Fun fact: Julia Child thought this skit was hilarious and would proudly show her personal copy of it to guests at her parties. She was able to laugh at herself, which is truly the best kind of humor.
Surprisingly, Julia Child didn't even know about it for many years and a friend sent her a copy of it. How could someone have not told her about it for all that time? I guess they all assumed she knew about it.
Julia was serious about cooking and teaching people to cook, but she also had an enormous sense of humor about herself and what she did so that even she could laugh at the disasters that happened on her show and learn from them. A good example for people today.
You Are 100% Correct, Julia would Whip this skit from SNL and show it off to her Close Friends at her Dinner Partied, Jacques Pepin..(Best of Dear Friends Since 1961) Avis DeVoto, Charles Gibson...(Had a Cool Crush on Charlie) and On and On..
The best part of some of her episodes. The times things don't go as planned. She was always able to laugh about it and move on and make something terrific out of her mistake . Probably why so many people loved her.
I just came to realize how fake the right hand looks and they way the fingers didn’t spread out like on the left hand & the fact how he was holding up his right arm until he got the signal to make the fake hand bleed
How I love Julia still. She made haute cuisine universally accessible; one didn’t have to study at the Cordon Bleu to utilize the techniques of the French masters. She was endearing, self deprecating, and so wonderfully encouraging. She opened up worlds of flavor, and her sense of humor allowed her to laugh along with us. Julia, you are dearly missed.
Me, too. As I recall, the real Julia Child had recently actually cut her finger during a show taping, and bandaged it and continued cooking. Dan Aykroyd did a brilliant parody.
Yep. I was sitting on our couch, at my house, with my mother and close friend, spring '79, and all of us were laughing to th point of pissing. Different times.
@@mimlo7534well she died in 2004, and this skit released in ‘95, so I guess it depends objectively on your definition of recent 😂 Although, it’s a possibility she did cut herself on air. If you’ve watched enough of “the food channel,” it’s an infrequent occurrence but not unheard of,
This is my all time favorite SNL skit. There is a back story to an incident where the real JC cut her hand and appeared on a morning show with a bandaged hand. Jacques Pepin told the story but between his accent and the noisy recording I couldn't understand half of what he said. But it is based on a real incident.
@@eminusipi Indeed it is. Child cut herself, bound it up and kept her hand behind her while she finished filming the segment. Afterward, she had to be taken to have stitches to repair the cut. She was a great performer and every bit deserving of her fame.
@@naomithomson2975 Yes, you are correct. This was posted to TH-cam in 2019, but if you read down just below the video, it is correctly labelled as recorded from Season 4 of Saturday Night Live in 1978. Child in fact called Akroyd in person to thank him for the hilarious send-up. She was a great sport.
It's true that the best form of flattery is to be imitated. Julia Child actually loved this and I heard that when she invited people over for dinner that she would play this skit for them. Such a classy lady all the way around and Dan Ackroyd did such a great impression of her. It shall go down in comic history.
That is just how great she was. Her cuisine at times may have been high brow, but she was no stuffed shirt. The homage was priceless, and it captured her indefatigable spirit, as the exaggerated incident actually sorta happened, and Julia soldiered through it, concealing the cut and carrying on with the episode until she had to go to the ER after. How rare that dedication is in people, period, much less celebrities. Kudos to her.
This is, bar none, my absolute favorite Aykroyd sketch, his delivery still cracks me up. Finally it's on the official channel because this is up there with King Tut and Belushi's Samurai as some of the most iconic SNL stuff ever
My father used to wake me up every Saturday night to watch with him. I was 7 years old when this first aired and I've never forgotten it. I actually had a similar incident myself recently with a new set of knives!
Julia Child LOVED this. It was just her kind of humor. She would be doing a chicken (at home, not on her show) and she'd hold up the liver, yell "Save the liver" and fall over laughing.
@@GeneBurnett Yep. Right there with you. Well, almost. Except - I am 63 now, so when your comment was made ( 2 years ago ) I would have been 61 ( so I was 20 when this skit aired. )
Anyone ever says “I cut the dickens out of my finger I know my mind would go straight to this sketch!” Classic Dan Akroyd! This still makes me laugh so hard I get a bellyache!
"Save the liver" Hahaha! Dan Aykroyd does an excellent job portraying Julia Child, who loved the sketch so much that she would show it to her friends at parties. Awesome!
