Diane, you know I'm not usually one to complain but, I'm afraid the censoring completely ruined the video. I get that you don't want to run afoul of TH-cam but given how the "offensive" words were the entire point of the humor of the skit, censoring them out beyond recognition basically amounted to you reacting to a video that we couldn't actually experience ourselves. It would have been better if you uploaded it uncensored for members only or patreon only rather than post it publicly in this homeopathically watered down censored version. Alternatively you could have inserted b@d w0rd5 that spell out the expletives in a way the audience can understand but would be hidden to the algorithms.
Diane, some of these type presentations were very deliberate and done to make fun of racism. Realize that Blacks in America were made officially "equal" by the various Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s but that did not mean the whole population accepted the equality. Watch the Mel Brooks film "Blazing Saddles" for another example.
The not ready for prime time players where hands down the best SNL cast. Not only where they extremely funny but they also pushed the limits of comedy.
It's not really comedy, it's just Chevy Chase hurling racial slurs at Richard Pryor and him coming back with lame ones like honky and white trash. The usage of nig*er in the sketch was totally uncalled for, even back in the mid 1970s. I know the backstory behind it but still don't find it particularly funny. I remember watching some of the original cast episodes even though I was pretty young at the time and many were hilarious compared to this.
"Call him Voldemort, Harry. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself". (Albus Dumbledore in the first Harry Potter book) Richard Pryor was all about putting racism on the spot to show how ridiculous it is. Censoring the terms without removing the biases only strengthens those biases. Remove fear of the word and the word loses its power to create fear and oppression. Pryor knew that. Maybe one day the rest of us will.
One day, perhaps many years in the future, people (regardless of the amount of melanin they possess) will look back on a time when even uttering syllables that sounded like offensive words with no malicious intent and regardless of context could get you fired, and realize how foolish we all were. Obviously there's being polite and there's being offensive but we've gotten to the point where over correction of fixing offenses often makes things worse.
@@bradparnell614firing people for saying syllables that sound kind of like bad words is called “hedging the Law” (imagine building a hedge around a sacred spot, and having people curse you for touching the hedge, as if you’d broken the taboo of the sacred location. It’s like building a fence to keep people from straying onto a minefield, and assuming they’ll get blown up if they touch the fence). Jesus preached a lot against this back in His day. “Rest on the Sabbath” had expanded to the point where you weren’t allowed to heal people on the Sabbath-Jesus got yelled at once for spitting on the ground once and putting the mud on a blind man’s eyes-because he was technically doing pottery on the Sabbath. Jesus told them to go fuck themselves.
It happened to a meteorologist named Jeremy Kappell in Rochester, NY. It was pretty clear there was no malicious intent or even an intent to say the word people thought they heard but it didn't matter to those who decided to can him anyway.
TH-cam asked didn’t I really want to change how i phrased this so people wouldn’t feel disrespected (almost obsequious tbh) because i mentioned that Jesus Christ, who lived 1993 years ago, told some Pharisees, who also lived 1993 years ago, to go (verb) themselves. Not even a Minecraft word. Are they afraid of offending Pharisees, or what?
I only mention the exact number of years as He started His ministry three years before His death, which has a big anniversary coming up in ten years 😇🥳👏
This is probably the single most important and funny sketch I’ve ever seen on tv. I was a teenager when this first aired and remember it had a real impact on all my friends who saw it (and me). The best comedy has a few attributes: it must be funny, it pokes at the soft underbelly of some issue society is dealing with, and finally, it makes us take a look at ourselves - this sketch nailed all of those in spades!
I'm 70 and I remember seeing this aired, it's too bad it couldn't be aired uncensored here, satire doesn't seem to be understood anymore. And I get what you were saying too,in the spirit of the video.
I wouldn't be suprised if Richard Prior inspired this skit or even wrote it. This is his style as evidenced by his work as a writer for the Blazing Saddles script and other skits
At least three of Richard Pryor's comedy albums had the n-word in their titles. He used the word freely in his stand up routines. He obviously had to self-censor to deliver those routines on network television. Back then, there was the idea by using the n-word freely, it would eventually lose its shock power and racists would stop using it because it no longer had any effect on people.
It was written primarily by Paul Mooney, who collaborated with Pryor on a lot of material. I will mention, as it is relevant in this case, that Mooney was Black, so yes, 2 Black men writing a sketch using all the worst epithets you can use against Black people. Also, just FYI, according to multiple sources, Pryor's contribution to Blazing Saddles was primarily the scenes with Mongo.
I remember watching this original broadcast. This was in the "sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words will never hurt me" era. Free speech at it''s finest.
Agree 100%. I said much the same as my comment I posted today. These words were beginning to lose their punch. That’s why they could be laughed at Instead of anger. You see how far we’ve regressed since then.
Comedy like this, when it was aired was what was needed here.Other shows like All in the Family added to it. When it's "In your face", it's hard to deny it's happening.
This is a classic skit. It was allowed to air back in the 70s. You will NEVER see a skit like this these days! Wasn't politically correct then and definitely not now. It was cutting edge in those days as you rarely even heard the word "Hell" on US tv. Unless you watched shows like "All In the Family" or "The Jefferson's".
