--- title: Ryan Gosling's SNL Papyrus Skit Takes Down Avatar's Logo description: Ryan Gosling portrays a man outraged over the "Avatar" movie’s apparent use of the Papyrus font in this "Saturday Night Live" sketch. canonical: https://time.com/4964350/ryan-gosling-snl-papyrus-avatar/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-01T14:58:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:40:29.944Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch the Ryan Gosling 'SNL' Skit Everyone’s Talking About og:description: He portrays a man outraged over Avatar's apparent use of the Papyrus font og:url: https://time.com/4964350/ryan-gosling-snl-papyrus-avatar/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82c196f8fafd9ac6/6988e01d4ee2621e5f30f3a2/ryan-gosling-snl-papyrus.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Saturday Night Live - Season 43 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Ryan Gosling 'SNL' Skit Everyone’s Talking About twitter:description: He portrays a man outraged over Avatar's apparent use of the Papyrus font twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82c196f8fafd9ac6/6988e01d4ee2621e5f30f3a2/ryan-gosling-snl-papyrus.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch the Ryan Gosling _SNL_ Skit Everyone’s Talking About by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 1, 2017 2:58 PM UTC  Ryan Gosling on "Saturday Night Live" on Sept. 30, 2017 Ryan Gosling on "Saturday Night Live" on Sept. 30, 2017Rosalind O'Connor—NBC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 1, 2017 2:58 PM UTC Actor [Ryan Gosling](http://time.com/4964198/ryan-gosling-jay-z-snl-promo-watch/), who hosted the season premiere of _Saturday Night Live_, is being widely praised for a laugh-inducing [sketch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ) in which he portrays a man outraged over the [_Avatar_](http://www.avatarmovie.com/index.html) movie’s apparent use of the Papyrus font. In the three-minute skit called “Papyrus,” Gosling plays a regular man who still can’t get over how the designer of the _Avatar_ logo seemingly used the widely available typeface over designing a more creative one for the 2009 blockbuster. Gosling’s character has a meltdown over it — eight years after the movie’s release. He even seeks professional help for his anger in the skit. The sketch struck a cord among several social media users who said they had been thinking the same thing all these years. > [](https://twitter.com/devancoggan/status/914353610284257280) > [](https://twitter.com/babblebyKEV/status/914394410879733760) > [](https://twitter.com/KristySkogsberg/status/914352869230497792) > [](https://twitter.com/PeskyHeart/status/914352185244188672) Watch the skit above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4964350/ryan-gosling-snl-papyrus-avatar/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4964350/ryan-gosling-snl-papyrus-avatar/"},"headline":"Watch the Ryan Gosling SNL Skit Everyone’s Talking About","datePublished":"2017-10-01T14:58:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:40:29.944Z","description":"He portrays a man outraged over Avatar's apparent use of the Papyrus font","url":"https://time.com/4964350/ryan-gosling-snl-papyrus-avatar/","keywords":["Television","celebrities","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82c196f8fafd9ac6/6988e01d4ee2621e5f30f3a2/ryan-gosling-snl-papyrus.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82c196f8fafd9ac6/6988e01d4ee2621e5f30f3a2/ryan-gosling-snl-papyrus.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Saturday Night Live - Season 43","caption":"Saturday Night Live - Season 43","creditText":"Rosalind O'Connor—NBC","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/television/","name":"Television"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4964350/ryan-gosling-snl-papyrus-avatar/","name":"Watch the Ryan Gosling SNL Skit Everyone’s Talking About"}}]}] ```