This is absolutely hilarious. And one of the best things is hearing Kevin Pollak, who is of the right generation to fully appreciate the material, laughing uproariously. Great stuff.
It's eerie how Bill can instantly switch on an impression subject's voice like that. It's so precise. Kevin's a top notch impressionist as well. Bill's Alan Alda is so close, I bet most people with eyes shut couldn't distinguish the two.
yeah i actually think if Bill hosted and Dana came out for that sketch, the whole place would erupt instantly and basically be primed to love whatever they're doing together. i think it would kill. the audience the night they ran it originally probably just didn't get it but it's clear that the rest of us think it's hilarious.
The closest thing we have to it is a late 90s sketch with Greg Kinnear and Darrell Hammond. They both did Ted Koppel impressions with Kinnear using portraying Koppel's fictional brother who like Casey's son has a f-ed up back story that has caused the more famous family member to disown the other. Similarly to how described the crowd didn't react all that well to it maybe since it was a little too weird and dark. But a great sketch nonetheless just as this one would have been.
To this day I resent that audience from the depths of my inner core for destroying any chance of ever seeing that sketch come to life….Every time he recounts the creation of this bit with Dana & Mulaney and I visualize what it could have been I die laughing.
It tanked because you’re doing an absolutely HILARIOUS sketch (thanks Bill!) to a different generation who hadn’t even heard of the legendary DJ. What a shame. This is funny as all get out!
Only thing that changes is the # of hits Mariah Carey had, lol. He doesn’t lock a specific integer into his memory throughout interviews, which is interesting
I totally agree. Isn't it interesting that someone like Casey Kasem, who was soooo well known back then, has been so quickly forgotten? Even the little things referred to in the skit, like the "here's a note" line, which would have absolutely killed in the 80s, would garner just a "huh?" from the audience today.
I wonder if the audience just didn't have enough familiarity with Kasem because, as someone who grew up listening to him, I was doubled over laughing just at Hader's rendition.
@@jon8004 Casem would read letters sent in from listeners, so familiarity was also required there, though I'd think Bill and Dana's delivery would've been good enough for at least some laughs. I _really_ wish we could see the recorded version.
@@BassByTheBay I didn't write "whole." I wrote "perhaps...some." Plus, one does not have to have experienced that tragedy oneself to be able to empathize with those others who have.
@@bobdavis4848 What's your point? That the audience didn't laugh because _some_ of them never laugh at the mere mention of a drug dealer since they immediately think about the fact that some people die from ODs? We're talking about SNL here. They _constantly_ make references to all sorts of subjects which can be related to some negative experience. Ever see the one where Alec Baldwin tried to molest Canteen Boy? The audience was laughing hysterically. You think audiences are sympathetic to drug ODs but not to victims of sexual assault? I think you're grasping at straws. Having watched well over 40 years of SNL, I know the audiences aren't nearly that sensitive.
This sketch is nuclear IF you grew up listening to Casey’s Top 40. A “violation of expectations” as Harold Ramis called it - is the engine here. I would’ve guessed Kasem’s phrasing was inherently funny enough to carry the younger crowd but guess not! I hope someday Dana & Bill will record this one together- I need it! 😂
It doesn’t make sense though, I’m 35 and we all knew who Casey was. He was even on Saved by the Bell. Without context to a younger generation, it’s still hilarious. This was the last cast that was actually funny on snl.
@@MyNameJeff.. I think it’s you really have to be raised on Casey’s top 40 show. He was like a robot God on high telling you which songs were better than other songs this week. He alone seemed to decide. THEN for this perfect robot God to have a serious family problems (Adayo etc) BUT still handle it all in the same smooth DJ style = an explosion of expectations which = true hilarity. But it’s just a theory, I wasn’t there and Bill seems truly mystified too.
Without knowing who Kasem is, it probably just came off as strange to the audience. Why are both father and son talking in this strange distinct voice? Why are they asking each other about musicians number one hits? Why is he reading a letter? And most of all… why is the torpedo Lebanese? 😆
I must have just heard about this sketch so many times that I thought I actually had seen it! The way they describe it, and perform it, it feels like there’s no way this couldn’t have killed!
