"Saturday Night Live" - Pros and Cons
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer must be my favorite characther in the show, I'd also loved that sketch were Eddie Murphie paited his skin all white...
how come nobody remembers the guy who lived in a van down the river???
how come nobody remembers the guy who lived in a van down the river???
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Here's a con....Buck Henry as Uncle Roy. You never see much of that anymore maybe because it's too politically incorrect to play anymore. I could not find a video link anywhere about Buck Henry as the creepy Uncle who like to take provocative photos of his young nieces. This is a small explanation of what they were trying to portray in the skits. Buck Henry did quite a bit of writing for them in the 70s.
Buck Henry is very funny, but those skits with Lorraine Newman and Gilda Radner playing little girls were on the edge.
Buck Henry is very funny, but those skits with Lorraine Newman and Gilda Radner playing little girls were on the edge.
number6horse
okyoutwopixiesoutyougo
The van down down by the river ?
It was occupied by a motivational speaker
whose character's name was a tribute
to Chris Farley's college roommate, Matt Foley.
Foley actually became a Catholic priest after graduation.
I also loved Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer...
"Your traffic noises startle me and I don't know
what to think of your giant flying iron birds -
but I know one thing...MY CLIENT IS INNOCENT !"
It was occupied by a motivational speaker
whose character's name was a tribute
to Chris Farley's college roommate, Matt Foley.
Foley actually became a Catholic priest after graduation.
I also loved Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer...
"Your traffic noises startle me and I don't know
what to think of your giant flying iron birds -
but I know one thing...MY CLIENT IS INNOCENT !"
number6horse
okyoutwopixiesoutyougo
I had forgotten about this one.
Creepy indeed but also very funny, imho.
And you're right - hard to imagine a sketch
like that on regular TV today.
I think... but I am kind of out-of-touch
with television in general these days
number6horse
okyoutwopixiesoutyougo
A wingnut, yes. But mostly a typical
Evangelical, who believes in the
infallibility of the Bible and a
"convert-or-else" attitude toward
the rest of the world and it's traditions.
She speaks of a time in the U.S.
"before the decline of Bible teaching"
when apparently life was so much better.
Would that be the time before Civil Rights,
desegregation, and equal employment guarantees ?
Gosh - she isn't scared to death of a
black President, is she ?
Evangelical, who believes in the
infallibility of the Bible and a
"convert-or-else" attitude toward
the rest of the world and it's traditions.
She speaks of a time in the U.S.
"before the decline of Bible teaching"
when apparently life was so much better.
Would that be the time before Civil Rights,
desegregation, and equal employment guarantees ?
Gosh - she isn't scared to death of a
black President, is she ?
Only because she thinks he's a :eek:Secular Humanist:eek:.
This site www.hulu.com has alot of SNL clips. Maybe not a ton of the older stuff but good stuff all around. Sorry for the typed only link, I'm no good at figuring out how to make them direct to site. CRB:)
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
It is very difficult to find video clips of Saturday Night Live. NBC must have an iron clad grip on the rights.
Yes Victoria Jackson is a Right Wing Nut to the Nth degree.
Yes Victoria Jackson is a Right Wing Nut to the Nth degree.
chronic
old and in the way
hulu.com is great. They have quite a few good, fairly recent, and complete films available for free viewing. My computer is plugged into my 42" plasma and the picture from hulu looks great from halfway across the room (which is where I sit when I'm watching TV anyway).
The vast majority of the show over all--well into the ninety-n percentages--is nearly unwatchable, and has been for a long time. The curse is that you have to somehow keep tabs on the show, if you are into comedy, to avoid missing gems of pure insanity like this (longish, but don't give up on it)(and comedy lies in the eye blah, blah, so YMMV).
Father Luke
Founding member
NBC also has lots of clips.
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/categories/1970s/25061/
That's from the seventies.
Than they have clips from the 80's 90's and 2000's
Have fun !
nice pick Gerard!, I loved that movie!
vodka
Miss Take
samberg is fucking awesome. i'd forgotten about this gem until recently:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6745_narniarap_music
and this is excellent also:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6745_narniarap_music
and this is excellent also:
Lolita Twist
Rose-hustler
Random note that's probably incredibly obvious: Murray's humour has matured with his audience. What About Bob still makes me laugh my ass off... but the incredibly dry Broken Flowers & Lost in Translation also has the same effect on me. Murray is one of the rare actors that possess that ability, in my opinion.
I think the funniest person who gained the majority of their fame with SNL had to be Eddie Murphey or John Belushi (his brother kinda makes me cry from lack of talent... where the fuck did those genes go? John was a goddamn Blues Brother, c'mon now...) The funniest skit I've ever seen on SNL in the old days was Ebony & Ivory that Murphy did with Steve Piscopo (who kind of extremely irratates me - saw him in Atlantic City about 2 years ago... terribly dissapointing.)... then again, for modern day, the VP Parody Debate with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin (AKA Michael Vick) really restored my faith in SNL. Until of course I watched it last night and saw one of my favorite modern day actors (Hugh Laurie) totally let me down as acting as an oversized, talking lamp.