Charles Nelson Reilly appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson over 100 times and gave that show some of it's best interviews. He was hilariously witty.
I read where CNR lived literally blocks from where the Tonight Show was staged, allowing him to be almost “on call” in case a scheduled guest had to bail. And you are correct. He always delivered.
My friend and I watched this together after getting the Best of Will Ferrell DVD from Blockbuster. (90s kid here.) After this, we described everything we loved as scrumtrilecent.
Thank you James Lipton, and rest in peace. This is no doubt your greatest interview in Actors studio, a interview that shall be never forgotten, never supplanted, and most probably will stay as humanity's greatest achievement bar none. RIP.
Agreed. Should be in the tens of thousands of views. Of the many cringe-worthy sketches they come out with most weekends, this comftrably makes a top 50 of all time.
This is one of the funniest of comedy sketches in the history of TV...That he should celebrate Charles Nelson Riley, a regular on the 1970s game show circuit (particularly Hollywood Squares and Match Game, etc), is a SCREAM...
Lol I remember watching this episode as a kid and dying laughing at that word. All these years later, I still randomly say it and people are bewildered by what I mean. 🤣🤣🤣
Baldwin is truly a gifted Actor. He has excelled on stage on tv and in Film: he is the real thing! I feel very sorry for him about the accident! I am not sure he will ever recover from that.
@@HolgerRuneFan Are you an actor? Yes or no? Are you a working member of SAG and AFTRA? Yes or no? Have you ever fired a weapon on a movie set? Yes or no? Have you ever fired a weapon live on stage, Yes or no? Notice I do not ask whether you fired a weapon, I ask if you have ever fired a weapon during a live performance? Have you ever worked with a fight choreographer? Have you worked with an armorer? Yes or no? Have you ever been on a movie set? How many days? How many times? You don't know a thing-- you are completely ignorant of what you are talking about.
@@HolgerRuneFanthere was a person on set for the safety of the guns. He used the gun given to him. It's not his fault if he didn't know. 🙄. Think things thru and look for facts instead of repeating national inquirer type baloney
There are a lot of people who watch youtube clips of Reilly on Match Game and Carson and are frustrated because they cannot find one instance of Reilly twisting his glasses. In reality, he never did that. What he DID do to punctuate his one-liners was his trademark of readjusting his glasses.
I didn’t know who Charles Nelson Riley was, but Will Ferrell really killed it in this one,..! God, I used to sit for hours, show after show, listening to James Lipton’s interviews and his wonderful voice. Such gravitas and depth. I loved these shows. I wasn’t aware of that Lipton had died, however. That is sad news. Rest in peace. Thank you for your amazing contribution here in life,.. 🙏
It helps to think of Nelson Reilly and Paul Lind as the fun gay uncles of kids growing up and watching sitcoms and game shows in the 70's. Obviously a little different but accepted.
Inside the actor’s studio has long been a favourite of mine - but sadly I haven’t come across this brilliant, brilliant spoof of it until now. Baldwin is as brilliantly comic here as I’ve never seen him anywhere else. Equal to Cruise in Tropical Thunder.
Commenters don't get it because they don't know James Lipton. This is AMAZING if you're seen inside the actor's studio bc this is exactly how it runs -- Lipton takes an actor and builds them up as if they sit on a throne next to Jesus and Ghandi. It's an absurd show, and this is barely a parody.
I was picking that up, so Lipton would kiss ass for the whole show? Honestly I’m not even mad, there’s so much negativity in the world at least kissing ass is still kindness
One of my top 5 SNL skits, hands down 😂😂 Alec Baldwin won an Emmy for playing Donald Trump. I always thought his portrayal was okay, but this? Nailed it beyond belief!!
Truly one of the most silly things I've ever seen Alec Baldwin do, and he was great! Pretty accurate too, from my memories of watching old game shows, even if I didn't understand half the jokes as a little kid 😉
kinda eerie to think that they as in the real actors at the time of the air date didn’t know 911 was gonna happen in a few months. it’s like watching vids from before march 2020
I find it interesting that Alec Baldwin played Charles Nelson Reilly in an snl skit, especially since Alec went on to host an ill fated version of Match Game several years later.
