# Saturday Night Live

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live/9568>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 18, 1999, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live/9568 "1999-10-18T14:14:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live/9568/61 "2000-12-09T07:20:34Z")

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[aside]I can do a near perfect Will-Ferrel-impersonating-Harry-Carrey impression. It’s G-D hilarious.[/aside]

–Tim

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**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live/9568/62 "2000-12-09T11:16:04Z")

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Two that still stick with me:

1. Jon Lovitz doing “Tales of Ribaldry”, and 2) Jesse Jackson’s eulogy for Dr. Seuss, quite possibly one of the funniest and most moving things I’ve ever seen on that show. It couldn’t have been more appropriate.

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**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live/9568/63 "2000-12-09T13:35:59Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Uniball \*  
> \*\*If there is a CLASSIC SNL moment, it must be Christopher Walken’s **The Continental**. I loved every minute of this one. \*\*

DAMN I hate it when someone beats me to it. One of the funniest bits ever done, and it’s a one man bit fesaturing a guest host!

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**Author:** ![BobSchroeck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@BobSchroeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobSchroeck)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live/9568/64 "2000-12-09T15:15:12Z")

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John Lovitz’ Tommy Flanagan, the Pathological Liar: “My wife… Morgan Fairchild. Yeah… _that’s_ the ticket.”

The “Coffee Talk” segment where Barbra Streisand just walked onto the set in the middle of the sketch – and Mike Meyers and Madonna remained in character even as they reacted. And of course, like most Meyers characters, Linda Richmond had her classic taglines: “Like _buttah_!”, “Oy, I’m verklempt!”, and my particular favorite, the infinite variations on “Talk amongst yourselves. I’ll give you a topic: The French Foreign Legion was neither French, Foreign, nor a Legion.”

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**Author:** ![beerman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85e7bf/32.png) [@beerman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beerman)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2000, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live/9568/65 "2000-12-10T01:55:36Z")

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Oh man,  
how about Dan Akroyd doing the watch that was so complicated it takes two people to operate? or the assasination of Buckwheat.oh wait anything with Steve Martin. but wait Chris Farley “in a van down by the river” or the Louds where everyone yelled at the top of their lungs? the parents go upstairs and the kids are sitting on the coach “HEY WHO WANTS TO SMOKE A JOINT?”

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