# 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:** 6
**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, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/101 "2010-04-19T12:46:53Z")
> [@Fuji](#): > > 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. They were annoying, as was the as yet unmentioned Jon Lovitz character “Annoying man”. ---
**Author:** ![JuliaSqueezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@JuliaSqueezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JuliaSqueezer)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/102 "2010-04-19T12:47:09Z")
> [@Race\_Harley](#): > > No one mentioned “Toonces, the Driving Cat”? 😕 I was waiting for that one! I had a little cat named Petunia at the time, who forever after was called Toonces. Also loved the Czech Brothers (Dan Aykroyd and Steve Martin) who were two wild and crazy guys! ---
**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 19, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/103 "2010-04-19T13:10:46Z")
More of a commercial parody, but I recall Ackroyd had at least two appearances as a restaurant owner with two differnt specialty restaurants. I seem to remember the name “Del Slater,” as in 'Del Slater’s Rabbit Hutch" and 'Del Slater’s Family Toad Ranch." (You got to pick your own rabbit from a cage, just like a lobster.) ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/104 "2010-04-19T13:27:29Z")
“Lyle, the Effeminiate Heterosexual” ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/105 "2010-04-19T13:48:12Z")
[Fire Marshall Bill](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdR2T6YKAUc) ---
**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 19, 2010, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/106 "2010-04-19T13:56:48Z")
_Caught between forty and fifty-five Building up interest but losing his sex drive Middle-Aged Man!_ ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/107 "2010-04-19T14:04:27Z")
> [@Perciful](#): > > [Fire Marshall Bill](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdR2T6YKAUc) That’s from “In Living Color,” not SNL. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/108 "2010-04-19T14:16:44Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Yep, I just wanted to see who would recognize the name - not an SNL character, but his “Letters from Lazlo” is one of the funniest books ever. A bit dated now . Actually, it was _The Lazlo Letter_s, followed by _Citizen Lazlo!_ and _From Bush to Bush: The Lazlo Toth Letters_. ---
**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, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/109 "2010-04-19T14:59:01Z")
> [@ranchoth](#): > > you know bill brasky!? I wanna be your friend! > > [bill brasky!](http://www.hulu.com/watch/69478/saturday-night-live-bill-brasky-holiday-inn) well let me buy you a round!! ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/110 "2010-04-19T15:12:13Z")
> [@Race\_Harley](#): > > No one mentioned “Toonces, the Driving Cat”? 😕 I had a driving cat. The problem was that as it hung on the steering wheel, it steered in the direction in which it was looking, which tended to be at the birds on the hydro wires at the side of the road. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/111 "2010-04-19T16:00:05Z")
Does anyone besides me remember [Nathan Thurm](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLBQxk72NY), the oily chain-smoking lawyer for various sleazy businesses, played by Martin Short? He must’ve had a wire in that cigarette, the ash never fell…is it me, or is it him? It’s him, right? ---
**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, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/112 "2010-04-19T16:00:16Z")
Thanks Robot Arm. It was pretty much like I remembered it, probably 30+ years ago! 1999 did seem so very far away… ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/113 "2010-04-19T16:32:34Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > 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.” Miracle Whip-neither whipped nor miraculous. Discuss. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/114 "2010-04-19T16:34:16Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > Does anyone besides me remember [Nathan Thurm](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLBQxk72NY), the oily chain-smoking lawyer for various sleazy businesses, played by Martin Short? He must’ve had a wire in that cigarette, the ash never fell…is it me, or is it him? It’s him, right? Yes! i remember. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/115 "2010-04-19T20:45:37Z")
> [@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. The funniest part is that it was Chevy Chase’s second-to-last show, and I take it he had just recently announced he’d be leaving. One of the answers was something like “This comedian was never heard from again after leaving NBC’s Saturday Night program.” Then all the contestants (including the one played by Chase) look around with no idea of the correct response. Funny then – much, much funnier now. I’ve got the DVD’s of the first several seasons, and they’re really great – even when they suck, which isn’t that often, because they’re wonderful as anthropology of what the world was like when I was in preschool. The only other season I enjoyed with any consistency was the Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, Martin Short, et al. era., but then they all got canned after one season. I hate it when that happens. –Cliffy ---
**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 19, 2010, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/116 "2010-04-19T21:49:27Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > Does anyone besides me remember [Nathan Thurm](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLBQxk72NY), the oily chain-smoking lawyer for various sleazy businesses, played by Martin Short? He must’ve had a wire in that cigarette, the ash never fell…is it me, or is it him? It’s him, right? His sweat, as I recall, was delicious. ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/117 "2010-04-20T04:28:04Z")
Point, Counter Point [Jane You Ignorant Slut](http://www.hulu.com/watch/2306/saturday-night-live-point-counterpoint-lee-marvin-and-michelle-triola) ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/118 "2010-04-20T06:28:54Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Coffee Talk with Linda Richman. Before it was hosted by Linda Richman, there were two episodes hosted by Paul Baldwin. Also played by Mike Myers, same Brooklyn accent, but no drag. Linda replaced him because he got “shpilkis in his ginectegizoink.” > [@Max\_Torque](#): > > Does anyone besides me remember [Nathan Thurm](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLBQxk72NY), the oily chain-smoking lawyer for various sleazy businesses, played by Martin Short? He must’ve had a wire in that cigarette, the ash never fell…is it me, or is it him? It’s him, right? So what are you saying? How is this pertinent to me? I knew that. What, did you think I didn’t know that? ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/119 "2010-04-20T07:04:20Z")
Wasn’t there a TV interviewer (played by Martin Short or Mike Myers, maybe) who set out to make each of his celebrity interviewees cry? And when he did he’d turn to the camera with a purse-lipped look of satisfaction. When he got to Ronald Reagan, though, he had to resort to chopping onions and using a beekeeper’s smoke machine, IIRC. That’s all I remember, vaguely. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409/120 "2010-04-20T13:45:17Z")
Thought of another one that never seems to make those clip shows: Rob Schneider’s characters who seems to have an orgasm every time something he likes is mentioned, particularly Moosehead Beer. > [@tumbleddown](#): > > So what are you saying? How is this pertinent to me? I knew that. What, did you think I didn’t know that? I never said that, you said that, I never said that. Why are you so arrogant that you think I wouldn’t know that? hehe. I especially liked the episode where he defended Barnum & Bailey’s Circus for presented a surgically-altered goat as a unicorn. “The ASPCA is investigating…” “Maybe the ASPCA should investigate _you_! For being so uninteresting facially! Have you ever thought about that?” I think that episode featured another little-remembered character, Dwight MacNamara, an A/V geek who ran the projector that put images on the newsreader’s (Christopher Guest’s) screen. Played, I believe, by Gary Kroeger. And he did appear on the show more than once, surprisingly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-guido-sarducci-and-other-little-remembered-snl-characters/536409.md?page=7)