Father Guido Sarducci on Weekend Update - SNL 

Father Sarducci- total genius. Too funny. SNL in the late 70's had the most amazing collection of talent.

PRICELESS! Love Father Guido Sarducci!!! 😁🤣😂🤣. “The Shrine-mobile!”😂❤

I loved his weather forecast: "It might rain, it might not. It depends on the weather." At least that's how I remember it.

One of the most original and truly funny men in comedy. "Where's that old walk on water spirit"?

He was absolutely classic. One of the best characters on a show with a lot of real talent. Man, was it funny back then...

One of the best SNL characters. Father Guido and Jane rocked the boat!

Don's character was not only brilliant, but he wrote very funny bits and always made me LMAO.

Don's got the Italian accent nailed down . I could watch his Father Guido Sarducci skits all day .

God,the whole original SNL cast was amazing! Miss those days. Every Saturday night you just HAD to watch SNL; it was the talk of the week.

I loved Father Guido, I went as Father Guido for Halloween, it was a great costume, but this was in 2008, and no one under 30 had any idea who he was

He really is amazing as this character- what a classic

One of the most likable comedians. He was never abrasive.

Classic, timeless and priceless humor! Just another reason that I'm glad I'm old enough to have seen it first hand. Watching it now still makes me belly laugh!

I remember him saying "you gotta pay for your sins. And in a cash.

Father Guido & Rosanne Rosannadana were quite the characters and both my favorites.

Find the Popes in the Pizza skit was my favorite Father Guido!

I loved Father Guido Sarducci!

Where’s that walk on water spirit? LOL!!

I loved him ever since he was discovered and added to the cast of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour with Dawn French (share a little tea with Goldie) Officer Judy, & Pat Paulson, all very underrated actors/comedians! Officer Judy later became Super Dave Osborn played by Bob Einstein.😂 Sadly Bob Einstein passed away in 2019😢

What a great time in America, a weekly 1 1/2 hour reward for the weekly grind. A fantastic host, an awesome band or musician, truly funny skits, Mr. Bill and ending with everyone saying goodnight.

How awesome is this... Found this on Wikiepedia !!! Novello created the character in 1973, after he purchased the outfit (consisting of big floppy black hat, white clerical collar, and a long, red-trimmed black coat with cape) for $7.50 at a St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store.

Never gets old ! This group was the best!

We used to run home from the bars on Sat night to watch SNL, in it's real Hey Day of the late 70s. Of course we would head back for last call, but it was a ritual to grab a small Coors keg head to someones place and watch the show. The early cast could never be replaced for the amount of talent among the group. Any one of them could have been the shows star over the years.

Father Guido was amazing if you can find them go back and look at some of his skits. He is hilarious!

He is absolutely hilarious. He invented this great character and whats more,Don is really Italian. Bravissimo Guido Sarducci.

Absolutely one of the best characters on SNL.

I had quite forgotten about Guido Sarducci. His spots were always highlights. Sarducci is such an established person, with a life far beyond just SNL, that he is rather like Sir Les Patterson...ready to appear and provide insight when cultural moments call out for it! A multi talented man, who did a lot of different things. He worked on SCTV as well.. Producing I believe. I remember reading the Lazlo Letters when I was young and finding it very funny indeed. Very glad he has had a long life.

I always love Father Guido. Plus, his voice made me want some Amore' Pizza

Very underrated character,.....hilarious. One of Don Novello's best characters.

Father Guido Sarducci - my hero 😎😂! Yes, I saw the original broadcast of this - I laughed for 3 days 😂, and used to perform the sketch for friends at parties 😋!

What a breath of funny and fresh air to hear and see Father Guido Sarducci again on SNL! Hilarious!

This guy was always hilarious as Father Guido 😂🤣

My favorite SNL character. Never fails to get me laughing

2019 this is still good.

"Nothing to sneeza your nose at" got me.

“Where’s that old walk on water spirit?!, Proctor & Gamble wouldn’t take it sitting down”. 😂 classic

I was a kid when I watched this air for the first time. The last part of the bit became an instant family classic that was retold every time we ate corn on the cob.

This was the best SNL! Father Sarducci, church lady, Rosanna Rosanna Danna! Omg 😂

I was a teen when Father Guido was on Laugh In - LOVED him then, love him always!

Where is that old walk-on-the-water spirit? Oh my god, I died...

"Where's that ole walk-on-water spirit?!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I am a devout 72 year old Pre Vatican II Catholic and I find this HYSTERICALLY FUNNY and supremely satirical. Being able to laugh at yourself is a form of HUMILITY. Having been to ROME and experienced the splendor of a canonization (St. Mother Teresa) I can understand how this all looks to non-Catholics 😉. In addition, Fr. Sarduchii is the forerunner of the Catholic ‘media clergy’ of today 👍🏻

Such a fantastic find! I loved Classic SNL, the newer stuff sucks!

one of the all time comedians in an all time skit. Thank you.

Another brilliant science lesson from Father Guido. Hate to say it but funny as hell.

SNL was great when I was too young too watch it.( It all went downhill after early 90s. ) I'm lucky to know who Guido Sarducci is 😅 This episode is a couple years before my time.

My favorite character from SNL. An all time great.

Does anyone else remember Father Guido’s Spot the Popes’ Faces in the Pizza Contest?

I once opened for Father Guido with a band called the Geyer Street Sheiks in St. Louis around 1997. He put on a fantastic show and the entire front row was all the highest members of the Catholic Archdiocese in St. Louis at the time.

