SNL Purge!

Youngest was Anthony Michael Hall. I want to say Hartman was the oldest.

From the 1988 season. It got a write-up in the next issue of Time (or maybe Newsweek) in which the writer described the sketch as “lame” but noted the larger point of the loosening of restrictions after NBC dumped their Standards Department.

I totally don’t remember that one either, but the transcript had me chuckling. Wonder if maybe they cut it in reruns for some reason? Speaking of cutting, they should have thrown a circumcision bit in there, would have killed: Hey, way to circumcise Jack!

Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week folks. Please tip your waitress.

I’d have to nominate Charles Rocket for saddest. OD’ing is one thing, cancer another, but failed ambition is something else altogether.

Along those lines, I was half-expecting one of the guys to be suffering from some sort of injury to his member like being stung by a jellyfish. After all, penis + injury = comedy gold.*

Anyway, what seemed interesting to be about this “controversy” was that people only got upset about it after the show had been rerun. The first time it aired, nobody in the media seemed to notice.

*Unless you’re the guy who gets hurt.

Phil Hartman was 45 when he left SNL, but Darrell Hammond is 50 now.

Gah! Horatio Sanz claims he’ll be around for another season. Stay if you must, fat man, but stay away from that Update Desk!

I’m really gonna miss Weekend Update with Tina and Amy. :frowning:

Yes!