@DianeJennings my niece watches Christmas vacation every year, as well. I no longer have to deal with toxic family members (cough! Her mom cough!), so I didn't need the validation, and Had never watched it until last year 🙂
One of the funniest bits of classic SNL. Pryor was one of the top standup comedians at the time. I'm sure he was very involved with writing the skit as it's still SOP for SNL to involve the guests with the skits they will be in. Also, you can tell by the audience reaction they thought it was hilarious.
Early snl always pushed the envelope. I hope the video gets to stay on the channel. I like all your videos. Chewie did look concerned giving a reaction today. Thanks, Diane and Chewie.
This was an amazing sketch back when it first aired on American TV. What's even more amazing (to me, at least) is that you can't air it almost 50 years later on You Tube. And it's incredibly sad that it is still relevant. I discovered Saturday Night Live somewhere in its first season. At that time, it was quite subversive for the times. Who knew that 50 years later, that it would still be subversive (BTW, imho, SNL was at its best when Bill Murray joined the cast. I've tried, but I have not been able to sit through a single episode of the show in its entirety, past the first 5 or 10 seasons. I'll grant that it had a few good moments in most shows, but the show as a whole became unwatchable (Joe Piscopo was a huge flashing billboard signaling its rapid decline).
I started watching the same time you did. Watched for many years, with long fade outs of my interests, but there are still some good times. Kate McKinnon did 3 sketches (the lead character) on alien abduction that are as good as anything from the original cast. In one Ryan Gosling, the guest host, was laughing so hard he could barely stand - Kate was obviously improvising something *not* there in rehearsal. Yeah, I hardly watch any of it anymore. Weekend Update is occasionally good. On point with this discussion - Colin and Che do a bit where they write jokes for each other and have to do them live without knowing the punchline till it shows up on the cue card. Che writes some incredibly outrageous ones that portray Colin and his family as racists. Of course, they're only funny because Che wrote them. Various collections are easily found on YT.
Coming from a Black man, that was freaking funny!! I watched the uncensored version before seeing your reaction. LOL I remember seeing this when I was a kid. It reminds me of a dear, departed friend I had. We would do this now and then in front of people who though we were going to come to blows, until we started laughing and bought each other some pints. 😉
NatoBro: A friend of mine and I do this all the time from the white side. We start with, creep then loser then honky then honky honky then dead honky. It's a classic skit and it seems to me that if Chevy and Richard were ok with it then what's the harm. Richard really sells it with his facial twitches and stuff.
In high school (late 70s) I was listening to an 8-track tape of the soundtrack to Hair. Had my windows down sitting at a train track waiting to go and was singing along to the song Colored Spade. Looked to my left and saw a black person sitting there with his window down. I knoow he heard the song and I'm guessing he saw a look of horror on my face because he started laughing his ass off.
I love how it has rendered Diane SPEECHLESS. Totally speechless!!!! It's an example of the truism that only someone of a particular group can use epithets of that group. Obviously, here, Pryor was giving permission to Chase to use them. He probably wrote the script.
This was written by Richard Pryor's writer, Paul Mooney (born August 4, 1941, died May 19, 2021). He later created Homey the Clown for "In Living Color" (1990-1993) and became a stand up commedian in his own right after Richard Pryor stopped performing. Hoemy the Clown was played by Damon Wayans, who had been on SNL in the 1985-'86 season.
One of the funniest SNL sketches ever. When Richard Pryor was the guest host in the mid 70’s, they aired it with a 7 second delay to censor in case Pryor used one of the 7 words you couldn’t say on TV…an no that big one at the end wasn’t one of them. Richard Pryor also helped right this sketch and it was probably his idea.
Happy Monday. I remember the uncensored sketch back in the day, in the 70s. HILLARIOUS!! Especially since the show was late night (after 11:30pm), not censored as much as in prime time. But if you watched shows like "All in the Family" back then also, they threw around racial terms on air that is totally banned nowadays.
I love when people post this kind of nonsense. Married couples weren't shown as sleeping in the same bed until 1969/70 because it was considered indecent and offensive.
Richard Pryor is one of the kings of comedy... i remember he had a comedy album titled "Bicentanial N****r" come out in 1976. There were no parental warnings on albums back then either. It was pure comedy!!
Diane, the uncensored sketch is readily available on TH-cam, at least here in the States. The sketch was written by Paul Mooney, himself a brilliant comedian and joke writer for Richard Pryor. And yes, Mooney was African American. And no, this sketch would never see the light of day these days, at least not on American network TV. Whether that's progress or the opposite of progress is open to debate.
Diane, some of these type presentations were very deliberate and done to make fun of racism. Realize that Blacks in America were made officially "equal" by the various Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s but that did not mean the whole population accepted the equality. Watch the Mel Brooks film "Blazing Saddles" for another example.
I heard Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor hated each other in person so this controversial sketch kind of allowed the two to butt heads while on camera. I will say it's safe to say this sketch would never exist today.
This skit is a classic. Richard Pryor was a legend. Back in the day when laughter was uncensored. Funny as hell. Actors would often go off script and improvised, which added greatly to the laughs. Early SNL was always willing to take some risks to get serious laughs, since it was late night TV it had fewer restrictions, back then. Today SNL is just pathetic.
