The Dogg Zzone by 1900HOTDOG - Dogg Zzone 9000 - Episode 148, Harry Dean Stanton's Drunken SNL with David Bell

Episode Date: November 8, 2023

Seanbaby wanted to do an entire episode about that time Harry Dean Stanton and The Replacements got pants-off drunk and fucked up Saturday Night Live. Brockway and David Bell thought that was a great idea, but they were also pants-off drunk.

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It's all I'm saying about that. Here's Rockaway Fact. Robert Brockway also likes to get drunk and surprise people with harmonic oscillos. There will be no follow-up questions. You don't need them. You don't need them. We've all experienced it. You may know our guests from his voice on Gamefully Unemployed or his words on some more news. It's weird I always introduce everyone like we have a studio audience so ladies and gentlemen here's David Bell. Thank you. Thank you, man.

It's great to have you back. Thank you very much. Settle down. Everybody settle down. Hi. Hi, thanks for having me on. I'm very, you know me. I'm very excited all the time.

About everything. How are things with your modern media job and your KS Pixie lover? Oh, good. Everything's good. I've been eating a lot of fiber gummies. Too many, like they're delicious Have you had these like fiber choice supplement?

You know about this you guys heard about these? You're not supposed to eat a lot of them. I'm learning. You should just have something said, oh these gummies, you heard about this? They're really good though. They're really delicious gummies. If only they made a non fiber version. They would really be on to something. That's the dream. They're just a gummy bear with no weird shit in it.

It would be so good. I keep them by my desk and I think that's where things have gotten wrong, because you just idly reach over and you're like, oh, pop a game. Yeah, I'm gonna keep those by your desk. You just feel like filled with him. I don't trust gum. Too many things have been like imported into gummies that I no longer trust like a basic gummy. Every time I see one, I'm like, I don't trust gum. Too many things have been like imported into gummies

that I no longer trust like a basic gummy. Every time I see one, I'm like, I don't know what that's gonna do. Oh yeah. I don't know. I don't know what surprises this is a vitamin. It could be a medicine. It could be like some kind of ibuprofen.

It's probably weed. Could be just fibers. Maybe just fibers of gumming something. I mean, is it solid? Is it liquid? We don't know. It's a mystery. I don't trust him. We'll never trust them. Yeah.

It's weird science hasn't like adopted gummy as like a real state of matter at this point. It's the fifth state of matter, of course. Well, I guess I plugged Gameflan employed and someone else. Oh, yeah. Is there anything else? You always have like so many projects you're working on is there something that we know I feel plugged like I I mean patreon.com slash game probably old or just got me yeah, right right everybody Get those diary of bears. Oh, yeah today. We're talking about three other things. We all love Comedy Harry Dean Stanton and that delicate sweet spot between Fun Drunk and Way Too Fucking Drunk.

Mm-hmm. We all watch season 11 episodes of The Sarah Live. This was in 1986, hosted by Harry Dean Stanton, the musical guest was the Replacements, or the Mats if you're a 1986 hipster. I wanna push back slightly when you said we're gonna talk about comedy. I wanna push back slightly when you said we're going to talk about comedy. I want to push back slightly that we're going to talk

about the fun spot between fun drunk and way too drunk. I don't think we saw that. You think we're stuck in way too fucking drunk, though? Yes. Okay. I don't, I might disagree about the monologue. I feel like the monologue, we'll get to all of it, I guess before we start I

Think we all agree. Harry Dean's stand is great. Do you have a favorite Harry Dean's stand in performance other than of course this episode of Sarah Outlive? What was that movie Paris, Texas? He was quite good in that Obviously everybody knows him from alien it's weird to, I like this a little bit in the Avengers. He's good in Avengers. He's cute. He was in the Avengers. He's in the first Avengers.

Yeah, he's a gen. Oh, a museum, a museum gen. Yeah. Or is a security guard. He finds something. Ruffles, naked ruffles, microphones. There's so many Avengers that there's just like a spot in my memory that is just like Avengers and it's all the same thing

It's all just like yeah, it's all just shiny. It's fine It's all shiny like one color palette and I'm like that was this is where we filed the adventure And I remember nothing about any of them now if there had been one I would know what you're talking about I'm gonna pick red dawn. I feel like red dawn is my favorite I'm gonna pick Red Dawn. I feel like Red Dawn is my favorite. Avengers movie. Yeah, he's an another great Avengers movie. Yeah, that's true. Technically, yes. So I do have some notes about like what happened behind the scenes, but I think we should go through interface with it like they intended like we're watching the show.

Sorry, I just want to add, I've never watched this era of S&L. So it's a shocking to see who's in it. like we're watching the show. Sorry, I just want to add, I've never watched this era of SNL. So it's a shocking to see who's in it. Yeah, I didn't know the cast and I didn't know how miserable it would be with that cast. Yeah, it's long stretches of silence with they're doing, it's like a child's funeral while they're trying to do these sketches

that don't, they don't go anywhere a lot of the time. They're just, it's, it's, it's, I want to just, it's always like this. I'm in your statement to be, I want to remove the comma from your statement. It's like a child's funeral and they're doing sketches. That's one thing.

It is like that. That is a really good way to describe it. Yeah. This one, there was a pretty legendary writing staff too, like this is Al Frankenen and rubber smuggle i had a rie i had a i had actually had a question about this because they do a couple of pre-recorded things

and uh... fucking bruce mccullis and one and i was like is this is is the reason why i like the pre-recorded things because it's actually the kids in the whole people doing these before the kids in the hall, I couldn't tell. I think there might have been some crossover, but the pre-recorded bits were really good. Yeah, because they were thought out.

And life, they were thought out. And because some of the people in them were not completely fucking drunk. At least like one person. Was it just, yes. Just, so. She'll started with a press conference by the Burger King Herb character. Do you guys remember the Herb character?

No, we're short-lived. I was lost. This was a product placement, right? This was product. Also, the first thing we see is Dennis Miller. And I was like, oh no, it's this era. I have this theory. And I believe it is proven true by this episode and my theory is this

I think if the first thing you see is Dennis Miller and the second thing you see is Randy Quaid You're in for like some terrible failed comedy. However, if you flip it if the first thing you see is Randy Quaid And then the second thing you see is Dennis Miller. You're in for terrible failed politics. Oh That is Yeah, you're in fraternable failed politics. Oh, that is, you're so wise. And I'm, I'm, it's a theory of health for a long time. No, I'm sure you're right. I'm sure you're absolutely right.

This is my thesis, this episode. Right, you know, it's wild is fucking Randy Quaid felt like the person who like, he felt the most naturally there, if that makes sense, where this era Randy Quaid,'m like yeah him and SNL this works like everybody else stuck out but he was the only one who felt like he could he could at least try to hold together these sketches a little bit right it did feel like he was like like the glue right that the only professional in a room full of like, like clumsy amateurs. Yeah, which is extremely disturbing to have like Randy Quaid is the one that you're looking for for help.

Yeah, and he was in a lot of sketches. I think he's probably in the most sketches in the show. Yeah. See, in my notes, I have Randy Quaid is also very drunk. Yeah. Yes. It's possible. I think everybody, I actually think almost everybody in this cast is extremely drunk.

Oh, and I want to know, do you think it's because? Here's my question. Do you think it's because, like they're all fucking blitzed off of alcohol and everything else, because Sam Kinnison is here as a featured guest, or is Sam Kinnison here as a featured guest because this is the era where everybody was fucking blitzed like it's one on the other Yeah, right. I think the replacements are responsible at least for her eating stand strunk itness

Probably not that I think that Sam Kinnison and the replacements and her eating stand is over there like I Have been clean for 16 hours guys. Come on 59 years old I can't I can't a fucking tore up before it all night. I can't be a full mad dog and then do SNL. All right, I guess I can, I guess I can. I guess I can. So I looked this up, this is the Where's Herb Campaign. And it was about a guy, it only ran for about a year and a half,

two years, it was about a guy who never tried a whopper. And like that was how crazy, because everyone is eating a wapper. But it was weirder than that. It was your job as a TV viewer to find him, to hunt him. So, and he was out on a like Burger King, Burger King sent this actor around to pop into different franchises. And like if you found him, you did something.

