What is your favorite Saturday Night Live skit?

[giantfan121262]

Does anybody remember Saturday Night Live in the late 70's with Gilda Radner (God rest her soul), John Belushi, Dan Akroyd, and Eddie Murphy?

Those were the days you would go out to party but make sure you were in front of the TV set by 11:30 every Saturday night (preferbly with a cold one in hand).

My favorite skit has to be when Eddie Murphy spoofs the shit out of Mr. Rogers. The name of the skit was called Mr. Robinsons Neighborhood. My favorite scene was when the Murphy hears the door knock and says to the audience (doing his best Mr. Rogers impersonation) "Let's see who is at the door". When he opend the door, it was the landlord. He barks, "you're late on the rent". After Murphy closes the door, he holds up a big flash card and says to the audience, "Can you say 'scumbucket'... scumbucket...when you walk up to somebody and say scumbucket, you will know you said it right if he slaps you across the face"

ROTFLMAO, just thinking about it.

 

[Oddjob0226]

Some of the fake commercials could be great. As a kid I loved the Mr. Bill stuff. There were a lot of good skits. More recently, from "Sprockets" to "Der Kinderlauchen" t.v. show (a one-shot sketch with Julia Stiles), whenever they spoof German pop culture and Expressionism it strikes me funny.

 

[SimplyRio]

My favorite SNL skit was when Dan Akroyd played Julia Childs. Now, it may have just been that I had been slightly affected by the Maui Wowie I had been smoking (ahhhh memories), but I remember being absolutely hysterical.

Dan imitated Julia's chortly voice perfectly. During the skit he accidentally *cut* his hand or wrist with one of those sharp chef knives and blood just kept squirting out for what seemed like a loooooong time. The blood was coming out in pulsating squirts and s/he just kept talking in that voice like it was business as usual LOL The longer the bleeding continued, the more ridiculous it seemed and I just couldn't stop laughing - I know at some point I was crying because I was laughing so hard. I was too high to remember exactly how the skit ended, but that has to rank high up there with one of my favorite SNL skits.

I agree, Oddjob, their mock commercials are really funny. They did a *commercial* back in the late-70's for a product called "Oops, I Crapped my Pants" Basically it was an ad for adult diapers and it showed this elderly couple with really big butts (obviously their filled diapers) playing tennis, simply enjoying life and the man later declares that he "just did it" all while keeping this frozen smile on his face. They compared a full pitcher of lemonade, complete with slices of lemons, to "an adult bladder plus their feces" and "just look how it holds!" LOL Sorta disgusting when I look back at it now... again, I was probably greatly influenced by some sort of mind-altering drug ;-)

One skit from a more recent era was with one of the Baldwin brothers (I can never keep them straight). His character was making a guest appearance on a radio show, hosted by two of the SNL female regulars. He played a character whose last name was "Schwetty" and he was promoting his family-owned weiner business. You can only imagine the fun they had with that one. The skit was unashamedly loaded with innuendo and absolutely hilarious.

 

[Oddjob0226]

Oh - NPR's "Delicious Dish" with Alec Baldwin! That was amazingly funny to me! Proof that low humor can be exceptionaly well crafted. Although "Oops I crapped my pants" was only from about 2 years ago. Dan as Julia was indeed a great moment as well. There was a fake commercial for Plucky's Chicken Shack that was so bizzare and violent that it probably is my favorite, although there also an ad in the 70s for "The Meat Wagon" which was for an ambulance to be used on those little toy car electric race tracks of the time. It was so real!
John Lovitz doing "Tales of Ribaldry" always made me laugh, too. Akroyd/Curtain, Dennis Miller & Norm McDonald doing the news were also highlights to me. The entire show in 1983 whith Don Rickles improving all the way through it was strange and fun to see. There's just too many.

 

[Ovda]

The one with Nicole Kidman and Mike Myers. They are two kids in the playground. Myers' is tied to the jungle gym. At the end of the skit he takes Kidman's candybar and eats it. Next, he has a huge sugar high and ends up running down the street with the gym in tow.

