What was your favorite skit? I have 2. One was the one where Bill Murray was being interveiwed about his book. His book was about his rare affliction,something like cincolexia,where he can only speak five words. The book was called Thats True,You’re Absolutely Right. Also,2 :Dan Aykroyd as Irwin Mainway,on his Halloween costume for kids:invisible pedestrian!
Orangecakes: Also,2 an Aykroyd as Irwin Mainway,on his Halloween costume for kids:invisible pedestrian!
Wasn’t another costume “Black Ghost”? Scary but true: one of my costumes as a child was a black cat with one of those slits-for-eyes masks.
Back to subject: My favorite was when Rob Lowe was the host, just after his videotaped “party” with a 16-year-old girl. During his monolog, the audience was completely stoic, with the occasional insult thrown at him about the incident. Then their first skit is a Church Lady skit, where Rob is a guest who admits his sin, and Church Lady spanks him to drive out the demons. Yet Rob finds his spankings to his liking.
A tie for the above is one with Kirstie Alley. In a French restaurant, all the waiters are coming on to her, much to her husband’s ire. They keep getting more outragious; one (Dana Carvey) starts licking her face all over. In the background, waiters are quite obviously boinking other female customers. The husband (Kevin Nealon IIRC) finally has enough and they leave. Outside the restaurant, still hungry, the husband looks across the street and suggests “that Greek restaurant”. (ba-dum-dum)
Dana Carvey as “Massive Headwound Harry”. I saw it for the 1st time on their Mother’s day special in '91 or so…
He comes to a party and everyone is avoiding him and getting sick because he has a big, bloody, massive head-wound (actually a piece of bloody meat& a wig). It’s really gross…
He says he doesn’t feel good and lays down on their pristine, white sofa. A dog comes over and starts licking the wound. That was SSOOO gross, but it wasn’t over… The dog bites into it and tries to pull it off. He keeps pulling and pulling. Dana Carvey was holding onto his head and laughing as his head jerked back and forth… I still get hysterical when I think about it. It was on the 25th anniversary special too.
I’m sick.
My favorite skits were all in the William Shatner episode.
It started with a song about Ollie North sung to the Marines tune. Then came the infamous “get-a-life” skit, and then a hilarious Star Trek parody (Bones, quick! that man is choking! Dammit, Jim, I’m a doctor, not a…oh, right.).
The only other ones that come to mind offhand are any of Eddie Murphy’s "Mister Robinson’s Neighborhood"s and John Lovitz as the devil being sued by someone in People’s Court.
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“Candygram!”
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Now that I look at it, that makes no sense unless you have seen the skit. I’ll take my chances.
Yes, the weather is the same up here. Yes, I play basketball. No, never heard a tall joke before. Aaaargh.
I always thought hot sex that Subliminal Man with Satan and AuraSeer was pretty funny. Then again, I have a pretty juvenile sense of humor.
Bill Murray as ‘The Whipmaster’
Oh oh I’ve got one!
John Belushi as the Medieval Barber! Considers abandoning his reliance on quack medicine, and contemplates the creation of science. “Nahhh.”
At least I think it was Belushi. Might have been a young Aykroyd?
Also, I really liked “Tales of the Arkansas State Police”. Kevin Nealon plays a cop sent to investigate a disturbance at the Clinton household. Apparently Hillary (Jan Hooks) has been beating poor Bill (Phil Hartman). Governors who love too much! I actually felt bad, laughing at a joke about domestic violence, but Hartman was a genius in that skit.
Tim Kazurinski (sp?) on Weekend Update with his new words:
A prostitute who likes her job has whoregasms…
Someone who can’t get enough sex has moregasms…
You get the idea.
–Also, I have to second the Irwin Mainway nomination above. Litte Johnny Spaceman (a plastic bag to be put over the child’s head) was hilarious.
–Anytime that Dana Carvey did George Bush.
–Chris Farley living in a van down by the river.
And of course the commercials:
Colon Blow ceral
Big Red (the viking that sprays red paint)
Disposable Toilets
Jeremy…
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Well, I am probably one of the few who can remember watching SNL the very first night it came on. I was glued because Carlin was the host.
There’s been alot of brilliant stuff over the years (scattered in with the crap), it’s hard to pick or even remember a favorite. I know alot of the commercials just slay me, most recently is the one about the financial institution, where they “keep a list” - fabulous parody of the real commerical. I also loved the one last year with the car you can fuck? I don’t know if they replayed it, it was pretty outrageous. If any of you saw it, you lucked out.