“When are you gonna get a job? When are you gonna move out? And what recording artist has more number one hits?” “Mariah Carey with 17. But seriously dad, there’s a drug dealer after me named Mateo.”
I was in a comedy sketch troupe for a while back in the nineties and this is so true. You can put something up that you are one hundred percent sure will kill and the audience is having none of it. Conversely, you can dash a little something off that you're so-so on but the audience thinks it's the funniest things they've ever seen in their lives. And in both cases, you're like "Really? Welp. Okay, then." Like it didn't happen often but once in a while it could come along and surprise you.
That sketch sounds absolutely hilarious. I wish that Carvey and Hader could get to bring it back and do it when SNL has their 50 Anniversary show in a couple years.
100%!!! I've heard him recount the sketch on Conan, Smartless and now here and I laugh every single time he tells it. Seth needs to get on this!! I really also want to know why audience didn't find it funny, it sounds like it should have been a home run!
Exactly. Just do it un-announced around the hollidays or a special. Just do it cold in the middle of the show with all the cast members who were in the dress rehersal there. Boomers and Xer's would go nuts. American top 40 was on everyones radio on Saturday afternoons in the 80's
I would love to have seen this! As a kid, my friend and I would do a similar skit with each other because we both could do a half decent Casey Kasem impression! I still do it to this day! 😃👍
It must have been a super young audience who had no idea who Kasey Kasem was ... because this was a hilarious idea performed by 2 greats with unholy timing and spot on impressions
Hader is SO FUNNY ! When I first saw him on as a no, he was doing Vincent Price and I’m convinced there were so many people in the audience, who had no idea who Price was … he was hilarious in the skit, it was priceless😢. I wish I could’ve been there, for the Kasem skit - I would’ve been laughing so hard
If you're too young to have experienced listening to Casey Kasem do the top 40 every Saturday, you missed out. Man, the 80s were an amazing time to be in HS.
I got into radio during that era as a fan and when Casey left the weekly Top 40, I recall Rick Dees taking over by saying *”The biggest shoes to fill in this profession were just handed to me, Casey I hope I do you proud.”*
Well, glad you enjoyed it so much. I always thought the top 40 music from then (well, for decades, really) sucked arse. I hated that show, and I'm far from alone in that take.
@@kevinlakeman5043 Did I like most of the "Top 40" in the 80's? NO. But there was a lot to like and it was the zeitgeist of the 80's. Cruiseing in your car... Top 40 was on at least 4 radio stations. Stop in a gas station... the clerk has Top 40 on the radio... Go to a freinds house... Sister is listening to Top 40 in her bedroom, mom has it on in the kitchen radio. Go to the girlfriends to pick her up... Kasey is countin' em down on her radio in the bathroom. If you were listening to the radio on 06/22/85 you at least heard a couple of songs on American Top 40.
I remember when a friend and I first watched the movie Clerks - our sides were splitting. We kept having to rewind to get dialog we missed for laughing. So, I wanted to show it to another friend of mine and he reacted to it like I was forcing him to watch an autopsy. When I saw the movie After Hours, the first time, at a theater in Boston, the audience was roaring with laughter all throughout. A few weeks later I was visiting my hometown in the midwest and it was playing there and I wanted to see it again with my old best friend and we went and the audience sat and watched it, they were riveted, clearly very into the movie, but there was almost no laughter, at all. They had no idea they were watching a comedy.
Clerks was so great. I did wonder though if people who weren’t from NJ or the northeast would appreciate it. I know some people just didn’t get it. Which is exactly how I felt about Napoleon Dynamite. I just didn’t get it. Different strokes…
@@mariosargiropoulos1715 I'm from the middle of rural Iowa and Clerks hit me right to the bone. I'm 53 so a X-er and the zeitgeist of the times still resonates. Still love it and all the Jay and Silent Bob movies,; but I wonder what my 17 year old daughter thinks of them?
Whereas I feel enriched that I have now heard of this sketch and at least gotten a glimpse of its genius I feel a great sense of loss that some shmucks ruined the fun for the rest of us. THANKS you wet blankets! Kudos to Bill Hader and Dana Carvey. They are indeed quite the fellows.
