Larry King Late Night Wars Cold Opening - Saturday Night Live 

It’s like if Letterman were a Batman villain from the 50’s.

Exactly what I was thinking 😂

Every white guy who has played David Letterman on this show is spot-on: Joe Piscopo, Norm MacDonald, Jason Sudeikis, even forgotten SNL and MADtv cast member, Jeff Richards.

@@user-hk7xm5pu1c relax relax I'm pretty sure she didn't mean nothing by it grow some skin

He looks kinda like Elton

yeah the way he stares at the camera after saying the punch line XD

That was maybe the only funny part of the skit, but the skit is so God fucking awful that I was sad re-watching it.

@@stevenloube6784 could’ve been much funnier

@@BM-ff6oq i think the performers were too personally invested to make it funnier they were mad

Yes, terrific Jay impression by Darryl. Jason's Letterman was credible, but after a while the giggling and pencil throwing got annoying.

I think it's more that Hammond's impressions were always so *absurdly* good, that it's just taken for granted. "Oh Darryl Hammond did an amazing impression? Is water still wet? Yeah, thought so."

Yep

He was pretty bitter at the time.

@@seattleite6631 yeah, but walking away with millions in your bank account should ease some of that bitterness especially since some of us would give almost anything to have a roof over our head and maybe a hot meal now and then. and, in a way, it doesn’t matter how hard you worked or how talented you are. that is a result of being blessed by a higher power and some good luck along the way.

@@josephabreu6042 Conan took that payout he got from NBC to walk away and paid his staff with it until he got the TBS show. Also this is a supposed portrayal of Conan's attitude at the time. We don't really know what he went through during this period. We may never know either because he doesn't like talking about it. The closest we have is the doc film "Can't Stop" he made of his tour that happened a few months after.

He was very depressed after he left the Tonight Show.

Not really. It’s just the hair. But there is no impression here at all.

@@stevenloube6784 I love Bill but I agree. Not much of an impression.

@@stevenloube6784 he didn't say anything about impression,he just said he looked good as Conan .

@@toikutoassumi8381 I didn’t say he did. I said he doesn’t look incredible, just the hair. Then added more to my post.

@@stevenloube6784 sorry buddy my bad I didn't read it right.

Really?? because his Leno here is fucking atrocious and Leno is not a hard guy to impersonate

@@bboooobbyy delusion

WHAT?????? SO APPRECIATED!!!!!!

Who?

@@bboooobbyyMuppet. Watch his Bill Clinton, Sean Connery and Donald Trump's impression just to mention a few.

No, that would be Craig Ferguson

Doesn’t just have to be one

Or carson

Said nobody ever

​@@joelabed9358 Ferguson was good, but he was a little too sleezy/weird at times. And a little too self-centered. Conan has a way of elevating the guest and directing humor at himself that makes him the best.

Was terrible we know

@Jim McCracken dude it was fucking terrible. All he did was do his laugh.

The Letterman impression was hilarious

I know criticizing hader is a sin but his Conan isn't really good, makes me believe that Conan is unimpressionable cause if bill can't do it no one can

how was it perfect do you even watch conan

That’s the line we all heard him say in the video. Thanks for writing it down.

Simret Sekhon ur dumb....they had meet several times on the other show... U think Hader could only have done this impression if Conan wasn’t his friend?

I was gunna say.... Pretty sure they were friends before... I'm not gunna be so mean about it, like other people 😆

They kiss SO HARD

Conan is like his idol mate. They know each other from a really long time

They’ve been friends for a while lol

Yeah I feel like everyone could see that in foresight, too. We'll, everyone except NBC execs...

Duh

No, not even in hindsight. In real time. Actually, before it even happened.

That was always the case. Leno is a hack. Apparently he was somewhat respected as a stand up but lost the edge when he got into late night at which point he forced out Johnny Carson, screwed Letterman, stole the show back from Conan and finally passed the show to Fallon.

Enough! Both Conan and Leno are funny, whoever is 'funnier' is a matter of preference. It's been a decade, let the feud go already. This hate for Leno is a tireless bandwagon trope. It's the same as everyone hating on SNL and saying it isn't as funny as whatever time period they found nostalgic.

