What, in your opinion, was the funniest Saturday Night Live skit of all time?

-- Anonymous, August 28, 2000

Answers

I'm showing my age here, but my favorite all-time skit was the unorthodox Halloween costume interview with Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin. I swear one year I'm going to make the "Invisible Pedestrian" costume for my daughter (not this year, she's already picked out Barbie/Rapunzel -- think she's trying to test my costuming skills).

-- Anonymous, August 28, 2000

That's funny that you should ask. They just showed a collection of SNL game show skits and the Jeopardy ones always kill me...Sean Connery: "you suck Trebek!"

hehe

-- Anonymous, August 28, 2000

I love the old ones, too. Geez, this is hard because there are tons of great skits out there.

I love the Bass-o-matic classic skit. I also love the same characters as in the Invisible Pedestrian skit only this time Dan and Jane were discussing Dan's newest kiddie toy "Big Bag o' Glass".

The first "Night at the Roxy" skit ever (Will Farrell and Chris Kattan bobbing their heads to "What is Love?"), if I recall correctly, had Jim Carrey in it and it was hilarious (until they beat it into the ground like they do everything else). Same with the first couple of Mary Katherine Gallagher skits and the cheerleaders played by Cheri O'Teri and Will Farrell (good starts, and funny, then beat lifeless).

There are many many more. I will have to come back to this one...

-- Anonymous, August 28, 2000

I used to love the ones with Mike Myers as the kid with a helmet and a harness strapped to the jungle gym.

-- Anonymous, August 28, 2000

"The Continental" with Christopher Walken is pee my pants funny. And the one where Martin Short is doing the water ballet Olympics. And the one where Wayne and Garth go into Madonna's video.

-- Anonymous, August 28, 2000

That would have to be Chris Farhley as Matt Foley, the inspirational speaker who lived in a van down by the river. It was absolutely the funniest skit ever. Farley as a flappy Chippendales dancer was another great one.

-- Anonymous, August 28, 2000

Oh yeah! The Continental!! I watched that skit a few weeks ago and, although it seemed kinda slow at first, it was great! It has this hypnotizing rhythm to it. And nobody can pull it off like Walken can. He plays it perfectly cheesy.

And yeah, I remember Matt Foley (Chris Farley) being hired to give a motivational talk to some wealthy man's snotty teen children. I was dying on that one.

Speaking of Chris Farley, he played some shy fan interviewing Paul McCartney once on SNL, when McCartney was the musical guest. One of the great exchanges went like this between the patient superstar Paul and the geeky dorky and nervous interviewer Chris:

Chris: You remember when you were in the Beatles?
Paul: Yes...?
Chris: That was awesome.
(and on to the next "question")

-- Anonymous, August 28, 2000

Good question, Gwen!

All of those Chris Farley Skits are on his Best Of... video. It's AWESOME. The Chippendale's skit with Patrick Swayze has always been my favorite.

Mike Myers' "Hyper Hypo" comes in second.

-- Anonymous, August 28, 2000

"take a bass, any size bass...now put it into the Bass-O-Matic '76!" Back in 1976, there were a lot of cheap-ass products that cashed in on the Bicentennial hype, that's why I love that one.

Remember the commercial for Quarry cereal? And it was shot on film stock, to make it look like a REAL commercial? classic...

-- Anonymous, August 28, 2000

THE funniest SNL skit EVER was the one where William Shatner was speaking at the Star Trek convention. "You there...have you ever kissed a girl?" and "You need to move out of your parent's basements and grow the hell up!" "Geez! It's just a TV show!"

-- Anonymous, August 28, 2000

Good question! I loooove the celebrity jeopardy...Sean Connery taking "The Rapists" and "The Penis Mightier" made me giggle hysterically. I usually like most of their game show sketches. And I'm sorry, but I do love Mango...and Ladies' Man. I'm definately going to go see The Ladies' Man movie when it comes out in theaters, I won't be able to stop myself!

