Favorite Unforgettable SNL Moment

[MrScorpio]

Poll question: Favorite Unforgettable SNL Moment

Taken from E!

http://www.tv.com/e!s-101/most-unforgettable-snl-moments-20---1/episode/315334/summary.html

[MissMillie]

1. nothing before 1985?

I don't think so

[MrScorpio]

2. I've had my issues with more than one E! top whatever list

My fave is the entire Frank Zappa show

[poiuytsister]

3. Jane, you ingnorant slut!

Akroyd bleeding to death as Julia Child, Land shark, Murray as Nick the lounge singer, Samuri everything

[mzteris]

8. yup -

my introduction to SNL was Jane taking her birthcontrol pill on camera . . .


The really funny part was - - - I had NO IDEA it was a comedy show. I thought I was watching the news. I was totally freaked and cracking up.

Then Chevy Chase started giving the "news".

:wtf:

oooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......... this isn't the real news! :think:

[kentauros]

29. Remember the one Samurai skit

with Buck Henry getting nicked by the sword? (a search said it was "Samurai Stockbroker", but can't find a clip)

After that, he showed up in later skits with a bandaid on his forhead and everyone else kept adding one before the show ended with them all sporting a bandaid on their foreheads :D

Oh, and the real Julia Child loved Dan Akroyd's parody of her :)

[driver8]

67. AMEN!!

All of those are great choices. I remember the first time I heard Akroyd say, "Jane, you ignorant slut", I almost choked because I was laughing so hard!

"Samurai everything" -- those skits absolutely killed me! Belushi was the best!

[triguy46]

4. Bill Murray as Todd DeLaMucca and Gilda as Lisa Lupener;

That whole sequence of skits, including Dan Ackroyd as the repair man bending over showing his crack.

[yellowdogintexas]

27. "King Tut" .....with Steve Martin nt

[xmas74]

28. And I had the link

but you tube is freezing up right now.

[MrCoffee]

5. it's got to be Farley's Chippendales audition

he played that perfectly...it was so funny.

[SOteric]

6. I'm here tonight to speak out against busting schoolchildren.

Busting schoolchildren is a terrible, terrible thing. I hear this is going on all over the country. Mean policemen arrest little children and put them in jail in the wrong neighborhood, so they can't even play with their little friends. Imagine, busting schoolchildren! The food in jail isn't good, and even though they get bread, I don't believe they can get toast. Or nice cake. Now, who will tuck them in? Where will they hang their leggings? Where will they set up their little lemonade stands? Well, they don't have toys in jail, except maybe..

Chevy Chase: < interrupting > Miss Litella?

Emily Litella: Yes?

Chevy Chase: I'm sorry. The editorial was on bussing schoolchildren. Bussing. Not busting.

Emily Litella: Oh. Never mind.

[blonndee]

7. Of the choices here? Chris Farley, definitely.

But among all the SNLs, I think the best are Land Shark or Gilda Radner as Emily Litella. I know the latter isn't a "moment," but I still find myself thinking, "Oh that's different...never mind."

[unsavedtrash]

9. Land Shark!

Gilda Radner and Steve Martin Dancing
Edith Ann
damn, just so many

[DBoon]

81. candygram?

nt

[hellbound-liberal]

10. Joe Cocker and John Belushi together on stage!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7bFtvsYcnQ

[Swamp Rat]

34. Absolutely!

:thumbsup:

[hippywife]

76. That's the one! n/t

[Manifestor_of_Light]

11. YES! Belushi imitating Cocker!!

Excellent.

As well as Dan Ayckroyd imitating Nicholas von Hoffman on "Point/Counterpoint" on 60 Minutes, where Hoffman and Shana Alexander would debate... "Jane. You ignorant slut". Angry but deadpan.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

12. Oh man, where to begin...

...so many classics missing, so many marginal clips in E!'s list...

Where are:

1). Dan Aykroyd as Julia Child?

2). Joe Pesci and Robert DiNiro doing a walk-on during "The Joe Pesci Show?"

3). Blue Öyster Cult - Behind The Music? (easily one of the most popular clips of the entire run)

4). Colonel Angus?

...and that's just for starters...

[MrScorpio]

13. What's on YouTube? what I found

Aerosmith - Wayne's World No Drugs
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yuedqjPFAl8

Schweaty Balls
http://youtube.com/watch?v=b8-pCbQnSC4

Coffee Talk crashed by Barbra Streisand
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xKLqMhvIoEg


Adam Sandler-The Chanukah Song
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5Hmr5YOewww

[Xipe Totec]

14. Luck of the irish (Belushi)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBRn7zEJkIc

[hellbound-liberal]

61. Very funny skit!

Belushi was hilarious!

