"To those on the 17th floor, the 'Bass-O-Matic' was so exhilaratingly strange that many remember sitting and listening, open-mouthed, when Danny presented it at the Monday writers' meeting," wrote Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad in A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live. She said, 'Dad laid in a supply of Schweddy Balls.' OK, and then she goes, 'Zowee, is it rich.'" "My parents tried it, which I thought was the funniest thing in the world," Gasteyer said. So iconic was this simple bit of wordplay that Ben & Jerry's produced an ice cream in honor of the skit in 2011. Those who didn't get the joke on first utterance would get multiple chances. "You don't need to leave, you just need to take your time and explore a subject to the point that people want to weep with boredom." Alec Baldwin, of course, was Pete Schweddy, a man who was producing a holiday treat – balls, branded with his name and sold in sacks. But I think that mild sadism of Todd toward Lisa was a reflection of the dynamic of their relationship."Īna Gasteyer, who wrote and starred in this legendarily naughty sketch, went on the actual NPR in 2012 to dish on the origins of this public radio send-up: "It was sort of a combination between "The Splendid Table" and a show that was aptly named, a show called "Good Food," on KCRW… You don't need to go to a commercial," she said about the secret to public radio's studiously understated intonation. "Billy had this girlfriend who he ended up marrying… and when Gilda would laugh louder at all of his sketches when they were being read, you knew that they were together. ("The moon came out surprisingly early," exclaims Murray as Todd.) "Todd and Lisa ended up mirroring relationship in a sick way," said Beatts in the book American Nerd. And you know – massive laugh." In the bit, Bill Murray and Gilda Radner's noogie-loving "nerds" – electric characters that writer Anne Beatts says were inspired by Elvis Costello – couldn't keep their eyes on their homework because Aykroyd was showing off his pencil holder. 'Don't put the pencil there!' And of course I said I wouldn't, but then on the air, I did. "I was checking this fridge and I had put the pencil somewhere.
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"The censor said, 'Don't put that pencil in there,'" Dan Aykroyd says in Live From New York, recalling a sketch that racily revealed some male posterior on network TV years before David Caruso. Real life outpaced its farcical counterpart seven years later, when Christian Dior launched its very own miniphone – although the $5100 gadget one-upped the SNL writers' snob fantasia by adding a mirror. When Will & Grace's Sean Hayes hosted in 2001, he joined Fallon on the floor in a sketch that peaked with Ferrell answering a cell phone approximately the size of a paperclip – and then peaked again when Fallon and Hayes succumbed to the giggles.
It was polar opposite to everything I'm about… All my friends, anybody that I knew, thought it was the most incredible, wonderful thing in the whole world and that I should be thrilled." In this recurring sketch, Will Ferrell and Jimmy Fallon (and whatever guest host was around) sent up the high-end store Jeffrey, a designer-stuffed house of haute owned by Kalinsky. "I worked so hard for so long to create an environment where people were nice, where people were treated nice, and where people realized how important it was to be nice," former Barney's New York shoe buyer Jeffrey Kalinsky told the Advocate And then there was a skit, and it needed a name, and somehow because we were new in town and doing something different and cool, it got associated with not acknowledging people.
Few SNL cast members have had a greater knack for delivering a sublimely stupid line, and Jordan gave it all with signoffs like "Join us next week, when our guests will be a dog, and a baby dog."
But few were stranger than Fellow, a dense young man who hosted a show about animals despite seeming to lack even the most basic understanding of the animals or their surroundings ("The rainforest, that sounds wet!"). "A delusional gay guy interviewing animals? What the fuck is that, Tim?" Tracy Jordan's tenure on SNL, sorely underappreciated at the time, spawned a host of running characters who were hysterically strange but never quite took off, from Astronaut Jones to Dominican Lou. My man Tim Herlihy picked right up on that shit," Morgan said in his autobiography, adding that Herlihy came up with the animal element. "I said he was this weird gay dude who imagined stuff in his head and thought he knew everything. Animal talk show host Brian Fellow was inspired by someone that Tracy Morgan's ex-wife knew in high school – Morgan built a character around her descriptions.
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