Conference back40::soapbox

    Buck Henry as the Dirty Uncle Babysitter
    Frank Zappa with the Coneheads
    John Belushi with Joe Cocker
    John Belushi in various Samurai incarnations
    Dan Akroyd as Julia Child
    Dan Akroyd with the Bass-o-Matic
    Steve Martin doing "King Tut"
    Steve Martin and Dan Akroyd as the "Wild and Crazy Guys"
    Eddy Murphy as Jesse Jackson
    Eddy Murphy as James Brown
    Eddy Murphy as Velvet Jones selling how to "Be a Ho"
    Eddy Murphy as Tyrone the prison poet ("Kill My Landlord")
    Eddy Murphy as Mr Robinson (Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood)
    
    Among others.
    
    -b

    > Dan Akroyd as Julia Child
    
    I never saw DA do JC but I did see Tom Hanks do an amazing Julia..."Oh,
    God!  It's throbbing!"
    
    MJ

Phil Hartman as Gene, the Anal Retentive Chef/Carpenter/Fisherman/etc.

    	Chevy Chase doing the Weekend Update with Jane Curtain
    	and Roseann Rosannadanna.
    
    	MJ
    

  some of the stuff they did when Billy Crystal was on.  The 60 minutes inter-
  view with the Binkmans

  Some of the debates between Dukakis/Bush and Bush/Cliton/Perot

  The Reagan skit they did with Reagan running the show 

  The first Blues Brothers appearance



 Jim

    Bush-Cliton
    

 Whoops

    Dan Aykroyd as E. Buzz Miller, selling the artwork of Titian.
    
    (for &y) Mike Myers in his "All Things Scottish" shop.
    
    And, where it all began:  
    
    "I want to feed your fingers to the wolverines."

    I think Matt Foley, the motivational speaker, is sooo funny. Chris
    Farley makes me laugh big time.

    Live long and prosper...Promise!

    Billy Crystal and (?) doing the "Don't you just hate that?" skits.
    
    Belushi (just about anything)
    
    Blues Brothers
    
    "Jane, you ignorant slut"
    
    I haven't even been watching it lately, as the quality has fallen off
    dramatically.
    
    Dan

    
    Eddie Murphy as Mr. Rogers ...
    
    Roseann Rosanadanna ... "never mind".
    
    

    Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat 

    Belushi as the KillerBee
    

 re .14


 That's "buh'wheat"

    Dan Aykroyd as Nixon and John Belushi as Kissinger
    
    The original "Star Trek" sketch with Belushi as Kirk,
    Aykroyd as McCoy and Scotty, and Elliot Gould as the
    network exec.
    
    Giant lobsters invading the studio at the close of one show.
    
    Anything by Belushi, especially the short film "Don't Look
    Back in Anger", which I've blabbed about enough here in the
    past.
    
    Most of Andy Kaufman's stuff.
    
    The "fantasy dance" between Steve Martin and Gilda Radner (this
    was in the same episode as the great "King Tut" performance, and
    is considered by many SNL fans to be the single best all-time
    episode).
    
    Belushi as Mozart or Beethoven, forget which.
    
    Desi Arnaz's guest host appearance
    
    Almost anything with Buck Henry.
    
    Wild and Crazy Guys.
    
    
    I'm sure I'll think of more later... :-)
    
    Chris

	The Pepsie Syndrome
	Bush Whacked
	ALL of the Debates
	Dan Ackroid as Jimmy Carter with a suitcase of Preperation H

	Weekend Update with Dennis Miller (when he told Geraldo he can't solve
                                           all his problems by chokin his
					   chicken)
	1st Linda Richmond skit
	Madonna on Waynes World
	Rosanne doing a credit card customer service commercial
	Jason Priestly doing a dating game type show
	Phil Hartman doing Frank Sinatra with Sinbad O'Conner on
	Ted Kennedy speaking and all you hear everyone say is Chapaquidick

And my absolute favorite one is......



	1st Caucus 1980 - Someone spills a glass of water and Kennedy comments:

At least I am not the ONLY fumblebutt here.