Cameron Diaz. Friendship, Unity, Caring, and Kindness Skit. Whenever they start to get "in order" Tim Meadows tackles Kindness.

The Rock--the whole show.

Richard Pryor and Chevy Chase. The job interview. The do a word assoication game and end up saying harsh word. At the end Chevy hires Richard.

Coffee Talk--"Like Budder"

"Cheeseburger!!, Cheeseburger!!, Cheeseburger!!, Cheeseburger!!"

 

[TMF Jeff]

Mine is Will Ferrel as George Bush when he says to Osama Bin Laden "I am going to find you. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow.
But may-BE tomorrow!"

His inflection is absolutely perfect, and I love the serious look he can adopt, with one eyebrow kind of cocked and his lips pinched.

 

[Ticklemmmeeeeee]

ROFLMAO!!!! I have seen a couple of the scenes mentioned above but you all described them so well I just laughed harder than I have time to right now...lol

There was a scene I didn't see but heard about that is hilarious sounding to me...Mike Myers was a porcelain dog salesman and he was describing their products size in the accents he does so hilariously...."We've got wee, bigger than wee and freakin' HUGE!!!!" LOL

I loved the Eddie Murphy spoof on The Exorcist...."The bed....is on....my foot!!!!" LOL

Landshark has to be one of the funniest character scenes as well....and nothing ever tops Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy...hilarious stuff...🙂

There are just so many this thread could prob go on forever and not run out of funny moments on SNL , and now I have to get to work, lol.🙂🙂

 

[Barretta]

I still laugh about the sketch with Dan Ackroyd dressed as Julia Childs when he said "oh, no, I've just cut the dickens out of my finger!"

 

[tommytikl]

I am a bit too young to have seen the Eddie Murphy and company SNL's but catching them occationally on Comedy Central is a roit.
However, my favorite "era" of SNL is in the late 80's early 90's when
Mike Myers, Danna Carvey, Phil Hartman and company.

However, to the point of this thread...

1) Almost any Wayne's World Skit

2) I loved those "Deep thoughts" done by Phil Hartman

3) From the newer cast, my favorite is the Show with Jim Carrey.

4) I also like "The Rock" SNL episodes.

 

[dskodj]

Belushi's "Samari" dude would be the best from the late 70's SNL😛

 

[Knox The Hatter]

CHEEBORGIE CHEEBORGIE CHEEBORGIE CHEEBORGIE CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP NO COKE PEPSI

 

[natural tickler]

I loved it when The Rock was on the show. And anything Eddie Murphy did was hilarious, especially the one where he and Joe Piscopo acted like Frank Sinatra and Stevie Wonder. Classic stuff😀

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Man, those were da days. Come home Saturday night, since I did have a curfew back in HS, just in time to see it at eleven thirty. Oh, let's see...The Coneheads...Roseanne Rosannadanna...oh, just the news segment in general..."Jane, you are an ignorant slut!"...Ackroyd as 'Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute'...Belushi doing the commercial where he becomes a world class physical specimen by eating chocolate donuts...Bill Murray and Gilda doing the "Lisa Loobner" thing...Ackroyd as Jimmy Carter...the Camp David Dinner, with Belushi as Menachem Begin calling Jimmy Carter's brother Billy a 'putz'...Mr. Bill...John Belushi as Samurai Fill In the Blank...so many other skits.
In the days before MTV, music shows like Don Kirshner and the Midnight Special showed what they used to call 'promotional films' for whatever new singles were out. Up till three in the morning, drinking long necked Buds with my friends, watching videos.
Those were great times...🙂

 

[natural tickler]

Yeah, Knox, I feel ya. Where did they go?? Cuz' its definitely not the same😀

 

[Ticklemmmeeeeee]

I never got to watch that show prime time...I only got to see it over the last few years late late at night, repeats are all I ever saw back when I had cable...now I just see snow or blue...actually though netflix has episodes of SNL....sweet!...lol

Tommytikl...."deep thoughts by Jack Handy" wasn't Phil H. actually, it was done by Al Franken 🙂

 

[Knox The Hatter]