-- Anonymous, August 28, 2000

Finally, MY question! I watch old SNL reruns all the time. This is hard. Hmm. OK, I love The Continental, and The Inspirational Speaker, Todd and Lisa, the Church Lady(boo ya!), Ed Grimley(Martin Short RULED in that, and of course the synchronized swimming)...Dana Carvey was great as Perot and Bush whenever he did that, and Phil Cartman also freaking ruled in...everything. Oh, And "She Turned Into Her Mother" with Julia Sweeney! And Pat! And lots of other stuff!

-- Anonymous, August 28, 2000

I was never a big Ed Grimley fan, but I loved that sleazy, nervous, chain-smoking, question-dodging lawyer that Martin Short used to do. THAT was fall-down funny! "Is it him, or is it me? It's him, isn't it? "

-- Anonymous, August 28, 2000

The old SNL with Gilda Radner, John Belushie, Chevy Chase all of those were classically great. Does anyone remember the shark skit? I just remember howling but I can't even remember the joke. Cone heads, two wild and crazy guys, etc. Eddie Murphy's(?) Mr. Roberts Welcome to My Neighborhood. I like the new SNL too, except like everyone else says, they've beat the great skits down. I really like the Martha Stewart satire.

-- Anonymous, August 28, 2000

Gosh, I love SNL. I have a fierce crush on Jimmy Fallon. The new woman Rachel Dratch is hilarious, too. I like it when they pair up as the Boston high school kids: "wicked cool!" Celebrity Jeopardy, Cheri O'Teri & Will Farrell as cheerleaders, Will & Ana Gasteyer as the music teachers, topless Martha Stewart, the ladies' man. I love the new cast but I sure do miss Norm McDonald; Colin Quinn sucks at weekend update.

-- Anonymous, August 29, 2000

I love the Jane Curtain - Dan Akroyd "Point Counterpoint" skit (it was a take-off on a then-feature of 60 Minutes). Dan started his part with "Jane, you ignorant slut."

-- Anonymous, August 29, 2000

Why can't I remember the good ones on my own before somebody else says it? :) Church Lady slays me, everytime he/she says "Sataaaaaan" it absolutely cracks me up. And after seeing "Point-Counterpoint" I called everybody that pissed me off an ignorant slut for the longest time...it's just too beautiful, y'know? I was thinking about passed guests a while ago...Jim Carrey was great, he fit right in with the head bopper guys and the Spartans...did anybody actually see Britney Spears when she was on awhile ago? I didn't watch cuz she bugs me but somebody told me she was actually really funny, is this true?!

-- Anonymous, August 29, 2000

I saw the Britney episode, she was ok. Everytime Garth Brooks has been on he's been just hilarious, and I'm not any kind of a fan of his music or anything. He and Mango made some beautiful music together. Chris Farley was such a talent; I love all of those "van down by the river" skits he did because the other cast members can never keep from laughing at him either.

-- Anonymous, August 30, 2000

I saw the Britney show. She wasn't hilarious, but she was passable. She played some tough-talking teen singer with a curley black wig who had written an expose book about Britney Spears and that was pretty good. Will Farrell and Cheri O'Teri played vapid local talk show hosts interviewing her. Then she played a Southern-accented costumed tour host (the butter churn girl, actually) in colonial Williamsburg when the South Boston kids came in with their videocamera. That was funny, too.

-- Anonymous, August 30, 2000

Samurai {fill in the blank). Samurai Tailor in particular.

Adobe! The little car made out of clay.

"It's a floor wax! It's a dessert topping! It's both!"

Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford falling down all the time.

"Compulsion" perfume.

Martin Short as Ed Grimley with his triangle, I must say.

Jon Lovitz as the pathological liar, and his wife Morgan Fairchild. Yeah, that's the ticket.

"Landshark!"

Was Lily Tomlin on SNL with her AT&T operator or not? Because that was a stitch. "We're a big fat monopoly and we don't give a damn about you and you'll like it, too!"

Gilda Radner was always fun. Sometimes more bittersweet than hilarious, though.

Steve MArtin and Dan Ackroyd as two Wild and Crazy Guys ("Night at the Roxbury" is a lame attempt to regain old glory of days gone by.)

Wayne's World. So it's lame and overdone now. At the time, I roared.