I’m a big Letterman fan and it was SO on point.

Agree.

I love Sudeikis, but his impression here reminded me more of the Joker than Letterman ^^

See Norm Macdonald's Letterman impression.

Pariah machina He can mimic the laughter of Dave

Norm's so much better

Chiming in 6 years later to tell some commenters that Sudeikis SEEMED to be overdoing it for comedic effect. Just laughing, grunting and throwing pencils at the camera, reducing Letterman to something below a caricature. It was a pretty good impression of Letterman's fake laugh as I remember it.

Oh cool a wwe fan!(im not being rude im a wrestling fan also)

@@AidenJustPlayin hi bro

@@MAINEVENT99 You play wrestling revolution also,nice

@@AidenJustPlayin yes but nowdays barely got time because school

I'm not surprised the audience was tepid. None of the impressions quite land, and there's no overall comedic concept to the sketch to give it momentum.

@Samu Tyrväinen yeah im confused. im a big fan of bill and now i've watched a lot of conan's vids too, starting to become a fan and im so confused, was conan really that silent and sad when he was on nbc or wut ? why is that a good impression? because he's not like that according to his videos on tbs. like i said i love bill but this kinda disappoint me

@@nurmadihahbintizulkifli1734 Conan was a writer at SNL and respected by most of these cast. I think the sketch is suppose to be Conan as the only sane person.

@@nurmadihahbintizulkifli1734 Conan will sometimes make a fake sad face (to make the crowd go "awww") that looks a bit like the face Bill is making throughout the sketch.

@@nurmadihahbintizulkifli1734 Watch the 60 minutes interview of Conan post firing and Bill nails his serious voice. He is not making the TV persona, sometimes it feels he is gloomy, and of course he is sad he is losing the job.

@@nurmadihahbintizulkifli1734 It's a very restrained impression, not the typical when the performer will exaggerate or take the personification cranked up to 11; but it's actually pretty spot on if you ever watch interviews with Conan. He can be very low-key, and Hader actually does a pretty good job at mimicking that. It may not seem like much if you haven't seen Conan in those situations, but yeah his impression is pretty good.

Hey, you got any gum?

They both did great but Norms was just on another level

They always overdo it with the chin. He didn't need the chin to get him down.

Maybe because the sketch is so bad that they were trying to hide it?

He does a really good one in parts. Close you eyes, and he's definitely got his cadence right

thats one theory

If u close ur eyes it's sounds perfectly like Conan

Heeheehee

Yes, that's the joke

@@BrainDeadz Is it though, or was the writer just mistaken?

@@BrainDeadz no the joke was that he spelled out ... calling those backslashes is a very common mistake, hardly anyone uses: \

If ratings of snl go down ,they will shoot a porn and telecast it live

Right? Totally unbelievable. It probably went like this: * ring ring * Hello, this is NBC. Hey, it’s SNL. We got a pretty good sketch for our cold open this week involving the recent late night show debacle. We’re gonna have to make a couple jokes at your expense and Leno too. May we please do that? Well.....I suppose. But it better get laughs and not hurt our ratings! Of course! What about Leno? We’ll smooth it over with him, don’t you worry SNL. Thanks NBC! We won’t let you down! “Permission” 😅😅

SNL has made fun of NBC before...

Wait till this guy hears of 30 Rock

Friendship dont exist in business

He was from 1995 to 2009. He became the announcer in 2014 after Don Pardo’s passing, so he is always around.

@@Rougarou99 I thought his Leno was very good.

@@stevethomas2285 He is an amazing impressionist. His Sean Connery, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump were amazing.

he is one of the longest serving cast members ever... how did u miss that lol

But DO you know the story behind "got gum" ?? THAT is the question !

you appreciate him. let me appreciate you so that you can appreciate me. lets make whoppee baby

It's a fine sketch.

@@bulletprooftiger1879 agree to disagree. It’s not funny would be my primary complaint:

Are you fucking kidding me? That was horrendous. Dave isn’t some moronic giggling clown.

Haha, um , no, not even close. Norm’s is a thousand times better.

Maybe the worst Larry King impression ever.

Holy shit, I didn't believe you and had to go check. RIP Larry King.

…ly bad.