Dan Ackroyd was the greatest comic talent EVER on SNL. His broad range of hilarious characters are too numerous to list here. His raw wit and energy were unbelievable. Legend.
the weird thing about Dan is that he was always the crazy one on SNL, but in the movies, his best roles were the straight/mellow guy i.e. blues brothers, trading places, ghostbusters
This was the very 1st episode of SNL I ever saw. I was about 11, alone, and watching random late night TV. I knew immediately it was some kind of parody of Julia Child, but when the blood started spurting my jaw dropped. It was the most shocking and funny thing I had ever seen in my young life. I didn't even know what I was watching but I was hooked.
I remember watching this on SNL when I was a kid back in the 70s. There were very few TV channels and no VCR. I always looked forward to Saturday nights when I could stay up late to watch TV which had a lineup of Monty Python, Benny Hill, Saturday Night Live and Second City Television. Much simpler but very enjoyable times.
I think what also makes this so great is that it probly shows the exact advice that Julia would give if she actually did cut her hand in the kitchen. If the apron doesn’t staunch the flow of blood and you need the chicken bone tourniquet you better move on to 911 in a thoughtful methodical stepwise approach. Hilarious.
Love this. A group of random anachronisms like ourselves. Definitely have memories of watching this on air even though It predates my birth by two decades! Something oddly but wonderfully comforting about these 70's and early 80's bits
Aykroyd just kills me in this!!! OMG, I'm in fits as soon as he/she 'cuts the Dickens out my finger' and starts spurting blood everywhere. It gets funnier as it goes on - just brilliant!
In an interview, Julia said she thought it was one of the funniest things she ever saw! BTW, at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, there is another funny video, this time starring Julia Childs herself, as she demonstrates the beginning of life on the planet by making "Primordial Soup."
This is my very first memory of SNL. One Saturday night at age 11 I decided to see what was on after Real People, and just stayed up, and this came on. I laughed my ass off. And to think that it was live, 41 years ago already, a piece of iconic comedy history. Thank you so much for posting this - it was, in a way, my bar mitzvah.
LOL...were you watching Wednesday Night Live?? Real People aired on Wednesdays. And you stayed up for 2 /12 hours??? Maybe a special Real People that aired LATE on a Saturday night...?
@@bradyguy7701 it might have been the pilot, and no, it didn't run for 2 1/2 hours - there were other shows after that but they weren't memorable. I don't know why you're arguing with me about this.
This skit works so well, because it's a loving spoof of Julia Child's "plow through and don't let anything stop you" attitude as a beloved icon of the USA. I can understand why Julia Child got a kick out of it.
First thing I thought: Did she see this? Yes. And by the comments, loved it. I'm so glad. She was a treasure. Julia was 92 when she died. What an amazing life...
I'm amazed that none of the crew called an ambulance as their star was bleeding to death!!! It's miraculous that she survived that! 😉 Classic! That Julia Child herself found it funny speaks volumes!
I met Julia Child in Culinary school and spent an hour and half with her. I asked her about this skit and she said it was great fun and she couldn't stopped laughing.
This was the very first SNL skit I ever saw. I was 6. I never laughed so hard before. It was the funniest,craziest thing I had ever seen up until then.
I saw this sketch live. I was in high school, and for whatever reason, I was home, and my parents stayed up. My mother was about to turn in, when she saw "The French Chef" opening card. Oh my gosh, did the three of us laugh. You can see Akeoyd trying to coax more "blood" out of his right hand.
"Save the chicken liver!" That's become another one of my favorite non sequiturs! I've loved this skit since I first saw it on the original show. Now, THAT'S comedy!
OH YEAH...I remember this episode well. Watching it with my sister and our dog as kids in the 70's. No matter what I was doing , I would always be sure to be in front of the TV on Saturday night as a kid and young teen in the 70's . By Far the Best years of Saturday Night Live . The most memorable cast. Jane Curtain , Dan Akroyd, Lorraine Newman , Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, John Belushi , and Garrett Morris.
My friends and I first saw this when we were in college mid-1970s. As you can imagine, nothing like this had ever been seen. It’s no exaggeration to say we nearly died!!!
Saw this skit live at a friend's birthday party while we were all in high school...laughed so hard we were all *crying!* Her mother had ZERO sense of humor, so her disapproving stare at the screen just made us laugh all the harder!
