Liza Minnelli Tries to Turn Off a Lamp - SNL 

"Nooooo"

I lost my sh!t when she said that 😭

Tribute to Bob Fossey, the inspired choreographer for whom much of Wiigs mad dance is based on.

Aced Fosse to a T, and with a single dancer.

OMG, me, too!

@@garymeise673 don't forget , "chain, ball, kick, chain!" Remember that? 😉 💃💃

Haha!!

Omgggg yessss me too 😂😂😆

“Is it a foot tappah?” that’s me all the time!!

What does it mean in this context tho?

@@CountryCowboy008 touché….

This just made me LOL

🤣🤣🤣

And this is why you’re Legend

Thanks, I was trying to figure out who that was. (He played perfectly opposite Kristen.)

he's perfect foil/straight man, honestly dont know how he didnt break character

He didn’t break character but rumour has it he broke the chair. It’s more of a comment really…

@@ymd2516 He is a big boy! From what I've seen, he seems to enjoy life! Food, laughs, fun. Can't hate him for that! (His cardiologist might want to have a word with him though... I hope he takes care of himself.)

@@MikeLinPA I’ve heard his doctor isn’t a nice man. He once asked Jonah to open up and say “oink”

😂😂😂

Which husband is he supposed to be?

I say this as someone who adores Cats ((the stage show not the 2019 movie)), you'd probably do the same

Tbf, he offered to help at the start and she turned it down ;)

he did dance at the end. He knew. He wanted to dance after his cigar and skip the show

Sal Paradise are you okay

@@chandlermathews2587 no

Amen. 100% comedy platinum

@@Gilliganfrog Hahaha! Love it!

Aw thanks for sticking up for me hahaha @Gilliganfrog

THAT'S what he says. I honestly had no idea lol

Marcus Chan couldn't agree more. I love Kate but seriously Kristen deserved an Emmy every bit as much as her !

That's crazy she didn't get one.. Seriously

She was robbed

She isn't gay, so they chose Kate instead

Nah she's cringy

Then you are living your best life.

I try to turn off all lamps with a Fosse neck, so I feel like we are kindred spirits.

Everyonce in a while, when I turned off a lamp, I say "WILL A FOSSE NECK DO IT?"

My cat doesn't like when I say this.

My personal go to is “..this skinny lady!”

Hey! ADHD is real.

😂

I swear to God.

Same with mine.

Ha Ha Ha

She's trying to turn off a lamp, makes perfect sense. :)

It _does_ make sense if you're familiar with Liza Minnelli and Cabaret

Nicola Ní Lochlainn Liza is coked out of her mind and making a simple task seem like solving a rubix cube, and every moment is super over-dramatized

It makes all the sense. Watch Cabaret.

It’s making fun of Liza Minnelli who was a famous performer and singer and actress (Judy Garland’s daughter) and also taking a loving irreverent jab at how long it takes people in musicals to do anything simple (like turning off a lamp) because they’re too busy signing and dancing. It’s multilevel Broadway humor that’s so incredibly brilliant and wonderful but they really needed an audience who understands those things

Truly. Her impression is great, but the whole concept needs to be applauded. And they both pretty much made it through the whole thing without cracking up, so that deserves an award.

@Michael Persico Go somewhere else.

Agreed

~~. this deserves the Raspberry Award --this took guts !

Brilliance!

@burteriksson really though

And he is so cuuuuute.

“We’re gonna miss caaaaats!” has me in bits 😂

Okay thank you!! I always think he doesn’t get enough credit !!! He literally makes the sketch. So little said but so much impact

💯

i say it like that whenever i'm confused about something. straight up lifted it from hill in this skit

❤

The scoundrel!

LMAO! 🤣

I feel like there's an inside joke here

@@incoglido liza was prety off the chain especially off camera at parties

@@thomasdelvin3683 oh i'm sure, but i meant specifically with this and other references they seem to make. "Ben Vareen, its long" lol

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

What does Debbie Reynolds have to do with it though? I've searched high and low and I didn't get anything lol

paul anthony walsh I could never work with her. I'd be fired for laughing too much.

+paul anthony walsh Turn off a lamp

same here!!

Act.

yeah, kristen wiig cant act. thats why shes one of the most memorable and successful recent snl cast members and has had tons of starring roles since leaving and has been hailed for her impressions for years, because she cant act. lol.

the way she almost corpses halfway through that bit fucking kills me

😂😂😂

Wiig played both Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. No surprise that she got to play both Mom and Daughter.

Not since the brain encephalitis

Yep. Every day lol.

@burteriksson that's Hollywood for you?! What books are you reading?

I picture Liza Minelli as Lucille Astero on Arrested Development.

it's honestly my favorite role that Jonah Hill has played

Yes thank you. He's so laid back and it compliments wiig perfectly. I don't know he didn't crack

Yeah he actually added a lot to the performance, not that Wiig's was bad but he managed to elevate it, which is impressive, especially by himself

Louche as fuck

we gotta scoooot Liza

Truly up there with the best quotes of all time

@@klausoshaunacey8429 I worked in a College in Southgate, north London, circa. 2020. Let me use parlance from the '60s, but 3 "Cornerboys" left that college using that as a catchphrase. They got the picture.

My ex confirmed that a Fosse neck did indeed, “do it.”

Haha I didn't notice that until I read your comment! Now it's my favorite thing to point out when I force people to watch this.

I think they either have to be at least 45 years old or just know a lot about older Hollywood and Broadway to get most of the references.

Yeah I bet almost no one in the audience even knows who Liza is and so cant appreciate how spot on this is.