"Touch my monkey! Love him! Pet him! Now is the time when we dance." Sprockets. I fear the movie adaptation, but Dieter is a stitch.

Stuart Smalley affirmations: "I'm good enough, I'm smart anough and gosh darn it, people LIKE me!"

Offering the Beatles a whopping $3K to reforma nd perform on the show. George Harrison showed up and was denied his cut because he didn't get the other three to come with. :)

"Could it be....SATAN?!"

Lots more, but their heyday is long over.

-- Anonymous, August 30, 2000

I agree that Garth Brooks did surprisingly well the two (?) times he was on.

I liked the one in which L. Ron Travolta played Dracula and people kept assuming he was gay. I agree with y'all that most of the best skits get beat into the ground, like Dieter and Mary Catherine G., and Will Ferrell and Ana Gasteyer as the singers.

My shameful pleasure is Cherri O'Teri and Chris Kattan as the lusty couple. They kill me.

-- Anonymous, August 30, 2000

How did I forget Wayne's World? Dana, Mike, I kiss your sneakers! Or Wild and Crazy Guys. "No other pair of Czech brothers cruise and swing so successfully in tight slacks!" Or Al Franken as Stuart Smalley? I used to cry watching the Church Lady, I was so choked with tears.

Shark skit? Do you mean the "I'm only a dolphin, ma'am," one? Hee.

-- Anonymous, August 30, 2000

Milla - Lilly Tomlin did Ernestine the Phone Operator on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (and am I dating myself or what?). However, I think she did a SNL "commerical" with Ernestine as the spokeswoman:

"This equipment is so complicated, even we don't know what it does. [ pounds keyboard with elbows) See? Just lost Peoria!"

"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company."

Poor Ernestine. She really took the break-up of ATT hard.

-- Anonymous, August 31, 2000

I don't know about funniest skit, but this one was the set-up to the funniest line EVER said on TV ANYWHERE. There was this fancy ball at some hoity-toity location in England, and Gavin Morris was announcing the arrivals, who were all historical figures whose names have become associated with their "inventions." Gavin Morris announced the Earl of Sandwich, and there was some joke about not being able to stay and eat so he'd just take a hunk of meat between 2 slices of bread to go; he announced Lord Cardigan, who appeared in a cardigan sweater, or something; he announced the Duke and Duchess (?) of Wilkinson, and there was a bit about razor blades. Etc, etc. Which was all just a set-up for Gavin Morris to announce in a big, booming voice, "Lord and Lady Douchebag."

Creepiest skit ever showed an elderly John Belushi visiting the graves of other SNL members. First time I saw this was in reruns, after JB had died, and the others (buried in the cemetery) were still alive. Weirdtrippyspooky!

-- Anonymous, September 01, 2000

It's okay Tracey--I'm old enough to remember Laugh-In too. But barely. :)

-- Anonymous, September 01, 2000

One of the funniest lines ever came from Wayne's World...they were talking about some model or something and he said, "She's so hot, she could give a dog a bone!" Silly dirty things crack me up :)

-- Anonymous, September 02, 2000

Garrett Morris! Garrett Morris! Jeez, where'd I get Gavin?

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

Eddie Murphy's oldies:

"Images", by Tyrone Green
Dark and lonely on a summer night
Kill my landlord
Kill my landlord
Watchdog barking
Do he bite?
Kill my landlord
Kill my landlord
Slip in his window
Break his neck
Then his house
I start to wreck
Got no reason...what the heck!
Kill my landlord
Kill my landlord
C-I-L-L
My land-lord.

Eddie Murphy doing the "public experiment", to see how differently he is treated when he goes into the world as a white man. When he "reads a lot of Hallmark cards" to prepare for the role, I howl every time.

Billy Crystal as Fernando. Definitely Martin Short as Grimley, the nervous/paranoid/chainsmoking lawyer-guy, and in the synchronised swimming thing. Also, Jason Priestley's ice skating video, in which he is the world's worst Olympic hopeful-- I loathe JP, but DAMN that was a funny piece of footage.

And Eddie Murphy on "Mr Robinson's Neighborhood".

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2000

Hey, klee. Good to see you, buddy.