I don't know. I don't know. And if you brought him down, if you could bring him down. Yes, I don't know, a terrorism isn't the right word word, but don't think you should make a human man the task on a nationwide scavenger I just maybe that was saving Six it feels it yes, that's running man you running man. Yeah, you're running man demand It feels like if you catch me on the right day I throw that guy in the trunk and I'd be miles away before I realized it wasn't funny on the right day, I throw that guy in the trunk and I'd be miles away before I realized it wasn't funny.

I'd be like, I fucking got hurt, guys. I go, no, no, no, no, guys, we shouldn't be doing this. It feels pre-internet. Remember when they had that hitchhiking robot recently, and it went across Canada successfully, and then they put it in America and it got murdered in a ditch in Pittsburgh? And I felt so, those are like the only time

I felt proud to be in American. And like, if they did the right thing thing if they'd ran something like this today It would just be people online conspiring to yeah to kidnap this poor man I think it would end exactly the same way with her murdered an addition. Yes Just filled with barbecue sauce and left I think you make it across Canada safely I'm not a father of barbecue sauce and left for 10. I think you make it across Canada safely. So I looked up, there's more details about this.

If you've got a discount, if you told some poor Burger King cashier, I'm not herb, which had to have been a fucking social nightmare for every cashier who got a guy actually named Herb. Who's like, I'm not her, but let me tell a funny story. I actually am herb. It all started, but you get nothing. Yes.

Also, do we, when Starbucks, do you remember when Starbucks suggested that you talk about race with the cashiers? Oh, yeah. What a fucking nightmare. Yeah, it feels like that, but like, I hate it more. It combines the worst of capitalism with the worst of silliness. I think they should run this campaign again, but anyone who says it, just gets dropped in a trap door. Like, I'm not herb, and you're not fucking anything anymore.

Trapped door. I think in general, any company that encourages you to interact or bother with their minimum wage and plays is straight up evil. Also, can we retire the owners of promotion on your minimum wage employees? Yeah, I've got an idea. What if they do it? Did we retire Herb as a name? Yeah, you probably don't want to be too many herbs.

I think so. They've all turned into birds. I think it's worth Reynolds that did it. I think it was the tipping point. Yeah, let's try to picture it running into like someone at like, you know, someone in your circle of friends and they'd had a baby and they're like, yes this is my my newborn herb I'd be like yeah, what's their actual name? So okay Randy co-ed plays herb and

This is a terrible comedy sketch, but I sort of love it He sort of has a really dull and depressing reason for not eating a wapper and that's the gag is that he's like I an allergic reaction to the specific glue used to keep the bonds attached during cross country transport He just drags it out and then it ends with it's such an anti-punch line I just love how weird it is all of the all of the sketches will add and with an odd silence from the audience Well, no one is sure if that's the end. And more than one of them are like tragic, like there's sad, tragic stories. We'll get to the one that's really sad, but like there's multiple ones where they just

sort of meander through this idea. They never really have many punch lines. And then it's just like the camera pulls out and you're like oh I guess that's the end yeah. And I want to clarify intentionally like that we're not saying it's it's tragic like that this comedy failed they will intentionally end on an actual tragedy that they expect you the audience to be like oh no right okay and then they'll formally say goodbye they'll say good I like to you thank you for watching our sketch and then they will formally say goodbye. They'll say good, I like to you. Thank you for watching our sketch, and then they will end it.

Yeah, that's a fucking bold way to end a comedy bit. Yeah. That's what I like. This was, I think, a Jack Handy. It feels like Jack Handy, but I can't verify that he wrote this specific sketch. But, you know, he kind of did that, where it was sort of like, that everyone knows the deep thoughts

with Jack Handy probably. Right. It's sort of tragic, but like, in where it was sort of like that that everyone knows the deep thoughts of the jack handy probably right it's sort of tragic but like in a way that sort of hits you in waves like little layers of madness and i feel like that's what this get had yeah i think a lot of these that this is part of why the pre-recorded ones work is that like i think if you perform them differently they would they would hit better but it's like these comedians sort of like performing at like broad comedy on these like really weird and like somewhat

tragic sketches, some of them don't go anywhere. And I feel like if you had like a director and music and editing, it would all kind of work a little better, but I don't have that. Think if some of them, if the least one of them wasn't fucking torn off their tits, you're trying to do this. Yes. Yes. I think some of them would land. I think the punchline wasn't, wasn't Eridine Stanton going for it. Oh, Jesus, where am I? But yes, he comes back. He's a great beloved character actor, even back then. But the only movie he was in that year was Pretty and Pink.

I wouldn't call that a Harry Dean stand movie. He's like not... What is he going to do? He's not a comedy guy. He's not a comedy guy. No, not that I know of. He's a straight man in some comedy performances. But like, yeah, he's not like a funny guy

Uh, and he doesn't even try he um, he comes out for his monologue and Uh, I don't know he's immediately in a way he's physically like he is Where is it going to form a drunk like I was like it? You guys told me that he was apparently gonna get drunker and I was like that can't be possible He's already into drunk and he says like he slurs up for you have the cue cards right away I have a I have his entire monologue. I'd love to play it for everybody Come on, I was like yes, he's young crowd like I think I know this guy. Yeah Yes, he's young crowd, but I think I know this guy. Yeah, I think 19 and maybe six already You're 59

Visible drunk tie on cyclists All right Thank you! Alright! Alright! Hey! Forget the cue cards! I don't know what the hell is going to happen on this show. We'll... Our guarantee is going to be unpredictable, I'll tell you that. As a producer, just wipe that clean. Working with his funds for a week, like being kill-capped by the SL over for a week. He met the SLA.

Ah well forget that and you're fucking male. Fuck off his first chance. Tell you one day he's gonna give me a chance I've never had before to sing the beautiful song. To me and like, oh fuck a drunk uncle at a wedding reception. Yes, I wrote literally that. I wrote that to him. I wrote this as every bride's worst nightmare. Yeah, he's losing that energy and I'm glad we all hit that. I wrote this as every bride's worst nightmare. Yeah.

He's losing that energy of glad we all hit that. Yeah. It's the only notes of cake. Yeah. That was the only thing. This is Climes a Ladder at this point, and this is almost where he dies. Yes. He should have died here.

We should have almost seen him. The moment he went for the ladder, I imagined several people getting up like like ready to brace themselves of what's gonna happen It's really it I was scared watching this scared for him scared for the people around him later that baby isn't a sketch and I was like don't do that Oh, don't do that. That's a very deep state. Yeah Don't let anybody in this cast right now, right now. I think he's the greatest ever to do it. Like that is probably my favorite SNL monologue. Just had all fucking know what that says.

Here's half a joke. Yeah, I didn't say it right. He's the blues. He's like, I'm saying the blues. Yep. Band. Are you ready? Deal with it.

The band is just. And he climbs a lot. No. I just, I really want to stress that he, he drunkenly climbs a ladder up to fucking, what is his name? G Smith and his fucking band. And like, it's, it really is a very tense situation. I'm not convinced they knew it was going to happen. Like they're doing their smile and they're playing along, but there's such like tension

there as they kind of make room for them that I think maybe maybe they thought he couldn't climb ladders like no He's in his state. He's not gonna climb a ladder. Oh, yeah, we're safe up here I'm I was scared the ladder wasn't a functioning ladder because it's SNL Because like they love they love them make it look like a cool street, you know, and if you're drunk You might get confused he might try to hail a cab or something up there. It's me, though, as you see pipe. Yeah, who knows? Ordering some too, I am spaghetti.