When you posted your other Richard Pryor video this was exactly the sketch I thought of. The funny thing is for ages I had only +heard+ this sketch because it was included on a "Best of Saturday Night Live" record my family had.
Poor Diane!😂 First questionable Christmas parades in Spain & now this. We got a dog in Panama 🇵🇦 who probably used bad doggy language at any Panamanian who came near our house, didn’t mind other Latinos, somehow could specifically discern Panamanians.
This was back in the day when Saturday night live was actually funny and had a great cast. I quit watching it when it went political. Thanks for sharing it D. Have a nice evening! ❤️U☘️🇮🇪🇺🇸
I stopped watching years ago largely because it's gotten much less political. So tamed down for the lowest common denominator, much more "safe", much less political satire. The video being reacted to right here is of a very political sketch, after all.
I think you could argue that this very sketch was meant to be political. I think you mean you quit watching when its politics got stupid. :) But yes, the 70s were a much better time than now. Everyone is too sensitive today and as a result more divided.
Comment on your thumbnail: how was this allowed on television? Lots of things were allowed on television. We knew how to laugh with each other then. This is what made All in the Family so popular.
The funny thing (looking back) is that NBC ran this episode on a four-second delay (without telling him), because Richard Pryor had a reputation as a "dirty" comedian, and they wanted to be prepared to bleep him if he went off script and used "bad language." This sketch did not constitute what they considered bad language.
I remember when that aired it was hysterical. It was eyebrow raising back then. It was another time when everbody laughed at themselves and didn't take anything too seriously. Satire and parody where the kings of comedy. You had Carlin, Wright, Pryor, SNL, Mark Russell a whole slew of satirist.
It is even better when the "bad words" aren't beeped out. They were in there. In full force on network TV for a reason. Shielding a viewership from that robs the emotional work they put into making the piece.
I've never seen this before, so I looked at the full video. I always felt he was one of the most honest comics I ever saw. Surprisingly my mother (who didn't see this kind of stuff) loved him but called him Roger Pryor.
This went down in history, as one of the most controversial, and one of the funniest comedy moments in U.S history. Richard Pryor is comic royalty here in the U.S, he was a genius, Richard was able to bring races together with his comedy. Richard is my all time favorite. Check out his work, and he will have you rolling with laughter. He is able to do this without offending anyone, this takes the mind of a genius. Please check out his bit on the mafia, I was crying with laughter.
So funny to see your reactions to these things. I’m 63 and fortunately got to see all these things when I was younger. It certainly is a different world now.
Lol indeed! I know this video by heart! I recorded that episode on VHS when it aired. This was a pure joy to watch, and your reaction to it did not disappoint!
This was 1975 so about 14 years before Christmas Vacation came out. Chevy was the break out star on SNL and was being touted as the person that would replace Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. Image if someone was being touted as the person to take over The Toy Show, but they did it every night.
This was late nite and they pushed the boundaries to the max. Anyone who is a fan of Richard Prior would expect a maximum effort by all of the cast. Watch Richard Prior in concert when he talked about his trip to Africa.......... Funny beyond measure .. People today are just too thin skinned and No sense of humor ...... enjoy
Similar to a skit Richard Pryor did on his own show. The Richard Pryor show skit the "Titanic", has a young Robin Williams on the show. Richard pushed the envelop many times. He found humor in everything, even himself getting burnt up when he was doing drugs. In a comedy show, while holding a lit match and moving it from one side of his body to the other. "What's that? .... Richard Pryor running down the street."
Richard Pryor co-wrote on this skit, as well as co-writing the movie Blazing Saddles with Mel Brooks a year or so before this SNL skit aired. The entirety of purpose was to lampoon racism and show it for the BS that it is. The best way to do that is not to sugarcoat the offensiveness, but to shine light upon it and make people aware of just how much it stinks. A classic skit and if you've not seen the movie, do so.
I absolutely loved that clip. I saw it many times over the years. I can't believe my parents (primarily my father) let me and my sister watch this. 😅😅😅
One of my favorite skits from the early days of SNL is Garrett Morris as a prisoner. He's playing the piano and singing about "Killing all the Whities he see's".
'Dese were da good old dayz. When you could laugh at ANYTHING. And everybody got along just fine. Nobody was worried about being offended. They were too busy laughing and living.
I watched this when it came out live, and, yes, it was a shock during the mid 1970s. Richard Pryor, the black comedian, definitely was behind this sketch. Prior, a very famous comedian, was also a screen writer, and wrote the script to Mel Brook’s Blazing Saddles believe it or not...
There is another set of classic skits from SNL not really seen much these days: “The Bellaire Arabs”. It’s a play off of the “Beverly Hillbillies” acting as a commentary of the ABSCAM scandal...
Is this where that "never before face" came from on the community tab couple weeks ago? Was in college late 70's and watched all these live...they're all still a Hoot! ConeHeads and the Killer Bees were my favs. Remember, this was Live TV, no retakes!
