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I remember the days when Saturday Night Live could always be guaranteed to be hilarious.
It's just so-so these day.

Remember some of the old skits and fake commercials they used to do?
Some of them were brilliant.
Like this one:

Happy Fun Ball!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7358768984043835546

I couldn't find this video anywhere on Youtube but I did find it on Google video.

How about you?
Got any funny SNL skits to share?

I always loved the Celebrity Jeopardy skits. Best ones were when they had "Sean Connery" on it.
A few of my other favorites are the "More Cowbell" skit, the "Killer Bees" skit from the original cast, and "James Brown's Celebrity Hot Tub" with Eddie Murphy. However the best skit of all for me has to be when Richard Pryor and Chevy Chase did the word association bit.

I love the Waynes World skit where Wayne and Garth meet Madonna in her "Justify My Love" video.   :bouncegiggle:

The Continental starring Christopher Walken has never ceased to be funny over the years.  My favorite is when he gets maced by some chick, and he screams, then goes, "Only kidding.  I've been sprayed so many times I'm immune."
http://www.hulu.com/watch/4191/saturday-night-live-the-continental


Also:
Of the current season, I personally love the MacGruber skits.  Parody of MacGyver, and he'll be trapped in a room with two other people about to explode with a minute left.  He'll see a stick of gum, a dog turd and a safety pin.  He'll be like "Hand me that pin, hand me that turd." Then the person's like, "I don't wanna touch dog poop."  MacGrubers like, "4 seconds left, just give it to me or we're gonna blow" and then the explosion happens.

two words: caveman lawyer

The John Belushi - Richard Pryor classic    Samurai Hotel (http://www.hulu.com/watch/1405/saturday-night-live-samurai-hotell).

Saturday Night Live was funny....?

I'm with meQal and Happy about the "Celebrity Jeopardy" and "MacGruber" skits.

Alex Trebek: "This is the sound a doggie makes."
Sean Connery: "Moo!"
Trebek: "That's incorrect."
Connery: "Well that's the sound your mother made last night!"

The Final Jeopardy stuff was always great, like when Connery answered "indoors", but when you saw the wager the two lines spelled out "I <3 BooBs". :bouncegiggle:

I almost forgot to mention...
If you can find a clip of your favorite skit on Youtube, please post it.
Thanks!   :smile:

I've always loved the show's political humor and not much else about it.

But two that really stand out in my mind -

Eddie Murphy in BUCKWHEAT HAS BEEN SHOT!!

and

THE RONALD REAGAN MASTERMIND SKIT

Sadly Ash, I'm pretty sure NBC-Universal was the biggest group of Anti-YouTubers when it comes to threatening to sue the company every week if they don't continue to remove any and all NBC-Universal materials from the site that might be posted. Sadly, that means no skits to post. :bluesad:

The SNL website has some clips available to watch on it, but rarely do they carry any of the lesser-known skits. I tried to find one from the Danny Aiello episode where he plays a door-to-door salesman obsessed with getting some Hi-C and turkey, but of course had no luck finding it. Jerks. :hatred:

Top 3 faves. I'd post the older stuff but i think i've seen the chris farley and schweddy balls skits so many times they aren't as funny as they used to be

http://www.hulu.com/watch/1596/saturday-night-live-dick-in-a-box-uncensored#s-p1-su-i1 (http://www.hulu.com/watch/1596/saturday-night-live-dick-in-a-box-uncensored#s-p1-su-i1)

This is one of my faves because what we all love about live tv is how anything can happen. And I loved seeing her start to lose it everytime the camera panned in
http://www.buzznet.com/tags/debbiedowner/video/12536/saturday-night-live-debbie-downer/ (http://www.buzznet.com/tags/debbiedowner/video/12536/saturday-night-live-debbie-downer/)

and Donald Trumps House of Wings, which i have a feeling donald trump has banned because this video is NOWHERE to be found on the internet. funny as hell tho

(http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2004-04/12106612.jpg)

Ozzymandias speaks: I have a hard time picking a favorite great one. However, one my favorite "It-sucks-but-gets-better-as-it-goes" was from the first year. Peter Cook and Duddly Moore are judges for a prison talents show. Chevy Chase is the warden. Dan Akroyd and John Belushi do a song and dance (I believe). It is really lame and unfunny until Garrett Morris comes out and sings. At first he sings like Paul Robbeson about "one day when I'm free." Then the piano player starts playing what sounds like "Froggy Went a Cortin" and Garret Morris sings "Gonna get me a gun and kill every whitey see, then whitey he won't bother me uh-huh,uh-huh,uh-huh." Chevy has him dragged out by the guards while singing "Gonna get a white girl in a tight sweater."

Yeah. that is un-PC and rather childish. I think the first Wayne's World was also a "It-sucks-but-gets-better-as-it-goes."

Ozzymandias has spoken!!!

"Pranksters".  Starring Seth Meyers and various celebrity guests.  This one is DeNiro.  I also like the one with Chris Walken, where Walken's idea of a 'prank' is viciously assaulting a man with a crowbar. :wink:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/1593/saturday-night-live-pranksters

Digital Short Starring Andy Samberg "Andy Poppin In"
http://www.hulu.com/watch/1408/saturday-night-live-snl-digital-short-andy-popping-into-frame
Not many people seem to like the new SNL seasons, and while this isn't the 'best' of it, I think Andy is pretty funny.  This one is stupid, as it's just him popping into frame from various angles, but I like the end.

