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Get ready for some classic laughs as we revisit the iconic sketches that shaped comedy history! Join us as we highlight unforgettable moments from the first ten seasons of "Saturday Night Live," featuring legendary performances and fan-favorite characters that we just can't stop rewatching. From the musical stylings of The Blues Brothers to the sharp satire of “White Like Me,” these skits have stood the test of time, making us laugh for decades.
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00:00I'm Nick Winters, and I'm here to entertain you, so sit back, have a hot buttered rum, and let it happen.
00:04Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:06And today, we're counting down our picks for the sketches from the first 10 seasons of Saturday Night Live
00:11that left their mark on the cultural zeitgeist.
00:13Hey, halt.
00:14Oh, come on, you got a lot of people standing out here in line.
00:16Come on.
00:17All right, all right, take it easy.
00:20Number 10.
00:21Paul Simon's Monologue Worries, Season 2.
00:24You might think this is one of those SNL sketches dreamed up at 3 a.m. when everyone's half delirious,
00:30and honestly, it probably was.
00:32We drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all.
00:39But for Simon, it was also a chance to show audiences a lighter, sillier side of himself.
00:45The sketch takes a meta-turn when he can't get over how ridiculous he looks,
00:48yet he sells it so well that we're left wondering, is this just a gag?
00:52Or is Simon genuinely defending himself to the audience?
00:56You know, you take yourself so seriously.
01:00Why don't you stop taking yourself so seriously for a while, loosen up a little bit, and maybe people will laugh.
01:08His back and forth with Lorne Michaels feels so real that it's easy to believe it's happening for real.
01:13It's simple, brilliant, and forever iconic.
01:16The problem is I'm singing still crazy after all these years in a turkey outfit.
01:21Why would you like to sing in a turkey outfit?
01:24I thought it worked great.
01:26Yeah, what do I look like? Jan Michael Vincent here? You think I'm looking good?
01:29Oh, great! Honestly, why don't you just go change the picture?
01:32Yeah, let's just do that. Let's just say it was a difference of opinion.
01:34Number 9. White Like Me, Season 10.
01:38Eddie Murphy wasn't just a breakout star on SNL.
01:40He was among the reasons many people tuned in.
01:43And this sketch shows exactly why.
01:45Some people have gone so far as to say that there are actually two Americas, one black and one white.
01:51But talk is cheap.
01:53So I decided to look into the problem myself firsthand.
01:57To go underground and actually experience America as a white man.
02:03Playing off of the 1961 book Black Like Me, Murphy disguises himself as a white man to see how different life really is.
02:10It's really quite ingenious. His white guy look is hilariously unconvincing.
02:15Yet the reactions he gets are so over-the-top accommodating, it's absurd.
02:19Slowly I began to realize that when white people are alone, they give things to each other for free.
02:27He gets free stuff, extra kindness, and a glimpse of a world he never expected.
02:32It's sharp and yet so ridiculous.
02:34Just take what you want, Mr. White. Pay us back any time. Or don't. We don't care.
02:43Murphy's an expert in using satire to expose truths while making us laugh the whole way through.
02:48So what did I learn from all of this?
02:51Well, I learned that we still have a very long way to go in this country before all men are truly equal.
02:56But I'll tell you something. I got a lot of friends. And we've got a lot of makeup.
03:04Number 8. Landshark. First scene, Season 1.
03:08Season 1 definitely leaned into the violent side of nature.
03:11From the home invasion of killer bees to the series' very inaugural sketch.
03:15Repeat after me. I would like, I would like to feed your fingertips.
03:21To feed your fingertips to the Wolverines.
03:23To the Wolverines.
03:24In this send-up of Jaws, Chevy Chase plays a shark who doesn't swim up on you.
03:29He just knocks on your door.
03:31Plumber.
03:33Plumber? I didn't ask for a plumber. Who is it?
03:39Telegram.
03:44Oh, telegram. Just a moment.
03:46His disguises are barely believable.
03:52Plumber, delivery guy, candygram, and even a dolphin.
03:56Yet people still fall for it, only to be gobbled up the second they open up.
04:00I have some good news and I have some bad news.
04:03First, the good news.
04:05Betty and I are having a party tonight.
04:06And come on over. You'll have a great time.
04:08Now the bad news.
04:10You'll be coming stag.
04:11It tapped into the shark panic after the movie's release,
04:14became a fan favorite,
04:15and was such a hit that it resurfaced several times,
04:18including during the 40th anniversary special.
