Best scenes/skits - SNL history

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

The Sam Waterson ad for Old Glory robot insurance is one of my favorite fake ads.

 

Can't forget Steve Martin's Penis Beauty Cream. For your privacy it arrives in a plain brown paper bag with the words "Not penis cream" stamped all over it.

 

Good stuff. And I was always more amused than I probably should have been by the recurring Hanks character Mr. Short-Term Memory. Always an oasis in the 90s SNL desert.

 

He shouldn't have stood under that pear tree.

 

"What, you just bring us food when we haven't even ordered?"

"What is this in my mouth?"

 

"Hey! I'm from San Bernardino!"

 

--The quinlexia sketch ("That's true, you're absolutely right).
--"I wanna know who the fuck did it!"
--Jane Curtin ripping her shirt open and revealing a black lacy bra on Weekend Update ("Take that, Connie Chung!")
--"With a name like Fluckers, it has to be good!"
--"How does she do it. She takes Speed!"

 

Steve Martin, back in 1976 or '77 or so, won an Oscar for his short film "The Absent-Minded Waiter," or something like that. It was hilarious, of course, and "Mr. Short-Term Memory" seemed like a tribute to that.

One of my favorites, a commercial: Remember Canis, the Cologne for Dogs? Saw it at a party the first night it aired, and we laughed about it for weeks.

Will Ferrell as Bushie the Younger right after he took office in 2001, and Darrell Hammond comes into the Oval Office, Bushie looks up and says: "Hi, Uncle Dick!"...........And Uncle Dick moves him to a little-boy's desk.

Phil Hartman as Bill Clinton. Never thought you could beat that, and then Darrell Hammond did it ever better.

The tribute to Gilda Radner after she died, with the final tribute was a clip of her and Steve Martin ballroom-dancing.

Lots of other stuff. Eddie Murphy was so good. I liked a lot of the stuff Chris Kattan did also, including Mango but other stuff that showed how versatile and hilarious he could be.

 

I never liked Kattan.

Not surprising that he hasn't done a damn thing since leaving the show.

 

There was a great bit last season with Alec Baldwin and Amy Poehler in which shes confused as to how she got gential herpes. Baldwin just killed. As big a douche as he is in real life and on the big screen (he made the two worst movies I've ever seen, "The Marrying Man" and "Malice"), he's fucking hilarious on SNL.

Wife: When my gynecologist told me I had genital herpes, I was confused. We'd been married for over twelve years, and had always tested negative for STDs.

Husband: But then I read about a recent scientific study. It said some forms of genital herpes remain dormant in women for ten or fifteen years - but, oftentimes, the virus went undetected in tests.

Wife: That would explain a lot. It made little sense to me that two married people without any history of genital herpes, could then suddenly be infected.

Husband: But then I explained it, that that was the end of it, and there was no need to talk about it any more. [ smiles ]

Wife: Our doctor told us about Valtrex, which lowers the chance of passing the virus during sex. At first, I didn't think it mattered, because we both already had the virus and neither one of us was planning to go outside the marriage for sex.

Husband: So true! Here's where you really just need to trust your doctor, and to not get all "caught up" in the logic. Even if you don't have multiple partners --

Wife: Like us!

Husband: -- it's a good idea to use Valtrex.

Wife: Because..?

Husband: Because it's important. That's why. [ wraps his arm around her ] There's really no need to overthink it. Is there?

Wife: [ smiles confusedly ]

 

Phil Hartman (it's really too bad his wife shot him in the head) as Bill Clinton, campaigning at a McDonald's. The whole warlords thing was classic, as was, "There's going to be a lot of things we don't tell Mrs. Clinton."

 

Sometimes my wife's food is intercepted by warlords.