Breaking Into the Central Park Zoo Polar Bear Cage - SNL 

Awww

That’s a lovely thought.

@@Keaks_ it's the truth.

Chris and Norm are funny as hell, so they actually went to hell.

Only those who believe in the Lord Jesus make it there. I know Norm MacDonald confessed Christ.

In an interview Norm said that he wrote it and he made it bad on purpose because it was the last sketch Farley and Sandler were in before they needed to leave the show.

This aired in Season 20, They were probably used to Sketches bombing

@@JustinCoasters they weren't on it for 20 years just because it's season 20, it was pre filmed anyway so it's not like they improvised on the spot due to audience reaction

@@commentperson9036 I doubt it was pre-filmed. Also Season 20 was a well know BAD year for the show.

@@commentperson9036 cry and nitpick more ffs

Gibson42a they were fired from the show, they didn't leave at their choice

it wasn't a sketch

@@kiertavasirkus really??

@@ianrjm969 yes

Ha. You think you’re so smart. MR. Dictionary.

@Dougie J the same way most people on the internet do; by pulling it outta their arse

well....i didn't know you wanted in on the discussion mr. helper . you talked to norm huh ? aren't you a big shot . shut up.

@@lyricmannixon1793 why are you so angry? 🤣

@@lyricmannixon1793 Found the Kinison fan!

@@lyricmannixon1793 lmao why u so mad?? 😂

Mr Dictionary

What happen im not wearing my 👓

Who are you? The mighty Thor?

You’re a book filled with word meanings.

Nothing from that season was a crowd pleaser.

I think the season did have one truly great sketch that I can think of, the sketch where Chris Farley is somehow put on a Japanese Game Show and only knows English was from the 94-95 season, but it was early in the season before Mike Myers quit the show. Also the Zagat's sketches were from this season.

It was a swan song. This was the season finale and all the actors were fired in the offseason.

Just the assholes in the audience that night didn't like this

How is that Ironic? Mr. Dictionary.

A lot of sketches in season 20 were like that. It was a bad time for the show.

@@canaisyoung3601 Not all jokes need punchlines.

@@zztopz7090 This one did. It doesn't work as a sketch.

Trumpdumper don the con shut up

@Trumpdumper don the con thats the idea

Um, have you seen the Alec Baldwin\trump skits? Worst of all time.

@@benbaer4697 Nah, Trump is a dumbass anything bringing that to light can't be the worst.

@@JustinR941 Are you sure you understand the meaning of the word "worst?"

@@JustinR941 I'm not sure that's true.

@@JustinR941 You should follow your own advice

what are you talking about? David just said it wasn't a sketch and was real

3:01

4:04 - ...and Norm flat out laughing when Farley says it just right.

cocaine

@@criztu the only one that is always sweating lol

@@criztu It's from 1995, so Chris is clean and sober at this point.

@@fetchmeastorm3670 no sorry --- Chris was pretty heavy into coke in '95

@@fredwerza3478 According to his official biography, Chris stayed clean and sober for three years straight, '93 through '96.

Yeah, okay Mr. Dictionary.

You both sound racist.

Who wrote this? Did you write this sketch?

Dude wtf lmao the interent that you know of did not exist during this time.

This comment was pretty much a full sketch.

WHAT?! FARLEY TOO? OH NO, MAN!

Farley? I didn't even know he was sick.

@@gibicaseiro8497 Farley passed away in 1997.

@@bhunt799 Gibi and Eric were propably born after 1997, so it's understandable they didn't get the memo :)

@@epicon6 That could be true.

Written by Norm for those with the same absurdist sense of humor as Norm, which is a lot of us. "I've gotta say I'm sick of you, and I'm sick of that polar bear. I'm going in."

They did not know they were fired yet

@@JRAFF145 .....I'm sure the writing was on the wall.

Yes this was their middle finger on the way out. Its been discussed publicly, Norm gave no fucks!

You're a perfect example of the old saying "those who can't, teach."

