Cut For Time: Gus Chiggins, Old Prospector - SNL 

matrixphijr oh peaches

Farrell seemed to be intentionally trying to make everyone break by that point.

It was the banging of pots and pans

He's deliberately improvising lines and banging his pots and pans to break everyone

Oh pancakes and cocaine

If theres comedy gold about, you know that old prospectors gonna come around with his pick and his pan, minin that gold up

Prospector pun intended? OoOoHh PEaCHeS!!!!!?&-#$!!!

Will Ferrell saved SNL

The pots banging

Will Farrell as Harry Caray with Jeff Goldblum is priceless.

I think its the single best line in all of this, especially following his instructions to the rendezvous

Because they know the main cast isn't going anywhere and they are expendable haha.

They're tryna make it

Ohhh cinnamon and gravy!

I'm convinced Lorne threatens to break their knees if they crack before the cameras rolled.

They all suck

I'm pretty sure they all knew that this one wasn't going to make it to air, so Will ramped it up a bit to have some fun with it.

I feel like he made it his mission to break them as much as he could

😂😂

1:16 broke out of character.

Every time Jimmy Fallon broke character on SNL without contributing to the scene in any way... LOL. Just had me in fits. That silly Jimmy Fallon. And just as funny now! Lorne really can pick 'em when he's not firing the actually funny ones.

Can jimmy fallon make it thru one sketch without laughing?

Jimmy needs to stop doing skits. Give him a late night comedy show.... or something where it doesn't matter that he keeps laughing.

@@jorgensenmj Its been said before that the producer purposely makes skits to make them break. If they don't they're not doing their job.

Jimmy Fallon can never hold it together, he always smirks or laughs throughout every skit he's in. Horatio Sanz is the same way as Fallon on that most times.

Honestly...I don't blame him on this one...Old Prospector is too much HAHAHA

most underrated cast member of all time IMO

...I miss Hammond.

Very true. Hat's off to Chris Kattan in this sketch.

He and Will did so many sketches together, not to mention they were in A Night at the Roxbury.

@@Greg-rw5xq Norm MacDonald

sleeped on

🤔

Hate that f*****

He is so weak

And David spade kept it calm with Farley every time too right? Every generation of SNL had that one guy that no matter what was going to almost die laughing. Give it a break, haters gunna hate.

To add, how many of the people laughed in this skit, and you have to nail Fallon every time? Lame

Could you not laugh with all those comedians in one room?😂

^ underrated comment

Thats a gooden

Hilarious

Ηε was laughing his ass off under his mustache. Look more closely.

@@vardellsfolly5200 😉

Reef2480 a fake laugh

Oh cinnamon and gravy

He's the kind of guy who laughs at funeral. Can't understand what I mean? Well, you soon will.

As long as he can put a smile on your face who cares ?

🤣🤣🤣🤣omg wish it were mine, I'd probably laugh too

It's cause Fallon "breaks" all the time.

Because Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are the most unfunniest people ever on SNL yet they have their own unfunny late night shows on dinosaur media that no one watches anymore.

Ikr

He started it

Because he does it all the time. Absolute knob head.

Agreed. Didn't sustain itself.

Part of me feels like the skit itself was headed in one direction, but in a good way Ferrell steals the show. Throws off the tempo and everything since these guys are just trying to get their lines out without breaking any further,

Right!! Just leaving it at "this is an unconventional war" is perfect

The only problem with this sketch honestly

Well....Ferrell probably didn't write the sketch...as he was NOT a writer on th show. There are "writers" who get paid to write. Yes, they often work "with" CMs to flesh out a sketch and customize it to that performer. But it's highly unlikely that Will wrote the sketch.

@@bradyguy7701It’s not that unlikely writers often do jack shit and their ideas get cut.

Dean Yasuda Probably looking out for those coyotes..

Dean Yasuda i wouldnt worry about Guz none

"16 years later" was unnecessary. We all know the timeline, friends

He’s looking for gold but all he can find is oil

Dean Yasuda some say you can still see ol’ Gus Chiggins’ lantern shining on moonless nights

It's funny because Tracy would get so mad when someone else laughed in his sketches

Jj

Agree. Best part of the sketch

Everyone makes this.

@@neoneherefrom5836 Great reply.

Hahahahah

Literally my same thought! You know hard it is to make Hammond crack!

It's based off of his character that's why.

Yeah. I'm not so sure "time" was the reason this skit was cut. Got to love Ferrell however. He can make any sketch better.

For the amount of hate Fallon gets (I'm no fan as well), I actually think he saved it. If nobody had broken character and laughed, this sketch would have been completely forgettable.

Kattan tries to keep it together, but can't

And there's fallon, laughing like an imbecile every 5 seconds as always

Yes! This line was great 😂😂😂

it is but it is ruined as they reverse why he is there at the end. Should have left it unexplained and surreal

@@chrisbirch4150 agree 100%

That line was never stated in the sketch dude.