Probably one of those sketches towards the end of the night when the audience loses their enthusiasm. But there's so many gems there...like when Kate McKinnon does that aged old movie star in an interview with other #metoo actresses.

I think they already saw it during the dress rehearsal.

TBF, I feel like this was only written for theater kids and acerbic gay men. And even that venn diagram overlaps a lot :P With that said, I ugly laughed. "WILL A FOSSE NECK DO IT?!"

Nicola Ní Lochlainn it’s that voice he uses! It’s half old weirdo and half Tony Soprano’s mother. Amazing work by him.

@@jdturingkai564 I've seen this so many times and I totally just heard a bit of Tony Soprano's mother in there lmao

i hope she got to keep it!

and her legs on sofa spread open...so funny..i revisit this skit to lol a few times a week

Hahahahahhaha I'm thinking it might be in a box in a middle of a caarrrrr

Did you watched marry poppins one or the national anthem .. they are amazing ;)

is that a real skit? Ann M? I cant find it

@@forasec www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/ann-margret/n13141

@@guyincognito7165 THANKS BABE. X0X

guyincognito71 thank you! I’ve been looking for that!!! Too funny!

I was wondering about all the crazy terms she has for lamps and their parts. That it had to be written in advance, but she delivered it all so effortlessly. And I think she is using the teleprompter to keep on track, but I think you are right about her memorizing here, I don't know how else she could have done it. It's a joy for me to watch 🙂

Ben Vereen, it's long

She was literally the only reason I even started watching SNL. She was consistently hilarious each and every night. She was definitely one of the most talented people to ever be apart of that cast.

Now she lives in a cave somewhere....it is too bad they fired her

I never noticed it until you mentioned it, it’s iconic

Same😆

That’s a good life philosophy, as a matter of fact.

hahahaha was hoping to find someone commenting this here!!

haha gets me every time

try telling that to Debbie Reynolds!

She needs to do this character with Christina Applegate's Fosse dance instructor

🤣🤣🤣

Liza Minnelli is a broadway musical star, this is making fun of the way she acts on stage, and making fun of how people take forever to do things in musical because they're too busy singing or dancing.. It's fricken hilarious XD

Kristen Wiig is so on point

Kodie Jc yes and liza minnelli was also know for being drunk all the time... love that skit

thats how liza acts on stage.............get it!

I suppose there's also a lot of subcultural references. "Ask Debbie Reynolds about that!" Huh?

Mine too…and Gawd how I miss Wiig and her genius on SNL.

This is oddly true!!!!!!!!

Indeed

Perfect advice

I watch this at least once a week to get ne through all this covid crap

Absolutely right!👏

Sophie Really! Well, I'm talking about it right now. (Not on here, on Twitter with the person who posted it there.)

Lmao! This is hands down one of my absolute favorite snl skits ever.

My friends and I reenact this bit when we’re drunk

@@nspector that's what I was just thinking. All these years later and going.

Watch her do ann margaret!!!

Mine too! 😂

He’s a genius.

Funny how that slid by...The audience didn't get it at all.

As a brit I've never seen SNL before, I've just started binge watcing clips. I'm not a fan of most of the humor but I love anything Kristen is in. This whole scene had me in stiches, shes a very intelligent and talented gal.

gutz1981 Amen

He’s a chubby mess.

His contribution here was minimal to say the least. Kristen completely stole it.

Well, to be fair it's hard to find a sketch where Kristen Wiig doesn't upstage everyone else, because of her over-the-top characters and her monstruous talent. Especially for a host, and not a regular cast member, I'd say Jonah Hill did fairly well

True True

"I'm not getting anywhere with it; it's like Tommy Tune" was the savage throwaway

Jiddy12345 Haha, yeah, I think that reference is a bit surreal. Maybe something to do with Eddie Fischer leaving her for Elizabeth Taylor?? I don't know, but she makes it work.

@@nspector It's so funny! My friend spit out her drink when I showed her that and that line came up.

Eric J....i am gong to start circulating that...morrow will be in the 90s....and im using that line.....

Yeah, but when you say "it's long!", the reference takes on a whole new meaning.

+Robert Haworth Wow, if someone could improvise this, it'd be unreal.

My first time auditioning for an improv show, I bombed because I was so young and thought I could do anything but I couldn't do this exercise. Humiliated myself and signed up for improv classes immediately the next day

Kate Mckinnon is equally as good, if not better

@Elliepopcorn i don't like ranking comedians but they are both hilarious. I only give Kate the nod as her supporting cast is nowhere near as good as the one Kristen had

+jmurphy432 Ahahaha, how's that working out for you?? :p

@@nspector well the electricity bill is a little higher hahaha

@@_wegota2319_ Ahh, a small price to pay!

Lol!

That last bit is a lovely nod to Liza and DeNiro in New York, New York.

if Gilda was still here, imagine the sketch they would do together for SNL 40th anniversary.. #crying

@@carlingtons yeah...that's very painful, especially now that Gilda's husband (Willy Wonka himself) has now passed away too.

Agreed. I would have loved to have had Gilda's take on my girl here.

The doc they made about Gilda's life was the most touching tribute to a beautiful soul.

Can u imagine them Together!!

Jo Peres gets me every time

Every time I watch this it makes me laugh

a joke within a joke... i like this.

Fucking hilarious

Haaaaaaaa

Tim Nicholas when this reaches 666 kris Jenner will receive a Medal of Honor from satan

🤣 I was just thinking why does she look like her 😂 That accent tho I'm done!

I didn't laugh once and I did get the reference to the coke addict. I'm not sure exactly what I missed.

I mean...Liza Minelli

😂😂🙏🏽🙏🏽

Uh, Liza. Hello?