The Martin Short/Harry Shearer/Christopher Guest filmed bit about the male synchronized swimmers was a troke of genius.
But for plain ol’ skits, I’d have to pick as one of my all-time favorites the one with Jerry Seinfeld hosting a Jeopardy-style game show with hack comics. The categories were things like “airplanes” “gilligans island” “7-11” and the correct answers were hackneyed, obvious jokes that we’ve all heard 1,001 times from bad hack comics. It was dead on.
This is a non-smoking area. If we see you smoking, we will assume you are on fire and act accordingly.
Gilda Radner as Baba Wawa interviewing Madeline Kahn as Mawene Dietwick.
“How do you stay so swim and withe?” “I do all my own wighting, Baba.”
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
-Phil Hartmen as Frank Sinatra doing the duets album. He would do one or two riffs and yell “Next! Finish in editing” much to the offense of the other singers. Rob Schneider came out as KD Lang (I mean looking dead on) and Frank takes one look at her and yells “NEXT!”. KD has to be dragged off because she was about to go off on him. Phil was a master at doing Frank Sinatra.
-Alec Baldwin doing both the Canteen Boy skit with Adam Sandler where he was supposed to be Canteen Boy’s perverted Scoutmaster (greatest line: Alec looks like he jams his dork into Sandler in a sleeping bag and Sandler asks what is that hard thing against his back. He reaches over and goes…oh its my canteen) and the one where Alec is on "Delicious Dish ". Turns out Alec has brought his holiday rum balls and if you can imagine the way it sounded over the radio with things like:
“Oh my gosh your balls are so heavy”
“yes because they are filled with heavy cream”
“Why they are just so tasty I cannot help but eat your balls totally.”
“Why yes, it has been said that…(drum roll please)…no one can just lick my balls”
Juvenile? Hell yes. Hilarious? Totally
-Jim Carrey as the hot tub life guard. The forced mouth to mouth was the topper.
-Gumby Christmas Special with Donnie and Marie going balls out and making out with Eddie Murphy having to seperate them. “What the hell is this Gumby goes Hawaiian?”
too many to list…maybe more later
Oh, God…the commercials. I forgot about those…at times, they’re the best.
Swill, the water bottled straight from Lake Erie…
Schmidt’s Gay Beer…
Bad Idea Jeans…
The bank that only makes change…
Crystal Gravy…
And did anyone actually bother to watch last year? In the middle of all that crap, they managed to have one awesome sketch. Kids’ TV show called Friendship Junction, with Katie Kindness, Carla Caring, and Umberto Unity wearing their intials on their shirts, and introducing a new friend for one episode…Fred Friendship. You can see where this one went. It was priceless.
So many skits, hard to choose. The William Shatner episode is classic for the sheer number of funny sketches (Star Trek Convention with the “I Grok Spock” t-shirt, The Star Trek floating restaurant in space that Khan tries to get shut down, The TJ Hooker episode that takes place on the hood of the car), but I was alway partial to the fake commercials. Especially…
Bad Idea Jeans
I was going to use a condom but then I said, “hey, when’s the next time I’ll be in Haiti?”
Bad Idea…
I think my current favorite is The Sexually Ambiguous Duo. Actually, all the cartoons on SNL have been pretty good. There’s been so many great bits on SNL, but I haven’t been terribly enthusiastic about it in the past two years; they have a bad case of drag-the-skit-on-too-long-itis.
“Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.”
- Bertrand Russell
Has anyone seen the skit where they’re in a talk show setting talking about where people were when they found out that JFK had been shot? The first guy has a regular story about being at school or work or some such place. Then the second guy comes out and tells the host that he didn’t know about it for a couple of months after it happened. Next guy comes out and says that he just found out backstage when the second guy told him. Finally the last guy comes out. When he’s asked where he was when he heard the news he screams out, “What? You mean they shot the president!?!” Pretty funny. (I’ve probably told it all wrong, but it’s been a long time since I saw it.)
“Jane, you ignorant slut!” Not just the line, but the seemingly forgotten whole skit. Damn funny!
Eddie Murphy is “Buh-weet Sings!”
I second “Schmidt’s Beer.”
“The Bass-O-Matic:” “Mmmm, that’s terrific bass!”
And, any “Weekly News Update” with Dennis Miller.
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“Shirt in a can.”
Literally, a shirt in a can. Spray paint that you put on your body in the shape of a shirt. Comes in 4 different styles.
Very funny.
–John