SNL Original Cast - Top 10 Sketches (1970s) 

Hello Janice, How are you doing?

Hon. Just open another window and pull up each of the skits, to view them in full.

I agree. Won’t bother with him again.

exactly- I don't need a narrator DESCRIBING the skit- just play the skit!

Seriously, when you have to narrate a comedy clip to explain it to people; that's really lame. But then again comedy is practically illegal today unless you want to talk about your genitalia like Amy Schumer

Ackroyd reprised the repairman at the end of a "Nanny" episode.

That's so funny, I forgot to laugh!

@@davidstoyanoff Let's see what's going on with those mosquito bites.

@@c.hanley1423 I was just thinking about that! 😂

Dan AYKROYD. I hate when people misspell his name.

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.."It's a quarter"...HYSTERICAL!!!! 😅😅😅😅

Jkcarroll. Over the decades, have used that joke often. A classic. (Just have to keep upping the price)

Save the livers!

And Julia Child LOVED that skit!

Mike Gike ....my favorite too......

That was good, but IMO Akroyd played about as good of a 70s sleezy salesman as you could be. Mainway toys for Halloween, "Johnny Invisible" the all black costume. The Bass o matic by Remco, that restaurant where if you want a steak you pick your own cow and stun it...Akroyd was good in the movie Chaplin and a zillion others but to me he was at his best in those first 4-5 yrs of SNL, and really the only one remotely close to as good as Belushi was, though I think they were all amazing and BY FAR the best cast SNL ever had!

That was my pick for all-time greatest. Never laughed so hard!

Love Chevy chase

AGREED !

Gotta agree with you

It's had plenty of great moments since then

....no question....without a doubt !

It;s still funny, perhaps better than ever. Grow the fuck up. Evolve.

@rdecredico That’s an unnecessarily aggressive response isn’t it?

@@sinkvenice4438 No and here is why. We in the middle of a cultural crises right now and one if its symptoms is the revisionism of the past. This modern affliction of pining for the time of our adolescence is a form of mental disorder for some. But for others it is a mental state that has been conditioned and is being manipulated by institutional forces. SNL was NOT funnier when it started. It was myopic and not diverse. Large portions of it were painful, unfunny, and were highly political. People that put energy into false narrative about the past, whether due to nostalgia or something more nefarious, need to be called out and reality must be thrust into our lives instead. The whole ,amtra: "back when SNL was actually funny" is a lazy political meme that exposes its user as a mentally manipulated myope that poses danger to society by not acknowledging the reality of the world we inhabit and thus creates further division among culture.

@rdecredico Um, I think you’re looking into that person’s comment a bit too much. Anyway, it’s entirely a matter of opinion. Comedy is completely subjective, as you know. I just meant you didn’t need to tell him to ‘grow the fuck up’, it’s uncalled for and patronising, no?

@@sinkvenice4438 No, comedy is not completely subjective. What people find funny is subjective.

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My favorite was "Spud Beer"..... the beer brewed for people who can't taste the difference!

Puppy uppers and doggy downers. :P

@@barleyeducated8714 I still say that! Almost 50 years later!

Jewess Jeans!

Hasn’t been funny for decades

I was going to post those exact same words.

'K boomers!

@@LYCANSS777 Jealous much?

You sound old. That's okay, because so am I.

It hasn’t been worth staying up for the watch quite a few years now. Multiple decades

We used to have party's every Saturday night at a friend's parents camp, lots of beer and a shit load of laughs.

I watched from my college dorm. Then after the show, we'd hit the disco's. Best days of my life.

Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood was funny, but it wasn't the original 70's cast.

Murphy was funniest as Gumby, damnit!!

Eddie Murphy was not part of the original cast. He came in the 1980's

Bill Murray as the lounge singer: the Star Wars song!

...The BLUES BROTHERS!!!

@tom quigley That was Emily Litella''s line

Loved tiny town read by Gilda

Right!! Roserosannadanna was the most looked forward too!! Her and Jane Curtain in anything!