Yeah, is that a load-bearing ladder? It can hold this heritage stand, and I'm glad it could. Yeah, me too. I would have hated to see him die. That would have probably taken the fun out of this episode. Yeah, it would have been good. They just we couldn't that Bernie is him for the rest I sort of like the commercial they go to next. It's the premise is this um nice classic comedy premise ready quates dead is died in their furniture warehouse a month ago and

It's the stage of his dead body has dated all of the merchandise thinking they have to get rid of it Then they just drag it on like every single joke is see this it fucking reached like my dad dad Yeah, you want to buy it? And it's Robert Downey Jr Which we haven't mentioned there was that year that he was on SNL and he's probably trying He's one of the people trying the hardest on this. Because I feel like he knew, he knew he wasn't for him. And it's happened Randy Quaid, doing a bit together.

And like I never thought I'd see that, ever. No, no. Yeah, he comes on and he is really like giving his full energy to playing this like a tiny boy. Yes. And it's easy because Randy Quaid is I think nine feet tall, nine foot seven. Yeah.

So Robert Downed Jr. comes running out. He looks like fucking door for like, he looks like he's running around on his knees. Yeah. And he has this little clap that he does where he's clapping his hands together downward like a like a claw game. Like a like he saw lobster getting pulled out of a tank

and he's like that's the physicality I need for my Randy Quaid son character. Do you know what I mean? He's the one. He's the one, I love it. It's such a crazy little clap. It's one of those moments where in rehearsal, I'm sure there was a lot of like,

I honestly don't know. It just feels like one of those moments where like if you've ever done any like sketches or anything where you had to just let go of yourself, you just have to like leave your body and just go into a fukesteit. And that's what it's like. And it works, it works, but like.

You're saying, Robert Dunning, you're a snow recollection of performing this. Probably not. Yeah. Probably, I don't think Rand is quite does either. We should say that one of the reasons this works is it is pre-recorded. This is a pre-recorded bit.

Yeah. The only bits that work are these bits. And one of my favorite, I think it's not where they go out because they will never end on a punchline in this show. But the punchline to this to me is when they're advertising all the things that stink like they're dead dead. And then they unfold a sofa bed and it farts and they're like, woo! Like, now it's taken a different reason.

Now you thought it was giving my dead dead, but no, this sofa bed farts. Right, that's just fucking fantastic. It's always an edge to a punch line. It's always, like I was imagining the writers room for this one where someone's like, you know, what if the furniture store like someone died and it smelled?

And I imagine someone goes like, okay, yeah, and then what? And it's like, what know, what if the furniture store like someone died and it smelled? And I imagine someone goes like, okay, yeah, and then what? And it's like, what do you mean? We got a sketch, let's move on. And then they did. And that's like most of these sketches are like setups. And then they never unfold in any interesting way. Yeah.

Yeah, I talked about this for about how like modern comedy has spoiled us. Because there's always like a second turn to everything. Like when you watch a comedy has spoiled us because there's always a second turn to everything. Like, if you watch a key in peel sketch, there's always a twist. There's always some sort of a thing that takes the premise and knocks it sideways. And these do not have that. These are just like, here's a bunch of guys jumping off of a thing

onto the dirt. And yeah, one of them dies because you die when you do that. And the end, you're like, what the fuck? That one felt very bad. My wife Python. But if you're gonna have to do this. My nose. If you're gonna do that, it's a matter of timing.

Like if you're gonna have one thing, that's fine. It works. It works really well. It works on like five second films. You'll be short. You'll be short. You'll be short.

Yeah. And then you end it. And what they do is they have one joke. They execute that joke. This man dives into the dirt. And then when end it. And what they do is they have one joke. They execute that joke. This man dives into the dirt. And then when they should cut away, they're like, and now, three more minutes. Yeah.

Yeah, it's crazy. But we're getting way ahead. That's way later. Because next up is Cleveland Vice. Yeah. And holy shit. So is the joke that it's Cleveland? I had trouble figuring out what the joke was

because it was, yeah, they were just like, it's cold and we take the bus and it's Cleveland. And like it feels like these days, like I bet you we have like an SVU Cleveland. Like that's like choosing Cleveland doesn't seem subversive in a funny way to me. And maybe that's modern sensibilities where it's like, oh, back then was all the detective shows just LA in New York or something?

In Chicago, yeah, but Cleveland has always had the reputation of a shitty place. Yeah, I guess. And so, but that's the full gay. The punchline is Cleveland Vikes. The punchline is like there's a brief setup where they're trying to solve a crime and a bowling alley and then it's like, they just kind of wander off drunken like

and it says Cleveland Vikes and you're like, it's not a great punchline but that's your punchline and then they're like, and now the continuation of our show. Yeah, so about the bowling alley, because they said there's whole thing with John Loveitt's in this family and like, oh, you're great, you're always here and I was like, okay, this is clearly the start of a sketch.

They spend like a minute on this. It's nothing, it's a red herring. Because they don't come back, right? Or they don't, in any meaningful way. It's just the audience silent watching this conversation happen. That doesn't have any bits. And then it just, they move on. Yeah, they did a joke where like, okay, so all the pregnant ladies are leaving the bowling

alley and it's not quite obvious yet to the viewer that they're stealing bowling balls. Right. Because we don't know that that's the premise of the sketch and they do like one bit which is the ladies like, yeah, I bowled 50 and then a 78 and you're like, what the fuck is going on that you go in the third game? I didn't do so good. And you're like, is that fuck is going on that she goes in the third game? I didn't do so good. And you're like, is that the joke that she's not good at bowling? Right, they could have just had them walk out.

That's all you really need and say, goodbye, but it's like watching this mystery unfold. And again, the audience is dead silent because there's no jokes being told. There's no joke. And John Loveitz, I think, gets a laugh by saying something so weirdly, because he leaves and he being told. There's no joke. And John Loveitz, I think, gets a laugh by saying something so weirdly, because he leaves and he says,

you remember Armato, if you can walk, you can bowl. Right? I think that he's like, what? Yeah, I feel like he was like, I'm gonna make a meal of this line they gave me. Yeah. There's nothing else I only want. Yeah. It's so strange.

So it cuts to like the Miami Vice music, but it's just like B-roll of snow plows and muddy Cleveland streets. And it runs through a whole cast of made up characters with sort of just Polish names, but I wanna emphasize this, they're not funny. Like any comedy writer would look at this and say, oh, this is the perfect place to put gag names,

and they don't do a single one. The audience laughs, and I would argue it's and say, oh, this is the perfect place to put gag names and they don't do a single one. The audience laughs and I would argue it's a laugh of relief, which is that there's a delayed laughter when the credit start and then once they figure out, like, oh, that's the joke, then they laugh. Almost like relieved that, okay, it is a comedy bit. We are in a comedy bit, I get it. Somebody at least wants me to have a good time.

Exactly. I'm happy, I'm happy they're not going to corner me with a gun. Because I'm starting to think maybe I got into the wrong warehouse. And this is like, like maybe it was soldered that, soldered day night life. And it's just meant to trap, it's meant to trap tourists.

Yeah. It's for kidnapping, scheme. It's good, it's so tough. I want to give you a sissy, this is a generous hot crowd. Like these guys, if you give them a joke, they'll fucking laugh for you. Well, they just don't know where they're supposed to be. Yeah, so let me try to scare real quick

that the premise of this sketch, which should not be performed by a drunk Harry Dean stat. Maybe anybody, but it's like kind of that pitter-patter dialogue exchange that you sort of see involved, one performer's like, I must understand you-patter dialogue exchange that you sort of see involved. One performer is like, I must understand you. No, so I must understand you. So I'm too dumb to navigate language.

No, so I make no mistake in his eye who I'm too dumb and like they just do that for a little while. But Randy Quaid seems to have about a 20% accuracy rate for his lines. And Harry Dean's stand, as we've mentioned, is just drunk off his ass. So they cannot handle this fucking who's on first shit. And again, no one's laughing.

It's that we have to find out who did it. And then we catch him. And it's like, well, we would have to find out who did it. We have to catch him first. And it's like, that's what I'm saying. And it goes back and forth. And yeah, Harry Dean's stand is just like slurring through it. And it's again, dead silence.

