@@realdealradio so quick, yea Bob brought me to the physical location of this digital video, via the autobiography I was listening to on audio book mentioning a sketch from decades past that he mentioned and Smigel wrote. He can take anyone anywhere as long as they put their mind to it! Take it from me, I love you!
Cole Eckerman there’s a johnny carson interview of a young conan o’brien and bob odenkirk talking about their writing gigs in SNL and how they started. :)
@@applesauce0211 I don't think Conan actually came up with the idea for this sketch. The first time they ever did this sketch was in December 1985 with Tom Hanks, Jon Lovitz, and Damon Wayans. I don't think Conan worked for the show yet th-cam.com/video/7ResXYpp4OY/w-d-xo.html
They announced on SNL's 40th anniversary special that Jon Lovitz died. Everyone was shocked -- especially Jon Lovitz who was sitting in the audience at the time. th-cam.com/video/N-lTFZHOT7M/w-d-xo.html
They’re doing a general comedian from the late 80’s/early 90’s impression. Jerry is just the easy option to call out. Everyone was basically like this back then. Check out very early Norm MacDonald.
Its hilarious they mentioned the 3 hour tour thing about gilligan island then 6 or 7 years later they do the stand up and win sketch with jerry and use the same joke
It has been decades since I first saw this skit and wanted to see it again. I'm laughing at myself for having looked high and low for skits from episodes when Jerry Seinfeld was the host, not remembering he had nothing to do with this one. It did lead me to a similar game show skit actually featuring Jerry which was also great.
What I want to know is how much the Stand Up Comedy scene hated Jerry Seinfeld to spoof his entire stand up comedy routine years before the show even began?
I think it is a spoof on the many comedians trying to rip off his routine during the eighties. Jerry wasn't a household name yet, but he had been on the tonight several times, and Carson had given him the OK sign, which was one of the highest praises a comedian could get. Observational comedy wasn't really a big thing until Jerry Seinfeld made it huge. He set the tone of comedy during the era. Many talented comedians found their own voice in observational comedy, but all the lesser talents just copied him to death.
Jerry Seinfeld parodied his own act and brand of comedy on his own show. Part of comedy is saying it's okay to laugh at how silly/hackneyed/lazy/repetitive the whole scene gets when comics jump on trends. These sketches added the extra wrinkle of comics swiping material from each other.
HEY! Why do the call it a video, if youre watching it? They should call it a watch! But hey, why is a watch called a watch if it shows you the time? They should call it a timer! But hey!...
They talk about this skit on Fly on the Wall podcast with Tom Hanks. Dennis Miller was against doing the skit because it was making fun of fellow standup J. Seinfeld's current act. But Jerry loved it, thinking that "he finally made it" if SNL is making fun of him. Like others said, lots of comedians in this era were doing similar schtick
The Howell's were on their way to the airport but Mrs. Howell had a coupon for a free three hour boat tour, that's why they had all those clothes @ 2:58
Just heard a Tom Hanks interview and he said they called Jerry Seinfeld to see if it was ok to make fun of his "what's the deal with" bit. Before they actually did this, so they're definitely impersonating him.
Smigel 👍 Lovitz and Miller doing Hacky Seinfeld is great. I wonder if he saw this and decided it was time to get out of stand up and get on a shitcom. Seinfeld without Larry Charles and Larry David (and them bringing in Jeff Schafer) would have been more cringeweorthy than anything on Big Laugh Track Theory or Two and half laughs.
I'm surprised people do not think Seinfeld was well-known by this time. I get the feeling that since they didn't know of him they assume nobody knew of him.
There were some comedians who were noticably influenced by Jerry because he was successful. They are mostly unmemorable because they lacked their own voice and style. This sketch seems to make fun of the copycats while recognizing Jerry as a top stand up.
Hey, is this a send up of how Jerry Seinfeld actually performs stand up? Or is this a send up of how In Living Colour sees Jerry Seinfeld's stand up act? I want to know. I mean what is the deal?
You gotta love how all the comments can't get around the fact that this has to be based on Jerry Seinfeld like he's some kind of universal constant even if he wasn't even a thing when this was ... televised. What if it was Seinfeld who made a career out of this skit? Hey ... I wanna know ???
Bob Odenkirk’s autobiography brought me to this sketch that Robert Smigel wrote
Me too!!!
