The One Time SNL Almost Had To Fire The Host 

I've gotta fever...

Chris Farley as the man in a van down by the river is one of my all-time favorite skits 🤘

Why, you sick BASTARDS!?!?

Either... More Cowbell or Celebrity jeopardy

The "Puppet Class" sketch from 2012. Bill Hader's Vietnam vet character was PHENOMENAL in it, and Seth MacFarlane as the straight man worked so well.

Dead😆🤣

Even the way he goes about performing martial arts is a farce. Chuck Norris at 82 could still kick Segal's ass!

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"Steven Seagal is also filled to the brim with bullshit, his ego, russian bullshit, his ego's bullshit, his bullshit's ego, actually bullshit, and both Krispy Kreme and Twinkies." -Steven Seagul, probable.

😂 now THAT was funny!!!

but he likes himself

@@ekklesiast he's the only one

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Often this is true. He's a bad sport sometimes.

👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿 all of the other tough guys (omit Wesley Snipes) has learned how to make fun of themselves. But this guy Steven lived in Russia for years and still has a translator. It's not the world's fault he is a punchline. Even JCVD laughs at himself.

Lmao he fucked around and found out

what movie was that?

@@atticuskoch2965 judo gene. Same dude that taught bruce Lee judo

I was never a Steven Seagal “fan.” I did not “get” why people liked him. He somehow married Kelly LeBrock. 🤦🏼

@@carlevans8825 Regardless, I'm going to believe the story solely on the basis of Steven Segal claiming it's not true.

Yes, I remember watching this show and it was pretty funny. I really like the scene where he hung Rob Schneider out the window. If Schneider was adlibbing it was brilliant.

The Hanz and Franz on this episode was ridiculous and I found it hilarious! “It’s a supah bebey fingah!”

@@clarissathompson I quote that Clarissa! That's HILARIOUS!!! 😂

@@amandagraham112 lol, me too!!!!

@@clarissathompson 😂😂

Driver is a Marine. Seagal is a Moron.

Unlike HR Pickens, whose failure is the culmination of an unwillingness to do what was required to be a successful Oil Man… AND CRUSH HIS ENEMIES!

@@tarqsharq 😝

Matt... i mean Adam is great!

@@tarqsharq Adam Driver deserves the Oscar for "Best impaling of a fake crow with a cane".

Sea, Steven, people are gull-ible.

@I Coroa he’s also loves Putin real stand up man hey :)

@I Coroa he's known to be an absolute a-hole to people. What humanitarian work did he do? Really curious, can't imagine this man doing anything if not for his own gain...

@I Coroa I should have known haha, sorry

@I Coroa yea, that's the coolest! :D

But the problem was, it wasn’t intentional.

@@COMPFUNK2 but it's still funny... Doesn't have to be intentional. It's funny because he's so clueless and narcissistic that he had to beat people up on a comedy show 😂

@@COMPFUNK2 to be fair, cringe humor is better unintentional.

@@COMPFUNK2 It's like The Room; people find it hilarious because it was supposed to be a serious drama that was just piss-poor. If cringe is self-aware, it's often comes across as try hard and loses its charm.

@@CosmicAli_TheObserver The oldest millennials are 41. There’s a tiny variation on where the cutoff should be from GenX but it’s not 60.

It’s funny the way Andy Kaufman was funny. Absurd, but not really lol.

@@ericdaniel323 I think I get what you're saying, and I agree. It's the juxtaposition of two disparate ideas that are absurd in being linked, but take it to another level in that one realizes it's not the juxtaposition that's absurd, it's the fact that such an absurd "solution" actually turns out to be a not half bad solution. I mean shit; humor is mostly "I didn't anticipate that", like one doesn't anticipate Steve Segal busting into a boardroom and beating up oil industry execs. But then again, the courts can't seem to get them to stop, so somethings gone SERIOUSLY wrong if such a ridiculous tactic to get them to stop is the only tactic we have left....

it's better when they're not in on the joke, then we can laugh at them instead of with them. who wants to laugh with a bunch of rich jerks?

Hey, they're not jokes. They're facts. Know the difference.

@@TheListenerCanon Somebody who has never seen his movies or heard any of his behind the scenes douchebaggery once asked me what the deal was with Seagal and why people like to dunk on him so much and I told them he thinks all those Chuck Norris jokes are about him and completely true.

Check out john mullaneys bit about mick jagger. He sums up what working with people who arent comedians/comedy actors, is like

If you want a look inside the process of making the show James Franco did a documentary on it, with John Malkovich as the host that week he filmed

@@wiskyr6510 That really opened my eyes to how intense the work is. By the end of the week everyone is just gone from sleep deprivation

@@wiskyr6510 it’s called saturday night for those looking. i think a lot of the people who give snl flack should watch it just to get a glimpse into the schedule the cast and crew follow. makes me wonder how people like kenan have been on the show for so long- i would snap for sure.