Like they're like listening to a commensurate speech. have sold this. Like this would be. If you got your set it right, you could have sold it as like an okay filler bit. There's an a racist in this sketch that the audience you can feel them like get a little because they just they they're like, oh thank Christ. When someone does a random Joan Rivers impression and it doesn't play into it. They cut to this scene and then they just cut away and they're like, anyway, and it never plays in. But like people are like, oh, I know Joan Rivers and pressures, okay, that's it, got something.

Thank God. Yeah. I don't wanna apologize for the show, but I think that's because Miami Vice always had like hot celebrity cameos. Right. And like they're like, oh and Cleveland, I guess you get fucking Joan Rivers

doing a fucking like, laughing sketch. That's the other thing is that it's so hard to like know what is just flat comedy here and what is like a 1986 reference I don't get. So I'm going off of the audience response. But the audience response is also just baffled silence most of the time. Yeah, absolutely.

They agree. We know you're hanging out in better lanes over here. We've seen you there at Book Island. Yeah, so what's your lock is bowling or what? What? You're so lucky I got a bad. It's my bowling ball. You're so lucky I've got a bug in Buck Island, didn't you?

No, it's my first ball. You're sitting the first ball. You stole it from Buck Island. Where is Drunk? Why would I want to steal when a Buck Island's crummy bowling ball? Let's go down the street. It's right here you stand holding it.

We can get the balls to ball, but it got... It's right there. And it's pointed at Randy Clayton and... Why don't we go over the barrier? We're not running and transferred to the 14th. Yeah, which might not be a joke of predecessor. We're not going to have a buck from the station. Well, if you got correct change...

They take the bus, the gang is they take the bus. And then if you got correct change, and then they're like, they take the bus, they take the bus. And then they endurance comedy through it. I was really hard, because during the scene I wrote, like, so no jokes still. And I feel like I was earnest when I said that, because I was having trouble identifying a lot of the jokes as being jokes.

That's when they take a bus, and I'm like, so in Cleveland, they don't have cars? Like I was trying to piece together why it was Cleveland and I get the idea of like, oh yeah, it's just Cleveland, they're like, it's like, you know, Newark or something. Like let's make fun of a city for not being like medium sized

and like maybe not great. But I couldn't understand why taking the bus was like a Cleveland thing. Yeah, I imagine their police is overfunded. They probably have cop cars. Right, and I was like, oh, Cleveland, public transportation, paradise, Cleveland. So the Joan Rivers guy was Terry Sweeney,

and he's kind of a cast member lost to time. I, he shows up later doing a different character. I guess we'll talk about him later, but um, uh, okay, I want to talk about the gunfighter sketch. I had a very troubling realization as soon as they started this gunfighter sketch. What was that? That was that in every era of SNL, there's kind of a lead character. There's like an anchor to the cast. And like Will Ferrell was the main character of his of his era or Eddie Murphy or whoever. There's always a performer that they are like,

okay, this is our star. He gets a lot of time. We're gonna center a lot around him. And this is Randy Quades air yes that's terrifying he's in almost every sketchy for main character this relies on the comic talents of Randy quade it's all resting all the whole thing together Hammond Robert Dany Jr. in it a lot I also this, not a very trustworthy bet. No.

I, I, this, I don't want to bury the lead with this sketch. I don't know if you guys picked up on it. This was the most disturbing thing about this sketch for me is that this sketch almost correctly predicts how her 18 will die and win. Holy shit. Almost. It, they say at the end, I think it says character died 37 years later of a heart attack.

Harry D. Instant would die 31 years later of heart failure. So they almost predicted his death in this SNL sketch. God, that's fucking dark. Yeah. No, it's not good. Maybe this is what killed things, this episode did wrong. Maybe that's the most clear. I would argue that they also went on to say, it was all like little stresses of like this that killed him. And I think in that sketch they were talking about these gunfighting duels. Right.

I would say that they were talking about these SNL sketches. The little stresses of things like this have built up over the years and killed Harry Dean Stan. This couldn't have been good for anybody's health in a lot of ways. This one was written by Jack Handy and it was actually written for Chevy Chase, not Harry Dean Stan. I guess they saved it or they didn't use it and they're like, fuck, dust off that old gunfighter sketch for Harry Dean. And I don't know, maybe Chevy Chase could have brought like some sort of a physical comedy

to it to make it work. I have no idea. But this sketch was a fucking beast. It was like... If it's a fast... Luda Chrisley prop heavy. I would say this set was probably twice the budget of most shows at the time. All the jokes needed a full camera cut and a sight gag. It felt like a random 10 minutes from a male brookster or a Zuckerbrothers script that someone just, not even adapted, just performed on a stage. Yeah, yeah, it's so clunky.

That like, it's every joke is a little awkward because it does feel like there's a lot of like, cutaway gags that you, again, you need to pre-film. Like this should have been a pre-film sketch where you do like the Western style and all that stuff like you make Because like none of the jokes felt like they landed and I wasn't entirely sure what they're going for But when you they had there's one of the buttons built into the comedy where they were like in the script They realized this is not funny. We need to give the audience something

Here's John Love it says as Dr. Frankenstein It will not be all that it will not have anything to do with the sketch. We just need to give you something goofy so that you remember this is a comedy. It's even worse because they cut to John Loveitt says Dr. Frankenstein and no one laughs. No one laughs. It's this gag. Why wouldn't you? Yeah. I get kind of weird that he's there, but like it's not funny that he's there. No, it's all nervous laughter. All the laughter, that last sketch before this, it did the thing where it just sort of ends,

and there's like a silence and then a delayed applause, because everybody is just so confused about what they're supposed to be feeling watching these sketches. Randy Quaid stands up for the showdown. Like they're gonna have the draw, the quick draw. And when he stands up, his chair creaks for like 30 seconds. And it's Damon Wands back there,

just kind of pulling the chair slowly. I'm like, is this a bit, or is like, yeah, are we not supposed to hear that? I'm so fucking weird. Nobody laughs to give you a cue. And so why not? Did they not have the laughter signs back then or is this audience ignoring it?

I'm not sure. I think it'll use some help. I have a clue. I think people relate. I just want to have this. You got a barrier just like I've buried your brother. My brother's dead. He wasn't until I buried him.

You see, people just can't live under the earth like that. They can't breathe very well. Don't take Chalk Energy. See that? It has to be attention, right? What the fuck? There's no way to know. You're gonna bring your brother back to life, Jesse. Oh yeah? There's no way to know what brother back alive Jesse. Oh yeah?

There's no way to know what's the choking of this. Dr. Frankenstein about that. Dr. Yes. Actually, you might think his brother back to life. You see? He can hook electrodes to your body

and then hook them up to his brother's body. Can you understand how I told you before to stay out of this stuff Frankenstein? How can I? Okay. I think, so I think we need to explain How you gonna stop him? How told you before to stay out of this stuff Frankenstein? How terrible! Okay. I think we need to explain what the sketch is. Also, I think a few people probably raised Nyebrat when we said Damon Wayans because he is a guest, he's a featured person in the...

I don't know how that works. In the credits, they have the main cast then they're like you know here's who's who's who's guessing and then here's like some supplemental cast and he was one um the I think the bit is that it's a series of Western tropes figures of speech then being like subverted in what in air quotes funny ways right that's the idea sure So like that I buried your brother thing or like bring him back for the dead frank instead But they're not really Western tropes

And I that's the most sense I can make of this sketch like if you were to pitch the sketch of like so what's the sketch? Like I think that's what it is is that they they keep... I felt like it was just silly. Like I felt like, you know, he was, my brother's dead, he wasn't until we buried him. Like that's kind of just a little wordplay cuteness, but then I don't think you should explain what death is and then cut to Frankenstein to explain how necromancy works. I feel like that's like maybe...