Yeah, Eddie M's experiment ruled. And I loved Jason Priestly on the Sprocket dating game episode. Damn, that was funny.

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2000

Joe Piscapo as The Guy From New Jersey who works at an asbestos plant. He goes to the Paramus Park mall saying "Hi! I'm from New Jersey! Are you from New Jersey?" to everyone, and then he goes to a store that sells organs and starts playing a song and starts singing "If you knew Jersey, like I new Jersey!"

I don't know why, but that just cracks my shit up.

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2000

How could I forget C-I-L-L my landlord?! Oh my god, *howl*.

Dog is barkin'...DO he BITE?

It's all in his expression. I miss the pre-wannabe-rockstar Eddie Murphy.

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2000

In 1978 my mom started working at night on the weekends. Whee! I was 11, my brother was 9. We watched SNL and played her Richard Pryor records while she was at work.

Todd and Lisa were the funniest, I idolized Gilda Radner. Remember when Bill Murray played the pervert uncle and had Gilda Radner and Lorraine Neuman sit on the glass table while he looked under their nightgowns? That shit wouldn't even be funny these days. The skit about the ax victim guy in the closet gave me nightmares.

-- Anonymous, September 13, 2000

Captain Jim and Pedro is one of my favorites: "We made a raft out of dead monkeys!!...But we had to turn back because of the smell..." "The sun made us CRAAAZYYY!" and "I made a hat out of a lobster and a stick!"

-- Anonymous, September 15, 2000

Usually the 'commercials' - An old Gilda Radner "commercial" - JEWESS Jeans - 'guaranteed to ride up'; Eddie Murphy doing Mister Robinson's Neighborhood; the more recent Cooky Dough sport drink...BUT THE BEST was the pseudo-documentary with Martin Short and Harry Shearer as synchronized swimmers trying to gain respect in the sports world. It is HILARIOU

-- Anonymous, September 18, 2000

"He's Toonses, Toonses.... Toonses the driving cat!"

That and Phil Hartman as... anything. Especially his Cavemen skits... dressed in a suit with his big old square head, saying "I'm just a CaveMan. I don't understand your technology, your modern ways..."

-- Anonymous, September 23, 2000

Okay, does anyone remember the puppets (I think they were Jim Henson stuff, not sure), I think '74 or '75?

I believe it was something about 'The Mighty PaBaz !!' ??

I remember the sets had volcanos and such. The Mighty Pabaz sort of looked like an Easter Island statue.

j

-- Anonymous, September 29, 2000

Shannon, I was totally devastated when Phil was killed. Besides being funny and classy, he didn't appear to be neurotic (those are my celebrity criteria.) They said his knickname was "glue" cause he held everyone else's performances together. I sure miss him.

-- Anonymous, September 29, 2000

Lisa- I know what you mean. I watched News Radio religiously until he was killed. Not only did he make that show what it was (even with Dave Foley who rocked on Kids in the Hall), but I just didn't have the heart to watch it after he died. --Shannon

-- Anonymous, October 05, 2000

CHRIS FARLEY!!! Anything of his is funny, plus toonces the cat who could drive a car. And lets not forget Abe Lincoln and HIS time machine!!!

-- Anonymous, October 22, 2000

DIETER'S DREAM.... (WHORENUN).

-- Anonymous, October 22, 2000

Best skit ever was Jackie Rogers Jr.'s $100,000 Jackpot Wad from the 84-85 season, featuring Martin Short as the title character, Billy Crystal as Sammy Davis Jr., Chris Guest as contestant Rajeev Vindaloo and Jim Belushi as Capt. Kangaroo

-- Anonymous, October 23, 2000

Chris Farley..."I am...El Nino!"

-- Anonymous, October 24, 2000

Dana Carvey as Massive Headwound Harry, bar none. The premise wasn't that funny, but the dog absolutely made that skit. He started chewing on the massive head wound prop and just wouldn't let go. The cast could barely keep from laughing, fortunately I didn't have to show that kind of restraint.