	To which the guy who spilt the water responded:

BUT YOU DIDN'T SEE ANYONE DROWN FROM THAT!!!!!

    >> Dan Akroyd as Julia Child
    
    >I never saw DA do JC but I did see Tom Hanks do an amazing Julia..."Oh,
    >God!  It's throbbing!"
    
    I coulda sworn that was Akroyd in that sketch (where Julia Child
    cuts herself), but given recent history, I'll just admit that
    you're probably right now and leave it at that...
    
    -b

	Brian, you are correct, it was Dan Ackroid. Reason being is they did
the skit in the first place because Micheal Palin was the guest host. 


Glen

	The Partridge Family vs the Brady Bunch in a sing-off


	"Hey no fair.... you guys are lip-synching!"

	"Yeah, well we've got choreography!"

    LAND SHARK

 The "Sanitized" commercial where they show what transpires before they 
 place the "Sanitized for your protection" paper ring around a toilet.

Dan Akroyd doing his "...." - Male Prostitute bit (I forget the name).
Gilda doing Patti Smith
Gilda trying to convince Jane to siphon gas from the car.
LandShark
"Its a floor wax AND a dessert topping!"

Another memorable skit:

The refrigerator repair man (Ackroyd) with the droopy pants at the Loobner's 
house.  I think he stuck a pencil in his crack.  Todd (Bill Murray) says 
"Miss Loobner, there's a moon out tonight".

The thing that reminded me about this was that we have construction workers in 
the building to do work so we can lease out half the facility.   I was walking 
through the lobby and one of the workers was bent over working with half of 
his butt showing.  The receptionist was getting ill.

Paul

    Nothing beat:
    
    The Assassination of Buttwheat.  Buttwheat was waving outside a car
    like Reagan was.  Gary Studs, the assassin who was also Eddie Murphy
    was assassinated just like Lee Harvey Oswald.
    
    -Jack

I miss Gilda...  

	One of my favorite characters of hers was the little girl
	(Judy?).  There was a skit where Martin Sheen and Jane Curtin
	were her parents, and she was supposed to be going to bed, but
	kept calling them up to the room because she thought there
	was a monster under the bed, or behind the chair....  After 
	3 or 4 times of the parents checking, and finally getting
	exacperated (sp?) (fed up!), Martin says "Listen little lady, if
	I have to come up there one more time, you are really in trouble"
	She opens the closet door and sees a grotesque monster and
	calls out in a little voice "Dad?" He shouts "WHAT!" and she's
	says "never mind... don't worry... nothing's wrong...goodnight"
	and she shuffles off back to bed in her footsie pjs and pulls
	the covers over her head!

    Patrick Stewart and Mike Meyers doing the Scottish skit and singing the
    Proclaimers tune "I will walk 500 miles".
    
    "buried in his jammies" King Tut.
    
    "Jane you ignorant slut".
    
    I can't stand Chris Farley.
    
    I enjoyed the Steve Martin guest host bit when the whole cast started
    to get excited and did a whole song about not just going through the
    motions "not gonna phone it in Tonight!"
    
    I love the spoof commercials.
    
    DougO

    Dan Aykroyd as Jimmy Carter on the talk radio show, "talking down"
    a caller who's having a bad drug trip: "Now jest remembah, yoah
    a safe, warm human bein' on Planet Earth", "if you have a beer,
    go ahead and drink it", and so on.
    
    Dan Aykroyd as "Nukular" Jimmy Carter who visits the core of a
    nuclear power plant and grows to 50+ feet in height, after which
    it becomes a satire of the "50-Foot Man" movies.
    
    Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy as the two old guys in the bar,
    sitting at the piano.
    
    Joe Piscopo as Frank Sinatra (in real life, this went to his head
    a bit, leading the writers to come up the "What Would Frank Do?"
    sketch as retribution), especially during the Gumby Christmas
    Special where he sang the medley of cartoon theme songs, including
    this gem:
    
    		Ha-ha-ha-HAA-ha
    		Ha-ha-ha-HAA-ha
    		It's the Woody Woodpecker song
    		Ha-ha-ha-HAA-ha
    		I'm laffin'... (long pause, then catches up just in time)
    		Pecker song
    
    
    Piscopo as Ted Koppel, David Letterman, Tom Snyder, and a whole
    menagerie of other folks over the years he was on.  Whatever happened
    to him, anyway?
    
