Here's a recent sketch mocking the United Nations "Peacekeepers" in Lebanon.
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As Katie Atkinson wrote in Billboard,
Sandler started things out with a joke, singing, “Everyone in this room has something in common, all of our lives were changed by this show/ Everyone in this room has something else in common, we weren’t allowed to use the little bathroom in Lorne’s office.” The song — titled “50 Years” — toggled between sincerity and quips, including the line: “50 years of cast members saying ‘I think our cast is the greatest of all time,’ but we all know the first cast is the best.”
He wrapped things up by running through a string of classic castmembers, including late comics like Chris Farley, Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks.
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In 1997, Moranis began a long break from acting to dedicate his time to his two children as a widower. He has not appeared in a live-action film for over 25 years, although he provided voice-over work for a few animated films, including Disney's Brother Bear (2003). He also released comedy albums and made appearances at fan conventions.
In 2020, after a hiatus of nearly 23 years from live-action films, Moranis signed to appear in a new sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, called Shrunk. However, as of 2024, the project has yet to proceed to the filming stage.
Here's a video clip from 1989, when Moranis appeared in a cold open sketch on Saturday Night Live, impersonating legendary comedian Jackie Mason.
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Cosell, born Howard Cohen in 1918, was best known for his distinctive staccato voice, accent, syntax, and cadence, and they became the basis of a skit portraying Cosell's Bar Mitzvah, where he played the role of his lawyer father, Morris Cosell. His mother was played by comedian Billy Crystal, in one of his funniest roles.
Let's turn the clock back 39 years and join in the fun at the reception hall where the Bar Mitzvah was celebrated.
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As Jessica Steinberg wrote in The Times of Israel,
As he cracks jokes at the celebrities for not denouncing the Hamas-led onslaught in which Palestinian terrorists killed some 1,200 people and took 253 hostages, the camera pans the audience, showing the familiar actors, directors and faces of the Oscars ceremony crowd, using footage from previous awards shows.
He introduced several new categories to the awards show, starting with “best actor who has made millions playing a stereotypical neurotic Jew with back hair yet still won’t show some solidarity.” The nominees were Seth Rogen, Adam Sandler and Larry David.
He also took a shot at female actors who were vocal supporters of the MeToo and Time’s Up movements against sexual assault but don’t advocate for female hostages abused by Hamas terrorists.
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It didn't take long for Israeli comedy writers to create satiric sketches about the hypocrisy of the three college presidents who waffled on answering congressional questions about whether genocide violated the school's principles.
This sketch placed the three professors in the Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, with headmaster Albus Dumbledore presiding over an inquiry into violation of the Hogwarts Code of Conduct.
It appeared on Eretz Nehederet, the Israeli version of Saturday Night Live, one of the most popular TV programs in Israel.
Harry Potter fans will enjoy this satire. If you haven't read the books or seen the films, we encourage you to step into the magical world.
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The sketch was performed in the third and final season of Fridays, ABC's attempt to duplicate the success of NBC's Saturday Night Live, which, at the time, was in its fifth season featuring the original "Not Ready for Prime Time" cast, along with several writers (and SNL band leader at the time, Paul Shaffer) who had been promoted to feature player status, as well as newcomer Harry Shearer.
Like SNL, Fridays featured popular musical guests and, beginning in the second season, celebrity guest hosts, some of whom had appeared on SNL before and after Fridays aired, such as Andy Kaufman, Billy Crystal, William Shatner, Mark Hamill, and George Carlin. (Carlin, who had hosted the very first SNL in 1975, was also Fridays' first official "guest host" in 1981.)
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In the sketches, Myers plays a stereotypical Jewish middle-aged woman with an exaggerated New York accent who sports long, painted fake nails; much gold jewelry; gaudy sweaters; large dark glasses; and big hair, which she constantly adjusts. This character was a spoof on Myers' real-life mother-in-law at the time, Linda Richman.
In this episode, when Linda brings family friend Helen Hunt on the show, they chat about how Helen is a quarter Jewish and how Holly Hunter had it easy in The Piano since she didn't have to memorize lines.
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In the sketch, Seinfeld is joined by fellow comedians Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, and David Spade.
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Mary Katherine Gallagher, played by Molly Shannon, has a crush on Lenny and is the only Catholic girl who asks him to go out for a knish.
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We're still posting Purim content because today is Shushan Purim, an extra day of celebrating Purim in cities that were walled from the time of Joshua. Today the only city that meets this criteria is Jerusalem, and our relatives and friends in Jerusalem are getting an extra day to celebrate.
It's rare for Purim to coincide with St. Patrick's Day, but when they do, it presents an opportunity for lots of fun. The last time this happened was in 1984, when Saturday Night Live took advantage of the occurrence to open the show with a funny skit that blended the two holidays and included a cameo appearance of New York's mayor Ed Koch.
Enjoy the skit, and Shabbat shalom!
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#Throwback Thursday #TBT
In 1983, seven years after Gilda Radner joined Saturday Night Live as a member of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players, she made her first appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
In a funny, wide-ranging interview, Gilda reads a hilarious selection from her book, Roseanne Rosanadanna's Hey! Get Back to Work Book.
She explains how she overcame her shyness by getting lost in the characters that she invented and brought to life in the show.
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But instead of grace and elegance in the dance, Radner and Martin prance clumsily around the floor and stage of the nightclub set.
If you don't remember the original Astaire-Charisse number, we're including a video clip of the classic dance just below the SNL version.
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Back in May 1993, SNL started a show with a cold opening skit featuring Myers as Linda getting farklempt because her daughter Robin didn't show up on Mother's Day. She took three calls from Coffee Talk listeners and unleashed a volley of Yiddishisms in the process, while challenging the callers to "talk among yourselves" about two topics.
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Today we're turning the clock back 44 years to a classic Saturday Night Live comedy sketch featuring Gilda Radner and Candice Bergen.
It's a great example of what can happen in a live show and how a very talented comedian can save the day.
The sketch is supposed to be a message from the Right to Extreme Stupidity League. The premise is that all Americans deserve the right to extreme stupidity. And Gilda and Candice don't disappoint.
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In the recurring sketch, two good friends have meandering discussions in a variety of settings that inevitably drift into detailed anecdotes of grotesquely painful self-abuse. The men each complete the other's statements, correctly assuming increasingly outlandish scenarios.
The characters periodically made some version of the remark "Don't ya hate it when that happens?" as though the pain they inflicted on themselves was a matter of bad luck.
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One of Gilda Radner's best characters on Saturday Night Live in the 1970s was Baba Wawa, a spot-on impersonation of TV news anchor Barbara Walters.
In an episode of The View in 2014, 25 years after Radner died, Walters told Yahoo Entertainment that she eventually grew to enjoy Radner's take.
In this video, Walters reflects on their relationship. It also includes one of the most famous impersonations in which Baba Wawa interviews Mawena Doitchwand (Marlene Dietrich impersonated by Madeline Kahn).
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In this episode Linda Richman (Mike Myers), her best friend Liz Rosenberg (Madonna) and Liz's mom (Roseanne Barr) are huge Barbra Streisand fans and discuss Prince of Tides until Barbra makes a surprise appearance. The show was aired in 1992 during SNL's 17th season.
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