There cannot be an SNL top 10.... Impossible!

The best skits were Roseanne rosanna Dana n Dan aykroyd doing Tom snyder. Tom even said in an interview with Dan that he did Tom snyder better than Tom snyder. Lol

Jorge it’s politics Laois with a Normas amounts of hate If you think it’s funny you’ll get censored by Twitter or Facebook and it goes on and on. Just hate hate hate

Mick Jagger was also in a few movies in the following years.

Snyder. I met him in 1978!

@tom quigley Me, too! I remember wearing it once in this restaurant and a couple from France was there said that it was "tres amusant."

I had a Mr. Bill book with pictures.

Fun fact: Mr Hands was the brother of Ellen DeGeneres.

And you had to stay up until the end because if (not always) Mr. Bill was on, it would be the last skit.

Yes yes yes I want to see Sluggo

Big Zed Emily Litella was the best.

can only agree

Interesting fact: Gilda Radner was the first cast member hired for Saturday Night Live.

Roseann Rosannadanna!

Gilda Radner had so many different characters. John Belushi was funny, but not nearly as funny and versatile as Gilda Radner on SNL. John Belushi was better in the movies and the Blues Brothers shows. .

Or Gilda as Candy Slice! 🤣

@Howling Frog I was going to say that. I think that may have been the best musical segment that show ever did. I also really like the horrible Rolling Stones Some Girls segment. Mick had they think the flu and his voice was just cracking and is doing so bad ya had to love it.

Absolutely! Poor Joe Cocker. As I recall, he did not look entirely amused by John B's hilarious (and excellent) rendition!

CLASSIC!

Epic!

You got that right; it was the best cast e er

You got that that right; it was the best cast ever,

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Always keeps me in stiches!

Todd and Lisa were the best ,I did the noogies and mosquiteo bites on my neighbor

THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!

At the time of SNL, Steve Martin was the biggest comedian in the USA and was selling out stadiums all over the country. It would have been detrimental for his career to have been a cast member. It worked much better for him to be a guest host.

With the little chocolate doughnuts AND a lit cigarette. "What a day for John Belushi!" .

You know, I did a lot of miles.....and downed a lot of doughnuts. John Belushi, for the gold!!!!!

Yes very funny. That was a spoof of the Bruce Jenner Wheaties commercials

I know, I've been trying to find the actual full clip of King Tut for years now.

SNL/NBC remove unauthorized uploads.

I was just thinking the same time. Big Thumbs Down!

Agreed. Too bad as I was looking forward to seeing them. Didn’t expect to have some guy captioning everything.

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A Watchman amen!

Revisionist history

They also proved that they could be hilarious every time without cussing. Oh, well, there was that one time....

Actually SNL alwasy had plenty of political sketches. And TV censors kept people from saying what they wanted then.

Nice memories. 👌🙂💜

"Don't put your lips on it!!!"

Didn't Steve Martin do that skit? I barely remember. Burned out lots of brain cells in the 70's 😁

@@92mrsrdb Steve Martin and Bill Murray

Wait. I know what it is!....What the hell is that?!

Yes! Show the skits and get rid of the commentary!!

Disappointed

I know right?

Probably because NBC won't let them?

Totally agree

You can watch them on Peacock. Basic Peacock is free but I don't think you get all of the episode unless you are Premium. You get Premium free with Xfinity. Otherwise it's 5 bucks a month.

They spoke for some of us, certainly not all....

@@dr.skulhamr3220 ??? WTF are you talking about???

@@dr.skulhamr3220 Don't telll me what I have no idea about you lame brained ignoramus. You don't know me. You shut the fuck up yourself. Dickhead

@Frank Caroline. Comedy may not be your thing

One of the first appearances of the fully leather clad singer with awful stage fright Mary J. Blige, the shocking Sinead O'Connor, Bjork appearing with the Sugar Cubes.