[Common Sense Party]

85. I also like Belushi's commentary about March coming in like a lion

and going out like a lamb.

[Arugula Latte]

15. One of my favorite bits ever was Dana Carvey as "Lyle, The Effeminate Heterosexual."

Too.Damn.Funny.

[no name no slogan]

16. Schweatty Balls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8-pCbQnSC4

Watch it before it gets removed by NBC

/NOT a rickroll, btw)

// THIS is a rickroll: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0)

[underpants]

22. "I'm not a STRONG swimmer"

A Harry Shearer short film about male synchronized swimmers. Schweaty balls, this one, Paul Simon playing basketball against Connie Hawkins, the Frankenberry news bit, and Bill Murray's "The Pope is dead...LOOK we did this story LAST MONTH!!" come to mind as well

[Akoto]

17. I'll take the penis mightier for $1000, Trebek.

[MrCoffee]

23. i want to change my answer

[fizzgig]

30. those were some of the funniest skits ever

i laugh just thinking about them

:rofl:

[Orsino]

53. "Not one for the ladies, are you, Trebek?"

"The day is mine!"

[Cabcere]

77. That says anal bum cover.

I've spent five years of my life trying to invent an anal bum cover, failing to do so is my greatest regret. :rofl:

[Initech]

87. "Yeah, give me ape tit for $400."

That's a petite... never mind.

[FloridaJudy]

18. A Mr. Richard Feder from Fort Lee, New Jersey writes in and says...

It's always something.

[SeattleGirl]

19. I'll pick nearly anything done by the original Not-Ready-For-Primetime

Players.

Apparently E! doesn't realize SNL started before '85.

[UTUSN]

20. Here's an obscure one: The real Desi ARNAZ machine-gunning a (fake) Lucy

This was several years after their split, with Lucy having gotten all the sympathy. It was a liberating moment for Desi. But now we hear that Lucy loved him to the end.\


This is like the Cher-Sonny thing. We believed Cher about how she was dominated by him and how she finally got free. We bought it. Then when he died, there she was with that eulogy saying how he really was the only one for her. Bah!1 I mean, I don't begrudge what was between them, but why did she string us all along?!1

[struggle4progress]

21. Belushi puffin a cig and explainin how little chocolate donuts helped him sprint

Or Al Franken givin his regular commie speech

[Twillig]

24. One word!

Bass-O-Matic!

[Capn Sunshine]

32. Hiyoooooo

"Mmmmmm, that's good bass"

[xmas74]

25. Here is mine:

Samurai Delicatessen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBx5sRtZXaA

(also had the chocolate donuts, "I'm a king bee" and joe cocker but links aren't working.)

[pokerfan]

26. Anything with Gilda

And every four years they can be counted on to deliver some pretty good political satire.

November 4th, 2000

A Glimpse Of Our Possible Future I

President George W. Bush.....Will Ferrell

Voice of Don Pardo: America, Election Day fast approaches, and with the Presidential Race still too close to call, "Saturday Night Live" would like to present "A Glimpse of our Possible Future".

(open on Scenario I)

Announcer: And now a Message From the President of the United States: George W. Bush.

(open on the Oval Office - beer cans on desk, socks hung on the lamp, a barbecue grill burning on his desk)

Voice of Advisor: Mr. President, get out there!

President George W. Bush: (from under his desk) No! No, you can't make me! You're gonna yell at me again!

Voice of Advisor: Mr. President!

President George W. Bush: (peeks out from under his desk) No! I don't want to go out, it's too hard!

Voice of Advisor: You're on, Sir!

President George W. Bush: Awww.. (jumps up and takes his seat) Hey, America! So, how we all doing out there, huh? Yeah, not so good. I broke the Hoover Dam.. we had that war thing happen. But I mean, who ever heard of a Civil War, anyway? What is that? (grabs a pair of binoculars, unscrews the lens, then pours alcohol from it into his mouth) I have missed you, ol' buddy! (pours it into his barbecue grill) Whoo! I think we can agree, Americans, that these have been a difficult first two years of my presidency..

Voice of Advisor: You've been President for two weeks!

President George W. Bush: Really? Oh, man! I told you, this is hard! Okay, listen.. I'm just gonna get this Address thing over with. As we assess the State of the American Union today, we have reason to hope, because.. (takes out a map which shows California and Florida as islands, Texas in Communist Mexico, and the Great Lakes on fire) Holy crap! When did all this happen?! Wow.. the Great Lakes are on fire - even I know that's not good. (laughs) Okay, America, we got a lot of problems. I ain't gonna lie to you. But with the help of Vice-President Dick Cheney..

