About a decade ago, they finally released the entirety of the origninal SNL. I watched it all and was actually stunned at how funny and absolutely prescient that series was. A lot of it went over my head as a kid, I just liked the goofy stuff, but there was a lot of political subtext that is worth going back to watch even now.
There was hilarity without viciousness. To be sure, I don't mind vicious humor when it's aimed at the correct target. But joyous silliness is a wonderful thing.
I got Red Skeleton’s autograph when I was a little girl, at the Dunes Restaurant in Palm Springs, CA. He was much older and his date was much younger.😉 What talent and amazing humor he gave to the world!
I got ahold of some 'best of Burnett' stuff and showed it to my kid (well, 30 year old kid). We had a blast. My god, I didn't know how adult some of that stuff was. I saw that originally as a kid and loved Tim Conway for the 'Oldest Man' and 'Mrs Ha-wiggins' sketches. I recently caught their send up of 'Valley of the Dolls' on YouTube. Comedy Gold.
Best of the best! Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Carol Burnett and later, Vicky Lawrence ("Mama's Family"). Tim Conway was an incredible ad libber, and the rest of the cast could barely contain themselves. Like the famous "elephant" scene...
The one with a doctor I still think about is the one where the couple goes to the doctor to concieve a baby and gets offered all these genetic options for the child,
Like 'do you want a boy or a girl?'
'A boy.'
'Do you want him to be (something with a degree) or a welder?'
'Hmmm, a Welder sounds good, good career..'
'Do you want the baby to have a normal head or a shrimp head?'
(Confusion) 'A SHRIMP head?'
' Well, the welding goggles will fit better...'
(Couple nodding together emphatically) 'Oh yes a shrimp head, that sounds great....'
My parents wouldn't let me watch it, but i saw at friends houses. Pretty much all I remember is Arte Johnson (?) doing the 'verrry interesting' thing and he and Ruth Buzzi as the old people on the park bench. I also remember Lily Tomlin doing her Ernestine character, but I don't know if it was from that show or another one (like Sonny and Cher).
When we tell the little ones that TV used to make us laugh out loud until we were crying, they're gonna think it's one o' those whoppers the old folks like to tease 'em with.
It is terrifying to look back and realize Schlafly was correct about many things she was then and forever reviled about.
I'm not a conservative, I'm not a Christian--but she was a smart woman, and had the capacity, that most people don't, of being able to see around corners and not just straight ahead.
Once the heat of battle is over and the media caricatures forgotten, we can see that there were a lot of figures from our recent past who tried to throw up a STOP sign as we blasted our way to the wasteland of nihilistic consumerist narcissism we currently inhabit.
I'm reading Rieff today so have some of his formulations/conclusions in my head: if the choice is/was between the Stern Father (a la Phyllis' Christianity) who provided order and discipline (things that may hurt today that will benefit us tomorrow) vs the Loving Mother (which is the mask the Market God is currently wearing) who provides candy, compassion and a safe space to discuss your feelings (therapeutic onanism), the Father has no chance.
The post-60s West is like living inside a giant candy store, and we are all fat, spoiled and selfish children (with Americans in the role of Augustus Gloop).
What we REALLY need NOW are herds of starving hungry ANGRY LIONS .
HEELO WORLD - It is time to START FIGHTING BACK, and I say this to many that are not .(and many pretend they are biut doing a terrible ineffective job, so watch the #$@%ing LINK )
You are COWARDS and stupid !
Are you mad yet! Then stand up and FIGHT . And you better learn fast because STUPID people DIE FIRST !
Oh you don't know how to fight?
OK, then let me introduce you to a ROLE MODEL LION.
We need legions of lions named "TONY ROMAN ."
Let this man inspire YOU. Now this man is a warrior!
I wonder if Art ever imitates Art? Certainly, Reality never imitates Reality. At least, I don't think it does. But how would I know, since what I see, may not be Reality at all, but just the often boring and annoying astral projection of some Superduper Powerful movie producers from somewhere else in the mostly unknowable Cosmos? Or not...
