Seriously, when you have to narrate a comedy clip to explain it to people; that's really lame. But then again comedy is practically illegal today unless you want to talk about your genitalia like Amy Schumer
Dan Ackroyd in the Lupner kitchen as the "Norge" repairman with his too short t-shirt and hairy butt-crack exposed for all the world to see,with Todd and Lisa cracking up the whole time.....classic !!!!!!! remember Mr. Lupner was born without a spine, "God rest his soul" "who wants egg salad"?
I will ALWAYS remember the joke that Chevy Chase told in the very first episode during the Weekend Update skit: "The post office is issuing a new stamp commemorating prostitution in America. The stamp will cost 15 cents, but if you want to lick it, it's a quarter." Freshman year of college, sitting in the dorm lounge watching that, I knew that this was like no other TV show ever!
When they first started, they were great! By the late `70's, they'd just keep doing the SAME SKITS OVER AND OVER AGAIN because they were everyone's faves and the show got REAL lame REAL fast!! I haven't seen it since! If Belushi died of an overdose it was of the same stupid skits every week.
Their commercials were hysterical! My favorite was "Shimmer" with Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase. "It's a floor wax! It's a dessert topping!"
@@sinkvenice4438 No and here is why. We in the middle of a cultural crises right now and one if its symptoms is the revisionism of the past. This modern affliction of pining for the time of our adolescence is a form of mental disorder for some. But for others it is a mental state that has been conditioned and is being manipulated by institutional forces. SNL was NOT funnier when it started. It was myopic and not diverse. Large portions of it were painful, unfunny, and were highly political. People that put energy into false narrative about the past, whether due to nostalgia or something more nefarious, need to be called out and reality must be thrust into our lives instead. The whole ,amtra: "back when SNL was actually funny" is a lazy political meme that exposes its user as a mentally manipulated myope that poses danger to society by not acknowledging the reality of the world we inhabit and thus creates further division among culture.
@rdecredico Um, I think you’re looking into that person’s comment a bit too much. Anyway, it’s entirely a matter of opinion. Comedy is completely subjective, as you know. I just meant you didn’t need to tell him to ‘grow the fuck up’, it’s uncalled for and patronising, no?
Actually, in that Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor sketch, after Chase escalates the race slurs to finally say the “N” word, Pryor’s responses was , “Dead Honkey.” That was so cutting-edge and hilarious!
I had just turned fifteen, starting 10th grade when SNL started. All through high school, it was probably the only thing that could have possibly made me want to come home by 11:30 on a Saturday night. Legends in action....
That was good, but IMO Akroyd played about as good of a 70s sleezy salesman as you could be. Mainway toys for Halloween, "Johnny Invisible" the all black costume. The Bass o matic by Remco, that restaurant where if you want a steak you pick your own cow and stun it...Akroyd was good in the movie Chaplin and a zillion others but to me he was at his best in those first 4-5 yrs of SNL, and really the only one remotely close to as good as Belushi was, though I think they were all amazing and BY FAR the best cast SNL ever had!
Gilda Radner had so many different characters. John Belushi was funny, but not nearly as funny and versatile as Gilda Radner on SNL. John Belushi was better in the movies and the Blues Brothers shows. .
The best skits were Roseanne rosanna Dana n Dan aykroyd doing Tom snyder. Tom even said in an interview with Dan that he did Tom snyder better than Tom snyder. Lol
One of my faves, Todd and Lisa, played by Bill Murray and Gilda Radner. Jane Curtain played Lisa's Mom, Mrs Lufner. Honorable mention to "Mr. Bill", who would take abuse from Mr. Hand, and the evil Sluggo.
@Howling Frog I was going to say that. I think that may have been the best musical segment that show ever did. I also really like the horrible Rolling Stones Some Girls segment. Mick had they think the flu and his voice was just cracking and is doing so bad ya had to love it.
I'll never forget the time the Stones were the musical guests! They performed in a few sketches, one being the hamburger shop and the other being Ackroyd as Tom Schneider interviewing Jagger. A priceless episode in the SNL canon!
The original cast was the best ever! I always looked forward to Saturday Night Live. I always thought Steve Martin was a cast member. Hmmmm ......he should have been. He was one wild and crazy guy!😂💞 I think my favorite skits was when Gilda Radner did Roseanne Roseannadana!😂💞
At the time of SNL, Steve Martin was the biggest comedian in the USA and was selling out stadiums all over the country. It would have been detrimental for his career to have been a cast member. It worked much better for him to be a guest host.
The funniest show ever was the original cast did a special: "what I did on my summer break" .it was funny AF. the only one I vividly remember was Garrett Morris spent his summer break modeling for a guy who made lawn jockeys. I kid you not. 🤣🤣
Unfortunatley if it was a special then not many have seen it since it ran. Not part of the collection of dvds, videos, or streaming packages from the first five years. Just the live shows.
