Best Saturday Night Live Cast Members & Sketches, Ranked

Hey y'all, welcome to Past Times at eighties high. Got another great one for you today, and this is certainly gonna be a recurring, you know, subject because it is endless, timeless. But what we're doing today is we are gonna do our favorite, well, when I say favorite, you know, today we're each gonna pick seven Saturday Night Live skits in honor of, you know, they just did their 50th anniversary. I will say this, and I didn't mention this to you guys in the pre-show, but has anyone watched the uh movie on Netflix or Amazon or anything as you know, Saturdays? I was pretty impressed. I mean there were some qualms, but I thought I thought it was well done.

Um, from what I understand, wholly inaccurate as far as the people that were there say, but whatever. I mean, you gotta you have to dramatize things, but it's an interesting story. It's it's a I mean, come on, what what has existed that long? I mean, 50 years doing a live television show, right? And my god, they must have at least 14 years of of good episodes out of the 50, but right, right. That show's been pronounced dead so many times.

Yeah, and it's I'd say 20 to 25. Yeah. I would give it.

You know, that would be yeah, well, that's exactly pretty much what we're doing, except for a rebel.

But anyway, I thought the movie was good. Dan Aykroyd said somewhat accurate, and it was really entertaining just to see.

What is the title of the movie?

Saturday night.

When did it come out?

Uh this year. Like just came out. Okay. All right. Um, but anyway, yeah, you should check it out. It was fun. But anyway, uh, real quick, just to get this stuff out there um before we get rolling. Um, I want everyone to check out our website, which is past times at 80shigh.com, and that is 80s for 80s. Past times at 80s high. You know, give us a look. Just uh and our email, I gotta get that out there as well, is pta80h at gmail.com. As always, I repeat myself, PTA80H at gmail.com. And I imagine that everyone out there, our age and beyond, is you know, gonna either criticize our picks or just laugh and love because there are so many in this damn genre, and I can't wait. So without further ado, unless anyone else has something to say, we shall kick her off with Dongo.

All right, cool. This is gonna be fun and it's challenging, and this is one of the ones that I said think that maybe um like a disclaimer is needed because some of the some of the especially the earlier ones, SNLs could get quite edgy as far as race and sex and things like you know, tough tough button issues.

But we are just repeating right.

So we are repeating the comedy. We don't just because we enjoy the comedy skit does not mean we endorse the views of of behind the skit, but you mean you could laugh at things and not first.

No, you're supposed to be offended, Kevin. That's exactly what I do my best. It doesn't even matter.

And if I went exactly the way people could laugh at themselves, yeah.

So the first exact one that I'm gonna go with um was from December of 2002, which was a year after 9-11.

No, we mark. If you read the text earlier, we said we're going with every year.

Yes, okay. I know, but right.

Um that that's just the sound of Donnie being a rebel again.

Yeah, yeah. It was a C-SPAN skit um with Robert De Niro. Yes. When he's uh portraying like the homeland security, and he's like, We've gotten a lot of uh tips from you know, very surprisingly, a lot of college college students.

In the past few weeks, through our national hotline, we have collected hundreds of names of suspected terrorists, and I'm proud to say that most of these calls have come from high school and college students nationwide.

And he's like, you know, we need to be on the lookout for my balls is hairy or grabber booby. Uleek medik, aka you sought me deek, aka you wanna me deek. You souka medic?

Right, and who's been farteen and uh who's been farteen is one of the best ones because he drove into a ref a bean refinery, right? Right.

People say he left skid marks. So I rolled laughing when I saw that for the first time.

My dad and I laughed at that for hours. And when he when De Niro says, Moose to have a rod up your pooper.

Moose have a rod up your pooper. I hope I got that right.

He goes, I hope I said that right. Right. Oh, it's classic, yeah. And just the pictures and how they spelled it kind of phonetically, or whatever. And you know, very funny um side note to that was there was an actual like news broadcast. There was a plane crash in like California or something, and and the news went on the and it was like wee too low, right?

Something wrong.

Some fact check, you know, like some idiot called in and was like, Yeah, I know who the pilots were on that plane. Uh the news place like legit went with it and got called out for it, obviously.

But we have new information now also on the plane crash. KTBU has just learned the names of the four pilots who were on board the flight. They are Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wee Too Lo, Ho Li Fuch, and Bang Ding Au. The NTSB has confirmed these are the names of the pilots on board Flight 214 when it crashed. We are working to determine exactly what roles each of them played during the landing on Saturday.

Spectrum.

It'll be on our other podcast that we start sometime down the line, Kevin. Yeah, right.

Wong brothers dry cleaning. Two wongs can make it white.

Right.

Awesome.

You listen here, hide the salami.

Oh man, he did it such a good job on that. Yeah. Awesome pick, though. I'm so glad you had that, Donnie, because I I swiped it from my list. Oh, I think that's one of my all-time favorites. Awesome.

So that is to you, Kev. All right. I'm gonna go way back with this one. And this one's got a little bit of history with it. I think I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure this was the first one that ever got made into its own movie. And that would be Joe, Joliet, Jake, and Elwood Blues. Um it started out with, they just came out with Arlo Roth in the B costumes. Uh Belushi had to be. And they did uh uh Slim Harpo's I'm a King B.

Well, I'm a Kenny B. I want you to be my queen. I'm a Kenny baby. Want you to be my queen. We're all together, we can make honey baby. The world has never seen. Okay, let's buzzle up.

Later, they did it actually before the actual recording in the broadcast. Uh, they came out with another band and did the actual act, and it went over so well that it actually became part of you know, part of the show. They are also known as uh the good old blues brothers boys. Um if you remember from the movie, and at one point they were originally called the Fabulous Blues Brothers Show Band and Review. Um, the amazing thing about it for me, as hilarious as it was, and and you know, Aykroyd actually played harmonica in a band up in Canada. He was he was very talented. Um, but just the goofiness of it and and but the true love and the passion for for for the blues and and the fact that they wanted people to experience the blues. Um Aykroyd had gotten Belushi into the blues. I didn't realize this. Aykroyd, right after the show kind of got popular, bought a bar, the Tunnel Blues Bar in New York, where they all hung out after the show, and they always had like amps and instruments, and people would show up and jam, and so the whole thing was kind of beyond what you saw on TV, was kind of a blues revival, which was really cool. And then the last thing that I want to say was just so awesome because you had Steve Cropper and Donald Duck Dunn from uh Booker T and the MGs, uh Matt Guitar Murphy, Lou Marini, uh just the whole band were they were the pinnacle. You know, we've talked a lot about like the hired guns and the wrecking crew and whatever else. That was that was no comedy band. Those guys were the pinnacle of the real thing. Blues musicians at that time. So yeah. Blues brothers.

AJ, correct me if I'm wrong, but you know, in the Ace Freely book, was he out doing blues broth brothers shows? Uh John Belushi.

Ah, we gotta do our kiss connection for the day. Uh no, but Ace Freely hung out with Belushi a lot at Studio 54 and did a lot of together, but I don't know anything about the blues brothers with Ace.

Well, he he was he wouldn't go on stage.

Ah, and Ace tried to talk him into it. Yes, I do remember that.

Yep, yeah.

Very true.

I don't know if he was doing any blues with them, but he was definitely blowing something with them.

Yeah, exactly. Well, Ace never did that. Ace of whistle.

Right. Awesome pick. I mean, that had to come up for sure. Cool. So that brings us to you, brother Mark.

Okay, well, I have a couple things very quickly to say before I make my pick on Saturday Night Live. Um the first thing is kind of like my Aerosmith thing is a demarcation point. And believe it or not, I think I found the early 2000s pretty funny too. But after that, it's crap. But the other thing, I cannot believe the amount of talent that this show has discovered and brought into our living rooms and entries into our movie screen. Incredible, yeah. It's amazing. It's absolutely amazing. But my number seven pick is gonna be cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, no coke, Pepsi, no coke, Pepsi, no, no fries, chips, no fries, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheese, what do you get cheese, what do you get, cheese, what do you get cheese?

Three chips, three peps, three chips, three pets, three.

You know, it was the Olympia Cafe. I believe is the name of the skip.

