Well, maybe not http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/biggrin.gif Anyway, anyone catch the 25 year anniversary of SNL this Sunday? They showed a bunch of clips from the 80's including their music performers...cool flashback http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smile.gif Even had the Eurythmics performing live. This was definitely one of the funniest shows in the 80's http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smile.gif

Now isn't that special http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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SNL was the coolest show in the 80's! My brother taped it for me since I missed the 25th anniversary. It was hilarious!! I love Adam Sandler, he was so funny on that show..Opera Man, the canteen boy was so retarded!! They did some good tributes to the castmembers that died. Chris Farley was hilarious as that intervention guy. I always try to catch reruns on Comedy Central

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yeah, Adam Sandler's a riot http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/biggrin.gif He don't even have to try...all he has to say is "hello" to get the crowd going http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smile.gif The Farley tribute was good...one could only imagine what Chris would've done at that reunion had he been there...

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I don't think we got SNL over here. Is that the show where Eddie Murphy played his best known character 'Buckwheat" or whatever the name was. I loved that character http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/biggrin.gif I also love Adam Sandler. Even Mum enjoyed The Wedding Singer. Happy Gilmore was another good one. He always seems to have one hell of a temper in his movies.



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Happy Gilmore is definetly his best movie. Adam's the best!!
Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat..I love that whole "Buckwheat Sings!" skit. He's singing all those songs and then there's one song where that can't figure out what he's singing..they just put "???????" as the song title. Oh man, I totally laugh at that skit. (The actual song he's trying to sing is "Betty Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes)

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I know! http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/biggrin.gif I love that skit too. Sad he was killed though, bummer! http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/frown.gif



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Yes, SNL was the best during the 80s! I watched it every weekend.. And yes, Eddie Murphy did play Buckwheat. Wookin' Pa Nub!

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Up! I saw something about Church Chat up there! The Church Lady! Yep http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smile.gif Satan!

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Ah yes! Wookin' Pa Nub http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/biggrin.gif Also, Fee Tines a Mady. I can't remember any of the other songs though. Didn't he also do a teacher or something? Someone's Neighbourhood?? I wish I could remember. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/frown.gif



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Oh, yeah, Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy! The character you're trying to think of, Sheibub, is "Mr. Robinsons Neighborhood" and it was very funny! I particularly remember the episode where "Mr. Robinson" was playing the drums he stole off the back of Smokey Robinson's van in his apartment. His neighbor comes knocking on the door telling him to knock it off and of course Mr. Robinson just ignores him and talks junk to him. The next thing you know, the neighbor, who turns out to be Mr. T, is busting through the door and grabbing Eddie by the neck. Mr. T looks at the camera and says, "Kids, today's word is PAIN!"

Another of my favorite skits in the 80's was Jim Belushi doing a "Santa Claus, the Terminator" type thing. He came down the chimney with some heavy weaponry and took out the Christmas tree among other things!

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I knew it was Mr Robinson's Neighbourhood, I just wasn't sure. I think I remember seeing that one with Mr T in it. Only on a Best of Eddie Murphy video though.



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Yeah. Fee Tines a Mady.. hehe I saw that same Eddie Murphy video. That was great. I'd like to buy that one.. I will have to keep my eyes opened at Hollywood Video..

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Oh I love Saturday Night Live. I especiaaly loved it with Adam Sandler, Dana Carvey, Chris Farley,Mike Myers etc.
My favorite skits were Mike Myers as Simon (the little boy in a tub, Cheeky Monkey, You bum looker)Chris Farley as the Motivational Speaker who "lives in a van down by the river! Saturday Night Live's version of "We are the World" (Adam Sandler is Axel Rose, Chris Farley as Meatloaf )
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I am about to watch the video - Saturday Night Live, 25 years... http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smile.gif As soon as I'm done posting here I will pop it in. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smile.gif

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huge *bump* of a two year-old thread...

through reruns on the Comedy Network in the late '90s-early '00s I have seen almost all SNL episodes ever made, here's my take on the '80s phases:

1979-80 - no Belushi or Aykroyd, but lots of Bill Murray, and I really liked Bill Murray on the show.

