Post your favorite SNL moments

Garrett Morris: Sorry guys, those two girls hosed you.

Steve: Hosed? Count-a me in!

Paul Simon singing "Still Crazy After All These Years" in the turkey outfit on Thanksgiving weekend, then later singing "Here Comes The Sun" and "Homeward Bound" with George Harrison.

"The Pepsi Syndrome"

Tonto, Tarzan and Frankenstein

Randy Newman blowing a raspberry at all the people who complained about "Short People."

Gilda and Steve's dance.

 

"Jane, you ignorant slut..."

 

James

 

Any and all Celebrity Jeopardy

fav moments "The ***** Mightier" (pen is mightier)
"Anal Bum Cover" (an album cover)
"you're mummas a wh0re trebek!"

lol Love the Will Farrel days of SNL

 

"Harry Hannukah" taking over for a sick Santa Claus.

 

That was a great episode. Isn't that the same one where Sting was in an elevator with Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon and they kept singing his songs to him? Great stuff.

 

"You've just taken orange sunshine."

 

So many classics I can't even think of them, so I'll go (fairly) current.

Anyone see the "Cork Soakers" skit, about the winery where they show the tourists how the corks get soaked?

 

I was fairly young when this episode was broadcast. Either 8th
grade or 9th...

Staying up late to watch (any) show was somewhat new to me
and it was a freedom I started to enjoy... usually with my
dad in attendance.

I remember when Elvis Costello was introduced that night.

In part because his name was unique (if you can forget
about Presley for a second - LOL)... and partly because he
looked odd... I remember thiking that he looked like
a punk rock version of Buddy Holly...

I must have been talking to my father as Costello played.
I don't remember the famous false start - and the
music didn't really register with me either...

But what I *DO* recall was the way the band dropped
their instruments and walked off the stage angry.

I had never seen anything like it.

And "palpable" is the correct word. I didn't know
about the disagreement with Michaels concerning
song selection... all I knew was this band seemed
to have something more important on their mind
than hanging around to wait for applause.

I suspect you're right about the applause being
added later.

I had the episode saved on my TIVO until
the harddrive crashed a few months back.

I'm fairly certain what I had saved was
a one hour condensed version of the 90
minute broadcast... The edited version
of what was the 1977 christmas episode
was somehow toned down... probably
because someone added some canned
applause - as you suggested.

 

Most of the syndicated versions are an hour, as opposed to the full 90. Also, Lorne has not been above liberally editing the shows, including sometimes swapping sketches for the rehearsal versions...mostly for the later seasons.

 

I just watched the youtube clip referenced above.

That looks like what I had on my TIVO.

I noticed there's a DVD box with musical performance highlights that
includes the Costello performance. I'm guessing that the clip on it
looks like what is seen on the youtube clip.

Watching it - its fairly clear that Lorne Michaels sweetened the moment by
adding in canned applause after the fact. Its not consistent with
what I witnessed live back in 1977. I dont remember the dead
silence - but I trust that's what happened. I remembering thinking
to myself "What the h-*-l-l just happened?!?!?!"

 

Lyle the effeminate heterosexual

Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat

 

"This is how we answer the door in Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood: WHO IS IT????"

Jewess Jeans. You don't have to be Jewish to enjoy Jewish Jeans.
Gilda Radner: But it don't hoit!

 

Fred Garvin...Male Prostitute

Dan Akroyd as Richard Nixon, talking to a portrait of Lincoln..."You're lucky Abe, they shot you..." then forcing Kissinger (played by Belushi) to his knees.
"Pray with me Jew boy!" Hilarious!

Akroyd (again) doing his Tom Snyder impersonation

Phil Hartman in the sketch where he portrayed Reagan as a bumbling president meeting a girl scout for the most cookies sold Then as soon as she leaves, he's got his cabinet members back in the room and he's calling all the shots.