And uh, you know, what they sold, and this is it cheeseburgers, Pepsi's, and potato chips. Full stop. That's what they saw. Well, actually, I shouldn't say that. I think I don't know if it was uh Garrett Morris had a cup of coffee or whatever at the time. I I don't I don't remember, but that was just really funny.

Oh, yeah.

You know, and they they must have been really good, but they just looked they look like the same kind of burgers you'd get at the fair, you know.

And it was such a they were Greek. So many Greek restaurants are truly like that when they just argue with each other. And when Belushi, when Belushi points out to all the tables and goes, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger. Cheesebugger.

And then comes up, cheebugger, cheebugger, cheebugger, cheebugger, cheebugger.

And uh you had Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd was the cook. Oh yeah. Uh Bill Murray got fired, I mean, then brought back in. And Belushi was a great negotiator. Twenty dollars. Twenty because he wanted to bring in security dogs because of the uh somebody got robbed next door and he wouldn't budge. Oh, he did. He went up to twenty-two dollars. It was just a funny skit. And you know, there are restaurants like that, probably in New York, and uh hey, do something well, although they did look like they were Fair Burgers. Nothing against Fair Burgers.

Awesome. I'll just have an iced tea then, right?

Yeah, all right, Donnie. I apologize to you because this is the one that I thought you would have on your list. But this is a clip called White Like Me. And it's Eddie Murphy. Um, you know, he starts off with the dialogue in the beginning how he's gonna go out into the world with makeup and make himself white. And it's just spectacular. It is true. I mean, yeah, he goes out and like so many parts of it, but the uh the first thing he does, I think, is try to purchase a newspaper, you know, and the guy says, What are you doing? Just take it. What are you doing?

I'm buying this newspaper.

That's all right, there's nobody around.

Go ahead, take it.

Take it.

And the voice Eddie Murphy uses is so funny. He's like trying to be so white, it's a friggin' riot.

I read a whole bunch of Hallmark cards. My lovely wife. You always mean lots more to me than you could ever guess, for you have done so much to fill my life with happiness.

Then he gets on the bus and he's narrating, right? During his narration, he's like, There was only one other black man on the bus. And then they show him get off, and then the bus driver shuts the door, hits the radio, cranks the tunes, and people start passing out like appetizers and drinks and just partying. And right, right. And then, of course, he goes into the bank. The bank, yeah, you know, and and the guy that is doing his loan application with him is a black guy. The white like president comes in, he's like, Let me finish this one for you. Because he's the black guy's like, Yeah, you know, you know, I don't think you're in the situation to get this, and you're asking for a lot. He tears up the contract and just says, What do you need? Take as much as you want.

That was a close but one. We don't have to bother with these formalities. Do we just white?

What a silly Negro.

Guys, take what you want to pay us back in time. Or don't. We don't care.

Tell him, do you know of any other banks like this in this area?

Then he goes, He's like, we don't care. You go have a job. That's a pay us back.

Or don't we don't care?

Just so funny.

You know they found out.

I remember that now.

They give you stuff for free.

You don't pay for anything. I have to watch a lot of dynasty. The way they walk, like their butt cheeks. I gotta remember to keep cheeks tight.

I gotta clench my butt cheeks.

See how they walk? Their butts are real tight when they walk. You gotta keep your butts tight. I gotta remember to keep my butt real tight when I walk.

But perfect example of what you were saying at the beginning of this, Donnie, and how uh, and you too, I think said it, Kev, but people could laugh at that shit. It wasn't so fucking serious. What a spectacular skit, though, man. That was just awesome. And I shall throw the towel again to you, Donald.

Cool. So this one was in the 2000s, and it's one that just pops in my head often, and it's more cowbell. Yes, uh, you know, don't fear the reaper, and here's Will Farrell just slamming home on the cowbell. Oh yeah, and the band's like, oh man, that's kind of and but like Christopher Walken is like a producer, he's Bruce Dickinson. Bruce Dickinson, fame producer, yeah, right, right. And he's like, you know, I make gold, and I I need more cowbell. They were upset with it.

Yeah, I think they were upset. They were, and then Walken tells him to start moving around more to get the cowbell through the room.

I could have used a little more cowbell for that. So let's take it again. And Gene, yeah, really explore the studio space this time. You got it, Bruce. I mean, really, yeah. Explore the space.

Really explore the space.

Yeah, exactly.

And then what does he say, Kevin? We need to do it in your walk-in voice, but he says, I'm not feeling so well, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. Um, I I saw that uh later on Will Farrell admits that he went backstage. He went to see Walken on a Broadway production or a live production. He went back to see him afterwards. He goes, You know, you ruined my life. Oh no. Because everybody's everybody sees Walken in the city. Cowbell, more cowbell, more cowbell Jesus.

I'm glad someone took that though. I just figured it was gonna be a big one. So it was number one on the list I watched the other night.

That exactly, that's exactly what I saw.

You know, his a famous quote of his Watkins is from the movie Joe Dirt. I love when he's like, Hey, your tone, it's all wrong. I'll stick a stoddering iron in your eye. That was great. He's in the hallway when he does that. Yep. It's a tone. He's a great, he's a great actor. Incredible. Yes. So that's to you, Kev.

All right. So this one, again, it had a couple of it had a couple of beginnings. And it started with uh Michael McKean and Harry Shearer were in a comedy slash music group uh called the Credibility Gap Gap. And they made an album, actually. It was a mini rock opera, and they actually released a couple singles. And on the other side of it, the other side of the genesis of this was on Laverne and Shirley, Lenny and Squiggy, were Lenny and the Squigtones. And when they actually went out and toured as that 50s style group, um, the guitarist was one of the writers um named Christopher Guest. But when they introduced him on American Bandstand, he was introduced as Nigel Tuffnell. And of course, talking about 1984's spinal tap doing big bottom on SNL was just great. You've got, I mean, talk about the the mud flap between McKean Guest and Harry Shearer, and then of course, rotating. There was Louden Wainwright III was the original keyboard player, and then there was um Viv Savage was the other one, and then of course the drummers kept expiring. So there was 27. In the movie, Mick Shrimpton died. So the guy that played him was Rick Shrimpton, his twin brother, uh, when they were on SNL. But amazing, amazing on top of the fact that they were some of the best comedians. I mean, you look at obviously Christopher Guest has had a hell of a career from being on SNL to you know the movies that. They did after that, that were, you know, the the folk groups and and whatever else, the whole series of movies they did there. And then Harry Shearer, of course, I mean, his career could have begun and ended with all the voices he does on The Simpsons, but still that guy is i incredible. And also in those movies, Break Like the Wind, and I mean, uh, what is it? Mighty Wind and some of the other ones. Break the Wind. Break Like the Wind was a was a uh was it the album? Was that the name of the album?

I can't remember.

I think I I just I love that their world tour was one night only world tour with Spinal Tat.

So, Kevin, I have a question for you. Were were there any legitimate musicians in Spinal Tat?

Oh my god, yeah. They were all yeah absolutely, they all played their own instruments. They toured. Guest is an amazing guitarist.

They literally toured for real.

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

I know. Me and Donnie have had that conversation.

But Lenny from Lever and Shirley, he was a real musician. Incredible. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Oh, wait a minute. You can do more than one thing. Wait. Oh yeah.

No shit. No, those guys can, and they can and they can do it well. There's there's a great when they did the the folksman, which was their, you know, obviously their folk group, and I believe Harry Shearer was a woman in that. Um, but there's a recording of them doing Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones.

Baby start me up. Start me up, baby start me up, I'll never stop. Baby, start me up, start me up, baby start me up, I'll never stop. I've been running. You got me taking gonna blow my top. Baby, start me up, start me up, baby start me up, I'll never stop. You make a grown man cry. You make a grown man cry. You make a grown man cry.

Which is absolutely hilarious to hear those lyrics. I mean, it sounds one way coming out of Mick Jagger, but as a folk song, it's kind of yeah, I would a little more stark about what they're talking about. Right.

Ross. What a pick. And it's uh how could I not say that when you said talk about I had even say mud flaps? Talk about mud flaps, my girl's gato. That's where I thought he was going too. That'd be on lead base, yeah, on base base. Awesome. All right, Mark, we are to you.

Well, I've uh pulled an Audible coach's decision. I am going with Fred Garvin, male prostitute. Nice. Okay, so here we go. And and of course he's dressed all in plaid, like the nerdiest nerd you could ever see. But she's like, she's never paid for sex. Oh, don't worry, the feed store will take care of it, or whatever.

