Steve Martin’s Penis Cream. “Makes your penis soft and supple, the way women like it.” “Here at Steve Martin’s Penis Cream, we respect your privacy which is why every package we ship is stamped with the words ‘Not Penis Cream’ in big red letters.”
er… make that Kirstie Alley
All mine were shown last night, 'cause, y’know, I can’t think for myself or anything.
VO Don Pardo: It’s Weekend Update, with your anchor Chevy Chase!
Chase (on phone): No sweetie, that’s just what they call it, You’re not supposed to blow on it… (horrified look at camera) I’ll call you back. (hangs up phone) Good evening, I’m Chevy Chase and you’re not.
The way I remember it Norm said “Fuc…” The full “cK” sound was sort of implied because he sort of caught himself. Charles Rocket dropped the full bomb.
And for mine (since Garret Morris doesn’t get enough love) “I’m gonna git me a shotgun and kill all the whiteys I see…”
Mick Jagger playing Keith Richards.
Ah, the show that launched at least a thousand Kate Bush fans. Eric Idle was the host and he personally asked Kate to perform. She lip synched “The Man With The Child In His Eyes” on top of a piano being played by Paul what’s-his-name who’s now on Letterman. Then later she dressed in a trench coat and fedora to lip synch “Them Heavy People.” My now husband, for one, had never heard of her but became a fan for life after that night.
The videos used to be on YouTube but they were taken down.
That would be Paul Schaefer (not sure about the spelling).
My funniest SNL memories include:
*Chris Farley’s interview with Paul McCartney. So cute.
*The Bacchanalia, complete with vomitorium
*Dana Carvey’s impression of Bush, Sr. and whatshisname’s (Phil Hartman?) impression of Bill Clinton
*Lisa and Todd. “Todddddd, take me to prom.”
Eddie Murphy in “Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood.” "Children, can you say, “Eviction?’”
The skit with Gilda Radner jumping on the bed with her Brownie uniform on.
The Kevin Spacey-led Star Wars Audition Tapes
The Centaur job interview
and any number of celebrity Jepoardy moments…
I’ve got a few…
-Janet Reno shows up
-John Belushi’s little chocolate doughnuts commercial
-Operaman (adam sandler on weekend update)
-Chris Farley vs. Patrick Swayze to be a chipendale
-Madonna ripping up the picture of Lorne Michaels (ripping on Sinead - this is mostly memorable b/c this is the most beautiful Madonna has ever looked in a long and distinguished history of looking beautiful)
-A number of things on Weekend Update with Norm Macdonald.
oops i crapped my pants!
This is the one I came in to post. Great tribute to a favorite lady of mine.
“Candygram.”
“Jane, you ignorant slut.”
The night they ran short, so the Bees just hung around the piano with everybody and sang bee-bop.
The Skred/Cher duet on “I Got You, Babe”
Dan Ackroyd as Julia Child
Oh, no, Mr. Bill!
The Change Bank. “People ask us how we make money. One word: Volume.”
The commercial about the service call between Phil Hartman and Rosanne Barr:
“I told him to stick it where the sun don’t shine!”
“She gave me some helpful options!”
Long Leak Malt Liquor
“Between cleanliness and godliness lies Compulsion.”
Same show:
Loren Michals - Can we be funny tonight?
Giuliani - Why start now? (or something like that)
I’m going to go with:
Adam Sandburg/Chris Parnel - Lazy Sunday
Chris Farley - Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker (van down by the river)
Phil Hartman - Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Mike Meyers/Dana Carve - Madonna episode of Waynes World
Dana Carvey/Kevin Neilen - The Schwartzenigger episode of Hans & Franz
God yes. She keeps telling her parents theres a killer in the closet. Finally they scream and say no mor or else!!
She goes up, checks the closet, theres the killer. “Mom?” “WHAT IS IT NOW?” …"…nothing…"
The memories. Lets see
Matt Foley
Cluckin Chicken
Mr. Robinsons neighborhood
Leon Redbone
Belushi cutting Buck accidentally
Drew Barrymores hanging breasts
stuff I can’t recall right now
Mel Gibson as Frankenstein’s evil twin brother in “As World Turn.”
