Big Boys (song)

"Big Boys"
Saturday Night Live segment
Musical guest SZA, surrounded by stout male backup dancers
Episode no.Season 48
Episode 7 (segment)
Written byPunkie Johnson, Vannessa Jackson, and Streeter Seidell
Original air dateDecember 3, 2022 (2022-12-03)
Guest appearances

"Big Boys" is a novelty song written for a pretaped comedy sketch on the television show Saturday Night Live (SNL). It was performed during the forty-eighth season's seventh episode, which featured Keke Palmer as the host and SZA as the musical guest. The song is about celebrating stout men, praising their ability to keep people warm in winter. Its lyrics frequently reference the cuffing season, a time of year coinciding with winter when people look for a romantic partner to keep them company while indoors. Punkie Johnson, Vannessa Jackson, and Streeter Seidell wrote the song.

The song aired on December 3, 2022, and was performed by Palmer and SZA, alongside three cast members from the show. It went viral on social media platforms shortly afterwards, starting video trends and a dance challenge on TikTok. A snippet of the chorus was used in over two million videos, many of which involved users embracing their overweight or tall boyfriends. The song appeared on another SNL episode from the same season, during a sketch parodying fanvids (fan edits) on TikTok. "Big Boys" was one of the five most-watched pretaped sketches of season 48. The song was never released as a single.