I think it was a feed store. It was bought for her for a business expense.

Yes, it was like, yeah, a tax write off. But anyway, so she's she decides to do it. What the heck, you know? And so they're in they're in bed, and he says, Well, I always work with uh with my suit on on top, and you know, he comes up with a humor to you know to get her in the mood. And one of the jokes is here, look at this. It's my backseat driver license. So I mean he's of course he has his plaid uh suit jacket on and he he pulls his pants down. He's like, uh the girl's like, what are all these apparatuses down here? He's like, I mean, of course.

This one's for my spleen.

Yeah, well, one of them is like for don't just don't touch the rupture. And thankfully Garrett Morris shows up. I mean, he's dressed in full uh pimp regalia, and and she's in the background, you know, he saying he was great and everything, just uh we would get paid. That would be uh it's just really fun. And and and that was just when I was uh out walking around and uh and I heard it, it just came on the computer and it was just friggin' hilarious. Oh yeah.

And the funniest part of it, Mark, is when he says it. He says it like four times throughout the skit.

Because I'm Fred Durbin, male prostitute.

Male prostitute.

You want I should strike some pose now to get you excited?

That was hilarious. When he gets in the bed, that reminded me of Chris Farley posing, like, because he would like stick or George Costanza for those pictures. I get when he did that little awesome pick, rather.

Six pick, I guess.

Nice. I guess I'm gonna go with uh reoccurring skit throughout the years, and it's by Jack Handy, and it's called Deep Thoughts. These wait a minute, AJ.

This this show is supposed to entertain people. Nobody wants to think deeply, but go with it anyway.

Well, they are very deep, trust me.

And hilarious.

I know, I'm just gonna, you know, I'm just usually between twelve and like forty seconds. It was just, you know, it would be like a quick little skit in between the skits. Just a friggin' riot to me. I mean, there's so many, but this is the one that always comes to mind, and it's this. If you ever happen to fall off the Sears Tower building, relax your body and go limp. Somebody may then think you're a dummy and try and catch you. And hey, free dummy, and that's it. So stupid no sense at all. Which is the whole point of the skit, and expect and there's so many, I mean, there's many better ones out there. It's just that one always stuck to my mind.

And do you know who did the voice for that? Was it just some rando voice? I don't know.

Was his name really Jack Handy? I don't know. Oh, yeah, yeah.

I think so.

Was it Warren Michaels doing it? Who knows?

Did it start out as Fuzzy Memories or did it turn into Fuzzy Memories?

I think it started that way, but I'm not sure.

Right. I just remember there was there were actually two different titles.

But that well, I mean, we could do an episode of those. There's so many of them.

That was like you said, ongoing. That was for a long time back in the 20th century, if I recall correctly.

Yeah, I'm a little concerned about my list because I have so much written on it that I hope I can remember what I've picked and I haven't. So let me know if I double up you.

Don't worry, we will. So I just looked it up, and Jack Handy is an American humorist born in 1949. Best known for his Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy and a large body of surrealist surrealistic one-liner jokes, as well as his fuzzy memories and my big thick novel shorts. Interesting.

Yeah. But I wonder if he's a kid. Awesome. I wonder if he did his own voice, though. Yeah, that's a good question, Donnie. Right. Who knows? By Jack Andy.

And that was his type of humor, probably. It was just like voice humor, like maybe he was a radio guy or something. Yeah, right. Yeah. He was spectacular. Yeah. Just go limp.

And hey, someone might catch you. Free dummy.

If trees could scream, would be be so cavalier about cutting them down. We might if they screamed all the time for no good reason.

So stupid. But that's why they were great. And you know, nowadays, if somebody were to watch that, they'd find zero humor in it because just the humor today has left people, I find.

Here's another one they've got printed. The crows seem to be calling his name Thought Kaw.

And that's it. Thought ca. Yeah. Some of them were literally like 10 seconds.

It's almost like one of those poems that are you know, the real short poems. A limerick. Yeah, there's a special one I can't remember off the top of my head, but haiku. Haiku, that's it. Yeah. Yeah. It's like haiku comedy.

Yeah.

How could I I I've never understood how do you write a haiku? I can't even remember what the rules are. It's not English. 757. It has to be.

What is haiku?

It's a it's a veryware way more rules than are necessary for poems.

Oh, right. Yeah.

All right, Donnie.

Let's go to you now. All right. So, you know, SNL does a lot of political stuff. And I love I love that they do political satire, and it's pretty funny when they do it. Oh, yeah. It used to be so yeah, right. I mean, they used to kind of do equal. Now it's one-sided, but we'll digress from that. But in 1984, Jesse Jackson was running for president. Yeah. And he accidentally, or maybe intentionally, who knows, but he referred to the Jewish community as Jaymies. Oh, I remember that. Eddie Murphy did the most spectacular like skit on SNL where he he was like, I'm Reverend Jesse Jackson. And I'm gonna apologize to those that I called Jaime, and I'll do it in song. And then he did the Jaime Town song. Don't let me down. No, no, no. Don't let me down. I want to look out into the audience and see leather hats and yarmulk side by side. Oh man. Eddie Murphy, man. Eddie Murphy was so awesome. And he does a dead nut impersonation of Jesse Jackson.

I was recently quoted in the Washington Post as referring to a certain group of people as Jaime's. They also said that I called New York Heimatown. I realize that kind of talk isn't kosher. But let me see if I can explain it to you all in song. As I said, I'm Jesse Jackson, and I'm running for president of the United States. I'm a Libra. And this is a very special message to all you chosen people out there.

How would you want to know in this episode? It just tells me that they pumped out talent in the 80s as well. They did. And into the 90s, and into the 90s.

But where I was going with that is we've talked about this in recent casts in the past, but what happened? How did he fall off that cliff and become unfunny? One of the funniest men alive on this planet. And then he just became not funny. It's friggin' that happened to a lot of that. It happened to Chevy Chase, big time.

Eddie Murphy had he's redeemed himself a little bit. When they did the 50th anniversary show, he did a right next to Tracy Morgan, did a spot on Tracy Morgan that was absolutely fucking hilarious. So he's kind of got a little bit of his juju back. Yeah. Or maybe somebody wrote it and he did a good job, whatever.

Or maybe the opposite. Maybe somebody was writing the stuff for him before that wasn't funny.

You know what I mean? I heard that he I heard that he was trying to uh, you know, he had kids and he started feeling guilty about his humor, like he wouldn't want his children to hear it or something along those lines. And he started to go towards children's stuff like Shrek. I don't know. That's just something I heard.

Yeah. Well, he did say recently, uh, you know, talking about we all remember on Delirious when he talked about, or maybe it was raw, when he talked about Bill Cosby, you can't say the filth floar and filth. I think that was delirious. But he's he said, you know, say on your show. And all these years later, he says, if you had told me that I'd be uh a father of ten kids, and Bill Cosby would be in prison for drugging people. Right. Oh shit. Here we are. That is a very good like that picture of uh what is it? It's um OJ, Howard Cosell, and uh um you're talking about Monday Night Football? No, well, I think it might have been that, but it was a picture of Bruce Jenner and Howard Cosell and O.J. Simpson, and it says Howard Cosell. The the quote is Howard Cosell saying, I just got back from the future, and you're not gonna believe what I've got to tell you.

Exactly. It's true, yeah. All right, so where are we to you, Kev? Kevin. Kevin. Is it me? I believe it is you.

Oh, good luck. I can't focus on my screen. So I'm gonna I'm gonna revisit Christopher Walken because back in the early 90s, one of my favorite unsung uh people from Saturday Night Live was Jay Moore.

Oh, okay.

Jay Moore was hilarious, yeah. And you know, there was a time when everybody had a Christopher Walken accent or or bit or whatever else. Like everybody you walk down the street and people were like, hey, how you doing? You know, everybody had something. But that kind of started.

Is that where that came from?

I think Jay Moore was one of the first people to actually have like a successful Christopher Walken bit. And it was the first one was Christopher Walken's Celebrity Psychic Network.

Oh, you mother F.

It's time for Christopher Walken's Celebrity Psychic Friends Network.