If I recall correctly, this is an exaggerated version of an episode of her show where she cut herself and soldiered on. While the show ultimately became famous and put PBS on the map, it was a very low budget show where they couldn’t afford to do multiple takes and, unlike today’s cooking shows, wouldn’t have had a supply of prepped chickens and such on standby. So you had to do one take and be done, and if something went wrong (like you cut yourself) you just dealt with it and moved on.
Absolute classic. Almost any member of SNL's later cast would be breaking long before the end of the sketch. Fallon, for instance, couldn't even make it half way.
I remember watching this for the first time, live on my tv, with an old outdoor antenna. The reception was always better late at night. Anybody remember turning the pole trying to "fine tune" the station?
Remember seeing this one when it first came out SNL. Dan Aykroyd in one of his better skits, smoked a little weed and we were on our way for the evening!!!!
I saw this in the CNN documentary with my parents last night and I was laughing. Dan in Drag, I thought I’d never see the day! I also loved her voice, especially the, “What’s missing in this picture? The goose!”
I don’t know much about SNL but I’m getting into it now and really want to see the movie coming out. I must say, this one is absolutely hilarious. Very clever and perfect comedy.
Interesting that at 6ft 2 in, Julia was actually taller than Dan Aykroyd. What a character she was. I remember my mother watching and enjoying her show and appreciating her sense of humor.
I just showed this to my son, who is 26 and never experienced the full joy of SNL during its apex in the mid to late 70s. He got a real kick out of it. I told him about the early days where an SNL skit would be followed by a fake commercial like the one for "Doggie Downers" or "Tryopenin" and that really blew his mind.
Of course I was just watching a shoot another Julia Child thing on TH-cam. And of course we went onto this one which I haven't watched in years. Just that Aykroyd just nailed it so beautifully. God bless them. And rest in peace Julia.
My brother just cut off a finger today and I sent this to him. He laughed hysterically. It could be the video or the pain killers or a combination of both, but he laughed. Thank you to SNL when it used to be funny!
According to a 2021 documentary, what triggered the writing of this sketch was two appearances on television in which Child appeared with a bandaged finger - and said it was from cutting herself while cooking. The accident required a trip to the hospital. Stiches were required. 😬
I saw this skit when I was fifteen and was stunned by all the blood. Then after Julia passed out and the closing theme started running I almost died laughing. The next morning over breakfast, I tried reenacting it for my whole family.
Fun fact: Julia Child thought this skit was hilarious and would proudly show her personal copy of it to guests at her parties. She was able to laugh at herself, which is truly the best kind of humor.
Surprisingly, Julia Child didn't even know about it for many years and a friend sent her a copy of it. How could someone have not told her about it for all that time? I guess they all assumed she knew about it.
People now: all this drag and gore on network TV! They never showed that stuff back in the old days.
Me watching this sketch: Are you sure? 😏
Julia was serious about cooking and teaching people to cook, but she also had an enormous sense of humor about herself and what she did so that even she could laugh at the disasters that happened on her show and learn from them. A good example for people today.
You Are 100% Correct, Julia would Whip this skit from SNL and show it off to her Close Friends at her Dinner Partied, Jacques Pepin..(Best of Dear Friends Since 1961) Avis DeVoto, Charles Gibson...(Had a Cool Crush on Charlie) and On and On..
The best part of some of her episodes. The times things don't go as planned. She was always able to laugh about it and move on and make something terrific out of her mistake . Probably why so many people loved her.
"Now I've done it! I've cut the Dickens out of my finger!" Classic!
Been quoting this for decades. That's why I'm on youtube right now instead of in the garage still.
Aykroyd nailed the depiction of Julia Child! The movements, the voice,- everything LOL- my God it was hilarious!
I just came to realize how fake the right hand looks and they way the fingers didn’t spread out like on the left hand & the fact how he was holding up his right arm until he got the signal to make the fake hand bleed
If I close my eyes i only hear Mickey Mouse talking lol
Look up Julia child. Very amazing chef with that kind of voice
Brian Stelter*
@krock this really does sound like Mickey mouse
if i close my eyes i can almost see michael palin
Mickey Mouse on nitrous.
How I love Julia still. She made haute cuisine universally accessible; one didn’t have to study at the Cordon Bleu to utilize the techniques of the French masters. She was endearing, self deprecating, and so wonderfully encouraging. She opened up worlds of flavor, and her sense of humor allowed her to laugh along with us.
Julia, you are dearly missed.