I'm completely mad at the audience that didn't find this funny, thus ripping us all off from seeing a sketch that would have been hilarious. Just listening to the description of it has me tearing up from laughter.
I love Kevin Pollak. I really like his work as an actor. But he's beginning to build a catalog of celebrities to be the next Robert Osbourne with all the stories he knows. It's a great direction. Spot-on performance by Bill. Wonderful impression!
I had to uncomfortably stifle my laughter in public listening to this. I have no idea how an audience full of people would not respond to this hilarious sketch.
I’ve always done a pretty good Casey Kasem. I’ve always had fun cracking up my family with it. This sketch would have been RIGHT up my alley. It amazes me how unfamiliar younger people are today with things from even 30 years ago. I’m 44, but I’ve always been familiar with even things from my grandparents generation. Even further back than that in some cases. But Casey was THE voice of national radio when I was growing up. Such a distinctive iconic voice. And Carvey could do him spot on.
I just saw an old SCTV sketch on youtube with the great Eugene Levy doing an amazing, spot on Howard Cosell. And then it occurred to me, my teenage kids (I had kids late) wouldn't get it. Such an equally iconic voice, lost to the mists of time. Outside of Trump, I can't think of current celebrities - DJs, sportscasters, even actors (comparable to e.g. Nicholson, Pacino and De Niro) - with unique voices who attract the imitators.
So the entire premise of the sketch was: Casey Kasem and son discuss deeply personal details about their relationship. . .and that Casey Kasem's unique idiolect isn't for radio, but a families genetic condition. Brilliant. And I can totally see a crowd not being into it.
Can do a couple impressions; Carson, Hepburn and Casey Kasem/Shaggy. Had a karaoke during the summer where I emceed as Casey/Tracy/Stacey Kasem all night. Few people got it, most were too young. But would have loved to have seen this skit.
Being that the dress rehearsal audience is different from the air audience, it's very possible that the audience watching it live may have thought it was pretty good. Sometimes audiences are just flat.
Some things are funnier when the story is told than when it actually happened. For example, I don't like the real Three Stooges. Do a parody of them, or tell a story about them, then I'm totally rolling. Bill Hader's description is told much more humorusly than the reality, I suspect.
Funny that there’s such a fine line to getting things on air. The audience in dress didn’t like it - but the performers also don’t like it if it kills in the dress rehearsal, because they know they won’t get the magic back for the live show. Different people in the audience too, but that’s how it goes
They are sketches, not "skits." Trust me, people who do sketch comedy absolutely hate when people call what they do "skits." It minimizes the work they do.
OMG! That is GENIUS! No way a human-being talks like Casey Kasem did, in every day life. It is brilliant to imagine Casey Kasem talking like that during serious moments in his life. This should have been a recurring sketch. Bill Hader and Daney Carvey need to crowdfund this sketch.
When I was growing up, I knew all kinds of pop-culture references that predated my birth. I work at a college, and I’ve found that young people today have a much more limited awareness. It’s really strange how little they know.
Growing up all of the comedy I loved was made by Baby Boomers who grew up in the 60’s and 70’s (The Simpsons, Seinfeld, MST3K, etc.). In order to understand a lot of the jokes you had to have a cursory knowledge of stuff from that era (and even the stuff that those writers had watched on TV as a kid, like old movies from the 40’s and 50’s)… I learned a lot about older 20th century culture this way. Maybe kids today just don’t get their entertainment from the previous generation… they get it from other kids their age making stuff.
Pollak did #BillHader a solid at Aspen, Hader began sobbing it meant t so much to him. In this segment he also says to Kevin 'that was the height of my career, man, thank you.'
Yep, that’s where we’ve been for the last few seasons: Hader’s impromptu recollected performance of a sketch that died in dress is 10,000 times funnier than anything SNL has put out in at least five years. This has to rank with Michael O’Donoghue’s “Silverman’s Bunker” sketch as SNL’s best ever unaired sketch.
I'm not saying I know Mike Kasem, but I have seen him act on a few shows in Singapore. It's almost exactly like Bill and John knew "the real J.C. Kasem", son of Casey Kasem. Props to Mike, it can't be easy having to live with this level of satire attached to your legacy. It's not you, it's your roles.
light music scored underneath may have assisted the audience with this one. id love to see dana & hader co-host an episode together this Fall or both host & both jump in to eachothers’ episodes & officially giving us 2 of these sketches
This is absolutely hilarious. And one of the best things is hearing Kevin Pollak, who is of the right generation to fully appreciate the material, laughing uproariously. Great stuff.