The prosecutor, in the court case of the century: "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, so help you God?" Me, grabbing my glasses between my thumb and forefinger and pretending I am twisting them: "NNNGGGGH NNNGGGHH NNNNGGGHH!"
Weird Al (when he was doing "CNR") said CNR was a little offended by this portrayal, but... it's spot on. The sketch isn't even about CNR. It's about how bombastic James Lipton was.
For anyone who doesn't know Charles Nelson Reilly I suggest tracking down his autobiographical one-man show (and "Weird Al" Yankovic's tribute song "CNR")
1:18-1:21 little did they know Alwc Baldwin would then voice Dennis from Spongebob Squarepants the Movie after portraying Charles Nelson Reilly. I only say this because Charles Nelson played as the Dirty Bubble in Spongebob also very good impression Alec Baldwin does as Charles Nelson Reilly.
In all seriousness: stop what youre doing right now and stream "Life of Reilly," which is Charles Nelson Reilly's autobiographical one-man stage show that he performed in 2004. It is absolutely, undeniably wonderful, perfectly written and delivered, fucking hilarious, and a devestating punch right to the gut of your humanity. I don't have enough words for how awesome and deeply moving it is. I had it on DVD, but last I checked you can stream it on Amazon Prime and TH-cam. It's so, so, so, so good.
Charles Nelson Reilly appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson over 100 times and gave that show some of it's best interviews. He was hilariously witty.
Rodney was the best guest but CNR was up there
I read where CNR lived literally blocks from where the Tonight Show was staged, allowing him to be almost “on call” in case a scheduled guest had to bail.
And you are correct. He always delivered.
Capote??
Maybe the most underrated SNL skit ever? Baldwin KILLS it here. Will Ferrell is great as always.
Man... Baldwin allways play so well
Agreed...criminally underrated
@@bradleyjones650 Dare I say...scrumtrellescent?
@Yosuke Spotted the Trump supporter
@Yosuke this fuckin’ guy
My friend and I watched this together after getting the Best of Will Ferrell DVD from Blockbuster. (90s kid here.) After this, we described everything we loved as scrumtrilecent.
This comment is scrumtrilecent.
We only got video from Blockbuster until after 2001 since DVD was still relatively pricey.
This Best of Will Ferrell DVD was extremely popular in the early Zeroes
rented that so many times
The modern master!
Thank you James Lipton, and rest in peace. This is no doubt your greatest interview in Actors studio, a interview that shall be never forgotten, never supplanted, and most probably will stay as humanity's greatest achievement bar none. RIP.
I didn't even know he was sick
It wasn’t really James Lipton. It was Will Ferrell playing James Lipton.
@@jennymisteqq5399 the OP is being facetious.
This may be the most UNDERRATED skit in SNL history.
Absolutely fantastically hysterical.
I am counting all the "this is underrated" comments I read. This is no. 4.
I remember I used to know this like the back of my hand! It never goes out of style!
LOL. My friend does a funny CNR impression and just told me about this skit. Baldwin nails it . Hilarious.
@@gardenlover9663 But don't try to count all the "underrated" comments on all of TH-cam. The number is infinite.
unfunny
Probably my favorite SNL-Sketch (at least among the Top 5) - I can't believe it hasn't got more views!
Ferrell and Baldwin both kill it here.
Agreed. Should be in the tens of thousands of views. Of the many cringe-worthy sketches they come out with most weekends, this comftrably makes a top 50 of all time.
Baldwin is always cringe
@@dr.decker911you are cringe, shut your piehole
@@dr.decker911Ya just can't muster the ol compartmentalize thing, can ya.
@@waynej2608 what? Literally stfu
First and only Charles Nelson Reilly impression I've ever seen. Alec Baldwin nails it.
Cause no one really knows who he even is. Also the actor protesting this dude murdered some lady cold blood in front of his peers to witness.
@@hardtymz2517Liar.
Not even remotely.