Every unit has been assigned an "OLD prospector".

Except less virgins experimenting with dildos and heroin

@@RileyAnderson69 lol yeah. They're experienced with dildos and heroin now.

@@RileyAnderson69 lmao wtf

@@RileyAnderson69 what kind of shithole inner city school did you go to that high school kids were doing heroin?

@@RileyAnderson69 heroin???? What high school did you go to

I get why it wasn't aired, it's a complete train wreck, but damn if it doesn't tickle my pickle.

It's a total mess

theres a lot of crickets

Biscuit Da Dogg he laughs for no reason.

Biscuit Da Dogg and then he got the late night show. I still wonder why. He is not good at this 🤷🏻‍♂️

Tracy Morgan did not like working with him because he brekes

Absolutely agree. How he's achieved so much success for being so utterly incompetent and genuinely unfunny is astounding.

He had the pretty face and he did stupid songs, adam sandler re-hash

GUS! For the last time!!

😂

😆😆😆😆😆😆

Aahhhh, peaches!!

Haha and starts banging on the pots! Lol

At least Fallon's got some charm, eh? Kattan's breaking, and his acting is putrid.

He's always breaking character! Then again, everyone is breaking character here.

Thats when you break

Which one is Kattan?

winteriscumming1 The leader of the group in this sketch

They always try to make each other laugh

Ferrell is one of the best!

That's pretty much the concept, yeah. They got their best stuff that way

Whenever I'd do comedy the goal was always to make the other actors laugh and break character. A little genuine uncertainty is where comedy lives.

I guess Ferrell and Chris Katan didn't get along very well lol I thought will was trying to fuck with Chris as much as possible by banging the pots even more while he was giving his lines lol

They're *all* old prospectors now ...

war has a habbit of taking away the best amongst us

We're leaving now! Thank you President Biden👍

Didn't miss Kenan by very long though!

OHH PEACHES!

CB Mondello pronounced CAYOWTS 😂

The use of “yer” is maybe the funniest part in the whole sketch.

Tsuka 2104 hahaha i was gonna day kiyotes

ViolentLee yesss lol i watched this when i was a teen

CB Mondello KAI-OATS!

Was never intended for screen. It's a rehearsal sketch

So much talent in this sketch Will tho$$$$$

@@jodavey they don't set a scene and dress up for rehearsals lol

@@slipknotmegafan13 absolutely they do. Its done on Friday nights before the show. Notice when the audience laughs happen. It's not a large studio audience. Its the stage workers and staff laughing.

Rad Science you mean gus chiggins

That's true but every single cast member broke during this sketch. That's something people seem to ignore when they bash Fallon. He was hardly the only one to break when it happened. People also forget that there wre 100s of sketches where he didnt break but the ones he did are the most memorable

Sad

@@BuuhBlocks Amen to that!

I like Fallon, but in this instance he broke when nothing was happening. Nothing funny had happened and he couldn't hold it for one line. I'm not a Fallon hater, I used to watch his late night show when I still watched normal tv. But damn. That was one of the worst breaks I've seen.

that’s okay tho. it’s what makes snl funny and unique

This is rehearsal

Was it? I remember this episode from the actual broadcast, maybe my memory is fuzzy...

@@natecw4164 same here, I downloaded those episodes years ago and I do remember saw this sketch.

@@user-ts3lq8hv8t Nah, this never made it to air. It's a rehearsal of a sketch that got cut from it's respective episode. It's from the SNL Best of Will Ferrell DVD, which was a bestselling DVD that nearly everyone seemed to have back in the early 2000's. This is most likely where you guys saw it. On the DVD it's even preceded by text explaining that it was cut after rehearsal.

@@TheMaf54 this is really strange, but I'm quite sure what I downloaded was the live version, not the Best Of series. Back then my English was not very good, and I remember thinking what's so funny about this, why is everyone laughing so hard. Or did Will Ferrell reprised the same character in other sketches, idk

Probably the whole people liking him thing

@@joshuawidener8407 Huh? He's terribly unfunny. Same goes for Jimmy Kimmel. How both of them have kept their jobs at their talk shows is a mystery to me. Conan O'Brien was a million times funnier and more creative than those two guys.

@@loganflatt and a pretty damn big part of the population disagrees with you. It's not like there's an objectively right or wrong answer here lol. I mean I probably watch and listen to more Conan that you do but I'm not gonna question someone for preferring something I don't. That's just childish.

@@joshuawidener8407 Relax. It's just my opinion.

@@loganflatt i mean, I am relaxed and obviously it was an opinion. It's just odd that you felt the need to voice it all all lol. That's my opinion. Because clearly they are doing something right.

Jesse Osher Spoken like a true extra.

Howard from TBBT is one of them?