    Murphy and Piscopo in just about anything... they've been the only
    good thing about SNL since 1980 (imho, of course), and I haven't
    liked the show since the "4th generation" started in 1985.
    
    Chris

    	What happened to Piscopo?
    
    	He pumped up physically and is a celeb spokesperson for health
    	food products.

    Whoops, notes collision (I also asked in the Whatever Happened To...
    topic).
    
    I've seen those, but geez, doing health food commercials can't
    be as much fun as doing comedy on national teevee every week...
    
    I know he did one movie that bombed, but so have lots of other
    people, and they've come back from that.  Seems like he was a
    very talented guy.  I know he had trouble adjusting to Eddie
    Murphy's "breakout" popularity (and in all fairness, the SNL
    producers, especially Dick Ebersol, used to play them off each
    other on purpose), but he's had plenty of time to get over that.
    
    Sometimes people just burn out, I guess.  Hell, I should talk,
    anyway... I did my best stuff in the early 1980's, too!
    
    Chris

>>>    Billy Crystal and (?) doing the "Don't you just hate that?" skits.

	(?) = Christopher Guest - married to Jamie Lee Curtis, and also
	      one of the Spinal Tap bandmembers

	I don't think anybody has mentioned Martin Short yet - he was 
great, and especially memorable as Ed Grimley.  Loved the show where he 
finally got to meet his idol, Pat Sayjack, in person.  "He couldn't be a 
more decent guy, I must say"

Or how about he and Harry Shearer training to be the first male 
synchronized swimming team in the Olympics.  Christopher Guest was their 
choreographer "We dig a hole, we dig a hole" .  Lawrence (Martin) says
"I'm not a very *strong* swimmer" as we see him in the pool with a life 
jacket and water wings on.  Harry says "Deckwork is *so* important!"

>>... especially memorable as Ed Grimley.  Loved the show where he 
>>finally got to meet his idol, Pat Sayjack, in person.  "He couldn't be a 
>>more decent guy, I must say"

	That's probably my favorite right there.
	Landshark was great too.

>	I don't think anybody has mentioned Martin Short yet - he was 
>great, and especially memorable as Ed Grimley.  Loved the show where he 
>finally got to meet his idol, Pat Sayjack, in person.  "He couldn't be a 
>more decent guy, I must say"
    
    My fave was when he did the send-up of the burned out generic
    gay entertainer as part of a sketch about the "Joe Frankin
    Show", which has to be _the_ most pathetic talk show of all
    time.
    
    -b

    Eddie Murphy doing "Buckweat's Greatest Hits" skit.  Though I must
    admit, it was much funnier the first time I saw it years ago.

    ZZ    Dan Aykroyd as Jimmy Carter on the talk radio show, "talking down"
    ZZ    a caller who's having a bad drug trip: "Now jest remembah, yoah
    ZZ    a safe, warm human bein' on Planet Earth", "if you have a beer,
    ZZ    go ahead and drink it", and so on.
    
    No..No...No...It went like this...
    
    D=Druggie Caller   C=Commentator    J=Jimmy    
    
    c: Ok we have time for one more caller...Hello.....Hello?
    
    d: HELLO??
    
    c: Yes you're on the aire...
    
    d:  HELLO?????
    
    c:  Yes go ahead please...
    
    d:  Uhhhhhhh...I TOOK SOME ACID!!!
    
    c:  Um...let's cut this one
    
    J:  No..no no hold on a sec...Hello Caller?
    
    d:  UHHH YEAHH????
    
    J:  What's your name sonn?
    
    d:  UHHH..My name is Danny?!
    
    J:  What did you take Danny?
    
    d:  Uhhh...I took these little pills....
    
    J:  Okay...were the pills small orange barrel shaped pills..
    
    d:  YEAH!!! YEAHH!!!  That's the one!!
    
    J:  Okay you took Orange Sunshine Danny (Imagine Carters voice here)
        Audience laughs.
    