Cept.....Tim Meadows remained on the show for several more seasons.

Not literally, metaphorically. Just dont use that word. Its clear nobody knows how to use it.

@@michaelsrite822 Okay Mr. Dictionary

Haven't seen the rest of that season, have you? It was a mercy killing. XD

After Farley left, I didn’t watch entire episodes regularly anymore. For a while I’d tune in and just be disappointed shortly after the cold openings, which gradually became the peak highlight of the shows. Then when they’d drag unfunny skits into the ground repeatedly, like the cheerleader skits in the late 90s, I would just turn off the TV for the night. Thankfully I moved away from dial-up since then, so if a rare modern skit happens to be funny, I can just watch it and not endure the rest of the show. Or I can just pull up the good old known classics whenever they happen to re-release them. (Please bring back more Eddie Murphy, Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Chris Farley, et al online SNL!)

Except Norm... He doesn't have any talent.

Considering how much people wanted them gone by that season, this may have been a surreal format of self depreciation.

Because this season was widely derided for it's poor quality, the "Bad Boys" (as they're famously referred to) being the main source of it- there was a definite feeling they were becoming, metaphorically, fat, dumb, and happy when it came to their sketch writing and acting. Many sketches were one note, repetitive jokes that rarely landed. Norm is one of the only exceptions, his Weekend Update being one of the only positives of the season.

Tim Meadows was still on years later. Until recent years (do they have tenure now?) he had one of the longest SNL careers ever. But yeah, this seemed like Adam and Chris's farewell to the show since they were starting their movie careers.

Yup, the polar bear has them now

Have you seen Norms Corona virus sketch? It kills.

yea, okay Mr. Dictionary

At least Norm and Farley are together forever

For real Rajith💯

It actually wasn’t SNL that was the problem, it was the execs and higher ups at NBC.

I thought it was because SNL's 20th season was one of their seasons that was so bad that NBC was seriously considering canceling the show (see also: Jean Doumanian's sixth season in 1980 and season 11 where Lorne Michaels actually had Joan Cusack, Robert Downey, Jr., Anthony Michael Hall, Randy Quaid, and a pre-In Living Color Damon Wayans as cast members) and the writers decided, "Hey, let's kill off the male cast members. Nobody will care because we won't be on next season."

​@@canaisyoung3601if they were considering cancelling back then, why the hell haven't they cancelled it yet? Oh yeah... They still need to push the woke agenda.

​@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 A wise man if ever I've seen one. I'm sure the world would be a much better place if they the Elon Musk episode over again and again every week! Maybe (if the break from the familiar doesn't startle the anto-woke crowd too much) they can even try dubbing in a few bonus racial slurs for special occasions and replace the ending credits with photos of dead refugees intercut with soyjacks and rare pepes. I would say no need to credit me, but that would be intellectual communism and therefore "woke".

@Ryan McFarlane Yeah this one was a little too funny for the moronic live audience. Me at home as a 15 year old, I was fucking losing my shit

@@teddypantbongaram2865 Yeah, it's like comedy all stars up there. Farley + Sandler + Norm = magical magic.

Hey OP moron. There never has been a laugh track at snl. They've always used a live audience.

I think he was joking.

@@teddypantbongaram2865 this is just wasn’t funny.

Was like the end of the 3rd season give or take wherer there's a fire in the studio and the cast all dies except at the last second lorne runs in ad saves John Lovitz?

@@noneofyourbusiness43 it was actually the end of the 11th season; or as Madonna nicknames it: "a horrible, horrible dream" of a season.

I was hoping he'd explain what a polar cage is.

Hold on I’ll grab my dictionary

Ok come on now, there’s no need to be filthy.

Why do we need to explain everything?! If someone explains what a polar bear is, I'm leaving! Best NML episode ever.

Hahahahahah

Sounds about right. Looking forward to reading them.

alright, Mr. Dictionary.