Voice of Advisor: You killed him in a hunting accident!

George W. Bush: Okay, fine! Not a problem. 'Cause I've been working hard, I got a plan that's gonna solve all of it - from the deficit, to foreign relations, to that hole in the sun. Two words, America: Ostrich Meat.

Voice of Advisor: (disgusted) Oh, come on! (exits Oval Office)

President George W. Bush: No, no, wait, wait! Hear me out. You see, everyone gets an ostrich.. and then you eat the ostrich, then you raise the ostrich.. that way, no more ostriches! We are trying to get rid of all the ostriches, right? Anyone? (ball of fire erupts outside) Aw, screw! That big tit building is on fire again - damn! Alright, sorry, folks.. I gotta take care of this.. (stands up) Come on, Blue! Here, boy! (an ostrich ambles forward) You all go on ahead without me. And, in the meantime, "Live, from New York, it's Saturday Night!"

[Swamp Rat]

38. JAP Jeans

:D

[HamstersFromHell]

31. Two (plus) come to mind...

All the "President's Council on Drug Abuse.." or something close to that, where the entire skit was a close up of someone's hands attempting (and failing) to roll a joint. (And yes, it was supposed to be Gerald Ford's hands)

But my all time favorite is still Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor in the job interview word association test. ("N*****!" "Dead Honky!") I know it's politically incorrect and such a TV moment couldn't happen today, but those guys pulled it off and both blacks and whites could laugh at it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x24w0dlO6k">Click Here to View

[bertha katzenengel]

33. The Dance with Gilda Radner and Steve Martin.

In the only SNL era worth watching: The Not Ready for Prime Time Players.

:hi: Hi, MrS :hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

35. The first (and probably last) teevee kiss between a white man

and a black man in drag, both about 50 feet tall.

[Rabrrrrrr]

36. Sinead O'Connor ripping up the photo of his evilness, the Pope; plus AR Chef and BassOMatic

and Joe Cocker and John Belushi.

(AR = anal retentive)

[Breeze54]

37. None of the above...

The Killer Bee's was my favorite with Belushi. He was a riot! :P

[Swamp Rat]

39. Yep

:D

[Breeze54]

43. Great pic!

:hi:

Brings back the laughter! :P

[Radical Activist]

40. Jesse Jackson reads Green Eggs and Ham

After that...more cowbell!

[Radical Activist]

41. "I hope you and your penis cream are happy together"

Steve Martin's Penis Cream. Great one!

[Radical Activist]

42. Jimmy Carter answers phone calls

Do you have any Allman Brothers?

[Lisa]

89. and he diagnoses what's wrong with that Post Office machine

... and tells them how to fix it. For some reason, that sketch always cracks me up.

[Doc_Technical]

44. Christopher Walken as "The Continental".

Chris Farley as "Matt Foley,
motivational speaker".

[eppur_se_muova]

73. But what do I know? I'm just a guy ... who lives in a VAN ... down BY THE RIVER!!

:rofl:

[leeroysphitz]

45. Shirt in a can. Tim Meadows ruled.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1894455340

"I got the job and I made out with my new boss. Thanks shirt in a can!"

One of my faves anyhow.

[Syrinx]

46. when Lorne Michaels offered the Beatles $3200 to appear on SNL

Lennon and McCartney were watching at Lennon's apartment, and considered taking Michaels up on the offer.

If only they had followed through.

http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/satnite.htm

[Breeze54]

51. That was a great one too!

:P

I forgot all about that one. Thanks for the reminder. ;)

[MilesColtrane]

47. Bass-O-Matic

Hands down.

[fudge stripe cookays]

48. The Sinatra Group

"I've got chunks of guys like you in my stool."

[Nailzberg]

49. Next topic, What's with the bald chick?

:rofl:

Sting was great as Billy Idol, too. Good sketch.

[fudge stripe cookays]

50. "Next issue..

Rita Hayworth or Ava Gardner. I disqualify myself cause I nailed em both.

Sine-Aid O'Connor. What's with you, Cue Ball? I'm lookin at you and thinking 8 ball in the corner pocket!"

[Nailzberg]

83. Hahaha. Phil Hartman was a genius

What a loss that was.

