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)?
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
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.
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.
The only time I laughed at SCTV was when they threw the turkies out of the helicopter.
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.
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...
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... :-\
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
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
Crap... I thought this was a thread about masturbating, and I was about to throw my two cents in...
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.
Land Shark.
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.
Snl's Blue Oyster Clut "Cowbell". That was great. I also like when Jimmy Fallon changes the words to songs. Those are funny too.
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.
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.
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
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.
Quote from: Os Último Quão 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
I'm not terribly fond of techno music but I had forgotten about the cowbell skit until I heard a re-mix of Walken's lines from it (with lots of bass-beats & scratches). It was quite amusing until it wasn't.
YakSpit: Whuuuh? We're talking about the same skit here, right? :P
I loved the Blue Oyster Cult/Cowbell skit, Walken made that hilarious with his delivery. I also loved the "Continental" skits with Walken. He can be hilarious without even trying to be. "The Herlihy Boy" skits were hilarious, too, along with the Chris Farley Show ones. :D
the remix had techno, and the remix reminded him of the original.
kapeesh?
Quote from: Darth Mandarb on 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.
You know, I didn't even think the rest of that Dana Carvey special was amazing, but I love Choppin' Broccoli. In high school, three other guys and I performed that song live at our Battle of the Bands in ridiculous outfits. During the show, we threw pounds and pounds of broccoli out over the audience, and at the end, we smashed an acoustic guitar filled with broccoli.
"Bob Odenkirk wrote for Saturday Night Live for four years starting in 1987, when Phil Hartman and Dana Carvey were with the cast."
I want to point out that the Golden Times of SNL were when Bob was a writer. He won an Emmy for it actually. What does Bob think of MadTV?
"Odenkirk does have an opinion on Mad TV, which uses the famed comedy magazine as its format: 'I thought it was pretty lame.'"
Hear, hear!
Has anyone seen the SNL skit where Kevin Spacey plays Walken auditioning for the role of Han Solo?
I think it's on Ifilm.
that was a gorgeous sketch rodekill, i only saw it once but i loved Kevin Spacey all the more after that.
Who played Christopher Walken doing the Skittles commericial? That one was hysterical...
Spacey does Jack Lemmon as Obi Wan Kenobi as well.
And Norm MacDonald does Burt Reynolds as Darth Vader, I believe.
Classic Phil Hartman:
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Quote from: rodekill on Mon 02/02/2004 14:45:56
Has anyone seen the SNL skit where Kevin Spacey plays Walken auditioning for the role of Han Solo?
I think it's on Ifilm.
It rings a bell. I think I've seen it. I never foget a good Christopher walken impression.
Of course, no impression beats the real Walken. That guy can make anything funny.
Anyone see the "pranksters" sketch on the last SNL he hosted? He just calmly talks about "pranking" a co-worker to death while the host starts to panic. He has kind of a friendly neighborhood hitman vibe.. I don't think anyone else could pull that off.
For the most part, SNL has really been hit or miss for the past few years, and it's even worse now that Will Ferral is gone. The Alec Baldwin one from earlier this season was just on, and I didn't see one funny sketch. I don't think it's really fair to blame the actors-- they're trying. It's the writing that really ruins the sketches..
but don't the actors also write the sketches?
Yeah, I think Tina Fey is the head writer... :-\
Another one that amused me was one of the Joe Pesci Show episodes, where he had Jim Carrey and Jimmy Stuart on as guests.
The guy that used to be on Kids in the Hall played Jim Carrey, and Jim Carrey played Jimmy Stuart.
Then at one point Stuart gets annoyed at Carrey and starts impersonating HIM.
So you've got Jim Carrey impersonating Jimmy Stuart, impersonating Jim Carrey.
Classic.
and then everybody gets hit with a bat.
My favourite sketch artists of all time are Wayne and Shuster. Their stuff is incredibly rediculous, but still incredibly intellectual at the same time. Like their spoof of the Scarlet Pimpernel, called "The Brown Pumpernickle." Everytime the Brown Pumpernickle saves someone from the guillotine, he leaves a pumpernickle loaf. Crazy? Oh yeah! Literary? You betcha! Incredibly funny (or at least, funnier then I'm able to describe it) Yes in deedy do!