He talked about the Popa- mobile, too. Before the Pope had a pope mobile.

. "Coming and going planet." Brilliant comedian

Father Guido will go "coming and going" into eternity.

LOVED Father Guido Sarducci, he should have been on longer, soooo funny! LOVE YA Father Guido!!

Who can remember Father and find the pope in the pizza 😂

Oh God so hilarious we saw this when it was on live tv and I tell you classic tv. Classic.

What a wonderfully loopy sense of humor he has.

I loved what Father Guido said about dogs on SNL. ""When dogs lick your hand, its not that they love you, its the salt!"

Ahh Father Sarducci .. 😊💖

Damn, I remember this!! I was 17!! Amazed I can remember anything from those years! The weed intake was way past anything recommended by anyone.

I like how he collates both Astronomy and Astrology as kinda like the same thing, "we've been involved with Astrology and Astronomy for many years".

I happened to come upon an SNL with Father Guido Sarducci and realized how funny it was back then.Now I'm watching old SNL skits.Love it

That Halloween every guy was Fr Guido.

Guido was genius. First Saturday night live was the best.

I remember watching this live. I never forgot it and it's cool to finally find it on you tube - my favourite sarducci bit

Five-minute university! That routine was hysterical!!!

Ok. I was a kid when SNL premiered. Haven't seen this in 40 + years. 3:58 just made me bust out laughing!!

I remember when Sarducci had the bill from the Last Supper. Classic.

Does anyone know Don Novello's books written as Laszlo Toth containing letters he wrote to politicians, personalities, and businesses of the time? Hilarious!

Loved this character.

I got to play softball with him back in the 80's.

Thanks for posting. He’s a gem.

If you look at the length of this segment versus now, our collective attention spans certainly have dropped. I just love the character of Father Sarducci.

Don Novello! Magnifico!

Don Novello. Donald Andrew "Don" Novello (born January 1, 1943) is an American writer, film director, producer, actor, singer and comedian. He is best known for his work on NBC's Saturday Night Live from 1979-1980, and again from 1985-86, often as the character Father Guido Sarducci.

My favorite interview was the time he was talking about the Vatican elevating people to sainthood. An American woman had in fact been made a saint recently and Fr. Sarducci was claiming that it was only because the Vatican was sucking up to the U.S.A. This woman had three confirmed miracles which were necessary for her to become a saint by Vatican law. He claimed that in Italy people have 40 and 50 miracles a day but do THEY get made saints? No! And then he went on to say that he had heard that two of this woman's miracle were only card tricks ... and that's when I lost it and they had to pick me up off the floor laughing.

SNL was my favorite show back in the 70s.

Farther Sarducci's the Rosanna Danna two of the best characters ever created on SNL

I miss watching this skit, and Gilda, it breaks my heart that the show is what it is now

We used to watch this when I was 15 yrs old. Me and my best friend got a riot out of calling each other Father Guido. He got me a job in his uncles butcher shop. We were in the Delaware River tubing one sunny day and our tube was going flat. It has huge boulders just under the surface that batter you if you start to go under. I panicked and started freaking out. He told me get ahold of yourself we have to swim for the PA side. We made it, he saved my life. A year later he died in a motorcycle accident. I never told anybody about that and it's bothered me for years. missed you my whole life. RIP TIMMY

I cannot believe I just stumbled upon this skit. I have been telling folks about this skit for years, but got some of the details wrong. I did remember the part about boy meets girl when both are 20, then 22 vs 18, 25 vs 15 ..... but then I thought Don Novello (Father Guido Sarducci) said, "Hey!! By then it's gettin a pretty dicey, ya know??"

Don Novello (Father Guido Sarducci) wrote one of the funniest books ever called "The Laslo Letters". He wrote to politicians, corporations, and prominant people. And then printed the responses in a book. He wrote Richard Nixon and never got a response until Nixon resigned. He had his letter on the left page and the response on the right page. Over the top hilarious! Get it if you can find one.

Thank you so much, so funny brings back memories. Oh and his sun glasses..😁❤👍💯

Hilarious! Always loved the good Father.

First time I watched the animated movie Atlantis, when I heard the demolition guys voice I was like......woh wait what?!? That's FATHER GUIDO!!

I was 15 in 75 and this show was a must see back then, when I wasn't too high to watch it.

I agree,every SNL person was fantastic..miss them

The good father always made perfect sense!

Legendary SNL comedy sketch! The last golden era/decade of real comedy!

Hes always been my favorite SNL Comedian. Nobody better! IMO

That's nothing to sneeze your nose at.🤣🤣 That's funny!!

God bless the father Sarducci.

I have copies of two Don Novello books: The Lazlo Letters and Citizen Lazlo. He'd write letters to politicians, celebrities, companies, etc. using the nom de plumb Lazlo Toth and then would publish the replies. These books are hilarious.

Father Guido Sarducci wrote Benjamin Button.

Fine-a-duh-Pope-in a pizza! I love Father Sarducci!

THANK YOU! I've been trying to find this one.

I remember him on Laugh In and the smothers brothers God I’m old.

one of his best stories was when he had a chance to buy Jesus' high school yearbook but he was afraid it might be a fake because he had no idea what Jesus looked like when he was 17

Has anyone noticed that unlike most SNL players, the father doesn't seem to reading cue-cards. He's fantastic and appears to only be saying what's on his mind as though talking to us! 😆

OH MY GOSH it’s Vinny from Atlantis!!

"the take at the shrines in Italy is off 55%" LOL!