On paper, I don't know. I think that could be very funny. On paper, I think that's enough of a Jack handy bit that you'd be like, if you wanted to execute it, but if you give that to a bunch of extremely drunk men who are not certain where the punch line is, and then you also forget to write punch lines, I don't think anybody's going to laugh. What I would love to see from this show, from this era, from the sketch specifically,

is the exact moment where they handed this script to Damon Wains. He told him, like, here's your character. Here's your one line. Would you like to read it, Damon Wains? I hope you have a clip, because I'm not saying that. I'm not saying what he has to say. He did not take a clip. I guess he plays a former slave.

Is that the idea? And he does it very menstrual style, because his only line is, is, it's yes, sir, said in certain ways. And it's the first line, I believe, or one of the first lines. And it's like a media line. So there's two parts he gets in this episode. And somebody at some point had to hand him the script for this and had to be like,

here, you're a black comedian, I have written you a role. Right. You're not gonna like it. Yeah. It's a real bummer. I'm sure you're not supposed to feel sad by this point in the show, right? At the first line in a sketch, probably not.

I wouldn't think so. So Harry Daye and Drunkenly introduces his replacements. And this is real cute. They wear a last minute replacement for the pointer sisters. That's fun when things like that work out. So yeah. I think they can't. Oh, I think they kind of...

They do, you'd never be able to tell a part of your sisters. They kind of rule. They kind of never gave a fuck about commercial success. So coming into this, they've never been on TV before. And that seemed to be by choice. They basically refused to do music videos. So when they're having a meeting with their manager about music videos and how they're never going to do them, and he was like, you're absolutely going to do

them. Paul Westenberg is like, fine, get us on He-Hong, we're lip-sync something. But he'd walked right into the trap because from there they came to a compromise that the band would agree to go on TV if it was live. And so then he immediately went about booking them on SNL. And there's a book about the band called Trouble Boys. I found from a Rolling Stone article about this very episode of Sarah and I live. And you know, I scrub through it. They do seem like maniac children. And I took some clips from the book. So part of the book explains how their co-manager was like, guys, you're on TV, do you know what blocking is? It means you gotta stay on your mark,

so the cameras can film you. And their manager says, and I quote, that was the worst kind of thing you could say at the replacements. So these guys are, it's like everything they learn about production is just like an instruction on a, it's like a cheat code for fucking up the show. So every bit of information they learn is like,

oh, let's do the opposite to fuck up the Saturday Night Live performance. And so before the show went live, they put them in a room and they were just kind of freaking out. The book makes it sound like they were just caged animals. So maybe Paul Westorburg's blood burns with the fire of the beast, but I imagine they're just kind of nervous and excited.

Everyone was too cool for us. You should know, everyone was too cool for us, right? Even back in 1986, still it's a pretty big deal, I think, when you really get down to it. So, they're probably nervous. And anyway, a sound guy gives them some liquor right before Herodine Stanton pops in to say hi, and they're like, Herodine Stanton, you want to come have a drink with us? And he is like a big hard fuck, yes. So he slams the door and they go in and they start just pounding

drinks. The book at this point started to editorialize about this episode. I have a quote here. It says, Episode seven of SNL's new season was yet another dog. We had commercial spoofs. A one joke send up of the Miami Vice sit in Cleveland, a hat-need Western gunfighter skit. They're done talking about it. Just this fucking shit sucked. But I would think I would agree that performance was awesome. As the band thought, they do bastards of young if you know the band, it's sloppy and noisy, but I would have had no idea that it was on accident. It wasn't so much media

about this being a train wreck. And so again, it said it's punk, it's supposed to be sloppy. You're doing it wrong if it's not sloppy. Exactly. Like there's a moment where Paul just leaves the mic and wanders around rather than singing a verse. And I thought this is a strong artistic choice. I do that shit at karaoke all the time.

Like I'll be like fuck this verse to young MC. Maybe I don't bust a move at Larry's's wedding this time i'm fucking doing a lap uh... anyway uh... i'm sure you guys you might have even talked about the time fear was a musical guest on snl and it's hard to talk that there i believe here they're the only musical guest who i believe get played off that they they literally they literally

Faded the lights out. They bust in a mosh pit like they they literally brought in a mosh pit for their performance It was like it was apparently um Balushi his request I guess and It's not a band that should be playing on SNL and they realize that pretty darn quickly during their set and just fucking faded it out. So they had a dress rehearsal that went very badly and they were like, well, we're going to replace them in Jim Belushi said, like, hell you will, and he threatened to quit the show, not just the episode, like, the show.

Amazing. And so they had to, they put them on and they were just fucking maniacs they were they specifically played their song directly Insulting New York. Yeah, New York. So right and then they did let's have a war and that was when they were like alright We're done and just they were just they're tearing up the set and I love the moment when they cut them off so much because it's When a guy could one one of the band members runs back and he grabs a huge pumpkin out of nowhere and he starts running forward and rears back as if to throw it into the audience and then the camera cuts out. That's the worst time you can cut out

because all you can imagine is what happened after that. I'm sure you're probably- It's, he probably just dropped it on the ground but you're like, he fucking killed that camera man with a pumpkin. Oh yeah, it's entirely their fault too because it's, again, it's just looking to fear a little bit. Because you booked fear, yes. Yeah, and it's like, yeah, to fear a little bit. Because you booked fear yes.

Yeah and it's like yeah don't have fear on SNL you idiots. What do you think is going to happen? The replacements on winner he deen stand is all. Yeah. Lorraine, you already had a pumpkin stuck on our head for fucking six weeks. So and rehearsal for this show Bob Stinson had missed his solo queue. So during the live performance, Paul wanted to make sure he didn't miss it. So he goes right up the mic and he screams, come on, fucker!

And it's muted in the comedy channel version, I sent you, but he screamed directly into the mic and it was very premeditated. And so the book talks about how Al Franken saw this from the side and was clearly cringing and like trying to like let Paul Westaberg know that like, hey, you fucked up, stop doing this. And so you can see Paul, I give him a big theatrical wink during the next verse. I make it sound cute, but it's like as mean as you could wink.

It's a fucking wink. And yeah, I love it. The ending is so punk rock. You can hear someone clinging their throat. It punk rock. It's just, you can hear someone clearing their throat. It sounds like the band's just falling down the stairs. So big bunch of noise. Then Bob Stinson does this backwards summer salt.

Shows everyone a asshole through the ripen as unitard. And then after all that, just fucking fantastic performance. It cuts into this basic ass sketch about John Loveitz and Joan Q. Second the hospital where like, this is a sad,sac-ass-ban sketch. Imagine being the audience and like seeing that performance even if you're into them at all,

but you just, you have to carry a certain energy after that performance. They're like, yeah, let's fuck shit up. And then we go into this sketch. Like, what do you do with that energy? You have to like punch the person next to you. Yeah, we have to do something with it. You have to turn to a life of crime.

The throw a bottle, I don't know. This sketch is, this is prime like, like this isn't even, they didn't even have a full idea here. It is like four lines for what I can remember and then they just end the sketch. It felt like they pulled the plug on it. Like number one, like this should have been,

the bit is that John Lovitz is the husband, she just gave birth and he's like, the things you said while giving birth were really insulting. So right away I was like, well show that. Show the birth scene. Do it, do it as the birth scene. That's a funnier bit. You have the doctors involved. She's a funnier bit you have the doctors involved

She's you be screaming and then the thing she could scream could get more and more elaborate and accurate But it's none of that He just kind of accuses her like a confronts her She says like I'm sorry They they list some of the things she said which are like kind of funny But not like it's like I wish I married this other guy or like you like you always You know you always run to your mother like very like

like basic You know like Yeah, and then they bring the baby out and then the and then it fucking ends And it was like that that's it, that's the sketch. Well, that baby could have had a funny name that, like, in her rage, she could have named it like my husband's lip dick or something. Right, or like, could have been that one. Not that one.