Hello, I'm Christopher Walken. And welcome to Christopher Watkin's Celebrity Psychic Friends Network.

And if you remember at that time, there was Miss Cleo, and there was, I mean, you couldn't, every time you turned on late night television after the car, there was a psychic friend. Dion Warwick had her psychic friends hotline network or whatever else. So J. Ward does. And I couldn't find the the better one where he says, My friend Gary Busey, he can be in your basement when you get home. I don't know why you're not calling. It's just it was such a ludicrous thought that you would call, but it was also tied in with he had just done the dead zone. Yeah, the the where he had psychic powers. And so it just it all tied in together. Jay Moore did such an awesome version uh of him, and like I said, it was one of the first popular uh Christopher Walken imitations. Um, I think later he turned it into a Skittles ad. Taste the Rainbow. Yeah, it was just grape.

So I I think you I where you were going with this in the beginning, I think is not one of my picks that I was gonna take. So it's ironic though, and I'll tell you after. And it'll probably it's I think it's gonna go on one of my honorables, but you're talking about him being a psychic.

No, I remember the skit you're talking about, though. So yeah, we won't we won't touch that. Um, the other thing I was was on the on the show that they you can still find a clip of. It was Todd Bridges and Crispin Glover were the guests, which is like and and I guess you know, Todd Bridges had just got back from smoking crack and murdering a man. And Crispin Glover, of course, was in weird as F. Yeah. Oh, yeah. He was a disturbing man, huh? He is a freaky dude, absolutely great, great actor. I love him.

That is the dad on Back to the Future in case anyone is correct, which is the straightest role that he's ever done. Yeah. Yeah.

Absolutely. So, yeah, Christopher Watkins psychic friends, celebrity friends, I killed psychic hotline.

I remember that. The way you phrased that.

So just a great one that everybody kind of forgot, but I I loved it.

Jay Moore was great too on there. Yeah, do you know the study was good? Revisit it. Like, I didn't even know. Like when I watched like Jerry Maguire, I had no idea he had been on SNL. I don't know how I overlooked it or missed those episodes, but he was awesome when they throw themselves into the polar bear pit. But anyway, we'll talk about that later. I don't want to ruin anything.

Yeah, his stand-up was good as well. I remember he did a bit about the bar of soap when you're a kid, the bar of soap. It's like what's the magic thing about the bar of soap? Everybody just grabs it and starts washing themselves. Your dad's had it up his ass, your sisters washed your snatch with it. One bar of soap for everybody.

I was the youngest of five. That meant I was the last one in. All I wanted was three minutes of hot water so I could shower and go to school. I didn't think for a minute my dad was just in there washing his snack for 20 minutes. My mother's lumber sugar minutes, my sister's lumpsugar hooch. I went right behind the free you people are inconsiderate. I'm freezing. No wonder you don't get along with your family. You're all having sex with each other by promising.

But it's soap! The soap never gets dirty. It's soap, Kevin. For God's sake.

Yeah, but it gets stuck to it. Yeah, right.

You always rinse it first. Rinse it first, brother.

I do. I do. Aim the shower at it till that little flies off.

That hair flies off. Alright, brother, to you.

Alright, well, guys, I'm I'm seriously gonna get serious right now. Oh boy. Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water, did you know it's not safe to even be in your apartment, your house? There was a new breed of shark coming out. All the land shark. And Land Shark played by Chevy Chevy Chase, who, by the way, did not get along with John Belushi.

Another story.

Or anybody. So John Bel John Belushi is playing uh uh Dreyfus' character, and then you have uh Dan Aykroyd playing the cop. And uh so I mean it's it's unbelievable. These girls are so friggin' dumb. They're stupid. They're stupid as hell.

You know, they first person says it you know, he's a plumber.

I mean, the first time he goes to the department plumber, and then telegram. And I don't know if that's Lorraine Newman or whatever. Okay, telegram, but come on and I'll sign for it. Just bites her head. And that happens again, and Jane Curtin, um, whoever the land shark says Land Shark, oh, whatever her girl's boyfriend's name is Tom Foolery. Tom Foolery. And then uh at the very end, there is a uh you know, we everyone assumes it's the it's the uh uh it's the land shark, and the guy's saying, I just want to come in, I'm a Jehovah's Witness. I know he probably don't want to see these pamphlets, whatever. Let me in. She goes to grab the mallet to hit him on the nose.

She does hit him on the nose.

And it's not even the shark, it's actually Jehovah's Witness.

Yeah, was that Garrett Morris at the end?

I believe it was Garrett Morris, yes.

And it was really funny.

It was really funny, but I don't think you guys took it seriously.

No, it's just hilarious. It's one of the perfect skits because when they first are trying to uncover the first body, they're lifting the little uh cloth up off the body, and they're like, That's not a great white shark that did that. And then later, when Belushi's doing it, he lifts the cloth up, and the other guy, I think it's Aykroyd, goes, What is it? And he's like, Egg salad.

What is it? Egg salad again.

I was hoping that's where you would go with it, DJ. Because that was where I was about to go. Oh, yeah. A funny, funny skit. I mean, they did more. They did many more of those, I believe, but uh more examples of 1970s, extremely early 80s.

Yeah. And that might have been one of the early reoccurring bits it were that they did too. Because they weren't all, you know, like it was later that they started getting into the ones, obviously not going to name them, that were like the characters that people kind of fell in love with and they kept coming back, and that's reoccurring. Kind of what made the show. Yep. In fact, get it right Jaws 2 on the screen.

They put Jaws 2.

They did put Jaws 2 on the screen. That's what they named it before Land Chak. Yep. I was surprised about that. Yeah. Awesome. All right. So we're to me, huh? Back to you in the booth. All right. I am going with a Kevin Nealan skit here. And this would be Mr. No Depth Perception. I remember that guy. Oh my god. My dad and I, dad and I, Mark, used to laugh about this so often. We'd do it with everything. Everything he did was a right. You know, he's carrying a plate to the table and he goes to set it down and drops it on the floor. Just the dumbest stuff. But um I I think it's at one point. I think it's Farley that comes in, one of the guest boyfriend that they, you know, really didn't know. And he's like, that guy looks like a loser or something like that. And she's like, whoa, what are you doing? He can't hear me way down there. And then he starts talking about the woman getting a boob job and just everything about it, you know, just no depth. He his hearing is every aspect of his perception is just no depth. Yes. So, of course, the the skit ends with the moving truck coming in and he's backing it up and he backs it through the window. But even before that, he goes to he goes to see who's there when the guests are coming and he pops his head right through the window. I don't think I picked up on that one until I re-watched it last night. He's just popping his head through the window. I mean, Kevin Nealon is, I think, an unsung one too. That's it was good. Yeah, he was brilliant. He was a friggin' riot. Still is. I always say was, and you gotta remember that some of these people are still with us. Yeah, right. What a great, great effing skit that is ongoing, and I use it probably still a couple times a year. What are you talking about? He can't hear me way down there. So that's to you, Donald.

All right. So I'm keeping it with the politics stuff. I love I'm a political milk, so can't help it. But uh, you know, also it's hard because a lot of these are physical comedy, like SNL has a lot of physical comedy that doesn't it's hard to do on the on a radio show kind of thing or podcast, but um still hilarious. But if anybody was following the primary season of the 2016 presidential campaign when it was Bernie Sanders against Hillary Clinton, and it was the Iowa caucuses.

I know exactly where you're going with this, Donnie, if you remember seeing that one.

The Iowa Caucus by like 0.2 percent. And then in Saturday Night Live, they did a Larry David guest, and he did uh burn your enthusiasm. That was magnificent. I saw it. And it was all about the 0.2 percent, and it was all about like yeah, Bernie's at this huge rally and everybody's cheering and yeah, I love you, Bernie. And then uh Leslie Jones coughs in her hand and then goes to shake his hand. And such a weary David Moore. I can't shake your hand, you just coughed in it. And she's like, What are you talking about, Bernie? She did a cough and a shake. She did a cough and a shake. Your hand's infested, it's germ infested. So then he goes back to the campaign office, and they're like, dude, you gotta shake, you know, you know, you gotta shake your constituents' hands, you know. Like, was it a did she cough and wipe and shake, or was it he's like, No, there definitely wasn't a cough and a wipe and a shake. It was a cough and a shake. What's this?

