Best scenes/skits - SNL history

"Keef, that's not even the King's English! That's like Esperanto or a language twins teach each other!"

I'm also a huge fan of "Wells Fargo presents Al Pacino Checks His Bank Balance," one, because Bill Hader is my new favorite cast member and, two, because it offers the line "The sleepy store won't take my debit card 'cause it's actin' stupid!"

 

Chris Farley doing his interviews with Scorsese and McCartney.

 

Considering Dick Ebersol basically held a gun to Lorne Michaels' head when it came to firing Norm MacDonald, it's really surprising that the writers and talent who participated in the sketch kept their jobs.

 

"That's got to be disappointing for the big Russian!"

The part that always kills me about the All-Drug Olympics is when Nealon is listing all the drugs the Russian is on, ending with "... and some sort of fish paralyzer. Also, I believe he's had several cocktails."

 

Beat me to it.

"If you have a dollar, we can give you 10 dimes. Or five dimes and 10 nickels."

Also Hartman as the anal retentive chef. And I laughed so hard at Jap Anus relations I fell out of bed.

And of course Norm's great lines on Weekend Update. "The number one album in America this week is Kenny G's Miracles. Happy birthday Jesus. Hope you like crap!"

 

That's the funniest thing Jimmy Fallon did on SNL. Try as he might have, he couldn't get Timberlake to follow his lead and crack up/ruin a skit. And the theme song is hysterical.

 

Oh and three pages without a mention of Schmitt's Gay? Fail!

 

The only funny thing Horatio Sanz ever did was play Aaron Neville on the Judge Neville show and spend the whole time singing for cocoa butter.

As far as weekend update moments, Dennis Miller might have had the best in an episode around thanksgiving in the late 80's early nineties...

a turkey pops up randomly, Miller goes "gobble, gobble, gobble"... gag repeats for a few other subjects, then Pete Rose pops up.. "gamble, gamble gamble"

 

Mel's Char Palace --"You stun it! You gun it! You cut your own steak!"

Farley skating with Nancy Kerrigan

And for my money possibly the greatest of all time: Martin Short and Harry Shearer as brothers trying to get into the Olympics as a men's synchronized swimming team.

 

"Ring Toss, Beldar!!!"

Also, the skit where Phil Hartman was a "secretly brilliant" Reagan who had to switch back to being a kindly old doofus when a girl scout visited the oval office, that was pretty strong.

Also, "Mr. Richard Fader, of Fort Lee, New Jersey, asks, Roseanne Roseannadana ... "

 

How about Swayze's Hans and Franz sketch? Oh, the homoeroticism.
The guys' party with inflatable dates, with Dennis Hopper crying out, "You popped my girl!"
The Christmas show with Steve Martin, the whole cast, and much of the crew promising not to phone it in (best line from Lorne Michaels, getting a manicure: "Relax, Steve. The show's on autopilot").
John Cleese performing Monty Python's dead parrot sketch - my generation's Who's on First.
Almost three pages, and no Shatner's "Get a life"?

 

Good point.

Also, Tom Hanks and Jon Lovitz as the pick-up artists at their high school reunion.

"Helloooooo .... and good bye."

"She caught the shine on my forehead and kept on going."

"We didn't have it then, and we don't have it now."