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Celebrity Jeopardy!

Celebrity Jeopardy!

Main article: Celebrity Jeopardy! (Saturday Night Live)

Celebrity Jeopardy! was a recurring sketch that parodied the popular game show Celebrity Jeopardy, featuring celebrities who quite often seemed to respond incorrectly. Will Ferrell portrayed the host, Alex Trebek, who frequently ended up frustrated with the contestants' stupidity, and the constant taunts of Sean Connery (portrayed by Darrell Hammond).

Church Chat

Main article: The Church Lady

Church Chat was a Christian-based, distinctly local-TV celebrity interview program during the 1980s, 1990s (and once in the 2000s), hosted by "The Church Lady" (named "Enid Strict"), a character created and performed by Dana Carvey as a spoof of on-air, holier-than-thou Christian televangelist. The SNL character was immediately recognizable and popular, spawning some catch phrases such as "Well, isn't that special?", and "Could it be...SATAN?!"

On the set of "Church Chat", with its rectory desk and bogus cellophane stained-glass, other cast members of SNL would appear as celebrities of the day, and sometimes, so would actual celebrities of the day. Church Lady would seemingly praise or soothe her guests during their time of crisis, only to blindside them with judgmental admonishments and damnation. She would always wear a high-collared purple dress, a sweater, and old fashioned glasses. Most skits would end with her telling the church organist to "Hit it, Pearl!" as she'd stand over her "sinner" guests performing her "superior dance."

Unlike most other popular characters from SNL, though, she was never incorporated into a feature length film.

Coffee Talk with Linda Richman

Main article: Coffee Talk

Mike Myers played Linda Richman, a stereotypical Jewish middle-aged woman based on Myers' (now former) mother-in-law (Myers has said he got explicit permission from his mother-in-law before creating and playing the character). Originally, Coffee Talk was hosted by Myers as Paul Baldwin, whose favorite phrase was, "No big whoop." Richman had an exaggerated New York Jewish accent (e.g. her pronunciation of "Cawfee tawk"). She sported big hair (which she could not go more than five seconds without adjusting); dark glasses; long, painted fake nails; and gold jewelry. She frequently went into pseudo-Yiddish rants, using terms like "verklempt" and "shpilkes in [my] geneckteckessoink", and had an obsession with Barbra Streisand. One episode featured a surprise appearance by Streisand. The other stars of the episode were Rosanne Barr and Madonna.

The Continental

Main article: The Continental (Saturday Night Live)

Played by Christopher Walken on 6 of the 7 episodes that he hosted, The Continental is a stereotypical middle-aged European playboy who refuses to be put off, after he has attracted a woman to his apartment. His approach is non-violent but also hilariously uncharming. Camera angles are always from the woman's view.

Episodes featuring The Continental

January 20, 1990

October 24, 1992

January 13, 1996

April 8, 2000

May 19, 2001

February 22, 2003

Cooking with the Anal Retentive Chef

This series of sketches featured Phil Hartman as Eugene, a fastidious chef who could not bear to be in the presence of anything cluttered or dirty. After peeling some vegetables he advised throwing the peels away by wrapping them in paper toweling, then aluminum foil, then putting them in a paper bag that was then to be sealed with scotch tape. Gene never completed any of his recipes; he always became too distracted by the effects of his psychological complex, and ran out of time. The majority of these sketches featured the Eugene character as a chef, however, he also played an anal retentive sportsman and home improvement expert. The sketch was presented as a PBS program sponsored by the Chubb Group.

Episodes featuring the Anal Retentive Chef

April 1, 1989 host: Mel Gibson

May 13, 1989 in "Fishing with the Anal Retentive Sportsman" host: Wayne Gretzky

September 30, 1989 in a sketch called "Home Improvement" host: Bruce Willis

December 2, 1989 host: John Goodman

May 12, 1990 host: Andrew Dice Clay

Daily Affirmation with Stuart Smalley

Main article: Stuart Smalley

The Dark Side with Nat X

In the early 1990s, Chris Rock portrayed "Nat X", a militant talk show host with a huge Afro hairstyle. He once remarked that he had only a 15-minute show because, as he explained, if he had any more, "The Man" would regard it as welfare. Many of Rock's original stand-up comedy bits were incorporated into Nat X's dialogue.