I'm not sure if it's just a coincidence that Alec would later host a revival of a show that CNR was a regular panelist on for a number of years.
25 seconds in and I'm already uncontrollably laughing!!!! It's 2022 and I'm watching vintage SNL sketches, trying to bring back simpler times.
Right there with ya lol 😊
Inside actors studio SNL with Toby maquire was the best one!
This is one of the funniest of comedy sketches in the history of TV...That he should celebrate Charles Nelson Riley, a regular on the 1970s game show circuit (particularly Hollywood Squares and Match Game, etc), is a SCREAM...
It's Reilly not Riley.
If it weren't for this sketch, I wouldn't know who Weird Al is singing about in "CNR"
yeah I don't think it as a very good crowd that night . I was laughing my ass off. maybe they didn't know much about Charles.
Only one word could describe this sketch: Scrumtrulescent!
The enormous stack of cards is a perfect detail
Lol I remember watching this episode as a kid and dying laughing at that word. All these years later, I still randomly say it and people are bewildered by what I mean. 🤣🤣🤣
SCRUMTRILECENT!
Baldwin is truly a gifted Actor. He has excelled on stage on tv and in Film: he is the real thing! I feel very sorry for him about the accident! I am not sure he will ever recover from that.
Baldwin is unquestionably ‘“scrumtrelescent”
You feel "sorry" because he murdered someone and seriously wounded another person and walked off Scot free?? Seriously?
@@HolgerRuneFan Are you an actor? Yes or no? Are you a working member of SAG and AFTRA? Yes or no? Have you ever fired a weapon on a movie set? Yes or no? Have you ever fired a weapon live on stage, Yes or no? Notice I do not ask whether you fired a weapon, I ask if you have ever fired a weapon during a live performance? Have you ever worked with a fight choreographer? Have you worked with an armorer? Yes or no? Have you ever been on a movie set? How many days? How many times?
You don't know a thing-- you are completely ignorant of what you are talking about.
@@HolgerRuneFanthere was a person on set for the safety of the guns. He used the gun given to him. It's not his fault if he didn't know. 🙄. Think things thru and look for facts instead of repeating national inquirer type baloney
@@Sharon-fw9qw 💯💯💯
RIP to both CNR and James Lipton
There are a lot of people who watch youtube clips of Reilly on Match Game and Carson and are frustrated because they cannot find one instance of Reilly twisting his glasses. In reality, he never did that. What he DID do to punctuate his one-liners was his trademark of readjusting his glasses.
You have to be a fan of Inside Actors Studio to fully appreciate this.
Right. There would be absolutely no other way to understand it.
Absolutely!Will Ferrel is a chameleon
Hard to not be a fan of what both James Lilton and Inside Actors Studio, but yes, perhaps that is what Will's comedy and humor is based at.
No doubt and if you were, THIS was 😂😂😂😂
No you don’t, funny is funny
This still makes me laugh 😅 this impression is spot-on!! The scarf!!And how about all those blue cards?!!
One of the skits that can make me laugh out loud. Fan of both The Actors Studio and Match Game, so it really resonated with me. They both killed it!😅
I didn’t know who Charles Nelson Riley was, but Will Ferrell really killed it in this one,..! God, I used to sit for hours, show after show, listening to James Lipton’s interviews and his wonderful voice. Such gravitas and depth. I loved these shows.
I wasn’t aware of that Lipton had died, however. That is sad news. Rest in peace. Thank you for your amazing contribution here in life,.. 🙏
It helps to think of Nelson Reilly and Paul Lind as the fun gay uncles of kids growing up and watching sitcoms and game shows in the 70's. Obviously a little different but accepted.
He's a comedian from a game show in the 70s called
match game.
Wow a excellent impression of Charles Nelson Reilly. 💯💯💯❤️❤️❤️💯💯💯💯💯💯
Comedy brilliance! A genius performance from Farrell and especially Baldwin as C.N.R.
the best Inside the Actors Studio episode EVER hahahaha
If you aren't familiar with Riley, or Lipton, this gem might go over your head. Couldn't stop laughing.