John Belushi on the Weekend Update..."but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Oh, folks, here's a nostalgia nugget: Father Guido Sarducci. A couple of years ago, I went to see the Disney animated "Atlantis" with my wife, and one of the voices in the movie, that of the Italian bomb expert, just struck me. "I know that voice!", I exclaimed to my wife, but knew I was pissing in the friggin' wind, since with her, pop culture started with Debbie Gibson. Turns out it was Don Novello, Father Guido himself. He used to just sit there on the Weekend Update, just yacking away with the cigarette.
Here's a memorable skit: "Theodoric of York" with Steve Martin.
Oh, and when he was on, he used to do the Czech brothers thing with Dan Ackroyd: "We're two wild and kurazy guys!"
You could sit here all night and come up with stuff... 😉

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

Just too many to list....the original cast was my favorite.
But one I saw recently that always cracks me up is Jane Curtain doing a consumer probe thing about unsafe Halloween costumes. She interviews Dan Ackroyd(Mr. Wainright) who defends his costumes like "Invisble Pedestrian" , a totally black outfit.
(I love the disclaimer on the back, "Not For Blind Kids!")

They also did an unsafe Christmas gift sketch, as well.


Drew

 

[Oddjob0226]

"The Invisble Pedestrian"!!!!!!!!!

If you rent the movie 'Casper the Friendly Ghost' with Christina Ricci it has short appearances by both Akroyd as a Ghostbuster and Sarducci as an unsuccessful exorcist.

ACTING!

 

[BigBrownEyes]

C'mon, Konx, you're making me tear up here!

..hahaha! yes, I remember very well seeing the orginal SNLs with the not-ready-for primetime players. There were so many memorable skits that it's hard to pick a favorite. But does anyone remember any of the orginal episodes when Steve Martin hosted? Martin was at the peak of his popularity and everyone loved it when he hosted SNL. We all looked forward to it.

I think the sketches that stick in my mind are "Landshark," "Emily Latilla's speech about too many violins on TV," and the sketches with the family who all had big asses (the Widets). I don't know, so many classic moments...

 

[JPie1]

I loved the early stuff, Steve Martin in the Egyption clothes singing, eddie murphy, Jane curtain....funny stuff

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

Jumping into the 90s SNL era....one of the all-time silliest, stupid sketches was (I think) "The Heilacy Boy" with Adam Sadler and Chris Farrley. All it consisted of was Adam talking in his stupid nerdy voice about wanting to help your grandmother.....then Chris would shout:

"LET THE BOY HELP YOUR GRANDMOTHER...HE'S A GOOD BOY!!!!"

This would go on for the whole sketch, getting more and more stange.
("Can I bathe your grandma?")

This always made me laugh out loud, in fact, Adam usually had trouble getting thru them without laughing.

Drew

 

[JoBelle]

I love that show!
There are two main regular skits that I like more than any others.
Tina Fey on Weekend Update, and the Celebrity Jeopardy skits. I think Tina is simply hilarious, (and a little hottie 😉 )And the Jeopardy ones with Connery and Burt Reynolds characters are just too much.

You want examples you say??? 😉
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Trebek: The category, Drummers named Ringo. The answer, The drummer for the Beatles.
Connery: Craven Moorehead
Trebek: WHO, is cravin' more head?
Connery: Apparently you are Trebek, you sick bastard.
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Connery: I'll take anal bum covers for one thousand.
Trebek: That's ALBUM covers and you know it Sean.
Connery: hehehe
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Connery: What's the difference between you and a mallard with a cold? One's a sick duck. I can't remember how it ends, but your mother's a *****, Trebek.
😀
I think I like those so much because I'm a big fan of the real Connery, and I think they hit him spot on. I can just feel it!
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As far as Tine Fey: (I had to go look up a transcript of a couple of my favorites. There are others, but to paraphrase her would be to kill the humor in it.
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On Monday, Attorney General John Ashcroft issued a terrorism warning asking all Americans to be on high alert this week. Then on Friday, he announced that the period of high alert would be extended indefinitely. I think I speak for all Americans when I say, "Bitch, I can't be anymore alert." Okay? I'm opening my mail with salad tongs, I take my passport in the shower with me! Alright, I'm watching so much CNN I'm having sex dreams about Wolf Blitzer. How about this, okay? How about you be on full alert, I'm gonna freeze my head like Walt Disney and then you can wake me up when everything's cool, okay? Back to you, Jimmy.
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The Arab Gulf state of Bahrain is preventing single women from entering the country by refusing to give them visas. But I can tell you right now, treating single women like crap will only make them like Bahrain more.
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Prostitutes in Lyons, France sent a fax to the government to complain that they are losing business to Eastern European women who are protected by the Albanian mafia. Okay, first of all, how rough-looking are these French prostitutes that all their customers are running to the Albanians? Secondly, why did they send a fax, and from whence? Do they have a fax machine in the *****house, or did they all trundle down to Kinko's - "You fax these, I'll let you shave me." Thirdly, how come French *****s know how to work a fax machine, but every time I try to use it, I hit Powersave, or I forget to dial 9.. This just proves what my boyfriend always says - that I am dumber than a French *****. Back to you, Jimmy!