-- Anonymous, October 28, 2000

eddie murphy doing buh-wheat..singing wookin' pa nub ! eddie and joe piscapo as frank sinatra and stevie wonder "you are blind as a bat and I have sight.....come on negro lets not fight...." anytime phil hartman did frank...he called sinead o;connor "sine-aid" told billy idol "i've got chunks of guy's like you in my stool" ahhh I died when i heard that! Jim carreys diet plan "With my plan of vibrating beads and meth-amphetimine, You'll drop weight quicker that a tijuana crack-whore!"

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2000

Oh, for me that's an easy one. Who could ever forget Eddie Murphy as Velvet Jones and the Velvet Jones School of Technology. "Girls are you tired of working? Do you want a new job where you don't have to leave the comfort of your own bedroom? Then send for my free book, "I want to be a HO" Also, the Velvet Jones romance novels, like "Kicked in the Butt by Love" I still roar whenever I see the Velvet Jones reruns.

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2000

The best kept secret of SNL is Eddie Murphy's Big Damn Plastic Bubble advertisement.

And what about when you run out of air in five days? I bet you'll feel pretty stupid when you're DEAD inside your house. Now if ya'll GOT to have this plastic bubble, write to "Big Damn Plastic Bubble" 555 New York, NY 9999. Ya'll are some stupid people.

Also the Harrey Carrey impressions by Will Farrel. HEY now we all know that the moon.. is NOT made of green cheese! ...yes that's true harry but WHAT if it were made of barbeque spare ribs? would you eat it then>???

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2000

The funniest skit on SNL ever has to be Time Meadows when he is the ladies man talkin about viagra and Erectial disfunction, well he says old mans penis, LOL. That has to be the funniest

-- Anonymous, November 05, 2000

I'm watching the SNL Presidential Bash 2000 special right now. I'd forgotten hysterical Dana Carvey's George Bush was! Some of these skits are just as unfunny now as they were then, but ya gotta admit, a lot of them are gold.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 2000

I'm fifteen years old and my friends and I love SNL. One of my favorite skits of all time was the one when Chris Farley was a fat lady talking to his friends "Lay off me I'm starving!!". I love Cheri Oteri and I am very upset that she left the show. She was in most of my favorite skits like Aunt Collette("I take these pills for mah fear of flyin'")and Nadine("Simmer Down Na").I really miss her and her crazy faces. I also love Sean Connery on Jeopardy("Ruff.Just the way your mother likes it Trebek") Weekend Update is super funny now that Colin Quinn is gone but SNL won't be the same without Cheri.

-- Anonymous, November 08, 2000

I have several, the first has to be "Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood", when he "created" a Cabbage Patch Doll. I wanted one about the same time, and when he tore the doll's head off, it was SO funny! The second one was an entire episode when Christopher Walken guest- starred. It might have been the fact that I had too much coffee or something, but I laughed so hard that I cried. The skit when he was in the audience of the talk show (notice that his eyes didn't move from the cue cards AT ALL!) had me screaming. The last one was when Tim Meadows was the Ladies' Man and Florence Henderson was on as well as the skank of the week (or something). She looked so innocent!

-- Anonymous, November 08, 2000

Nobody will remember Rob Reiner on one of the very first SNL episodes. He was an announcer for a fashion show that pointed out the subtle "fashion flaws" of the models as they traipsed the runway. "Cindy has lobsters attached to her eyebrows. Don't wear lobsters on your eyebrows....." etc. It was so spectacular at the time because it was so different than any other comedy on TV. I've never seen a rerun of that skit. Jim Carey as the lifeguard at the Health Club Sauna was also genius. Dan Akroyd as the refrig repairman at Lisa's house with Todd and Lisa gawking over his blue jeans riding low. Finally, "Oops! Accidently shot by Claudine Longet!" I didn't know whether to die laughing or scream in horror. It was the most tasteless skit they ever did. And I loved it.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2000

Oh yeah, I remember Jim Carrey as the lifeguard! He played that perfectly. The best part was when he had to dive in to save someone.

BTW, that "dangerous Halloween costume" skit with Aykroyd and Curtin was on the recent SNL Halloween special. I taped it. :-)

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2000

Garrett Morriss doing the baseball guy. "Basaball ha been bery goood to me. Basaball ha been berry, berry goood to ME."