Quote from: MrColossal on Mon 02/02/2004 21:55:07
but don't the actors also write the sketches?
I'm not sure exactly how it works, but I think all the actors and writers get together and share ideas.. Okay, maybe it is fair to blame the actors :P. But from what I understand, Tina Fey and her group of writers do most of the work..
Well you always have a writing staff and a cast. They are separate entities.
But of course there is always flow between the two. Bob Odenkirk and Conan O'Brien were two of the greatest writers for SNL which Lorne Michaels rarely ever allowed any stage time. Whereas Al Franken was a writer and he did his own segments such as Stuart Smalls.
Cast members are naturally allowed to pitch their own ideas, but there is a body of writers who are generally more responsible for the material. However in the case of SNL, what in the hell do the writers have to work with? Horatio Sans and Jimmy Fallon? The cast blows, writing blows, therefore I think Lorn just doesn't give a poop anymore.
Either that or comedy has died.
My favorite has been, and always shall be, the NERF Crotch Bat. that was brilliant. Chris Farely runs around hitting people in the crotch with a NERF bat designed specifically for that purpose.
And out of the newer sketches, there was one chapter of the guy's big long book, in which he fought a lion while swimming in a river, then died. It was pure brilliance.
Saturday night live?
I remember a video clip of Jim Carrey with two other guy, they were always in the movement, at the end Jim Carrey was making out with a 80-old woman, and when he finished, he "accidentaly" took her teeth. lol.
Quote from: BerserkerTails on Wed 04/02/2004 06:08:25And out of the newer sketches, there was one chapter of the guy's big long book, in which he fought a lion while swimming in a river, then died. It was pure brilliance.
Hehe, I love those skits. Just a guy reading out stupid stories from a book that he keeps writing but doesn't end. Brilliant! ;D
I like the one with Alec Baldwin as a scoutmaster trying to seduce Canteen Boy, Adam Sandler. And that one with Mike Myers and the bald guy from Seinfeld in an Italian sub shop. They keeps asking them, the italians, for more of some food item. "You likah da juice?" *calls to the others* "He likah da juice!" "You want more juice? We get you some more juice!" I'm not sure why I found that funny, though. It doesn't really seem that funny now, looking back.
That was one of the first I remember seeing. That was always just stupid, and you had to laugh at it.
I also liked that character that Rob Schnider used to do, where he always gave nicknames to people. Always sat in the copy room or something like that...
Does anybody remember the guy on the state that carried around two ping pong balls and always said "I'm gonna stick my balls in it!"
Pure comedy genious there
it's...
LOUIE!
The guy who comes in and says his catch phrase over and over again!
I just remembered the Quentin Tarintino show, when he had special guests who were all influential film-makers and the only question he ever asked was "Did you jam her?"
Every Episode of SNL that was hosteed by Chris Walken was pure genius. Some choice quotes:
-"The rest of the interview will be centour questions"
-"I'm not good at guesstimating.....80?"
-"HEY! I got a fever, and the only perscription is more cowbell"
-"You need to let your freak flag fly" and "I think you need to lose your weave"
And finally
-"I have been sprayed so many times, I have grown immunity to mace"
Speaking of The State, has anyone been watching Reno 911? On that page, did anyone watch Viva Variety?
I remember a State skit where someone fell down steps in a wheelchair with a bowl full of meatballs, (of which were being guarded by an old lady played by Lennon who threatened to hang anyone who touched them.), or something like that.
I haven't been watching because I don't have access to cable. But I've wished Tom Lennon luck with the show thru email, and he responded with thanks. The guy who edited the State and also directed WHAS might be flying into town to an event I've invited him to. David Wain, who you might recall as the jew in the "Jew, the Italian, and the Redhead gay."
He was also the one who still couldn't get a date to the prom. He, Showalter, and Black have a really popular live show called Stella in New York right now.