I was maybe 10 I clearly remember the Calvin cleen commercial and Dana Carvey in a black turtle neck side profile and I remember Frankenstein Tonto and Tarzan.
The fact we never got a Gilda hosted show is a real gut punch of a historical fact I never knew. It would have undoubtedly been a proper swan song for a legend.
I remember that the news about Gilda was only found out about hours before the Steve Martin show aired. He visibly held back tears before paying tribute to a reairing of the dancing in the dark sketch. I hope the next episode makes mention of this
I loved this cast. And the show never had such a small one again. Proof that eight great actors - the RIGHT great eight - could do just about anything required of them.
This cast and the beginning of the Wiig/Hader/Samberg/etc. crew are my favorites. Specifically looking at season 32 with 11 total. 12 would be my perfect number. No higher, ever.
“Pumping Up With Hans and Franz” is in my top three favorite recurring sketches of the show’s history….also, I had forgotten about Carvey’s Alex Keaton impression, I about spit my drink out when I saw that again 😂
I wish these episodes were twice as long because there’s so much more content we’re missing. I hope you do a part 2 to see all the stuff we’re missing. Excellent episode! 0:07
I gotta say, guys, this is dedication and commitment right here! I first found your series yesterday. I decided to put on the first season video as background noise while doing some home renovations and I couldn't stop and I soon found myself marathoning the entire series. Looking forward to the rest, however long it may take!! 🤣
What a great cast, Phil Hartman is a genius in comedy. One of the few SNL cast members I would’ve loved to have met in person just to tell him how much he is. Loved for not only SNL but Newsradio one of the greatest TV shows of all time.
@@dylancooper3690 Not knowing for sure but I would take a stab at his well known propensity for not staying on script for things and add-libbing basically most of what he did played a role.
Once again, you've done a great job of calling out the highlights of the season. This was the season that renewed my interest in the show. Thanks for another great video.
Season 13 was can't miss Saturday night laughs when a Senior at the University. ALL Previous seasons always had ATLEAST one or two WEAK actors......Season 13 didn't have a weak link, making a bad sketch very rare.
@Saturday Night Network these are FANTASTIC. I would only change one thing.. we can see both your eyes reading the prompter, lol. But great work nonetheless! Thanks for these and keep them coming!!
Love this series! This particular season, I remember vividly. It was my junior year in high school. My friends and I loved so many of the skits and jokes - we would try to continue them in school.
Compulsion is THE best commercial parody ever done on the show. It is dated, for sure. But only because it was SO accurate to what it was parodying. This video should have showed more of it.
Crazy good. I was in 7th grade then, but SNL was so big that I regularly saw clips and heard quotes from the show despite not watching any of them. I know now that it took time to reproduce the magic of the first few seasons, but it always confused me why people thought it was never that good again because this was my first lineup, followed by the amazing 90s run. To each their own era, I suppose.
Wasn’t that the same season that the NFL strike happened and they were making fun of all the replacement/SCAB players for futility except for Gary Hogeboom who was breaking all of the NFL records? 😂
I was going to mention that in the comments but I'm glad you mentioned it already. For years afterward, when anyone would ask what station a TV show was one, I'd say, "on ... CBS!"
I recorded the Steve Martin/Sting episode the night it aired, and loved every minute. There was a James Bond sketch called "Bullets aren't cheap," where Bond (Martin), when travelling on his own dime, is shown to be a complete cheapskate. Sting plays the villain "Goldsting," complete with stuffed rabbit prop. When he retrieves money at the gambling table, he pulls it from his sleeve. However, in subsequent airings I have seen of that sketch, he pulls a rolled up bill from the rectum of the stuffed rabbit.
I almost just literally watched the episode with the WE with the blown cue. I wondered what it was and then I think in that same ep there was an overlong cut to the band before commercial, clearly to fill time
The "Compulsion" ad (4:16) is a parody of the artsy ads Richard Avedon created for the perfume Obsession by Calvin Klein. Every shot references something from the real commercials. "Bushwacked!" (9:56) is a parody of The Morton Downey Jr. Show.
The other thing I notice when I revisit the sketches with this cast, is how it never looked like they were reading cue cards. I don't know what's changed so significantly over the years, where the actors can't even look someone else in the eye when they have a three-word line, but these guys were masters.