I remember watching that live. It was the first time SNL had a 5 second delay. Pryor had a reputation for cursing and the show had to add the delay to keep the network happy. I think I had to pretend to go to sleep early and then sneak downstairs after my parents fell asleep in order to watch it. LOL
I'd forgotten how funny those two were, especially when they were together and playing off each other's reactions. Dan Aykroyd did a lot of good work with Chevy Chase, too, FYI. You might enjoy some of their movies, as well as Richard Pryor's stand-up comedy routines. He was hilarious. Just keep in mind that this was aired a long time ago, at a time before hurt feelings were the expected and accepted way of life. And no, I'm not condoning that language...not in real life, anyway...but we tend to give a lot of leeway to artists, especially when they're pointing out the foibles of our society, or, in this case, I believe, helping to address the problems effectively and bringing these issues to the forefront of our conversations. Also, as an American who has paid for our freedoms, I firmly believe that people can say whatever they want as long as they aren't inciting illegal actions. Yeah, it's crude. And yeah, it's not how I choose to live my life. But I'll be g-ddamned if I'm going to tell someone else that they can't say whatever it is that they want to say. I can always choose to walk away from the conversation, or choose not to associate with people who talk like that. Nowadays, though, I have noticed that, for some time now, there seems to be a similar yet reversed mentality regarding free speech, a mindset in which a lot of people, especially American women, seem to believe that just because they have a right to say what they want to say, there somehow exists an obligation on me, or upon whomever is the target of their speech, to have to listen to whatever it is that they want to say. But this isn't the case, either. So I can just walk away from whomever it is who wants to tell me all about how things are or aren't. But the point is that I have that choice, that freedom not to listen to these donkeys, just as they have their freedom of speech. It cuts both ways.
Regarding the curse, as you can imagine this vid has been ... interesting to get posted so it is referring to Christmas 2023.
🎉 you got it posted, it’s a Christmas miracle
Richard Pryor's appearance on SNL is the reason that there is a 10 second push on live shows.
I remember that bit. And all the words. Thanks for the laugh.
Diane, you know I'm not usually one to complain but, I'm afraid the censoring completely ruined the video. I get that you don't want to run afoul of TH-cam but given how the "offensive" words were the entire point of the humor of the skit, censoring them out beyond recognition basically amounted to you reacting to a video that we couldn't actually experience ourselves. It would have been better if you uploaded it uncensored for members only or patreon only rather than post it publicly in this homeopathically watered down censored version. Alternatively you could have inserted b@d w0rd5 that spell out the expletives in a way the audience can understand but would be hidden to the algorithms.
Diane, some of these type presentations were very deliberate and done to make fun of racism. Realize that Blacks in America were made officially "equal" by the various Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s but that did not mean the whole population accepted the equality. Watch the Mel Brooks film "Blazing Saddles" for another example.
The not ready for prime time players where hands down the best SNL cast. Not only where they extremely funny but they also pushed the limits of comedy.
It's not really comedy, it's just Chevy Chase hurling racial slurs at Richard Pryor and him coming back with lame ones like honky and white trash. The usage of nig*er in the sketch was totally uncalled for, even back in the mid 1970s. I know the backstory behind it but still don't find it particularly funny. I remember watching some of the original cast episodes even though I was pretty young at the time and many were hilarious compared to this.
This was back in the day before everyone became cry babies. When we could laugh at ourselves and didn't take everything so seriously.
@@ricmeyers1340This skit could be done today though.
@@ricmeyers1340 free and unoffended, the 70's
"Call him Voldemort, Harry. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself". (Albus Dumbledore in the first Harry Potter book)
Richard Pryor was all about putting racism on the spot to show how ridiculous it is. Censoring the terms without removing the biases only strengthens those biases. Remove fear of the word and the word loses its power to create fear and oppression. Pryor knew that. Maybe one day the rest of us will.
One day, perhaps many years in the future, people (regardless of the amount of melanin they possess) will look back on a time when even uttering syllables that sounded like offensive words with no malicious intent and regardless of context could get you fired, and realize how foolish we all were. Obviously there's being polite and there's being offensive but we've gotten to the point where over correction of fixing offenses often makes things worse.
@@bradparnell614firing people for saying syllables that sound kind of like bad words is called “hedging the Law” (imagine building a hedge around a sacred spot, and having people curse you for touching the hedge, as if you’d broken the taboo of the sacred location. It’s like building a fence to keep people from straying onto a minefield, and assuming they’ll get blown up if they touch the fence). Jesus preached a lot against this back in His day. “Rest on the Sabbath” had expanded to the point where you weren’t allowed to heal people on the Sabbath-Jesus got yelled at once for spitting on the ground once and putting the mud on a blind man’s eyes-because he was technically doing pottery on the Sabbath. Jesus told them to go fuck themselves.
It happened to a meteorologist named Jeremy Kappell in Rochester, NY. It was pretty clear there was no malicious intent or even an intent to say the word people thought they heard but it didn't matter to those who decided to can him anyway.
TH-cam asked didn’t I really want to change how i phrased this so people wouldn’t feel disrespected (almost obsequious tbh) because i mentioned that Jesus Christ, who lived 1993 years ago, told some Pharisees, who also lived 1993 years ago, to go (verb) themselves. Not even a Minecraft word. Are they afraid of offending Pharisees, or what?
