Roseanne Roseannadanna
My faves were not exactly recurring characters. But the sketches were hilarious and I swear nobody has ever seen them.
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Mike Myers as Tatsuo Natsaka in “The Nude House of Wacky People”. Very racist sketch in many ways, but I still found it hilarious. The background was that a Japanese company had just bought (Paramount?) and Reagan had gleefully stated how much wholesome family stuff the Japanese would bring to American TV, apparently not having a clue as to how ridiculous Japanese TV is.
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Happy’s Mayonaise Palace. Nobody has seen this Eddie Murphy sketch. Nobody.
I don’t think I’ve seen that one before.
Hilarious, but the one that really got me was after Jon Lovitz left and Tonto got replaced with Chris Farley. Not Chris Farley as a character, just Chris Farley as Chris Farley.
And no mention of the Church Lady yet? I wonder who’s fault that is… Could it be…
SATAN?
You guys are driving me nuts. This isn’t “name your favorite SNL characters” it’s name your favorite “little remembered” SNL characters. Church lady, Blues Brothers, the Samurai and Roseanne Roseannadanna? These are the most iconic SNL characters of all time!
Sheesh.
Somehow it’s hard to believe there was ever a time that the words “Piscopo” and “funny” can be the same sentence without some form of the word “not” somewhere between but I remember there was a hysterical bit he did on NBC’s Saturday Pre-Game Baseball show in the early 80s when the New York Yankees were going through their “revolving door of managers” period. It consisted of Piscopo’s “analysis” of the Yankees’ situation using a half-dozen or so Yankee bobble-head dolls (representing the managers) and a Louisville Slugger (representing George Steinbrenner). Things were pretty messy by the end.
Saw Fr. Guido live at my U. He called it Rensselpolyinstitechtute. I still refer to the tute that way.
I’m guessing these are young whippersnappers who weren’t even born when the person who played Rosanne Roseannadanna died, so I’m cutting them some slack.
This thread is full of forgotten gems. And a few one-off-ers that if you didn’t get to see it when it first came on, you’d never know about. Thanks guys.
Ahhh, THAT’S where I got my “old fart” voice that I use when I tell my students how tough we had it “back in the day”. Every time I start in with "DADgummit you little whippersmappers…!" I’m concurrently thinking “I’m not usually this creative, I must’ve picked this up from SOMEwhere…”
I’d also like to point out that I just realized that Michael O’Donoghue used the exact same voice for his impersonations of Tony Orlando, Ed Sullivan, The Mormons, and Dawn…
That became a catchphrase at our house. The kids still use it when they visit, usually when they spot some roadkill.
If it’s not Scottish IT’S CRAP!!
Nora Dunn and Jan Hooks as “The Sweeney(?) Sisters” B-lounge act, particularly the episode with the Christmas medley. I believe they had Mary Tyler Moore come up to the microphone and introduced her as their sister in that one, unless I’m totally misremembering, which is absolutely possible. One of the skits had William Shatner playing the fiance of one of them.
Now that I think of it, that might have been the episode where Shatner totally made fun of his role on “TJ Hooker” as he rode on the hood of a patrol car at 90 miles an hour. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if it was Toonces The Cat Who Could Drive behind the wheel.
Lots of memories of that season still bring a smile to me, perhaps the only season that I truly enjoyed after the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players left. Tastes change when you go thirty years with a long-running show, but even if I wouldn’t find Candice and Gilda and Chevy doing “Landshark” hilarious now like I did when I was fifteen years old, I still have the memory of laughing my ass off the night it aired.
And for that I will be always be grateful.
Schprockets! Schprockets! Schprockets! Ost German Telefunken presents Schprockets!
I have been looking for a GOOD photo of the “Pope In The Pizza Contest” forever…
They key, though, is to rant about modern stuff while making the point that in the old days (before modern safety standards) people were routinely killed by toys and whatnot, and that’s the way it was and we liked it!
The Jim Henson prehistoric muppets skits were called “Dregs and Vestiges”.
Joe Piscopo’s “Guy from Joisey” (spell it right!) was named Pauley.
I don’t know if the Goth Talk prom skit’s Janitor was named Uncle Roy or not but he was played by Steve Buscemi and was not the same character as Buck Henry’s pedophilic Uncle Roy… whose favorite game with the girls was “Goofy Sisters and the Glass Bottom Boat”.
Fred Garvin, male prostitute was IIRC just a one-skit character- he was Dan Ackroyd… as was my nomination for this thread- E. Buzz Miller, a sleaze merchant who was either hosting a “Nature show” showing films of animals having sex or representing a company that specialized in unsafe toys (“Broken Bag of Glass- the kids’ll love it!”)
Oh, another one that had a few skits- Adam Sandler’s Scouting Boy. Hated it!- and Sandler can usually crack me up doing anything!
Knowing all the above- even I don’t recall “Happy’s Mayonaisse Place”.
I wonder what Gail Matias and Denny Dillon are doing now? They were from the Lost season right after all the NRFPTP left.
One more thing- E. Buzz Miller was immortalized in the movie Poltergeist as the name of the family dog.
Chris Kattan’s goth high schooler.
The dangerous toy guy was Irwin Mainway - E Buzz Miller, on the other hand, hosted E Buzz Miller’s Art Classics: “… and this artist’s name is Titty-an! I swear to god!”
Azrael, I think. Wasn’t he always paired with Molly Shannon, as co-hosts of Goth Talk?
I greatly preferred Simon Milligan and Hecubus (Kevin McDonald and David Foley) from The Kids in the Hall’s Pit of Ultimate Darkness sketches.