She just covers it all! LOL


There are a few others the come to mind:

Guest, Tom Hanks in the Mr Belvedere Fan Club skit. *Good lord, I still can't believe he did that!*

Buh-Bye, Now. Yes yes, get going, buhhh-bye, Now. Buh-bye.

And to end with one one Drew reminded me of: For God's sake! Let the boy be your dog!


Uhmmm--Sorry...I seem to have used more than my fair share of page space.
Joby

 

[venray]

S'ok I'll keep mine short Joby .....


Jane: Dan, there's an old saying: behind every succesful man there's a woman; a loving, giving, caring woman. But you wouldn't know that,Dan, because there's no saying about what's behind a miserable failure.

Dan: Jane, you ignorant s***. Bagged out, dried up, skunk meat likeyou and Michelle Triolla know the rules. If you want a contract, sign on the dotted line. Oh, but let's all shed a tear for poor Michelle Triolla. There was only testimony that she had sexual intercourse over 40 times with another man while living with actor Lee Marvin.But I suppose that sort of fashionable promiscuity means nothing to you. Someone like you, Jane, who hops from bed to bed with the frequency of a cheap ham-radio. But hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and Michelle Triolla like a screeching, squealing, rapacious swamp sow is after actor Lee Marvin's last three million dollars. I guess what you and Michelle are saying is, that when you're on your backs, the meter is running. Well please spare us gals, and tell us the rates at the top. Then we can choose which two-bit tarts and bargain basement s***s to shack up with.

 

[sole seeker]

originally posted by JoBelle
Trebek: The category, Drummers named Ringo. The answer, The drummer for the Beatles.
Connery: Craven Moorehead
Trebek: WHO, is cravin' more head?
Connery: Apparently you are Trebek, you sick bastard.

I'd not seen this skit, but the transcript just made me laugh loud enough to wake a deeply sleeping woman 60+ feet away! Thanks Jo.

Remember Eddie Murphy recaping the evening news for the deaf... by yelling loudly?

I also remember Radner's character that went on rants - Nevermind?

To me though, the most memorable skit was one of the evening news with Jane Curtain and Chevy Chase. (Back in the 70's.) Chase did one of his comic falls - a short one, out of his newscaster's chair down to the floor and under the newsdesk. The camera kept focus on Jane's face, and she continued on with the news. Within a few seconds she gave a start and her expression changed to a really strange look. I always believed he got under the counter and tickled her foot while they were on the air. (Of course - I would be predisposed to believing in unscripted foot tickling!)
Any of you other old farts remember this?

 

[tommytikl]

I never got to watch that show prime time...I only got to see it over the last few years late late at night, repeats are all I ever saw back when I had cable...now I just see snow or blue...actually though netflix has episodes of SNL....sweet!...lol

Tommytikl...."deep thoughts by Jack Handy" wasn't Phil H. actually, it was done by Al Franken 🙂

REALLY!!!!😱 😱
Opps oh well, I still liked them...they would be in my head the next day and I would sometimes laugh out loud at church thinking about them!

Jim Carrey when he did "In Living Color" would do that as well...