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.
Mr. Bill and Sluggo.
This is so tired.
Mr. Short-Term Memory. They did at least one other skit with him (on a game show).
ETA: And another one, in a hospital.
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.
My son watches that video every night!
Uncle Roy.
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
He also did Tony Orlando and Dawn. I guess it was a recurring bit.
Dana Carvey’s “Grumpy Old Man” kills me, far more than any of his others.
Chico Escuela–“Baseball been berry berry good to me”
Samurai anything–Belushi was a god. Possibly Dionysus.
Two Wild and Crazy Guys
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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!
Tippy Turtle
It was a short animated series about an abusive alcoholic turtle. From the Eddie Murphy / Joe Piscopo era IIRC.
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?
Don’t forget Michael Douglas too! [the talk show host, not the actor]