It's eerie how Bill can instantly switch on an impression subject's voice like that. It's so precise. Kevin's a top notch impressionist as well. Bill's Alan Alda is so close, I bet most people with eyes shut couldn't distinguish the two.
Based impression connoisseur
I've been saying for years that Hader's Alda is one of the best impressions of all time.
@@belizetourism1218 peter serafinowicz's alan alda impression is also spot on. both are indistinguishable from the real guy
his john malkovich impression is terrifyingly good
Listen to Jaime Foxx's Trump impression. It's dead on.
Right I was thinking he'll this guys so talented he could be as good as the best radio dj in history !
This unaired sketch has become legendary. “Here’s a letter” gets me every time 🤣
Hearing that shit unlocked a memory from my childhood
This skit MUST be completed!!! It MUST be seen!!!. Bill Hader is amazing! What a talent!.
yeah i actually think if Bill hosted and Dana came out for that sketch, the whole place would erupt instantly and basically be primed to love whatever they're doing together. i think it would kill. the audience the night they ran it originally probably just didn't get it but it's clear that the rest of us think it's hilarious.
The closest thing we have to it is a late 90s sketch with Greg Kinnear and Darrell Hammond. They both did Ted Koppel impressions with Kinnear using portraying Koppel's fictional brother who like Casey's son has a f-ed up back story that has caused the more famous family member to disown the other. Similarly to how described the crowd didn't react all that well to it maybe since it was a little too weird and dark. But a great sketch nonetheless just as this one would have been.
Only if you call it a sketch. It's not a skit.
I daresay he just did complete it.
@@gmh471
"I will come at you like a Lebanese torpedo" is my favorite threat.
Of course, people need to know that Casey Kasem was Lebanese.
@@gmh471everyone knows
To this day I resent that audience from the depths of my inner core for destroying any chance of ever seeing that sketch come to life….Every time he recounts the creation of this bit with Dana & Mulaney and I visualize what it could have been I die laughing.
This, this, this. Fuck that audience with a Lebanese.....something or other.
It tanked because you’re doing an absolutely HILARIOUS sketch (thanks Bill!) to a different generation who hadn’t even heard of the legendary DJ. What a shame. This is funny as all get out!
the same show had Dana doing a Mickey Rooney impression. Mickeys first film credit was 1926...
I mean I’m 35 and I laughed my dick clean off my body when he said, “but seriously dad, there’s a drug dealer after me named Mateo”
It’s crazy that he can basically still remember the entire sketch word for word
He remembers the story word for word because he’s been telling it for years and years.
Only thing that changes is the # of hits Mariah Carey had, lol. He doesn’t lock a specific integer into his memory throughout interviews, which is interesting
word for word is called Verbatim.
@@drdrew3 yeah, wrote it, acted it out several times, and told the story over and over. Not surprising he remembers it pretty much word for word.
@@Phukugoooglification What should we do with this information?
If that played in the 80s while Dana was on the show, we'd be talking about the best sketch they ever did.
yea it's dated material for one thing. also to me it seems like it's comedy that's geared mostly for other comedians. i was laughing though
I totally agree. Isn't it interesting that someone like Casey Kasem, who was soooo well known back then, has been so quickly forgotten? Even the little things referred to in the skit, like the "here's a note" line, which would have absolutely killed in the 80s, would garner just a "huh?" from the audience today.
Thing is, I have no idea who Casey Casam is, and this still has me rollin!
Idk how it could have bombed. Seems top tier w/o any references.
@@mostawesomecomment6553He was the voice of Shaggy on Scooby Doo, amongst other things.
@@peabody3000 I don’t line dated material, but I do like figged material. Yuk Yuk
I wonder if the audience just didn't have enough familiarity with Kasem because, as someone who grew up listening to him, I was doubled over laughing just at Hader's rendition.
@@jon8004 Casem would read letters sent in from listeners, so familiarity was also required there, though I'd think Bill and Dana's delivery would've been good enough for at least some laughs. I _really_ wish we could see the recorded version.