-- Anonymous, November 17, 2000

It's tough to pick just one; here's are some of the best. Militant talk show host Nat X as played by Chris Rock. Bill Murray doing the lounge singer named Nick. (Star Wars, nothing but Star Wars!) A similar series of skits done years later with Jan Hooks and Nora Dunn as the Sweeney Sister. The decathalon competitor (John Belushi) who trained on chocolate dougnuts. The late Phil Hartman as a weightlifter who pulls his arms off at the All-Drug Olympics. John Lovitz impersonating Harvey Firestein. Better quit now before this goes on forever.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

Some of my faves that I didn't see mentioned:

-"Germany's most disturbing home videos" on Sprockets. ("He Loves me, He loves my caribou")

-"Dysfunctional Family Feud" Phil Hartman and Chris Farley (R.I.P.) steal the show.

-Sandler doing his ideas for halloween costumes on Weekend Update. "I'm crazy spoon head, I got a spoon growin out of my head and it makes me crazy, so give me some crazy candy."

I have to admit, the first time I saw the "Mr. Peepers" skit with Chris Kattan I laughed my ass off.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

Although much of what the original cast did is priceless in the annals of comedy, I have to list one of the great stand outs as being the two part skit: Buckwheat Has Been Shot, and then the follow up Bio of his assassin, John David Stutts. The obvious send up of the attempted assassination of Reagan -- overplaying the video of the shooting, and Joe Picopo's cement-haired Ted Koppel, is not only plain-old funny, but a good piece of social satire that can live on. "Oh Do, I been shot!"

But what stands out as being even funnier is the Bio of John David Stutts. Throughout the numerous interviews of people he knew when he was growing up, the theme starts, and really never gets tired: "He was a nice boy, quite, worked hard.." "Do you think he killed Buckwheat?" "Oh yes, definitely. Matter of fact he said to me once: I'm saving up for a rifle, so I can shoot Buckwheat..."

A classic... and having lived through the Reagan attempt and the death of John Lennon, those skits are survive very well.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2000

How about the Alec Baldwin "Man of A Thousand Voices" skit? Every voice is so far off and he assures people that's EXACTLY how they sound. And the ultra-lame sound effects he throws in. Baldwin has been one of the best hosts.

And any skit where David Spade was the lead was great. Especially when he was the receptionist who dismissed people with "...and I'd know you from????" It doesn't get much better than when he brushed off Phil Hartman as Jesus...

-- Anonymous, November 22, 2000

Happy fun ball! anybody remember?--Or how about Chris Farley trying to convince you to let Adam Sandler be your housesitter--For the love of God let the boy sleep in your bed! And you can't forget Hybernol-- I think it was called--when Chris Farley takes this huge-ass bowl of "cold medicine" and sleeps through the winter. There's just so many ---I also miss Norm McDonald---remember him as Bob Dole in the Real World house--hysterical

-- Anonymous, December 02, 2000

Raymond I think you are my twin soul. Happy fun ball and that Adam Sandler skit are my two favorites, too. Very strange. AND Norm MacDonald has been my favorite comedian since I saw his stand-up routine about when his dad caught him smoking, this was probably about 1989 or 1990.

We just got cable (go ahead, make fun-I'd like to say it's because we are so self-entertaining and too intellectual for t.v., but it's actually just because we are so damn cheap) and the best thing about it so far is that SNL is on pretty much 10 hours out of the day, in between commercials for "The Man Show" (ass-sucking entertainment in my opinion). Yay SNL!

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2000

My favorite has got to be "two wild and crazy guys" the first time I saw that I almost wet my pants. My other favorite is on the Mike myers video with the group of people talking about Shakespere with Steve Martin, and Dana Carvey dressed up as mickey Rooney, one of my favorites. some other really good ones are, "the continental" with Christopher Walken, Eddie Murphy when he was white for a day, the Hot Tub King, King Tut, and most anything with Will Ferrell, I love that guy.

