# Father Guido Sarducci and other little remembered SNL characters. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409 "2010-04-17T00:10:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Clark\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@Clark\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark_K)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/21 "2010-04-17T05:54:36Z")
Does anyone remember the creepy uncle played by Buck Henry? He would babysit for his nieces and take photos of them playing. Funny then, scary now. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/22 "2010-04-17T05:55:24Z")
Mr. Bill and Sluggo. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/23 "2010-04-17T06:30:24Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > Whoa…whoa…whoa… > > You mean SNL was actually once good? It actually had funny skits and memorable characters?! This is so tired. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/24 "2010-04-17T06:37:26Z")
[Mr. Short-Term Memory](http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/5071946). They did at least one other skit with him (on a game show). ETA: And another one, in a hospital. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/25 "2010-04-17T06:45:27Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > This is so tired. Tired how? Last time I saw SNL was damn near 10 years ago and it was already scraping the bottom back then. From what I’ve heard it hasn’t gotten much better. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/26 "2010-04-17T06:50:43Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > THANK YOU! I haven’t seen that in, must be almost 30 years, but I always remembered that last bit of the song. My son watches that video every night! ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/27 "2010-04-17T06:52:25Z")
> [@Clark\_K](#): > > Does anyone remember the creepy uncle played by Buck Henry? He would babysit for his nieces and take photos of them playing. Funny then, scary now. Uncle Roy. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/28 "2010-04-17T06:57:23Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4kadmdU6oc) one of the strangest tie ins ever, the Good Father appears on the Handsome Boy Modeling School track “Sunshine” he first appears at about 1:25 ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/29 "2010-04-17T08:16:51Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > Don’t you mean the [Mormon Tabernacle Choir?](http://www.hulu.com/watch/4106/saturday-night-live-mr-mikes-mormons) > > Man, I sure miss him. He also did Tony Orlando and Dawn. I guess it was a recurring bit. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/30 "2010-04-17T12:08:46Z")
Dana Carvey’s “Grumpy Old Man” kills me, far more than any of his others. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/31 "2010-04-17T12:24:16Z")
Chico Escuela–“Baseball been berry berry good to me” Samurai anything–Belushi was a god. Possibly Dionysus. Two Wild and Crazy Guys ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/32 "2010-04-17T12:30:07Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > Whoa…whoa…whoa… > > You mean SNL was actually once good? It actually had funny skits and memorable characters?! No. It was never, ever funny and that’s why these characters are little remembered. 35 years later, it continues to be the stupidest, lamest piece of shit TV ever. I don’t know why I even bought it up. Sorry 'bout that. Since this **kidneyfailure** has bought to light that SNL isn’t now and never was funny, lemme threadjack my own thread: I always wished I could be adopted by Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner. Their home must have been weirdly fun. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/33 "2010-04-17T12:33:54Z")
I have no idea if this is “little remembered” but I still remember (and quote - how embarrassing) Lothar of the Hill People. So does my husband, and Lothar was an SNL character well before we met. The only youtube link I can find is really horrible one of someone filming their TV, so I am not going to link to it. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/34 "2010-04-17T12:34:56Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > Whoa…whoa…whoa… > > You mean SNL was actually once good? It actually had funny skits and memorable characters?! Selective memory. I can easily recall the funniest twenty minutes of the first two seasons, but they had about the same hit/miss ratio as any other cast. Skits and hosts which failed, failed as badly as anything that was on last week. (I stopped watching regularly when the original cast left – I got a job that had night hours on the weekends and never bothered to tape it. Then, you know, becoming a grown-up and all that.) ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/35 "2010-04-17T12:35:57Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > Tired how? Last time I saw SNL was damn near 10 years ago and it was already scraping the bottom back then. From what I’ve heard it hasn’t gotten much better. Tired because at least one person (congratulations! you’re this thread’s prize-winner!) has to come in to every single SNL thread ever and ask if this boring piece of shit is still on the air and talk about how it hasn’t been funny since the 1970s, and it wasn’t even that funny then. Maybe if that line of discussion is so interesting to you, you could go start your own thread about it and stay out of one that is specifically devoted to discussing interesting or memorable characters. Just a thought. Back on topic: Garrett Morris’s interpreter doing News for the Hard of Hearing. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/36 "2010-04-17T12:46:33Z")
Not my favorite (which would be nearly any of Gilda’s many characters but especially Roseanne Roseannadanna), but Dan Akroyd’s _Leonard Pith-Garnell_ of “Bad Playwright’s Theatre,” which oddly enough I was just thinking of earlier this morning! ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/37 "2010-04-17T12:48:53Z")
[Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer](http://s117.photobucket.com/albums/o79/Hannah_Pittman/?action=view¤t=CavemanLawyer.flv) ---
**Author:** ![tsukaesugi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ad7895/32.png) [@tsukaesugi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsukaesugi)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/38 "2010-04-17T13:39:58Z")
Tippy Turtle It was a short animated series about an abusive alcoholic turtle. From the Eddie Murphy / Joe Piscopo era IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/39 "2010-04-17T13:41:41Z")
> [@Clark\_K](#): > > Does anyone remember the creepy uncle played by Buck Henry? He would babysit for his nieces and take photos of them playing. Funny then, scary now. I remember an Uncle Roy skit that I may be mis-remembering. It’s a Goth prom in the basement and Uncle Roy is the janitor who stumbles upon them. One moody Goth sings a song that sounds very much like My Heart Will Go On. Wouldn’t this put Uncle Roy in the running for the longest running character? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/40 "2010-04-17T13:44:21Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > He also did Tony Orlando and Dawn. I guess it was a recurring bit. Don’t forget Michael Douglas too! [the talk show host, not the actor] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409.md?page=3)