– “Fire! … good.”
The Run, throw and catch like a girl Olympics. Sexistly funny.
Tom Hanks getting called a pussy by Abe Lincoln.
The Penis Song.
The Back to the Future parody where he Ron Reagan jr. went back in time and Nancy started hitting on him.
The camera so easy to use that Stevie Wonder could use it.
Gary Shandler making out with his mother.
The Twin Peaks parody where they used up every single female characted … almost.
Dennis Miller taking a chainsaw to the map behind him to cut out Central America.
I better stop.
I came here to cite the Steve Martin/Gilda Radner dance bit, and Gilda’s bedroom sketch. Both were the kind of brilliant, one-of-a-kind performance that became increasingly rare after the first decade or so. The show started going downhill when they relied too heavily on repeating a handful of sketches over and over. Hanz and Franz, the cheerleaders, Pat…uggghh.
I was 20 in 1975 when the show started, and watched from the very beginning. In fact, I saw Chevy Chase, John Belushi, and Christopher Guest live, off Broadway, in National Lampoon’s Lemmings, in 1973. I’m so old that I remember thinking, “This new guy’s not very good.” The new guy being Bill Murray, who replaced Chevy Chase after the first season. Even though I’m still not a huge fan of Murray’s, he’s a comic genius compared to the Adam Sandlers, Rob Schneiders, and dozens of other talent-free cast members who followed. Don’t even get me started about David Spade.
In the early days SNL tried lots of interesting, off-beat ideas. I have a vague recollection of a sketch that took place on a cafeteria line: it wasn’t funny (it wasn’t trying to be), but it was kind of touching. Unfortunately, I can’t remember exactly why, only that at the time I thought it was very clever and rather daring. And I, for one, always liked the Muppet sketches, although most of the cast, and many viewers, apparently hated them.
Two memorable moments not mentioned up thread: Frank Zappa is the musical guest and he performs “I’m the slime oozing out of your TV set.” Mid-song, Don Pardo reads that line (and others) while slime literally oozes out of a monitor on the set. The delicious humor of this was that in 1975 Don Pardo was the quintessential “square” establishment figure. Having him, of all people, read this quintessential anti-establishment lyric was the kind of daring and revolutionary thing that made SNL’s reputation. Indeed, the selection of Pardo as SNL’s announcer in the first place was a brilliant bit of ironic casting against type.
Slight digression: Let’s have a moment of appreciation for Don Pardo. People my age remember him as the announcer of the original 1960s Art Fleming version of Jeopardy! and many other game shows. According to IMDB, he started broadcasting in 1950. He’s the only person who has been part of SNL for its entire 31+ years. He’s been there longer than creator Lorne Michaels, who left for a few years in the 1980s. He’s now 88 years old! All hail, Don Pardo!
Another memorable episode of SNL for me personally was the one, sometime in the first couple of years, that I saw in person. The musical guest was Ray Charles. I say memorable, but unfortunately I can’t actually remember many details from that show except Dan Aykroyd doing his Tom Snyder bit with Ray as a guest. Does anyone know if it’s on a DVD collection? It would be great to see it again.
Come on, no one mentioned Coneheads yet? “Come, let us consume mass quantites.”
Also, “The Love Boat: The Next Generation” with the Enterprise-D as an interstellar cruise ship. Patrick Stewart as Capt. Picard. Chris Farley as a larger-than-life Will Riker. Phil Hartman as Worf. "The weak and the cowardly have no place in shuffleboard.
And “Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood.” “Opera Man.” “Land Shark.” “Mr. Bill.”
“I’m President Ford and you’re not.”
“Weekend Update is brought to you by Hershey Highway–turning America’s taste around since 1895.”
Patric Swayze and Dana Carvey as feuding Latin-American pop singers: “One ton of fan mail/that’s right, I get one ton of fan mail”
James Woods as Dracula, screening potential victims for risk of HIV.
The short film with John Belushi as the last survivng cast member.
Bill Murray singing the *Star Wars * theme.
Dennis Miller and Dana as Dennis, during WU.
Alec Baldwin as Bob Dylan, with Tom Petty interpreting for him.
Schwetty Balls.