This was back when many sketches also had heart, instead of just being for laughs. We loved these characters, because they are funny, but also because they are kind, loving and sincere. We can relate with people who aren't cool and a bit clueless, because we've either been uncool and clueless, or we love people who are. Todd is obnoxious, but he has genuine love for Mrs. Lubner and sincerely compliments her and tries to lift her spirits when she is lamenting over her husband, and refrigerator's death. Bill and Gilda always found the heart of a character, something redeeming and beautiful in among the hilarious. Like Roseanne Roseannadanna, her characters were well-fleshed out and always contained heart that made us even more invested in whatever they had to say.
This was so perfectly accurate. The clothing, the dialogue, the set. I grew up in Versailles, Pennsylvania and I knew people exactly like these characters.
I grew up in Minneapolis and I KNEW THESE characters and worked with Todd Labaunta for years. Todd and Lisa were based on people that Al Franken and Tom Davis went to Blake School with and, yes, Todd was everything Franken and Davis made him out to be. ;-)
Yeah, she really was something wonderful. She was a wonderful human being, as well. I read her autobiography that came out shortly before or after she died of cervical cancer. Even tho that was a really long time ago, anyone who is old enuf to remember her SNL career & her films like "Haunted Honeymoon" should seek out the book. I'm sure it can be found online, the library or somewhere.
@@alexcintas8792 yes, now that I think about it, u r right. Thanks for that correction. In her book She said she & Gene conceived once but during the filming of "Haunted Honeymoon" she miscarried. I think she would've been a wonderful mom; so warm-hearted & caring along with her terrific sense of humor.
Jim Carrey totally used Dan Aykroyd's plumber character in this skit as inspiration for his character in The Cable Guy. It's beyond evident. Pure comic genius. Gotta love it.
Standard and Practices (the censors) told Lorne to cut out the part about the crack, Dan pretty much said he was gonna do it regardless. In dress rehearsal he didn't have his pants down.
The best thing about SNL classic recurring sketches was how they developed over time. The Nerds kept adding little nuances: Mrs. Loopner's egg salad, memories of the late Mr. Loopner (God Rest His Soul) who was born without a spine. He also invented the Slinky, but failed to patent it.
I think this was stunningly funny because everyone had seen butt crack incidents in real life, but no one talked about it, and we never dreamed anyone would make fun of it on TV. I mean when this first aired we nearly fell over laughing. And if you watch Gilda, she nearly falls over laughing. Supposedly Dan did this in rehearsal, but the cast never thought he would actually go through with it on live TV.
I Fell In Love With Gilda In 1975 I Was 8 When She Passed Away I Felt Like I Lost My Best Friend Still Missing Her Today Always Will 💔 The Original SNL Was The Best Year's Love And Miss Thoses Day's ❤
I ma 59 years old and lost my father 4 years ago. My father had a serious side to him a mile wide. When this came out we watched it together. I thought he and i were going to pee in our pants we laughed so hard !!!! found memories of a man who knew what he liked. He loved George Carlin too A place for my stuff. Thanks from Texas!!!
I'm so happy to hear you have such ggod memories of your dad. Reading the comments here are giving me a frightful case of the feels. We've become such a mean and hateful nation. I miss the days where we could all laugh together and not worry about offending anyone. They weren't nerds. They were just funny and we all laughed at them, even if we were the nerds.
I always loved the character that was modeled after her beloved grandma- Mrs. Emily Litella (name of both the grandma & the character). Edit: Hadn't seen the other comment when I wrote mine.
Dan's costume and behavior were unscripted and deliberate. Story goes his intent was mooning the audience. Which is why Bill and Gilda are acting so strangely. They honestly didn't think he'd do it.
He wasnt supposed to, the censors wouldnt allow it. They fought it all week, him and Lorne with them and nothing. When dress came he didnt, when it aired he did, snd the censors lost their shit in the control room
Where is this written about? If there was conflict over it in rehearsals, I wouldn’t exactly call it unscripted. But Gilda completely breaks character and I never noticed that before. It’s hysterical.