Every single one of the cast were perfect they all played their parts very well but my favorite one one time was Todd and Lisa with Gilda Radner and Bill Murray to corny teenagers that loved each other
You can watch them on Peacock. Basic Peacock is free but I don't think you get all of the episode unless you are Premium. You get Premium free with Xfinity. Otherwise it's 5 bucks a month.
You can't limit this list to only 10! There were just too many great ones from this cast....how 'bout... Dueling Brandos(John Belushi and host Peter Boyle) John Belushi's protest to not say the opening line to start the show until his demands were met The Coneheads The Blues Brothers-Soul Man Garrett Morris' perfect impression of Tina Turner-Proud Mary The last mission of the Starship Enterprise John Belushi's editorial on Weekend Update about "The luck of the Irish." Any Roseanne Roseanadana or Emily Litella sketch on Weekend Update Medieval Barber For my money...Samurai Delicatessen was the best of the Samurai sketches.
Samurai Tailor was my favorite samurai sketch, especially when the guest host Buck Henry asked Belushi to add a zipper to his pants, while he was wearing them! Belushi gets that demented look in his eyes and whips out his katana. End of scene.
As a third grade kid, I bought the 45 rpm for "King Tut" when it was released. It was not until after 2010 that I finally got to see the SNL performance. Classic comedy!
Don't forget all the amazing musical talent they have featured over the decades, all the big name groups and artists. The Stones, Peter Tosh, Ray Charles, Doobie Brothers,The Kinks and on and on.......Joe Cocker with none other than Bulushi doing a great impression of him
One of the first appearances of the fully leather clad singer with awful stage fright Mary J. Blige, the shocking Sinead O'Connor, Bjork appearing with the Sugar Cubes.
The Plasmatics were just awesomely deranged. Cutting an old console TV in half with a chainsaw - immortal! Love at the end of the show when the host was thanking their guests and when it got to the Plasmatics Wendy O. Williams said "Don't be a wanker. I hate art! I hate fashion!"
Skit that didn't make the cut? Well, there's "Home Movies and the Mr Bill Show", one I think may have given Paul Reubens an idea. Then there's the Coneheads, and I'm very surprised it isn't near the top since it was made into a movie. Matter-of-fact it should have been #1. "We come from France." "Oh well, that explains everything." And lets not forget our favorite representative of the Vatican, Father Guido Sarducci. Arrivederci America!
Sadly the current form of SNL literally craps on the brilliance that was the original cast. Also, I think Attack of the Killer Christmas Trees deserves a mention in this video.
How can you do an original cast retrospective without Roseanne Rosannadanna??? The death of Gilda Radner was a devastating blow to fans everywhere and the iconic characters she created deserve a segment (or three) in this video.
true story, im running a 3mile midnight race, this year, I'm trying, planning on running a sub 18 race. A woman in a Killer Bee outfit, passed me with about a half mile to go. She was running Backwards!
I loved these skits, however, I think there were numerous others worthy of the top 10. IE; Belushi and Ackroyd circumsizing a baby on a test drive of a new car.
Buck Henry's favorite sketch, and probably mine as well, was the Lord and Lady Douchebag sketch. Also, Henry was injured in the Samurai Stockbroker sketch when John Belushi accidentally cut him on the forehead. In subsequent sketches during that show cast members wore bandages on their heads in solidarity with Henry.
I'm sure you remember that when this show first appeared it wasn't called Saturday Night Live. It was just Saturday Night. Hence, "Live from New York its Satueday Night"
They couldn't call it "Saturday night live" at first because Howard Cosell had a variety show on rival network ABC called "Saturday night live with Howard Cosell" first...of course THAT show was canceled after 18 episodes at which point, NBC could use the name.
@@les4767 “The Not Ready for Primetime Players” was named as such as a tweak to Cosell’s show, which had “The Primetime Players”. (This nominal Saturday Night Live aired at 8 pm.) As it happened, all three The Primetime Players would eventually resurface two blocks crosstown and four blocks downtown, joining their second show called Saturday Night Live; Bill Murray, brother Brian Doyle Murray, and Christopher Guest.
Roseanne Roseannadanna has 2 hilarious skits on Weekend Update: The guy who writes to her about stopping smoking; the other about Donald Trump with a sweat ball hanging off his nose. Can you find those?
I saw that first episode. I was seven years old and was woken by my parents howling with laughter. So I went to take a look and ended up watching the whole thing with them. From there on, if I was good all week, did my homework, kept my room clean, etcetera etcetera, I got to stay up and watch SNL. My personal favorite moment was the first performance of the Blues Brothers. Made me a life long fan of the blues. Those were good times.
SNL was like nothing we had seen before. A predecessor, ‘The Carol Burnette Show’ might be the closest to it and it wasn’t close. This was a cast of brilliant fresh talent with writers pushing the envelope. And it was live so anything could happen. I was in my mid to late teens. Saturday nights were spent with my friends drinking a little drink, smoking a little smoke while experiencing SNL together. When the original cast was gone I quit watching. The magic was gone too.