Perhaps...some of the audience had a loved one who died from a drug OD? (Like I have?) So drug content kills the amusement for them?
@@bobdavis4848 Pretty sure that doesn't account for the whole audience.
@@BassByTheBay I didn't write "whole." I wrote "perhaps...some." Plus, one does not have to have experienced that tragedy oneself to be able to empathize with those others who have.
@@bobdavis4848 What's your point? That the audience didn't laugh because _some_ of them never laugh at the mere mention of a drug dealer since they immediately think about the fact that some people die from ODs? We're talking about SNL here. They _constantly_ make references to all sorts of subjects which can be related to some negative experience. Ever see the one where Alec Baldwin tried to molest Canteen Boy? The audience was laughing hysterically. You think audiences are sympathetic to drug ODs but not to victims of sexual assault? I think you're grasping at straws. Having watched well over 40 years of SNL, I know the audiences aren't nearly that sensitive.
This skit MUST be completed!!! It MUST be seen!!!
Maybe the skit can be created with AI. 💻 🤖
"Last Chance Theatre" on Seth Myers maybe?
Even his impression of wind is good
I wish so so much there was some dress footage of this sketch. Even if it was no laughs on the set…god, I die just hearing the story.
I could swear they had it online briefly. I remember seeing it (I think).
@@4seeableTV I do know they did it later at a club called “Largo.” Maybe that was it? I didn’t see that one either. :(
They film all the dress rehearsals, so all of that footage exists. Just not released.
You basically just got it
I'm in tears laughing so hard watching this!😂 They should still film and do that skit on their own
This sketch is nuclear IF you grew up listening to Casey’s Top 40.
A “violation of expectations” as Harold Ramis called it - is the engine here.
I would’ve guessed Kasem’s phrasing was inherently funny enough to carry the younger crowd but guess not!
I hope someday Dana & Bill will record this one together- I need it! 😂
I think you nailed it.
@@sgt.thundercok4704 A compliment on social media? I’ll have it bronzed!
It doesn’t make sense though, I’m 35 and we all knew who Casey was. He was even on Saved by the Bell. Without context to a younger generation, it’s still hilarious. This was the last cast that was actually funny on snl.
@@MyNameJeff.. I think it’s you really have to be raised on Casey’s top 40 show.
He was like a robot God on high telling you which songs were better than other songs this week. He alone seemed to decide.
THEN for this perfect robot God to have a serious family problems (Adayo etc) BUT still handle it all in the same smooth DJ style = an explosion of expectations which = true hilarity.
But it’s just a theory, I wasn’t there and Bill seems truly mystified too.
@@touchofdumb you had to know this for the parody to work
Bill Hader is amazing! What a talent!
I love that Bill still immediately cracks up if the sketch is just mentioned after all these years, no cognitive dissonance reduction here :)
it just seems patently impossible that that sketch wouldn't absolutely murder. i was fucking dying just hearing about it. hader is the shit
It's because Casey Kasem was a long time ago and most people have the attention span of a dead jellyfish.
Without knowing who Kasem is, it probably just came off as strange to the audience. Why are both father and son talking in this strange distinct voice? Why are they asking each other about musicians number one hits? Why is he reading a letter? And most of all… why is the torpedo Lebanese? 😆
@@mariosargiropoulos1715 You would think they could put 2 and 2 together based on his name alone. 😅
I must have just heard about this sketch so many times that I thought I actually had seen it! The way they describe it, and perform it, it feels like there’s no way this couldn’t have killed!
“When are you gonna get a job? When are you gonna move out? And what recording artist has more number one hits?”
“Mariah Carey with 17. But seriously dad, there’s a drug dealer after me named Mateo.”
even reading it back, it's hilarious
I've watched this 5 times and I can't get past that moment with cracking up.
I was in a comedy sketch troupe for a while back in the nineties and this is so true. You can put something up that you are one hundred percent sure will kill and the audience is having none of it. Conversely, you can dash a little something off that you're so-so on but the audience thinks it's the funniest things they've ever seen in their lives. And in both cases, you're like "Really? Welp. Okay, then." Like it didn't happen often but once in a while it could come along and surprise you.