[eppur_se_muova]

72. LOL! Thanks for the reminder. I loved Phil Hartman. nt

[Orsino]

52. "Dueling Brandos" or "Amazing Time Savers"

Best SNL EVAR:
http://community.comedy.com/kickapps/service/displayMediaPlayPage.kickAction?mediaType=VIDEO&mediaId=87199&as=3806

And who knew Heather Locklear could be funny?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfZQ7fuOpAQ

[gmoney]

62. Belushi as Beethoven or "Samurai Night Fever"

There were four or five of these segments thru the show... each better than the last.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4twbfMObZs

Doesn't seem to be much of Samurai Night Fever on YouTube... maybe because it features OJ as Belushi's brother.

[alphafemale]

54. "The Bed Is On My Foot!!!!" nt

:D

[Va Lefty]

55. William Shatner playing Ollie North "The Mute Marine"

[SKKY]

56. I thought "The Chronicles of Narnia" rap was pretty freakin' classic as well..

...but how can you go against Chris Farley.

[carly denise pt deux]

57. John Belushi-samauri deli

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4ZSmmWMbe0

Carly

[JanMichael]

58. "Jane you ignorant slut" and that Fran Tarkington skit....

...with Garrett Morris.

[ronnykmarshall]

59. Coffee Talk w/ Barbra

Shocker, huh?

[Phillycat]

60. All the Celebrity Jeopardy skits, and Dick in a Box

[ThoughtCriminal]

63. Simon & Garfunkel - 1975

In addition to "The Boxer" there was a video (not sure if it was in the same epsisode) of people meeting loved ones at an airport to the tune of "Homeward Bound".

Early skits that I still chuckle over:

- Parodies of "Citizen Kane", "Highway Patrol" and "The Untouchables"
- The Land of Gorch!
- Shatner telling Trekkies to get a life

[Deja Q]

64. After Brady vs Partridge (1994?) the show plummeted...

[gmoney]

65. James Brown Celebrity Hot Tub Party

How could I forget?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uTVEW1nz8gc

[Missy Vixen]

82. Who else misses "Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood", too?

"Can you say "mutha", boys and girls?"

LOL,
Julie

[flying rabbit]

66. Dick in a box

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C6qpbnwf_k&feature=related

[maveric]

68. Czech Brothers. Akyroyd and Steve Martin.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/77rfestrunks.phtml

[Critters2]

69. Gilda Radner and Steve Martin dancing together. nt

[SoxFan]

70. Paul Simon x2

In 1988, Paul Simon (the singer) was the guest host. When he was introduced at the start of the show, he walks out on stage from one direction, while Sen. Paul Simon, a candidate for president at the time, walks out from the other direction. The two stop and stare at each other, both trying unsuccessfully to hide silly grins.

Best part? I knew about it a day ahead of time. I was working as a press flunky on the Simon campaign, and we were dropping hints to reporters to watch SNL.

[begin_within]

71. The first time they ever tried to do Debbie Downer,

everyone on the stage had a case of the giggles except for the actress playing Debbie. Every time she did one of her lines (which is always a statement of some awful fact), the entire cast except for her was forcing themselves to not laugh, with varying degrees of success. This turned out to be far funnier than how it was originally written. Since then, all the Debbie Downer skits have been straightforward, with everyone playing their roles perfectly... and the result is not as funny as that first time.

[MrSlayer]

74. Richard Pryor job interview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x24w0dlO6k

[hellbound-liberal]

78. Side splitting skit! Sure couldn't do that one today! Couldn't do Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood either

Wish I could find a clip of that!

[laylah]

75. I can tell you are a

"young pup"...Chevy's drool bucket or Belushi's bee skits~! The best!

[Coyote_Bandit]

79. Elton John Impersonation by

Johnny Cash - complete with costume.

[ironflange]

80. "The Lord and Lady Douchebag!"

[PittPoliSci]

84. BAG OF GLASS

[Initech]

86. Frank Zappa weirding out the audience during his '78 hosting gig.

[MnFats]

88. Belushi unintentionally tagging Buch Henry with his samuri sword..

....and Buck Henry deserves a medal for finishing the skit!!!

[mtnester]

90. The NORGE REPAIR MAN...I cannot believe it was forgotten

Dan Akroyd with serious buttcrack issues cracking up Lisa Lupner and Todd (Gilda and Bill) and flirting up a storm with Mrs. Lupner (Jane Curtain)

Shame shame for forgetting that...

So of the choices listed, I could not chose between Schweaty Balls and Chippendales

[alphafemale]

91. Shatner as himself at a "Star Trek" convention. "People...Look at Yourselves! It was a TV SHOW!"

:rofl:

[Tyler Durden]

92. Dueling Brandos...a personal favorite.

John Belushi and Peter Boyle both dressed as Brando from "The Wild Ones" doing competing Brando imitations with a background of the guitar/banjo duel. GENIUS.