The great SNL ads that they showcased, like the famous, "Meatwagon Rescue Set." They made all ads seemed so real. The, "Bel Arabs," with Howard Hessman, was a scream. I loved how the re-did the theme song.
I haven't thought about Landshark in years, what a great character and I miss the old days of Saturday night Live. There has been a lot of greats over the years, but I think the casts of the first 10-15 years or so we're the best
I always loved the Donuts / Wheaties sketch with Belushi, The "it's whipped cream! / No it's a floor wax!" Ackroyd skit and the Exorcist one despite having a terrible fear of that movie LOL
I think "Happy Fun Ball" deserves at least an honorable mention, and how can you possibly have an SNL top 10 list without "Blues Brothers"? Thus was back when SNL was actually funny.
I was going to mention the Blues Brothers! What's even more awesome is they took that show on the road - I saw them at Red Rocks right after the movie came out
I was in college at the time. This stuff was so good that bars would empty at 11:30 pm on Saturday nights as everyone went to find a TV. I specifically remember that, when Bill Murray first came onto the show, he was panned as "lame" by most viewers. But, eventually, everyone started to catch on to his unique comic style.
Favorite: spoof on Smuckers jam ad: "with name like Smuckers, it's gotta be good jam". Then the cast come out with successively worse names for jam like: "with a name like monkey puss it's gotta be real good jam"; then: "painful rectal itch", etc. Hilarious!
@@rootedandgrounded0911 More Cowbell - my MOST favorite sketch ever, even though I loved the ones that were shown in this video, as well as Dana Carvey (Church Lady), Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock etc. There were a lot of really funny people off and on through the years. I can't start naming them because I'm sure to leave out too many!
That's great. Actually found the narrative enjoyable as well. Remember also a skit with Belushi as a waiter w/an elderly couple where everyone is misunderstanding each other. Hilarious!
original cast was the best and every time one left the show suffered just a little more each time till there were none. i used to like the fake commercials and of course mr.bill....OH NOOOOOOOOO!
Bill Murray missed being in the “original cast” by a year. In the fall of 1975, he was a cast member of what was then called “Saturday Night Live”-the ABC variety show hosted by Howard Cosell. (That’s why the much-longer-running Show was called “NBC’s Saturday Night” at the beginning.
The last Point/Counterpoint that was done with Bob Dole and Bill Clinton, played expertly by Dan Akroyd and Darryl Hannah literally had me falling out of my chair, rolling on the floor and laughing hysterically. What's so funny, is I saw it coming, and yet, it didn't disappoint.
In the 70's we lived deep in N.C. mountains. We got one TV channel. That channel showed SNL. The reason we got it was we lived near a repeater that allows the channel to come in clear. We watched SNL in color. Back then color TV costed more than B&W sets.
We lived in suburban Chicago in the 1975 and SNL quickly became my favorite show. Moved to VERY rural north central Minnesota late in 1977, where we too could only get one channel, luckily, an NBC affiliate. Prime time NBC was painful to watch back then, save for Baa Baa Black Sheep. I remember thinking "at least we can watch Saturday Night Live." Out first Saturday in the frozen boonies the late local news couldn't end soon enough. The news signs off...commercial...commercial...WELCOME TO NORTHLAND THEATER! Effing Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto re-runs! To add insult to injury, we had to listen to the Vikings on the damned radio because NBC didn't show NFC games unless the local team was hosting an AFC team. Jesus, that was a horrible winter.
The skit where Aykroyd plays a refrigerator repairman at the Lupner's house with Lisa Lupner and Todd. Aykroyd bends over to check the old Norge fridge and exposes the crack of his ass. Brilliant!
Sure would have been great to have this moderator shut up and let us see the and hear the skits!
Hello Janice, How are you doing?
Hon. Just open another window and pull up each of the skits, to view them in full.
I agree. Won’t bother with him again.
exactly- I don't need a narrator DESCRIBING the skit- just play the skit!
Seriously, when you have to narrate a comedy clip to explain it to people; that's really lame. But then again comedy is practically illegal today unless you want to talk about your genitalia like Amy Schumer
Best SNL cast ever 👌
....no question....without a doubt !
The CREAM.
Dan Ackroyd in the Lupner kitchen as the "Norge" repairman with his too short t-shirt and hairy butt-crack exposed for all the world to see,with Todd and Lisa cracking up the whole time.....classic !!!!!!!
remember Mr. Lupner was born without a spine, "God rest his soul"
"who wants egg salad"?
Ackroyd reprised the repairman at the end of a "Nanny" episode.
That's so funny, I forgot to laugh!
@@davidstoyanoff Let's see what's going on with those mosquito bites.
@@c.hanley1423 I was just thinking about that! 😂
Dan AYKROYD. I hate when people misspell his name.
Never been the same...greatest cast in snl history
Love Chevy chase
AGREED !
Gotta agree with you
It's had plenty of great moments since then
I will ALWAYS remember the joke that Chevy Chase told in the very first episode during the Weekend Update skit:
"The post office is issuing a new stamp commemorating prostitution in America. The stamp will cost 15 cents, but if you want to lick it, it's a quarter."
