Most of my favorites have already been mentioned like MO COWBELL, and Happy Fun Ball. But you guys left out Caveman Lawyer! How can you overlook those sketches?!?
Also, the ones with Farley as an old wife trying to sell Zaggots coupon books while bugging the crap out of his husband played by Sandler were great to. Even Sandler and Farley were cracking up in those. I always smile whenever I remember “I’ve got stupid in stereo!” and “I’m in the middle of a moron sandwhich!”.
There was also a sketch I saw one time a few years back during Thanksgiving that had me rolling. It was a commercial for a little display of jesus in the a manger in a barn, and baby jesus made a crying noise, only it wasn’t really a crying noise as much as it was the sound you get when you flip one of those noise making pipes upside down. So when Jesus cried, it sounded like “WWWWAAAAAWOOOOOOOOOOOO…WOOOOOOOOOOOWAAAAAAAAAAHH”. And it was advertised as making this noise 24/4 . Wish I could see that one again.
I’m quite fond of Wake Up and Smile, in which Will Ferrel, Nancy Walls and David Alan Grier play the hosts of a typically insipid morning show. During a segue into cooking tips, the teleprompter breaks, forcing the hosts to ad-lib.
Will: Uh… you know, Diane… I had a notion the other day…
Nancy: Uh… well… uh…notions make… uh… this country happen.
Will: I… I was thinking someone should get a group together… uh… with guns to sweep out those ghettos…
The continued failure of the teleprompter starts to create panic.
Nancy: What are we going to do? There’s no WORDS!
Will: We MUST USE THE FURNITURE TO BUILD A BARRICADE!
David: If we wait, surely they will send help, and make the words so that we can be safe!
Will: We can’t wait! If we wait, WE DIE! I’m the dominant one, so I’ll be the leader!
Nancy: I’m so hungry…
Will: We WILL LIVE! We WILL LIVE!
After a brief commercial break:
Will: THE ORDER OF THE HAND WILL RULE! The animals of the zoo guy, Danny Usher, will sustain us.
David: But WHAT if the BOX STILL refuses to give us any words?
Will: [turning to face David] You CHALLENGE my authority?!
David: [sniffing Will] I smell from your scent that you are weak! I challenge you!
Will and David fall to the ground, struggling. Will rises, holding David’s severed head.
Will: THE WEATHERMAN IS DEAD! I KILLED THE WEATHERMAN! HIS STRENGTH IS IN ME!!! [starts to gnaw on severed head]
At this point, the prompter is fixed and Will and Nancy try to resume discussing cooking tips, numb and tearful over what they’ve done.
My choice was Slumber Party, where the the women in the cast (plus Madeline Kahn) are playing teenage girls. Wonderful and quite charming:
Madeline: . . . so then, the man gets bare naked in bed with you and you both go to sleep, which is why they call it sleeping together. . . then the man . . . (WHISPERS) . . . in you and then you scream and he screams and then it’s over.
Larraine: That’s disgusting.
Jane: Well, I just know it can’t be true, because nothing that sickening is true.
Madeline: Boogers are true.
Madeline: But the worst thing is – your parents do it, you know?
Gilda: Come on!
Madeline: Gilda, think. None of us would be here unless our parents did it at least once.
(MOMENT OF SILENCE AS THEY CONSIDER THE HORRO)
Jane: My parents did it at least twice! I have a sister.
I’m also a big fan of the Land of Gorch skits with the R-rated Muppets[sup]TM[/sup]
I thought of that every time I read baby name boards when I was pregnant. I always remembered it as being Kevin Nealon in the sketch, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.
What about Massive Headwound Harry? Dana Carvey (IIRC), with a huge, bloody thing on the side of his head, at a cocktail party. I think he tries on someone’s hat, and everyone is disgusted, then someone drops something and he leans over to grab it and his massive headwound lands right in the plate of shrimp, and then he decides to have a nap on their light colored couch, rubbing the massive headwound all over it. As they cut out, the dog comes over and starts eating it off of his head.
It was brought to you by Bigfatbean. Why eat lots of little beans when you can have one Bigfatbean? (At least I think that’s what it was. Google pulls up nothing, though.)
The Bassomatic! I swear, ever since then I have not been able to look at a bass or a blender without thinking “Bassomatic!”
Somewhat more recently, I laugh until I cry every time I see Will Ferrell’s Harry Caray impression, particularly the one with Jeff Goldblum. The very best part is that about halfway through, Goldblum just gives up the ghost and gapes at Ferrell as if he had lost his mind right there on the set.
My brother and I (7 and 12 at the time) thought the funniest thing we ever saw was the skit that got interupted for the breaking news of Buckwheat getting shot.
It had Brad Hall with his own talk show inviting 3 of his friends on. One made farting noises under his arm, one had milk come out of his nose if he laughed, and one would drink anything. You know the rest.
It’s probably because I’m both a hockey fan and an Elvis fan, but the perfect Elvis movie send-up Waikiki Hockey (with Wayne Gretzky as the hero) makes me laugh like little else can.
That was hilarious. Forgive me for adding a bit that you missed.
“…He was delicious.”
Then the producer tells him “Let’s do 'American invaded by Zimbabwe.” The Zimbabwean flag appears on a graphic, and Carvey does the news in a spoof ‘clicking’ dialect, ending of course with “Gerald Ford.”
And the last story is “Hello, I’m Tom Brokaw. Gerald Ford is dead, and I’m gay. What??” Producer says “Hey, you’re the one who wanted to go on vacation. Next thing you know, Gerald Ford is dead, you like men, and Peter Jennings is covering it for ABC.”
“Bellissima” with Kirstie Alley. She and husband Kevin Nealon go into an Italian restaurant where the waiters all get very, very friendly with her. (They did a followup the next time she was on the show, but it wasn’t anywhere near as funny)
“Black People” with David Allen Grier. He plays a 40s-era jazz zinger who’s so complicit in his own degradation that he gets lynched by black people.
Jennifer Lopez as a very beautiful, very evil USO singer.
“Thanks a lot, Viagra!”
“The Iguana” with the very underrated Tim Kazurinsky as a tourist in the Caribbean (with wife Mary Gross) who may lead a secret double life.
“Not Gonna Phone It In Tonight” with Steve Martin.
“What I Believe” with Steve Martin, possibly from the same night.
Jan Hooks as a slutty stewardess on a newly deregulated airline.
My all-time favorite snl skit was in the late 80s, during the iran-contra stink. They had Reagan as a genius, outlining this plan to sell weapons to the contras, and sending it to iran to get the hostages out.
He’d be an utter genius, with maps and props, outlining the plan, with aids asking questions, and reagan getting pissed off, slamming the pointer against the board, and meanwhile getting interrupted by visiting girl scouts, where he’d go into the standard dim-witted gentle reagan routine. “Well, I’m happy to buy some cookies from you sally, nancy and I love the thin mints” or something like that. Then the girl scout would be ushered out and reagan would turn cold-hearted genius again.
I also think that skit had jimmy stewart come in to visit with dutch, and reagan went into his stupid routine again, all the while trying to get stewart out of there so he could get back to his plan.
Anyone else remember that skit? I seem to remember phil hartman portraying reagan, but was that before his time?
. Wish I could see that one again.