    J:  Okay, you'll be alright Danny...just put on some Jimmy Morrison
        and mellow out...you come down by the morning. 
    
    What made this skit extremely humerous was that before this call,
    Carter was getting questions from callers that were totally impossible
    to answer...but he answered them no problem.  The skit made Carter look
    like he was an absolute expert on everything...including the use of 
    drugs.
    
    -Jack

    i rather liked the time when william shatner guested and they did a
    skit of shatner speaking to a trekkie convention.  "get a life,
    people!"

John Belushi kicking Art Garfunkel's amplifier
Belushi and Peter Boyle in "Dueling Brando's"

>    Dan Aykroyd as "Nukular" Jimmy Carter who visits the core of a
>    nuclear power plant and grows to 50+ feet in height, after which
>    it becomes a satire of the "50-Foot Man" movies.

Reporter to spokesman: "Is it true that the President is 100' tall?"
Spokesman: "Absolutely not!"
Reporter to spokesman: "Is it true that the President is 90' tall?"
Spokesman: "No comment."

ed grimley was real cool. my fave one was when ed asner was the guest host and
ed grimley saw him kill his wife. when ed grimley pulled pies out of the oven
with his bare hands saying, "Oven mits would have been appropriate at a time
like this I must say!" And when ed asner came over to kill ed grimley, his
relatives get involved. imagine howard cosell playing a relative of ed grimley.
when he said, "I must say" using the cosell voice, I screamed with laughter.

the gay beer commercial was pretty cool. they fill up this dumpy old pool with
water and it turns absolutely crystal clear blue water, and these hot hunky men
start walking out of the pool! I couldn't stop laughing!



Glen

re: Mike Meyers' "All Things Scottish" -
	I nearly bust a gut when I hear him say -
		"If it's nought Scottish, it's crrrrRRRRRRaaP!"

I skipped the show in the early eighties, so I missed the Crystal/Murphy/Short
years, going directly from the Original NRFPTP's to the Lovitz/Nealon/Hooks
et al crew. Oddly, whenever I see the early 80's stuff on Comedy Central,
it seems as though I didn't miss much.

 The Sweeney Sisters

    re .41
    	
    		You didn't.

    	Who is the guy that does the self-affirmation skit.
    
    	When he had Michael Jordan on, that was one of the best of
    	that schtick.
    
    ---------
    
    	Another (relatively) recent one (not many of these, frankly,
    	and they really are dwarfed by the Akroyd/Belushi-era stuff)
    	was when Captain Picard (whoever played him) guest hosted,
    	and they did a ST:TNG spoof.

Stuart Smalley is played by Al Francken, who's been writing for the
show ever since Lorne Michales started it in 75.

I saw part of a rerun last weekend that reminded
me of something I enjoyed at the time...

The Al Franken Decade

    Re: a few back
    
    Ackroyd played "Fred Garvin - Male Prostitute".. Great skit....
    
    Shearer/Short - The synchro swimming bit was too much... Comedy Central
    has played this bit a number of times and all I remember is the stupid
    smile on Short's face. I'm busting a gut..... If any of you didn't
    catch the early mid 80's stuff check out Comedy Central.
    
    Crystal's grumpy old man wasn't to bad either.
    
    What about Ackroyd's, Leonard Pith Darnell ........
    
    Carvey doing McGloucklin Group (sp) was especially funny with Hartman
    doing Sinatra. I can remember a line that Hartman delivered to two
    players doing Steve & Eddie Gorme. Something like, " I eat crap bigger
    than you for lunch ".
    
    

    BTW, Stuart Smalley is coming to the big screen.

>>     Carvey doing McGloucklin Group (sp) was especially funny with 
Hartman
    doing Sinatra. I can remember a line that Hartman delivered to two
    players doing Steve & Eddie Gorme. Something like, " I eat crap bigger
    than you for lunch ".


	And what's with the bald chick?!

What was that bit I saw once where Martin Short is made up as an old dad, 
and some guy is there to date his daughter. The dad gets him hypnotized and
starts questioning him about his intentions, slaps him around, and keeps
telling him to "keep looking at the flame" or something? It was a scream.
Was that SNL?