Freshman year of college, sitting in the dorm lounge watching that, I knew that this was like no other TV show ever!
😂😂
.."It's a quarter"...HYSTERICAL!!!! 😅😅😅😅
Jkcarroll. Over the decades, have used that joke often. A classic. (Just have to keep upping the price)
When they first started, they were great! By the late `70's, they'd just keep doing the SAME SKITS OVER AND OVER AGAIN because they were everyone's faves and the show got REAL lame REAL fast!! I haven't seen it since! If Belushi died of an overdose it was of the same stupid skits every week.
Their commercials were hysterical! My favorite was "Shimmer" with Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase. "It's a floor wax! It's a dessert topping!"
😂😂
My favorite was "Spud Beer"..... the beer brewed for people who can't taste the difference!
Puppy uppers and doggy downers. :P
@@barleyeducated8714 I still say that! Almost 50 years later!
Jewess Jeans!
back when SNL was actually funny, and worth staying up for!
It;s still funny, perhaps better than ever. Grow the fuck up. Evolve.
@rdecredico That’s an unnecessarily aggressive response isn’t it?
@@sinkvenice4438 No and here is why. We in the middle of a cultural crises right now and one if its symptoms is the revisionism of the past.
This modern affliction of pining for the time of our adolescence is a form of mental disorder for some. But for others it is a mental state that has been conditioned and is being manipulated by institutional forces.
SNL was NOT funnier when it started. It was myopic and not diverse. Large portions of it were painful, unfunny, and were highly political. People that put energy into false narrative about the past, whether due to nostalgia or something more nefarious, need to be called out and reality must be thrust into our lives instead.
The whole ,amtra: "back when SNL was actually funny" is a lazy political meme that exposes its user as a mentally manipulated myope that poses danger to society by not acknowledging the reality of the world we inhabit and thus creates further division among culture.
@rdecredico Um, I think you’re looking into that person’s comment a bit too much. Anyway, it’s entirely a matter of opinion. Comedy is completely subjective, as you know. I just meant you didn’t need to tell him to ‘grow the fuck up’, it’s uncalled for and patronising, no?
@@sinkvenice4438 No, comedy is not completely subjective.
What people find funny is subjective.
at 63 i cant tell you how much i miss that time in my life oh to be back in the 70s
What about the "Mr. Bill" episodes with Spot, Sluggo, and Mr. Hands? They made the show what it was and I always looked forward to them.
@tom quigley Me, too! I remember wearing it once in this restaurant and a couple from France was there said that it was "tres amusant."
I had a Mr. Bill book with pictures.
Fun fact: Mr Hands was the brother of Ellen DeGeneres.
And you had to stay up until the end because if (not always) Mr. Bill was on, it would be the last skit.
Yes yes yes I want to see Sluggo
How can we not have Dan A. selling "questionable" Halloween toys such as Johnny Human Torch costumes and Bag A Glass....I still have the Bag A Glass!!
🤣🤣
When Saturday Night Live was actually funny.
Hasn’t been funny for decades
I was going to post those exact same words.
'K boomers!
@@LYCANSS777 Jealous much?
You sound old. That's okay, because so am I.
Part 2 needs to include Rosanne Rosannadanna, Dan Akyroyd as Julia Child, The Coneheads, The Judy Miller Show, and Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood.
Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood was funny, but it wasn't the original 70's cast.
Murphy was funniest
as Gumby, damnit!!
Eddie Murphy was not part of the original cast. He came in the 1980's
Bill Murray as the lounge singer: the Star Wars song!
...The BLUES BROTHERS!!!
Actually, in that Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor sketch, after Chase escalates the race slurs to finally say the “N” word, Pryor’s responses was , “Dead Honkey.” That was so cutting-edge and hilarious!
I had just turned fifteen, starting 10th grade when SNL started. All through high school, it was probably the only thing that could have possibly made me want to come home by 11:30 on a Saturday night. Legends in action....
Dan portraying Julia Childs and has a bit of an accident in the kitchen. Best sketch EVER fer S.N.L.
Save the livers!
And Julia Child LOVED that skit!
Mike Gike ....my favorite too......
That was good, but IMO Akroyd played about as good of a 70s sleezy salesman as you could be. Mainway toys for Halloween, "Johnny Invisible" the all black costume. The Bass o matic by Remco, that restaurant where if you want a steak you pick your own cow and stun it...Akroyd was good in the movie Chaplin and a zillion others but to me he was at his best in those first 4-5 yrs of SNL, and really the only one remotely close to as good as Belushi was, though I think they were all amazing and BY FAR the best cast SNL ever had!
That was my pick for all-time greatest. Never laughed so hard!
To this day, Gilda Radner is the funniest performer ever to step foot on the SNL stage.
Big Zed Emily Litella was the best.
can only agree
Interesting fact: Gilda Radner was the first cast member hired for Saturday Night Live.
Roseann Rosannadanna!