04:21You can't talk about early SNL without mentioning Gilda Radner
04:32and her legendary characters,
04:34Lisa Lupner,
04:35Baba Wawa,
04:36Emily Lutella,
04:37and the absolute legend,
04:39Roseanne Rosanadana.
04:40Roseanne is loud,
04:42messy,
04:42and totally unhinged.
04:44Mr. Fatter,
04:45this king got enough problems being dead.
04:48Don't make it worse by making him go to New Jersey.
04:51Each sketch starts with a viewer question,
04:53usually from Richard Fatter of Fort Lee, New Jersey.
04:56She immediately goes off on wild,
04:58random,
04:58typically gross personal stories
05:00that have nothing to do with the question.
05:02And I was trying to get a close look at it,
05:04pressing my nose up against the glass
05:06and fogging it up with my breath and everything,
05:08wiping it off and fogging it up again.
05:10When I noticed,
05:12my tongue was all green
05:14from eating this clorets mint
05:17to give me good breath.
05:18Get It never fails to get the laughs.
05:20She always ends up with her famous catchphrase,
05:23which we're still quoting to this day.
05:25Well, Jane,
05:26it just goes to show you,
05:27it's always something.
05:29If it's not one thing,
05:31it's enough.
05:32The character lived on long after the show,
05:34and it's easy to see why.
05:36Number 6.
05:37Word Association,
05:39Season 1.
05:40Some moments are totally of their era,
05:42but their legacy still holds strong.
05:44Jane, you ignorant slut.
05:45Yep, that's one example.
05:47And the word association sketch is another.
05:49It's a word association.
05:51I'll throw you out a few words.
05:53Anything that comes to your mind,
05:54just throw it back at me, okay?
05:55It's just kind of an arbitrary thing.
05:56Like if I said dog,
05:57you'd say...
05:58Tree.
05:58Tree.
05:59Chase plays an interviewer
06:00giving an interviewee,
06:01played by Richard Pryor,
06:03a word association test.
06:04Fast.
06:05Slow.
06:07Rain.
06:08Snow.
06:10White.
06:10Black.
06:12Bean.
06:13Pod.
06:14It starts off innocent,
06:15but quickly gets shocking,
06:17with both men trading increasingly
06:19offensive racial insults.
06:21The power flips,
06:22and Pryor ends up on top,
06:23becoming maybe the best-paid janitor ever.
06:25One story says writer Paul Mooney
06:27wrote the sketch to vent
06:28about backstage tensions,
06:30while Chase recalls it as a team effort.
06:32Either way,
06:33it has a tight hold on its place
06:34in the SNL Hall of Fame.
06:36You'll be the highest-paid janitor in America.
06:38Just don't hurt me, please.
06:40Okay.
06:42Okay.
06:43You want me to start now?
06:45Oh, no, no, no.
06:45It's all right.
06:45I'll clean all this up.
06:46Take a couple of weeks off.
06:47You look tired.
06:48Number five,
06:49James Brown's Celebrity Hot Tub Party,
06:51season nine.
06:52You know those sketches
06:53where you can't quite put your finger
06:55on what makes them so brilliant,
06:56but you just know
06:57you're watching comedy history
06:58in the making?
06:59Sometime I made me break out
07:00in a cold sweat.
07:02One, two, three, four.
07:09This is one of those.
07:10Should I get the hot tub?
07:11Yeah!
07:12Will you make me sweat?
07:13Yeah!
07:14Should I get the hot tub?
07:15Yeah!
07:15Will you make me wet?
07:16Yeah!
07:17Well, well, well.
07:23Hot tub!
07:24Eddie Murphy gives an unforgettable impression
07:27of James Brown,
07:28showing how the singer might handle
07:29a song about getting into a hot tub.
07:31The sketch is clever
07:32because it doesn't try too hard.
07:34Murphy just does his thing,
07:36letting the laughs happen naturally.
07:37Gonna get in the hot tub.
07:39Gonna make me sweat.
07:41Here I go in the hot tub.
07:44Cool hot in the hot tub.
07:46Burn my flesh.
07:48Make it cooler.
07:49It's funky, funny,
07:50and just perfect.
07:52And come on,
07:53who among us has been able
07:54to resist getting into a hot tub
07:56without singing about it first?
07:57Come on,
07:58in the hot tub.
07:59Let's go with me.
08:01Good job.
08:02Good job in the hot tub.
08:03Go step three.
08:04Don't go away.
