Cold Opening: Robert De Niro - Saturday Night Live 

You know who would have been better? Chong. Ah-HA-Ha!

@@David-vh2rl bet you don't own a doghouse

It’s how ALL of their conversations were like. Literally nothing of value from Paul Schaffer. But good musician though.

Credit to Mark McKinney as Paul Shaffer. He was great!

Did you enjoy the shrimp?

Letterman was his biggest inspiration to do comedy.

Lmfaooooo

@@floresaza253 u mean NORM was his biggest inspiration? ......🤨

Good eye! That was actually David Letterman impersonating Norm McDonald attempting to impersonate David Letterman.

Lmaooo

I turned my back and thought it was Dave.

The only thing missing was more musical stings from the band

Same.

Exactly! It was just that spot on.

I think it was so good, it was like watching Letterman so they didn't really react. Norm nailed it.

I don’t think the audience got it!

Yeah, they didn't wake up until De Niro walked on stage.

SNL couldn't handle Norm They had to make him leave. He and a few writers were above the audience. NORM gets better as the years roll

Yep the general viewing public didn't appreciate Norm fully at all man which is indicative of the sad State of affairs of the general consciousness and intelligence of our country man

The coughing was an especially nice touch

@@davidhutchinson7888 Letterman's whole philosophy of doing a talk show was to waste as much of the network's precious time as possible. That's not a criticism. He and Merrill Markoe cooked up the idea of doing an unslick, anti-talk show. In a sense parodying the usual shows. So, no sense of moving it along at the desk. Lots of repeated words and phrases he liked the sound of, unmotivated laughing, clearing the throat on air! (what a rule that broke in those days) -- and those faces. Norm seems to know them all. Right down to the stick out your chin and grimace.

@@scribe570 "Stop bending the shafts!!"

I loved that total disconnect between Letterman and Paul. Paul is supper talented which makes me believe he was being passive aggressive with letterman all the time.. Nice Job Norm. He did spot on Burt Reynolds

The ones he did decide to do were FUCKING HILARIOUS!

i think he only would do them if he could do them right. i recall him doing letterman, quinton tarintino, burt reynolds, and larry king

His impersonations are actually out of this world, like he's actually channeling the person. Check out his Richard Nixon, Bill Cosby, Rodney Dangerfield.

@@rmoon01 And Super Dave

He ruined the sketch

(Richard) Cheech (Marin) and (Tommy) Chong - "Up in Smoke"

Yeah but do you know who really REALLY liked it?? You guessed it -- Frank Stallone.

uhhhh you enjoying the impression? HEEHEEE

I wonder what Chong would of said about it oh wait I think I know “Di- Did you enjoy the shrimp ?” HAHAHAHA HEEHEE

@@wienerlips4240 hahahhhh

Yes, you end up being just delighted by it rather than merely chuckling at some jokey jokes. It's great that after Dave insists on his Chong joke to De Niro, Alex just sits there with no comeback. The real De Niro wasn't a comedian. He didn't have snappy comebacks for everything when he was on a talk show. So, that silence gets a good laugh.

Spot on....have a drink.

So true!

And Dave would do this all the time -- just start riffing on something that came up in the program. You know how Norm's doing it, dontcha? With Chong. Ya like that, Paul, huh? Chong!

You4rik Trist totally agree. great de niro as wel

Michael Kupfer fffff

Explain to the people at home who David Letterman is

isnt it norm macdonald

Mehmet410 cp Yes it's Norm.

I agree. Dave smoked for years even after he stopped smoking "On Air". 🚬😤💨

I think they’re friendship made it funnier for me

Hero worship? Youre trippin

"Norm MacDonald Has a Show" had guests that were basically his friends that appeared on his show as a favor (nothing wrong with that -- he has famous friends). This included Dave. But he had a bigger role than the other guests, acting as a production consultant for Norm's show.

HA!!! The over exaggerated cough that norm makes into a over OVER exaggerated cough followed by the Hee Hee

I just assumed that was Dennis Miller.

I was searching the comments for verification that was actually Mark McKenny

Mark from kids and the hall fame.

Yeah. Impressions. Yeah.

Responses, yeah? Yeah, the responses.

That was Mark McKinney..Before SNL he was great in the Canadian sketch comedy show..Kids in the Hall.

@@Redlinesixtynine WHAT was Mark McKinney??

Oh- Paul I just assumed that was Chris Kattan

@@Redlinesixtynine I thought so! Thanks for confirming. Love the new season of kids in the hall!

@@lockandloadlikehell Chris Kattan would do the other Norm Letterman bit a few months later as Paul. I think McKinney does it better here

Spot on...have a drink.

Your comment is more impressive than people will ever know.

Yeah, lil bit, lil bit.

@@ratedtriplex 😂🤣😂🤣

Norm MacDonald is so good at capturing the personality he's impersonating, some people don't get the humour. I think he gets the obnoxiousness of them, then repeats it like he does here with Letterman. This is actually just like the cringe-worthy segments from Letterman's show as opposed to being more like a parody. Norm's impression of Burt Reynolds on "Celebrity Jeopardy" is like that too. Really good impersonation.

It's has a dark feel to it... Or is that just me? Norm is amazing..

And Norm cried like a baby. Beautiful moment.

Dave had Norm do the impression on his show.