Gilda Radner had so many different characters. John Belushi was funny, but not nearly as funny and versatile as Gilda Radner on SNL. John Belushi was better in the movies and the Blues Brothers shows. .
there can't be an SNL top 10 without something from Rosanne Rosanadana!!!
@tom quigley That was Emily Litella''s line
Loved tiny town read by Gilda
Right!! Roserosannadanna was the most looked forward too!! Her and Jane Curtain in anything!
There cannot be an SNL top 10.... Impossible!
The best skits were Roseanne rosanna Dana n Dan aykroyd doing Tom snyder. Tom even said in an interview with Dan that he did Tom snyder better than Tom snyder. Lol
One of my faves, Todd and Lisa, played by Bill Murray and Gilda Radner. Jane Curtain played Lisa's Mom, Mrs Lufner. Honorable mention to "Mr. Bill", who would take abuse from Mr. Hand, and the evil Sluggo.
Any skit with Gilda Radner! 😂
My all time favorite was John Belushi imitating Joe Cocker
Or Gilda as Candy Slice! 🤣
@Howling Frog I was going to say that. I think that may have been the best musical segment that show ever did. I also really like the horrible Rolling Stones Some Girls segment. Mick had they think the flu and his voice was just cracking and is doing so bad ya had to love it.
Absolutely! Poor Joe Cocker. As I recall, he did not look entirely amused by John B's hilarious (and excellent) rendition!
CLASSIC!
Epic!
I'll never forget the time the Stones were the musical guests! They performed in a few sketches, one being the hamburger shop and the other being Ackroyd as Tom Schneider interviewing Jagger. A priceless episode in the SNL canon!
Mick Jagger was also in a few movies in the following years.
Snyder. I met him in 1978!
Hands down-The first five seasons of "SNL" were awesome!.
You got that right; it was the best cast e er
You got that that right; it was the best cast ever,
Dan Ackroyd as Julia Child is a classic
Would have been better actually showing the clips instead of talking about them.
I know, I've been trying to find the actual full clip of King Tut for years now.
SNL/NBC remove unauthorized uploads.
I was just thinking the same time. Big Thumbs Down!
Agreed. Too bad as I was looking forward to seeing them. Didn’t expect to have some guy captioning everything.
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I really liked Roseanne Rosannadana. She always made me howl.
😂😂
Always keeps me in stiches!
Todd and Lisa were the best ,I did the noogies and mosquiteo bites on my neighbor
They were the best!!! I was a young teenager and had to watch every Saturday!!
I loved ex baseball star "Chico Esquela" played by Garrett Morris.
bes-e-bol has been berry berry good to me
"Escuela"=Spanish for "school".
"What the hell is that?" is maybe the most simple, and hilarious sketch of all time.
"Don't put your lips on it!!!"
Didn't Steve Martin do that skit? I barely remember. Burned out lots of brain cells in the 70's 😁
@@92mrsrdb Steve Martin and Bill Murray
Wait. I know what it is!....What the hell is that?!
The entire cast doing "The Bride of Frankenstein" when she wakes up on the slab and starts singing "I Feel Pretty". Hyper hilarious!
The funniest thing I remember from childhood was Belushi doing the "little chocolate donuts" thing.
With the little chocolate doughnuts AND a lit cigarette. "What a day for John Belushi!" .
You know, I did a lot of miles.....and downed a lot of doughnuts.
John Belushi, for the gold!!!!!
Yes very funny. That was a spoof of the Bruce Jenner Wheaties commercials
@@Mark-sj3xb I guess it John Belushi lived, she would be Joan Belushi.
So lame, why not show the skits? How disappointing.
Yes! Show the skits and get rid of the commentary!!
Disappointed
I know right?
Probably because NBC won't let them?
Totally agree
The original cast was the best ever! I always looked forward to Saturday Night Live. I always thought Steve Martin was a cast member. Hmmmm ......he should have been. He was one wild and crazy guy!😂💞 I think my favorite skits was when Gilda Radner did Roseanne Roseannadana!😂💞
THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!
At the time of SNL, Steve Martin was the biggest comedian in the USA and was selling out stadiums all over the country. It would have been detrimental for his career to have been a cast member. It worked much better for him to be a guest host.
How about the ad for The Battle of the Network T & A? Dumb me thought it was for real.😁 l couldn't wait to see it.
The funniest show ever was the original cast did a special: "what I did on my summer break" .it was funny AF. the only one I vividly remember was Garrett Morris spent his summer break modeling for a guy who made lawn jockeys. I kid you not. 🤣🤣
Unfortunatley if it was a special then not many have seen it since it ran. Not part of the collection of dvds, videos, or streaming packages from the first five years. Just the live shows.
"It seemed like last summer cause in fact, that's when it was".
that made me laugh, and not the actual show.
Dan Akroyd and John Belushi did the Blues Brothers.
@@kurtdietrich5421 they were the Blue's Brothers. In fact, the "King Bee" performance was a precursor to them in their suits the film made famous.
