What is your favorite SNL skit?
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January 29th, 2008
I am especially interested in a couple of SNL characters. Will Ferrell
is hilarious as is Tina Faye. I want to find a best of for each of them.
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Will Ferrell: I love the skit where he plays the husband of an old couple who would sit in the hot tub at the motel and tell stories to younger couples. Also, the ones where he plays the owner of the hip pretentious clothing store Jeffrey’s—those tiny mobile devices were priceless!
The Sweeney sisters with Jan Curtain and Nora Dunn….so hilarious!
Any Celebrity Jeopardy skit. Brilliant.
does Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handy count?
Almost too hard to answer, but one of them is Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken, in the parody of VH-1 Behind the Music where Will plays the cowbell for Blue Oyster Cult in recording “The Reaper”, and Christopher Walken, playing the producer insists: “I gotta have more cowbell!”
I got a feeva…and the only prescription is…more cowbell!
—John Belushi as the Samurai Delicatessan guy, and Buck Henry as the customer.
—Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtain sparring in Weekend Update (“Jane, you ignorant slut.”)
—Almost all of the commercials – but especially one very-seldom-seen one was Tim Kazurinsky in a commercial for a rocket launcher that could take out any car whose alarm goes off in the middle of the night.
The Bass-o-Matic ‘76 guy.
The Swedish Chef.
The “garbage song” (”... and a thousand trucks just like it are converging on the bay. Garbage…”).
John Belushi spaz-ing out of control dancing.
Mr. Bill.
Christopher Walken in The Continental: “More Champagne?”
“Brocktoon” from a Tom Hanks host. It’s about a support group for people who are former stalkers of the ” The guy who plays Mr. Belvedere on TV”
Maybe the Table scene where Will Ferrell is yelling at his wife and daughter (Sarah Michelle Gellar)... Well they are all yelling at each other, but I remember Will Ferrell yelling, “I can do 100 push-ups in 20 minutes!” he he
I am showing my age here. Does anyone remember Mommy Dearest, with Gilda Radner as Christina, I think Lorraine Newman as Katherine Hepburn and Dan Akroyd as Clark Gable et al.
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