I hear about you not shaking your constituents' hands.

You can't do that. No, no, you don't understand, Jeff. She gave me a cough and shake. Sure, it wasn't a cough and a wipe and a shake. No, no, there was no wipe, definitely no wipe. She didn't have the decency to give me a wipe.

And then he he's like, I gotta go out and get coffee. So he goes out and get coffee, and some girl like crashes into something and her shoulder's out of joint. She's like, Hey, you gotta pop my shoulder in joint. And he's like, I'm not a I'm I'm I'm not a popper. I'm not a I'm not gonna pop your shoulder back in the joint. So then he it's Bernie, who is Larry David, ends up losing and he loses by 0.2%. And they're like, What's 0.2%? And they're like, it's like five people or whatever, you know, and then it shows the people in the audience, and it's all the people that he he dissed, and it was just exactly like awesome, classic Larry David. Larry Davis is so great. His his new neuroticness is that's the word.

Oh well, that's what's obviously.

Yeah, he's one of those shows that you watch, you almost get infuriated with, right? You know, because yeah, so neurotic. Yep. But that was great. It was a coffin a shake. It was a coffin a shake.

Yeah, there was no wipe wipe and a shake, and he's like, he's like, No, I'm not shaking your hand. It has nothing to do with black or white or button your germ.

Uh that just gave me an idea for another episode down the line. Great pick though, Donnie. And another example of something funny they did in this century. Right. Because that, folks, is a friggin' rarity. Yeah. For certain.

All right, Kev, what you got? Well, I'm gonna go back. Thank you, AJ. Big jerk. And I'm gonna talk about um another Kevin Nealan character, greatest actor ever, um, that he used to do on Saturday Night Live. And uh, it was known as Mr. Uh Mr. Subliminal Man. Yeah, and it was just absolutely fantastic. It was just such, and nobody could do it the way that he did it.

I picked up on that too when you said big jerk.

Right? But, you know, like he's talking to Victoria Um Jackson, and he's and he's like, she's the secretary, and and the boss is supposed to be pissed, and he's talking to her. It's like, well, you know, I don't think he's gonna be that mad your fault. Uh, but we're just you know, I'll go in and talk to him.

You're I yeah.

So by the time she talks to the boss, she's like, I don't know, but I feel like it's it's my fault. I should have like reminded him that he needed to do the campaign, and then goes in and talks to he goes in and talks to the boss, and he's you know, he's like, I guess it's really not your fault. Yeah, well, you know, I'm doing my best, Mets tickets, and uh I was thinking, I'll keep working on it, I'll get it into you, Mets tickets. And he's like, I got these Mets tickets here. And he always just kept pushing it because it was like I don't really have a way to get there, company car. And I thought maybe that you know I could just, you know, if I find a way, company car. He's like, No, just take the company car. You're good. He ends up with a with a raise and promotion, probably sitting behind the dugout and a vacation and all that, and then on the way out, he's he's talking to Victoria Jackson, and she's she tells him she's married, and he ends up like, Well, I thought maybe you know, we could we could just kind of hang out, hot sex, and that we could do sex and uh you dress however you like, but sure.

I just thought maybe no uh passing fine.

In fact, uh I know exactly what I'm going to do.

Great, great, great. And uh if we finished dinner early, hot sex, maybe we'll go back to my apartment, hot sex, and watch some television. Okay, yeah. And if this whole thing works out, hot sex, maybe I'll call you again. Don't hold your breath, okay?

She says, I was thinking maybe we could go out to dinner. He goes, Yeah, nothing big, four seasons. And uh, you know, we could just kind of hang out and get to know each other a little bit, you pay. And it just it's just so great the way that he does it and just puts those. I mean, flawless thinks of that, that's subliminal. I mean, just to say those things kind of sandwiched in the middle of a sentence, and and just you know, plant that scene in somebody's mind. Just a great, great skit.

Incredible skit, man. So funny, great writing, just that is humor right there, man. Absolutely in a nutshell.

Alright, that's number four to you, then, Mark. Alright, well, my number four pick is gonna be with stupid Sarah in preschool. The little girl is dumber than a box of rocks. I almost took it. Okay. You know, the the parents think she's a you know, this precious little thing.

And uh Boy, Kevin Nealin's all in this, right? Wasn't that him in this guess?

Yes, it was Kevin Nealin. It wasn't he's all over this episode. Yeah, so he you know, Sam Kennison comes out and he's like not actually well, I won't say that right off, but he's just saying, yeah, she's stupid. James! I mean, I really can't I don't remember all the words in it, but the the bottom line is at the end, the the actual, you know, he jumps out the window.

Can I jump in a line with that then? Yes, it's a friggin' right. Is when Kinison, you know, they're bragging about her drawing on the wall. She's four and a half years old, mind you. Yeah. And he brings them to the window and points into the sky and says, Do you see that up there?

Can you tell me what that is? The sun? Yeah, yeah. Could you settle a bed for me, Geber? Uh do you see a smiley face on there? Well, according to stupid sermon, hands woman.

And he starts screaming at how stupid their kid is because they put a smiley face on the sun. She put a smiley face on the sun.

But just, yeah, what a great well, people walk around in the sunshine and they're happy. That's what Kevin Nailman was trying to say.

Right. Right. But it wasn't even he wasn't even, yeah, go ahead, Mark. Sorry.

Well, the end of the end of the skit, he was, yeah, like you said, he you're gonna say he wasn't even the right uh teacher, and he runs, dives out the window, and uh then the the other one. Yeah, and then the guy comes in and is like, Oh my god, thank God that wasn't the real teacher. And then you wouldn't believe the things he was saying uh about our daughter, about Sarah, and he's like, Well, she isn't really that bright, yeah.

It was Dana Carvey. But that is where Kinison got that, you know, it's it's basically the same character that was in Back to School, you know, when he said, Yeah, exactly.

And by the way, there's something I need to say about Sam Kinison, because after listening to our our last podcast, he was I mean, yes, he was probably gonna head down the wrong road as far as dying early, but he was killed by a drunk driver. Interesting. Yeah.

Well, he had righted himself, actually. He was he was sobering up and sobering up and getting his life together, sadly. And I mean, that's kind of ironic that he gets to be.

Yeah, it is ironic. Yeah. Unbelievable.

And sad, because he was friggin' hilarious. Yeah, he was. Oh my god, that's a super talent.

Yeah, one of the things that left us way too soon.

Yeah, that that's the I mean, something about the show that there's so many funny people that you know, Belushi and uh Farley, and just you know, it goes on and on. And you know, but that's okay. I mean, we were sp we appreciate their humor and we'll laugh where their jokes for the rest of our time on this planet, so all right, so we're to me, right?

For you and once again, Kevin Nealan is in this skit, nice, but not the main guy. He's the guy that said no, then that's news to me. I could not take this off because it was spectacular, and I still remember seeing it uh live. Like I watched this one live, and that is Chris Farley with Patrick Swayze as the guest star doing Chip and Dales. Yes, just the two of them were auditioning for Chip and Dales and dancing against one another, and Farley is just so fucking funny in it, man. Pulling his shirt between his legs and rubbing it, and his ass crack is sticking out out of his spandex, and just you can't not laugh at that physical.

Well, he did not belong on the stage with him, did not belong on the same stage with him.

I know I they did struggle over the decision though.

If it was just based on dancing skills, yeah, we'd have no answer for you.

Right, right, right. Oh, but just I mean, need I say more about it, it was just so spectacular. And when they get to the end of the skit and they're waiting for the judgment, just shaking each other's hands and just you know, like just waiting. Like, and even Patrick Swayze did a great job because he like looks nervous, like he might lose. Right, right.

I'm I'm competing against somebody like this. Is a we're we're in a competition, yeah.

They he probably was very talented.

Oh my god. I once again we could do an entire show just on his skits. Oh, yeah. Oh my god. Just phenomenal and hilarious. Uh, but anyway, I will send it to you, Donald.

