What are Your Favorite SNL Skits?

[HS Cult Leader]

Many of the ones already mentioned...

Mr. Bill


Sprockets

Wayne's World

Hans and Franz

[MobyDick]

There's a really obscure skit that I was literally gut-laughing, out of breath over and it was when Adam Sandler played Bill Cosby in a goof on The Cosby Mysteries. At one point, Tim Meadows can't help but start laughing, breaking character, and it was all over. I was done. Here it is:

http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?c=872&m=xx1990xx

[fletchman71]

My all time favorite is a more obscure one with Eddie Murphy playing a guy named Clarence who says he invented the Beatles but they were called The Clarences.
She Loves You was originally, "She love you, MAN". Help! was originally, "Help me MAN!" and She's got a ticket to ride was "She's got a ticket to ride but the bitch don't care MAN!"

I can watch that skit all the time and still laugh. I was so nuts for SNL when I was a kid during the Eddie Murphy et al period that I used to record the shows on a tape recorder and listen to them over and over.

[You Knew!]

1. Tales of Little Women with Chris Farley and David Hyde Pierce



2. The Metro Card ad with Phil Hartman and Rosanne Barr

[ohmicah]

Sinead O'Connor ripping up a picture of the Pope.

[Wesmantooth]

debbie downer always had some funny moments especially when they all were trying not to laugh. I always find it funny when you see them holding back the laughs

[peterfonda]

Forgot one... Nathan Thurm

Of course!! Dana Carvey at his very best. Also Ed Grimley fawning over Pat Sajak.

And who can forget Steve Martin singing "King Tut"?

SNL has really gone down the toilet the last few years - um, I mean its "evolved".

[peterfonda]

debbie downer always had some funny moments especially when they all were trying not to laugh. I always find it funny when you see them holding back the laughs

The Carol Burnett Show was famous for that. I used to watch that show every Saturday night with my parents and brother in the '70s when I was a kid. Harvey Korman could not keep a straight face, especially during his skits with Tim Conway. Conway had carte blanche to ad lib as much as he wanted so Korman never really knew what was coming.

Why does it seem like the best of TV happened 20-30 years ago, or more? Today's TV is such bullshit. Maybe I'm just an old fart.

[jyanks]

Another good one where they try not to laugh is the Hot Tub skit with Will Ferrell, Drew Barrymore & Jimmy Fallon.
Fallon & Horatio Sanz would lose it many times...

[ARM]

Another good one where they try not to laugh is the Hot Tub skit with Will Ferrell, Drew Barrymore & Jimmy Fallon.
Fallon & Horatio Sanz would lose it many times...

HA, that was the entire 90s fantasy for me trying to get Winona Ryder into a hoTTTUBBB.

[ARM]

I pretty much loved anything Dana Carvey did. ANYTIME he impersonated Dennis Miller I was cackling, and then did a VERY underrated sketch called "GEORGE WILL'S SPORTS/BASEBALL MACHINE" that IMO was the most cerebral, smoothest, and best written sketch I'd ever seen in my years watching. Corbin Bernsen was the host, and he had another good sketch of him as a guy so self possessed his entire apartment was a shrine to himself.

Lorne Michaels said it himself, if he could have gotten Dana Carvey to stay there for the rest of his life he would've thrown the CHASE MANHATTAN black card at him.

[Icculus]

I can't stand the people that jumped on to that "Fallon ruined skits" bandwagon. It always made the sketch that much more funny.

[jyanks]

I pretty much loved anything Dana Carvey did. ANYTIME he impersonated Dennis Miller I was cackling, and then did a VERY underrated sketch called "GEORGE WILL'S BASEBALL MACHINE" that IMO was the most cerebral, smoothest, and best written sketch I'd ever seen in my years watching.

Lorne Michaels said it himself, if he could have gotten Dana Carvey to stay there for the rest of his life he would've thrown the CHASE MANHATTAN black card at him.

Speaking of Dana Carvey, how did I forget the Chopping Broccoli skit!
My brother & I loved that when were young!

[ARM]

Speaking of Dana Carvey, how did I forget the Chopping Broccoli skit!
My brother & I loved that when were young!

It was modeled after those corny 80s pop bands that sounded like they were making up shitty lyrics as they went along. I think STYX was who Carvey was using as a template for that. He even sounds like them when he sings that.

[Pigsaw]

So many of you must be very young because this was and will forever be the greatest skit in SNL history!

From season 1... "Word Association"

http://www.hulu.com/watch/1477

[jyanks]

Quien es mas macho?

[Icculus]

I don't think I've ever so much as cracked a smile at anything pre-1990. Love reading about the history of the show and am a huge fan of a lot of those guys, but those early years do nothing for me.

[slats7]

Best skit was the Will Ferrell - Pierce Brosnan job interview.

[Wesmantooth]

Eddie Murphy Mr Rogers were some funny ass skits

[yippeekyaa]

The one where John Belushi plays an old man and walks into a cemetary pointing out his old friends. Skit was called "don't look back in anger" Aired in 1978.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-li...n-anger/n8660/