Thick Boys Behaving Timidly?

I didn't laugh at all either

they were in their own try not to laugh challenge before it became popular

huh?

it's so ridiculous that's why it's funny

I was in Iraq with the army and it sounds about right

Well, it IS an unconventional war!!!

Kattan smiles cause he looks to the group and sees everyone laughing.

He’s just Mango underneath that uniform after all

Or that Will is hilarious and the skit is ridiculous in its absurdity. People can be too serious about laughs. What a job . . to enjoy doing. I sometimes think its more fun when they laugh. Their human and its funny.

@@J-Train_Fit-Travl_Juice-Tender so agree! Their job is a lot of fun as much as it’s hard work.

Kattan was thinking god help me

Shut yo mouth Bitch!

i died i had to pause it lol

Same 😂

fallon lost it at...

Lol me too!!!

He was in character

2:39

I saw it as, Tracy Morgan is supposed to seem threatening when he says that, in which case him needing to be calmed down makes sense, but since he was laughing it just looked like Jimmy Fallon was playing around and drawing needless attention to himself.

Oh cinnamon and gravy that hit the nail on the head

You basically just explained my entire experience with humor.

Evija3000 true

Notice that the hired extras are able to hold it together like professionals.

Anyone Else: ... Jimmy Fallon: *breaks character*

@@jayrho11 Literally everyone else was laughing what do you mean?

Kamran Mogel Ferrell saved it

It was funny so its not stupid

Francis Moon i think it can be both stupid and funny they aren’t mutually exclusive lol

I lose my shit everytime he says I'd be more worried about coyotes if i were yer. Lmao.

Actually SEVEN CMs....Jocko and Jenkins are played by Dean Edwards and Jeff Richards, respectively. Sadly, this sketch mirrors their SNL careers quite well...no memorable characters or moments. (Richards' "Drunk Girl" maybe comes close....)

what is that? prospector humor?

Hehehhehhh🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'd be more worried about coyotes, if I were yer

wow great story

WHY and HOW were you there for this?? That would have been fun!

Have you ever had anybody recognize it?? Because I would snap back at you with with "I think you need to learn some manners"

@@klbax63 I'm dying! 😂😂

Elgin Coates OOOOHHHH PICKLE SHOES!...I mean I’d be more worried about KIY-YOATS if I were yerrrrrrr

Id ask you to marry me if i wasn't already married! hehe. 😂❤

That is great!!

Michael Walter clang clang clang Here!

Piddley Shoes was good too.....

You can just taste the adlibs... Will Killing it. Comedy Hall of Fame, no doubts

I read this right as he said that. 👌🏻

GUS! For the last time

I miss Chris. Too bad his life got so crappy

@@FaridShahidinejad what happened to him

@@TheitaniofRome dude...

@Consurge Evigila i can't find anything online about any of that

@@princejellyfish3945 also his drug use and lying and just a hole lot of shit

Hannah Taylor Me too

Wish I knew it was a cut for time sketch and I wouldn't have been able to find it anywhere haha! wouldve saved me some time

Hannah Taylor I've been looking for this sketch for over a year.........this sketch was harder to find than bin laden lol.

Hannah Taylor you are cool

Where can I find this short?

i dunno, David S Pumpkins must have seemed pretty bad.

@@herculesbrofister265 I've seen way worse sketches than David S. Pumpkins, which on paper is a cute sketch about a spooky-themed amusement park ride with a confusingly muddled format. Way worse sketches are Ferrell as a doctor seeing Molly Shannon & Chris Parnell as a couple with a baby, which is a sketch of arch non sequitors the writers must've written out of boredom. Also, Chris Elliott as a family man who gets the teenage babysitter (Mark McKinney) drunk and takes advantage of her. And Kenan Thompson as a high school student who keeps being good-naturedly pushed out of his wheelchair, which ends up magically being sort of funny because Kenan's performance makes it funny even though it's completely unfunny, cruel, and repetitive on paper.

They have to pitch their own skits wonder whose stinker this was

Did you watch the cowbell skit with will feral snl video? It's funny as hell watch it then watch the late night show with will feral and red hot Chilli Pepers "more cow bell" i think. Also the short shorts work meeting skit with will feral u will laugh your azz off 😆 🤣

@@WilliamWallace187 Is feral the same as "Ferrell". He is a bit wild, I suppose.... Also "Chili"...one L. They can take away your freedom but they''ll never take away your poor spelling and your lack of punctuation. And it wasn't the Chili Peppers that night....it was Christina Aguilera...

Totally agree, Hound! Not every sketch needs to be setup/joke...setup/joke....catchphrase. SNL has always been a bastion of absurdity from literally the first moment it aired in 1975... As for the breaking part....well, that's sometimes what happens when really funny guys get together. And Horatio Sanz...

Ben Saylor oh pickle juice

Oh peaches 🍑