-- Anonymous, December 09, 2000

My absolute favorite is the skit where Phil Hartman is playing Frank Sinatra, doing a TV show called (I think) The Sinatra Group...fellow panelists include Jan Hooks as Sinead O'Connor, Sting as Billy Idol, etc...Frank puts each one of them in their place. I love it!! Could be that I'm just a fanatic Sinatra fan, though.

-- Anonymous, December 12, 2000

The homo-erotic Canteen Boy with Alec Baldwin as the Scout Leader is one of the funniest things I have seen. Although Celebrity Jeopardy is also pretty good (especially Norm Macdonald as Burt Reynolds)

-- Anonymous, December 15, 2000

Does anyone remember the Gumby Christmas special? One of the scenes was with Julia Louise-Dryfuss (yes, the same person from Seinfeld...she was on for two seasons...) She and Gary Kroeger were Donny and Marie Osmond, and they were doing a Christmas song and in the middle of it they started making out....I was on a work assignment in Utah at the time and almost soiled my pants, I was laughing so hard....

-- Anonymous, December 15, 2000

The chameleon 2000, of the beat up car so it went be stolen :)

-- Anonymous, December 19, 2000

The best Skit EVER has got to be will Ferrells Harry Carrey Immitation!!!

"of all the possibilities. Imagine a world with an endless supply of Hot Dog's. You could have a hot dog any time you wanted. They'd become so abundant theyd become our currency. 20 Hot Dogs would equal roughly a nickel. Depending on the strength of the Yen, I'm not quite sure, but ya know, I'm getting a little ahead of myself. Lets just keep praying that we can clone one of these Hot Dog's. Hey if you were a Hot Dog and you were starving would you eat yerself? I know I would. First I'd smother myself in brown mustard and relish. I'd be so delicious."

THE BEST!

-- Anonymous, December 22, 2000

In my opinion,the funniest ever was with Joshua Jackson,where Cheri O'Teri played his aunt with the medicine.I thought it was hilarious.

-- Anonymous, December 29, 2000

The best skit has not been mentioned, ALec Baldwin, and Adam Sandler as his girlfriend. Alec has been caught cheeting and lying to his girlfriend, when ever she tried to bring this up he would reply with I know thats what i was trying to tell you. ALec Baldwin is the best host Saturday Night LIve has had.

-- Anonymous, January 08, 2001

Gilda Radner and Lorraine Newman are little girls having a sleepover...they are mooning and fighting over one of those pictures of Jesus where he's shown as the ethereal blue-eyed hippy. "Jesus is MY boyfriend!" "No Jesus is MY BOYFRIEND!"

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Rebekka, isn't that the one with Buck Henry as their babysitter and he keeps on taking pictures of them with their skirts flipped up and other lecherous perversion? God, he could play a creepy man better than anyone.

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2001

"Please do not taunt happy fun ball." HAAAAAAAA!

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2001

Oh yeaaah...Buck Henry played "uncle" Roy in that skit (must've blocked that out). I haven't seen the old episodes in years. I hear they show them on cable Tv as "best of", so you get someone else's opinion of the best skits. Bet they don't show that one

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2001

Chris Farley on the Japanese game show. Mike Myers is the best Japanese guy ever and farley is Farley...need I say more? Totoshi! Totoshi!

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2001

i cant believe that no one mentioned the faux-commerical for CLEAR GRAVY!!! someone back me up here...that was hilarious. i saw it for the first time when i was in the student union at school and i laughed so hard i made a fool outta myself in front of about 100 strangers. the jeopardy skits with burt reyonlds and sean connery are also VERY funny.

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2001

One of my favorites ever was with Gary Busey. Skit was panel discussion called "About Women". There were three panelists. All were men. They were discussing women's problems and the question was asked of panelists what the liked about women...First two said breasts. Garrett Morris was professorial with a pipe. After looking pensive, he said, "I like a woman with a big butt, something you can grab on to and whip with a car antenna." I still laugh at that.

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2001

Does anyone remember the one (pretty old) where they went into a restaurant and ate out of troughs like pigs? What was the name of that restaurant?! We are going crazy trying to figure this out!

Thanks in advance!

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2001

Was that the Vomitorium, in ancient Rome with Garrett Morris? Or... hm, I seem to vaguely remember Dan Aykroyd actually eating from a trough in a modern restaurant. Dang, let us know when you figure it out.

