“El Niño is Spanish for…the Niño!”
I’VE FOUND IT! The SNL episode with Larry’s Corner where he has his reunion with friends; the one who laughs while drinking milk and it comes out of his nose, the one who makes duck (farting) noises under his armpit, and the one who will drink anything liquid. It is SNL Season 9, Episode 1. It can be viewed on HULU.
It was season 9, episode 1
You Can Pick Your Friends, You Can Pick Your Nose, But You Can’t Pick Your Friend’s Nose.
Toonces the driving cat, the cat who can drive a car!
Girl with no gaydar - The Rock plays a gay bartender (ok, so they did it a few times over the years, but I just about died laughing at The Rock)
Robot Insurance (best skit ever)
Beyonce Single Ladies parody
The Chonic (what!?) cles of Narnia, indeed!
Chippendales dance off is unbeatable. Was very funny yet Chris Farles was very endearing in it too.
Belushis Chocolate Donuta is still very funny today.
schmidtts gay beer had me rolling too.
Over two years and no one’s mentioned the Douchebags?
Salisbury Manor, 1730.
Harry Shearer as Lord Salisbury hosting a fancy English party and offering chopped steaks to his guests. Bill Murray as the Earl of Sandwich. Garret Morris as a page loudly announcing the guests. “The Duke and Duchess of Arrrrgyllllle!” Buck Henry as Lord Douchebag. “Tell me, Douchebag, what kind of an invention are you sitting on?” “Many’s the time, I’ve heard the King say of your family, and yours, too, Sandwich, ‘Give me a Sandwich and a Douchebag and there is nothing I cannot do.’”
Thirty years on, and this one’s still a classic.
This zombie needs more cowb… er, Weekend Update one-liners. My favorite:
Re: one-off sketches, I nominate Ed Asner’s departing admonition that “you can never put too much water in a nuclear core.”
I searched the thread for Steve Martin’s King Tut but didn’t see it. I was thinking about this sketch/song earlier this year when Egypt was in the news. From the third season, 22 April 1978, Steve Martin performing King Tut:
The “backup group” Martin used for this song was credited as The Toot Uncommons (Tutankhamen), but was really The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, whose multi-instrumentalist John McEuen is good friends with Steve Martin and taught him to play banjo.
The sax soloist who comes out of the sarcophagus - it is ‘Blue Lou’ Marini, soon to be a member of the Blues Brothers Band.
Released as a single, it reached number 17 on the Billboard charts in 1978 proving once again that the seventies were a very silly decade.
Toonces wasn’t a one off either. They even did a Toonces special at one point.
He drives around
All over the town
Toonces, the driving cat!
Yes, that is “Blue Lou.” That episode is considered one of the best SNL’s ever.It also had the Dancing in the Dark sequence with Martin and Gilda Radner, the best SNL sketch with no dialogue.
Steve Martin introduced this clip at SNL’s tribute to Radner after she died. It was one of the few times Martin, the consummate professional, almost lost it.
Great episode. I remember I was in college at the time: http://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/77r.phtml. Dancing in the Dark, The debut of the Blues Brothers and Theodoric of York - Medieval Barber:
Theodoric: Wait a minute. Perhaps she’s right. Perhaps I’ve been wrong to blindly follow the medical traditions and superstitions of past centuries. Maybe we barbers should test these assumptions analytically, through experimentation and a “scientific method”. Maybe this scientific method could be extended to other fields of learning: the natural sciences, art, architecture, navigation. Perhaps I could lead the way to a new age, an age of rebirth, a Renaissance! (thinks for a minute) Naaaaaahhh!
apologizing that I don’t have time to read entire thread, but here are my nominees:
from the “golden days” - Chevy Chase interviewing Richard Pryor for a job. By the time Pryor spits out ‘dead honky’ I am in tears, laughing.
from recent years - The Rock played a Hawaiian waiter, hula-ing & telling tourists the real truth about the islands. hilarious.
My favorite is Eddie Murphy’s tribute to George Washington Carver, while dressed as an African prince, wearing sunglasses, and seated in an armchair. “… George ‘Jif’ Robinson reaped countless millions from Dr. Carver’s invention, while Dr. Carver died penniless and insane, still trying to play a phonograph record with a peanut.”
Another good one is Steve Martin’s, “If I had one wish for this holiday season …” which starts with the children of the world coming together in song, and finally devolves into “revenge against my enemies. They should die like pigs in hell!!!”
I’m also a big fan of Andy Kaufmann’s, “Mighty Mouse” and some of his others. Chris Farley rolling his fat around for Chippendales … not so much.
Colonel Angus is an acquired taste.
(this skit was the first one I thought of, then the Tonto, Frankenstein & Tarzan skits, and finally the “Asswipe Johnson” skit with Nicholas Cage. Not sure why, but that one always made me laugh.)
The premise of the Chippendales skit was actually done many years earlier when Paul Simon played pro basketball player Connie Hawkins 1 on 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mrJFf8lTk0 c.i.l.l my landlord
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Chippendales dance off is unbeatable. Was very funny yet Chris Farles was very endearing in it too. QUOTE]
KNEW it would become classic as I was watching it live.