Beat your meat

Robert Eric · Sat 31/01/2004 03:53:58

The other day, I was flipping the channels and landed on Mad TV. The current skit was of an easier to make meatloaf which was also supposed to be fun to make, I think. Anyway, after the introduction and explanation, you see a man pour the powder into a bowl with water, milk and some eggs, then hold the bowl down below the counter and proceed to beat the meat violently. It then cut away to a mother walking to her two kids who are playing at the kitchen table and ask them both which one of them wants to beat their meat. It then ends with the title of the product, and a close up of the man shaking his beating hand and trying to catch his breath.

What is your favorite skit from your favorite show of the same sort (i.e Saturday Night Live)?

Domino · Sat 31/01/2004 03:58:04

also from mad tv, i love the stuart sketches. Michael Mcdonald is such a great comedian. I think he does stuart so funny, and i always look forward to seeing it, but lately, there has been less and less of him.

sorry, if my wording is bad (i'm damn tired)

p.s. please bring back Nicole Sullivan (she is so damn hot)

edit: Duck, i just checked the MadTv website. Michael Mcdonald was born in California. Just thought i'd let you know.

Shawn

Duck · Sat 31/01/2004 04:11:24

Isn't Mike Macdonald Canadian? I didn't know he was on one of those shows...

For me, there are just way too many to list... although the Royal Canadian Air Farce sketch about the young Scottish shepherd named Macintosh who had fallen in love with the girl whose initials were IBM will always make me chuckle when I think about it.

Also, I find the title of this thread misleading. Do not joke about such serious topics as those.

evenatsisters · Sat 31/01/2004 04:17:42

Nothing from Mad TV ever.. for sure.

My favorite sketch is from Mr Show with Bob and David. It's the "Pretaped Calling show". People keep calling in wanting to talk about the topic from last week. Its brilliant. Mr Show is brilliant. Kids in the Hall is brilliant. Monty Python is brilliant. SNL was once brilliant (before the Jimmy Fallon generation) especially during Phil Hartman, even SCTV was brilliant. UCB I havent watched too much but it is good. Mad TV is the worst sketch comedy ever. It's over the top referencial stupidity. In ten years you won't understand any of the humor. All the shows I've listed above are fairly timeless. Hell even In Living Color and All That were better than Mad TV.

Haha. I'm about to start production on my own sketch comedy pretty soon, actually.

Duck · Sat 31/01/2004 04:18:57

The only time I laughed at SCTV was when they threw the turkies out of the helicopter.

evenatsisters · Sat 31/01/2004 04:20:39

How did I forget the State? Barry and Levon, Doug, Louie, Old Fashion Guy, Barry Toink and the search for the word- were all classic characters and sketches.

Please abandon MadTV now, God will forgive you.

Squinky · Sat 31/01/2004 04:21:21

Kids in the Hall were awesome, they don't make comedy like that anymore. There also used to be a show called "The State" on Mtv that rocked...

LordHart · Sat 31/01/2004 06:30:06

Anybody ever seen the Empty Lot? It reminded me of Kids in the Hall a bit, but they just went way out there with their sketches.

I only ever saw one episode, and it had a sketch where there was a bucket sitting on a kitchen table upside down and then a guy walks in, he sees it and takes the bucket and there is someguys head there with alot of blood...

Anyway, he looks at it and then the head starts screaming and he freaks out. The head freaks out until he feeds it something, can't quite remember what though.

Then to close the show, it had a guy tied up, and then another guy came in with a big hammer, put a record of "Pop goes the weasel" on, then when it was going to do the POP, he went to hit the guy in the head with the hammer and a sharp pin thingy... but the record kept jumping it.

He started getting pissed off, and then the screen fades to black and at the end of the credits, you finally hear him strike the pin into the guys head...

That show was kinda odd, but I can't find anything about it anywhere... $:-\$

Nostradamus · Sat 31/01/2004 07:10:15

My top 10 SNL skits in chronological order (1975-today):
1) Samurai .....
2) Coneheads
3) Mr. Bill
4) Wayne's World
5) Hans & Franz
6) Making Copies...
7) Bill Swersky's Super Fans
8) The Chris Farley Show
9) Celebrity Jeopardy
10) Jarrett's Room

MrColossal · Sat 31/01/2004 07:13:48

Vacant Lot that is.