I just imagined an alternate reality where BREAKING BAD happened around the year 2000 instead and starred a still living Phil Hartman as Walter White. I don't know where this came from, but I like it
God, I love Cher. Her performance was great that night, and I had totally forgotten that the famous reunion with Sonny Bono on "Late Night With David Letterman" happened just the week prior to that episode. I so miss Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks. For me, Phil Hartman was never LMFAO funny - Jan Hooks was - BUT Phil Hartman was still on her level because he became the rock of that show. He was so consistently talented and consistently funny and had so many great characters which he would just disappear into. (Sometimes I didn't even know it was him playing the character, most notably that of Gary Treadway, an unknown actor who was tapped as the very first King Mongut after the legendary Yul Brynner died of lung cancer. He delivered such a knockout performance in that sketch that I literally didn't even know it was him.) Phil Hartman was so fucking talented. His own voice was so distinctive and pleasing that beginning in 1990 and continuing for the last several years of his life, he became one of the top three voice-over actors in all of Hollywood. Keep in mind that comedy writing and acting was Phil Hartman's second career. He originally came to Hollywood to pursue a career as a graphic designer, designing some famous album covers beginning in the early 70s. Yes he never wanted the spotlight and was extremely generous to his fellow cast members and even helped them so much that he basically became their den mother, so to speak. He was rightfully loved by everyone. Unfortunately, thanks to Lorne Michaels, who fostered a toxic competitive nature to the show, Phil had had enough by the mid-90s that he left to do the great, unique TV sitcom "Newsradio." I watched the show frequently and of course Bill McNeil (Phil Hartman's character) quickly became my favorite character on the show, even though he was technically a supporting player in an ensemble cast. Even more unfortunately, Phil was still doing the show when his psycho wife shot and killed him in bed before she turned the gun on herself, killing herself in the process. What an absolutely undeserved, terrible, violent end to one of the funniest men in show business who consistently entertained millions. Jan Hooks made me laugh out loud so many times in most of her skits, ESPECIALLY The Sweeney Sisters with the almost equally great Nora Dunn. Those are still among my Top 10 favorite SNL characters ever. Both Jan Hooks and Phil Hartman are forever missed. These people were heavyweight talents and among the greatest SNL cast members ever. RIP to both of them. 🌹
I still would've been too young for this season, but somehow I feel like a lot of what I saw was familiar lol. But that's probably just on account of the internet and how I watched who knows how many videos of SNL over the years. I'm loving this series though, it's sad this season was cut short, I had no idea.
I was wondering when Bob Odenkirk started. He gave us "Da Bears", "Massive Head Wound Harry", and "Carsenio Hall" among other classic skits. I highly recommend his Lie Detector skit from the Mr. Show with Bob and David. If you want someone funny, better call Saul!
My favorite cast of all time! But very sad to learn we missed an opportunity of seeing Gilda Radner come back to SNL to host the cancelled last episode.
The Funniest part of Mitchem hosting was then he went to Hartman and asked "When do we start recording stuff".. Hartman goes "WE do it live". Mitchem did not understand what the show was. But unlike many previous old school actors, he reportedly behaved himself and was not a jerk
This channel is awesome. Could you guys give a little more time to the specific musical guess per episode your guys are dropping? Or is it like a copyright thing?
Think history will show that Phil Hartman was the greatest SNL cast member, at least he was imo. Just incredibly well rounded and hilarious. Adept at sketch comedy and improv. Could be the utility player, or steal the show. He could write with the best of them, and was a true team player, lifting up others to display their strengths. Guy was definitely ready for prime time, and then some. Greatly missed, think he had a lucrative film career ahead of him. Such a sad ending to someone who was by all accounts a great and extremely talented person.
I knew about Gilda being scheduled to host and it wouldn't be until Julia Louise-Dreyfus in 2006 to become the first former female cast member to host SNL. It would have been an epic swan song for Radner.
Not going to lie I saw most of this in syndication. Thank you comedy Central. I was in foster care when it originally aired. I was not allowed to watch SNL then.
I did not think my heart could break any more than it already was with Gilda's passing, but to find out that the stupid writers' strike prevented her from hosting SNL, my heart is shattered. Now these silly tears won't stop clouding my vision.
Oh man, an episode hosted by Gilda Radner would have been great! Interesting Fact: No former female SNL cast members came back to host the show until 2005, when Julia Louis-Dreyfuss hosted the show for the first time.
WOW. Another season where I don't think I saw a single episode. You know, I had no idea that Jan Hooks was ever on SNL; I remember her from the later seasons of DESIGNING WOMEN! I would think this was the 3rd golden era of SNL... after the original cast, and the seasons with Eddie Murphy (7-8-9).
Thanks for reviewing this great season of SNL! I did not watch it, because I stopped watching around season 9 or 10 because the writing was so poor and the sketches were so unimaginative.
I love this series and appreciate that you go through all episodes of a specific season, but please don't cut the punchlines of the hosts; it makes it seem like they were totally flat and that the show doesn't hold up.
Let's take a moment of silence for all of the great comedy we've lost over the years due to writer's strikes..... ......................................... That being said, I side with the writers, but it's still a bummer thinking of what we lost.