Not that abstract, like jokes, like it could have gotten really weird and like specific about like how she robbed a bank 10 10 years ago or something anything. I was looking, I was grasping for fucking anything and then before I knew it, the sketch was over. Now you said, you said they bring the baby out in the sketch hands, that's not fair, it's not quite accurate. What they do is they bring the baby out

and then we watch John Lovebets for about 30 seconds slowly fall in love with his new way be boy. And she says he looks like you and he says, oh, he does. And then he look at his little grip. And then they as loving parents just kind of watch over their child for a while. Yes. That's the end of our comedy sketch.

That's a great punchline. Everyone loves that punchline. It is mostly that. It's mostly just watching. Did you write that down as the end of a comedy sketch? Yeah. And somebody's like, why does this have like a homework movie ending? Yeah.

A half a page of the script. That's 30 seconds of screen. Yeah. I read a weirdly fussy review of this episode during my research for the podcast. And I learned that Deneach Revance has dyslexia. And that's probably why she's fucking up so many lines she had in this sketch.

So she's coming in and just calling people all the wrong shit. Yeah, she corrects herself. Yeah, but yeah, I just thought that was a fun, silent life fact. Next up, we got the Dennis Miller weekend, they very, I have a clip, I think people... I just want people to understand this was at the peak of its talent. This is Dennis Miller.

What people know of themselves. He's like that, that's what we have. He's like that, that's what we have. Yeah. Alright, let me play this. The Iran-Araq border, the South Africa Zimbabwe border, of course Uganda, Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Conflux, lastly, Jerry Lee Lewis's current marriage. It's so good. It's only put up three or four of those things.

Yeah. And then said, said the punchline under his breath, and then turned away before he could see the eyes of the people not laughing at him. Yeah, he nearly fucked up. So there's a few layers here. One is I don't know what because we can update, you know, SNL is weekly. So like, it's really like niche to what's in the news that week. Yeah. So I don't know most of what he's referring to.

So there was that level of like, I don't get the joke because I just don't, I wasn't, you know, sentient when this was happening, but also the audience isn't laughing, so I can tell the jokes aren't good either. And then he's just not performing them very well anyway. And then Jerry Lee Lewis' marriage is like a madlib. It's like that's like insert celebrity, you know. And how old was that already right now

to go to that punchline in 1986? Who are you talking about? And it's Dennis Miller. That could have been Oingo Boygo. I could have missed. I just find it fascinating that like this, this is his time, this is why we do this day. He's have Dennis Miller. Yeah, he's

John Stewart in this moment. He's the, he's it. And the audience would, they whooped, they, they blew up for his pie joke. That was when they really lost. God damn, they popped for that pie joke. Yeah, but that was the winning lottery number is pie and they just fucking would crazy. They lost it. Like, you would never heard a joke before in their life. What? And he goes, yeah, like that one too. He's just all like cool about it. Yeah. Like a sweet joke, right?

He was really playing it cool. What's the Mark Twain story where like somebody time travels back to King Arthur or whatever they bring up? They bring up. They bring up a minigun with him. Yes. Like, if you brought the Mark Comedy sensibilities of just the most below average Twitter poster going back to 1986, they'd be a fucking god among men.

I'm literally wrong. Exactly where I was going, because that's my new thought was like, my god, if you teleported me back there, I would be the king of the world. This is your standard. You laugh at me into the lottery number, it's by. I'm gonna fucking slay. I'm gonna bring him many good. These people are starving in the deaf and he just shat in a bowl and whole-handed. Yes! And they're just like, oh yes! They're so into it. It's funny. We're talking about it because the next sketch is that black girl, which felt like a, so of its era,

because it was just a that girl parody, but racial. Like that girl had gone off the air 15 years before they filmed this, and it was just that black girl. It was 1986, so just having the balls to be racist was in itself a joke. Like it was a golden age of just clumsily walking right into racism and being done with your punchline. Yeah, that was, it's like a sitcom, smooth.

And I would argue the jokes are on the level of a sitcom of that era. And in the plot, it just sort of plays out like a sitcom. And then again, no punch lines, it just ends. Like I watched a clip from a sitcom. Now, you're not being fair again. You said it just ends. Know what happens is they leave that consider what has just happened.

The agent comes back in and announces, actually, it's okay because she got the understudy of the part that she wanted. And then we once again celebrate, a couple celebrates a minor success in their lives. Well, the audience watches side-by-side. One more time we tell the entire ending of a hallmark movie. Yeah, instead of a long time.

This one finally has Herodine Stanton. And I was wondering if they had had him lie down for a while because he is missing for a large chunk in the middle here. He drinks some water. Yeah, he's sobered up. When I love about Harry Dean Stenton, as he's so drunk and non-racist that he fucks up this dead simple bit

of just that girl but black. I have a clip of it of him. It's amazing. Lionel Garland! Hot shot Broadway director! Ah! Is that girl? That black girl?

Ah! Excuse us, Latoya Honey. Donald Blomberverine, please. Blomber, please. He's having a... I think you just woke up from a trouble. Yeah. She's perky, probably a spurky, spunky, everything, everything.

But Debby Tantball was written for a white girl, a young white girl from Southampton on the eve of her first Cotillion. Just running for every word. I play a black girl can play a debut time. Look. God damn. What a fucking train wreck.

What? People can't see. It's like he's holding a Sherlock. And I don't know what that next. That's the animal boy. He's holding himself up. Yeah. It does look like a black girl. It's like he's holding himself up. holding a Skuller himself

It doesn't look like a struggle Yeah, they they shoved a prop in their his hand and they just let it like go out there and just try your best man Just get these lines out Just hug the walls always stay close to a table. You can use a table to stabilize yourself. Two non-racists to fucking get this bit. You also heard Terry Swini in the clip. He was going for like a Robert Evans thing.

The Hollywood one, not our maniac friend from behind the bastards. And, but he was just accidentally nailing a 100% pitch perfect Joan Rivers. So, I just love that this season, yeah, this season at a cast member who can't read Q-Cards and another one who only does Joan Rivers. And, incredible. And the rest of the cast is Joan Q-Sek.

It's Anthony Winkle Hall. It's Robert Downey Jr. It's apparently Damon Wains. What the fuck is going on you jack superstars By the way like where is he and this episode? I don't I don't Is not he's at the very end with Bruce Yeah, I'll say Bruce for color. Just how did how did any I'm amazed anybody survived this as in like physically as in like oh yeah, oh this but he survived this as in like physically as in like living through this

Much less came out making perhaps one of the biggest like superstar seasons that has ever been right Incredible, but this next up is the Sam kennis in stand-up set. Yeah, which is great So I had kept the traditional I by not doing any jokes. Yeah, I I didn't know who this was I have to admit oh for real. Yeah, I, I, I didn't know who this was. I have to admit that. Oh, for real? Yeah, I didn't know Sam Kinestown. So imagine my shock at this man. Yeah. Who's dressed like a Batman villain, whose entire bit is that he's loud.

Like that was it, right? He's very loud. And his first joke is about how it must suck to work at a donut shop. And that's it. And it's like, I'm related. Such a common man talking about how much it sucks to work behind a donut shop. And that's it, and it's like how related. Right. Such a common man talking about how much it sucks to work behind a counter.

Now I'd like to hear your observations about the ways that it might suck to work at a donut shop. Oh, you don't have any. Okay. No, it really sounds like he sounds like he's just describing like a being out in New York and being just a generally a bad person, where he just went to get some donuts and he just decided to hate the person behind the counter probably because they took too long.

Like it sounds like the most out-of-touch, like, awful thing. And then he follows up for the killer ending by talking about how he cheated on his girlfriend. And I was like, oh, okay. So your bid is that you're just a terrible person. Then I looked him up and I really got sad because I learned how he died. That you're kind of doing a Sam Kinnison thing too because he sort of, he gently leads you

into the sadness trap, like a preschool teacher. Like he's like, like here on this, he does a bit where he's like, you know, I don't think he should beat women. I don't think he should slap him around, right? I just, I don't believe in beating women. I understand you. Yeah, you know, you what the fuck he should be women. I don't think he should slap him around, right? I just, I don't believe in beating women. I understand! Yeah, you know, what the fuck? Like, it was a trap the whole time?