Bob Odenkirk takes me LOTs of places. Never mass, however. Or a cub scout meeting. But I've conveniently blocked out so much.
@@realdealradio so quick, yea Bob brought me to the physical location of this digital video, via the autobiography I was listening to on audio book mentioning a sketch from decades past that he mentioned and Smigel wrote. He can take anyone anywhere as long as they put their mind to it! Take it from me, I love you!
Haha same
Same here
Why do they call it Ovaltine? The mug is round. The jar is round. They should call it Roundtine.
That's gold, jerry, gold!
I took a drink everytime they said "Hey!" and I died
Hey! If you died, how did you write this comment? I just want to know.
@@chrishain4295 Hey. Driveway STAR, Moonlights, as "Scarecrow", in a Play and is made, out of Straw.
Outstanding! Writer Robert Smigel’s big breakthrough on SNL
When they're wrestling or the "meme" and "crilk", that's where Seinfeld got the idea for Kramer and Frank arguing over The Bro and Manssiere
Hey, I laughed every second of this sketch 😂😂
Tom Hanks was imitating Jerry Seinfeld not even knowing his name. He saw him earlier that year not remembering his name.
❤ this sketch. It's the forerunner to another great SNL sketch called "Stand Up and Win "
That was a great sketch!
2:27 The birth of meme.
Imagine if instead of meme we had crahilk
@@FranklyFox_420 That would be so fetch.
Sounds like Will Ferrell’s imitation of Harry Carry. “Hey!”
HEY! WHAT DO YOU MEAN??❤❤❤ booth of them jump haha.
The skirmish was seeming a bit silly, but the payoff was worth it.
Interesting that no one has pointed this out yet...but this skit was written by noneother than Conan O'Brien...Ol' paleskin and cherry top himself
Ok Conan burner account, good sketch
Where did you read that?
Cole Eckerman there’s a johnny carson interview of a young conan o’brien and bob odenkirk talking about their writing gigs in SNL and how they started. :)
@@applesauce0211 I don't think Conan actually came up with the idea for this sketch. The first time they ever did this sketch was in December 1985 with Tom Hanks, Jon Lovitz, and Damon Wayans. I don't think Conan worked for the show yet
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Hey ... I thought it was written by, you know, Jerry Seinfeld!
Hey, why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, heeey!
Dust that one off because it's still just as good.
As a British person, this makes me understand why Americans love SNL. Side note, I miss Jon Lovitz, where is he? Is he OK? Iiii gotta know!
hes doing ok, just doing things any washed up comedian would do
He lives, on a Farm, amoongst Bales of HAY!
@@goo_ish a podcast?
They announced on SNL's 40th anniversary special that Jon Lovitz died. Everyone was shocked -- especially Jon Lovitz who was sitting in the audience at the time. th-cam.com/video/N-lTFZHOT7M/w-d-xo.html
@@ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113 I GET... what... you did... THERE!
This is one of my favorite sketches
"I mean, hey! Why do they call it a sketch? You're not drawing anything. You're acting a silly and absurd premise. They should all it acting!" 😅
They should call it an act!
I'm here because Bob Odenkirk sent me. This did not dissappoint
Who else came here because Bob Odenkirk told you to?
On page 37 right now lol
Yup 👍
They all sound like a combination of Jerry Seinfeld and Quagmire.
and Rodney Dangerfield's mannerisms, lol!
Great, you got the joke
Who is Quagmire?
Quagfeld
@@AlexB-op7kb Seinmire.
They’re doing a general comedian from the late 80’s/early 90’s impression. Jerry is just the easy option to call out. Everyone was basically like this back then. Check out very early Norm MacDonald.
The voice sounds like jerry though
Bob Odenkirk said they were imitating hack comedians who tried to imitate popular stand ups’s style, like Seinfeld’s, but just not funny.
In the late 70s I remember Gallagher making that building joke. "They oughta be called builts"
Thankfully I can't remember any of Gallaghers act
Hey Steve, snap out of it.
Too funny!!! I saw Jon Lovitz do stand up, i could not stop laughing. There was a heckler in the crowed and Jon destroyed her.
Its hilarious they mentioned the 3 hour tour thing about gilligan island then 6 or 7 years later they do the stand up and win sketch with jerry and use the same joke
I guess this is why he rereads the card in the game show bit. (Did I say "bit"? What's up with that? I they didn't bite anyone!)
