# The Five Best SNL Skits **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 28, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985 "2008-07-28T22:00:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/1 "2008-07-28T22:00:39Z")
Probably done ad nauseum, but what are the 5 best SNL skits you can remember? As much as I would love to have categories like Celebrity Jeopardy or anything by Alec Baldwin, I’m limiting myself to single skits. Videos included when I could find them. 1. Peter Boyle serenades his wife I have no clue why Peter Boyle singing to his wife in honor of Valentine’s Day while she makes out with the stranger next to her was so damn funny, but it was. 14 February 1976 2. Nick Winter Live at the Powder Room on Meatloaf Mountain I’d love to see the Torch Snake Dance down Bear Run 28 January 1978 3. [Ronald Reagan, Masterbrain](http://www.hulu.com/watch/4174/saturday-night-live-president-reagan-mastermind) C’mon, part of you wants to believe Reagan was really like that 6 December 1986 4. [Audition at Chippendales](http://www.tv.com/uservideos/?action=video_player&id=cXIyxWas5b4Kvj_W) I never got the appeal of Chris Farley, but he and Swayze were hysterical. 27 October 1990 5. [BOC: Behind the Music](http://www.funnyhub.com/videos/pages/videos/snl-more-cowbell.html) Only Christopher Walken could have stolen that scene from Will Farrell 8 April 2000 Honorable Mention Steve Martin dances with Gilda Radner After battling cancer into remission, Gilda was denied a chance to host SNL because of a writer’s strike. Later her cancer returned and she died on 20 May 1998. Due to the quirks of the universe, Steve Martin was hosting the season finale that night. This was his tribute to her. 22 April 1978 20 May 1989 ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/2 "2008-07-28T22:06:41Z")
Chevy Chase interviews Richard Pryor using racial slurs Alec Baldwin’s Shweaty Balls Gumby has been shot! William Shatner at the Star Trek Convention ---
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Dan Ackroyd’s **Bass-O-Matic**. Chase/Pryor - “_Dead_ honkie!” The first appearance of the LandShark. Eddie Murphy - “C-I-L-L. Cill my landlord.” John Belushi dancing on everybody’s graves. ---
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It’s hard to decide what to exclude to make just five. “Night of the Masturbating Zombies”, for instance, would have to be in my top ten, but probably not top five. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/5 "2008-07-28T22:39:09Z")
1. The “candygram” Land Shark 2. Buh-Wheat Dead: America Mourns 3. Larry the Lobster call-in 4. Chase/Pryor job interview 5. Excedrin R.T. (for racial tension headaches) ---
**Author:** ![Omi\_no\_Kami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Omi\_no\_Kami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omi_no_Kami)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/6 "2008-07-28T22:42:03Z")
I can’t remember who the actors involved were, but I once saw a sketch in which a black prisoner was brought before a parole committee and asked what he would do if freed. He responds by singing a song with the refrain “Gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whiteys I see”, and the sheer randomness of the thing made it incredibly funny. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/7 "2008-07-28T22:44:00Z")
Eddie Murphy as Tyrone Green in PROS & CONS (the “c-i-l-l my landlord” sketch) Eddie Murphy in James Brown’s Celebrity Hot Tub Party Christopher Guest/Martin Short training for the synchronized swimming as Olympic sport sketch John Belushi visits the SNL castmates in the cemetery Peter Cook casts Gigi at the state prison (“I’m gonna get me a shotgun and kill every whitey I see!”) Of course any other time I’d probably name different ones. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/8 "2008-07-28T22:46:52Z")
[QUOTE=Omi no Kami] I can’t remember who the actors involved were, but I once saw a sketch in which a black prisoner was brought before a parole committee and asked what he would do if freed. He responds by singing a song with the refrain “Gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whiteys I see”, and the sheer randomness of the thing made it incredibly funny. [/QUOTE] I’m sure the actor singing was Garrett Morris. It was hilarious, and made more so by how well he sings. A very professional voice. The guy sings better than 90% of the lead singers you’ve heard on SNL. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/9 "2008-07-28T22:50:16Z")