Makes sense the host gets involved. If they're promoting a new movie or is known for a movie and the show wants to lampoon it, the host can give their take on the sketch.

I was a little kid when he was a big deal and I didn't understand it back then either because the Bruce Lee movies that were made far before I was around were all way better (shoutout to local video stores who carried what Blockbuster wouldn't). He is a bit of one of the reasons why I don't believe people are getting dumber. We always have been this dumb.

Segals fame and fortune is the 8th mystery of the world

The douchebag tough guy thing was new and edgy. A lot of the 90’s was about being edgy and dark because, at this point, it was unexpected.

He didn't act like a total jackoff right away. Previews for stuff like 'Above the Law' managed to frame his 'calm' demeanor really well, made him seem like a more even-keeled guy than the average action dude, but that was only for the first movie or two and then the rest of them just showed him doling out action-chops to the throat and action-throwing people.

Under Siege is still one of the best action movies of 90s.

I believe Mad TV was always making fun of him, but it's hard to parody him in a parody that goes beyond what he's actually like.

Seagal didn't change. The world changed, and he's just trying to survive.

like Chevy Chase

​@Jermbot15 My guy he's just not funny

Nothing wrong with Patrick Bateman

@@webbieice he’s a psycho

@@webbieice Weellll

He looks like Saul Goodman

@@webbieice Lol, assuming you're not being facetious, I would seek psychological help if you think there's nothing wrong with that character.

There is a saying that you should never meet your hero's in real life...

This guy respects only Mafia and b*tches

@@airbornesteve1if your hero is a celebrity, you deserve to be ridiculed

Imagine being Steven seagal and having security

Well there is your problem. You two were fans of Steven Seagull to begin with

Bolton seems to have a good sense of humor about himself. Always enjoyed his appearances on the VH1 "I Love the..." series

i read tjis like 4 times and everytime thiught you meant troy bolton. from high school musical. and was imagining zac efron

yeah but he's still a no-talent ass-clown.

He knew what it needed: time, love and tenderness

​@@jamescarter3196😂

There's a podcast called The Dollop that did a two part episode on his "incredible" (aka pretty insane?) life story 😅

Tim Allen is both of those things too. You know what he was doing before his acting career? A drug dealer. The hardened kind, probably killed people. And he went to jail, and he only got out because he ratted out all his customers. So he's a criminal and a snitch.

@@Hyrulistic It's at 3 parts now

@@Hyrulistic 3rd part came out today

He is friends with Lukashenko and Putin, so you can be sure he is a prostitute who only cares about money and has no moral code.

Yep, all the women he tried to grope/assault would probably tell you the same thing. Probably why he's butt-buddies with Putin, they both have delusions of grandeur and like taking things by force.

MADtv vs. In Living Color: Discuss

@@skaetur1 Well, really, neither was All That!

"Hey...didja hear about that Hitler guy? Some guy just told me last night and I still can't believe it!"

@@BalderOdinson and none of those were Incredible Crew!

Will Sasso is incredibly underrated.

It was a naive time and people hadn’t yet realized how little talent and self-awareness he actually had

@@najhoant You had to be blind not to see it. I've never even watched a full movie of his and I can see it from a mile away.

@@djcogdill9263 Okay but you know now due to hindsight. If you only see a person on the screen and never meet them in person, you can only assume how they act in real life

They literally made film about Frank Dux and his lies, starring JCVD, it was really innocent time :)

Narcissist.

Indeed. I'm no psychologist (or fan of action movies, for that matter), but as an amateur historian, I compare him with the Roman emperor Nero. Assuming power when he was only 16, Nero not only engaged in cruel and depraved acts that tested the limits of his power, but also (apparently) suffered from histrionic personality disorder, symptoms of which include a constant need for adulation and being the center of attention as well as always talking or acting in an overly dramatic manner. For such people, any amount of adoration is never enough, and they love to be loved.

That literally sounds like a Neil Breen movie lmao. "I have hacked into every government database on earth and exposed all the corruption!"

@@jakek1735 Neil Breen and Seagal should work get together in a movie along with Tommy Wiseau.

wtf

Name? S/E, I’d like to see it. 😂

Did Sandler play a white Cosby? I'm assuming no black-face. Honestly, if you didn't know about Cosby and you saw a 90s skit with Adam Sandler playing Cosby as a white guy, that might be kinda funny.

@@noewayart6049 Sandler didn't do blackface, he just did a Cosby impersonation and said "razzum flazzum-bop" a lot, it was very strange.

Cosby wasn’t a known rapist back then and he didn’t do blackface. That’s not that strange.

Electric

@Samuel Jurgensen Trust me---it's exhausting. And they always, always, always want you to think they're very, very, very funny. Think... party for eight-year olds. Continuously.

