They were annoying, as was the as yet unmentioned Jon Lovitz character “Annoying man”.
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!
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.)
“Lyle, the Effeminiate Heterosexual”
Caught between forty and fifty-five
Building up interest but losing his sex drive
Middle-Aged Man!
That’s from “In Living Color,” not SNL. 
Actually, it was The Lazlo Letters, followed by Citizen Lazlo! and From Bush to Bush: The Lazlo Toth Letters.
well let me buy you a round!!
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.
Does anyone besides me remember Nathan Thurm, 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?
Thanks Robot Arm. It was pretty much like I remembered it, probably 30+ years ago!
1999 did seem so very far away…
Miracle Whip-neither whipped nor miraculous. Discuss.
Yes! i remember.
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
His sweat, as I recall, was delicious.
Point, Counter Point
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.”
So what are you saying? How is this pertinent to me? I knew that. What, did you think I didn’t know that?
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.
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.
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.