I only mention the exact number of years as He started His ministry three years before His death, which has a big anniversary coming up in ten years 😇🥳👏
This is probably the single most important and funny sketch I’ve ever seen on tv. I was a teenager when this first aired and remember it had a real impact on all my friends who saw it (and me). The best comedy has a few attributes: it must be funny, it pokes at the soft underbelly of some issue society is dealing with, and finally, it makes us take a look at ourselves - this sketch nailed all of those in spades!
I see what you did there.
@@jwrockets I couldn’t help but try to add some tongue-in-cheek humor of my own….
I'm 70 and I remember seeing this aired, it's too bad it couldn't be aired uncensored here, satire doesn't seem to be understood anymore. And I get what you were saying too,in the spirit of the video.
I'm afraid it's into the briar patch with you!
I wouldn't be suprised if Richard Prior inspired this skit or even wrote it. This is his style as evidenced by his work as a writer for the Blazing Saddles script and other skits
Yes they co-wrote it
Even back then this skit could probably only have been done with Richard Pryor.
I heard Paul Mooney wrote it.
At least three of Richard Pryor's comedy albums had the n-word in their titles. He used the word freely in his stand up routines. He obviously had to self-censor to deliver those routines on network television.
Back then, there was the idea by using the n-word freely, it would eventually lose its shock power and racists would stop using it because it no longer had any effect on people.
It was written primarily by Paul Mooney, who collaborated with Pryor on a lot of material. I will mention, as it is relevant in this case, that Mooney was Black, so yes, 2 Black men writing a sketch using all the worst epithets you can use against Black people.
Also, just FYI, according to multiple sources, Pryor's contribution to Blazing Saddles was primarily the scenes with Mongo.
That was one of the great Saturday Night Live skits ever.
I remember watching this original broadcast. This was in the "sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words will never hurt me" era. Free speech at it''s finest.
8 years before Lampoon's Vacation.
Agree 100%. I said much the same as my comment I posted today. These words were beginning to lose their punch. That’s why they could be laughed at Instead of anger. You see how far we’ve regressed since then.
Hi Diane! Where I live it's a 5 minute walk to the pub, but a 35 minute walk home. The difference is staggering. Happy Monday!
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Just saw that on a Dock Tox video.
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Saw this live when I was in college. Knowing Richard Pryor helped write this sketch I felt free to LMAO.
Chevy Chase was only on SNL for the first season in 1975. He was around 30, 31
Comedy like this, when it was aired was what was needed here.Other shows like All in the Family added to it. When it's "In your face", it's hard to deny it's happening.
I remember this sketch well. Richard Pryor was the best ever.
This is a classic skit. It was allowed to air back in the 70s. You will NEVER see a skit like this these days! Wasn't politically correct then and definitely not now. It was cutting edge in those days as you rarely even heard the word "Hell" on US tv. Unless you watched shows like "All In the Family" or "The Jefferson's".
Exactly! Once again I am SO happy I was a kid (teen) in the 70's No PC BS for us🎉😁😎
Same
Sanford and Son threw around the N-word on a few occasions. Pryor and Mooney wrote some of those episodes as well.
Dead Honkey!! That has always cracked me up.
1:17 Have you not seen Caddyshack? Caddyshack is arguably one of the greatest comedy movies of all time.
I saw it years ago but I don’t remember much. Wasn’t my fave
@DianeJennings my niece watches Christmas vacation every year, as well. I no longer have to deal with toxic family members (cough! Her mom cough!), so I didn't need the validation, and Had never watched it until last year 🙂
Only Richard Pryor could pull this off, absolute legend.
The 70s were awesome.. loved this skit back in the day. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ah, one of the best skits that SNL ever did. You absolutely CANNOT do this on broadcast TV anymore.
And that's a damn shame. We NEED this kind of comedy.
One of the funniest bits of classic SNL. Pryor was one of the top standup comedians at the time. I'm sure he was very involved with writing the skit as it's still SOP for SNL to involve the guests with the skits they will be in. Also, you can tell by the audience reaction they thought it was hilarious.
Early snl always pushed the envelope. I hope the video gets to stay on the channel. I like all your videos. Chewie did look concerned giving a reaction today. Thanks, Diane and Chewie.
Thanks for watching!
@@DianeJennings Always get some good rest and give Chewie some good treats and cuddles.
Back in the 70s, we weren't triggered by comedy. We understood "context."
This was an amazing sketch back when it first aired on American TV. What's even more amazing (to me, at least) is that you can't air it almost 50 years later on You Tube. And it's incredibly sad that it is still relevant.
I discovered Saturday Night Live somewhere in its first season. At that time, it was quite subversive for the times. Who knew that 50 years later, that it would still be subversive (BTW, imho, SNL was at its best when Bill Murray joined the cast. I've tried, but I have not been able to sit through a single episode of the show in its entirety, past the first 5 or 10 seasons. I'll grant that it had a few good moments in most shows, but the show as a whole became unwatchable (Joe Piscopo was a huge flashing billboard signaling its rapid decline).
The 1980's cast was the best cast. This was with Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Kevin Nealon, Dana Carvey, Dennis Miller, and Jon Lovitiz.
Really!? What civil rights do Blacks in the USA not have today?
The original cast was by far the best, but there are some later standouts, like Norm MacDonald, Jim Breuer, Dennis Miller... now it's just trash.
