Snap Decision - Saturday Night Live 

Yet playing a serious straight man at the same time

He embodies obliviousness.

I heard she wasn't dead.

Yes, its like this sketch was written perfectly for Leslie

Dubya

LOL 🤣

And he is relying on the cards! He didn't memorize. He's a natural.

Most of SNL cast read cue cards. The truly greats improv

Surely, you can't be serious!

@@TheListenerCanon I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.

Leslie said the key to Comedy is to play it like a drama like you don't know it's funny

That's why his comic performances worked. He wasn't winking at the audience, letting them know he was in on the joke. He played it as if he was serious. And that's why it's funny.

Rest In Peace Leslie Nielsen

Absolute king of deadpan

I agree.

It's great, but not as good as Meet Your Future Wife!

Nora Dunn and Mary Gross both were underrated.

I mean... Underrated is a stretch

agreed

​@chriscarter8593 why do you say that?

agreed

Kudos to Jerry. He should be an accountant instead of a school teacher.

​@@CigarDoug🤣🤣🤣

Saw that one coming, but it was still hilarious.

Agreed 👍🏽

Best at being Bob.

Perfect !

Agreed

I loved him May he rest in peace. Left us so many laughs

Definitely

Just wow... 👏👏👏 ... nailed it 👌

Soooo true! 🤣

😂😂😂

and 2021 as well

Actually Birmingham has a great art museum. That county votes Dem every presidential election and George Wallace was livid in his hatred of Birmingham. It is NOT typical Alabama and is hated by the rural Whites in the state. The other good place is Huntsville, where NASA is. I used to be the economist for the AL legislature. I was disliked solely for being White and treating African Americans as equals. My early years were in NY and NJ until my father was transferred by AT&T. Unfortunately rural counties have most of the political power by far. They hate just for being moderate. I was in China 12 years and liked it better than Alabama. The blonde lady from SNL went to Auburn University. She is very smart but can play any role. Unfortunately the rural Whites in Alabama like Trump.

The Birmingham Museum of Art is a damn good museum though.

@@avecmoi9429 Don't get it twisted. The museum is great, but the city is just as racist and shitty as the rest of the state .... or the rest of the country. And plenty of middle class, urban and suburban "whites" vote Republican.

@@mewho6199 The whole country is pretty racist, but I think it's pretty disingenuous to pretend that most states are as racist as Alabama...or any state in the bible belt.

@@avecmoi9429 Voting Democrat doesn't make you not racist. It just makes you into a stupid sheep controlled by people whose entire livelihood is based on manipulating your emotions in order to steal your money.

Well put. I was trying to express this same thought myself.

Nielsen or Trump?

@@Kaddywompous " Slow Joe " Biden . Sadly , it's not a joke .

My brain can't say the opposite, so the genius of Leslie is 💯. How can he do that? Practice. And sobriety.

Partly through being lucky that game shows are still going on in much the same format they had in the '80s. A parody of a show like Moonlighting that no one really remembers wouldn't play so well now.

Had me literally rolling on the floor. Laughing. 🤣🤣 couldnt stop

It really was amazing. I mean, who would have thought that the world's tallest mountain was the armadillo?

Keep it in your pants. The game show premise was worn out before this was written out and nothing special happens here. This is a totally basic bit.

Snl just sucks now, so watching the old clips is nostalgic and makes you miss the old casts and hosts

Exactly!

Yeah well, at the time it wasn't that funny. Sure, we chuckled at Nielsen and Lovitz, but it was just filler and we still kept asking ourselves why we even bothered to keep watching the show for so long after Eddie and Joe had left. The mid to late 80s were the dark times of SNL.

@@Drakijy history repeats itself

My family and I had the honor of meeting him on vacation in Hawaii years ago. He’s was so nice and kind to my mother who I think developed a small crush! Lol. Wonderful man 👍

Maybe he's your dad

Nielsen

This is actually the dress rehearsal version. The version that aired live was a bit more sloppy, and while it was still funny, some of the jokes didn’t land as well. It takes good timing to make this kind of chaos work as comedy.

They make it hard. I mean people complain that the original Star Wars has a few minutes of changes, but half of the '80s and '90s SNL content has no official release in any format. It's all out there on the internet unofficially if you dig a little though. The unofficial copies have gotten easier to find in the last year. Been enjoying Misery II, Tooncinator, The Real World with the eskimo, Brady Bunch vs. the Partridge Family and others recently.

Monster Trucks vs Funny Cars is extremely difficult to find. It was near the end of David Alan Grier’s episode (or James Vanderbeek?), and was an absurd and epic CGI parody of such events. It was made available briefly, for maybe a few months, and has disappeared once again - perhaps forever.

Oh we noticed. too funny.

Literally the joke homie

That's where you're wrong.

...and what's a joke homie?

Me too

SOMEONE TELL ME! I HAVEN'T SLEPT IN YEARS, MY HAIR AND NAILS ARE GONE, AND I GIGGLE UNCONTROLLABLY

lol, they'd have 12 skits, and one would be good. When someone today says that. they are a butt hurt conservative.

He look like a republican, yes.

This was the blueprint for the Dotard's White House.

astute observation, ser!

😄

NOT any more!!!!!!!!!!!! Biden/Harris 2020!

They add filth and innaoropriate culture references.

Come on. That with alien abduction, or where they to a fortune teller right before covid.

Oh boy lol the generation gap

@lilbuddha Because he's aware of when Saturday Night Live had intelligent writing?

When they reveal the first answer there are Two different bell sounds it's stupid trippy funny; that got me laughing, and it didn't stop. Also, i totally thought the same; the Jeopardy sketches are weak compared to this one sketch.

Story goes he beat plenty of misses.

@@jongregory8554 🤣🤣

Whoever wrote it, it was perfect for him

Adam Sandler has had an extensive movie career. Jimmy Fallon and Seth Myers are the long running hosts of talk shows. What exactly has Lovitz, Greenwald, and Jackson done in their careers besides SNL?

Yeah for sure..it’s not even watchable now, I still try, it’s just not like it was back in the day

@@jas9239 So true, I've stopped watching on the weekly since the early 2000's, since the cast change in mid 90's it kinda went downhill imo.

Yeah, this is like watching Joe Biden host a game show.

He wishes

Actually, you can. SNL has always used cue cards, because they're constantly making changes, even during the live show. The cast just used to be better at not making their cue card-reading obvious.