That sketch sounds absolutely hilarious.
I wish that Carvey and Hader could get to bring it back and do it when SNL has their 50 Anniversary show in a couple years.
I can't watch this without tearing up I'm laughing so hard.
I laughed my ass off from this interview, I think it was a genius idea.
If this hasn't been on Seth Meyers' rejected SNL sketches segment, it should be
100%!!! I've heard him recount the sketch on Conan, Smartless and now here and I laugh every single time he tells it. Seth needs to get on this!! I really also want to know why audience didn't find it funny, it sounds like it should have been a home run!
I love how much Kevin loves this sketch.
So, we all were denied seeing a hilarious sketch because they had a shitty audience.
I could watch Bill Hader or Kevin Pollak interviews all day. Put them together - wow!
Kevin is an awesome impressionist himself, having done a lot of standup before getting movie parts.
He does a crazy Christopher Walken.
Watching Hader's foot vibrate underneath the table. Can relate
Bill Hader laughing is one of my favourite things.
I need to see that sketch. Im cracking up listening to what it could have been...thanks live audience! Must've been flown in from the view
They need to get everyone back and do this sketch to prove it works I was laughing with Bill talking about it
Exactly. Just do it un-announced around the hollidays or a special. Just do it cold in the middle of the show with all the cast members who were in the dress rehersal there. Boomers and Xer's would go nuts. American top 40 was on everyones radio on Saturday afternoons in the 80's
@@seththomas9105 Would love this. This sketch sounds so funny.
I would love to have seen this! As a kid, my friend and I would do a similar skit with each other because we both could do a half decent Casey Kasem impression! I still do it to this day! 😃👍
Bill Hader: One of the funniest humans of humanity
It must have been a super young audience who had no idea who Kasey Kasem was ... because this was a hilarious idea performed by 2 greats with unholy timing and spot on impressions
OMG, I was cracking up just picturing it!! Wow.😂😂
How could this possibly have bombed????????? Lol hilarious sketch
Crappy audience.
Hader is SO FUNNY ! When I first saw him on as a no, he was doing Vincent Price and I’m convinced there were so many people in the audience, who had no idea who Price was … he was hilarious in the skit, it was priceless😢. I wish I could’ve been there, for the Kasem skit - I would’ve been laughing so hard
The skit with Vincent Price was priceless?
The "Drug dealer named Mateo" absolutely kills me!!!
The audience had no idea anymore who Casey Kasem was.
I have never seen Casey Kasem and I laughed my ass off
You pretty much just saw him.
Nobody saw Casey Kasem. Everybody heard him.
I was cracking up. And now i wish i could see the full recorded thing with him and Dana Carvey 😂
If you're too young to have experienced listening to Casey Kasem do the top 40 every Saturday, you missed out. Man, the 80s were an amazing time to be in HS.
I got into radio during that era as a fan and when Casey left the weekly Top 40, I recall Rick Dees taking over by saying *”The biggest shoes to fill in this profession were just handed to me, Casey I hope I do you proud.”*
Well, glad you enjoyed it so much. I always thought the top 40 music from then (well, for decades, really) sucked arse. I hated that show, and I'm far from alone in that take.
@@kevinlakeman5043 Did I like most of the "Top 40" in the 80's? NO. But there was a lot to like and it was the zeitgeist of the 80's. Cruiseing in your car... Top 40 was on at least 4 radio stations. Stop in a gas station... the clerk has Top 40 on the radio... Go to a freinds house... Sister is listening to Top 40 in her bedroom, mom has it on in the kitchen radio. Go to the girlfriends to pick her up... Kasey is countin' em down on her radio in the bathroom. If you were listening to the radio on 06/22/85 you at least heard a couple of songs on American Top 40.
I still remember: Sunday morning on the way to church, first time I ever heard the Beatles, 11 years old, Kasem introducing ‘Yesterday’.
@@Kaddywompous Wasn't it an amazing time to be kid. Cheers.
