy, make this sound.
[ Tissue whooshes ]
-Can you do it again?
[ Tissue whooshes ]
[ Exhales sharply ]
-Yeah, that was it.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Maya? -Yes, sir.
-Make this sound. -Okay.
[ Milk gurgling ]
[ Laughs ]
Okay.
[ Sputtering ]
Wait, wait.
-What?
What? -Wait.
-This sound.
[ Milk gurgling ]
[ Laughter ]
[ Coughing ] -Okay.
[ Chortling softly ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
-[ Laughing ] Okay, that was good.
-Oh, good news, Jimmy, I got another one.
-Gotcha. Alright, now I can see it.
-Alright, Jim.
[ Laughing ] What? Jimmy.
-Jim. You can call me Jim.
-Jim. It's Jim. It's Jim today.
-It's Jim today. I got it.
-Alright, James, make this sound.
[ Tape screeches ]
[ Laughter ]
[ Whooshes ]
Maya. -That was accurate.
♪♪
-Mm-hmm? -Maya, make this sound.
[ Clicking, water squirting ]
-[ Exhaling sharply ] [ Water squirting ]
[ Exhaling sharply ]
[ Laughter ]
♪♪
You had the face.
"Psst." -It was -- It had an attitude.
-It did have an attitude. -"Pfft."
-Okay, ready? -Yes.
-Alright, Jimmy. -Here we go.
-Make this sound. -Mm-hmm.
[ Clattering ]
-[ Laughs ] That's very good.
That was...perfect.
-Maya... -Perfect. Yes, sir.
-...make this sound. -Okay.
[ Toy squeaking nasally ]
[ Laughter ]
[ Squeaking nasally ]
[ Laughter ]
[ High-pitched ] "Uh, sounds like me on prom night."
[ Laughter ]
[ Squeaking ]
-[ Groans ]
[ Squeaking nasally ]
[ Clucking ]
[ Laughter ]
♪♪
[ Both chuckling ]
Holy -- Okay.
-Wow.
-It's -- This is normal.
[ Laughter ]
Okay, Jimmy make this --
[ Laughter ]
This looks ridiculous.
Okay, Jimmy, make this sound.
[ Bass guitar strums ]
[ Low vocalizing ]
[ Laughter ]
It was like The Breeders.
♪ A-ooh ♪ -♪ A-ooh-ah ♪
-♪ A-ooh-ah ♪ -♪ A-ooh-ah ♪
-Was that Breeders?
-Yeah.
-Maya Rudolph, make this sound.
[ Drill whirring ]
-[ Chuckles ]
[ Humming, whirring ]
[ Drill whirring ]
[ Humming, whirring ]
♪♪
-Okay.
My turn.
-Oh, it's your turn, alright.
-I see it. Oh.
-Okay, Jimmy, make this sound.
-Gosh.
[ Squeaking, squelching ]
[ Laughter ]
By the way, that's not how you sit on a --
Like, wow.
-Here, maybe it's better if I sit on it, right?
-Probably. -Stand by.
I'm a professional.
[ Laughter ]
Okay, Jimmy, make this sound. -Yep.
[ Cushion squelches ]
[ Laughter ]
Uh...
[ Blowing, sputtering ]
[ Laughter ]
[ Air squelching ]
-That's it. That's it.
-Was it right? [ Muttering indistinctly ]
-Ooh, I really -- I went through these fast.
-[ Laughs ]
Alright. Here we go.
Maya... -Mm-hmm.
-...make this sound.
[ Goat screams ]
[ Laughter ]
[ Goat screams ]
[ Laughter ]
[ Goat screaming ]
-[ Strained scream ]
[ Goat screams ]
[ Both shrieking ]
[ Bell dinging ]
-Aah!
My thanks to Maya Rudolph!
Watch Maya host "Saturday Night Live"
this weekend with musical guest Jack Harlow.