08:06We'll be right back
08:07with more collected hot tub.
08:08Number four,
08:09The Fest Drunk Brothers.
08:11Two wild and crazy guys.
08:13First scene, season three.
08:15Say it with us now.
08:16We are two wild and crazy guys.
08:19Dan Aykroyd and Steve Martin
08:21burst onto season three
08:22as The Fest Drunks.
08:23Two Czechoslovakian brothers
08:25trying to be cool in America
08:26and missing the mark
08:28in the funniest ways.
08:29There will certainly be a lot of swinging
08:31in our bachelor pod tonight.
08:33Hold it.
08:35Let's catch some rays.
08:39You and what army?
08:43Forget about it.
08:45They strut around
08:45like they're the hottest thing in town.
08:47Convinced their tight,
08:48cheesy outfits and swagger
08:50make them God's gift
08:51to American foxes.
08:52The magic of this sketch
08:54comes from their loud,
08:55exaggerated delivery
08:56and totally off-target
08:58use of American slang.
08:59I was invited
09:00to this really hot party tonight.
09:02Do you guys want to go?
09:04No way!
09:05That's your funeral!
09:10Don't come crawling to us
09:11to have fashion models
09:13from the Fox Bar
09:15will be here soon
09:16to give themselves
09:17to the Fest Drunk brothers.
09:19These guys give us
09:20pure goofy energy
09:21and they're convinced
09:22they're the life of the party.
09:23Hey, who are we to argue
09:25with two wild and crazy guys?
09:27Look, now you know
09:29we are two wild and crazy guys!
09:32Number 3.
09:34Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood
09:35First Scene, Season 6
09:37You know Mr. Rogers
09:38and his calm, friendly neighborhood?
09:40Well, you're in
09:41Mr. Robinson's neighborhood now.
09:43Eddie Murphy perfectly captures
09:44Fred Rogers' gentle tone,
09:46but everything he says
09:48shows how different
09:49his world is.
09:50Who could that be?
09:52Let's see.
09:58This is how you
09:59answer a door
10:00in my neighborhood.
10:03Instead of teaching kindness,
10:05he teaches survival,
10:06street smarts,
10:07and how to get by
10:08in a tough urban setting.
10:09Today,
10:10$46.79?
10:14Wow,
10:15that's a lot of money,
10:16boys and girls.
10:17Especially for a lady
10:18who can only afford
10:19to give me a quarter
10:20to carry this to her car.
10:23I feel so bad
10:25for I carried it
10:26the rest of the way
10:26to my apartment for free.
10:28It's hilarious for sure,
10:29but it's also sharp
10:30social commentary
10:31on poverty,
10:32racism,
10:33and inequality.
10:34The sketch was one
10:35of Murphy's first big hits
10:36on SNL,
10:37proving his comedic genius
10:38and helping the show
10:39during a rough patch.
10:40When a man loves
10:41a woman very much,
10:43they lay down
10:44and the man gives
10:45the woman $20.
10:48Sometimes they lay down
10:49in the backseat
10:49of a Buick.
10:51Sometimes mommies
10:52and daddies
10:53can't have a baby,
10:53so they use
10:54an adoption agency.
10:55Of course,
10:56he had to bring
10:56Mr. Robinson back
10:57when he hosted
10:58in 2019.
10:59So much has changed
11:01since we last
11:01spent some time together.
11:03My neighborhood
11:04has gone through so much.
11:06It's gone through
11:06something called
11:07gentrification.
11:08Can you say
11:10gentrification,
11:11boys and girls?
11:12It's like a magic trick.
11:15White people pay
11:15a lot of money
11:16and then poof,
11:18all the black people
11:19are gone.
11:19Number two,
11:20The Olympia Restaurant.
11:22First scene,
11:23season three.
11:24Welcome to Olympia Restaurant.
11:25Want a tuna sandwich?
11:27Dr. Cheeseburger?
11:28Grilled cheese?
11:29No grilled cheese.
11:30Cheeseburger.
11:31Coke?
11:31No Coke.
11:32Pepsi.
11:33However,
11:34if you're craving
11:35a cheeseburger,
11:36chips,
11:36and a Pepsi,
11:37you've come to
11:37the right place.
11:38The genius here
11:39lies in the relentless
11:40use of a few simple lines.
11:42Cheeseburger,
11:43cheeseburger,
11:43cheeseburger,
11:44two chips.
11:45Cheeseburger,
11:45cheeseburger,
11:46cheeseburger.
