Beat your meat

TheYak · Sun 01/02/2004 02:54:46

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.

TerranRich · Sun 01/02/2004 04:05:15

YakSpit: Whuuuh? We're talking about the same skit here, right?

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.

Las Naranjas · Sun 01/02/2004 04:32:11

the remix had techno, and the remix reminded him of the original.
kapeesh?

remixor · Sun 01/02/2004 04:36:19

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.

evenwolf · Sun 01/02/2004 10:08:55

"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.'"

remixor · Sun 01/02/2004 12:23:14

Hear, hear!

rodekill · 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.

MrColossal · Mon 02/02/2004 20:58:40

that was a gorgeous sketch rodekill, i only saw it once but i loved Kevin Spacey all the more after that.

LordHart · Mon 02/02/2004 21:07:11

Who played Christopher Walken doing the Skittles commericial? That one was hysterical...

evenwolf · Mon 02/02/2004 21:31:20

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

Ben · Mon 02/02/2004 21:34:04

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..

MrColossal · Mon 02/02/2004 21:55:07

but don't the actors also write the sketches?

LordHart · Mon 02/02/2004 22:10:10

Yeah, I think Tina Fey is the head writer... $:-\$

rodekill · Mon 02/02/2004 22:31:54

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.

Matt Brown · Tue 03/02/2004 00:07:45

and then everybody gets hit with a bat.

DragonRose · Tue 03/02/2004 02:35:22

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!

Ben · Tue 03/02/2004 22:03:43

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

. But from what I understand, Tina Fey and her group of writers do most of the work..

evenwolf · Wed 04/02/2004 05:43:08

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.

BerserkerTails · Wed 04/02/2004 06:08:25

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.

Czar · Wed 04/02/2004 16:21:11

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.