Why would he hold this against him? Letterman would need to be a massive pussy to cry over something like this

@@jamesevans2507 Well... maybe a big ego for one thing. Same reason why Prince wouldn't let Weird Al do a parody of any of his songs. The fact that Norm did such an amazing job doesn't really wipe away the fact that it skewered him pretty good!

I don't like that thing. Turn it off! Turn it off!

"Kids in the Hall" alumnus Mark McKinney is excellent as Paul Shafer, too.

@@theBaron0530 I was wondering who that was! Thanks.

@@theBaron0530 Now I see him. I thought it some hidden talent .

@@theBaron0530 you know who would have been better as Paul Shafer? Chong.

@@CigarDoug "Uh, uh, you got any gum?"

And he sweeps his desk and shuffles the cards for no reason at all.

There are two cards Mr.dumb.

​@@sherlockholmes2497 damn you got him

@@sherlockholmes2497 damn you really are Sherlock

What makes you so sure no one notices?

Because it's Marvin's Room!

He would've done even better with a gun

I can't believe how good the de niro impression was, his voice quality and mouth shape, amazing

Regardless of how you feel about the man, Alec Baldwin is undeniably one of the greatest SNL hosts of all time. He probably has 20 sketches that I consider to be great, many cast members can't even say that

This is a hilariously accurate impression of De Niro's weird/awkward behavior in interviews, the whole part at 3:40 with him staring off into space, not answering the question that was asked, and then going into an unrelated anecdote about Martin Scorsese is all stuff he would do IRL.

He was annoyed he was upstaged

Are we sure he actually died of cancer and wasn’t killed by OJ Simpson?

Not too far off. Stealing from department stores is legal. Let the animals, (Democrats) run free.

@@CaptainSpalding72 Change countries if you want to live in a fascist state beholden to a cult-of-personality party. There are plenty of them.

That was the last weekend update he ever did on SNL.....He was fired for it the next day

I like "Here's the President and the First B**ch" (Bill and Hillary)

Yep. Letterman once riffed about a guy in a gym who approached him and asked, "Uhhhh, ya got any gum?" It was exactly like this.

Umah........meet Oprah!

Same here!

Norm was picked by David to be the last comedian to ever perform on his show!

i dont actually understand what do u mean, maybe u simply didnt know what to write...

@@zizela23master64 baldwin is so good at the mannerisms/caricature of de niro(goodfellas) while de niro himself is just natural, not a caricature of himself. does it make sense

@@rayunited2010foryou r/wooosh ?

Ah years ago people still take things literally

@burteriksson Much obliged. *carries on with his horse*

Check out norm's Cosby impression.

I agree. Alec Baldwin was horrible.

@@timmcleaners1987 I've heard those tapes are illegal.

His Tarantino is also surprisingly amazing.

Norm’s great at doing voices, check out his Super Dave impression

I’ve been wondering what song that was for FOREVER, didn’t even occur to me it was Layla, thanks man!

@@mutt8553 It's too bad Richie Pause & Shout and Jimmy Five-Times didn't make the final cut of the movie...

Yes it is but clean up the profanity Scribe....please.

@@rog9601 Really, the “s-word” offends you that much? What a delicate sensibility you have. The internet is no place for people like you.

@@rog9601 fuck yeah it is!

@@rog9601 holy shit, yeah he's got a potty mouth.

@@UCLAfilm01 yeah, but his performance on SNL was pure manslaughter. (also cool handle. u into film?)

And the band (off-screen).

Alec De Niro was kind of lame actually but norm McDonald and McKinney wow

I had to rewatch this after you mentioned that lol seeing it for the first time has me in tears cause I want to cry knowing Norms gone but he’s making me laugh my ass off so hard in this sketch

But did you enjoy your shrimp?

Lmfao it’s so hilarious without trying 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I don't know why that made me laugh so hard too. The shrimp thing as well

@DH in a parallel universe you are not an ass

@burteriksson .i couldn't care lesS

Even his voice pitch is pretty close.he must have watched older episodes of late show/night.😅😅

I lose it when he does that.

my thoughts precisely

And "keep it off"

'Did you hear what I said'!?

😆

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OWsUCEXua1k.html

here letterman asks him to do it on his show: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ltviGhSUFMs.html

@@owieri you are the MAN, man

Ya know who else would love it, eh, dontcha? Chong!

Why??He sucks

Same here.

@@auunnfkristjansson6738 No, not really. Who do you like? Ellen?

And now I miss Norm too. Even more.

RIP 😪😪😪

I guess he didn’t feel like raising his kid to not be a druggie burnout whose friend OD at Norm’s house.

And both unbelievably funny

Spot on....have a drink.

They nailed this. Baldwin really got the sketch.

CLASSIC.. It's better than the real Deniro could do!!!

Spot on....have a drink.

Layla

What about Paul? Did ya like Paul, huh?

You know who else is killing you? Chong!

ahead of it's time, McDonald

"Awkward" and "cringey" wasn't a thing in 1997. It's a modern invention by young people who don't know how to socialize.

@@Danimal77 Someone clearly hasn't seen Andy Kaufman

@@TheSUPERPOTATO2000 someone clearly wasnt around in 97

@@darnellpistachio2991 what does that even mean

Chong did

Perfect skit

Letterman does the exact same thing. Joe Piscopo picked up on it, too.