11:47One Pepsi.
11:48Two chips,
11:48one Pepsi.
11:49The repetition,
11:50delivered with mounting frustration,
11:53becomes funnier
11:53with each utterance.
11:55The premise was inspired
11:56by the Billy Goat Tavern
11:57in Chicago,
11:58which you can still visit today
11:59for a classic
12:00cheeseburger and chips.
12:01Two Pepsi,
12:02one chip.
12:02Cheeseburger,
12:03cheeseburger.
12:03Two Pepsi,
12:04one chip.
12:05You have to go.
12:06Four cheeseburger.
12:07Cheeseburger,
12:08cheeseburger,
12:08cheeseburger,
12:09cheeseburger.
12:09Cheeseburger,
12:10cheeseburger,
12:10cheeseburger,
12:10cheeseburger.
12:12No,
12:12no price.
12:13Cheaps.
12:14Four chips.
12:15Four chips.
12:16Four chips.
12:16The real tavern
12:17even leaned into the spoof,
12:19fully owning its accuracy.
12:20Apparently,
12:21Chicago natives
12:22Don Novello
12:22and Bill Murray
12:23still enjoy swinging by
12:24for a double cheeseburger
12:26whenever they're in town.
12:27Take that.
12:28Come on.
12:29Cheeseburger,
12:30cheeseburger.
12:30Cheeseburger,
12:31cheeseburger.
12:32Two chips,
12:32two cups.
12:33Before we unveil
12:34our top pick,
12:35here are a few
12:36honorable mentions.
12:37Pros and Cons,
12:38Season 7,
12:39bringing a whole new meaning
12:40to poetic justice.
12:42Flipping his window,
12:44break his neck.
12:45Then his house,
12:46I start to wreck.
12:48Got no reason.
12:50What the heck?
12:52Kill my landlord.
12:53Kill my landlord.
12:54C-I-L-L.
13:00King Tut,
13:01Season 3.
13:02A popular exhibit
13:03gets disco funky.
13:04I've taken all my money
13:06and bought me a museum.
13:08King Tut.
13:11Buried with a donkey.
13:12King Tut.
13:15He's my favorite honking.
13:17Bass-o-matic,
13:18Season 1.
13:19The best blender pitch
13:20we've ever seen.
13:21Where do we get one?
13:22The days of troublesome
13:22scaling, cutting,
13:23and gutting are over
13:24because Super Bass-o-matic 76
13:26is the tool that lets you
13:27use the whole bass
13:28with no fish waste
13:29without scaling,
13:30cutting, or gutting.
13:31Samurai Hotel,
13:32Season 1.
13:33Samurai Futaba's first outing
13:35and, well,
13:36it's nuts in an iconic way,
13:38of course.
13:38Yeah!
13:38Yeah!
13:39Yeah!
13:39Yeah!
13:39Yeah!
13:40Yeah!
13:40Yeah!
13:40Yeah!
13:41Yeah!
13:41The French Chef,
13:48Season 4.
13:48Dan Aykroyd gives us
13:50his best Julia Child
13:51on a bad day.
13:52Cut along the backbone
13:54to the Pope's nose
13:55like so.
13:56Now I've done it.
13:59I've cut the dickens
14:00out of my finger.
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14:17Number 1.
14:18Blues Brothers'
14:19Soulman,
14:20Season 4.
14:21Some sketches grow so big
14:23they're best remembered
14:24for their lives beyond SNL.
14:25The Coneheads
14:34not only got a movie,
14:35but may have even inspired
14:36Third Rock from the Sun.
14:38Still,
14:38few characters
14:39define this era
14:40more than the Blues Brothers.
14:41I'm Soulman.
14:45I'm Soulman.
14:47The idea began
14:48at the Holland Tunnel Blues Bar,
14:50a favorite hangout
14:51for the cast
14:52that Aykroyd had rented out.
14:53It was there
14:54that John Belushi
14:54caught the blues bug,
14:55and the band was born.
15:06While not their only appearance,
15:08Soulman is probably
15:09their most famous.
15:10They went on to make
15:11two movies
15:11and left a pop culture legacy
15:13that's lasted
15:14far beyond Studio 8H.
15:25Which SNL sketch
15:32do you think defines
15:33its early days?
15:34Let us know
15:35in the comments.
15:35Well,
15:36that's the news this evening.
15:37This is Chevy Chase.
15:39Good night
15:39and have a pleasant tomorrow.
15:40all.
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