You had to remind me that SNL used to be funny, huh?
About a decade ago, they finally released the entirety of the origninal SNL. I watched it all and was actually stunned at how funny and absolutely prescient that series was. A lot of it went over my head as a kid, I just liked the goofy stuff, but there was a lot of political subtext that is worth going back to watch even now.
This should be played everywhere as an act of subversion. Give the DEI folks strokes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuEBBwJdjhQ
I watched early SNL all the time...and All in the Family, The Jefferson’s, etc. Without humor, society may as well be dead!
Is there anyone in this present company who remembers Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman spoofing "Random Harvest?" Oh children, what you've missed...
Lmao! “Gone With the Wind” was THE BEST! I watched this show every weekend as a kid. I feel sorry for kids now. They can’t laugh at anything.
I loved that! With the curtain rod across her shoulders. 😂🤣😂🤣
I don't remember the "Random Harvest" part, but, OMG!, that show slayed me! And I was only 12.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16SZBgvGVv0
Harvey and Tim together were a riot.
Red Skeleton and Ed Sullivan! Red was my favorite because my grandpa was just like him. Funny and kind.
There was hilarity without viciousness. To be sure, I don't mind vicious humor when it's aimed at the correct target. But joyous silliness is a wonderful thing.
I got Red Skeleton’s autograph when I was a little girl, at the Dunes Restaurant in Palm Springs, CA. He was much older and his date was much younger.😉 What talent and amazing humor he gave to the world!
I got ahold of some 'best of Burnett' stuff and showed it to my kid (well, 30 year old kid). We had a blast. My god, I didn't know how adult some of that stuff was. I saw that originally as a kid and loved Tim Conway for the 'Oldest Man' and 'Mrs Ha-wiggins' sketches. I recently caught their send up of 'Valley of the Dolls' on YouTube. Comedy Gold.
Best of the best! Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Carol Burnett and later, Vicky Lawrence ("Mama's Family"). Tim Conway was an incredible ad libber, and the rest of the cast could barely contain themselves. Like the famous "elephant" scene...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uasRKdYZ4xQ
Yup
My bad! I thought it already was dead.
An actual funny skit from SNL! It must have been from the 70s.
1975. You never know what you got till it's gone.
dead honky😂back when you could say things without the world melting
No kidding.
Heck, I'm surprised it's allowed on you tube.
We gotta cherish these things while we can (and make secret archives...)
Thank you
This was always my favourite skit. Over the last 3 years I think this sums up modern medicine. Especially the last part.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIi6hYpUoQ
The one with a doctor I still think about is the one where the couple goes to the doctor to concieve a baby and gets offered all these genetic options for the child,
Like 'do you want a boy or a girl?'
'A boy.'
'Do you want him to be (something with a degree) or a welder?'
'Hmmm, a Welder sounds good, good career..'
'Do you want the baby to have a normal head or a shrimp head?'
(Confusion) 'A SHRIMP head?'
' Well, the welding goggles will fit better...'
(Couple nodding together emphatically) 'Oh yes a shrimp head, that sounds great....'
Still not funny.
Try watching “Laugh In”...this is my SNL for you!
My parents wouldn't let me watch it, but i saw at friends houses. Pretty much all I remember is Arte Johnson (?) doing the 'verrry interesting' thing and he and Ruth Buzzi as the old people on the park bench. I also remember Lily Tomlin doing her Ernestine character, but I don't know if it was from that show or another one (like Sonny and Cher).
I know, right?
When we tell the little ones that TV used to make us laugh out loud until we were crying, they're gonna think it's one o' those whoppers the old folks like to tease 'em with.
their timing is so bad. comedy 101: brevity is the soul of wit but skits on SNL drone on forever
Sometimes a long-building story can be hilarious but the payoff must be worth it.
i've never seen it be worth it on SNL. then again i'm one of those people who only thought it was funny in the first year and haven't watched it since
Religions, ideologies and causes come and go, but Church Ladies are forever.