We had a kid in high school that had that problem, one time he was sitting on an upper level in the cafeteria practically mooning half the kids, somebody tossed a potato-tot in it from down below like someone shooting hoops.
These days Carrey pretty much plays nothing but 2 variations of the same one incredibly annoying character - someone completely insane, loud, cocky and obnoxious, or someone incredibly stupid, loud, cocky and obnoxious. Look at the trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog, he's really stretching his abilities this time by putting on a mustache and playing Eggman as a completely insane, loud, cocky and obnoxious character.
@@joesmoe71 I agree. I liked Jim Carrey when I was a kid but when I grew up and became more mature, I realized that Jim isn't really that funny. All his characters are practically the same, always loud and obnoxious. He overacts and overreacts while making goofy faces and jumping around while screaming. Its like when Thinking about how he's going to act as a new character, he uses either Ace Ventura or the riddler as a template. Like his performance as the riddler sucked. It was just him moving in weird ways while shrieking and jumping.
@@habitsrabbit He is not "talentless" per se, he did a halfway decent job in The Mask and Man on the Moon, but he's let it all go to his head and thinks just because he puts his name on something people will rush to see it regardless his lack of effort. Now I think he's just arrogant and lazy, and a miserable excuse of a person if you believe the stories of what he did to his ex girlfriend.
@@joesmoe71 I liked his performances in the mask and man on the moon. And the Truman show. But yeah, I agree with your comments. he thinks people will go see it regardless of his effort just because his name is on the poster.
I have season 4 on DVD so I have watched this several times, but I am just now figuring out that Todd is singing the theme from Grease, which had just come out a month or two before this aired.
Am laughing my arse off, because here in Stratford, Connecticut, there used to be a laundromat called "Norge Village", and haven't heard that brand name since the early 1960's... 😀 Didn't realize they manufactured refrigerators, too... 🤔 Only on "Saturday Night Live"... 🌙
Yes children, there really was a seriously funny, late-night, live-audience comedy show that opened in 1975, and kept getting better and better for about 25 years. During the first season, on most nights, two out of three sketches were pretty weak. We used to make an ad-hoc party out of it, gathering at one place or another to watch it in a group. 'Restless leg syndrome' was not uncommon. But just when we'd start thinking: "Maybe it's time to bail...', they'd hit a home-run. When Chevy Chase' hubris over his success the first season got the best of him, he departed, and a new guy named Bill Murray showed up. He and Gilda, Dan Aykroyd, Garret Morris, Laraine Newman, Jane Curtin and John Belushi not only saved the show, they put it in secure orbit over planet Earth. The comedy writing, and the guest-hosts got better too. No famous person was off-limits for comedic purposes, no revered Hollywood star, politician, president, not even Jesus Christ. On the other hand, the writers for SNL weren't really interested in politics, it was all about finding those comedic grains of truth their audience had overlooked, but recognized spontaneously in the hands of the extremely talented SNL cast. Most SNL fans have a list of sketches they believe qualify as 'Best of Category'. For me, when it comes to politicians, here are two of my best ever: 1. th-cam.com/video/eYt0khR_ej0/w-d-xo.html Aired in 1992, starring one of SNL's all-time greats: Phil Hartman...(RIP). 2. th-cam.com/video/BXdNYXMQoy8/w-d-xo.html This is one of (less than 5) really funny political parodies I've seen since Lorne Michaels' self-canonization(*), and the oracles of social-justice took over SNL at the turn of the century. And it proves an interesting point about sketch-comedy: even if most of the gags in the sketch are marginal at best, the one: out-of-the-park grand-slam, is all the audience will remember. (*) Apropos Lorne Michaels, if there were a 'Mount Rushmore' for television comedy series producer-creators, I believe he'd well-deserve being included. For now, Lorne will have to make due with his "2004 Mark Twain Prize for Comedy", a prestigious honor which has been given to the giants of comedy, such as: Whoopi