Nat X was cruel to all of his guests, "greeting" nearly all of them with, "Sit yo' ass down!" Perhaps the most memorable episode featured host Kevin Bacon as Vanilla Ice. Nat told Ice that he could not dance, and even persuaded his other guest, Colin Powell, to dance with him in order to show Ice how to do it.

Spike Lee made a surprise appearance as himself on another episode, donning an "X" cap that was made popular by his film Malcolm X. Not knowing this at first, Nat explained to him that he had been seeing these caps all over town but had personally not seen a dime in profits.

Chris Farley often appeared as "Sandman", a manic clown armed with a broom who swept guests away when Nat had had enough of them. Sandman was modeled after Howard "Sandman" Simms from Showtime at the Apollo, who performed the same function on that show's famed "Amateur Night" episodes, when substandard performers fell short of audience approval.

Episodes featuring Nat X

November 10, 1990 host: Jimmy Smits

February 9, 1991 host: Kevin Bacon

April 20, 1991 host: Steven Seagal

September 28, 1991 host: Michael Jordan

December 14, 1991 host: Steve Martin

May 9, 1992 host: Tom Hanks

November 21, 1992 host: Sinbad

November 2, 1996 host: Chris Rock

Delicious Dish

Main article: Delicious Dish

Delicious Dish was not set up as a TV show, but rather a radio show that appeared to be simulcast on TV. It was hosted by the characters Margaret-Jo McCullen (portrayed by Ana Gasteyer) and Terry Rialto (portrayed by Molly Shannon). Both characters used rather monotonous voices with very little inflection in parody of a stereotypical National Public Radio host. They'd often interview guests and proceed with a dialogue that would mislead radio listeners since they could not see what was going on in the studio. The most famous iteration of this sketch is likely the "Schwety Balls" skit with Alec Baldwin.

The Denise Show

The Denise Show revolved around Adam Sandler's character (Brian), who broke up with his girlfriend Denise (played by Shannen Doherty), and has yet to accept that the relationship is over. He would feature guests who had seen Denise, and take phone calls. Calls with his father (played by Phil Hartman) would result in shouting matches about how disappointed he was with his son, with Brian eventually hanging up on him. The show appeared to come to an end when, later in the season, Denise's friend (played by Nicole Kidman) appeared on the show and became Brian's new girlfriend. However, in a later broadcast, the show was restarted when Brian broke up with Denise's friend as they did not share the same interests, which mainly included stalking Denise.

It was revealed on the show's final episode that Brian had previously hosted "The Linda Show" as a teenager in the late 1970s. Though Brian claimed it was entirely different from "The Denise Show", it was in fact exactly the same, but with a different ex-girlfriend. Linda (played by Nancy Kerrigan), who had moved to Florida after breaking up with Brian, makes a surprise appearance on "The Denise Show", as she is in town visiting her aunt for two weeks. The couple reunites, with Brian saying that "The Denise Show" would go on a two-week hiatus and probably be followed upon its return by an all-new version of "The Linda Show."

Good Morning Brooklyn

Good Morning Brooklyn is a morning talk show hosted by Brooklynites who spoke in Italian American vernacular using heavy New York accents. Its hosts were James Barone (Jay Mohr) and Angela Tucci (played first by Sarah Jessica Parker, then by Courteney Cox). The two often got into shouting matches, yelling "Shut up!", "No, you shut up!" back and forth until they cut to a "Please Stand By" graphic. Barone frequently used the expression, "Fugheddaboudit!"

Also featured were traffic and weather reporter Anthony (pronounced Ant'ny, played by Michael McKean), who gave vague and uninformative reports (such as, "It's hot as a bastard!"), and field reporter Molly Fahey (Molly Shannon), who, when asked if her name was Italian, admits, "No, but it's Catholic", which James replies is "good enough".

Adam Sandler played Angelo, a guest whose entrance was always accompanied by his yelling at an off-screen antagonist ("No, you move your car!" or "No, you suck my ass!"). In one sketch, Angelo hosted a segment called "Beatin' of the Week", in which someone would receive a beating for making derogatory remarks about Italians. Chris Farley played a hot dog vendor who was discovered by Fahey, and was the unfortunate recipient of said beating for his comment that "IROC" was an acronym for "Italian Retard Out Cruising".

The character James Barone later appeared in an unrelated sketch about a Civil War documentary, in which uninformed high school dropouts commented on the American Civil War.