She was a good teacher and very sweet!
Well put. Well written. Thanks...
She said Cordon Bleu was an overrated institution.
"Oh God, it's throbbing!" My favorite sketch ever. Bass-O-Matic is a very close second. Comedy genius and it still holds up!!
"Oh, this phone is a prop, it doesn't work!"
i still recall watching this as a teenager LIVE and laughing so hard, i was crying.....man, was SNL really stocked with talent back in those days
Me, too. As I recall, the real Julia Child had recently actually cut her finger during a show taping, and bandaged it and continued cooking. Dan Aykroyd did a brilliant parody.
Absolutely. Individually and in combination, that cast/era has never been equaled.
Yep. I was sitting on our couch, at my house, with my mother and close friend, spring '79, and all of us were laughing to th point of pissing.
Different times.
@@marlaerwin3610not even close
@@mimlo7534well she died in 2004, and this skit released in ‘95, so I guess it depends objectively on your definition of recent 😂 Although, it’s a possibility she did cut herself on air. If you’ve watched enough of “the food channel,” it’s an infrequent occurrence but not unheard of,
"A Cracker, a Ritz Cracker, a Sa...haaltine" LOL
this was the skit that solidified Dan Aykroyd as an SNL Legend and brought Julia Child new viewers too
Interesting Fact: The REAL Julia Child loved this skit so much, that she shown it to her parties.
This is my all time favorite SNL skit. There is a back story to an incident where the real JC cut her hand and appeared on a morning show with a bandaged hand. Jacques Pepin told the story but between his accent and the noisy recording I couldn't understand half of what he said. But it is based on a real incident.
@@eminusipi Indeed it is. Child cut herself, bound it up and kept her hand behind her while she finished filming the segment. Afterward, she had to be taken to have stitches to repair the cut. She was a great performer and every bit deserving of her fame.
Julia child died in 2004 this came out last year
@@naomithomson2975 Yes, you are correct. This was posted to TH-cam in 2019, but if you read down just below the video, it is correctly labelled as recorded from Season 4 of Saturday Night Live in 1978. Child in fact called Akroyd in person to thank him for the hilarious send-up. She was a great sport.
Okay Wikipedia
Simply brilliant. One of the top iconic vintage SNL skits. Ackroyd was perfect satire.
It's true that the best form of flattery is to be imitated. Julia Child actually loved this and I heard that when she invited people over for dinner that she would play this skit for them. Such a classy lady all the way around and Dan Ackroyd did such a great impression of her. It shall go down in comic history.
That is just how great she was. Her cuisine at times may have been high brow, but she was no stuffed shirt. The homage was priceless, and it captured her indefatigable spirit, as the exaggerated incident actually sorta happened, and Julia soldiered through it, concealing the cut and carrying on with the episode until she had to go to the ER after. How rare that dedication is in people, period, much less celebrities. Kudos to her.
I didn’t know that, but I believe she was a classy lady.
This is, bar none, my absolute favorite Aykroyd sketch, his delivery still cracks me up. Finally it's on the official channel because this is up there with King Tut and Belushi's Samurai as some of the most iconic SNL stuff ever
I just keep thinking he sounds like Mickey Mouse
My fav of Achroyd is the male prostitute
Same here, Mr. Tulip. This and his Bass-O-Matic had me roaring with laughter.
Rose Crow Fred Garvin is the best
@@RR-VanityInKnickers 'mmmm! that's good bass !' hahah
This is possibly the greatest SNL sketch ever. I quote from it constantly!
I've watched this again & again over years. It's timeless...never gets old. Classic.
My father used to wake me up every Saturday night to watch with him. I was 7 years old when this first aired and I've never forgotten it. I actually had a similar incident myself recently with a new set of knives!
This is a master class on committing to the sketch.
OMG... 11/28/2024
Thank the gods for Dan Akroyd.
A pure classic.
Bon appetit!
Julia Child LOVED this. It was just her kind of humor. She would be doing a chicken (at home, not on her show) and she'd hold up the liver, yell "Save the liver" and fall over laughing.
I remember seeing this "live" and just about having a heart attack from laughing so hard. Thanks for posting!
@internet god Yup...62 this summer...So I was 21...
@internet god Well, not too sad. We got to see some of the funniest shit ever as it was broadcast for the first time. ;~)))
@Internet god , .......so your comment was really about yourself. I somehow suspected it....