Inside the actor’s studio has long been a favourite of mine - but sadly I haven’t come across this brilliant, brilliant spoof of it until now. Baldwin is as brilliantly comic here as I’ve never seen him anywhere else. Equal to Cruise in Tropical Thunder.
always loved the "Heidi Abromowitz" reference....as though a host would site being a guest on a documentary as part of acting career, LOL!
These two are modern masters!
Worth it for the lasting power of "scrumtralescent" alone!
Ever since I saw this episode I catch myself randomly twisting my glasses like Charles. 🤣
😂😂😂
A Troll in Central Park definitely made me re-examined my life. It is a delight!
It is like staring into the eyes of God and having Him tell you, "You are my most wondrous creation."
I've been thinking recently that Greg Proops is turning into a neo- Charles Nelson Reilly.
Commenters don't get it because they don't know James Lipton. This is AMAZING if you're seen inside the actor's studio bc this is exactly how it runs -- Lipton takes an actor and builds them up as if they sit on a throne next to Jesus and Ghandi. It's an absurd show, and this is barely a parody.
*Gandhi.
I was picking that up, so Lipton would kiss ass for the whole show? Honestly I’m not even mad, there’s so much negativity in the world at least kissing ass is still kindness
I've seen enough of James' work to know he'd be tickled pink, if not purple by this parody.
@@Neyonius His comments about it are on TH-cam.
@@HolgerRuneFan Were they negative? All I can find is 45 seconds of an interview where he says he was grateful.
One of my top 5 SNL skits, hands down 😂😂
Alec Baldwin won an Emmy for playing Donald Trump. I always thought his portrayal was okay, but this? Nailed it beyond belief!!
The only one to play Trump on snl ought to be Darryl Hammond, but yes Alec wins this one.
@@meaganohara7448 The new guy on there does a pretty good Trump impression.
@@meaganohara7448 Oh yeah, LMFAO, Darryl Hammond would nail that Trump impression!
the response to "when you arrive in heaven, what would you like to hear god say?" is sublime.
Hmmm
I was brought here as a fan of Charles Nelson Riley, you'd have to be to appreciate this.
The pile of paper 😫😂😂😂😂
Lol the GIANT Stack of Cards
"Well hello James Lipton! I'm King Lort! There's a troll in Central Park! I'm King Lort!"
"I adooorre your genius!" LOL 😆
It's spelled Llort (troll backwards).
Simply outstanding
I was laughing so hard!!! Too cute....
Damn I 💜❤️💜 this Charles Nelson Riley impression of Alec’s WAYYYYYY better than his Tony Bennett one 😆😆😆
This is comedy Gold
I still use that word. It says it all.
When someone asks me about SNL and what makes it funny, I send them this link.
I was a big fan of The Actors Studio and I find this beyond hilarious!!
He played Don Don Canneloni in Cannonball Run 2...That helped me on our trivia night once and I laughed so hard. My friends did not get it at all.
I just watched Cannonball Run 2 and had to come find this 😂
Funniest SNL sketch I've seen. Not saying it's objectively the best, but, it's the best I've seen.
The response from Baldwin to the question at 6:13 is PRICELESS and may have been God's reaction when he arrived!!
I hear a lot of people raving about his Trump impression, but this one is so much more impressive. Spot on.
I still describe things as "scrumtrulescent" to this day. Classic sketch.
scrumtrulescent
I just snort
gesundheit
When SNL misses, it misses badly - viz, this mess.
@@Patsy_Parisi It's fantastic
came here just to hear him say it. Best word EVER!!!!!!
Truly one of the most silly things I've ever seen Alec Baldwin do, and he was great! Pretty accurate too, from my memories of watching old game shows, even if I didn't understand half the jokes as a little kid 😉
Yeah there was a lot of sexual innuendo on those shows.
@@mizzury54Brett Sommers was one for those. Lol.
What a great skit 🤣🤣
Thank You JAMES LIPTON & CHARLES NELSON REILLY.......Nuff said 🙏 👏
This is the best thing ever. Will’s James Lipton is so brilliant.
kinda eerie to think that they as in the real actors at the time of the air date didn’t know 911 was gonna happen in a few months. it’s like watching vids from before march 2020
I find it interesting that Alec Baldwin played Charles Nelson Reilly in an snl skit, especially since Alec went on to host an ill fated version of Match Game several years later.
