Adult Students

The Adult Students (Fred Armisen, Rachel Dratch, Tracy Morgan, and Horatio Sanz) were recurring characters in sketches on Saturday Night Live. They are socially awkward individuals who enroll in night school classes such as dance class (taught by host Adrien Brody), or a class in social communication (taught by host Salma Hayek) for the purpose of beginning a relationship. Armisen's character, Gabe Fisher, seems to have a slight autistic tendency, and always ends up becoming mutually attracted to Dratch's character Ruth, a middle-aged New Yorker with a dry, ironic sense of humor. Morgan's character is AJ, a low-income, under-educated man who is always paired in exercises with Sanz's character, Vasquez, who has the mind of a four year old and a speech impediment. When Morgan left the show in 2003, his character was replaced by another one named Pete (played by Chris Parnell), a bitter divorcé in a cooking class skit with host Jack Black. This was the last appearance (to date) of the Adult students, so Parnell's character is not recurring.

The four Adult Students typically end the sketch by going to a bar to practice their acquired skills in the real world.----