Every single one of the cast were perfect they all played their parts very well but my favorite one one time was Todd and Lisa with Gilda Radner and Bill Murray to corny teenagers that loved each other
LOVED the original cast! Truly hysterical! I'd love to see reruns of seasons 1 and 2!
You can watch them on Peacock. Basic Peacock is free but I don't think you get all of the episode unless you are Premium. You get Premium free with Xfinity. Otherwise it's 5 bucks a month.
I was always fond of the "hard of hearing" correspondent Emily Litella, but I would definitely put Roseanne Roseanna-danna in the top 10!
And deaf Beethoven!
Dan Akyroyd as Julia Child is fixed in my memory as being one of the funniest skits
🤩
You can't limit this list to only 10! There were just too many great ones from this cast....how 'bout...
Dueling Brandos(John Belushi and host Peter Boyle)
John Belushi's protest to not say the opening line to start the show until his demands were met
The Coneheads
The Blues Brothers-Soul Man
Garrett Morris' perfect impression of Tina Turner-Proud Mary
The last mission of the Starship Enterprise
John Belushi's editorial on Weekend Update about "The luck of the Irish."
Any Roseanne Roseanadana or Emily Litella sketch on Weekend Update
Medieval Barber
For my money...Samurai Delicatessen was the best of the Samurai sketches.
😂
Luck of the Irish rant is hands down my all time favorite! And don't forget the 3 part Beethoven skit of Belushi's! Ludwig, you must eat!
Samurai Tailor was my favorite samurai sketch, especially when the guest host Buck Henry asked Belushi to add a zipper to his pants, while he was wearing them! Belushi gets that demented look in his eyes and whips out his katana. End of scene.
Soooo true, those first 5 yrs had so many fine (hillarious), skits.
The Slumber Party
National Face Bank
"Well, Excuuuuuuse me!"
I loved Lisa Loopner (Gilda) and Chevy Chase and her underdeveloped nation. Also, Gilda Radner as Rosanne Rosannadana-- classic SNL!
When you said, "Yep, the 70s were the best, I cheered!"
As a third grade kid, I bought the 45 rpm for "King Tut" when it was released. It was not until after 2010 that I finally got to see the SNL performance. Classic comedy!
The 1970's were the best in every way - period, exclamation point!
Don't forget all the amazing musical talent they have featured over the decades, all the big name groups and artists. The Stones, Peter Tosh, Ray Charles, Doobie Brothers,The Kinks and on and on.......Joe Cocker with none other than Bulushi doing a great impression of him
One of the first appearances of the fully leather clad singer with awful stage fright Mary J. Blige, the shocking Sinead O'Connor, Bjork appearing with the Sugar Cubes.
The Plasmatics were just awesomely deranged. Cutting an old console TV in half with a chainsaw - immortal! Love at the end of the show when the host was thanking their guests and when it got to the Plasmatics Wendy O. Williams said "Don't be a wanker. I hate art! I hate fashion!"
Who can forget the Coneheads?
"We're from France!"
What goes good with eggs?
"Fiberglass!"
Skit that didn't make the cut? Well, there's "Home Movies and the Mr Bill Show", one I think may have given Paul Reubens an idea.
Then there's the Coneheads, and I'm very surprised it isn't near the top since it was made into a movie. Matter-of-fact it should have been #1. "We come from France." "Oh well, that explains everything."
And lets not forget our favorite representative of the Vatican, Father Guido Sarducci.
Arrivederci America!
Where the h**l is "the Last Voyage Of The Starship Enterprise"?????? That was bloody briliant and much better than some of the skits listed here.
Or the blues brothers?
Hx823. So very true
They were so funny,thank God for the chance to see all this anytime you want on those apps
They spoke for us in many ways. They were our voices in the maelstrom that was the 70's.
They spoke for some of us, certainly not all....
@@dr.skulhamr3220 ??? WTF are you talking about???
@@dr.skulhamr3220 Don't telll me what I have no idea about you lame brained ignoramus. You don't know me. You shut the fuck up yourself. Dickhead
@Frank Caroline. Comedy may not be your thing
Hard to pick a favorite but i miss the puppy upper & doggy downer commercial.
The original cast was amazing!!
Roseanne Roseannadanna on the great American Smoke Out!
Classic and hilarious
@chris younts she was brilliant! My favorite from the original cast ❤
Sadly the current form of SNL literally craps on the brilliance that was the original cast. Also, I think Attack of the Killer Christmas Trees deserves a mention in this video.
How could they miss Emily Letilla and Rosanne Rosannadanna? The ONLY good SNL was the Not Ready for Prime Time Players
Nagger please.
Grow the fuck up.
I get so tired of hearing that.
Who remembers that the Muppets had a weekly sketch during the first season of SNL?
How can you do an original cast retrospective without Roseanne Rosannadanna???
The death of Gilda Radner was a devastating blow to fans everywhere and the iconic characters she created deserve a segment (or three) in this video.
true story, im running a 3mile midnight race, this year, I'm trying, planning on running a sub 18 race. A woman in a Killer Bee outfit, passed me with about a half mile to go. She was running Backwards!