So that's why I haven't been able to find any SNL videos.
I remember the Happy Fun Ball skit being on Youtube a while back but it's since been yanked.

check on hulu, because nbc are like nazi's i refuse to go to their website to view anything

I loved the "Celebrity Jeopardy"  when it was French Stewart, Sean Connery and Norm MacDonald.  The Final Jeopardy was to "Write a number, any number."  French Stewart wrote down "Threeve, a combination of Three and Five", and then wagered "Texas" as his money.  Sean Connery wrote "V", and despite his best efforts, won, as V is a Roman Numeral.  His Wager was "Suck it, Trebek", with the "V", being the top half of the 'k' in 'suck'. :teddyr:

My favorite ones are the skits involving the cast breaking character and laughing.  That's what gets me to laugh most... when they get that gleam in their eye that says "trying not to lose it and about to fail.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9BqNOjPJxw

Ozzymandias speaks: That was great! I had always heard that SNL had some skits about NPR. The funny thing about that is I got my start in radio at the college NPR affiliate. We always laughed about the afternoon drive time show "Fresh Air" would somehow always get around to some talking about sex in such a dry and mundane manner.

Ozzymandias has spoken!!!

I also like the celebrity jeopardy thing. There was one where a catagory was "An Album Cover", and Connery pronounced it as "Anal Bum Cover". "I know what anal bum cover is because I tried to invent one once, it was my greatest failure", and at the end for his wager he draw a picture of Alex being raped by a horse. Funny. Norm playing Burt Reynolds was funny also, when he buzzed in to tell Alex he thought his buzzer was broken, then again to tell Alex he fixed it.

I liked when they had a category called 'A Petit DuJour', and Connery buzzes in like, "I want Ape TIT" Alex.

Or the one where the categories was "Therapists" and Connery called it "The Rapists".

Watching the Super Bowl tonight I happen to see a Pepsi ad that was a MacGruber skit with Richard Dean Anderson in it along with the comic who plays MacGruber in the SNL skits. Yep, it ended the same as always for MacGrubber but now he's legally changed his name to PepsGruber

I would love to find the video were Phil Hartman is playing as Charleton Heston and reading excerpts from Madonnas Sex book. Ive looked everywhere but can't find it.

Have you tried that Hulu.com?

Ya ive looked all over Hulu but can't find it there either. Oh well maybe someday it will be posted. :bluesad:

It may be on Phil's "Best of" dvd that SNL put out.

I'm not certain, as I haven't watched his dvd in a while.  If I have time in the next few days I can let you know.

Norm Macdonald as Bob Doyle on the Real World, there was a whole series of these, funny stuff. THey need to do a best of Norm SNL DVD.

I used to like "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy"

"If trees could scream, would we cut them down?
  We probably would, if they did it all the time, for no reason."

I've actually enjoyed some of the new ones quite a bit, but the ones that stick with me are definitely older:

"Bass-O-Matic!", with the fish in the blender, and Aykroyd as Julia Child suffering from arterial blood loss . . .

Christopher Walken as "Trivial Psychic" -- "Don't you understand??  You're wasting coffee!!!"

Alec Baldwin as "Bad Detective" . . .

Belushi's "Little Chocolate Donuts" . . . Actually, anything with Belushi.

Chevy Chase pretending to be different reporters offscreen on "Weekend Update", and then trying badly to cover for himself.

Frank Zappa on "Freak Mountain" -- I understand that Zappa annoyed everyone in the cast, especially Al Franken, but I think they just didn't give him a chance/didn't understand his brand of surrealism.  I really hated "The Franken and Davis Show" portions, and would go out for the food & bathroom breaks while they were on.

The whole Ron Zapruder show, wherein the cast pushed the envelope re. how filthy they could be & get away with it.

I kind of got away from the show during the Eddie Murphy/Joe Piscopo days, as I didn't think the writing was up to par, but lately I've laughed a lot at the new sketches.

peter johnson/denny crane

Jon Lovitts' "The Mountain Man"
Unfunny, but enjoyable... Until he gets to the punchline at the end, which earned a giggle from me.

"Tales of Ribaldry" were always pretty amusing

"Master Thespian" on the other hand, was kind of annoying. Perhaps it was some insider joke I was missing.

Almost anything Phil Hartman did was great. Two off the top of my head were the episode of COPS set in Arkansas that featured several trips to the Clinton's residence, in the Governor's mansion no less, and the skit where Phil, as a cranky Frank Sinatra, records a duet album with popular singers of the time. He kept calling Sinead O'Connor Sine-Aid and Cue Ball. I think that's where the "You had me, then you lost me." line came from.

Hartman was underrated and one of the better performers on the show.  He may not have had 'characters', so to speak, but always funny.  He had a few characters though.

I think that one you are referring to was Real Stories of the Arkansas Highway Patrol.The funniest part in that one was where they had to answer a domestic dispute call.It turned out that Hilary had beaten the crap out of Bill.One of the sherrifs told him,"we have to come here every week and frankly,we're getting sick and tired of it.Now when is all this gonna'stop?".Bill,nursing a black eye and bleeding,pauses and answers,"But she loves me".The sherrif replies,"Well,she sure got a funny way of showing it".
I liked the more bizzarre ones like this one that had no dialogue except for one line spoken by Phil Hartman("Sorry pal.Not tonight").Chris Farley as a drunk than imagines that he will spend the evening covered in spiders;the Harvey Keitel as a lunatic and his collection of descending ant heads(?)and Soylent Cowflop("Well,at least it's hot").