The Christmas Kangaroo and The Investigative Reporter for High Times were good.
I always like the sketch were Chris Farley and Adam Sandler were the old married couple that read the resturant descriptions. That was some quality sketch comedy.
“Hey! I wear my pants like all of you guys do. Except when I put them on, I record gold records.”
Christopher Walken is the man. For me, my favourite is of course the Blue Oyster Cult skit with the cowbell and such but Celebrity Jeopardy will be close to my heart forever. I also love the Japanese gameshow with Chris Farley as the American tourist stuck there. Hillarity ensues.
The one with Horacio, Ferrel, and Cuba Gooding Jr. do the improv of the story of Jesus. Especially the scene when “Kiss Me” is playing and they are in a college dorm with Jesus lifting weights on his bed and Peter playing basketball on the door.
“So Peter… I heard you were good at discipling…”
Classic.
And how about the skit with Steve Buscemi playing the Mad Hatter in Alice and Wonderland?
“Why I’m so mad I constantly burn my penis with red hot cigar butts!”
I’m so old I remember seeing the original broadcasts of the “Wayne’s World” sketches, but my favorite recent sketch would have to be the “Religtables” sketch from “TV Funhouse”.
Napoleon Rodriguez: I’m so old I remember seeing the original broadcasts of the “Wayne’s World” sketches..
Ah, yes.
And Poxy, uh, Richard is correct. I love and miss all of the sketches with the “old school” crew. Folks like Chevy, Jim, Dan, Gilda, Eddie, Bill, Lorraine and on and on. THAT was SNL at its best.
2 great pot-related sketches:
Night on Freak Mountain, where Frank Zappa happens upon a group of hippies living in an old castle, who can’t deal with the idea that Frank doesn’t do drugs.
The Rolling Paper Chase, about Judge Ginsberg (the supreme court nominee who congress wouldn’t approve because he had smoked pot) at Harvard.
Yes, there were some pre-'95 sketches that were good, like Billy Crystal and Christopher Guest as those two Jersey Guys, especially when they talk about F. Murray Abraham. “Hey, that’s a cool nickname…F.”
Put me on the “I feel old” list. My favorite skecth of all time was the “Superman funeral” that they did around the time they killed Superman in the comic. I love it because basically everybody from that cast was in the sketch. Carvey, Rock, Sandler, Hartman, Spade, Meadows, Farley, Schneider, and more were all represented. The only big name missing was Mike Myers. I rememebr Sinbad hosted and played “Black Lightning,” a 70’s super hero with a huge afro who wasn’t allowed into the service.
My other favorites would be “Massive Head Wound Harry,” the “Sinatra Group” ("I got chunks of guys like you in my stool!", the one where Farley goes nuts after he finds out he’s not drinking his usual coffee, and anytime Norm Macdonald portrayed Burt Reynolds.
For you guys mentioning the “Blue Oyster Cult” and “Celebrity Jeoprady/Turd Ferguson” sketches you should check out the “SNL: Best of Will Ferrell” DVD. Both those sketches are on there along with a bunch of other Ferrell classics.
Will Ferrel: The angry little league parent, “Why don’t you be a good boy and stay on the bag…” Also the same type of sketch with the “I WILL PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE IF YOU DO NOT GET OFF THE SHED!!!” Classic…
– The Steve Martin/Bill Murray “What the hell is that?” sketch. Just the two of them staring into the camera repeating, “What the hell is that? I don’t know what the hell that damn thing is!” Then they walk off camera, only to re-emerge after a few seconds to say, “What the hell was that?” Hilariously absurd.
– The Star Trek sketch with Belushi as Kirk. Really let NBC have it with this one.
– The Billy Crystal/Christopher Guest “I hate it when that happens” sketches. The beauty of those is that you can tell they’re just out there improvising the whole time, and it’s a wonder to behold.
– Aykroyd’s Bass-a-Matic
– Aykroyd’s Julia Child
– Any Samurai sketch
– Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor playing word association: “White.” “Honkey.” “N****r.” “DEAD honkey.” Pretty cutting stuff for its time, and something they’d never think to try again.
, the one where Farley goes nuts after he finds out he’s not drinking his usual coffee, and anytime Norm Macdonald portrayed Burt Reynolds.