It has been decades since I first saw this skit and wanted to see it again. I'm laughing at myself for having looked high and low for skits from episodes when Jerry Seinfeld was the host, not remembering he had nothing to do with this one. It did lead me to a similar game show skit actually featuring Jerry which was also great.
wow. the first meme
It's 'meam'!
@@TRJ2241987 It's 'crilk'!
What I want to know is how much the Stand Up Comedy scene hated Jerry Seinfeld to spoof his entire stand up comedy routine years before the show even began?
Being parodied on SNL before he was even famous was a huge compliment to him.
I think it is a spoof on the many comedians trying to rip off his routine during the eighties. Jerry wasn't a household name yet, but he had been on the tonight several times, and Carson had given him the OK sign, which was one of the highest praises a comedian could get. Observational comedy wasn't really a big thing until Jerry Seinfeld made it huge. He set the tone of comedy during the era. Many talented comedians found their own voice in observational comedy, but all the lesser talents just copied him to death.
Less than a year before the show started
Jerry Seinfeld parodied his own act and brand of comedy on his own show.
Part of comedy is saying it's okay to laugh at how silly/hackneyed/lazy/repetitive the whole scene gets when comics jump on trends. These sketches added the extra wrinkle of comics swiping material from each other.
@@Mrlzman yep, just listened to Robert Smigel on the WTF podcast and he says the same thing (59 min mark)
Refried beans? Who do they think they are? Mitch Hedberg?
RIP Mitch. :(
Tom Hanks' SNL appearances are super underrated
He hasn't had enough success.
"Check, check-sibilence, sibilence!"
That was a hell of an outfit Dennis was wearing or wait maybe it was wearing him. 🤣
I mean hey!
I love how they're all basically doing Jerry Seinfeld impressions. They should have put Jerry into this too.
Jerry was not truly famous yet
They eventually did : th-cam.com/video/AsJYmf_G5d0/w-d-xo.html
It's all Illuminati. They rule the world or haven't you noticed?
@@TRJ2241987 Jerry says that, but he was on Carson starting in '81, '83 and '86
@@davidharding2956 yeah but the mass population didn't know him by name like they would in the 90s
They should call it..... Meme 🤣
ΟΗ!
HEY!
Yeah!That's a funny video!
Yeah?
Hey,oh yeah!
came here after comedians in cars getting coffee..
Yo Abs Which episode?
Hey! with a name like Abs you better have a 10 pack and Hey! If my abs light comes on in my car how do i reach you? JS
That’s why I’m here too 😀
God I love that series. Best in the world aside from Marc Maron's WTF podcast
@@mikeofalltrades6293 The second Brian Regan episode.
“It was a 3hr tour. A 3hr tour.” That shit has been in my mind since this aired! 😆😆😆😆😆
HEY! Why do the call it a video, if youre watching it? They should call it a watch! But hey, why is a watch called a watch if it shows you the time? They should call it a timer! But hey!...
Hey, why do they call it TH-cam? I don't see any tube. They should call it YouScreen!
2:29 The invention of "meme"? :D
Gotta say, a rather unusual way to break up a fight 🙃
Why am i getting Dear John flashbacks watching this?
It debuted 8 months later.
Here from Fly on the Wall!
Now I need to see Lovitz's "Lower Your Standards" sketch...
Seinfeld was taking notes on this one
I think this is where the word "Meme" was first spoken
I wish they would use the theme music from the 90's. I always scramble to go to the next thing when that comes on.
So this is where Cripps got his “Ever wonder why they call it a building?” joke.
The origin of meme
"A three hour tour!? A three hour tour?!" 3:12
That's actually straight from Seinfeld....
..."do deaf people wear earmuffs?" Mwahahaha!!!
If their ears are cold, yes.
They talk about this skit on Fly on the Wall podcast with Tom Hanks. Dennis Miller was against doing the skit because it was making fun of fellow standup J. Seinfeld's current act. But Jerry loved it, thinking that "he finally made it" if SNL is making fun of him. Like others said, lots of comedians in this era were doing similar schtick
I'm sitting here thinking to myself, SNL? I mean, is it still 1988? I'm saying, they should call it, Today Right Now. I'm just saying
This is literally what Seinfeld sounds like to me, except this is funny
Snl was actually good
Jon Lovitz, Jerry Seinfeld, same thing
These are just over exaggerated caricatures of Jerry Sienfield!!!! :-D
If you're ever served refried beans be sure to say "thank you thank you".
that refried bean bit is Mitch Hedberg's I believe
This is 1988.... sketch is over a year before Mitch Hedberg even did his first show
oh : )
The Howell's were on their way to the airport but Mrs. Howell had a coupon for a free three hour boat tour, that's why they had all those clothes @ 2:58
Hey! You're ruining the joke!