I remember when a friend and I first watched the movie Clerks - our sides were splitting. We kept having to rewind to get dialog we missed for laughing. So, I wanted to show it to another friend of mine and he reacted to it like I was forcing him to watch an autopsy. When I saw the movie After Hours, the first time, at a theater in Boston, the audience was roaring with laughter all throughout. A few weeks later I was visiting my hometown in the midwest and it was playing there and I wanted to see it again with my old best friend and we went and the audience sat and watched it, they were riveted, clearly very into the movie, but there was almost no laughter, at all. They had no idea they were watching a comedy.
Clerks was so great. I did wonder though if people who weren’t from NJ or the northeast would appreciate it.
I know some people just didn’t get it. Which is exactly how I felt about Napoleon Dynamite. I just didn’t get it. Different strokes…
@@mariosargiropoulos1715 I'm from the middle of rural Iowa and Clerks hit me right to the bone. I'm 53 so a X-er and the zeitgeist of the times still resonates. Still love it and all the Jay and Silent Bob movies,; but I wonder what my 17 year old daughter thinks of them?
Why don’t you ask her ?
@@714cjp It's easier to just wonder.
@@714cjp Just never really thought to. I guess that was a bit rhetorical.
Definitely needs to be on Late Night Second Chance Theater.
This is the funniest sketch that didn’t air. I always love hearing this one.
Just reading the title of the sketch out loud sent Bill into a fit of laughter.
Whereas I feel enriched that I have now heard of this sketch and at least gotten a glimpse of its genius I feel a great sense of loss that some shmucks ruined the fun for the rest of us.
THANKS you wet blankets!
Kudos to Bill Hader and Dana Carvey. They are indeed quite the fellows.
I knew Casey from Robin and Shaggy before I heard him on the radio. Hearing his voice outside of tv always cracked me up.
I miss this show so much - love the long form warts and all
Bill Harder and Kevin Pollak are TREASURES!!!
Imagine what dreck made it to air instead of this masterpiece.
I'm completely mad at the audience that didn't find this funny, thus ripping us all off from seeing a sketch that would have been hilarious. Just listening to the description of it has me tearing up from laughter.
💕 Hader.
I love Kevin Pollak. I really like his work as an actor. But he's beginning to build a catalog of celebrities to be the next Robert Osbourne with all the stories he knows. It's a great direction.
Spot-on performance by Bill. Wonderful impression!
Dana Carvey and Bill Hader should do the sketch right now and post it on social media and TH-cam
There needs to be some crowd funding to get this sketch turned into a movie...
Can Kasem send Barry after the drug dealer?
I had to uncomfortably stifle my laughter in public listening to this. I have no idea how an audience full of people would not respond to this hilarious sketch.
Bill Hader Rabbit Hole is one of my faves
I’ve always done a pretty good Casey Kasem. I’ve always had fun cracking up my family with it. This sketch would have been RIGHT up my alley. It amazes me how unfamiliar younger people are today with things from even 30 years ago. I’m 44, but I’ve always been familiar with even things from my grandparents generation. Even further back than that in some cases. But Casey was THE voice of national radio when I was growing up. Such a distinctive iconic voice. And Carvey could do him spot on.
I just saw an old SCTV sketch on youtube with the great Eugene Levy doing an amazing, spot on Howard Cosell. And then it occurred to me, my teenage kids (I had kids late) wouldn't get it. Such an equally iconic voice, lost to the mists of time. Outside of Trump, I can't think of current celebrities - DJs, sportscasters, even actors (comparable to e.g. Nicholson, Pacino and De Niro) - with unique voices who attract the imitators.
That was hysterical just envisioning it.
Bring back the Dana Carvey Show and do this sketch!
OMG!!!! This is gold Jerry, gold!!!
So the entire premise of the sketch was: Casey Kasem and son discuss deeply personal details about their relationship. . .and that Casey Kasem's unique idiolect isn't for radio, but a families genetic condition.
Brilliant. And I can totally see a crowd not being into it.
Can do a couple impressions; Carson, Hepburn and Casey Kasem/Shaggy.
Had a karaoke during the summer where I emceed as Casey/Tracy/Stacey Kasem all night.
Few people got it, most were too young. But would have loved to have seen this skit.
oh god, I am dying in tears, this is great!
The audience has no sense of humor. That was funny.
Being that the dress rehearsal audience is different from the air audience, it's very possible that the audience watching it live may have thought it was pretty good. Sometimes audiences are just flat.