The prosecutor, in the court case of the century: "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, so help you God?"
Me, grabbing my glasses between my thumb and forefinger and pretending I am twisting them: "NNNGGGGH NNNGGGHH NNNNGGGHH!"
🤣🤣🤣🤣
"it is a DELIGHT" been saying it for 25 years, but forgot where i picked it up. crazy how pop culture sneaks into your own mannerism
I’m absolutely in stitches lollll
Will Sasso from madtv played James Linton very well and its funny
He’s so right about Troll in Central Park 😂
So great
"The great Bernard Pivot avec apostrophe Papillon de la cou te fleur de sheaux co tew slurp!"
Lidsville and Match Game were the two greatest shows ever because of him.
Such a good impression of mr. riley but IRL , nelson is a talented actor.
Charles Nelson Reilly did a one-man show called "Live of Reilly". It is on TH-cam and it is amazing.
King Llort...hey, wait a minute! Llort is troll backwards!!
If you haven’t seen A Troll n Central Park, you must.
OMG. I am dying. This is brilliant.
Alec Baldwin does great impressions.
HIs Tony Bennett is the greatest !
Charles Nelson Riley won the tour de France with two flat tires and a missing chain
I grew up watching Match Game, and this is CNR to a T!!!
I didn't even recognize that as Baldwin until reading the comments here!
That ridiculous stack of cards is 😂
Battle of the fake laughs, I love it
Genial y espectacular
This is the funniest and I mean- I just can’t even handle myself
Ironically, Charles was a noted acting teacher and director and actually won a Tony award.
You can’t help, but laugh
RIP James Lipton
Baldwin owns it, start to finish.
Like a revolver to Will Ferrell face
The one thing that is just as funny as Charles Nelson Reilly is watching Alec Baldwin play Charles Nelson Reilly.
CNR was pretty awesome on his Johnny Carson visits
Weird Al (when he was doing "CNR") said CNR was a little offended by this portrayal, but... it's spot on. The sketch isn't even about CNR. It's about how bombastic James Lipton was.
For anyone who doesn't know Charles Nelson Reilly I suggest tracking down his autobiographical one-man show (and "Weird Al" Yankovic's tribute song "CNR")
The best one is with Norm McDonald as Clint Eastwood.
What an audacious idea for a sketch! 😂💀
5:47 what😆
The Ghandi line is one of the best ever
Baldwin killed it
6:04
That’s the sound a care bear makes when someone says
I DONT CARE
1:18-1:21 little did they know Alwc Baldwin would then voice Dennis from Spongebob Squarepants the Movie after portraying Charles Nelson Reilly. I only say this because Charles Nelson played as the Dirty Bubble in Spongebob also very good impression Alec Baldwin does as Charles Nelson Reilly.
In all seriousness: stop what youre doing right now and stream "Life of Reilly," which is Charles Nelson Reilly's autobiographical one-man stage show that he performed in 2004. It is absolutely, undeniably wonderful, perfectly written and delivered, fucking hilarious, and a devestating punch right to the gut of your humanity. I don't have enough words for how awesome and deeply moving it is. I had it on DVD, but last I checked you can stream it on Amazon Prime and TH-cam. It's so, so, so, so good.
I have one word for it: Scrumtrelescent.
@@yespleasehjh ⬅️ this guy gets it!
Awesome
Funny that they mentioned Match Game and now Alec Baldwin hosts that show.
So hilarious!
If Mr. Show had Will Ferrell to do the impression then Mr. Show's parody would probably be a top 5 parody skit of all time.
I actually thought David Cross did a good job.
@@nicholasmoose6574 He did do a good job. Just not as good as Will Ferrell.
CNR was flamboyant before the word was invented.
Did this guy really twist his glasses and laugh like that? It's hilarious.
WTF is scrumptulecenant? I AM DYING!! 😄