Goldberg, Ellen DeGeneres, Tina Fey, Dave Chappell, and Bill Cosby. And believe it or not, many of the recipients know each other! Oh yeah, Steve Martin got it in 2005, and I'll never forget how funny his acceptance speech was. You can see it here: Steve Martin's Mark Twain Award Acceptance Speechth-cam.com/video/DbhGOD8gSIo/w-d-xo.html Note: Although the above clip was pretty funny, the original, un-redacted version was even funnier. As Steve was wrapping up his thanks to the Kennedy Center and and the audience, he waxed a little philosophical, remembering the great man, Mark Twain: "I wrote down a quote I thought particularly appropriate for this event...", reached into his pocket, pulled out a little note, and read aloud: "Whatever you do, don't name an award after me!" My sentiments exactly. I've tried from time to time to find out who gave the Kennedy Center permission to use Samuel Clemens pen-name for their annual exercise in self-congratulation, but so far, no luck. Fortunately, I managed to download the un-edited version of Steve Martin's acceptance speech that night, before the PC-thought-police at TH-cam managed to purge Martin's blasphemous comment from their archives. One of these days I'll post it back up there, just to see how long it takes them to take it down again. Bottom-line, FBO members of the X-Y-Z-? generations: This country spent most of its history doing rotten and sometimes atrocious things to millions of people. But slowly, beginning with a guy named Abraham Lincoln, two named Roosevelt, a Truman, and an Eisenhower, this country, by force of arms, and a generation of Americans willing to put their own lives at risk bearing them, managed to carve out a future for mankind, where the blessings of peace and liberty are enjoyed by most, and still within reach of all. After 70+ years of peace and prosperity -- unprecedented in our recorded history and paid for with the lives of that aptly-named 'Greatest Generation' -- all of that is teetering on a political precipice, put there by an angry mob of self-serving vigilantes, who have arrogated to themselves, the final word on who may, or may not, hold public office in this country. And if you're wondering why SNL isn't funny anymore, its because hatred and ridicule isn't funny now, and never has been.
@@zabadazidit Thank you 'Peter'... (I put it in quotes, because it triggered a memory of another great clip, 'Ask President Carter') I'm sorry to pile on like this, but every time I think about the 'Marvex 3000' mail sorter... th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=SNL+Cronkite+interviews+Jimmy+Carter It cracks me up. Thanks much for the connection !;)
I always thought Dan Aykroid was cute when I was in my teens, and these eps were new. Jane Curtain was my fave of the female cast on the original SNL. I always watched her show Kate and Allie, when new.
I started watching SNL in grade school an would throw a fit too watch it with my older brothers and sisters 78 I was in 3rd grade an loved this skit and remember being so tired getting up for church the next morning an being a hit in Sunday school reenacting what I'd seen.too bad it has become a bunch of talentless hacks that wouldn't know comedy if Belushi hit them over the head with it.
I was a teen when this came out. It was a big thing to stay up and the show got quoted WAY too much. There was just less media. Yeah, I know, OK boomer.
Not possible until cancel culture gets canceled 😅. I was lucky enough to see these when they originally aired. We’d laugh about SNL on Monday mornings in home room 😅.
@@100hooker Same here! First episode I remember seeing in '75 had the caveman commercial whacking himself in the chin with a big rock on the end of a club while trying to get a close shave looking at his reflection in a stream. "Track-Three Shaver .... because you'll believe anything". Lol
this is the ancient equivalent of hey ya by Outkast...one simply can't be depressed whilst listening/watching this...if you are somehow able to blot out the whole Gilda thing
I'm watching this skit and thinking that jerk ought to be more careful - he's damaging the envelope - lol - they were great actors. I was even worried he'd hurt her feelings mishandling the letter, ripping it or something. Tremendous.
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"That's so funny, I forgot to laugh"-- that line really takes me back in time.
And she expresses it so weeell
@5:00 "egg salad's my favorite" omg gets me everytime.