Was she in the race?
@@DoubleDash28 yes she was
she turned around backwards as she ran by saying c'mon let's go!
Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber & Judge !!!
Ah, BrunGilda!
@@babu357 "Take a pint from that bird too"
I loved these skits, however, I think there were numerous others worthy of the top 10. IE; Belushi and Ackroyd circumsizing a baby on a test drive of a new car.
Buck Henry's favorite sketch, and probably mine as well, was the Lord and Lady Douchebag sketch. Also, Henry was injured in the Samurai Stockbroker sketch when John Belushi accidentally cut him on the forehead. In subsequent sketches during that show cast members wore bandages on their heads in solidarity with Henry.
I'm sure you remember that when this show first appeared it wasn't called Saturday Night Live. It was just Saturday Night. Hence, "Live from New York its Satueday Night"
They couldn't call it "Saturday night live" at first because Howard Cosell had a variety show on rival network ABC called "Saturday night live with Howard Cosell" first...of course THAT show was canceled after 18 episodes at which point, NBC could use the name.
@@les4767 “The Not Ready for Primetime Players” was named as such as a tweak to Cosell’s show, which had “The Primetime Players”. (This nominal Saturday Night Live aired at 8 pm.)
As it happened, all three The Primetime Players would eventually resurface two blocks crosstown and four blocks downtown, joining their second show called Saturday Night Live; Bill Murray, brother Brian Doyle Murray, and Christopher Guest.
(Dave Letterman would make exactly the same trip in reverse, leaving 30 Rockefeller Plaza to set up shop in the Ed Sullivan Theater.)
John Belushi in the cemetery."Because,I'm a dancer" skit.
😂😂
Roseanne Roseannadanna has 2 hilarious skits on Weekend Update: The guy who writes to her about stopping smoking; the other about Donald Trump with a sweat ball hanging off his nose. Can you find those?
The smoking one was the funniest skit ever. You belong in New Jersey.
My favorite Rosanne Roseannadanna skit is the one about racehorses. Oh! Nevermind.
I believe the sweat ball bit was about Dr. Joyce Brothers!??!
@@daveallman3981 You are so right!
@@aileenfarrol2158 Thanks, I might be middle aged now, but I remember watching that LIVE.
My ex and I who had been married September 1975 had a party to watch the first episode of SNL ! WHAT A GOOD TIME !
I loved every skit they ever did!
😊
"Never mind:.
I saw that first episode. I was seven years old and was woken by my parents howling with laughter. So I went to take a look and ended up watching the whole thing with them. From there on, if I was good all week, did my homework, kept my room clean, etcetera etcetera, I got to stay up and watch SNL. My personal favorite moment was the first performance of the Blues Brothers. Made me a life long fan of the blues. Those were good times.
Honorable mention: John Belushi's "Joe Cocker."
Brings back memories... especially two boys in my neighborhood dressing up as "two wild & crazy guys"... we were ten!
Great memories,awesome laughs......never to be repeated except for Eddie Murphy
The 70's was a great decade.
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I was young, no money, trying to start a practice. This gave me great entertainment
You missed my favorite infomercial! The floor cleaner that doubled as a dessert topping!
😂😂
I also like Quarry. The cereal made from stone. "Better tasting cause it's mined!"
SNL was like nothing we had seen before. A predecessor, ‘The Carol Burnette Show’ might be the closest to it and it wasn’t close. This was a cast of brilliant fresh talent with writers pushing the envelope. And it was live so anything could happen. I was in my mid to late teens. Saturday nights were spent with my friends drinking a little drink, smoking a little smoke while experiencing SNL together. When the original cast was gone I quit watching. The magic was gone too.
Instead of describing the skits, LET US ACTUALLY ENJOY THEM.
The great SNL ads that they showcased, like the famous, "Meatwagon Rescue Set." They made all ads seemed so real.
The, "Bel Arabs," with Howard Hessman, was a scream. I loved how the re-did the theme song.
I haven't thought about Landshark in years, what a great character and I miss the old days of Saturday night Live. There has been a lot of greats over the years, but I think the casts of the first 10-15 years or so we're the best
I always loved the Donuts / Wheaties sketch with Belushi, The "it's whipped cream! / No it's a floor wax!" Ackroyd skit and the Exorcist one despite having a terrible fear of that movie LOL
"The bed...is on my foot..."
Man! I remember all these skits and more from the early SNL.
those were great times! 😀👍
It took me back and that's the way it was,love the memories. I was just looking up the video for the cheeseburger skit, glad I did.
I think "Happy Fun Ball" deserves at least an honorable mention, and how can you possibly have an SNL top 10 list without "Blues Brothers"? Thus was back when SNL was actually funny.
This is from only the original cast. Happy Fun Ball was around the 90's. Great sketch though.
I was going to mention the Blues Brothers! What's even more awesome is they took that show on the road - I saw them at Red Rocks right after the movie came out
I remember a skit in '78 with guest star Michael Sarazzin "Josh Ramsey VD Caseworker". Man, that was freakin' funny! My personal favorite.