“The Waltons Eat Their Young” will not be seen tonight so that we may bring you this special NBC presentation… Too many to list but off the top of my head: The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise (Aykroyd, Belushi, Chase, Elliott Gould). Prose and Cons (Eddie Murphy…“I just hate whitey because he white. W…I…T…E. White!” Toonces. IIRC John Goodman was hosting and Toonces was trying to type a note to tell him something. When he made mistakes and took out the whiteout, I about hurled. Josh Ramsay, VD Caseworker. (Peter Fonda, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman). The Church Lady interviews Sean Penn. Belushi as Beethoven, busting into “Tie a Yellow Ribbon,” then “What I say.” And of course, the Spartan Cheerleaders. * * * These don’t exactly qualify as skits, but: The Ambiguously Gay Duo. Mr. Bill Buckwheat Sings Belushi does Joe Cocker Great fake ad: The Mercury Mistress [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/h5sOCEUpGZI/hqdefault.jpg "Mercury Mistress") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5sOCEUpGZI) ---
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[QUOTE=Bill Door] I’m sure the actor singing was Garrett Morris. It was hilarious, and made more so by how well he sings. A very professional voice. The guy sings better than 90% of the lead singers you’ve heard on SNL. [/QUOTE] Aha, you’re right! [Garrett Morris it was](http://www.zippyvideos.com/2729220192504176/snl_-_get_me_a_shotgun/) ---
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I am nostalgic for the 90’s SNL casts: Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer The Joe Pesci show when Alec Baldwin played DeNiro then the real DeNiro came by…!! Wayne’s World with Tom Hanks as a roadie for Aerosmith The Sinatra Group Church Chat with the Church Lady ---
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I rarely watched SNL after the original cast left, so my choices are all from the first few years. 1. Slumber Party (Madeline Kahn, Gilda, Larraine & Jane discuss the facts of life). 2. The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise 3. Mighty Mouse theme with Andy Kaufman 4. All-Time Radio (Harry Shearer as a DJ on an all-time radio format “All time all the time”) 5a. Planet of the Enormous Hooters (if it aired. The script is hilarious – Raquel Welch being ridiculed because, on that world, she is ridiculously flat chested). 5b. Star Trek Convention (with Shatner). ). ---
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[QUOTE=RealityChuck] I rarely watched SNL after the original cast left, so my choices are all from the first few years… 5b. Star Trek Convention (with Shatner). ). [/QUOTE] FWIW, that one was from the mid-80s. ---
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[QUOTE=Omi no Kami] Aha, you’re right! [Garrett Morris it was](http://www.zippyvideos.com/2729220192504176/snl_-_get_me_a_shotgun/) [/QUOTE] The host was Peter Cook as a director from the Royal Shakespeare Company casting a prison’s play - “Gigi”. ---
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No love for the teller of the Least-Loved Bedtime Stories, Mr. Mike? Mr. Mike meets Uncle Remus. ---
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_Wake up and Smile_ is a personal favourite. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/17 "2008-07-29T00:27:27Z")
1. Christopher Walken as “The Continental” 2. Beach Blanket Bimbos from Outer Space–“Hi, this is Frankie, I’m Annette, and these are my breasts.” 3. Lisa, Todd and the plumber 4. The Sinatra Group–"I got chunks of guys like you in my _stool!"_ " 5. Martin Short and Christopher Guest in the 19th century men’s prison. ---
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I’m not very keen on Will Ferrell, but the “Janet Reno’s Dance Party” skits were a hoot (especially the one that was visited by the real Janet Reno). ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/19 "2008-07-29T00:46:22Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] I’m not very keen on Will Ferrell, but the “Janet Reno’s Dance Party” skits were a hoot (especially the one that was visited by the real Janet Reno). [/QUOTE] Me neither, but if I had to add an honorable mention to my list, I’d go with “Morning Latte” with Ferrell and Cheri Oteri. ---
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John Belushi was in a hospital bed, comatose. His wife and doctor make the decision to unplug him. Literally, pull the AC cord from the wall outlet. Just as they touch the plug Belushi jolts awake: “Hey, you were gonna unplug me weren’t you?” Doc/wife: “Uh, no.” Went on for a while after that. Funny stuff. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985.md?page=2)