# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/81 "2008-07-30T04:15:40Z")
Dennis Miller doing _Weekend Update_. God, I loved him (better still with Dana Carvey sitting right next to him, dressed identically and impersonating him). Phil Hartman as the dotty old lady with about eight dozen cats who insisted on serving all of her visitors pancakes and syrup… covered in sticky fur. John Belushi as the Samurai Tailor, scratching himself through his robes. And Belushi as Beethoven, morphing into Ray Charles with his wife and maid singing backup. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/82 "2008-07-30T13:10:49Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Phil Hartman as the dotty old lady with about eight dozen cats who insisted on serving all of her visitors pancakes and syrup… covered in sticky fur. [/QUOTE] Wasn’t this Steve Martin, playing Chris Farley’s (character’s) grandma? Or am I thinking of a different sketch? ---
**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 30, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/83 "2008-07-30T13:58:26Z")
Bestiality on network TV? Woody Harrelson and a couple of cast members as cowboys riding along, singing to the cows. “When her brown eyes get to blinkin’, sometimes you’d swear she’s winkin’ We’re three very lonesome cowboys…” ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Call_Me_Shirley)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/84 "2008-07-30T14:22:59Z")
Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, etc… Dana Carvey as Ross Perot: “Now, while we’ve all been standing around here yappin’, the deficit’s grown by half a billion dollars. That’s enough to buy a new still and outhouse for every family in Little Rock.” Happy fun ball This opening skit that nobody but me remembers, Dana Carvey doing Bush 41. He’s trying to get people to buy American products to help the economy, and he shows several examples of good American-made products, including a toy dancing frog band that dances in response to sound. He puts the frog band on his desk and shifts gears to talk about some horrible tragedy that had happened recently, and sends his condolences to the victims. However, while he is doing this, the frog band is dancing to the sound of his voice. I still crack up whenever I think of it, but I’ve never met anyone else who remembers it. Eddie Murphy in a rasta band singing “Kill the White People” at a Shriner’s convention. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/85 "2008-07-30T14:37:22Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Heh. I just quoted this in another thread (on best TV and movie insults). Jeez, so many good skits already mentioned. I’d add: 1. Dan Ayckroyd as the lugubrious Leonard Pinth-Garnell, hosting “Bad Conceptual Theatre” or the like. “Deliciously bad!” he’d say, relishing its sheer awfulness. 2. Dan A. again, pitching the Bass-O-Matic. “Mmmm, that’s good bass!” 3. Happy Fun Ball, with its ridiculously long list of disclaimers (“Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball!”) 4. [Clownpenisfart.com](http://Clownpenisfart.com), the website for the brokerage that was too late getting in on the Internet boom, so all the good names were taken. 5. The Swinging Czechoslovak Brothers (Steve Martin and Dan A.), on the prowl for “foxes with their big American breasts!” Dunno why so much Dan Ayckroyd. He just makes me laugh! [/QUOTE] Hell yes. Danny and Chevy were my favorites of the Original Not Readies. When peole of a certain age get together and start with the ItWasNeverTheSameAgain-isms, those two guys are the ones I think of. Belushi may have had the Zeitgeist and early death on his side, but he wasn’t the one I laughed the hardest at. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/86 "2008-07-30T15:45:30Z")
[QUOTE=Don’t Call Me Shirley] I still crack up whenever I think of it, but I’ve never met anyone else who remembers it. [/QUOTE] I remember it! ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/87 "2008-07-30T15:49:22Z")
The “It’s a Wonderful Life” lost ending! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/88 "2008-07-30T16:33:09Z")
[QUOTE=Alma] The “It’s a Wonderful Life” lost ending! [/QUOTE] Oh, God, yes. The angry mob beating the hell out of mean ol’ Mr. Potter. Love it! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/89 "2008-07-30T16:34:14Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] Wasn’t this Steve Martin, playing Chris Farley’s (character’s) grandma? Or am I thinking of a different sketch? [/QUOTE] I’m pretty sure it was Phil Hartman, but I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/90 "2008-07-30T16:37:29Z")
Oh, I just remembered “The Anal Retentive Chef.” “Now, when you are finished chopping the carrot, place the trimmings in a brown paper bag. Fold the edge of the brown paper bag over exactly three times, being careful to crease the fold each time. Then staple the bag precisely in the middle - I like to use a ruler for this - and encase the entire thing in a Ziploc baggie. Then dispose of it in the trash. Wasn’t that easy?! Oh, look, we’re out of time.” I also liked the fake commercials for “What happens in Thailand, stays in Thailand” that culminated in Ben Affleck (I think?) asking if anyone wanted to buy a suitcase full of panda meat. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/91 "2008-07-30T17:26:59Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] I’m pretty sure it was Phil Hartman, but I could be wrong. [/QUOTE] According to [this page](http://snl.jt.org/ep.php?i=199112148), it was Steve Martin that played Grandma Pugga. Steve was hosting that week. ---
**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 30, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/92 "2008-07-30T18:01:34Z")
[QUOTE=control-z] Steve was hosting that week. [/QUOTE] I’m glad you gave the link, because this really doesn’t narrow it down much. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/93 "2008-07-30T18:01:58Z")
[QUOTE=MsWhatsit] Oh, I just remembered “The Anal Retentive Chef.” [/QUOTE] My favorite of his appearances was when he was paired with John Goodman as a Cajun shelf. “I don’t want no damn hat on my fishies!” and “Oh yes, we clear LEFT to RIGHT!” (as he knocked everything from the counter L to R). ---
**Author:** ![pantheon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@pantheon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantheon)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/94 "2008-07-30T18:02:30Z")
Emily Litella “what? what?! oooh. nevermind.” White Trash Disaster Trailer “It smells like catfood and ass in here, somebody been having sex?” Gilda Radner/Steve Martin- Let’s talk dirty to the animals! (just Gilda here: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SVmQMPaLMQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SVmQMPaLMQ)) another vote for Wake Up and Smile “I’ve taken the weatherman’s head!” Jay Mohr doing Christopher Walken talking about Skittles Garth Brooks and Mango… and so many, many more ---
**Author:** ![joe\_bob\_jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b2d939/32.png) [@joe\_bob\_jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joe_bob_jones)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/95 "2011-07-20T21:06:06Z")
O.J. telling Garrett Morris (who was in drag) “pleasure me you ebony wench”, and then the two engaging in a passionate kiss. This was back before O.J. went bad. Rob Schneider, copyrama, making copies, the copy meister… ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/96 "2011-07-20T21:22:03Z")
Dick in a Box The Continental (Christopher Walken) King Tut (Steve Martin) James Brown Hot Tub Party Fernando’s Hideaway with Hulk Hogan and Mr T guesting. ---
**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 20, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/97 "2011-07-20T21:34:25Z")
That one sketch with all the zombies ---
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I’d have a hard time whittling it down to the top 50 much less the top 5. But up near the top will be Garret Morris doing Kill All the Whiteys, the Muppets, Jane You Ignorant Slut, the lost ending to It’s a Wonderful Life, Tarzan/Tonto/Frankenstein skits, Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood, and the Republican Presidential debate with Dan Ackroyd playing Bob Dole. ETA: Yeah, the one with the zombies too ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985/99 "2011-07-20T22:39:39Z")
“Something Smells Good In Stinkville.” ---
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Jingleheimer Junction. Glad it was a one-off. Royale Deluxe Two fake ad. Colonel Angus A. Whitney Brown commentaries Charlton Heston monologue: “get your filthy paws off of me you damn dirty apes” with cut to audience in ape masks. Still not sure it really happened. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-five-best-snl-skits/457985.md?page=6)