I started watching the same time you did. Watched for many years, with long fade outs of my interests, but there are still some good times. Kate McKinnon did 3 sketches (the lead character) on alien abduction that are as good as anything from the original cast. In one Ryan Gosling, the guest host, was laughing so hard he could barely stand - Kate was obviously improvising something *not* there in rehearsal.
Yeah, I hardly watch any of it anymore. Weekend Update is occasionally good. On point with this discussion - Colin and Che do a bit where they write jokes for each other and have to do them live without knowing the punchline till it shows up on the cue card. Che writes some incredibly outrageous ones that portray Colin and his family as racists. Of course, they're only funny because Che wrote them. Various collections are easily found on YT.
The uncensored clip is available on the SNL channel, so TH-cam will allow it.
Coming from a Black man, that was freaking funny!! I watched the uncensored version before seeing your reaction. LOL I remember seeing this when I was a kid. It reminds me of a dear, departed friend I had. We would do this now and then in front of people who though we were going to come to blows, until we started laughing and bought each other some pints. 😉
NatoBro: A friend of mine and I do this all the time from the white side. We start with, creep then loser then honky then honky honky then dead honky. It's a classic skit and it seems to me that if Chevy and Richard were ok with it then what's the harm. Richard really sells it with his facial twitches and stuff.
In high school (late 70s) I was listening to an 8-track tape of the soundtrack to Hair. Had my windows down sitting at a train track waiting to go and was singing along to the song Colored Spade. Looked to my left and saw a black person sitting there with his window down. I knoow he heard the song and I'm guessing he saw a look of horror on my face because he started laughing his ass off.
I watched this live in 1975, when I was 13. SNL such a key part of my life.
Let me translate...Chevy said 🤬then Richard said 🤬then Chevy said 🤬then Richard said 🤬 then Chevy said 🤬then Richard said 🤬....
Great reaction
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I love how it has rendered Diane SPEECHLESS. Totally speechless!!!! It's an example of the truism that only someone of a particular group can use epithets of that group. Obviously, here, Pryor was giving permission to Chase to use them. He probably wrote the script.
I remember this! My Mom walking through saying “Oh dear…then giggling away.”…. Trust me we knew better or we’d get our mouths washed out with soap. 😮
This was written by Richard Pryor's writer, Paul Mooney (born August 4, 1941, died May 19, 2021). He later created Homey the Clown for "In Living Color" (1990-1993) and became a stand up commedian in his own right after Richard Pryor stopped performing. Hoemy the Clown was played by Damon Wayans, who had been on SNL in the 1985-'86 season.
One of the funniest SNL sketches ever. When Richard Pryor was the guest host in the mid 70’s, they aired it with a 7 second delay to censor in case Pryor used one of the 7 words you couldn’t say on TV…an no that big one at the end wasn’t one of them. Richard Pryor also helped right this sketch and it was probably his idea.
Richard Pryor also helped write "Blazing Saddles" with Mel Brooks. He was also supposed to be in it. I forget why he couldn't do it.
@@EClark-nu5nr he was so controversial at the time the studio wouldn’t allow his casting.
Happy Monday. I remember the uncensored sketch back in the day, in the 70s. HILLARIOUS!! Especially since the show was late night (after 11:30pm), not censored as much as in prime time. But if you watched shows like "All in the Family" back then also, they threw around racial terms on air that is totally banned nowadays.
The old SNL.
They could air this kind of comedy because people weren’t offended by anything and everything like they are now. We all got along back in the day.
People’s skins are so thin today, it’s practically transparent.
I love when people post this kind of nonsense. Married couples weren't shown as sleeping in the same bed until 1969/70 because it was considered indecent and offensive.
Doggy curse words all sound like " Grrr. Ruff!"
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That's when Saturday Night Live was still funny
Yea, amazing how cutting edge humor falls completely flat and humorless when nobody can say anything someone won't like.
Back in the day people used to believe sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me
100% agree.
Now I need to find it. This is something I was too young to remember. Still in my programming, they broke down barriers.
Same
It was called comedy. Edgy sketches like this were usually performed after midnight New York time. If I am correct, Richard Pryor wrote this sketch.
It's certainly his style, either him or Paul Mooney.
Richard Pryor is one of the kings of comedy... i remember he had a comedy album titled "Bicentanial N****r" come out in 1976. There were no parental warnings on albums back then either. It was pure comedy!!
Born October 8, 1943. This episode aired Dec 13, 1975. He was 32. At the time of this writing, he is 79.
Diane, the uncensored sketch is readily available on TH-cam, at least here in the States. The sketch was written by Paul Mooney, himself a brilliant comedian and joke writer for Richard Pryor. And yes, Mooney was African American. And no, this sketch would never see the light of day these days, at least not on American network TV. Whether that's progress or the opposite of progress is open to debate.
Diane, some of these type presentations were very deliberate and done to make fun of racism. Realize that Blacks in America were made officially "equal" by the various Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s but that did not mean the whole population accepted the equality. Watch the Mel Brooks film "Blazing Saddles" for another example.
I can only imagine the uproar if SNL did this skit now. I'm thinking there would be a big apology tour afterwards and a big disclaimer attached
Possibly 💁🏼♀️
one of the best skits ever … Richard Pryor in the middle of his movie career n just after/before "Blazing Saddles."