❤yeah,.shit seemed a little more simple and not all this "my feelings" generation.
This was back when many sketches also had heart, instead of just being for laughs. We loved these characters, because they are funny, but also because they are kind, loving and sincere. We can relate with people who aren't cool and a bit clueless, because we've either been uncool and clueless, or we love people who are. Todd is obnoxious, but he has genuine love for Mrs. Lubner and sincerely compliments her and tries to lift her spirits when she is lamenting over her husband, and refrigerator's death. Bill and Gilda always found the heart of a character, something redeeming and beautiful in among the hilarious. Like Roseanne Roseannadanna, her characters were well-fleshed out and always contained heart that made us even more invested in whatever they had to say.
What a kind and beautiful observation
That required talent. Took effort. Now it's just incompetence and pre fabricated good looking stars
Nothing was better than these Not Ready for Primetime Players and the writers!
This was so perfectly accurate. The clothing, the dialogue, the set.
I grew up in Versailles, Pennsylvania and I knew people exactly like these characters.
I grew up in Minneapolis and I KNEW THESE characters and worked with Todd Labaunta for years. Todd and Lisa were based on people that Al Franken and Tom Davis went to Blake School with and, yes, Todd was everything Franken and Davis made him out to be. ;-)
Gilda Radner was an absolute gem.
is an absolute gem
@@williamwooten6156 Marie and William, how true. She was, is and always be.
"God rest HER soul."
I loved Gilda. She brought so much happiness into our lives.
truee i miss her sm
I still miss her.
Those were the days. Poor Gilda. We all loved her so much.
Yeah, she really was something wonderful. She was a wonderful human being, as well. I read her autobiography that came out shortly before or after she died of cervical cancer. Even tho that was a really long time ago, anyone who is old enuf to remember her SNL career & her films like "Haunted Honeymoon" should seek out the book. I'm sure it can be found online, the library or somewhere.
@@JRiley-fd2jh ovarian cancer, but yes a super lady.
@@alexcintas8792 yes, now that I think about it, u r right. Thanks for that correction. In her book She said she & Gene conceived once but during the filming of "Haunted Honeymoon" she miscarried. I think she would've been a wonderful mom; so warm-hearted & caring along with her terrific sense of humor.
She’d be more than a great mom, she’d be a great neighbor ❤️
And Poor Gene
Pulling the pencil out of his crack was gold.
I think most of the audience missed it though ✏️
Jim Carrey totally used Dan Aykroyd's plumber character in this skit as inspiration for his character in The Cable Guy. It's beyond evident. Pure comic genius. Gotta love it.
Was looking for a comment like this. Agree 100%
Holy shit! Props to Aykroyd for actually loading up that fridge on a hand truck and getting it out the door without destroying the set.
Props for spelling Dan's last name correctly! As a reward, you get... Phil Hartman resurrected! (I wish) 😕
It’s a prop. Props to the prop department
Gilda’s reaction was real when she saw Akroyds crack the first time. Lmao
Standard and Practices (the censors) told Lorne to cut out the part about the crack, Dan pretty much said he was gonna do it regardless. In dress rehearsal he didn't have his pants down.
Still one of the funniest skits
She basically falls into Murray!
Anroyd does the butt crack joke as a plumber in a other film when he is older.
*Aykroyd's
never be a better troupe than the original years
The best thing about SNL classic recurring sketches was how they developed over time. The Nerds kept adding little nuances: Mrs. Loopner's egg salad, memories of the late Mr. Loopner (God Rest His Soul) who was born without a spine. He also invented the Slinky, but failed to patent it.
You got it straight... that's why you're the captain.
Yeah, I enjoy the occasional bits from SNL these days, but any time they do a “follow up” it’s just a less funny recreation of the original skit.
This is such a throwback. This was my SNL era. Never been as good, though I did like the Farley, Spade, Sandler crew.
