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My daughter tapes Saturday Night Live to watch in the morning. Last nigt they had John Goodman on and I tell you it was hysterical. They did a spoof on the president with the interpreter (Keenan Thompson) that had me in stitches and the "Three Wise Guys" was also great. It had Sly Stallone, John Goodman and Robert Dinero as three mafia wise guys on camels going to see the Baby Jesus and it was hysterical.
 
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CAJUNLAWYER said:
My daughter tapes Saturday Night Live to watch in the morning. Last nigt they had John Goodman on and I tell you it was hysterical. They did a spoof on the president with the interpreter (Keenan Thompson) that had me in stitches and the "Three Wise Guys" was also great. It had Sly Stallone, John Goodman and Robert Dinero as three mafia wise guys on camels going to see the Baby Jesus and it was hysterical.
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I watch SNL once or twice a year, last night was one of those nights. The Three Wise Guys sketch had me rolling with laughter. SNL was funny again.
 
I tell youngsters, "I'm so old, I remember when 'Saturday Night Live' was FUNNY."

For the whole time it was on, "Mad TV" was funnier, and "Second City TV" always gave "Saturday Night Live" a run for its money. That was the big break for John Candy, Rick Moranis, and Harold Ramis.
 
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A few months before SNL debuted, a small comedic group from Boston, the national lampoon lemmings played my college. They were Chevy Chase, Lorraine Newman, Gilda Radner & Meatloaf, who was seriously considered for Bellushi's part in SNL. The loaf was extremely good & would have done well in SNL I believe. I think he turned down SNL to do Rocky horror & at one time was considering Opera.
 
cmort666 said:
I tell youngsters, "I'm so old, I remember when 'Saturday Night Live' was FUNNY."

For the whole time it was on, "Mad TV" was funnier, and "Second City TV" always gave "Saturday Night Live" a run for its money. That was the big break for John Candy, Rick Moranis, and Harold Ramis.
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I never was a big Mad TV fan as I have never found Jim Carey to be funny at all.Second city was fantastic...somehow the Canadians got it right. It surpassed SNL in many ways to me. There was another show, I don't remember what network it was on, I think it was called Fridays? It was pretty funny. One of my favorite bits was the pharmacist so busy sampling his own wares that he was constantly hallucinating. It was also the first show I ever saw Michael Richards(Kramer)on.:cool:
 
I don't recall Carey on MadTV, but do remember him on In Living Color, the Wayan Brothers show. That one had some hysterical bits, particularly the ones Damon was in. Another grate Canadian one was Boys in the Hall. That one alway got me laughing!
 
My late wife and I used to nearly hurt ourselves laughing at "SCTV". The parodies of a local-TV polka show, "The Happy Wanderers" as I recall, was utterly hilarious. They had the Shmenge Brothers' polka band do a tribute to John Williams that literally made Carol fall off the couch laughing. Andrea Martin was possibly the funniest woman I had ever seen. She and Catherine O'Hara working off each other were devastating.

I haven't watched SNL for many years, but the Three Wise Guys sketch sounds wonderful.
 
A10 said:
I don't recall Carey on MadTV, but do remember him on In Living Color, the Wayan Brothers show. That one had some hysterical bits, particularly the ones Damon was in. Another grate Canadian one was Boys in the Hall. That one alway got me laughing!
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You're right!!! Apparently the morning meds haven't kicked in. Whatever show he was on, he was never funny to me.
 
shouldazagged said:
My late wife and I used to nearly hurt ourselves laughing at "SCTV". The parodies of a local-TV polka show, "The Happy Wanderers" as I recall, was utterly hilarious. They had the Shmenge Brothers' polka band do a tribute to John Williams that literally made Carol fall off the couch laughing. Andrea Martin was possibly the funniest woman I had ever seen. She and Catherine O'Hara working off each other were devastating.

I haven't watched SNL for many years, but the Three Wise Guys sketch sounds wonderful.
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I remember an episode of SCTV where the Shmenge Brothers were on stage & the tuba player took a solo. The rest of the band left the stage & let him puff his heart out. Pretty funny. Let's Polka!:D
 
I miss the SNL days when they had John Belushi, Bill Murray, Garrett Morris, Dan Ackroyd, Chevy Chase, Lorraine Newman, Gilda "Roseanne Rosanne Rosannadanna" Radner and Steve Martin. THAT was one hell of a cast!!!
 
timn8er said:
You're right!!! Apparently the morning meds haven't kicked in. Whatever show he was on, he was never funny to me.
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The entire point of "In Living Color" was that it was a Black oriented ensemble comedy show which had few if any sacred cows. It eventually turned into a de facto "Jim Carey Show", and I've hated him ever since. His recent excursions into room temperature IQ gun control advocacy haven't raised my opinion of him.

ABSOLUTELY one of the funniest things I've EVER seen on TV was "Jews on First", their parody of Abbot and Costello's "Who's on First" with cast members playing Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton in the Abbot and Costello roles. It was absolutely BRUTAL, and THE most devastating indictment of Farrakhan's anti-Semitism and Sharpton's stupidity I've ever seen.
 
SNL pretty much gave up the ghost when Eddie Murphy left, although they did have ONE funny show in the '90s. It was the show with Lucy Lawless (Xena) where a "serious" news examination of Bill Clinton and his policies by female reporters turned into a teenage slumber party with the "journalists" giving each other makeovers and having a pillow fight. It was the perfect metaphor for the mainstream media of the time... even moreso now.
 
Pop's2 said:
don't forget Jane Curtin
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I pictured her face but couldnt think of her name.

Others I miss are ones like Phil Hartman. Doggone he was great especially when he did his parody of clinton when he went to McDonalds-skit. Now that was one of the best--since John Belushi did Samurai Psychiatrist.

JOHN BELUSHI - "The Best Of Samurai Futaba" - (Part 2) - YouTube

This aint the Hartman sketch, but will give you the idea.
Classic McDonald's Commercial with Phil Hartman - YouTube
 
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