Oh cool, I had recommended this sketch to you after you had asked for recommendations. So glad you used it!
I heard Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor hated each other in person so this controversial sketch kind of allowed the two to butt heads while on camera. I will say it's safe to say this sketch would never exist today.
Interesting!
Richard Pryor only hosted SNL with the insistence that his writer could write this skit. Chevy did not really want to say the word.
I figured Pryor was the creator of that.
Oh really? Wikipedia says it was written by both of them together
This skit is a classic. Richard Pryor was a legend. Back in the day when laughter was uncensored. Funny as hell. Actors would often go off script and improvised, which added greatly to the laughs. Early SNL was always willing to take some risks to get serious laughs, since it was late night TV it had fewer restrictions, back then. Today SNL is just pathetic.
It's called cutting edge comedy. Beautiful Irish 👧 girl..
I can't believe this has stayed up for over an hour. I saw it in the first run, but you would never see that sketch now.
I loved the way Chewie was looking at you like he just knew there was something wrong. LOL
When you posted your other Richard Pryor video this was exactly the sketch I thought of. The funny thing is for ages I had only +heard+ this sketch because it was included on a "Best of Saturday Night Live" record my family had.
Richard's reaction to tar baby and then after he said dead honky is one of the funniest things ever.
Poor Diane!😂 First questionable Christmas parades in Spain & now this. We got a dog in Panama 🇵🇦 who probably used bad doggy language at any Panamanian who came near our house, didn’t mind other Latinos, somehow could specifically discern Panamanians.
I feel like some vids are better on Patreon only where we can have fair conversations 😂 imagine the mayhem of that video here!
@@DianeJennings you might become a YT celebrity for all the worst reasons😂
If it wasn't for the fire crackling in the back I would have thought my wifi was broke at the end! 😆
This was back in the day when Saturday night live was actually funny and had a great cast. I quit watching it when it went political. Thanks for sharing it D. Have a nice evening! ❤️U☘️🇮🇪🇺🇸
It has always been political.
@@loopslytle not like it is today. It’s not funny and the cast sucks.
I stopped watching years ago largely because it's gotten much less political. So tamed down for the lowest common denominator, much more "safe", much less political satire.
The video being reacted to right here is of a very political sketch, after all.
@Roland Lytle So you think this sketch wasn’t political?
I think you could argue that this very sketch was meant to be political. I think you mean you quit watching when its politics got stupid. :)
But yes, the 70s were a much better time than now. Everyone is too sensitive today and as a result more divided.
Irish Girl gets an earful.
Thanks for doing this, I know how much you despise SNL because of their blocking policies.
Comment on your thumbnail: how was this allowed on television? Lots of things were allowed on television. We knew how to laugh with each other then. This is what made All in the Family so popular.
Even Chewie was speechless !
I didn't know that gas fireplaces crackled...lol 🤔
The funny thing (looking back) is that NBC ran this episode on a four-second delay (without telling him), because Richard Pryor had a reputation as a "dirty" comedian, and they wanted to be prepared to bleep him if he went off script and used "bad language." This sketch did not constitute what they considered bad language.
I remember when that aired it was hysterical. It was eyebrow raising back then. It was another time when everbody laughed at themselves and didn't take anything too seriously. Satire and parody where the kings of comedy. You had Carlin, Wright, Pryor, SNL, Mark Russell a whole slew of satirist.
It is even better when the "bad words" aren't beeped out. They were in there. In full force on network TV for a reason. Shielding a viewership from that robs the emotional work they put into making the piece.
I've never seen this before, so I looked at the full video. I always felt he was one of the most honest comics I ever saw. Surprisingly my mother (who didn't see this kind of stuff) loved him but called him Roger Pryor.
:) Saturday Night Live was really live back then. I remember watching this... it was amazing.
This went down in history, as one of the most controversial, and one of the funniest comedy moments in U.S history. Richard Pryor is comic royalty here in the U.S, he was a genius, Richard was able to bring races together with his comedy. Richard is my all time favorite. Check out his work, and he will have you rolling with laughter. He is able to do this without offending anyone, this takes the mind of a genius. Please check out his bit on the mafia, I was crying with laughter.
I saw this when it was first on. It was groundbreaking and absolutely hysterical. The 1970s were a different time.
It got on the air because once upon a time there was a thing called humor.
I watched this when it originally aired. One of the funniest skits they ever did!
So funny to see your reactions to these things. I’m 63 and fortunately got to see all these things when I was younger. It certainly is a different world now.
You can see Pryor about to laugh as Chase is trying to give him more money
Lol indeed! I know this video by heart! I recorded that episode on VHS when it aired. This was a pure joy to watch, and your reaction to it did not disappoint!
This was 1975 so about 14 years before Christmas Vacation came out. Chevy was the break out star on SNL and was being touted as the person that would replace Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. Image if someone was being touted as the person to take over The Toy Show, but they did it every night.
The good old days when you could make jokes and not be afraid of getting cancelled...
The stunned silence at the end was just perfect!
100% agree
Yep, agreed.
yes indeed
This was late nite and they pushed the boundaries to the max. Anyone who is a fan of Richard Prior would expect a maximum effort by all of the cast.