😆
“Hey, I read in the paper that you have VD!”
Classic!
@@semihandyman5711 The basket ball game PA announcement was a hoot too!
God, the memories. Days of yore my friends, days of yore.
I was in college at the time. This stuff was so good that bars would empty at 11:30 pm on Saturday nights as everyone went to find a TV. I specifically remember that, when Bill Murray first came onto the show, he was panned as "lame" by most viewers. But, eventually, everyone started to catch on to his unique comic style.
Weren't there any TV's in bars back then? I was 10 years old when it first went on.
@@gcrichman53 College bars then were not geared for listening to a TV. Music was loud, etc.
Candy Slice and The Judy Miller Show: Priceless
John Belushi training for the Olympics with little Chocolate Donuts!
😂😂
I can't believe you went through all those episodes from the seventies and never mentioned the Blues Brothers!
Favorite: spoof on Smuckers jam ad: "with name like Smuckers, it's gotta be good jam". Then the cast come out with successively worse names for jam like: "with a name like monkey puss it's gotta be real good jam"; then: "painful rectal itch", etc. Hilarious!
Snl has sucked ever since the original "not ready for prime time" players left.
James Smith, I agree except "More Cowbell". You cannot go wrong with the, always cool, Chris Walken!
There were a couple other good runs - Ferrell Wigg
Phil Hartman was pretty funny. RIP.
@@rootedandgrounded0911 More Cowbell - my MOST favorite sketch ever, even though I loved the ones that were shown in this video, as well as Dana Carvey (Church Lady), Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock etc. There were a lot of really funny people off and on through the years. I can't start naming them because I'm sure to leave out too many!
Mr Robinson's Neighborhood was always good.
That's great.
Actually found the narrative enjoyable as well.
Remember also a skit with Belushi as a waiter w/an elderly couple where everyone is misunderstanding each other.
Hilarious!
original cast was the best and every time one left the show suffered just a little more each time till there were none. i used to like the fake commercials and of course mr.bill....OH NOOOOOOOOO!
Bill Murray missed being in the “original cast” by a year. In the fall of 1975, he was a cast member of what was then called “Saturday Night Live”-the ABC variety show hosted by Howard Cosell. (That’s why the much-longer-running Show was called “NBC’s Saturday Night” at the beginning.
I still think of him as original cast though. He came in so early on and was a huge part of the first five years.
I miss Miss Emily Latella.
Gilda was the greatest.
oh,yes...'what's all this i hear about endangered feces?'
The spoof on The Exorist was funny with the line, "Your mother sews socks that smell."
The bed is on my foot....
This was real good stuff. No more. Everything sucks!!!!!!
Said every crusty old fart in history.
It's political now.
Everything looks good with rose colored glasses.
The last Point/Counterpoint that was done with Bob Dole and Bill Clinton, played expertly by Dan Akroyd and Darryl Hannah literally had me falling out of my chair, rolling on the floor and laughing hysterically. What's so funny, is I saw it coming, and yet, it didn't disappoint.
Unfortunately, because of the PC police, so many of those skits would never fly today.
It's even worse now July 5th 2020. It will spark a riot.
That’s why “comedy” isn’t funny anymore.
Thats simply because people are STUPID today.
I disagree.
In the 70's we lived deep in N.C. mountains. We got one TV channel. That channel showed SNL. The reason we got it was we lived near a repeater that allows the channel to come in clear. We watched SNL in color. Back then color TV costed more than B&W sets.
We lived in suburban Chicago in the 1975 and SNL quickly became my favorite show. Moved to VERY rural north central Minnesota late in 1977, where we too could only get one channel, luckily, an NBC affiliate. Prime time NBC was painful to watch back then, save for Baa Baa Black Sheep. I remember thinking "at least we can watch Saturday Night Live." Out first Saturday in the frozen boonies the late local news couldn't end soon enough. The news signs off...commercial...commercial...WELCOME TO NORTHLAND THEATER! Effing Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto re-runs! To add insult to injury, we had to listen to the Vikings on the damned radio because NBC didn't show NFC games unless the local team was hosting an AFC team. Jesus, that was a horrible winter.
Alternate title: How to suck the humor out of classic sketches by "yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak"ing non stop.
What about the Waynes Brothers??? Homey The Clown... " Homey Don't Play That" HILARIOUS!!!
Any ten best list of SNL must include Andy Kaufman. Maybe top five. Maybe even top two.
The skit where Aykroyd plays a refrigerator repairman at the Lupner's house with Lisa Lupner and Todd. Aykroyd bends over to check the old Norge fridge and exposes the crack of his ass. Brilliant!
Oh yes who could ever forget that I still laugh about it.
Best part was when he pulled a pencil out of it LMAO!
@@les4767 Yup, that's it man. Send the ambulance- we're dying from laughter.
@@guitartec My GOD, I miss the 1970's....
@@les4767 Yup, that's all we talk about at work