They wore me down
Jerry seinfeld has entered the chat. #youngjamiejre
It's hard not to see this as the proto version of Will Ferrell's Harry Caray impression.
Hey!!
omg im crying laughing dennis miller is hilarious
Oh I get it.................they're all imitating Kenny Bania
No soup for you!
What do say to god when he sneezes just a side note
They should call it
M E M E
Why do they call it a Meme? It has nothing to do with me, this is your deal. They should call it a Youyou!
@@Mrlzman Why not both? Call it a wewe!
For a minute there I thought they were doing Jerry Seinfeld. 😁
Um, they are...
@@UxCANxDOxIT Wait...WHAT???
Just heard a Tom Hanks interview and he said they called Jerry Seinfeld to see if it was ok to make fun of his "what's the deal with" bit. Before they actually did this, so they're definitely impersonating him.
Imagine if this skit was about Pryor, Carlin and Hicks.
This is Jerry seinfelds whole routine nd voice. Wow!!! 🤔
Smigel 👍 Lovitz and Miller doing Hacky Seinfeld is great. I wonder if he saw this and decided it was time to get out of stand up and get on a shitcom. Seinfeld without Larry Charles and Larry David (and them bringing in Jeff Schafer) would have been more cringeweorthy than anything on Big Laugh Track Theory or Two and half laughs.
Did Lovitz actually invent the word "meme"?
As much as I'd like to credit Jon Lovitz with everything, sadly no, it was Richard Dawkins.
No
Also, he said meam not meme
if jerry seinfeld saw this sketch, he would be crying.
The “vintage” episodes are soooooooooooo bad that they’re hilarious.
First time hearing meme in the 80s
0:48 Mitch Hedberg has entered the chat
Tom Hanks is literally just talking louder LOLOL
i wanna know!
Dana Carvey as Kenny Banya
A year later, Seinfeld was launched by NBC.
Jerry got the last laugh...
Jerry Seinfeld feels ashamed when he watches this.
Legion of Seinfelds
League of Extraordinary Seinfelds
This skits aired before Jerry Seinfeld’s show premiered in 1989. At that point he wasn’t famous yet.
I'm surprised people do not think Seinfeld was well-known by this time. I get the feeling that since they didn't know of him they assume nobody knew of him.
@ I mean, he was well known, of course. I meant that he wasn’t super famous yet.
There were some comedians who were noticably influenced by Jerry because he was successful. They are mostly unmemorable because they lacked their own voice and style. This sketch seems to make fun of the copycats while recognizing Jerry as a top stand up.
true and real
Jerry came out after a lot of these guys. He didn't create the formula he just popularized it.
2:41 11 years before CastAway.
I MEAN, HEY?!
When comedians steal other comedians' stand-up routines .
Hey, is this a send up of how Jerry Seinfeld actually performs stand up? Or is this a send up of how In Living Colour sees Jerry Seinfeld's stand up act? I want to know. I mean what is the deal?
Did Jerry steal his act from the sketch?
Doing Jerry Seinfeld’s bits before Seinfeld became famous.
Seriously.
I mean HEY
Hey! Hey! I mean, HEY!
Is it me or is this Jerry Seinfeld parody before Jerry Seinfeld parody was a thing?
Half and half bit is like the manzier bit from seinfeld but this came first
Jerry Seinfeld wrote for snl?
You gotta love how all the comments can't get around the fact that this has to be based on Jerry Seinfeld like he's some kind of universal constant even if he wasn't even a thing when this was ... televised. What if it was Seinfeld who made a career out of this skit? Hey ... I wanna know ???
Seinfeld had a stand up special in HBO a year before this. And was known before that appearing on Carson in 81... So he was definitely a thing
Meme haha
Hey, what is the deal with airplane peanuts?
Is this after tom hanks go into little kids?
❤❤❤
Hey Steve, let it go.
..a builded!
Meme?!