1980-81 - generally considered the worst SNL season ever, watchable only to see Eddie Murphy rise from uncredited extra all the way up to the show's biggest star! Or to see Gilbert Gottfried (who Gott Fired late in the season with most of the cast) looking catatonic with depression at how bad the show is.

1981-84 - Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo kept the show respectable, but the writing was not very good. Brad Hall is the most annoying Weekend Update anchor of all time.

1984-85 - the best non-Lorne season, with some already-recognizable names like Martin Short, Rich Hall and Billy Crystal brought in. Good while it lasted.

1985-86 - Lorne is back with the "Brat Packers" season including Joan Cusack, Robert Downey (Jr.) and Anthony Michael Hall. Another weak year, long stretches of stuff that just wasn't funny. Randy Quaid's impression of Reagan was just as bad as Charles Rocket's! The best thing this year was definitely Dennis Miller.

1986-90 - great era for the show, with some of the better-known faces like Dana Carvey, Victoria Jackson and Phil Hartman. My favourite phase of '80s SNL is the very end, with "Wayne's World" and "Sprockets" both appearing in 1989 when Mike Myers joined an already-good show.

Anyone been watching the "Classic SNL" which follows not long after the regular SNL in a lot of markets? They're running through the 1988-89 season right now.

HUGE, SNL fan!!Im sure I caught the episode, but im not recalling it. The 80's had a great line up the early years, it did go a little down hill in the latter. Member this one?
Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat. Wookin pa nub in all the wrong places..Wookin pa nub.:goofy:

^^Good assement there Cartoon Chris. I've always felt the same way about the late '80s years of SNL. They were simply hilarious. 1986-'90 sound right, but I might extend it to '91 or even early '92. I know around 1992 was when the show started to really suck, both Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley hosted some very painfully unfunny shows at that time.

During that late '80s and very early '90s time, SNL gave us memorable recurring skits such as Wayne's World, Sprockets, Church Lady, Jon Lovitz's "Liar" and ofcourse Hans and Franz.

"I am Hans"

"and I am Franz"

"And we just vant to [clap] pump [clap], you up!"


I also thought Dennis Miller was the best Weekend Update anchor. Lot of political skits can lose their hilarity with time and become dated, but I still laugh at Jon Lovitz's impression of Michael Dukakis and Dana Carvey's Ross Perot/George Bush.

the 1990-91 season saw Lovitz and Dunn gone while Farley, Meadows, Sandler and Spade all showed sometime in that season IIRC, so I think of that as a kind of transitional season.

1990-91 was an EXCELLENT season for the show, maybe the best ever, I thought it lost a bit of steam in 1991-92 when Dennis Miller left the WU desk in exchange for Kevin Nealon.

I thought the best yrs of SNL was early 90s with Farley, Myers, Sandler and Spade... :D

I've been watching Sat. Night Live since the beginning. I haven't caught it past few years (can't stay up that late anymore lol) But the shows from the 70's & 80's were the best.

I loved that Buckwheat sings skit that was so funny. My favourtie skit has to be "lunchlady land" with Adam sandler and Chris Farley that was a riot " sloppy sloppy joe, sloppy sloppy joe.......navy bean navy bean" lol

I also loved coffee talk with Linda Richmond (Mike Myers) and church lady (Dana Carvey) and anything with chris Farley and Adam Sandler in dresses "gap girls" :lol:

The best years of SNL to me are the '70's and '80's. Some of my favorite skits have been when Eddie Murphy did Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood. I cracked up when he said, "Oh damn, somebody stole my sneakers!" :lol:

Other great mentions over the years is Eddie doing Gumby, Gilda Radner doing Roseanna Roseanne Dana (sp?), Dana Carvey as the Church Lady, and this 90's one with Adam Sandler doing Operaman.