@@GeneBurnett Yep. Right there with you. Well, almost. Except - I am 63 now, so when your comment was made ( 2 years ago ) I would have been 61 ( so I was 20 when this skit aired. )
Those were the days. We're bloody ancient, Mate
My favorite SNL sketch, hands down, it never gets old unlike me.
Anyone ever says “I cut the dickens out of my finger I know my mind would go straight to this sketch!” Classic Dan Akroyd! This still makes me laugh so hard I get a bellyache!
"Save the liver" Hahaha! Dan Aykroyd does an excellent job portraying Julia Child, who loved the sketch so much that she would show it to her friends at parties. Awesome!
Hands down one of the all-time best. I love how "Julia Child" keeps talking even as she's bleeding to death.
She certainly said words like "saltine" oddly. I miss her.
"She", that's precious! Which "her"?
Is Michael a moron? Because I think he's a moron.
@@michaelwertzy9808 Julia Child
@@seantimmons5900, when I behave like a jerk you can tell when I've had a few too many. Peace and keep well
Dan Ackroyd was the greatest comic talent EVER on SNL. His broad range of hilarious characters are too numerous to list here. His raw wit and energy were unbelievable. Legend.
@The Motherfucker legends as well. RIP Gilda.
the weird thing about Dan is that he was always the crazy one on SNL, but in the movies, his best roles were the straight/mellow guy i.e. blues brothers, trading places, ghostbusters
Fred Derry neighbors?
Even Driving Miss Daisy
@@dasboot211221 but in that case they went intentionally opposite by having wild man belushi as the mild mannered keese
My Girl...
Tommy Boy
This was the very 1st episode of SNL I ever saw. I was about 11, alone, and watching random late night TV. I knew immediately it was some kind of parody of Julia Child, but when the blood started spurting my jaw dropped. It was the most shocking and funny thing I had ever seen in my young life. I didn't even know what I was watching but I was hooked.
Then you should check out Monty Python- Salad Days.
That was the age I discovered SNL too - the PERFECT age. 🤣
3:15 Oh, this phone is a prop! It doesn’t work!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember watching this on SNL when I was a kid back in the 70s. There were very few TV channels and no VCR. I always looked forward to Saturday nights when I could stay up late to watch TV which had a lineup of Monty Python, Benny Hill, Saturday Night Live and Second City Television. Much simpler but very enjoyable times.
Dan Ayckroyd is hilarious! A great actor😁
I think what also makes this so great is that it probly shows the exact advice that Julia would give if she actually did cut her hand in the kitchen. If the apron doesn’t staunch the flow of blood and you need the chicken bone tourniquet you better move on to 911 in a thoughtful methodical stepwise approach. Hilarious.
One of my favorite skits of all time.
Please don't forget to "Remove the giblets"
And Please "save the liver"
😂😂
Classic SNL......never ever gets old! Yes, Julia loved this.....may she rest in peace.
The "blood" was gross but that wig style really complimented the shape of Dan Aykroyd's face. Very flattering.
Ya know there's a chicken with that blood but hot sauce on it ohh it is so good I can't remember the name but oh it is good
I'm 25 years old and somehow these 70s skits make me feel right at home, they're hilarious and I get the reference too lol
Same! I'm 24 and these are hilarious!
28, and somehow I have so much nostalgia for these and then have to remind myself I wasn't alive. So so funny
I'm almost 72 and a half...you folks have great taste!!!
@@hilaryapril7043 I love that these videos can bring us together, and we can share some laughs 💖 😊 💖
Love this. A group of random anachronisms like ourselves. Definitely have memories of watching this on air even though It predates my birth by two decades! Something oddly but wonderfully comforting about these 70's and early 80's bits
Aykroyd just kills me in this!!! OMG, I'm in fits as soon as he/she 'cuts the Dickens out my finger' and starts spurting blood everywhere. It gets funnier as it goes on - just brilliant!
Solid gold never gets old..
In an interview, Julia said she thought it was one of the funniest things she ever saw!
BTW, at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, there is another funny video, this time starring Julia Childs herself, as she demonstrates the beginning of life on the planet by making "Primordial Soup."
"Save the aminos! Don't throw them away!!"
This is my very first memory of SNL. One Saturday night at age 11 I decided to see what was on after Real People, and just stayed up, and this came on. I laughed my ass off. And to think that it was live, 41 years ago already, a piece of iconic comedy history. Thank you so much for posting this - it was, in a way, my bar mitzvah.
