Line #8 Funny/SaturdayNightLive1980


1	Funny moments from years 1980-1989 of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. For the main index, see [[Funny/SaturdayNightLive here]].
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5	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w_3uYQHCWk several times]] on Weekend Update when Creator/DennisMiller sat next to Creator/DanaCarvey...''dressed up as'' Creator/DennisMiller. He [[ActuallyPrettyFunny seemed to enjoy the satirical image of himself]].
6	-->'''Miller''': You know...I'm just narcissistic enough to love that.
7	** And then Creator/TomHanks [[http://www.hulu.com/watch/282825 joined the act.]]
8	* The short film starring Creator/MartinShort, Creator/HarryShearer, and Creator/ChristopherGuest about aspiring synchronized swimmers. Short grooving to ''Film/StayingAlive'''s "Far from Over" is even funnier in hindsight because it's a tune by [[Creator/NormMacDonald you guessed it: Frank Stallone!]]
9	* The Amazing Alexander, a Broadway hypnotist! [[CreepyMonotone "I loved it. It was much better than ''Cats''. I'm going to see it again and again"]], a paraphrase from a commercial for an actual Broadway show, was a national MemeticMutation for years afterward.
10	* The famous sketch where Creator/WilliamShatner tells a group of nerds at a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' convention to "Get a life!"
11	** From the same episode: The "lost" ending to ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'', in which Mr. Potter finally gets what he deserves since the real movie doesn't show that.
12	* The "Jackie Rogers Jr.'s $100,000 Jackpot Wad" game show sketch with Martin Short as Jackie Rogers Jr. Billy Crystal as Music/SammyDavisJr, Creator/JamesBelushi as Captain Kangaroo, Creator/ChristopherGuest and Mary Gross as the contestants.
13	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-3ckX-zSHw All]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EhgQsMsdsU of]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_MDCH-W2WU the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q3LSze9l7g Mister]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nZrMrTFo9I Robinson's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJvE0_YGMHw Neighborhood]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whfQf3Pd5bU sketches]].
14	** The fact that Mister Rogers himself saw the parody and laughed out loud at it!
15	* Creator/EddieMurphy as Music/StevieWonder collaborating with Music/FrankSinatra (Joe Piscopo) on a new version of Wonder's hit duet with Music/PaulMcCartney, "Ebony and Ivory" for the upcoming album ''Frank Sings Songs the Young People Will Enjoy''. Sample Sinatra lyrics include:
16	-->'''Sinatra:'''(singing) You are black and I am white/Life's an Eskimo pie/Let's take a bite!
17	-->Side by side you are my amigo, negro/Let's not fiiiight!
18	* Six words: Music/JamesBrown's [[https://youtu.be/xeSwrFKFNFw Celebrity Hot Tub Party]].
19	* Creator/PhilHartman [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wfPlgKFh8 as]] President UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan. He's all ObfuscatingStupidity in public, but in private with his staff he's the EvilGenius and the mastermind behind the Iran-Contra scandal.
20	** When being told he has to do a photo-op with a Girl Scout who had sold the most cookies, Reagan is practically ''pissed'' with the interruption.
21	--->'''Ronald Reagan''': [[CrossesTheLineTwice This is the part of the job I hate!]]
22	* From the Season 12 premiere hosted by Creator/SigourneyWeaver: Dana Carvey as a hack British rock piano ballader improvising the song "Choppin' Broccoli" on the piano in front of his record execs.
23	* Creator/EddieMurphy as [[Film/TheLittleRascals Buckwheat]] singing his "Greatest Hits". EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped when he belts out "Bette Davis Eyes", with the song being listed as "????"
24	* Creator/TomHanks showing DeletedScenes from his movie ''Film/{{Big}}'' where he plays a 13-year-old whose wish to become a 30-year-old man comes true. The cut scenes show his character deciding to stay and attend school where he bullies the other kids.
