History HilariousInHindsight / Comedy

* Every line Angus Deayton ever read on ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' that made fun of someone for a drug or sex scandal. Website/YouTube commenters never miss a reference; even Ian Hislop and Paul Merton get in on it on the DVD commentary. (Paul, during a clip from the end of the first Christmas special, when a bunch of fake snow was dropped onto the set: "OH LOOK, what's all that white stuff falling on Angus?") The most infamous example: Angus asking John Simpson, after the Richard Bacon scandal, "What's your take on TV presenters doing drugs, then?"

** His bit explaining how {{Creator/NPR}} is [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible unlistenable]] gives us this gem: "The Tibetian practice of scream-singing rightfully died out in the 4th century BC, but 2 Berkeley trust fund students revived it, and here's a 40 minute sample: AAAH AAH AAAAH!" Come 2015, sure as can be, Belgian theater company [[http://www.ontroerendgoed.be/home/ Ontroeren Goed]] puts out ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9aZ_z6Vae8 Sirens]]'', a play composed primarily of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzsGmdmhDTI scream singing.]]

** The fact that Creator/SethMacFarlane would become one in a long line of ''SNL'' hosts is funny, considering that all three of his cartoons (''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', and ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'') have trashed ''SNL'' and its cast members. What's really funny is that the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "420" (the one where Brian petitions Quahog to legalize marijuana) has a scene where Peter is so stoned that, rather than set up a cutaway joke, just shows a list of celebrities he hates. The two people on that list are Music/JustinTimberlake (who isn't a cast member, but has hosted and cameoed enough times to at least qualify as an honorary cast member) and Andy Samberg (who actually left the show before the season 38 premiere, which is the episode that Creator/SethMacFarlane hosted, and is now on the FOX sitcom ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'').

** The last sketch of the season 34 premiere episode hosted by Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps had a fake commercial for Michael Phelps' infamous 12,000-calorie diet that only works for him (and a cameo by Subway spokesman, Jared Fogle, who declares that the Michael Phelps' Diet "sucks a foot long"). Fast forward to the Creator/BradleyCooper[=/=]Music/TVOnTheRadio episode on February 7, 2009, where Seth Meyers does a Weekend Update joke about Michael Phelps getting busted for smoking marijuana from a bong, with the punchline, "Though, suddenly, the Michael Phelps Diet makes a lot more sense," with a photo of Michael Phelps surrounded by two stacks of pancakes (which were featured in the "Michael Phelps Diet" commercial). Fast forward further to June/July, where Subway actually had a commercial with Jared Fogle and Michael Phelps, together again. It's like a real-life Chekov's Gag.

** A season 36 episode featured a fake trailer for the movie ''Film/{{Unstoppable}}''. Creator/DenzelWashington (played by Jay Pharoah) asks Creator/ChrisPine (played by [[Series/MADtv Taran Killam]]), "Where'd you learn trains, huh? ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends''?" Couple months later, Cartoon Network's sketch show ''WesternAnimation/{{MAD}}'' came up with their parody of ''Unstoppable'' that also had a reference to ''Thomas The Tank Engine'' (only ''MAD'''s version combined ''Unstoppable'' with ''Thomas The Tank Engine'').
** On the season 24 Christmas episode hosted by Alec Baldwin, Creator/JimmyFallon takes Baldwin on a trip to the future which depicts what ''SNL'' will be like in the year 2011 (Fallon says the episode they're visiting is from December 12, 2011, which was a Monday this year). Despite this mistake and others that stem from the fact that the show has changed its image since the 1990s (the wrought-iron alley way stage was changed to one modeled after Grand Central Station, the majority of cast members they have now are younger than the show itself [starting with Kenan Thompson], Creator/JohnGoodman hasn't been seen on the show since his cameo on the last episode of season 28 hosted by Creator/DanAykroyd, Music/{{REM}} would break up in 2011 and hence, not be musical guests, and Don Pardo is still announcing and hasn't been replaced by a robot), the whole "Jimmy Fallon will host a future Christmas episode" deal did come true.

** In Issue #235 (Dec. '82), in ''Magazine/{{MAD}}''[='=]s satire of ''Film/RockyIII'' (called "Rockhead III"), "Rockhead Bulboa" finds himself standing nose-to-chest when he faces off against the wrestling champion. When he is again standing nose-to-chest with "Blubber Lang," he says, "If this kind of posing keeps up, I want my next match to be with Music/DollyParton!" Subsequently, Creator/SylvesterStallone starred in the movie ''Rhinestone'', with -- you guessed it -- Dolly Parton.

** A sketch in 1995 had Ellen [=DeGeneres=] (played by Series/TheKidsInTheHall regular Mark [=McKinney=], who was also on SNL) & Anne Heche (Chris Kattan) on Oprah Winfrey's (Tim Meadows) show talking about their relationship, with the sketch implying that Heche wasn't really a lesbian and had only become one to get fame. Seeing as what happened several years later, SNL was on the ball with this one.

** During the SNL Digital Short in the Creator/GwynethPaltrow/Music/CeeLoGreen episode, Andy Samberg asks Anderson Cooper if he ever "got freaky with Barbara Walters". Cooper's response is along the lines of "Are you insane?" before getting nailed in the head by Pee Wee Herman. The joke when the episode first aired was that Andy and Pee-Wee Herman were, yes, pretty much drunk and insane at the moment, but now that Cooper has revealed that he is, in fact, gay, the joke is funnier because Samberg comes off as more of an idiot than normal.

* Magazine/{{MAD}} had a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' special issue around the time of the release of ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'' which included an introductory poem reviewing the history of the franchise up to that point: the final paragraph was devoted to wondering where the series would go from there. In particular, it wondered, "Would Worf and Sulu join up with the crew of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]''?" Well, they got it half right...Sulu did appear on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''...

** In Issue #235 (Dec. '82), in Music/{{MAD}}'s satire of ''Film/RockyIII'' (called "Rockhead III"), "Rockhead Bulboa" finds himself standing nose-to-chest when he faces off against the wrestling champion. When he is again standing nose-to-chest with "Blubber Lang," he says, "If this kind of posing keeps up, I want my next match to be with Music/DollyParton!" Subsequently, Creator/SylvesterStallone starred in the movie ''Rhinestone'', with -- you guessed it -- Dolly Parton.

* In Creator/EddieMurphy's 1987 standup special ''Raw'', he humorously discusses how some stars he skewered in his 1983 special ''Delirious'' must've felt incensed being mocked by him. In 1995, Eddie found himself in this situation after Creator/DavidSpade mocked his slump at the time, saying "Look, children, it's a falling star, make a wish!" on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', which made him so mad that he chewed out Spade and shunned SNL till TheNewTens, when he made peace with Spade in 2011, appeared at SNL's 40th anniversary special in 2015, and hosted SNL in 2019.