Hope to see you there :D

I like how there is absolutely no emotion in regards to their friends dying. Just the remaining friends cutting each other down.

I'm going thru all his SNL years too, such a shame man. Norm was great.

really this one?

@@rockmyballsplease Yeah, I guess it is nostalgia and there's some things that get funnier if you watch it multiple times. Farley is just so great here.

This sketch suked. Had funny people but it was bad, probably on purpose too

​@@_Romans10.9_probably cause they knew it was their last skit together.

Lol

And a metaphor for Jay Mohr's career.

Sandler says it was new execs who wanted him and Farley gone, and says Lorne didn't want them gone (Lorne seemed to specialize in saying he couldn't stop execs from doing things, judging from Norm's exit also)

I know R.I.P 😔🥺 but at least they get to see each other again 🙏🏽

This sounds exactly like my marriage!!

It was a pretty bad sketch

Bad sketch, aye. Tim Meadows last words were kinda funny though

This would kill today tho, back then crowds were stiff as f*ck

Well, when the jokes are all dead...

@@kevinr.3542 nah this one is a dud, even the Beatles put out a song you can skip, it happens to all the greats.

I thought one of them was supposed to fall or get pushed in there.

Because it was incredibly stupid?

Ok Mr. Dictionary

+Scott LaMont I always thought Chris Farley died of a drug overdose. Now I know the truth.

Much like how Dennis Miller and Nora Dunn “survived” the 1985-86 cast fire (while Jon Lovitz was spared).

Tim Meadows was the one that got regurgitated and saved by Norm

@@bscrazycrew358 While Michael McKean and Chris Elliott (who weren’t in the skit) thought one season was enough. And of course, Mike Myers and Kevin Nealon decided to move on after this season.

@@johnnyballenatl Ok Mr Dictionary

There's a level of brilliance to everything

Wolfdragon92584 I don't get it???

@@rondy702 Check out Norm's Weekend Updates. Imnotnorm has a lot of videos of it as well. It's kind of a Norm MacDonald inside joke.

Or so the Germans would have you believe

That polar bear was a real jerk.

But not as bad as Mussolini

I think you hit on something though. It's genuinely NOT FUNNY...it's just strange...but christ, do they do it service. I was not as familiar with this sketch as others on this thread, but it genuinely has me laughing, and asking "what did I miss?" - with zero expectations of an answer, cause that's Norm...and Chris...physical but cerebral...how fun to se..

Mer chris second city chicago

@@bobbybird4985 Merry Christmas

You beat me to that comment.

Yeah, Chris was trying hard to make it funny, but idea of the sketch was tasteless. You're not going to get laughs about people being mauled to death and blood splattering everywhere. Damn, I miss Chris Farley. The last great slapstick comedian. No one can, or is, following in the footsteps of Oliver Hardy, Lou Costello, and John Candy.

@@josephconsoli4128 The polar bear was them all being fired from the show. It was a middle finger on their last day of work. It's a pretty great sketch in context.

Well, it was Farley

@@josephconsoli4128 I totally laughed at the sounds of them getting mauled to death and the blood splattering on completely indifferent faces

That's because his 3rd wish (to the genie) was to always play himself. He came really close to wishing for a giant pumpkin head.

Most overrated comic of the last 3 decades, by a country mile.

What the h?!?!

h d This man is for the birds!

@@hd-xc2lz i'll bet your reasoning has to do with politics.

It’s undoubtedly the greatest, funniest, and most original sketch in the history of SNL, after the original Matt Foley sketch of course

same.

@Classicmoviefan92 That was when Colin Quinn was doing the Weekend Update, something that he was completely wrong for!

@@DreFromMaine8472I remember watching Colin do weekend update and I thought he was an awful comedian because of it. I was just a kid, but it was unfortunate that it tainted my view of him. You are 100% correct about it being a terrible fit!

Everyone has their own opinion on which SNL season started "the end of SNL" and they're all wildly different.

Phil John etc

"up there" that assuming allot.