Right, his, again, his bid is that he's generally unpleasant. And, and, and like, you first thought. And loud, it don't, like, the way like you'd see him on the bus, you'd run into him on the bus, and you'd, you'd, you'd wanna like take the hit, so he doesn't talk to anybody else on the bus. Oh, you're such a generous soul. I would not have that hit.

I would pull the stop early. That's my move. This fucking you deal with this. I'm sure, again, I realize he's very successful and he's doing his thing. And he seems like in real life, like looking him up. He seemed like a nice enough guy. I should say I only skimmed it his, his like Wikipedia. So maybe I'm missing something horrible he did.

But this general, like this comedy bit, it just, it was like Gilbert Godfried, but somehow less pleasant. Like I don't know, Gilbert Godfried, like I get his jokes more. This it felt like the punchline was always I suck, and I'm an unpleasant person. Yeah.

He went through some darkness too. Like some of his acts are like, you would 100% call them hate crimes today. Oh, God. Okay, so I should retract what I said. I said that he seems like an okay guy. We were all monsters in 1986. Yeah, don't think you need to retract what you said.

I would just like to pause it. You had to be on this episode though. Like exams, the overall structure of this episode, what this episode is doing, her eating stanton, the cast, Randy Quaid. He's perfect. Like look at it and you would see a Sam Kinnison shaped piece missing.

It was like, I have to point, Sam Kinnison in here, everybody's drunk and miserable. Why not? Why everybody will say, it's like having a perfect example and not using it, everybody will say, well, but what about Sam Kinnison? Right. It's so drunk and miserable.

Why wasn't Sam Kinnison in it? We're in a lounge show from Hell. We gotta have him as well. He's just, yeah, it's... There's a moment I really love at the end of the episode where he's trying to get them to do his catchphrase as they close the show, which is... Augh! Augh! And so at first I kinda like... That's his catchphrase? Yes it is.

And I'm just loving about him now. What a grace. It's so great. I'm really teaching you the common news to be this, that this is not only that it's catchphrase, it was everywhere. Everybody loved it. This is why boomers are so angry.

Because like, I get it. I get it now where they're like, when I was in my like 30s, this is what we had. This was it. No internet. We had to, every Saturday is what we had. This was it. No internet. We had to, every Saturday night, we had to turn this shit on and hope to Christ that it was gonna be fun.

Yeah. And it never was. Wasn't this night. Hahaha. Holy shit. I just love watching people bail on it. Because it feels like, yeah, okay, that sounds fun. And he just kept doing, it's like, no,

we're doing a full minute and a half of, oh, oh, and they're like, what the? Just everybody's worst friend, like, as a performer. Yeah. Yeah, the shittiest guy in the friend group. Anyway, the next one is Big Ball Sports. I guess we mentioned that one. It's great.

It's like a pre-recorded, I had in my notes that it was Monty Python. It really is. In a good way. It was just a really well-ex, I hadn't mind notes that it was Monty Python-ish. It really is. In a good way. It was just a really well-executed idea. No one expected twists. It's like a 1914 dirt diving competition, like an ancient sport that's obviously very silly.

It's the height of the show. That's the end of the description. Oh, that's it. No need to roast it. It's fine. Again, no, I. No need to roast it, it's fine. Again, I want to say maybe 15, 20 seconds into the sketch. If you just cut away, this would have been a good sketch. Right.

Agreed. Here's what's crazy. Listen, I was written by Al Franken, that's not the crazy part. It was directed by Randy Quaid. Oh, that's how his fucking tentacles are all over this. Cut this over the list. This is the Randy Quaid show. No wonder, this is, not everything makes so much sense

knowing this is the Randy Quaid show. This is not Saturday Night Live. This is welcome to Saturday Night with Randy Quaid. Yeah, incredible. The next sketch is super weird. Maybe in a good way. I don't know, it's Herodine Stanton Place, it's drunk asshole. Oh, this sketch. The next sketch is super weird. Maybe in a good way. I don't know. It's Herodine's

set in place. Drunk Asshole. Oh, this sketch. This is the saddest fucking sketch I've ever seen in my life. Weird. And no other things. It was supposed to be. It's like a mumble core film.

It's so real. Because it's just, it's a, it's a young couple at a bar who who they're just like they've they've they're bending over for a little bit but not too long they seem to really like each other and they just get pestered by a sad drunk man there are no jokes the it's it's heredin as the drunk man and he's just very real and sad. And like, you get so angry about it. Yeah, that there's like this dark nosy sucks. Like that, you're like your wife's body.

No, I don't mean it in the bad way. Sorry. That's literally one of the things he says. It's again, it's the bus energy. It's a man who feels like he is going to jump off a bridge later that night. And it's terrifying. It's like so tragic.

Like it's sad. It's not the joke version of that man. It is just that man. It is like a dead-on depiction of that man. I think this is the last minute edition because it's so late in the show. But also because surely during rehearsals, they realize that Harry Dean Stanton is an alcoholic and they're just like at the end of the show on the night

when he's there with the replacements, he's going to be fucking dead. He's going to be in the process of dying from alcohol poisoning. We need to put a sketch in where he is dying from alcohol poisoning or everybody is going to know. Yeah, that was, I wrote that down too, I was like, did they quickly write this sketch because he was drunk? Because it's very convenient that he gets to play a drunk man sitting at a bar. And he fucking kills it. Yeah, he does a great job. He really made me feel sad.

This just got the job of being a sad drunk man who wishes he belonged somewhere. If you were not a sad drunk man who wishes he belonged somewhere. Yeah, if you were not a sad drunk man who wishes he belonged somewhere Yeah, it's a haunting scene. It's not a good comedy scene, but like it's it's Very good. It's a ginger moush scene that sticks with you I can't stress this enough for people listening. It's just what we're describing and then the couple get mad One of them is Robert Denny Jr And the couple get mad and and they and they Robert Denny Jr. And the couple get mad and they storm off. And then he just moves to the other couple

and also is sad to them. And that's it. That's how it ends. It's just like, yeah, this is going to go on forever until this man dies tonight. The audience, they don't laugh. They quietly go outside, light themselves on fire after seeing this, because there's nothing else you can do after watching this.

It's tragic. Uh, way crazy, different energy with the replacements coming on to do, uh, kiss me on the bus. Everybody, uh, except for Bob, have traded clothes in just random mischief ways. Uh, they fuck up the count off and they have to start a second time and they mostly look kinda grouchy. Now, uh, I looked into this, Bob said he was so high he didn't know they fuck up the count off and they have to start a second time and they mostly look kind of grouchy. Now I looked into this, Bob said he was so high he didn't know they had done the trading close bit. I think they were going to involve him but he was in the bathroom getting high.

So what happened behind the scenes is after the first performance, Lon Michaels gave them a very stern talking to for saying the F word and trashing the green room. So this was very serious to him, they just fired a guy for saying it a couple seasons ago, and they were worried that they could get taken off the air for saying the effort. This is a different time in television production where that was a very serious thing. My.

I feel like it's kind of a common thing to say the effort on Saturday night. I think it feels like it happens every few years. There's probably like 10 articles listing the times on the new cracked. The modern cracked probably really made some lists about that. Why do they love talking about 7 and a half so much?

I don't fucking know. I guess we're doing it. I like the show, but yeah, it's so weird. Tommy Stinson went up to the main mic and he screamed darn it, like all sarcastically. So whether or not saying fuck was a big thing Every person involved did everything they could to make it a big thing like from production to the band every single person was like Saying the f word must be the most important thing in the world

The book also says that Lorne Michaels screamed at their manager some more at the after party and their manager I mean, he's a manager for their placement. So he doesn't give a shit. He's like, are you fucking yelling about the F word? And so college friends who they're doing. He doesn't, he can't wrap his head around caring that someone said the F word under any circumstances. He said it at a child's funeral today.

