Clearly written by someone unfmailiar with the phrase, “get off the shed.”
I gotta second Chris Kattan. I can’t stand him or anything he ever did. I never broke a grin with Mr. Peepers or Mango. What completely obvious, unfunny “characters”. I did funnier shit when I was in 5th grade.
I wouldn’t put these two on a “worst” list but I think Dana Carvey and Chevy Chase are the most overrated.
Ellen Cleghorne was the absolute worst.
Melanie Hutsell was awful, too, but it was mainly because of blandness that was (though it’s hard to imagine) one or two orders of magnitude greater than Julia Sweeney’s.
Ellen Cleghorne managed to be bland and irritating at the same time. It’s a prodigious feat when you think about it, but not one that belongs on a show that’s ostensibly comedic.
I’ve been watching SNL on and off since the beginning and Horatio Sanz is not only not funny but makes everyone else not funny.
Jim Brewer’s Set List:
Have you actually seen him perform in person? I wish that was the setlist. The only worthwhile part was his non-comedic version of some AC/DC. On the plus side, I saw him as part of a double-bill. The first half was a guy named Chappelle.
Fred Chappelle? He sucks.
Fact:
The best Jim Breuer sketch ever was his “Joe Pesci Show” wtih John Goodman (or maybe Alec Baldwin) doing his worst DeNiro, when the real DeNiro and Pesci show up and beat them the f*ck down. In fact, it’s much more entertaining if you Fast Forward to the last 20 seconds of the sketch.
So add Jim Breuer to my list. Along with John Goodman; even though he was never on the cast, his awful DeNiro impression (done at least 3 times, by my count) earns him a spot. “I heard things, Joey - I heard things.” WTF is that?!? :rolleyes:
And of course I now realize that “best” would require other sketches to be “good”, thus warranting the superlative. Let’s call it “the only Jim Breuer sketch not deserving to be shat upon.”
I don’t believe Christine Ebersole (the actress) and Dick Ebersole (the NBC executive) are related. Just one of those things.
It was Colin Quinn, actually. And he got off one of the few funny lines he ever had on SNL. When asked by the real Deniro, “What are you supposed to be?” He responded, “Colin Quinn. Remote Control.”
Yep, that was the one.
You mean Adam Sandler was Annoying Man? Then he’s a better actor than I thought.
Well, most of the cast didn’t like the Muppets.
The Muppets were a bone–or shall I say some mattress stuffing–of contention when they were included on the show. They didn’t seem to fit in very well with the rest of the program, and Jim Hanson (Henson?) did not care at all for SNL’s caustic, satirical brand of humor. The SNL people didn’t like writing for the Muppets, either. This is why in one of the Blues Brothers movies, during a car chase scene, you see them drive headlong into a pile of stuffed animals with Aykroyd saying, “Uh-oh…muppets!”
I have this information from the book A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live.
Hello, Denny Dillon, Gilbert Gottfried, Charles Rocket, oh hell, This entire cast minus Eddie Murphy. Tony Rosato?
I just now found this thread, and I gotta say, what? no hate for Molly Shannon? I’m so glad I never have to watch another formulaic Mary Kathleen Gallagher sketch, or any of her other, even more anti-funny, characters.