I think this was stunningly funny because everyone had seen butt crack incidents in real life, but no one talked about it, and we never dreamed anyone would make fun of it on TV. I mean when this first aired we nearly fell over laughing. And if you watch Gilda, she nearly falls over laughing. Supposedly Dan did this in rehearsal, but the cast never thought he would actually go through with it on live TV.
I was a teen when these 1970s eps were new. The nerds were funny. I always liked Bill Murray.
I Fell In Love With Gilda In 1975 I Was 8 When She Passed Away I Felt Like I Lost My Best Friend Still Missing Her Today Always Will 💔 The Original SNL Was The Best Year's Love And Miss Thoses Day's ❤
GILDA WAS GOLDEN ….⭐️
Dan Aykroid did the same repairman bit on a episode of the Nanny...classic..
These were the best, sure miss the era
Switch to math and go into long division. Cracks me up every time.
MY MAN GOT THAT GYAT
I ma 59 years old and lost my father 4 years ago. My father had a serious side to him a mile wide. When this came out we watched it together. I thought he and i were going to pee in our pants we laughed so hard !!!! found memories of a man who knew what he liked. He loved George Carlin too A place for my stuff. Thanks from Texas!!!
What a beautiful memory of your Dad. Thank you for sharing it and condolences on your loss
I'm so happy to hear you have such ggod memories of your dad. Reading the comments here are giving me a frightful case of the feels. We've become such a mean and hateful nation. I miss the days where we could all laugh together and not worry about offending anyone. They weren't nerds. They were just funny and we all laughed at them, even if we were the nerds.
My mom showed my this when I was younger I’m so glad I found it again
I'm glad they showed this episode because of it, 'plumber's crack' was officially recognized as a disease by the American Medical Association.
Really, loved Gildea Radner skits on SNL especially Rosanna Rosanna Danna and the skit the schoolteacher on Weekend Update
See Gildeaemily play Mrs. Litella...put on a frown that touches the ground...will love Gene and Gilda forever and ever...RIPped apart no longer
I always loved the character that was modeled after her beloved grandma- Mrs. Emily Litella (name of both the grandma & the character).
Edit: Hadn't seen the other comment when I wrote mine.
goddam, Bill Murray was so cute
Dan's costume and behavior were unscripted and deliberate. Story goes his intent was mooning the audience. Which is why Bill and Gilda are acting so strangely. They honestly didn't think he'd do it.
Houmatt OMG, it's just a crackup.
He wasnt supposed to, the censors wouldnt allow it. They fought it all week, him and Lorne with them and nothing. When dress came he didnt, when it aired he did, snd the censors lost their shit in the control room
@@randylastname426 the beauty of live TV
Couldn't pull that stunt today.
Where is this written about? If there was conflict over it in rehearsals, I wouldn’t exactly call it unscripted. But Gilda completely breaks character and I never noticed that before. It’s hysterical.
Several years later Dan Aykroyd did it again in The Nanny 😂🤣
Pigging backing off this very skit. Very funny guy - and excellent actor
And caddy shack 2
We had a kid in high school that had that problem, one time he was sitting on an upper level in the cafeteria practically mooning half the kids, somebody tossed a potato-tot in it from down below like someone shooting hoops.
"Ray has gone bye-bye Gilda, what have you got left?"
It’s so funny how Mrs. Loopner is charmed by Todd!! Hahahahaha!!
The 2 ghostbusters in the making
The best SNL skit ever.
The anatomical pencil holder!!!!!!
...wonder if Jim Carey used Akroyd's refrigerator repairman as inspiration for his cable guy...talks a little like him...similar mannerisms...
These days Carrey pretty much plays nothing but 2 variations of the same one incredibly annoying character - someone completely insane, loud, cocky and obnoxious, or someone incredibly stupid, loud, cocky and obnoxious. Look at the trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog, he's really stretching his abilities this time by putting on a mustache and playing Eggman as a completely insane, loud, cocky and obnoxious character.