Along with Exit 57. They were some nice sketch comedy shows. The Edge was kinda funny also. A few guys from Vacant Lot went on to be in The Jenny McArthy Show which also had some people from Mr Show in it.

Anyone ever see the 1 episode of The X Box, a sketch comedy show by Joel Hodgson that took place in a large X room that rotated and different sketches were going on inside of it... hard to describe, Bob Odenkirk was on that too!

UCB are amazing, The State and Kids in the Hall gorgeous. Monty Python obviously...

It's funny that in the 90's there were TONS of sketch comedy shows and now barely any [almost the same with adventures, how odd] now all we have is Mad TV and SNL which are some of the worst shows ever in my opinion obviously.

What I always loved about The Kids in the Hall [the same with Monty Python] no one ever laughed because there was a man in a dress playing a woman. Maybe at first they did but it was just a thing that they did that it wasn't a joke anymore [probably never was] when Scott Thompson walks out wearing a dress people don't laugh, it's when he makes a goddamn funny joke that everyone laughs

but to add to Even's post, even Roundhouse was better than Mad TV

Nine Toes · Sat 31/01/2004 09:13:18

Crap... I thought this was a thread about masturbating, and I was about to throw my two cents in...

remixor · Sat 31/01/2004 09:36:17

I think Mad TV is terrible and I think SNL is off more than it's on, but I must say Christopher Walken in the SNL Blue Oyster Cult "Cowbell" skit is one of the best things I've ever seen.

Unilin · Sat 31/01/2004 13:00:56

Land Shark.

Matt Brown · Sat 31/01/2004 14:29:57

I loathe madtv. its crass. its vulgar, and its stupid. they rehash some old snl skits, and make them more retarded.
I like SNL tho, but I think this season isnt so good.

I love celeb jeopardy, and the cowbell skit tho. Oh, I forgot. the famous debate between al gore and gw bush...where everything Al Gore said contained the words "lockbox"...I wouldnt do a very good job desrcibing it, but it was very funny.

Dana Carvey was great.

Evil · Sat 31/01/2004 14:43:48

Snl's Blue Oyster Clut "Cowbell". That was great. I also like when Jimmy Fallon changes the words to songs. Those are funny too.

evenwolf · Sat 31/01/2004 19:19:06

unilin rocks

"I also like when Jimmy Fallon changes the words to songs. Those are funny too. "

Evil- it was pretty funny when Adam Sandler did it too.

Darth Mandarb · Sat 31/01/2004 19:51:57

Dana Carvey's "Choppin' Broccoli" ...

For some reason my brothers and I used to watch that and just crack up.

MadTV pisses me off. It just comes off (to me) as a total poser show. It's trying so hard to be something it'll never be. Though if I do catch it, I cackle now and then.

Robert Eric · Sun 01/02/2004 02:10:12

I like that skit on SNL with Dana Carvey as a TV news anchor or something reading headlines off the teleprompter. I forget what his character's name was. "*name here* died of an overdose of crack cocaine..." If someone can tell me that character name, I'll be very happy

LordHart · Sun 01/02/2004 02:40:47

My favourite SNL skit is probably the Canteen Boy, more specifically, the one where Alec Baldwin is trying to come onto him during the camping trip.

And I'm kinda suprised nobody has mentioned Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy yet. Or the Schmidts GAY beer ad.

Domino · Sun 01/02/2004 02:48:31

Quote from: Os Ãšltimo QuÃ£o Queijo ^_^ on Sun 01/02/2004 02:40:47
My favourite SNL skit is probably the Canteen Boy, more specifically, the one where Alec Baldwin is trying to come onto him during the camping trip.

That was one of the funniest skits i ever saw. It looked like Adam Sandler just wanted to bust out laughing the whole time. I totally forgot about that one.

Plus, the cowbell skit will always stay in my head, and every time i hear that song, i want more cowbell.

BG

Beat your meat

evenatsisters

evenatsisters