LOL...were you watching Wednesday Night Live?? Real People aired on Wednesdays. And you stayed up for 2 /12 hours??? Maybe a special Real People that aired LATE on a Saturday night...?
@@bradyguy7701 it might have been the pilot, and no, it didn't run for 2 1/2 hours - there were other shows after that but they weren't memorable. I don't know why you're arguing with me about this.
OMG....this really could not be funnier.......the sight gags when she lacerates her hand are great...LOL
I keep thinking of Julie & Julia from watching this skit
SAME!!!!
This came first
That’s why I looked this video up.
The only good part of that movie
Sadly, Child did not care for the movie and disliked being depicted in it, unlike the skit which she called to praise in person.
A funny Note: When spoofed by Dan Aykroyd on Saturday Night Live (1975), Julia Child thought it was hilarious and kept a copy of the skit for herself.
This skit works so well, because it's a loving spoof of Julia Child's "plow through and don't let anything stop you" attitude as a beloved icon of the USA. I can understand why Julia Child got a kick out of it.
Julia had great talent and a sense of humor. It's said she showed this skit to her friends.
First thing I thought: Did she see this? Yes. And by the comments, loved it. I'm so glad.
She was a treasure.
Julia was 92 when she died. What an amazing life...
this was the first of the excessive-blood-loss gags
None compare to this one, though.
Monty Python picnic scene with tennis is gross too!!!
They recently tried again with a Christmas skit... but this was the best!!
Yep, I did not get it.
The acupuncture scene with Kristen, Aidy and Jason!!!
I still remember laughing at that line at 10 years old. “Now I’ve done it, I’ve cut the dickens out of my finger.” 😂😂
I've seen this sketch countless times over the years. Still makes me laugh hard.
I'm amazed that none of the crew called an ambulance as their star was bleeding to death!!! It's miraculous that she survived that!
😉
Classic! That Julia Child herself found it funny speaks volumes!
I met Julia Child in Culinary school and spent an hour and half with her. I asked her about this skit and she said it was great fun and she couldn't stopped laughing.
This was the very first SNL skit I ever saw. I was 6. I never laughed so hard before. It was the funniest,craziest thing I had ever seen up until then.
I saw this sketch live. I was in high school, and for whatever reason, I was home, and my parents stayed up. My mother was about to turn in, when she saw "The French Chef" opening card.
Oh my gosh, did the three of us laugh. You can see Akeoyd trying to coax more "blood" out of his right hand.
Awwwww Dan Aykroyd brings me back to the best of times, best cast, happy healthy & safer,...the good ol days!!!!
hung well Dan didnt do drugs nor Jane
I laughed so hard that I cried ....this is by far one of the best sketches 😭😭😭
Evidently Julia Child loved this skit, so I won't feel bad that I cannot hear her name without thinking of this skit and laughing!!!!
Probably my favorite SNL skit ever, very pythonesque.... Love how the blood looks real.
"Save the chicken liver!" That's become another one of my favorite non sequiturs! I've loved this skit since I first saw it on the original show. Now, THAT'S comedy!
OH YEAH...I remember this episode well. Watching it with my sister and our dog as kids in the 70's. No matter what I was doing , I would always be sure to be in front of the TV on Saturday night as a kid and young teen in the 70's . By Far the Best years of Saturday Night Live . The most memorable cast. Jane Curtain , Dan Akroyd, Lorraine Newman , Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, John Belushi , and Garrett Morris.
OMG I remember this skit so clearly after all these years! 🤣
Jesus these skits make me feel so nostalgic, and I didn't even live through the 70s/80s
Britt G. Man you missed out, especially the 70s ( from what I can remember of them with all the weed, hash, opium, ludes and Thai sticks!)
Long live old school 😎🤘✌️👊✊
Jesus loves you
I am old but I will always remember this 1. RIP Mom.
My friends and I first saw this when we were in college mid-1970s. As you can imagine, nothing like this had ever been seen. It’s no exaggeration to say we nearly died!!!
Saw this skit live at a friend's birthday party while we were all in high school...laughed so hard we were all *crying!* Her mother had ZERO sense of humor, so her disapproving stare at the screen just made us laugh all the harder!
this sketch showed that the original cast of SNL were definitely "not ready for prime time",and we loved them for it.
Oh My God! That's so funny that Mr. Dan Aykroyd did his best sketch character of Julia Child respectively with Elwood Blues.