Goth Talk

Main article: Goth Talk

Goth Talk was a late-night Tampa Bay cable access show recorded in the basement of two goth high school students, Azrael Abyss (Chris Kattan) and Circe Nightshade (Molly Shannon).

Hello Dolly

The How Do You Say? Ah Yes, Show

This sketch was furnished as a talk show featuring Chris Kattan as Antonio Banderas, the show's host. Kattan portrayed Banderas as a nave chauvinist whose only interest was to attempt to charm any female guest into sleeping with him, using his well-documented sex appeal and shaky-at-best mastery of the English language (as evidenced in the show's title). In the show, Banderas was always backed up by his three-man mariachi band, who aside from performing the musical duties on the show, constantly begged Banderas not to unbutton or remove his shirt, for it would be "too sexy". A female guest who was put off by his advances once asked him, "Aren't you married to Melanie Griffith?". His response was "Yes, but she is, how do you say, old and not here?". Drew Barrymore appeared in a sketch as Melanie Griffith.

Issues with Jeffrey Kaufman

The Joe Pesci Show

This sketch starred Jim Breuer as Pesci, the host of his own late-night talk show. The heard-but-not-seen cameraman was meant to be Pesci's brother.

Pesci's personality on the show does not so much resemble the real Joe Pesci as it does Tommy DeVito, his character from Goodfellas. While interviewing his guests, each guest would invariably, inadvertently say something that Pesci took as an insult. He would then produce a baseball bat, and proceed to beat the guest senseless.

There were a few guests who were notable exceptions to this fate. The first sketch featured Anthony Edwards as Macaulay Culkin, Pesci's co-star in Home Alone. On one episode hosted by Jim Carrey, Carrey played legendary actor James Stewart, while regular cast member Mark McKinney played Carrey. Pesci and Stewart teamed up to beat up Carrey, with Stewart going on to beat up Pesci himself. One episode featuring then Mayor Rudy Giuliani was about to get beaten when his security detail grabs Pesci, then Giuliani grabs a Stickball stick and proceeded to beat the crap out of Pesci. Pesci also spares actors who, like him, are of Italian ancestry and who came to prominence in films about the Sicilian Mafia. Kevin Spacey appeared as Al Pacino on one episode, in which the two of them team up against Rodney Dangerfield (potrayed by Darrell Hammond). Alec Baldwin, John Goodman and Colin Quinn made appearances as Robert De Niro, though he is reduced to monosyllabic responses to Pesci's prompts: his lines are usually "I heard some things" (a line from Oscar winner "Raging Bull", the first movie to star both De Niro and Pesci), and "Li'l bit" (a shortened version of a line from Goodfellas (where De Niro accuses another mobster of being a "little bit out of line" for insulting Pesci's character), another film starring the two actors). The real Pesci and De Niro surprisingly appeared on one episode, criticizing Breuer for playing caricatures of their film characters. Breuer's weak defense of himself insults Pesci, who asks De Niro if they were just insulted, to which De Niro responds, "Li'l bit." The two of them then proceed to beat up Breuer and Quinn.

A cel-shaded rendering of an episode of The Joe Pesci Show appears in a scene of the movie Waking Life where the television is scanning through several channels.

Lank Thompson

Mike Myers played Lank Thompson in three different sketches in the early 90s. Thompson was a very handsome man who marketed a line of videos to help men look and act more handsomely. The three videos were Lank Thompson: I'm a Handsome Man, Lank Thompson: I'm a Handsome Actor and Lank Thompson: I'm a Handsome Black Man.

Leon Phelps, the Ladies Man

Tim Meadows portrayed Leon Phelps, aka "The Ladies Man", in this popular series of sketches. Phelps (who is stuck in a 1970s mentality, is obsessed with Delta Burke, and speaks with a lisp) hosts a television show ("The Ladies Man") where he takes calls and delivers sexual advice. However, Phelps's advice is always over the top, and generally out of line, often suggesting "the butt" no matter what the caller had asked. Whenever he takes a call from a female caller, Phelps says, "Ooooh! It's a lady!" Phelps always has a glass of Courvoisier, a brand of fine Cognac.

The Ladies Man was one of two sketches that featured Monica Lewinsky when she appeared on the May 8, 1999 episode hosted by Cuba Gooding Jr.

This sketch became one of a handful of SNL sketches to spawn its own feature film.

The character of Leon Phelps, aka "The Ladies Man", was inspired by Jonathan Silverman of Selva Negra United.

