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The Olympia Café was a fictional greasy spoon featured in a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch. The staff, led by John Belushi as Pete Dionisopoulos, were Greeks.Staff also included Bill Murray as Nico, a busboy who does not speak English, Dan Aykroyd as short-order cook George, and Sandy, a waitress played by Laraine Newman.
Saturday Night Live Samurai: December 13, 1975 John Belushi: John Belushi plays a samurai warrior, who speaks only (mock) Japanese, and wields a katana. He is seen in various occupations ranging from a hotel desk clerk to a tailor. Mel's Char Palace December 20, 1975 Dan Aykroyd: A steakhouse commercial parody featuring Dan Aykroyd. At Mel's ...
When Cheeburger Cheeburger opened a restaurant in Glenview, Illinois, they were sued by Billy Goat Tavern, which had served as the inspiration for the original Olympia Café Saturday Night Live parody. An out-of-court settlement was reached wherein the restaurant changed the name of the Glenview location to simply Cheeburger and agreed not to ...
It's hard to believe that Saturday Night Live has been on the air for five decades, but it has been 50 years since SNL moved into Studio 8H. In that time, the sketch show has created a bevy of ...
Season 24, 1998. Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon, Alec Baldwin on "The Delicious Dish" discussing Pete Schweddy’s favorite holiday dessert: Schweddy Balls. The sketch is priceless and timeless ...
Saturday Night Live has long mocked the television medium with many fake commercials and parodies of TV shows themselves. Another of the show's frequently used styles of recurring sketches has been the talk show format (e.g. "Brian Fellow's Safari Planet", "The Barry Gibb Talk Show", etc.).
SNL writing partners Al Franken and Tom Davis hosted their own segment on which they would appear onstage as a comedy team similar to Rowan and Martin, with Davis generally as the straight man and Franken as his self-obsessed, sometimes dimwitted sidekick. They would also perform skits within the context of the segment.
Academy Award nominee Ryan Gosling returned to the Saturday Night Live stage for a third time to deliver laughs upon laughs—including many of his own during each skit. The star of The Fall Guy ...