Thank you! How does one find that? Unless you recalled the host. I sure didn’t.
The Chippendales skit and Schwetty Balls are my second and third favorites.
You know, the thing everyone remembers about the Schwetty Balls skit is, well, the Schwetty Balls, but I think that the real genius in that sketch is the way they so perfectly capture the calm, quiet pace and tone of the public radio cooking program. I was laughing my ass off well before they got to the whole bit with the Schwetty Balls.
Good times.
Most of my favorites (Shweddy Balls, Sincere Guy Stu, and Jingleheimer Junction) have been mentioned already. So here are the honorable mentions.
There was one, where I think it was Will Ferrell, took a yoga class just so he could get limber enough to suck his own dick. The first shot of him with his head down his oversized sweats was fantastic.
Another one where there were two guys playing a old grizzled cop and a rookie who was seeing his first dead body. The rookie starts puking, then everyone else, and the puke comes out of their sleeves as they’re covering their mouths. It’s still dribbling when they take their arms away, and everyone is trying not to laugh through it, which just makes it funnier.
Another Alec Baldwin favorite, with Adam Sandler – “Canteen Boy.”
The Hanukkah Song…“OJ Simpson…not a Jew. But guess who is, Hall of Famer Rod Carew! (he converted)”
Bad Idea Jeans commercial – "I usually use protection, but then I thought ‘When am I ever going to go back to Haiti?’’
My favorite is definitely More Cowbell. Googly Eyes is a close runner-up.
Another runner-up that hasn’t been mentioned yet - the Halftime Pep Talk sketch with Will Forte and Peyton Manning. The dance they do always has me in stitches - especially Manning doing the air guitar on Forte’s leg!
Oh, you just reminded me of the OJ Simpson return to the sidelines on NFL on NBC. Great stuff!
Mine: Norm MacDonald announcing that, "the family of the late Princess Diana has settled on a way to discourage souvenir seekers from defacing her grave… land mines.
Other sketches: Joe Peschi as Mr. Cavelli, a loud, overly excitable, silk-suited Italian-American jewelry store customer (big stretch, huh?) who gets into a fight with himself in a mirror before being pulled off the fray by clerk Kevin Nealon.
“The Mike Ditka Type-A Christmas Special”, with Phil Hartman in the title role, and John Goodman as a warm but two-fisted Santa Claus.
Sorry if these have already been cited. There are others.
Ahem…
Sadly, you are correct; NBC/Universal is invoking the “copyright owner” clause on the audio on other sites.
Does anyone remember when Mike Myers did a great impression of Mick Jagger on Weekend Update and Mick Jagger did Keith Richards?
I can’t find the video.
Sorry to be a jerk, but while *Schwetty Balls *was hilarious, it wasn’t a one-off. It was an episode of Delicious Dish, a cooking show that’s incredibly boring because it’s on NPR.
I loved the Wayne Gretzky “Elvis” movie* Waikiki Hockey*.
Yes, I remember but don’t have the video either.
The sketch about the beatniks!
Some of the faux commercials:
Puppy Uppers,
“The breakfast you bang”
and the one for little chocolate donuts.
The Weekend Update special report on paraquat-poisoned pot that ended up with Garrett Morris getting shot dead (offstage).
More details: he was shopping for a pinky ring, and acting out scenarios to see which pinky ring looked best in those scenarios. Pretty damn funny.
IIRC, which is not a given.
Yeah, this was the context. The “fight” he was getting into was him acting out a pretend situation getting pissed off at a mook. Great stuff, especially since there’s no dialog during the pantomime.
My vote’s for “Sincere Guy Stu”, especially that last line. Funniest line ever from a guest.
Didn’t this include Mick (as Keith) saying “Mick, you ignorant slut!” ?
Chris Farley as ‘El Niño’ was a great one too. (I think that was a one-off.) The local news even played a bit from it just last week when they mentioned this years El Niño.
Let me redeem your memory: on that season’s Best of SNL show, that skit was indeed interrupted for the “Buckwheat has been shot” sketch. So, that’s probably the episode you’re remembering.
From around that same era: Joe Piscopo hosted a talk show talking about the Kennedy assassination, twenty years later. He asked his first guest, Jim Belushi, where he was when he’d heard. “Well, I was a freshman in college, and I was walking across campus, and I heard two guys talking…”
Piscopo interrupts, “Wait, how old are you?” “Um, twenty-nine. So I hear these guys talking…” “Hang on, you were nine years old and you were a freshman in college?” “No, no, I was eighteen. So I hear these guys talking…” “Wait, wait, so you didn’t hear about Kennedy being assassinated for ten years?” “Well, I usually turn to the sports page first.”
Piscopo rants for a while about how ignorant the guy is, and turns to his next guest, Robin Duke. “Well, this is going to be a little embarrassing, considering what just happened, but, um…he told me.” And she points at Belushi, the first guest. “Just before the show. I must’ve been watching another channel…”
And now Piscopo is in utter disbelief, when the third guest (Kazurinski) pipes in, “Pardon me, are you talking about President Kennedy?” “Yes.” “Why, did something happen?” Duke: “He’s been shot.” Kazurinski bursts into tears.
Those old talk show sketches were great. Remember “Inside-Out”, the one-shot they did where Julia Louis-Dreyfus was the easily-surprised host who spit coffee all over her guests every time they said anything remotely startling? Mary Gross was soaked by the time the sketch ended.
Ah, thanks, I knew I wasn’t crazy. It was one of the first things I taped when we bought our very first VCR so I watched it over, and over, and over.
I love the ‘Jar Glove’ commercial:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/34460/saturday-night-live-jar-glove
Not a big fan of the skit, but…
Just TRY hearing “Don’t Fear The Reaper” on the radio now, without noticing almost nothing but that damn cowbell.
And wanting more. To the point of banging along on anything metallic.