@@joesmoe71 I agree. I liked Jim Carrey when I was a kid but when I grew up and became more mature, I realized that Jim isn't really that funny. All his characters are practically the same, always loud and obnoxious. He overacts and overreacts while making goofy faces and jumping around while screaming. Its like when Thinking about how he's going to act as a new character, he uses either Ace Ventura or the riddler as a template. Like his performance as the riddler sucked. It was just him moving in weird ways while shrieking and jumping.
@@habitsrabbit He is not "talentless" per se, he did a halfway decent job in The Mask and Man on the Moon, but he's let it all go to his head and thinks just because he puts his name on something people will rush to see it regardless his lack of effort. Now I think he's just arrogant and lazy, and a miserable excuse of a person if you believe the stories of what he did to his ex girlfriend.
@@joesmoe71 I liked his performances in the mask and man on the moon. And the Truman show. But yeah, I agree with your comments. he thinks people will go see it regardless of his effort just because his name is on the poster.
I thought the exact same thing, I say yes 👍
Gilda can't stop laughing. Remember, this was live on NBC on sat night at 11:30. When comedy was great
Ir was so funny,,,, couldn't catch my breath. How did they all do it live ?
@@johnbowman1076Gilda literally keels over. She nearly falls on Murray, she’s laughing so hard.
@4:59 "egg salad's my favorite, kills me everytime
Why don’t you go play in traffic. 🤣 Those we’re the days.
Miniature marshmellows Tang and eggs salad. MY FAVORITES!
three course meal over here....🤣🤣🤣
First butt crack in TV history 😂
What a becoming housecoat!!
They had fun with these characters too
Bill was so cute oh my god
This still makes me laugh so hard. Holy crap.
When I hit my 50s and gained 20lbs, crouch sagging pants became my thing too.
man i miss those days...under developed nations....everybody stayed home to watch.snl....and right after that sctv
on Monday morning, everyone in high school would be doing the voices from that weekend's SNL episode. SNL was....Huge.
SNL and SCTV😍🤩
Noogie!! Noogie patrol!!
One the great Classics 😂
“Black and Blue are going to be the big colors this year my dear”.
I'm cracking up😅.
Aykroyd looked and sounded exactly like jim carey cable guy.
Ni, Jim Carey sounded exactly like this.
Uh I think this was 20 years before Jim Carrey came along.
@@JohnDough-yr2zt right so Carey must of copied him?
I have season 4 on DVD so I have watched this several times, but I am just now figuring out that Todd is singing the theme from Grease, which had just come out a month or two before this aired.
I remember watching this with a buddy and we almost choked on the pizza we were eating.
Am laughing my arse off, because here in Stratford, Connecticut, there used to be a laundromat called "Norge Village", and haven't heard that brand name since the early 1960's... 😀 Didn't realize they manufactured refrigerators, too... 🤔 Only on "Saturday Night Live"... 🌙
air conditioners too..."Years From Now You'll Be Glad It's A Norge!"
The good ole days 😊
these are the good as it ever was SNL daze
How come I don't see them looking at the cue cards every second like today's SNL?
THANKS!!MOM! for naming me lisa, just so that people at school could call me lisa loonpner
No wise cracks!!!!! 😂😂😂😂
When I want a laugh I watch the old SNL episodes or Carol Burnett show. I find nothing done today that funny.
So true
Oh god it’s soooo good
Omg Dan akroyd
So this is basically where the Frostbusters cameo from Aykroyd in that one episode of the Nanny came from.
All the writers drank together at Nero's or some place like that....lol
Dan Aykroyds facials expressions at the end. You see exactly where Jim Carrey got some of his from. Wow. Lol no wise cracks lol.
My grandad used to say ‘Go play dogems on the freeway’.
😂😘😒
Chess is THE word lol
Yes children, there really was a seriously funny, late-night, live-audience comedy show that opened in 1975, and kept getting better and better for about 25 years. During the first season, on most nights, two out of three sketches were pretty weak. We used to make an ad-hoc party out of it, gathering at one place or another to watch it in a group. 'Restless leg syndrome' was not uncommon. But just when we'd start thinking: "Maybe it's time to bail...', they'd hit a home-run.