Watch Richard Prior in concert when he talked about his trip to Africa.......... Funny beyond measure .. People today are just too thin skinned and No sense of humor ...... enjoy
Ah Richard Pryor. What a flaming genius. 😂
Similar to a skit Richard Pryor did on his own show. The Richard Pryor show skit the "Titanic", has a young Robin Williams on the show. Richard pushed the envelop many times. He found humor in everything, even himself getting burnt up when he was doing drugs. In a comedy show, while holding a lit match and moving it from one side of his body to the other. "What's that? .... Richard Pryor running down the street."
Richard Pryor co-wrote on this skit, as well as co-writing the movie Blazing Saddles with Mel Brooks a year or so before this SNL skit aired. The entirety of purpose was to lampoon racism and show it for the BS that it is. The best way to do that is not to sugarcoat the offensiveness, but to shine light upon it and make people aware of just how much it stinks. A classic skit and if you've not seen the movie, do so.
Thank you for reacting to it Diane!
No problem 😊
I absolutely loved that clip. I saw it many times over the years. I can't believe my parents (primarily my father) let me and my sister watch this. 😅😅😅
One of my favorite skits from the early days of SNL is Garrett Morris as a prisoner. He's playing the piano and singing about "Killing all the Whities he see's".
'Dese were da good old dayz. When you could laugh at ANYTHING. And everybody got along just fine. Nobody was worried about being offended. They were too busy laughing and living.
this is my generation. this generation is too damn sensitive.
I saw this when it was first on and it was funny but my biggest laughs now were from watching your reaction.
Fun fact: Richard Pryor & Chevy really didn't like each other. Same with Chevy & George Carlin.
Everyone seems to feel chevys a jerk irl
I watched this when it came out live, and, yes, it was a shock during the mid 1970s. Richard Pryor, the black comedian, definitely was behind this sketch. Prior, a very famous comedian, was also a screen writer, and wrote the script to Mel Brook’s Blazing Saddles believe it or not...
There is another set of classic skits from SNL not really seen much these days: “The Bellaire Arabs”. It’s a play off of the “Beverly Hillbillies” acting as a commentary of the ABSCAM scandal...
Not only was it Aired... it Aired LIVE!!
I went and saw a opera over the weekend. It was horrible, however it did end on a high note
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@@chipparmley Outstanding!
That's what I loved about SNL in the 70s and early 80s: they could get away with anything. Nothing was sacred or taboo.
AWW the way Chewie was looking at you when you stopped the clip =D
He’s such an emotionally intelligent boy
What I want to say about this, Diane, is ***BEEP*** ***BEEP*** ***BEEP*** ***BEEP***!
I'm happy I'm able to register my honest opinion here.
to bad prior wasn't ever on "all in the family" - would of loved to see prior take on archie.....
Imagine...It was only a couple of generations ago that people routinely talked like this in public.
It was written by Pryor and its comedy gold
Is this where that "never before face" came from on the community tab couple weeks ago? Was in college late 70's and watched all these live...they're all still a Hoot! ConeHeads and the Killer Bees were my favs. Remember, this was Live TV, no retakes!
😂different vid
You overcome issues, not by hiding the ugliness, but by airing it for all to see and hear. People used to have enough common sense to know this.
Things like this could only be aired on late night tv.
I remember watching that live.
It was the first time SNL had a 5 second delay. Pryor had a reputation for cursing and the show had to add the delay to keep the network happy.
I think I had to pretend to go to sleep early and then sneak downstairs after my parents fell asleep in order to watch it. LOL
I remember it. It made me smile at the time. SNL managed to do one time shots like that one, a long time ago.
I'd forgotten how funny those two were, especially when they were together and playing off each other's reactions. Dan Aykroyd did a lot of good work with Chevy Chase, too, FYI. You might enjoy some of their movies, as well as Richard Pryor's stand-up comedy routines. He was hilarious.
Just keep in mind that this was aired a long time ago, at a time before hurt feelings were the expected and accepted way of life. And no, I'm not condoning that language...not in real life, anyway...but we tend to give a lot of leeway to artists, especially when they're pointing out the foibles of our society, or, in this case, I believe, helping to address the problems effectively and bringing these issues to the forefront of our conversations.
Also, as an American who has paid for our freedoms, I firmly believe that people can say whatever they want as long as they aren't inciting illegal actions. Yeah, it's crude. And yeah, it's not how I choose to live my life. But I'll be g-ddamned if I'm going to tell someone else that they can't say whatever it is that they want to say. I can always choose to walk away from the conversation, or choose not to associate with people who talk like that. Nowadays, though, I have noticed that, for some time now, there seems to be a similar yet reversed mentality regarding free speech, a mindset in which a lot of people, especially American women, seem to believe that just because they have a right to say what they want to say, there somehow exists an obligation on me, or upon whomever is the target of their speech, to have to listen to whatever it is that they want to say. But this isn't the case, either. So I can just walk away from whomever it is who wants to tell me all about how things are or aren't. But the point is that I have that choice, that freedom not to listen to these donkeys, just as they have their freedom of speech. It cuts both ways.
YES, Richard Pryor, Good choice. He’s fabulous. Watch more, can’t go wrong.
Richard Pryor used the word all of the time, even going so far as to use it in the names of 3 of his albums.