Belushi in the film where he was an old man visiting his departed fellow cast members graves

Sprockets..."Pet my Monkey!"

Eddie Murphy (as Stevie Wonder) and Joe Piscopo (as Frank Sinatra) singing "Ebony and Ivory" "I am black and you are white", "You're as blind as a bat"

Favorite musical moments:

The Honeydrippers:"Rockin' at Midnight" and "Santa Clause is Back in Town" (why isn't this on CD or DVD anywhere?)

Elton: "Empty Garden"

 

Eddie Murphy in Norman Mailer's PROSE AND CONS:

"Images by Tyrone Greene.

Dark and lonely on a summer's night
Kill my landlord
Kill my landlord
Watchdog barking
Do he bite?
Kill my landlord
Kill my landlord
Slip in his window
Break his neck
Then his house
I start to wreck
Got no reason
What the heck
Kill my Landlord
Kill my landlord
C-I-L-L
my l a n d l o r d."

 

By most accounts, Lorne was standing there fuming when Elvis busted out "Radio, Radio." I'm not sure what happened after Elvis left the stage, but I'm guessing it was not pretty.

To paraphrase Elvis, they may not have been happy about the incident, but they sure seem to have enjoyed re-running it a billion times.

 

Bob and Ray sitting in overstuffed chairs singing "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy".

 

A few of my favorite skits that come to mind were Eddie Murphy sings, "Buckwheat" and Chevy Chase playing President Ford.

 

I loved almost everything skit that had Phil Hartman or Chris Farley in them. Phil's Frank Sinatra was killer. He was funny, funny. From more recent episodes I loved when Will Farrell played Neil Diamond. Hilarious.

 

SOOO MANY!!!
Many have already been mentioned,but:
Elvis' Coat!
The Scotch Tape store
Chris Farley with Macca(Remember,when they were saying,you were dead.That was a hoax,right?)
Many Eddie Murphy bits-White Like Me,The Clarences,Celbrity Hot Tub,Buck Wheat Sings,Death of Buckwheat,the Stevie Wonder bits.)
Ray Charles-they told me this is Carnegie Hall.I know it's not the REAL Carnegie Hall.But I'm not the real Ray Charles.The real Ray Charles is across town in the REAL Carnegie Hall...
The 'Beatle auction' in the episode hosted by Ringo.-"A toothbrush that MAY have been used by Paul during the Rubber Soul sessions."Did he use the little rubber thing at the end?""It's believed that he did".Then the wheel out Ringo & NOBODY bids.Jim Belushi ends up buying him but all he does is pop bubblewrap & watch The Jeffersons....
Any Steve Martin...
Vote to ban Andy Kaufman...

 

My comedy idols, from BOB AND RAY, JANE, LARAINE & GILDA. I still have the VHS version of the show which B&R sold.

For those who don't know, Bob Elliott is the father of Chris. For starters, there'd be no Phil Hendrie without Bob & Ray.

 

Frank Zappa holding up a copy of STUDIO TAN & calling it "My latest UNAUTHORIZED collection of sound patterns" in a Coneheads.
Coneheads-'Astronauts on the moon-HA,HA,HA!!!!'
Ex-Police
Killer Christmas Trees
Bill Murray-Nick the Lounge singer/on Weekend Update-Oscar picks-"Sorry,didn't see it...",the duet with Chevy Chase,to dispell the feuding storys,even though they really DID hate each other.
The Guest That Wouldn't Leave
Emily Latella & Roseann Rosannadanna
The Car For Crazy People
Toonces,the cat that can drive a car (just not very well!!!)

 

Devo on SNL.
The nav ad with Garrett morris.
Idiot Savant.
The chicken ad that had the disembodied chicken head extoling his deliciousness.
Unfrozen Caveman lawyer in Spanish.
Chickens no make good housepets.


And the best:
The last show where it gets cancelled and we never have to see it again

 

That was eerie... but a classic Eddie.