All right, so this is one where they do like the advertisements, like SNL does the classic advertisements. And this one's pretty recent, it was like six years ago. Um, might even be sooner than that, but it was uh, and it might only be funny to people from the Northeast, but it was Casey Affleck in the Dunkin' Donuts commercial. I don't know if you guys have seen that. Yeah, I don't think a skid of Dunkin' Donuts with Casey Affleck, and he nails like the the Massachusetts, you know, classic persona of, you know, yeah, I'm gonna smoke a couple parlements, take a dump, and get my Dunkins, you know. You know, grab a crawler, have an extra lodge, three parlements, take a big dump. That's kind of the routine. You know, ball check, and he's doing all this stuff, yay! Yelling at the people at the counter, he's got his hand out the window, like, I'm not smoking in here. Uh, he just nails it. He nails the Boston and Dunkin' Donuts is like a Boston Northeast mainstay, so it probably doesn't play well in like California and places like that where they're Starbucks heavy, but he just nails the the Massachusetts accent, obviously. He's a way better at his brother.

Yeah, oh god, I was I was about to go there, AJ.

The movies he's been in are phenomenal. Yeah, like he's a real one.

You went to see Manchester by the sea with Robin and Joey.

Oh, nice. Yep. And then that was very important. Gone baby with the missing is great.

I think though that the the whole Boston Dunkin' Donuts Northeast thing, I think it's gotten enough play that people get it. I think it's national now. I don't think people got it at first, but it's like it's expanded.

The the franchise is expanded.

So well, yeah, I doubt this is anybody's pick, and I hope it's not, but like one of the more recent ones they used to do when Bill Hayter was on, they used to do the the Californians. And yes, I've been to California once, but I get it when they're talking about I took the 405 up to, you know what I mean? And so we get that over here, even though we we're not from California. You get the you get the gist of it, yeah. That's why I think it's probably the same thing. All right, three to you, Kev. Okay, well, I I hate to do this, but I absolutely love the sketch. They did it so many times, and I'm really not a fan of either of the main characters, and that would be Jimmy Fallon, who I I just find annoying because he cracked up all the time, and and I don't think that he was funny. And then, oh, like you were just talking about Ben Affleck, who I was never a big fan of. But when they did Sully and Zuzu, it was I think Rachel Drack played his girlfriend, and it was it was that Massachusetts thing, it was it was people that I felt I knew, and it was like the the one that always stuck in my mind was when um Britney Spears was either the host or the musical guest, and so they went on tour to the um like uh you know what strawberry bank up here or something like that, and so Britney Spears is standing there, she's churning the butter.

This is the way the colonial settlers made their butter with fresh cream and a little bit of salt. It would take almost four hours just to get one quart of butter. Would anyone like to take a churn? Yeah.

Do it! He churns it about four times a day.

Okay, y'all better get going, cuz my next group's coming in, and I haven't cleaned the cream off my pole yet.

The cream off your pole? Tommy, please tell me you got that.

Tell me you got that. And it's, you know, it's Britney Spears churning butter, so she's got her hands going up and down like she might be doing something else. But there was always, he was always, you know, just got back from a double shift at Donkey's or something like that. And and and the girlfriend was just the epitome of of that South Boston chick, and and they'd be making out and whatever, and and and he'd get in an argument with Affleck, and it's like, bro, bro, bro.

And it was just like the review chick.

Exactly. Just knowing those people, they fucking nailed it. They absolutely nailed exactly what those people are really like, and so that one always just absolutely cracked me up, even though I did not care for either of the guys in the screen.

Right? I know. I mean Fallon is annoying as fuck, but it's funny you said that about him because that's kind of something I found endearing about him and who's the other guy that Farrell worked with. Uh, Chris Catan. Like, when they broke that Sandler did it a lot too with Farley. Like, when they break down a bit and can't stop laughing, I kind of find that endearing. Like, because they're that fucking funny, the characters around them. I I think it was with because Fallen was brutal, I will say that. He would laugh at dumb stuff, right?

And I think he ruined a lot of sketches. Whereas, you know, Sandler, you had to be you had to be sympathetic to Sandler because it was Farley next to him. Right. And who's gonna survive that? Nobody, nobody's gonna survive.

He did it better than anyone, yeah.

Exactly. But Fallon, his whole thing was he'd crack himself up. And it's like, dude, if you're not cracking other people up and you're laughing at yourself, that's just I I'm just not a fan of that.

It's not funny, right?

Exactly. Exactly. And I think they they listed him and and uh Tina Fay on the show as on the 50th anniversary as being like some of the top people for for the news desk. And I was like, not even close. Not even close. They're not even on my list.

No way in hell, which we won't discuss just yet.

But right, exactly. You're right.

That's another weekend update, Mark.

Yeah, yes, that's that's another show at another time.

Alright. Awesome. So we are to you, Mike.

Well, uh, Kevin mentioned uh uh Chris Farley and Adam Sandler, and I'm going with a hurli boy. And that was just such a funny skit. And this relates to me in a couple ways. First of all, I was a caretaker for a richer-than-me person's house. And we did, let me water your plants. Let me get you a man. You know, and I did that. I did all that. Let me sleep in your bed.

I'll wash your sheets. Please let me let me sleep in your bed. Nothing weird's gonna happen. I'll sleep in the exact same position as usually. You can trust me. I'll even wash the sheets before you come back. Please. Sweet mother of God. What is the hold up?

Let the boy sleep in your damn bed. He said he'd wash the sheets.

He's a clean boy. He'll wash the sheets.

That's an episode where he was trying trying not to laugh too.

Like, oh please make me, please don't make me wash your sheets. Wash your own damn sheets! You know, it was just such a funny skit. And they did one with the grandmother and the dog. And you know, so I I mean I was a uh, you know, we did house checks and all that. And I did sleep in the bed, never asked to move in, but damn it, I didn't wash the damn sheets.

They could change her and clean their own damn sheets.

But uh the other thing, he kind of reminds me of a friend of ours, AJ, that we had back in the day. His name was Andre. For some reason, he always reminded me. That's Donnie's friend, too. Andre. Andre. Yes. Yes, he reminds me of Andre. But uh, it was just such a great skit, you know. Let me be a dog. I already know a trick.

Let the boy for God's sake, let the hurley boy mow your lawn.

You know, wonder if they ever got the job. Well, they're much better than he's far better than the rest.

Right. Awesome pick, though. I don't know where to go here, but we did just speak about weekend update, and I'm gonna go to another Farley one, and that is once again with Mr. Kevin Nealan, I believe. I think he's the most common, you know, six degrees to Kevin Bacon.

Yeah, but he was he's a good like uh uh he complimented everybody, everybody, he was a good straight man for for a lot of people.

But this would be weekend update with Bennett Brower, and this is when Farley, and this was not that much of a reoccurring character, I think maybe a couple times, but you know, he would do the quotes, and he'd be like, I'm not very spick and span, or this or that, and everything he would say would just he would just run on forever. My favorite line was right after he says, I'm not very spick and span. Maybe I don't wash the area between my breach and leg.

But and then at the end, I forget about that one, Asian. Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, people. That just was so funny to me.

Go on, but anyway, he uh at the end, you know, they're picking him up on wires like they do Gene Simmons on stage, and it gets caught on the friggin' light, and Neilin's trying to well, Neilin's trying to get him unhooked from the light, and Farley goes into improv right there, shows how talented he was because he just still made people laugh when it wasn't part of the skit, and then he finally gets him unhooked, and Farley does all those moves through the air as they're flying him off. Just he was spectacular, but just the fact that he went under the armpits, yeah. No, I don't what are the things they put in the toy the urinals? What are those called? Yeah, like urinal cakes. I don't put a urinal cake under each arm. But when he came out with I don't clean the area between my crotch and leg.

I'm not spick and span. I don't clean the area between my crotch and legs.

He might be my favorite.

Yeah. Yeah, I think he's my favorite too. I he's up there for sure.

Yeah. Eddie Eddie's my favorite, but he's he's a close second. Yeah.

There's so many that are right up there. You can't pick, you know. All right, Dongo.

All right, so this one, um Alec Baldwin has been in a lot of SNL. Um more than anyone, I think. Yeah, is he he's not really a staff, but he's a you know, like a guest. A regular but he's a regular guest for sure. But my favorite one with 2018 is uh Shreddy Balls. Yeah. The uh delicious the NPR with the the two girls like, oh, we're gonna talk about, you know, and they just use that NPR classic voice.

Wow. You have some beautiful balls, they're bigger than I expected.