	Gee, will Stuat Smalley even make it to the big screen or will he end
up like Pat, who made a movie, but was never released....

    You putchyer weeeeeeeeeeeeeed  in there....
    Waynes World.  Dieter. 
    The sleepy-boy 2000 commerical comes to mind as well.

    Oh ya, Al Franken... 
    
    Him and his mobil satellite downlink (sat dish on his head, all sorts
    of gear strapped on).
    
    al: "I'm going to pan over... this is difficult to move with all this
    hardware... now... I'm focusing in on... 
    "Ah... Al, is that lightning in the background?"
    al: "Ya, ah...we're having an electicial storm, but it's far away...
    I'm panning....
    
    BBBBZZZZZZZTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT  (flashes from al/skeleton real quick)
    fade to white fuzz...
    
    "Ah...we seemed to have lost al's signal".
    
    

Remember the old black and white films they used to show in the first 
couple of years? (were they directed by somebody named Weiss?)  One of the 
best was John Belushi as an old man, walking through a graveyard and 
commenting on each of the other NRFPT Players as he passed their 
headstones.

                             
    
    One of the most hysterical moments I've ever seen was in the first
    couple of seasons.  I don't remember exactly what went wrong but Gilda
    and (I think) Murray were doing a sketch with Candace Bergan as the
    guest.  Something went wrong and lines were dropped.  Eventually they
    were all laughing so hard they couldn't speak.  Gilda turns to the
    camera and says, "support the national association for retarded
    people, please send money" or something to that effect.  I have never
    laughed so hard in my life.
    
    P.S. "Isn't that special"

re .55:

I guess you had to be there.

Akroyd's Bass-O-Matic commercial.

    BTW - in the "SNL, the first 20 years" marathon on TCC, they
    showed the show with Margot Kidder the other night... which
    included the classic "Fred Garvin... Male Prostitute" sketch.
    
    _THAT_ was funny!
    
    "Now I shall go over to the bed and strike seductive poses..."
    
    -b

    After he removes his elaborate network of trusses...
    
    Chris

     Nobody has mentioned the Mr Bill clips.
    
     Eddy as Gumby.
    
    

    Bill Murray's lounge singer acts were hilarious...singing the theme
    from StarWars and 2001: Space Odyssey.
    
    Toonces as the driver in Driving Miss Daisy.
    
    Fernando's Hideaway - "you look mahvelous" (especially with Siskel and
    Ebert - "I've been meaning to ask you something my dahlings....which
    one of you is Siskel and which one of you is Ebert.")
    
    Joe Piscopo (as Jerry Lewis) introducing guest host Jerry Lewis.
    
    Eddie Murphy's reggae band playing "Kill the White Boy" at the VFW
    Hall.
    
    Mark.

    Ooooh, noooo it's Mr. Sluggo!!
    
    The Loud Family
    
    The Coneheads
    
    Chevy Chase doing Gerald Ford
    
    Land Shark was hilarious ("Candy-Gram")
    
    Samuari Delicatessen
    
    The "Lounge Lizard" stuff was also great. "Star Wars, those 
    fabulous Star Wars....."
    
    

    Speaking of Samurai, let us not forget the sketch where Belushi
    actually sliced Buck Henry just above the left eye.  He did it
    while chopping a new window in the wall for Henry to jump out of
    (it was "Samurai Stockbroker" or something similar).  Then, when
    the bleeding Henry tried to jump/climb out of the window a few
    seconds later, the 2x4 under the "window" gave way and he fell
    through the set, landing in a heap on the other side.
    
    Buck wore a large band-aid above his eye through the remainder
    of that episode, as did most of the other cast members as a group
    joke of some kind.  Much later, Buck said that when he was sliced
    his first reaction was to turn and run off stage, and if you watch
    the sketch he does start to turn away, but then goes on to try to
    finish what's left.  He said that instead he should have walked
    straight into the camera for a closeup, to show the national audience
    the hazards of doing live teevee.
    
    Chris

    Mr. No_depth_perception was always good for a few chuckles.