Funny how many people don't want to acknowledge that Church Lady is the mother of Karen.
Karens are Social Justice Church Ladies, same people just different beliefs.
Taylor Lorenz is their Phyllis Schafly or Anita Bryant, and they are the new Moral Majority.
Burn this after reading and never remind me I said it--but don't defame Phyllis Schlafly by comparing her to that whining neurotic Taylor Lorenz.
same genus, different species?
It is terrifying to look back and realize Schlafly was correct about many things she was then and forever reviled about.
I'm not a conservative, I'm not a Christian--but she was a smart woman, and had the capacity, that most people don't, of being able to see around corners and not just straight ahead.
Once the heat of battle is over and the media caricatures forgotten, we can see that there were a lot of figures from our recent past who tried to throw up a STOP sign as we blasted our way to the wasteland of nihilistic consumerist narcissism we currently inhabit.
I'm reading Rieff today so have some of his formulations/conclusions in my head: if the choice is/was between the Stern Father (a la Phyllis' Christianity) who provided order and discipline (things that may hurt today that will benefit us tomorrow) vs the Loving Mother (which is the mask the Market God is currently wearing) who provides candy, compassion and a safe space to discuss your feelings (therapeutic onanism), the Father has no chance.
The post-60s West is like living inside a giant candy store, and we are all fat, spoiled and selfish children (with Americans in the role of Augustus Gloop).
Also Gladys the neighbor from the TV show "Bewitched". Remember her?
Aaaabnerrr!!!
Yup. Snoopy gossipers ye shall always have with you.
🎯😂
I guess sanctimonious religious fundamentalists all suffer from resting puckerface.
I read that with an "f" instead of a "p" 😅
😂
"Well, isn't that special?"
Much like sanctimonious Biden cabinet officers....
RPF!
?
These "people" totally lack self-awareness.
Did not this "female" have any normal hetero girlfriends to guide her through those awkward years? It looks she was stuck in awkward.
Keep in mind that these people have achieved inordinate power over our lives. Their ultimate revenge.
She just looks like a creep and a psycho.
Ah, the sanctity of sanctimony.
she looks much more stoopit though..... - and skeery
I resemble that remark!
🤣
could that be.... SATAN?!?
Ever notice that those who are truly batshit looney instinctively dress the part too? It’s always the same glasses styles, hair, and apparel.
Carvey would do a better job.
See important LINK below!
It is far past the time for kitten words. ...
Meow.
What we REALLY need NOW are herds of starving hungry ANGRY LIONS .
HEELO WORLD - It is time to START FIGHTING BACK, and I say this to many that are not .(and many pretend they are biut doing a terrible ineffective job, so watch the #$@%ing LINK )
You are COWARDS and stupid !
Are you mad yet! Then stand up and FIGHT . And you better learn fast because STUPID people DIE FIRST !
Oh you don't know how to fight?
OK, then let me introduce you to a ROLE MODEL LION.
We need legions of lions named "TONY ROMAN ."
Let this man inspire YOU. Now this man is a warrior!
https://rumble.com/v3ddrea-osha-raids-covid-critics-bank-account-government-targets-dissident-for-figh.html
Starving? Hungry? Well just keep on electing sold-out globalist jackals to congress, and almost everyone will be starving and hungry.
I hope that Tony takes OSHA to the cleaners, literally and figuratively.
Wow...thank you for this.......
Are we even sure she’s a she?
Can we call her the "Virus Lady"?
Omg hilarious!!!!
YES!!! Early 90s era SNL was the absolute best!
Second best. And very good.
But the original cast is legendary.
No! 😳 seriously. She even LOoks like a useful idiot.
I wonder if Art ever imitates Art? Certainly, Reality never imitates Reality. At least, I don't think it does. But how would I know, since what I see, may not be Reality at all, but just the often boring and annoying astral projection of some Superduper Powerful movie producers from somewhere else in the mostly unknowable Cosmos? Or not...