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raecoffey wrote: Mon Jul 31, 2023 1:10 pm Whether or not you're a cannabis enthusiast, do yourself a favor and go look up the movie "How High" starting Method Man and Red Man. It has always been up there for me.

I will try to do this.

This is.

Laugh it up

I am not saying this is one of the best ever, but it came up at work today, so I am going to include it.

"All The Food is Poison" by Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

"President Bill Clinton: Mother and Father to the Nation" by The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show



And I would like to also add the following, which is about a documentary about the Dana Carvey Show. Which was not on for very long.

One thing the Dana Carvey show did as a bit was have a different sponsor for each show and changed the name of it to reflect that. I believe they did actually lose a sponsor or sponsors as the show went on. Anyway. This, as Dana states, kind of says it all:

Okay, that (the documentary clip) is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. We've all had a rough week, and that just TURNED IT AROUND, baby!

This is from the last episode of the Kids in the Hall of the 90s.

"Censored Sketches" by The Kids in the Hall

Hahaha

"Bad Manager" by Beau Brooks

I'm glad this qualifies.

"Massive Headwound Harry" by Saturday Night Live

This is the greatest comedy sketch to ever exist. Let's get it.

"Pre-Taped Call-in Show" by Mr. Show with Bob and David

That is the greatest comedy sketch to ever exist. I assumed it would close out the thread.

For fun, without looking, can you name all six show topics in chronological order?

Also, I decided to finally watch the entire episode in which that sketch occurred, and I found myself just waiting for it to start, and then once it ended I hit "pause" and will or will not pick it up later.

I agree with my previous theory that some shows are buoyed by their best sketches. Particularly when one of them is, as you've stated, the greatest comedy sketch of all time.

I watched the Dana Carvey documentary sketch and it wasn't funny. Then I watched the Mother/Father to the Nation sketch and the Documentary sketch again and it was much better

It's nice too see Dana Carvey do something other than Garth. Headwound Harry was pretty funny

AArdvark wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2023 8:12 am I watched the Dana Carvey documentary sketch and it wasn't funny. Then I watched the Mother/Father to the Nation sketch and the Documentary sketch again and it was much better

Yeah. I guess the thing was, when The Dana Carvey Show premiered, I at least was pretty psyched. He was my favorite part of SNL and this is a whole show with just him?

As an older person I get what they were going for. Just from the first sketch (which I think the Clinton puppy one was) they were like, you're either with us or fuck off. Now of course I'd do the same thing if I could in some medium. Someone had to be the edgiest one doing the thing they were doing and I think it was them and they got their show dropped because of it.

I've been listening to Dana Carvey and David Spade's SNL podcast ("Fly on the Wall") and Carvey especially had a real love/hate relationship with a lot of those skits and characters. According to them, a lot of the skits were the result of guest hosts showing up and requesting to be in a "Church Lady" or "Wayne's World" skit. I say love/hate because as much as he complains about it I'm pretty sure he still cashes all those Wayne's World residual checks. But yeah, a lot of those off the wall skits like Headwound Harry were a way for them to get different types of humor out there.

I saw David Cross doing standup years ago in a club with a couple hundred people and it was so, so good.

I have attempted to listen to Fly on the Wall. And look. I love those guys. I really do. They're both in this thread!!! But Dana obviously has ADHD and I feel they could use one more guy to help them stay on topic with their guests. OK? Don't hit me.

They do the awful thing where they talk more than their guests. Steve-O does the same thing.