So, so he's got big left. So here's this a big laugh. So here's this dick-school thing about saying the F40. He had no idea how to apologize. He's just like, finish what you're doing and fuck off. If this was a video game, all of his dialogue choices would be fuck you, you fucking little baby. So anyway, Lorne Michaels was so upset by this that he didn't suitably apologize,

that he banned them from the show forever. And to be fair, he did get an $1100 bill from the hotel later to cover the damage that the replacement did. One of them. Okay, yes. And did not look up the replacements at all before booking them.

He's just like the replacements. That sounds like a nice, I don't know, 1950s do-op group. Let's get them. They must be great. Oh no. The winter be great. Oh no. Winner Sisters canceled. Oh, wouldn't it be cute if we replaced them?

Oh, I love this plan. Do it. Welcome. I've never met Lauren Michaels. All I'll say is every story I've heard about him, he is the villain of the story. And I'll leave it in the end. He went mad with power.

Yeah. He had 11 seasons to show. He's like, I'm the most powerful man in all of the world. Yes. So he was threatening not just to ban the replacements, He had 11 seasons to show. He's like, I'm the most powerful man in all of the world. Yes. So, he was threatening not just to ban the replacements, but all Warner Brothers acts. Like, this is some shit that came out of his mouth. Oh, my God.

And this, you know, he calmed down from this, because these are all just childish temper tantrums, not international law. But, and in fact, Paul Westoverd came back on the show in 1993. So, he went back on all of his like fucking proclamations that night. But anyway, that's the behind the scenes of the replacement. Yeah, in his defense, they said the F word. I'm sure he wasn't having a great night. Just watching this show for many years. I can think we could say the Randy Quaid season was not a good time in his life.

No, that's a very dark time, yeah. But he had the talent, like the writing staff and the stars of the show, aside from Randy Quaid, it's just like your dream cast, like looking back on it now, you're like, look at all these legendary names. The next sketch was a Martin Luther King Jr.'s white sale. Is that it? Was that the joke?

That was it. They have white in the name of the sale. I was pretty sure that this was a city pool, a city pool, and that was a real problem. What a joke. But that was the joke. His mentally challenged impression as his Native American impression.

Yeah. That's it. I think that's good. I would have put some space between this and that black girl. I think, because I feel like, Well, apparently it's MLK day, like at the end they say it. Yes.

And I was like, what the fuck? This was, okay. Oh, I missed that. They did this on. That was, yeah. Holy shit. Yeah, this was either on or it this on. That was holy shit. Yeah, it was either on or the weekend of it's birthday. Opened it with Damon Wains and the menstrual role. Yeah, on it.

This was then celebrating Martin Luther King. That's this is the legal. This has actually become a legal right now. It's very tragic. This was a Robert Smigel one, because it's kind of funny. It's by far the better race of sketch. As you mentioned, it's got Randy Quaid

as sitting bowl Robert Dunning Jr's Tars and Dennis Miller as George Washington. Yeah, I have a clip, it's really good. For score and seven, George Washington. I cannot tell who I am. I'm going to Jack's warehouse outlet sale for the Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday wait sale. I have a dream that you wanted quality linens at the lower prices in town.

John Lovex must play salesman in so much cheese. How do they do it? Elementary my dear sitting bowl. Low overhead means low price. Christian Downey. I have seen the other side of the mountain, and the price is way higher. So march on down to the King King King's ice savings at Jax, where house in Portham? Here's the thing.

Jax discounted in Portham Route 23, Demster. I think I left him, Robert, about to give you your stars. Come on, they're not. Boom! Boom! Boom! Best part. Yeah, I'm just so happy to be in Tarzan. So, yeah.

Other than the white thing, if you took that out, this would just be an ad. Like, that's the thing is this is no different than an ad you'd see on like daytime cable. So like, that's what we're dealing with here, like in terms of humor. Yeah, it's just anybody's local commercial where you're like, yeah, where it's a little quirky, a little racist,

and you're like, man, this is ordinary. Yeah, it's so, an observation. What if you took this ad and you added the word? What? We got it. My observation is finished. Thank you for listening. Right Have you guys considered racism? So many of these sketches depend on again, they depend on like like you you know, I've written

Comedy like this or worked on where you read the script and you don't Initially see how it's that funny and then you watch the performers go and you're like this or worked on where you read the script and you don't initially see how it's that funny and then you watch the performers go and you're like this is extremely funny like most kids in the hall sketch they rely on this idea where if you read it on paper you'd be like that's not so funny then you watch it and it's the way it's performed in the way it's shot is extremely funny and dry the problem is what you work with Cody Cody does a great job of taking something that's more less straight and making it funny. Yeah, or like Swain was the king of that. The point being that I can see why they would write these with that in mind, but they

were clearly picturing something that they needed to direct it. They needed to micromanage how it would have done. Otherwise, it's just that's the problem. You weren't writing for Randy Quaid. Yeah, it gets lost in translation. You don't think Randy Quaid was a funny sitting bull. Psh. I'm just saying if you wrote a sketch

with Randy Quaid in mind, rather than just writing a comedy sketch and hoping Randy Quaid could perform it, then this might have salvaged the Randy Quaid era. Can I tell you something that I knew I would probably have to bring up. Full disclosure, Randy Quaid follows me on Twitter. Amazing. I'm one of the 400 people he follows.

That's awesome. That's what you're going to follow. I'm going to come back to you guys. I don't know why that happened, but it just did. He just, what does he do today? He like sort of films crazy things with his wife where he like threatens to murder people from his life. Yeah, he's a weirdo.

He's a weirdo. Yeah, like professional. You did quite a bit of research. Some very thorough research. Some very responsible research on this episode. What I did was I got distracted and learned about Randy Quaid. I like I looked up literally what was the turning point for Randy Quaid because I was certain it had to be around this episode. What I did was I got distracted and learned about Randy Quaid. I like I look up literally what was the turning point for Randy Quaid because I was certain it had to be around this era. And I was right. It was actually before. It was 1983. He became convinced

that Hollywood invented a woman named Ronda L Quaid and that they paid her all of his royalties. Wow. Amazing. That's like not that crazy though. I was about to say that does sound like something they do. Yeah. He became convinced that's what happened. And so the rest of his life from this point on was in spite of Rhonda quay. He's hunting her.

That bitch has my money. Give him any quay. Yes, is the answer to that. To the sketch you did. Yes, that is what actually happened. I could see going mad, hunting Rhonda Quaid and never finding her. The Rhonda Quaid book is just all I have is vengeance.

And it's just, it's just 300 pages documenting is Rhonda Quaid's life. It's just weird. For word, Moby Dick, but find a place with Rhonda Quay. From hell's heart, I stab at thee, Rhond up. For royalty's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. Lauren Michaels is backstage fuming, Herodine's staying as on stage, drunk off his ass, fear like, Okay, okay, replace Mrs. Chattacan, followed by 40 seconds of airtime to fill,

which he did not. You have this exact quote written in the exact way I wrote it. Can I want to play a replacement, Sam Kelsen? Oh my God. What a performance. Why don't you work? We are missing the best punchline of this episode, the only punchline that got a really true laugh out of me,

which is, say to next week for Dudley Moore and musical guest, Al Green. It is pretty good. God damn. That's a great way, a great way to end it. God, as if Dudley Moore is going to be more sober. Maybe that was like the theme. They're like, if it's fucking, no one wants to do any quates, show sober. This is equally as big a disaster, but in the exact same way.

You're just you learn nothing and you're going to do it all again next week is the best punch line. Love it. This is man. People watch this. People have to watch this and then they like, they left. They left the theater and like, what did they do? You know, what do you do after this? You go, you get drunk probably because you've seen a bunch of drunk people.

There's probably people who had like sad sex. Like babies were probably conceived because of the sadness of this show. That's why there's so many herbs born in 1986. They're like, God, let's name this baby after that amazing, Randy Quaid sketch we saw. Ha-ha-ha. You can track, like, depression levels in America, by the amount of babies that are named Randy

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