Ooof.

Noisy and wearing

Like the show ‘30 Rock’?

Now THAT was really funny........

He wasn't. He's just an asshole.

honestly if tom holland and robert downey jr hosted together that would the show of the season haha

​@@BigOleMatty tom holland hosting and rdj as a surprise guest

Tom Holland has dyslexic so he doesn't want to host

i wish! i think he hasn’t hosted because he has dyslexia so he would have too much trouble reading off of the cue cards.

That would actually be a quality choice. Snl doesn't do quality anymore

There's currently 2/3 eps of the Dollop out now cover Steven, I'm curious if that's where they got this idea from.

The story I heard is that Steven lunged at Lorn who had to hip toss Segal and snap his wrist BEFORE throwing him out of the door

Stallone is pretty game for poking fun at himself.

Another surprisingly good guest host was Al Gore of all people. Try to find his sketch where he played Willy Wonka's accountant, that was paragon, yet I can't seem to find it on youtube.

Stallone's sketch where he was trying to marry off his daughters. Molly Shannon was a Sweetie, Ana Gasteyer was pregnant, and Cheri OTeri was......a mess. It had me rolling.

There was a segment on The Best D*mn Sports Show Period in which Sly was a guest. One of the hosts told him, “In [whichever year it was], I went on a date with this girl. We saw a movie called Stop or My Mom Will Shoot!, and you owe us twenty dollars!” Sly agreed, slapped down twenty dollars on the table, and pointed at the audience while adding, “I owe everybody here twenty dollars!” Speaking of Stop or My Mom Will Shoot!, I learned recently that Sly was only in the movie because he got pranked by Arnold. The two were big rivals at the time, and when Arnold heard about this movie, he was vocal about wanting to be in it hoping to trick Sly into demanding the part. The bait worked and the rest is history.

@@karaoconnoraliasraidra I heard that too about Schwarzenegger. I actually did see that in the theater myself when i was a kid, because i liked Stallone and Estelle Getty from watching The Golden Girls. I’m not the sort that will rub a failure in someone’s face. What i will say, is that the movie didn’t come about organically, it was an attempt to cash-in on Estelle Getty’s popularity and Arnold’s schmaltz films.

Part 3 with the FBI coming soon

Damn- I completely forgot about the Dollop! Tysm for the reminder- those guys really got me through the beginning of quarantine

@@unscenegamers it just dropped!

Someone has to

Hey, if Steven Seagal doesn't spread the legend of Steven Seagal, that legend will be forgotten.

I saw him on Letterman and thought he was hilarious. It seemed like he had an ultra-deadpan, self-parodying sense of humor. It wasn't until later that I realized he's just nuts.

And he's not even good at martial arts

🤔 Maybe _that’s_ why he’s stayed so long. Everyone else sees SNL as their big break which will lead to _other_ career achievements. Kenan sees SNL as a major career achievement _after_ starring in two hit comedy shows and two feature films.

Exactly 💯

@@crnkmnky makes sense. If you're someone who got success young and don't care about being in the spotlight (again), you will be happy with such a stable (but likely not tasking) job... Kind of like Raven-Symone and Disney channel. I heard she was in talk to break out but after seeing what happened to her BFF LindsayLohan she decided against it (att& now it's not that easy... She forgets about her skintone&the town she's in😂)... Same reason Hilary Duff has been so careful...

Kenan needs to go!! 19 seasons and he's still there?!! Everyone else has their time on the show and moves on, some to bigger and better things. Kenan just hogs the spotlight from newcomers and is so one-note.

@@radrobd123 I don’t see Kenan as “hogging the spotlight.” He is a team player who excels in certain areas. Plenty of the writing staff have stayed for years. Stability and predictabil-- _‘reliability’_ can be good things… 😅 I do hope he stays as long as the work nourishes his spirit and benefits his family. Then he can fearlessly open the next chapter. 💪

Brilliant

I have to ask…did Seagal respond to that joke by threatening not to come on the show again? I ask because there are so many examples of entitled people threatening, “I’m not coming back!” when they’re not wanted at a place to begin with.

And Cage gave us the brilliant "Nicknames" sketch...

And less cow. And donuts....and ice-cream....

I'd throw in a mention for the very briefly lived Dana Carvey Show which had Odenkirk and Smigel writing too, along with the likes of Louis CK, Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell amongst others. It had a crazy good selection of talent for a show that only had about half a dozen episodes.

@@chrisninety1 nice, I totally forgot about that team. Thanks.

Segal was never involved in the writing process.... hosts hardly ever help in the writing process.

It was a typo. Should have been Smigel. But hosts very often are involved in the writing process for SNL, in fact, cast members generally love working most with the hosts that get involved in the writing.