Some things are funnier when the story is told than when it actually happened. For example, I don't like the real Three Stooges. Do a parody of them, or tell a story about them, then I'm totally rolling. Bill Hader's description is told much more humorusly than the reality, I suspect.
Funny that there’s such a fine line to getting things on air. The audience in dress didn’t like it - but the performers also don’t like it if it kills in the dress rehearsal, because they know they won’t get the magic back for the live show. Different people in the audience too, but that’s how it goes
Audience was also probably way too young to even know who Casey Kasem is.
Telling a story and showing a story are very different and just because this is funny doesn’t mean it will translate in front of a crowd.
This was great.
I've seen SNL since the first season, and this sounds like it would be among the best skits! Unfortunate that it didn't work out.
Would have been up there with Bass O Matic, Landshark, The Blues Bros., Gumby, Waynes World, and living in a van down by the river.
They are sketches, not "skits." Trust me, people who do sketch comedy absolutely hate when people call what they do "skits." It minimizes the work they do.
I grew up on Casey and I have NO idea how I'd never heard f this sketch until just now. HILARIOUS!
I want this sketch to come to fruition..too f'n funny!😂😂
OMG! That is GENIUS! No way a human-being talks like Casey Kasem did, in every day life. It is brilliant to imagine Casey Kasem talking like that during serious moments in his life. This should have been a recurring sketch. Bill Hader and Daney Carvey need to crowdfund this sketch.
At the 1:10 mark, Bill Hader acts out the Casey Kasem sketch that never aired on SNL.
Bill Hader is a fkn genius and Barry might be the best series of all time
When I was growing up, I knew all kinds of pop-culture references that predated my birth. I work at a college, and I’ve found that young people today have a much more limited awareness. It’s really strange how little they know.
Growing up all of the comedy I loved was made by Baby Boomers who grew up in the 60’s and 70’s (The Simpsons, Seinfeld, MST3K, etc.). In order to understand a lot of the jokes you had to have a cursory knowledge of stuff from that era (and even the stuff that those writers had watched on TV as a kid, like old movies from the 40’s and 50’s)… I learned a lot about older 20th century culture this way. Maybe kids today just don’t get their entertainment from the previous generation… they get it from other kids their age making stuff.
2 legends at that table..😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤
Pollak did #BillHader a solid at Aspen, Hader began sobbing it meant t so much to him. In this segment he also says to Kevin 'that was the height of my career, man, thank you.'
i wish SNL did more digital shorts and had this sketch. it sounds so funny
This is funny even if you don't know who they are. The Mateo detail alone....
Gold. Pure gold.
This is brilliant. We were really robbed from this brilliant skit.
That was even a great impersonation of the audience.
That was the "stairway to heaven" of comedy bits.😂
1:44 this whole setup and payoff had me nearly in tears😂
I'm old enough to remember Casey, and this is some funny ass shit!
Yep, that’s where we’ve been for the last few seasons: Hader’s impromptu recollected performance of a sketch that died in dress is 10,000 times funnier than anything SNL has put out in at least five years.
This has to rank with Michael O’Donoghue’s “Silverman’s Bunker” sketch as SNL’s best ever unaired sketch.
That's a hilarious premise for a sketch lol
This is possibly the funniest video on TH-cam.
I'm glad it didn't make air because this retelling was delightful.
Sorry, Dana... Bills throat vibrations make it perfect.
This video just started playing after something that was watching and I’m crying laughing
I love this so much
I’m so sad this never made it to air. Fucking hilarious.
Okay, I was actually crying on my couch here. Laughing at this.
I'm not saying I know Mike Kasem, but I have seen him act on a few shows in Singapore. It's almost exactly like Bill and John knew "the real J.C. Kasem", son of Casey Kasem. Props to Mike, it can't be easy having to live with this level of satire attached to your legacy. It's not you, it's your roles.
I wish they had done that. Hilarious.
This is hilarious!!!! Hader is awesome!
I was falling out laughing. Soooo good.
light music scored underneath may have assisted the audience with this one. id love to see dana & hader co-host an episode together this Fall or both host & both jump in to eachothers’ episodes & officially giving us 2 of these sketches