Best scenes/skits - SNL history

Anyone see the takeoff on the old Canon sure shot commercial from the 80s with Stevie Wonder and Joe Piscopo? Stevie Wonder is trying to hit a tennis ball was classic. Then Joe says, "Here Stevie, you try it" and Stevie takes pictures of the ground and the sky.

I've met so many SNL fans who've never seen that bit that sometimes I think it really didn't happen.

Oh, and I've got mention the Toonces skit with the aliens. "Quick -- get that cat to a typewriter!"

 

The stuff with Eddie Murphy back in the day was pure gold. Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood, Buckwheat is Dead, the Ebony and Ivory spoof with Piscopo, Gumby... The man was great on that show.

Others that jump out for me:
Dead Honkey
Cowbell
Farley as a Chippendale's dancer
Mike Myers as the Hyper Hypo kid who was tied to the jungle gym
Dana Carvey as Church Lady talking about Madonna when Sean Penn was on as a guest
Matt Foley, motivational speaker

 

When Kiefer Sutherland hosted SNL, it was at the very start of the 1992 presidential campaign and they had a skit that was the "Democratic debate to avoid being the guy who loses to Bush." It was when HW Bush's popularity was on a high and the sketch consisted of the Dem candidates badmouthing themselves to avoid the nomination.

Phil Hartman as Mario Cuomo was funny ("I ... have ... mob ... ties"), but Sutherland was really good as Lloyd Bentsen, using the "You're no Jack Kennedy" line on himself and his closing statement was "I'm old, and I'm only getting older. In fact, I probably couldn't tell you the names of half the people up here tonight. But I do know one thing -- George Bush would beat the bejeezus out of me."

Also on that show, which happened soon after Sutherland's marriage to Julia Roberts was called off at the last minute, he showed up for the monologue in a tux and said something along the lines of "I know this looks odd, but I've had this tux hanging in my closet for the past month and figured I'd get some use out of it."

 

The Phil Hartman-as-Reagan Iran-Contra sketch is my favorite SNL political moment of all time.

2) Hammond-as-Clinton post-impeachment. "I don't give a rat's ass."
3) Jon Lovitz in Dukakis After Dark.

 

haven't read the posts. just wanted to stop by and offer:

there's richard pryor/chevy chase's "dead honky" and then everything else. plenty of goodies to choose from. i'd probably take "schweddy balls" second. 8);D ;D 8)

 

Another classic was Richard Pryor in the "Exorcist" skid with the bed being shaken by being lifted by wires. One of the hazards of live TV occurs as one of the bed posts lands on his foot and he's in pain yelling "The bed ... is on ... my foot!"

 

Know I am missing a bunch....

Schwetty Balls
Tim Meadows as OJ with the telestrator
Julia Child
Bass-O-Matic
Little Chocolate Donuts
Gilda as Patti Smith
Jane, You ignorant slut
Samurai Deli
Swill
"I'm a Dancer"
Cowbell
Madonna when she was at her hottest seducing Wayne and Garth
Elvis Costello changing songs midway in
Sinead tearing up the Pope
Chippendales
Matt Foley
Clinton at MickeyD's
Peyton Manning United Way commercial
Lorne offering the Beatles $4,000
Ebony and Ivory (you are blind as a bat, and I have sight)
Dick in a Box
Natalie Portman rap
Reagan... Watt... Hu....
Jim Belushi .... chess coach
John Belushi... Joe Cocker
Al Gore lingering on the West Wing set
Ferrell as Goulet
Ferrell cheerleading
Lunchladyland.... Sandler and Farley with Sarah Silverman as Chop Suey
Linda Richman with Madonna and Babs

 

Joe Montana as the weird roommate.

 

Totally forgot about OJ and the telestrator. That was incredible.

 

Second on "Landshark". My friends and I used that all the time in high school.

I loved the fake ads. Two favourites:

"Colonel Lingus' Fried Chicken" (It's finger lickin' good).
Bass-o-Matic

 

How about Consumer Probe sketches with Candice Bergen and Dan Ackroyd - Johnny Switchblade, Bag O'Glass, Invisible Pedestrian (a black rubber suit)... Classic.

 

Both Schweddy skits are great but that first one, with Ana Gasteyer and Molly Shannon somehow staying in character, is one of the marvels of all time.