The Plasmatics were just awesomely deranged. Cutting an old console TV in half with a chainsaw - immortal! Love at the end of the show when the host was thanking their guests and when it got to the Plasmatics Wendy O. Williams said "Don't be a wanker. I hate art! I hate fashion!"

bes-e-bol has been berry berry good to me

"Escuela"=Spanish for "school".

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Luck of the Irish rant is hands down my all time favorite! And don't forget the 3 part Beethoven skit of Belushi's! Ludwig, you must eat!

Samurai Tailor was my favorite samurai sketch, especially when the guest host Buck Henry asked Belushi to add a zipper to his pants, while he was wearing them! Belushi gets that demented look in his eyes and whips out his katana. End of scene.

Soooo true, those first 5 yrs had so many fine (hillarious), skits.

"We're from France!"

What goes good with eggs? "Fiberglass!"

Unfortunatley if it was a special then not many have seen it since it ran. Not part of the collection of dvds, videos, or streaming packages from the first five years. Just the live shows.

"It seemed like last summer cause in fact, that's when it was".

that made me laugh, and not the actual show.

Dan Akroyd and John Belushi did the Blues Brothers.

@@kurtdietrich5421 they were the Blue's Brothers. In fact, the "King Bee" performance was a precursor to them in their suits the film made famous.

You got that right!

Chris Lichowicz After 1979, the show completely lost its shine.

Generally yes. However, when Phil Hartman, Darly Hammond, Dana Carvey and Mike Meyers were all on, that was a good cast and good writing

Wasn’t a steady decline, it fell off the cliff when the original cast left.

Nagger please. Grow the fuck up.

I get so tired of hearing that.

Was she in the race?

@@DoubleDash28 yes she was

she turned around backwards as she ran by saying c'mon let's go!

Or the blues brothers?

Hx823. So very true

@chris younts she was brilliant! My favorite from the original cast ❤

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I was young, no money, trying to start a practice. This gave me great entertainment

Ah, BrunGilda!

@@babu357 "Take a pint from that bird too"

They couldn't call it "Saturday night live" at first because Howard Cosell had a variety show on rival network ABC called "Saturday night live with Howard Cosell" first...of course THAT show was canceled after 18 episodes at which point, NBC could use the name.

@@les4767 “The Not Ready for Primetime Players” was named as such as a tweak to Cosell’s show, which had “The Primetime Players”. (This nominal Saturday Night Live aired at 8 pm.) As it happened, all three The Primetime Players would eventually resurface two blocks crosstown and four blocks downtown, joining their second show called Saturday Night Live; Bill Murray, brother Brian Doyle Murray, and Christopher Guest.

(Dave Letterman would make exactly the same trip in reverse, leaving 30 Rockefeller Plaza to set up shop in the Ed Sullivan Theater.)

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"The bed...is on my foot..."

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I also like Quarry. The cereal made from stone. "Better tasting cause it's mined!"

Said every crusty old fart in history.

It's political now.

Everything looks good with rose colored glasses.

This is from only the original cast. Happy Fun Ball was around the 90's. Great sketch though.

I was going to mention the Blues Brothers! What's even more awesome is they took that show on the road - I saw them at Red Rocks right after the movie came out

I remember that one and also one where she is with the therapist and asked to pick dolls representing mom and dad and she picks Barbie and Ken and then asked to pick herself and she picks a roll of tape! That one was hilarious as well!

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The smoking one was the funniest skit ever. You belong in New Jersey.

My favorite Rosanne Roseannadanna skit is the one about racehorses. Oh! Nevermind.

I believe the sweat ball bit was about Dr. Joyce Brothers!??!

@@daveallman3981 You are so right!

@@aileenfarrol2158 Thanks, I might be middle aged now, but I remember watching that LIVE.

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“Hey, I read in the paper that you have VD!” Classic!

@@semihandyman5711 The basket ball game PA announcement was a hoot too!

And deaf Beethoven!

I second that motion

Weren't there any TV's in bars back then? I was 10 years old when it first went on.

@@gcrichman53 College bars then were not geared for listening to a TV. Music was loud, etc.

Jane, you ignorant sl*# 😂🤣😂