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2001

I do remember the skit you mean. They all went to a businessman's bar and gnarfed out of troughs. It is a pretty old sketch. I can't remember what they were lampooning--perhaps it was "supersizing" food or crazy "happy hour" promotions or "Buffet-style dining"--but the visuals were hilarious.

I still have a soft spot for all the "Samurai" skits with John Belushi. "Samurai Tailor" was a hoot.

-- Anonymous, February 02, 2001

I think the funniest SNL skits are the ones where Will plays Harry Carey, those crack me up everytime i see them!

-- Anonymous, February 04, 2001

i like all of the skits by all the dead guys... phil, chris, and john... or was it jim belushi?

-- Anonymous, February 06, 2001

Because of the times they were aired in, I have to say the original first couple of seasons. Garrett, Billy, Dan, Chevy, Jane, John, Gilda, and the rest of the casts. There was nothing like it on TV. "Jane, you miserable slut...." has got to be the funniest opening line for a skit. We just howled with delight feeling our generation was rubbing the older generations nose in irreverence. Garrett's baseball skits and Chevy Chase' pratfalls..."It's Saturday Night Live...". God how funny. And the commercials. And on Cable reruns they're still some of the funniest shows going. You young kids don't know what it was like in those stuffy coming out of the closet days on TV-land. Now it's run of the mill stuff. With "In Living Color and The Man Show and Comedy Central. I've seen comics in clubs get boo-ed off the stage with stuff so funny it hurt, just because they didn't cuss like a sailor. Sorry times. James

-- Anonymous, February 06, 2001

Oh, it was definitely John! He was the greatest.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2001

The best SNL commercial was the one for Canon cameras with Stevie Wonder and Joe Piscopo on the tennis court. Stevie is taking pictures of Joe but he can't see him so the pictures are coming out terribly. Joe is taking pictures of Stevie trying to hit the tennis ball. Hilarious!!

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2001

james,

I believe the line was "Jane you ignorant slut!"

I agree, it is one of the ALL TIME BEST lines ever.

I use it whenever someone at work is spouting some idea or solution to the problem that is obviously stupid, impossible, or both. :o)

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2001

YOUR GAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- Anonymous, February 17, 2001

YOUR FUCKING GAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- Anonymous, February 17, 2001

Hey, bitch... if you're going to say vulgar shit on my forum, at least learn how to spell it, first.

-- Anonymous, February 17, 2001

How did this ignorant 5th grader get on the forum? And gay at that! Punk. Lumberjack

-- Anonymous, February 17, 2001

The e-mail address said it all...meet Puerile Juvenile Smurf, PJ Smurf for short! *audience politely applauds*

It's not easy being short and blue...and illiterate.

-- Anonymous, February 19, 2001

Hi,

One of my favorites was from years ago. Does anyone remember the Joe Piscapo skit where he is Abe Lincoln the night of his assignation. Does anyone have this on tape or know where to purchase it?

Thanks,

BMC

-- Anonymous, February 19, 2001

yEAH! wHAT mILLA sAID PUNK! lUMBERJACK

-- Anonymous, February 20, 2001

The Interview! (1975)

Chevy Chase interviewing Richard Pryor for a job opening. The interview goes on into a "word association" segment, where Chase would say a word and Pryor would say the first word that came to his mind. I don't have a word-for-word transcript, but it went something like this:

Chase: Black Pryor: White

Chase: Negro Pryor: (a little perplexed) Whitey

Chase: Jungle Bunny Pryor: (visibly pissed) Peckerwood!

Chase: (now angry himself) Spear Chucker! Pryor: (inscensed) Honkey!

Chase: (very deliberate) NIGGER! Pryor: (has lost it!) DEAD HONKEY!

Chase then gets scared and offers him a job:

Chase: We'll start you off at $7,000 per year. Pryor: (still angry) Yo Mama!

Chase: OK, then, $14,000. Pryor: Yo GRAND-Mama!

Chase: Very well, $21,000 and that's our final offer. Pryor: Well, alright!

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2001