What’s been your favorite SNL show? Overall, my favorite was a show when Heather Locklear hosted. I love a skit she does with Kevin Nealon where she is sitting across a bar from him and they exchange flirts.
She winks, he winks, she licks her lips, he licks his lips, etc. She grabs a pad of paper and pencil and sketches him - he grabs a pad of paper and pencil…and sketches himself. I don’t know why but it cracks me up.
In another skit, she is selling items in an infomercial with a big map of the US behind her - with lights that blink when someone from that city calls. She is COMPLETELY UN-PC and makes cracks about Jewish people (all the lights from NY light up), etc.
I don’t like John Goodman as a host/actor, anything. I think he’s boring.
Gotta be Christopher Walken. I love the “Continental” sketches where he plays a prowling Eurotrash character. And anybody who was surprised at his turn in that Fatboy Slim video has obviously never seen the musical numbers he’s opened his guest appearences with.
I’ve always enjoyed Tom Hanks. I think he totally gets the concept and does some hilarious skits. So how about his 4th time?
He dies on stage from a owie booboo on his knee and gets called a pussy by Abe Lincoln when he dies. Is a roady for Aerosmith in Wayne’s World, does Mr. Short Term memory. And those “Hello … … … and Goodbye” guys with Lovitz.
As an aside that was on CC yesterday.
I also love the episode with Kyle MacLachlan where he ‘accidentily’ gives away the ending to Twin Peaks, it was Shelly the waitress then gets yelled at ont he phone by Phil Hartman as David Lynch.
I probably be able to nominate some of the earliest shows if I had seen them in the last 5 years.
Or the skit where he’s spoofing his Dead Zone character. Saying “psychic” stuff like: “You’re in your car. You’re driving. But then you stop. You’re in traffic.”
I have to agree with Hugh. Alec Baldwin is always an exceptional host. He does that creepy Boy Scouts leader, Mr. Schweaty with his “Schweaty Balls” on the NPR show, and my personal favorite was his impression of Charles Nelson Reilley on “Inside the Actor’s Studio”, with Will Ferrell portraying James Lipton. I swear, I was gasping for breath.
Chris Walken rocks, I agree. Especially the psychic episode, “The Continental,” the one with Pat where he ends up leaping out the window, and of course the one with Tim Meadows as the census taker. “I don’t know, I’m not real good at guestimating…”
Jason Alexander was really good, too. Especially in that sketch where he and another guy are trying to get away from it all (in a grocery store back room), and the one where he keeps mixing up the African Americans. His opening monologue, where he pretends to be Peter Pan was not half bad either.
And of course, Kiefer Sutherland. :p:p:p The one where he plays Stuart Smalley’s Canadian cousin, and usurper, was pretty good. The phone illiteracy one was cute, as was the the whole Axl Rose/Slash/Sebastian Bach sing little kid songs. The first time I saw that I literally couldn’t stop laughing…Just something about it hit me just right. Oh, and the Scottish sketch. “Ah, that’s Irish, and we are a Scottish store. Now GIT out!!”
Oh, one more. Matthew Perry- the Jeapordy one was good (“I’m batman!” “George Clooney sucks!” “Val Kilmer Sucks!”), the sarcastic class, and the “Friends” send up. Colin Quin was great as the fake Chandler, and I loved the very end where Matthew Perry is playing his role the way Colin was in the beginning.
Ironically, I was going to say Goodman. One episode comes to mind as my fave. It had a skit where he plays the Dr. who used his own sperm for artificial insemination. It also had one of the best phony commercials where Natalie Cole rips off all her dad’s dead friend’s music.
What I like about Goodman’s hosting (as well as other less famous actors) is that he lets the regular cast do their thing. The show is at its best when the host is a complementary player in the skits. The bigger the star, the more they want to be the center piece.
J.Lo was awful. It was like it was a vanity show for her.
Hanks, who is a BIG star, still acts with humility and fits right in. Probably because he can act in any situation.
I’m really not a JC fan, but his episode was just amazing. The lifeguard at the Jacuzzi, the first Cheerleaders skit, the first Roxbury skit (although that sucked after the first time. But when it first showed up, wow.), and Jimmy Tango’s FatBusters (“Handfuls of crystal meth and my patented vibrating Heat Beads.”). It’s one of the few episodes that leaves me in tears from laughing so hard.
Pretty much any episode hosted by Alec Baldwin or Christopher Walken is a keeper. Alec Baldwin is a genuinely funny guy. I also love to see shows hosted by Steve Martin – the “Five Timers Club” is probably one of my favorite openings ever. I also loved the monologue that Martin did that turned into a huge musical number featuring the entire cast. “Not gonna phone it in tonight!” (Actually, come to think of it, were the Five Timers Club and the big musical number part of the same opening?)
I thought Steve Martin was in a bath robe during the five timers club. I thought Hanks hosted it that night. P. Simon and E. Gould were also in the club.
Best line from the five timers skit:
Ordering his Sandwich from the SNL Menu
E. Gould: “I’ll have the Anthony Michael Hall. It’s suprisingly good!”
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You’re Great!
You’re right, watsonwil. Somehow I managed to confuse the Five Timers skit with that Steve Martin opening. My mind is turning to Swiss cheese these days!
I should point out, though, that MrWhatsit feels that the Five Timers skit is marred by the lack of Buck Henry.
…no, YOU’RE great.
Yeah! Buck Henry. Didn’t he host the first episode? Nobody could sell a “candy in my pocket” joke like Buck Henry! Who has joined the 5 timers club since that episode? Goodman. Baldwin?
‘I’m not gonna get liquored up tonight, I’m not gonna get in a fight tonight, I’m not gonna drink till update is through, thats a promise to you the viewer, after the show I’m gonna drink till I spew, but tonight I’ll stay sober for you!!’
/chris farley/
something like that.
I still think the one that Emilio Esteves (sp?) hosted with Pearl Jam as the musical guest was pretty damn funny. It had the ‘How Much ya Bench?’ skit where everyone had little legs and Charlie Sheen called and and bitched out his brother. funny shit
jabe- I loved that one. I also liked that “Geek, Dweeb, or Spaz” game show.
“No…more questions.” “What?” “Just…just leave me alone.”
I love the look on Emilio’s face when they show the picture of the Dungeons and Dragon club. The opening sketch with him getting beaten a la that Singapore kid was good, too, at least the first couple of times that I saw it. But the “Geek, Dweeb, Spaz” never gets old.
