Richard Pryor/Chevy Chase SNL clip

[Starbucks Anarchist]

A classic clip from the 70s. This had me :rofl:.

RIP, Richard Pryor.

http://www.youtube.com/w/SNL-Richard-Pryor-and-Chevy-Chase--Word-Associattion?v=zQnjlKffxjs&search=snl%20richard%20pryor%20chevy%20chase

[TheGunslinger]

1. .

Classic!

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. I remember that bit

God, when SNL was funny, it was funny. :rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. I wish I could have seen more 70s sketches.

I didn't start watching SNL until the early 90s, back when I was 10 years old or so, so the Farley/Sandler/Spade/Hartman-era episodes are the ones I most closely associate with.

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. You missed the glory years

They were so edgy and so irreverent. That clip with Pryor and Chase was fairly typical of the kind of stuff they did.

In 1978, I guess, they did a bit with the first and possibly only interracial homosexual kiss in teevee history. Ackroyd played Jimmy Carter examining Three Mile Island after the "accident," and the radiation made him grow to like 50 feet tall, along with a cleaning woman played by Garrett Morris. Carter dumped Rosalynn for his giant-in-arms, and they kissed. Just a little peck, but...

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. Good thing we have reruns.

I watch the reruns that air early Sunday morning, and they occasionally show 70s shows. I remember watching an episode hosted by Buck Henry, and one sketch had him playing an assistant to Gerald Ford.

Chevy Chase would imitate Ford's goofy mannerisms, and Henry's character would copy him so that Ford wouldn't feel bad. The end of the sketch showed Ford at the podium. He drops his papers, so Henry picked up the papers and kept dropping them so Ford wouldn't look weird. It was a lot funnier than I can convey, though. :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Yeah, that was a recurring bit

They had Chase as Ford and Henry as... his chief of staff, I guess... a few times.

Ever see Henry as the "funny uncle" to little girls Gilda Radner and Laraine Newman? Or the best thing they did back then, IMO, Ackroyd and Steve Martin as the Two Wild and Crazy Guys?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

8. Never saw the funny uncle bit.

But I saw the Wild and Crazy Guys make a surprise appearance in a 90s episode in a Roxbury sketch, which I then realized was a ripoff of Akroyd and Martin in the first place.

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. That used to deSTROY me

It was so utterly fucking silly, especially the way they walked. I'd watch Martin with the sashaying ass and the pointing fingers and that cheesy-assed grin, and I'd be a puddle.

Uh... not that kinda puddle... :blush:

[TheGunslinger]

7. I remember being a kid and spending the night at my grandparents....

I had been begging and begging for weeks and weeks for my grandmother to let me watch SNL. Finally on this one night she relented.

Well, guess what bit was shown? Dan Aykroyd as the Refrigerator Repairman! As soon as that asscrack started showing, my grandmother was flying for the channel knob and turning it over to Lawrence Welk reruns!!



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