# More SNL: Favorite WU anchors/lines **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-snl-favorite-wu-anchors-lines/502484 "2009-07-09T19:27:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-snl-favorite-wu-anchors-lines/502484/41 "2009-07-11T13:33:12Z")
From Norm MacDonald: “The new Kenny G Christmas album was released this week. Happy birthday, Jesus - hope you like _ **CRAP!!!** _” ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-snl-favorite-wu-anchors-lines/502484/42 "2009-07-11T20:15:38Z")
> [@jk1245](#): > > The week Vanilla Ice was musical guest, WU opened with the dancing Statue of Liberty they used to have and the distinctive sounds of “ding ding ding da ding da” (or whatever you want to call it ) of the opening of Under Pressure/Ice Ice Baby. Miller looks right at the camera, smirks and says “God, I love Bowie”. Funny, since by that point Ice was getting flak for stealing music (as he should have). Whoops, guess I should’ve skimmed less and read more before my previous post.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-snl-favorite-wu-anchors-lines/502484/43 "2009-07-15T12:10:53Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > From Norm MacDonald: “The new Kenny G Christmas album was released this week. Happy birthday, Jesus - hope you like _ **CRAP!!!** _” I just laughed out loud sitting at my desk at work. People looked. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-snl-favorite-wu-anchors-lines/502484/44 "2009-07-15T14:52:59Z")
NoClueBoy: > [@](#): > > Wasn’t that actually A Whitney Brown in one of his Big Picture bits on WU? I’ve always associated it with Miller, though I suppose my memory isn’t the most accurate thing on the planet. If it was someone else doing a bit on a Miller-anchored WU, that could be why my mind afterward thought Miller said it. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-snl-favorite-wu-anchors-lines/502484/45 "2009-07-15T16:04:02Z")
I always loved Norm MacDonald’s deadpan stuff. “The American Housing Association stated today that Americans should spend no more than forty percent of their income on housing costs. In a related story, the American Crack Association said that Americans should spend one hundred percent of their income on crack.” And on a plan that had been proposed in San Diego to construct an airport on a giant floating platform on the ocean: “It’s part of San Diego’s long term plan to hold a giant disaster.” ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-snl-favorite-wu-anchors-lines/502484/46 "2009-07-15T18:11:59Z")
Norm was great. Remember the OJ verdict? Weekend Update started with a picture of OJ and Norm saying: “Well, it’s official. Murder is legal in the state of California.” Another favorite Norm line: “Scientists have developed a pill that gives all the health benefits of red wine, without the alcohol. It’s called a _grape_.” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-snl-favorite-wu-anchors-lines/502484/47 "2009-07-15T18:43:56Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > NoClueBoy: > > I’ve always associated it with Miller, though I suppose my memory isn’t the most accurate thing on the planet. If it was someone else doing a bit on a Miller-anchored WU, that could be why my mind afterward thought Miller said it. That was an era of sublime satire, wasn’t it? (I loved it all, whoever did it) ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-snl-favorite-wu-anchors-lines/502484/48 "2009-07-15T19:01:22Z")
I’m glad to see all the Norm MacDonald love, because he was my favorite, as well. A lot of times, he’d tell a joke and there would be absolutely no laughter from the studio audience, but I’d be at home cracking up. I’m surprised anyone like Kevin Nealon or (especially) Colin Quinn, though. They both screwed up their delivery so badly and so often it was like watching amateurs. Couldn’t stomach either of them in that spot. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-snl-favorite-wu-anchors-lines/502484/49 "2009-07-16T00:22:06Z")
The Norm MacDonald bit I remember most featured Will Ferrel commenting on Anne Heche. When told that Heche was a lesbian (as she sorta was at the time), Ferrel did the spewing-vomit bit. Then Norm started on the final joke about the world’s most dangerous job, East Coast Rapper, finally being eclipsed by… but he was facing the wrong camera, thus to the television audience, his head was turned away. Midway through the joke, he paused and said “Y’know, this would probably work better if I was on _this_ camera,” evidently talking to the incorrectly-positioned cue-card holder. He started to tell the joke again, finally revealing that the dangers of being a East Coast Rapper had been eclipsed - by _West_ Coast Rappers. The interrupted joke got little to no reaction and Norm dipped his fingers into the remains of Ferrel’s “vomit” and tasted it, to the audible disgust of the audience. “No, this is good. I normally don’t like Will Ferrel vomit, but this ain’t bad. Let’s just end it, good night.” Thus he managed to escape from a technical disaster on a (reasonably) high note. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-snl-favorite-wu-anchors-lines/502484.md?page=2)