I know a lot of people tell me that.

Look at that, Terry, the way they glisten.

See your balls looking.

I love my shreddy balls, shvetti balls, you know. Yeah, it's a time of season again.

I really can't wait to taste your balls. Your balls are like that.

I thought they were so tasty and salty. Yeah.

This one's a little misshapen. I know I left it sitting on the oven too long.

Stovetop, I think he says, right? Yeah. Yeah. Don't need to go too much into it, but that it's just uh, you know, that that's a classic indeal.

Yeah, he was just phenomenal on that show. Him, yeah, Christopher Walk in, he's got a great handful of guests.

He's great, just nailed humorist. Yeah, he's he's pretty good. Yeah.

All right. So that's do you, Kevin, number two, I believe.

Number two. I'm gonna go way back. It's funny we were just talking about Eddie Murphy, who I mean, single-handedly saved the show. You know, we talked about how much of an arc there was a lull in that show in the early with Saturday Night Live, and how every couple years they would pronounce it dead, but there'd always be somebody that came out. Lauren Michaels had left at that time, and um God, I know his name, but I Dick Ebersall had come in and run it, and he was from I think a sports show or something like that. So he really wasn't very easy sports, he was big in that. He really wasn't versed in you know running a comedy show and didn't have the leadership that Lauren Michael had or the vision. Um, so they've they kind of wavered a bit until Eddie came in and just blew everybody away. And so my one of my favorites was actually, I don't know, I think it was a Schiller's reel. I think it was one of the it was definitely a recorded one. I think it might have been Schiller, but they accredited it to Norman Mailer because there was a period where Norman Mailer had fought to get this guy who was allegedly very talented out of prison as a I believe he was a murderer, and Mailer was like, oh, he's such a great novelist or whatever, we got to get him out of jail. He got him out of jail, and the guy killed somebody. And so, but what it led to was this hilarious skit at the time called Pros, P R O S E and Cons. And it was about how you know you couldn't be a real writer unless you were in prison. So Eddie, Eddie plays um Trevor Green, who is that year's winner of the the poetry contest, and he reads his his poem, and I'm hoping we can we can put a clip of that in, but he is it was uh Kill My Landlord C-I-L-L, my landlord.

Each year, Rockland sponsors a poetry festival. Tyrone Green is this year's winner.

Images by Tyrone Green Dark and Lonely on the summer night. Kill my landlord, kill my landlord, the watchdog bumpy, to be body, kill my landlord, kill my landlord, slip in the window, break your neck, then the house, and start to rap. Got no reason.

Sneak through the window in the dark of night. Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord. Watch dog barking. Do he bite? Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord. It was just absolutely freaking hilarious. All-time greatest kill my landlord. That was kill my landlord.

I remember saying that throughout years of my life. Like kill my landlord. My landlord. Oh, awesome. Absolute classic. Definitely. We will definitely find that clip. Yeah. Right. All right.

That's two to you, Mark. Alright. Well, I'm very thankful that I was able to do this one. This is an extremely iconic moment in Saturday Night Live. It's back in the 1970s, probably 75.

This is where I was going.

Steve Martin singing King Tut. Ah, nice. Oh my god. What a classic moment. I mean, they were all dressed as Egyptians, and uh, you know, some of the lines, born in Arizona, moved to Babylona, King Tut.

I was just gonna one, I was gonna ask, why was he born in Arizona?

I never I never understood that. Go on, brother.

How'd you get so funky? Did you do the punk ass in Arizona?

He's my favorite hunky. I just it's so funny. It reminds me of going down to a Red Sox game with the McDonald's back in 78, blah, blah, blah. And it's just look it up. Anyone out there in past times at 80s Highland, you gotta look this up. It is so frigging incredibly funny. I really don't have a lot to say about it, but it is like everyone's Egyptian. It's iconic.

It is iconic. And I think what makes it even more funny than the song itself is the fact that he's barefooted and his dancing and physical comedy during it with the hands going, you know, in the Egyptian movie just makes it hysterical.

And he's doing this all for, and the funny thing is, because he talks about at the very beginning before he starts doing the song that everyone's going over there for tourism reasons, and I did it all for tourism or something. Yeah, it's just I mean, I love it.

Incredible skip.

I I think there was that is on my board exhibit happening at that time or prior to that. But the other thing is that song charted.

Oh, yeah. It was on I remember hearing it on the radio.

It was a big fucking deal. Oh, yeah. It was a great song.

It was actually a great song. If it came on the radio, I would turn it up every damn time it came on.

And how the the backup singers would take his words from the previous line and incorporate into the chorus, like like you just said, he's my favorite honky, and then they'd go honky tou. Exactly. It was incredible. All right, yeah. I couldn't leave this one out. Even though going and looking back on it, I don't find it as funny as I did back then. I remember not being able to stop laughing when I saw this. That would be the Bassomatic 76 with acroid fucking you you take a bass, you drop it in a and the the great thing is, can you imagine that nowadays? He's actually using real fish and just blending them. And oh my god, I never get away with that these days. But just to drop it in these days, just like you can use a perch, you can use a crappy, just any small aquatic fish, and drop it into the basmatic 76. And of course, at the end, you got I forget who it was, which actress, but she's like, that's delicious bass.

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Like, how dumb and how funny. Like the fact that that was the whole fish they put in the thing, right? Yeah. It was a riot.

Just an uncooked back shape.

Yeah. And I agree with you that some of those things, as funny as they were then, don't like hit like they did. But at that time, what they were doing was avant-gad, it was outrageous. And it was just like you were on edge. What are they gonna do next? And so the things that they did just kind of blew your mind because who the hell thought of that and why?

And so it was just you know I noticed that too, Kevin, that a lot of these skits that we looked up or I looked up, I mean, um, did not stand the test of time at all, and some will be funny as hell in 500 years. Forever, exactly.

A lot of the political stuff, you know, it's it's it's and a lot of the the stuff that they did that was current. I mean, sometimes you watch the things, the older ones, and you're like, what are they talking about? You don't even know what they you know, you don't know what the references are.

Right.

The Jerry McDonald's talking about OG.

Right. Anyway, everyone should watch that movie because realistic or not, it really kind of I think it takes in the feel of it. Maybe somebody will have something out there. Well, I'm not even gonna ruin anything. I'll talk about it at the end. But anyway. All right.

We are to you, Dungo, for number one. Yeah, so my number one is is gotta be Eddie Murphy. Like, he all Eddie Murphy. You're rolling out like I have I love Eddie Murphy. Like his SNL stuff. I had the DVD, like the Eddie Murphy best of SNL, and it just I I can watch that a hundred times and still laugh. This is the one I chose not to steal from you, I believe. Eddie Murphy, what? I like I could have done all seven Eddie Murphy easily. Um only because I just I just love his delivery, I love his humor in that time. I'm gonna be damn it. He has become different now, but back then, but I love the Velvet Jones.

Oh my god, I can't believe it.

I'm not gonna I didn't want to steal. I think I, you know, I'll leave it out there for you if you want to use it. I'm not using it there are other skits that are amazing, but I love the Velvet Jones. Like there she stood by the gates of the Lincoln Tunnel. I felt the feeling in my loins, I haven't felt in a long time. Then I knew I was kicked in the butt by love, you know, just stuff like that.

Remember that one where he goes mooking for nine.

That was buckwheat. How to be a hoe, you know. So you want to be a hoe. Yeah. I just loved how he delivered stuff like that. It just made me made me laugh, made me happy.

He he was hilarious. And the thing too with with Eddie is not only was he all of that, but he was also ours. I mean, I started watching this, I was allowed to watch it as a kid, so I saw it from the beginning, and I didn't really understand in 76-77 what they were doing. I just knew that they were kind of like, you know, when when Aykroyd said Jane, you ignorant slut.

I mean, I knew that they were another spectacular.

Oh yeah, that that that was that was a removal. I had to remove it.

That was a good but we we we really the Eddie Murphy years, that was us. That that came into he was targeting us, he was not that much older than us. I mean, he was 18 when he when he was on the show, yeah. So yeah, that's I I believe. I'm older than the rest of them, not by much, but I I had many, many Eddies on on my list.

Velvet Jones.

Velvet Jones.

I can't believe I love it's when romance novels.