When Chevy Chase' hubris over his success the first season got the best of him, he departed, and a new guy named Bill Murray showed up. He and Gilda, Dan Aykroyd, Garret Morris, Laraine Newman, Jane Curtin and John Belushi not only saved the show, they put it in secure orbit over planet Earth. The comedy writing, and the guest-hosts got better too.
No famous person was off-limits for comedic purposes, no revered Hollywood star, politician, president, not even Jesus Christ. On the other hand, the writers for SNL weren't really interested in politics, it was all about finding those comedic grains of truth their audience had overlooked, but recognized spontaneously in the hands of the extremely talented SNL cast. Most SNL fans have a list of sketches they believe qualify as 'Best of Category'. For me, when it comes to politicians, here are two of my best ever:
1. th-cam.com/video/eYt0khR_ej0/w-d-xo.html
Aired in 1992, starring one of SNL's all-time greats: Phil Hartman...(RIP).
2. th-cam.com/video/BXdNYXMQoy8/w-d-xo.html
This is one of (less than 5) really funny political parodies I've seen since Lorne Michaels' self-canonization(*), and the oracles of social-justice took over SNL at the turn of the century. And it proves an interesting point about sketch-comedy: even if most of the gags in the sketch are marginal at best, the one: out-of-the-park grand-slam, is all the audience will remember.
(*) Apropos Lorne Michaels, if there were a 'Mount Rushmore' for television comedy series producer-creators, I believe he'd well-deserve being included. For now, Lorne will have to make due with his "2004 Mark Twain Prize for Comedy", a prestigious honor which has been given to the giants of comedy, such as: Whoopi Goldberg, Ellen DeGeneres, Tina Fey, Dave Chappell, and Bill Cosby. And believe it or not, many of the recipients know each other!
Oh yeah, Steve Martin got it in 2005, and I'll never forget how funny his acceptance speech was. You can see it here:
Steve Martin's Mark Twain Award Acceptance Speechth-cam.com/video/DbhGOD8gSIo/w-d-xo.html
Note: Although the above clip was pretty funny, the original, un-redacted version was even funnier. As Steve was wrapping up his thanks to the Kennedy Center and and the audience, he waxed a little philosophical, remembering the great man, Mark Twain:
"I wrote down a quote I thought particularly appropriate for this event...", reached into his pocket, pulled out a little note, and read aloud:
"Whatever you do, don't name an award after me!"
My sentiments exactly. I've tried from time to time to find out who gave the Kennedy Center permission to use Samuel Clemens pen-name for their annual exercise in self-congratulation, but so far, no luck. Fortunately, I managed to download the un-edited version of Steve Martin's acceptance speech that night, before the PC-thought-police at TH-cam managed to purge Martin's blasphemous comment from their archives. One of these days I'll post it back up there, just to see how long it takes them to take it down again.
Bottom-line, FBO members of the X-Y-Z-? generations:
This country spent most of its history doing rotten and sometimes atrocious things to millions of people. But slowly, beginning with a guy named Abraham Lincoln, two named Roosevelt, a Truman, and an Eisenhower, this country, by force of arms, and a generation of Americans willing to put their own lives at risk bearing them, managed to carve out a future for mankind, where the blessings of peace and liberty are enjoyed by most, and still within reach of all.
After 70+ years of peace and prosperity -- unprecedented in our recorded history and paid for with the lives of that aptly-named 'Greatest Generation' -- all of that is teetering on a political precipice, put there by an angry mob of self-serving vigilantes, who have arrogated to themselves, the final word on who may, or may not, hold public office in this country. And if you're wondering why SNL isn't funny anymore, its because hatred and ridicule isn't funny now, and never has been.
It's not SNL anymore.
You summed it up perfectly. BRAVO!!!
