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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 ...
This beloved sketch from SNL’s Belushi era is based on the Billy Goat Tavern in Chicago, IL, an old-school Greek diner that opened in the 1930s and moved to its famous location under a bridge on ...
Following the character's first appearance, TV Guide called the character "hilarious"; [5] Entertainment Weekly labeled it "the funniest performance of the night." [6] The sketch was the fifth most popular SNL clip on Hulu in 2012. [7] In an interview with Chicago Magazine, which said the character "has become a sensation", Strong said:
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.).
From the ever-catchy "Domingo" song to John Mulaney forgetting names, we rounded up the best sketches from NBC's "Saturday Night Live" Season 50.
In 2014, Rolling Stone named the "Schweddy Balls" sketch the 20th best SNL sketch of all time, noting that "those who didn't get the joke on first utterance would get multiple chances." So iconic was this simple bit of wordplay that Ben & Jerry's produced an ice cream in honor of the skit in 2011" (although said flavor would also result in ...
In each appearance of this sketch, the moderator of the show would interrogate toy maker Irwin Mainway, played by Dan Aykroyd, while he defended his company's extremely dangerous products aimed at children, such as "Bag O' Glass" (with Mainway also acknowledging other products in its line, such as "Bag O' Vipers" and "Bag O' Sulfuric Acid"), "Teddy Chainsaw Bear" (a teddy bear with a working ...
A Dan Aykroyd and Steve Martin sketch. The Festrunks, Yortuk (Aykroyd) and Georg (Martin), were two brothers who had emigrated from Czechoslovakia to the United States. . Culturally inept, they went to various social hangouts (bars, art exhibits, dance clubs) in an attempt to connect with attractive American women ("