Unbelievable. I left one off that I will not use this week. I was shocked, Donald, that you didn't go with it.

Yeah. No, I I mean there was there were some great ones. I mean, there's so many, but but like the uh Chevy Chase and Richard. Oh, I got it. He dead honky the N-word. I mean, that was like you cannot go there now.

No, but they actually said I've standard and fun. I thought brought that up on another episode.

But that just showed how that show was taking on tough issues of race and you know, all kinds of hot button issues and making funny, making it making it funny.

Yeah, and it but it also wasn't so sensitive as it is now. Like when he's what do you think when I say this? And he's just I think they do like 30 words colored, red neck jungle bunny, pack of wood!

Yeah, that was that was earth-moving and and groundbreaking and and all of those things. That was that was a moment in time that that far exceeded a comedy television show.

Yeah, yeah, and I bet you a million dollars when that skit was over, they were laughing and having fun. Oh, yeah. You know, all right, that's number one to you, then, Kev.

All right, so I don't even know if you guys will remember this because it didn't get a lot of play, but it was one that just my family got struck funny by it in the early years, and it's Steve Martin, and I believe I think it's the genesis of Kyle Spangler from Caddyshack when Bill Murray comes out, but it's just the stage, and Steve Martin comes out and he kind of looks up at the camera and he goes, What the hell is that? What the hell is that? Oh, I know what that is. What the hell is that? And he just keeps standing there staring at, and then Murray comes out and he's got this jaw sideways like how spangling he goes, Hey, what is that? I don't know. What is it? What the hell is that? And they just keep going back and forth and and looking at the camera saying, What the hell is that? And they end up like you know, oh I know what that is. Yeah, I know what that is. And they walk off and they come back and they, you know, they both do the around the corner kind of thing, and they're like, What the hell is that? And that's it. That's a whole And it's absolutely hilarious. It's them looking at the camera. It's it's I would imagine it was the audience, right? Is what they were doing. But it was it was a little surreal. It was outside of the other stuff that they were doing, and it was avant-gad. It was all the things that they were trying to be, but very simplistic and hilarious. I think you could actually look it up and find it. Obviously, Steve Martin and Bill Murray have a much funnier delivery than I do.

I don't know what the hell that is. What in the hell is that? Hey, you kid, get away from there. I was not messed with that thing. Don't put your lips on it.

Well, get a photo of me with it anyway.

But but it was great, and it just it just always kind of stuck with me. Yeah, that you could be that funny and no subject and no explanation.

Right.

What is that? Right.

It was fantastic. There's like three or four that I need to look up after this show. Yeah, that's one I'll look up. Never. Awesome.

That's what they do. They do that like it's that was probably somebody's experiment. Like, let's try this and see if it works. See if it flies.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it doesn't. Like I said, that probably, like I said, if it was if it was truly a hilarious bit, it probably would have, you know, resonated through the years. But it just kind of struck me and my family, and we joked about it.

I guarantee it's something I just missed. It's funny how that shit comes up into our head, but Mark, that is number one to you.

All right. Well, this is the most ape tacular skit that you will ever hear about here on Pastimes at 80s I.

Am I correct when I heard Ape Tacular?

You heard Ape Tacular, yes. This was uh in December of 1993, and Charlton Heston, president at the time of the NRA, um, happened to be on the show, and he's down in the hallway. You know, uh, I think it was Lauren Michaels at the time that talked to him, and then he falls asleep. And you know what? He wakes up, or I I mean he wakes up in the dream, walks down the hall, and I don't I don't know the actors because they're all apes, but there's somebody down there, and and they look at each other and they go, ah! And uh then he goes in to the control room and they're all apes. And he he's oh no, no, not again. And he runs out, and uh, of course, uh he gets back out there and uh the entire audience is apes. You have cages, you have Chris Farley's in there. You try you cut his brain out! You cut his brain out. No, no, that's Chris. That's the way he always is. You know, and they're all I mean, they come back and uh I'm not a mutant, I'm not a mutant, and you know you apes are a great audience, blah, blah, blah. And they're like, are you some kind of talking mutant? And they kept hammering that, and after that, they actually uh they they did have another skit, and you had who is it that played uh the copy guy there? What the hell is this? Rob Schneider. Rob Schneider, yeah. Rob Schneider, Rob Schneider, awesome human being, by the way.

Yeah, Captain Cornelius making copies. Baron Montaires. Good tie-in.

Yeah, good tie-in to the city. They tied in the whole episode.

I was telling you, they just the makeup and everything, it wasn't like even Planet of the Apes. If you look at beneath the Planet of the Apes, more than half of the apes in the some of these scenes when they had multiple apes out there, just had masks on. These guys were all made up as apes.

Yeah, and they were good apes.

Yes. Well, I mean, in fact, one guy says, If I didn't know any better, I'd think you were a human. Yes, that's right. That's right. Well, then where'd you learn how to talk like an ape, you damn mutant? And it was just it was so funny. And this is back when me and Ben were watching Planet of the Apes stuff like on a loop. Yeah, pretty much on a loop. And uh it was just ape tacular, just ape tacular.

It was a and one of the things that I will never forget about this, and my ex-wife and I, Ricky, used to laugh about this all the time, is when they they went and asked the audience questions during that skit. Yes, and one of the guys just went, Are there any other talking butants? And he like stutters the word, and it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen on the show. And you just have to.

That was a classic.

AJ, this is a classic clip. I can speak, but I am not a mutant. Yeah, yes, there seems to be a question. Yeah.

Yeah. Are you some kind of talking mutant?

No. I just said I'm not a mutant. I'm a human being from your past when human beings spoke. Yes, yes.

Other than other talking mutants?

I told you I'm not a mutant, you don't understand. Yes, over here.

Where do you keep your tribe of talking mutants?

You don't think you're paying attention to what I'm telling you? Yes, yes.

Yeah, am I crazy? Are you a uh you're a human? Yes, yes, I am. And where the hell do you learn to talk like an apian, that mutant?

All right, all right, so number one to me. And yes, I'm gonna go with it. I'm going with Matt Foley, motivational speaker. And I am gonna go to the one where he comes into the room with uh Christina Applegate as the as the guest and David Spades in there.

That was a very young David Spade.

It was, and it's a great example of what I was saying earlier about uh them not being able to hold in their cool, you know, with Chris Farley. They fall apart here and there. He is a friggin' right. Oh god, maybe you'll want to live in a van by the river when you're living in a van down by the river, and just incredible. Like I know the physical comedy, though. The physical comedy that he throws in there when he throws himself onto the coffee table and shatters it to bits, and this big, big man, you know, he was crashing into the floor. Like, oh my god, I need to doctor after. I don't think Spade took his face out of his hands for most of that stuff, burying his face, trying not to right and when he goes to the dad, which was that Hartman, I can't remember if I believe it was Hartman, it wasn't Hartman, it was Phil. But when he goes, I wish dad was shot his damn yapper.

Which you know, he probably brought it to an intensity during live that he didn't do during rehearsals. Oh yeah, he was a camera guy, and then when he did it live, he probably added something that was just like to them, they were like, Oh my god, the next level.

By camera guy, what I mean is he probably is one of those people that doesn't perform all that great just in rehearsal, but when he gets in front of the camera, yeah, he nails it. You know what I mean?

Or more than nails it.

And I agree with what you said, Donnie. Like he probably held back for their benefit as well as the crowd.

I think there was like a Folgers Coffee one where they, you know, we've secretly replaced the Folgers Coffee in this restaurant, and it's Farley, and he's got like a beard on. He's just supposed to be like a throwaway line, and he turns it into this and just kills everybody with with how friggin' over the top he does that line.

Everything you mean he killed with the the humor, the pepper one with Dana Carve and Sandler when they're going through the Italian restaurant and Carvey's like training him with the pepper. He likes uh three of shakes of the three of spins of the pepper. And when they get to Farley, he's would you like some pepper, sir? And Farley's like, Why yes? And you just see him cracking out. He just loses it. Incredible.

Looks like we got a little Billy Shakespeare here, Dad. It's like the only thing you've been doing with your writing papers, rolling newbies.

Hey, Bill Shakespeare over there. That was spectacular. Awesome episode, guys. So visit us, please, at past times at eightieshigh.com, and that is past times at 80s. All right, boys, we are out.

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