Main article on the 2000 film: The Ladies Man (2000 film)

Morning Latte

This sketch features Will Ferrell and Cheri Oteri playing two morning talk show hosts. Ferrell plays Tom Wilkins, a typical vapid and smiling male TV personality, and Oteri plays his scatterbrained female co-host, Cass Van Rye. The two are depicted as being extremely chipper, and tend to be overenthusiastic about each other's mundane life stories, and about their less-than-stellar guests. This is more than likely due to the large amounts of latte they consume during the course of a show.

The two begin the show by recounting recent events in their personal lives, (in the same vein as shows like Live with Regis and Kelly, which SNL itself has parodied after Oteri and Ferrell left the show), which are almost certainly never as exciting as their reactions to them. Cass usually tells a story about herself and her husband Eli, in which she never fails to include the detail about her inability to conceive children. Tom then tells a story about a recent event involving him and his wife Gail. Cass almost immediately forgets the details of his story, prompting her to ask questions to which he has already stated the answers. There is also usually a producer off to the side who throws out random comments, which Cass inadvertently forgets over the course of the show. The producer eventually gets fed up with her absentmindedness and loses his temper, shouting obscenities (such as, "YOU STUPID BITCH!") at her. The two hosts become stunned at the reaction, until he informs them that he was "just kidding", to which they respond with incessant laughter.

They also have guests on the show, yet no matter how boring or insipid they are, the two remain extremely enthralled throughout the interview.

Morning Latte at the SNL Archive

Perspectives with Lionel Osbourne

In this mid-to-late 1990s series of sketches, Lionel Osbourne (played by Tim Meadows) hosts a television show primarily dealing with African-American issues. However, the show is only broadcast to fulfill WNBC-TV's public service commitment, and airs very early on Sunday morning. Osbourne is generally clueless to the accomplishments of the guests on his show, regularly asking them stupid questions. Also, Osbourne pauses after nearly every dialogue sequence with his guest to announce the time and to re-identify the show, which would always follow the format: "It's (time) in the A.M. and you're watching Perspectives. I'm your host, Lionel Osbourne. With me today is (guest).", followed by a gradually less informative recap of the conversation so far. In one sketch, Osbourne interviewed Dr. Emory Coleman (played by David Alan Grier), host of the television show Viewpoint - which was identical to Perspectives, but with Coleman as host and Osbourne as the guest. The sketch repeatedly cut back and forth between Perspectives and Viewpoint, causing even the hosts to become confused as to which show they were on.

Pimp Chat

Done only twice, this sketch featured Tracy Morgan as Bishop Don "Mack" Donald, a pastiche/parody/homage to Bishop Don "Magic" Juan. Both sketches featured Tim Meadows as "Pimpin' Cal", Bishop Donald's sidekick, and took place in the back of a limo with pink faux fur upholstery. The first sketch featured Vince Vaughn as "White Chocolate", and the second featured Ray Romano. As these were produced during the Clinton era, they invariably had content regarding said presidential scandals, with the occasional political questions thrown in. During these sketches, Bishop Donald would always call for the limo to slow down, at which point he would yell (to his one of his whores, presumably), "Bitch, where's my money?"

Pretty Living

Pumping Up with Hans & Franz

Main article: Hans and Franz

Hans & Franz were two muscle-bound jocks played by Kevin Nealon and Dana Carvey mimicking Arnold Schwarzenegger with padding for fake muscles, gray sweatsuits, weight belts, and Austrian accents. They were the hosts of "Pumping Up with Hans & Franz", where they proceed to denigrate others for not being strong, and then strike bodybuilder poses. They always introduced themselves saying, (Carvey) "I am Hans." (Nealon) "...And I am Franz" (together) "...And we are here to pump [handclap] you up." In one episode, Schwarzenegger actually appears and admonishes them for being girly men.

Hanz and Franz appear in the EPCOT Center presentation Cranium Command as they make the heart beat.

The Quiet Storm

The Quiet Storm was a radio show hosted by Chris "Champagne" Garnett (Tim Meadows).

Sassy's Sassiest Boys

Phil Hartman played Russell Clark, editor of Sassy Magazine, who interviewed young, male celebrities of the day, and incessantly repeated the term "Sassy!", or variations of it ("The French have a word for it: Sass!" or "Looks like someone stepped in a big pile of Sassy!") after each guest's response. Guests included Joey Lawrence (played by Mike Myers

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