Not to mention this was one of the strongest cast lineups in SNL's history

One time they had a contest for an unknown to host and some unknown old lady was picked to be the host

@@radrobd123 ...and???

@@radrobd123 and then what happened? Did she actually host an episode?

@@raymorayray Yes, Miskel Spillman won the contest for "Anyone Can Host SNL". She hosted the December 17, 1977 episode. She was 80 years old at the time

Yeah, No Shit...

Isn't he buddies w/Putin?

@@ROBYNMARKOW yup...

@@psulionz87 He would be🙄

Honestly for that to work I feel like you'd have to play the show normally and then have him invade every sketch like he's doing another movie entirely. Like invade the sketch and be like "where's my daughter" and "beat up" the cast mate though Idk if that would work cause it would take someone who could take a joke and that's not segial. There's a reason he only does smaller movies now and I don't think it's by choice.

It’s like Michael Scott’s improv class hack where he always just pretends to have a gun lmao

@@shannonceleste5557 you should always LEAD with a gun, because no one can top that

@@darkmyro that would've been a really funny idea XD too bad seagal was too stubborn, maybe we could've seen something as funny as that on the screen.

@@shannonceleste5557 *BOOoooM BOOooooM BOOooooM!* "I'm not even in the scene!" *BUH BUH BUH*

The irony is that Master Po (from Kung Fu) was humble and self-effacing--with a ready and easy laugh.

Leave it alone!

Rex Kwan Do

@@mrs.vasquezz forgettaboutit

Yeah, fair… I think we were all waiting for someone to get sick of the copy machine guy and pound him so that one gets a pass.

HA! My comment saying how much I disliked the Steven Segal episode, I ALSO mentioned that he and Dice Clay were the two worst hosts....

Behind the Bastards di a pod on him a year or two back as well, there's a lot more wrong with Seagal than comedy chops

You just described almost every action movie.

@@kneeofjustice9619 Not Arnold's. He got shot by an old lady in Kindergarten Cop.

@@kneeofjustice9619 Not the best ones. Die Hard, Terminator, any Jackie Chan flick.

I recently watched a video about Seagal in Dubai, from my recommendations. Strange

Hes been in the news being over in Russia with Putin

As a teenager around the late 90s and early 2000s, I was a metalhead, and absolutely _detested_ boy bands like *NSYNC. However, when I saw Timberlake's appearances on SNL-- particularly when he was paired with Andy Samberg-- it really changed my mind about him. I have mad respect for him as a performer now.

@@chevand8 Yeah, not a fan of his music but he was laugh out loud funny in every appearance on SNL.

well Timberlake had prior acting experience. He was on the Mickey Mouse Club

OK COME ON! REALLY?!

They did one for a Christmas episode in 2008. I forgot what it was called but it's one of the most interesting documentaries I've ever seen

You do it. I’m not saying that to be a smart ass, but if you know anything about editing and have a halfway decent voice, you can do it

Oh my god! I didn't grow up watching Phil Hartman, but I knew he was a beloved comedian and I remember people being really upset about his death. I never knew it was due to something so violent.

@@queencleopatra007 -- The Hartman story is really sad.... He was a brilliant comedian, able to really work his material on SNL.... He did a sketch, where he played President Clinton, out for a jog, and they stop by a fast food place... Hartman is working the crowd--like Clinton--but illustrating all his "stories" by eating the customers' food. It was hilarious.... And some of the best episodes of The Simpsons turned on Hartman's two characters, Troy McClure and attorney Lionel Hutz......

but you're right. The hosts that people remember the best are the ones that roll a bit with the punches but are also down to try the weird stuff the writer put in front of them. Two recent ones are harry styles and billie eilish were surprisingly good

@@noelaguirrechavez4462 Chance the Rapper too! He did double duty twice and I was really surprised with how natural he seemed

@@maddieadaddy chance was hysterical as fuck

His latest role is being a mediocre rapper lol

Will Sasso was only 16 when this episode aired in 1991, but they could do it now, for old times’s sake.

@@ericdaniel323 damn, I was six. I thought maybe this incident inspired the Will sasso impersonation.

@@jaredj631 I think you're right, but in the sense that this incident pretty well encapsulates his entire personality anyway.

Back in the day, the SNL "cast" called themselves "The Not Ready for Prime Time Players." Steve Martin was on the show so many times, sometimes as a host, sometimes just making an appearance, that even if he wasn't part of the "cast," he was still closely tied to the show.... Chevy Chase was just on for one season--and was replaced by Bill Murray......

Ok

It hasn't gotten remotely better at any point in recent years. Quite the opposite.

What's wrong with Bruce Willis? Die Hard, Pulp Fiction...

Are your parents baby boomers because my mum's 75 year old partner unironically said that Jason Statham was an excellent actor

@@Paulafan5 The problem with willis is that he is not a nice human . . .

Let the chickens have a choice