25	* When Creator/EddieMurphy returned to host in the 1984-85 season he did a short film called "White Like Eddie" where he is made up to look like a white man. First he learns how to act white by watching episodes of ''Series/Dynasty1981'' and reading Hallmark cards. Once in public he makes the discovery that when white people are alone "they give each other things for free." When he goes into a bank to apply for a loan without any collateral, the black loan officer refuses, then his white bank manager tells him he can go to lunch. When he leaves, the bank manager laughs and tears up the loan application and actually offers to give "Mr. White" (Eddie) whatever amount of money he wants."
26	-->'''Eddie as "Mr White":''' (laughing) "What a silly negro!"
27	** Also Eddie's closing speech at the end of the skit when the camera reveals other black men and women getting made to look white:
28	-->'''Eddie:''' We got a long way to go before this country is equal but I'll tell you something: I got a lot of friends, and we've got a lot of makeup. So next time you're hugging it up with some groovy white guy or you met a really great, super keen white chick, don't be too sure. They might be black.
29	* From the episode hosted by San Francisco [=49ers=] quarterback Joe Montana and Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton:
30	** In the cold open, Payton presents a countdown of rap songs by various NFL teams[[note]]in reference to the Chicago Bears having done one in real life[[/note]]: "We Are the Giants," "We Are the Rams," "Alright, We Are the Colts, We Admit It," "[Satisfy My] Physical Needs" by [[{{Squick}} Cowboys coach Tom Landry]]... and finally, we get to see exactly how inept a "rap" song by non-musicians can be when the [[FunnyForeigner all the kickers in the NFL]] get together to do one of their own. "[[YouNoTakeCandle We are kickers, we kick ball]]!"
31	** Phil Hartman has Jan Hooks over to his place and they each think things while saying the opposite. Montana comes in as Hartman's roommate and he is shown thinking something and then says the exact same thing.
32	* "Waikiki Hockey", a spoof of Music/ElvisPresley movies with hockey legend Wayne Gretsky as a waiter in a Hawaiian nightclub and Jan Hooks as Ann-Margaret.
33	* "A Holiday Wish", a sketch where Creator/SteveMartin had a few wishes he starts with the children of the world to hold hands and sing together. Then he says he wants $30 million dollars, and it only escalates from there.
34	-->'''Steve:''' If I four wishes, first would be the crap about the kids, second the $30 million, the third would be for all the the power, and the fourth would be to set aside one month each year for an extended 31-day orgasm.
35	* A sketch where host Robert Wagner is on a date and characteristically debonair -- but is also the world's sloppiest eater.
36	* The [[http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/7b266f28c7/attack-of-the-masturbating-zombies?_cc=__d___&_ccid=e9f1ad33-052e-470d-8384-143e7b41ec8c infamous "Attack Of The Masturbating Zombies"]] skit, meant as a parody of Grade-B 1950's horror movies, but generating such controversy that numerous advertisers yanked their commercials from the episode.
37	* Creator/MarkHarmon doing his opening monologue in a towel, and the "[[http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/sexiest-man-alive/n9588?snl=1 pageant]]" in which he was awarded People Magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive'' title. Particularly him acting like a typical pageant contestant -- strutting and preening, then weeping and shrieking when he won.
38	* [[http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/trap-door/n9681 Wilson Trap Doors]]. Who hasn't wished for one of these?
39	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9JbEUPh7FQ Somewhere between cleanliness and godliness lies Compulsion.]]" What makes this skit so special, however, is that it ''barely'' exaggerates the insanity of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0p-pOf4KB8 the original "Obsession" commercial]].
40	* Creator/JohnMalkovich stars as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F42qmFHNM-M Johnny Canal]], legendary frontiersman with a bizarre fixation on canals, a poor aptitude for thinking his proposals through, and a HairTriggerTemper, leading to this:
41	-->'''President:''' [[TheComicallySerious I must ask that you refrain from]] [[ARareSentence knife-fighting in the White House]]!
42	* In season 12, Creator/RobinWilliams [[https://youtu.be/Gcd9_lj4BDs gets to show off his own Reagan impression]] opposite Creator/PhilHartman in a sketch where Williams's Reagan gets advised through a press conference by Hartman, but it goes off the rails.

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