I tell ya, Bill Brasky was a son of a bitch! He once punched a hole in a cow just to see who was coming up the road!
another vote for “What up with that?”
it isn’t funny, yet I laugh at that one. I also laugh thinking about the track suit guy.
I’m there with the “What Up With That” sketches as well. It’s pretty obvious where the sketch is going and what’s going to happen, but the things they pull out to be in the song, like the little kids dressed up like the host, the girl caught in the well, and everything else they can throw at it.
And pf course, the Track Suit Guy.
There’s another person that likes that? GETOUTTAHERE! So out there, you marvel that someone actually conceived of it.
I was on Facebook a few weeks ago, and it recommended I become friends with Jason Sudeikis (Track Suit Guy). What?!? Then I noticed that I have like 9 friends in common with him. Apparently, I went to high school with Track Suit Guy! (He left after sophomore year for the public school.) He’s been one of my favorite SNL actors for the last couple seasons - it sure is weird to look back at your yearbook and see he’s in there.
One kind of forgotten skit that I always liked was from the early 80s era. It was set in a seedy piano bar with Joe Piscopo as a Tom Waits-like pianist, and Eddie Murphy as his crotchety old man friend who would always come in and complain about some thing or other. The skit could be funny at times, but it wasn’t a “gag” or “punchline” heavy skit. It was more of a character-observation bit (something like “the Office”) about two grizzled old New Yorkers who lived in the slums of Harlem. One installment had Lily Tomlin as a posh but naive society lady who stumbled into the bar by accident. I remember it could actually be quite touching at times - completely different from what SNL (or Piscopo or Murphy) is usually known for.
“Touch my monkey! Touch it!” It was the little dance, really , can’t quite explain it. It would probably have been funny if I’d known any German techno-lovers at the time.
::shuffles off to find her Zimmer frame::
Tracy Morgan’s Astronaut Jones. Not extremely funny but just a catchy satire of old crooners concept albums.