# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/81 "2010-04-18T22:44:14Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Do puppets count as characters? Anyone remember Scred and the other critters from the Land of Gorch – the only video I could find was [Scred singing with Lily Tomlin](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb68zu_dTmU). I loves me some Land of Gorch. The only funny thing SNL ever came up with on a regular basis. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/82 "2010-04-18T23:18:50Z")
John Lovitz as “Master Thespian”: Lovitz: Acting! Other character: Brilliant! Lovitz: Thank You! I also loved the commercial for “[The Amazing Alexander](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaebojaxt3s&feature=player_embedded)” In fact it was much better than CATS. I’m going to see it again and again. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/83 "2010-04-19T00:08:54Z")
Anyone remember Jeopardy 1999? I think the host was played by Steve Martin, and the categories included Mutant Diseases and Sex. This went out in the 1970s I think. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/84 "2010-04-19T00:12:31Z")
What about the "Coneheads’ Nowadays, SNL still has some very good moments. The Tina Fey/Palin skits will be all time classics. They had a couple very good skits last night. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/85 "2010-04-19T00:17:59Z")
['SNL' Mocks Tea Baggers' Outfits, Signs, And Lack Of Humor (VIDEO) | HuffPost Entertainment](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/18/snl-mocks-tea-baggers-out_n_541941.html) From yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Race\_Harley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Race\_Harley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Race_Harley)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/86 "2010-04-19T00:19:24Z")
No one mentioned “Toonces, the Driving Cat”? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/87 "2010-04-19T00:41:26Z")
> [@campp](#): > > Anyone remember Jeopardy 1999? I think the host was played by Steve Martin, and the categories included Mutant Diseases and Sex. > > This went out in the 1970s I think. Yeah, I remember that one. Everyone in Star Trek shirts and white wigs, and with names like Lee P314. Martin was the host and I think Dan Aykroyd and Larraine Newman were two of the contestants. 1999 seemed like the distant future. There was a show a few years ago of SNL game show sketches and I watched it hoping for _Jeopardy 1999_, but no joy. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/88 "2010-04-19T00:49:13Z")
[Found it.](http://www.movieweb.com/tv/TE6ka7aclisz8c/HUAXUHBE5ChrEF) ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/89 "2010-04-19T02:50:15Z")
> [@Motorgirl](#): > > I have no idea if this is “little remembered” but I still remember (and quote - how embarrassing) Lothar of the Hill People. I opened the thread to see if anyone mentioned Lothar. I sing his theme song when I wash dishes, for some reason. I like how it sounds in the acoustics of my kitchen. I also loved Simon, the kid who “liked to do drawrings” who sat in the bathtub and talked about his very sad life, living in hotel rooms while his single father did business all around the world. Sometimes another kid (played by the host) in the same predicament would be in the bath with him and he’d warn them not to look at his bum like a cheeky monkey. I also have a fondness for Helen Madden, licensed joyologist. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/90 "2010-04-19T03:10:59Z")
Michael Palin’s "[Miles Cowperthwaite](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78rcowperthwaite.phtml) was only 2 to 3 segments IIRC, but it did bring us the magnificent Captain Ned, leading me to ask my boyfriends many times “Is this the way manly men behave on a man’s ship?!” ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/91 "2010-04-19T03:19:00Z")
The Falconer (Will Forte) Operaman (Adam Sandler) Matt Foley (Chris Farley) Astronaut Jones (Tracy Morgan) Bill Brasky Buddies (Will Ferrell, David Koechner, Mark McKinney, Tim Meadows, others) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/92 "2010-04-19T03:41:16Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Oh, another one that had a few skits- Adam Sandler’s Scouting Boy. Hated it!- and Sandler can usually crack me up doing anything! Wasn’t that Canteen Boy? > [@](#): > > Knowing all the above- even I don’t recall “Happy’s Mayonaisse Place”. I know. I thought I had just imagined it until I went through a SNL sketch list. It was hardly a classic, but I remember a lot of lines from it: “A vewitable mountain of Mayo! Comes with flag and three plastic goats!” ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/93 "2010-04-19T03:49:08Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Bill Brasky Buddies (Will Ferrell, David Koechner, Mark McKinney, Tim Meadows, others) You know Bill Brasky!? I wanna be your friend! [BILL BRASKY!](http://www.hulu.com/watch/69478/saturday-night-live-bill-brasky-holiday-inn) ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/94 "2010-04-19T06:27:32Z")
I’ll turn 50 this year, and I keep thinking of camel-toed Sally O’Malley. “I’m 50! I can kick and I can stretch!” ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/95 "2010-04-19T06:51:24Z")
OK, I got corrected twice- I thought E. Buzz Miller was the same character as Irwin Mainstay, just in different skits. Also, Adam Sandler’s scouting character was indeed Canteen Boy. Chris Kattan’s character on Goth Talk was Azrael Abyss (“Prrrince of Sorrows!”) while Molly Shannon was either Circe or Cassandra Nightshade, Queen of the Crows. Every once in a while, they would also blurt out their “real” names. ETA Circe Nightshade, also real names Todd Henderson & Stephanie ??? And Steve Buscemi’s janitor was Tony Baloney Fontaine. > **[Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1996–97](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goth_Talk)** > > The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced between September 28, 1996, and May 17, 1997, the twenty-second season of SNL. > A cartoon by Robert Smigel, part of the Saturday TV Funhouse series. Originally appeared on the Dana Carvey Show. Debuted September 28, 1996. > Mr. Peepers was a part-monkey/part-human character created and portrayed by Chris Kattan. His signature bits of physical comedy involved eating apples one after another in rapid successi... ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/96 "2010-04-19T07:04:06Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > [Found it.](http://www.movieweb.com/tv/TE6ka7aclisz8c/HUAXUHBE5ChrEF) Thank you! That was hilarious & a little unsettling. ---
**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 19, 2010, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/97 "2010-04-19T08:58:20Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > OK, I got corrected twice- I thought E. Buzz Miller was the same character as Irwin Mainstay Mainway. (three times ;)) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Punkyova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@The\_Punkyova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Punkyova)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/98 "2010-04-19T11:40:36Z")
I was in college in the mid-80s. I worked part time in the career counseling office. We got some information from the local Catholic diocese about entering the priesthood. This included a poster of Fr. Guido with the caption “Eat Free in Italian Restaurants.” Smaller print underneath gave more information and who to contact if you wanted to become a priest. As far as we could tell, it was totally serious, and our best guess was that someone in the hierarchy didn’t actually know who Fr. Guido was, or what he did. (We chose not to display the poster.) I’ve always wondered what Don Novello was thinking when he agreed to do that campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/99 "2010-04-19T12:25:21Z")
Coffee Talk with Linda Richman. Sadly, no one knows what the hell I’m talking about these days if I happen to say “I’m getting all _verklempt_. Talk amongst yourselves.” ---
**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/100 "2010-04-19T12:40:22Z")
I came to this thread wanting to mention Willie and Frankie, but [**Nobody**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12353787&postcount=52) beat me to it. Those guys were probably my _favorite_ “little remembered characters”, but if we’re just going for “little remembered characters”, my vote goes for [Doug and Wendy Whiner](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whiners). I was like 12 when I first started watching SNL, and about the only thing I can remember from that time was this couple. Pretty irritating, but I guess that was kinda the point. Oh - and **Motorgirl**? You’re not the only one who remembers Lothar of the Hill People. Every time I come across the name “Lothar” (which doesn’t happen too often), I have to sing the chorus of his theme song. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409.md?page=6)