LOL! 😂😂😂😂😂
Always 💜 Dan Akroyd, reminds me of my father I didn’t know. This is Christmas morning. Thanksgiving morning too.
This comedy can only be found in 'A Space in Time" Thank You Aykroyd!!!
One of the MOST memorable lines ever IMO! Ive said this ever since this skit! LOL "Now I've done it! I've cut the DICKENS out of my finger!"
"S-s-a-altines"
If I recall correctly, this is an exaggerated version of an episode of her show where she cut herself and soldiered on. While the show ultimately became famous and put PBS on the map, it was a very low budget show where they couldn’t afford to do multiple takes and, unlike today’s cooking shows, wouldn’t have had a supply of prepped chickens and such on standby. So you had to do one take and be done, and if something went wrong (like you cut yourself) you just dealt with it and moved on.
Julia liked this skit and showed it to her friends 🍗
Absolute classic. Almost any member of SNL's later cast would be breaking long before the end of the sketch. Fallon, for instance, couldn't even make it half way.
Watching a PBS show on Julia Child and it reminded me of this SNL skit
I remember watching this for the first time, live on my tv, with an old outdoor antenna. The reception was always better late at night. Anybody remember turning the pole trying to "fine tune" the station?
Yep. We had a rooftop antenna with an electric antenna rotator. The control box would be a loud click noise once per second as the antenna turned.
I freak'n love me some Dan Aykroyd❗️
This was when I would watch SNL every Saturday. All of the characters on this show were exactly that…CHARACTERS.
Why are you all spinning? I think I'm going to go to sleep now....bon appetite!
SAVE THE LIVER!
Remember seeing this one when it first came out SNL. Dan Aykroyd in one of his better skits, smoked a little weed and we were on our way for the evening!!!!
Rarely watched SNL with friends without a bong involved.
@Amy Sternheim That's okay Amy, as long as the people that were watching it weren't sober...!!!😀😁
I saw this in the CNN documentary with my parents last night and I was laughing. Dan in Drag, I thought I’d never see the day! I also loved her voice, especially the, “What’s missing in this picture? The goose!”
Lmaooooooo y’all play too much!!!!! 😂. I miss Mrs Julie ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I don’t know much about SNL but I’m getting into it now and really want to see the movie coming out. I must say, this one is absolutely hilarious. Very clever and perfect comedy.
Interesting that at 6ft 2 in, Julia was actually taller than Dan Aykroyd. What a character she was. I remember my mother watching and enjoying her show and appreciating her sense of humor.
I just showed this to my son, who is 26 and never experienced the full joy of SNL during its apex in the mid to late 70s. He got a real kick out of it. I told him about the early days where an SNL skit would be followed by a fake commercial like the one for "Doggie Downers" or "Tryopenin" and that really blew his mind.
Still one of the greatest SNL skits ever!😂
I can watch this clip all day long and still laugh.
Of course I was just watching a shoot another Julia Child thing on TH-cam. And of course we went onto this one which I haven't watched in years. Just that Aykroyd just nailed it so beautifully. God bless them. And rest in peace Julia.
My brother just cut off a finger today and I sent this to him. He laughed hysterically. It could be the video or the pain killers or a combination of both, but he laughed. Thank you to SNL when it used to be funny!
Dan Aykroyd is a national trreasure
3:15 Masterstroke fourth wall moment
When I first saw this over 40 years ago I was 8 years old. I was like, Why's everyone laughing? She's bleeding everywhere.
I was the stagehand under that table, pumping the fake blood. Had no idea it would be the most famous moment of my life...
Dude you’re freaking iconic
According to a 2021 documentary, what triggered the writing of this sketch was two appearances on television in which Child appeared with a bandaged finger - and said it was from cutting herself while cooking. The accident required a trip to the hospital. Stiches were required. 😬
Funniest sketch in variety television history!!
One of the greatest moments in TV history.
This is in my top five SNL skits.
0:59 I was really waiting for him to say "And shape it into a calf", but I guess that would've been too savage for 70's TV lol
I saw this skit when I was fifteen and was stunned by all the blood. Then after Julia passed out and the closing theme started running I almost died laughing. The next morning over breakfast, I tried reenacting it for my whole family.
On the topic of Dan Aykroyd and his comedic brilliance, please upload the Halloween Consumer Report sketch.
Invisible pedestrian
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