@@zabadazidit Thank you 'Peter'... (I put it in quotes, because it triggered a memory
of another great clip, 'Ask President Carter')
I'm sorry to pile on like this, but every time I think about the 'Marvex 3000' mail sorter...
th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=SNL+Cronkite+interviews+Jimmy+Carter
It cracks me up. Thanks much for the connection !;)
Thanks for the book report
I thought Phil as the Reagan/mastermind was among the top skits ever. I enjoyed your thoughts. Agree, say no to hate.
Bill Murray Gilda Wagner Jane Curtain 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I always thought Dan Aykroid was cute when I was in my teens, and these eps were new. Jane Curtain was my fave of the female cast on the original SNL. I always watched her show Kate and Allie, when new.
Classic SNL is the best.
I can’t stop laughing 😆. I wish SNL was this good now a days.
Oh, SNL is better and more pertinent than ever. The last couple of years have provided the best material for satire that we've had in a long time.
@Teucer Russell Right on! SNL hasn't been any good since the middle 90s. It's a bunch of lib political pc pandering CRAP!!!!!
Once they got overly political it was over. Now they look desperate to be funny. And rarely are.
I started watching SNL in grade school an would throw a fit too watch it with my older brothers and sisters 78 I was in 3rd grade an loved this skit and remember being so tired getting up for church the next morning an being a hit in Sunday school reenacting what I'd seen.too bad it has become a bunch of talentless hacks that wouldn't know comedy if Belushi hit them over the head with it.
I was a teen when this came out. It was a big thing to stay up and the show got quoted WAY too much. There was just less media. Yeah, I know, OK boomer.
We had a yellow Norge!..
3:10 3:16
I haven't seen anyone comment on it but what is that thing Bill Murray is holding that plays music?
Them ol' Norges are hard to come by....
I'm genuinely disappointed in myself for being so attracted to Dan Aykroyd. Good lord did he have legit dumper though.
Classic humor
How many wish this was a real family?
Somewhere there probably is one.
TYVM for the best 7 minutes of my day! Take a crack at this...it's quite funny!
Great comedy!
What fun they must have had!!!!
I would love to use this in a new series I'm thinking of making
Dan Aykroyd is acting exactly like Jim Carrey is acting exactly like Dan Aykroyd.
The Norge!
This is so gem 💎 😂😂😂
LMAO! Make SNL great again!
Not possible until cancel culture gets canceled 😅. I was lucky enough to see these when they originally aired. We’d laugh about SNL on Monday mornings in home room 😅.
@@100hooker Same here! First episode I remember seeing in '75 had the caveman commercial whacking himself in the chin with a big rock on the end of a club while trying to get a close shave looking at his reflection in a stream. "Track-Three Shaver .... because you'll believe anything". Lol
Refrigerator Repair Nan. Love it.
Repair man LOL
Lol. Keep hearing (in my melon) with Bill, "Meatballs and Woody the Rabbit."
this is the ancient equivalent of hey ya by Outkast...one simply can't be depressed whilst listening/watching this...if you are somehow able to blot out the whole Gilda thing
Why is Mrs. Loopner always wearing a house robe?
The 70s man
Because it's so becoming.
Chess is the word is the word that you heard! Love it love and miss this show! Noogie noogies
I'm watching this skit and thinking that jerk ought to be more careful - he's damaging the envelope - lol - they were great actors. I was even worried he'd hurt her feelings mishandling the letter, ripping it or something. Tremendous.
Exactly! I was thinking....come on!!! don't rip the letter!! Had to laugh at myself...they GOT me! Very funny
Ok. PHILADELPHIA USA
PLEASE bring good writers back!!
writers.....🤣...today, folks can not even spell let alone create a very funny, relatable story out of thin air
Wow, they used to have really good comedy skits on Saturday Night Live? Why don't they have them anymore?
Because the new people have absolutely no talent. And everything has become politicized.
@@nassauguy48 You summed it up perfectly!
Was Todd the son of Iris Delamuca, the big, brazen and tough woman played by Jane Curtin in a couple of skits?
Love the sticker on the fridge
The Norge.
gyatt