SNL Original Cast - Top 10 Sketches (1970s)

live from New York I'm your host nostalgic Nick from do you remember today we're counting down the top 10 SNL skits courtesy of that original cast the original cast of Saturday Night Live better known as SNL was a troupe of renegades the not-ready-for-prime-time players began busting into our living rooms on Saturday evenings with their first episode on October 11th 1975 with a little help from their host George Carlin NBC hired Lorne Michaels to create a show destined to run on Saturday nights they would begin making sketches that would alter Saturday nights forever these are our top 10 sketches from the early years that's before the 80s and we're live [Applause] Thanksgiving dinner 1979 host B Arthur is Aunt Judy who has casts the four young uns to the basement kiddie table enter Bill Murray Laraine Newman Jane Curtin and well-known Letterman sidekick Paul Shaffer of course the comedian's don't live up to their adult size bodies and soon are shouting and behaving like children at an appropriately themed table were you perhaps I am but what are you was just some of the genius writing that showcased the mix of popular children sayings with a faux matured approach I'm gonna tell hell I'm telling fun fact Paul Shaffer was the first person to use the f-word on the show in 1979 perhaps related to that he was only a cast member for that one season Killer Bees 1976 their bees their banditos and their desperate the skip begins with Chevy Chase and Gilda Radner relaxing to the radio's evening news which is stating swarms of South American killer bees have been seen crossing the border into California pretty immediately thereafter the window behind the couple is filled with a large extremely large Killer Bee ready for his pollen and more importantly his screen time Elliott Gould Garrett Morris and Dan Aykroyd as taco head joined Belushi on stage and demanded all of the couple's Paula yes their pollen this skit really let you see behind the scenes as a technical malfunction led to Lorne Michaels having to come out and storm to the control booth I mean this skit had everything from Lorne Michaels making an appearance in his dirty white converses to Paul Simon in the background playing guitar man the 70s were the best the Olympia restaurant 1978 frustrated patrons are annoyed that they can only get cheeseburgers chips and Pepsi at the Olympia restaurant John Belushi breaks the news to customers at the register that instead of Coke it'll be Pepsi no fries you get chips and that's right cheeseburgers for all or cheeseburgers [Music] when a customer pointed out that it was just too early to have a cheeseburger since it was the morning Belushi would point out all the other customers that are enjoying their highly suggested cheeseburgers fun fact John Belushi's father owned a cafe called the Olympia in the 1960s and it's worth noting that Dan Aykroyd was actually cooking burgers on the set of SNL that's some terrific attention to detail right there and part of the reason why the original cast of Sanel was just the best word association 1975 this was some cutting-edge racial satire back in 75 possibly the raciest racial joke on network television to date and possibly still to date Richard Pryor was the invited host and only agreed to do the show with the addition a Pryor's fellow companion Paul Mooney as a script writer apparently interactions with Lorne Michaels and NBC were not so positive meanwhile Chevy Chase was just begging to be in a skit with the iconic stand-up comedian Richard bribes so Paul Mooney killed two annoying birds with one stone he wrote a sketch that emulated the job interview that Pryor was seemingly still in the result a simple word association game that quickly gets at a hand as Chevie asked prior to respond to words that start out mundane but soon escalate to Negro and tar baby eventually even rising to the N word which prior responds with a lot of face twitching and the crowd went wild Samurai Hotel 1975 speak softly and carry a big sword we're staying with that same Richard Pryor episode for my personal favorite appearance by the Saturday Night Live Samurai titled Samurai Hotel where John Belushi plays a stereotypical samurai wielding a katana Belushi was infamous for never stepping out of the samurai persona and in this scene he and his bellhop Pryor duel over who gets to carry the newly arrived guests luggage Pryor eventually smash the front desking to with the sword and the samurai responds with those words with the only words ever spoken by the character in English this hotel version was actually the samurais first appearance on SNL but he would continue to grace the SNL stage until 1979 when Belushi said farewell Weekend Update point/counterpoint 1977 1978 another skit that raised the parental guidelines for the show point counterpoint was a segment on Weekend Update featuring Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd a spin on 60 minutes this debate was about Lee Marvin and Michelle seola and things quickly got heated behind every successful man there's a woman a loving giving caring woman but you wouldn't know about that Dan because there's no old saying about what's behind a miserable failure the rapid-fire delivery by accurate was on point Jane you ignorant [ __ ] it was confirmed on Howard Stern that Al Franken wrote the infamous line for words so perfectly delivered by Aykroyd that it would make TV history unfortunately for Jane Curtin because she says that line still haunts her to this day landshark 1975 Chevy's back on this countdown and he's hungry the landshark finds his dinner by politely knocking on doors using ploys like mumbling it's the plumber plumber the character was a response to the film jaws and would become one of the most popular and imitated icons from the first season landshark has made guest appearances in multiple seasons throughout the years as recent as the 40th anniversary that honored Tina Fey Amy Poehler and Jane Curtin on Weekend Update don't answer it it's always a sharp man I didn't get out of the water for years because of my fear of land shark King Tutt 1978 Steve Martin's classic tribute to the Egyptian boy King Martin begins the sketch talking about the trinkets and commercialism that's detrimental to honoring such historical figures at King Tut then perhaps the audience for his honoring song that he wrote while being up in the woods well cue Steve Martin for a scenery eating dance and he does the rest the skit was one of the most expensive SNL productions of all time Martin had brought the song to the show and asked if he could perform it not expecting the production that may be necessary the band members accompanying Steve were actually part of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band the song was released as a single in that year 1978 and sold over a million copies Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers later recorded the song in a bluegrass version for their 2011 album super bass-o-matic 76 1976 in this infomercial a slick-talking salesman played by none other than Dan Aykroyd advertises the super bass-o-matic 76 fish blender with the talents of an expert car salesman Aykroyd Wow's the viewer with his speech in WoW is one consumer played by Laraine Newman with a sample glass of the yummy fishy drink after all this is the tool that lets you use the whole bass this sketch is another example of how amazing Dan Aykroyd was during live tapings hardly ever stumbling at all with the very fast dialog two wild and crazy guys 1978 the festrunk brothers played by Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd prepared for a wild double date with two foxes contrary to popular belief Steve Martin was never a cast member but he did host 15 times with even more guest appearances which gave the brothers plenty of opportunities to dazzle the ladies these brothers were culturally inept with enough obnoxious behavior to turn off any woman [Applause] no they were often referred to by their catchphrase this get helped enshrine the original SNL cast in the television temples as I remember nothing being bigger at the time of the three networks if it was Saturday night we were watching than not so ready for primetime players and we couldn't wait to talk about it with our friends Wow look at the time it's Sunday morning already so how do we do is there a skip that didn't make the cut let us know in the comments and also liked this video and please subscribe to our channel because we were coming out with loads of more videos and we'd hate for you to miss a single one from all of us that do you remember thanks for watching

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Length: 10min 14sec (614 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 04 2020