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― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

i have seen this damn pic in a million places, and i have no idea who it is

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

it's that American guy who joined the Taliban

― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

Rory McGrath?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

"HOUSE OF ... "

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

It's Will Ferrell in the Blue Oyster Cult sketch from SNL.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

Hari OTM.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

You can probably find the entire skit online under the title "more cowbell". It also features Christopher Walken. It's one of the classic Saturday Night Live clips - top 10 definitely.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

This thread needs more cowbell.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

and less fearing of the reaper.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

It's probably funnier if you thought that it was just some random dude.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

british people don't know will ferrell?

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

While going through a journal entry from 1995, I found I had a dream about Will Ferrell, but I referred to him as "that new guy from 'SNL.'"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

i dont watch tv.

i saw a poster for Elf on the side of the bus though. that is the same guy?

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

You have to remember that British people don't get (both ways) SNL. So most of our familiarity with Will Ferrell pre-Zoolander would be from the terrible SNL movies.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

i saw a poster for Elf on the side of the bus though. that is the same guy?

Yes.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Will Ferrell as Harry Caray is in my top 10 of anything.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

the cultural divide that television creates never fails to astound me.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

http://www.humboldt.edu/~cae4/images/cowbell.jpg

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

gotta'

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

roffle. WALKEN ASSISTANT.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

http://images.blaggernet.org/cowbell.gif

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

http://mknx.com/v/cowbell.wmv

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps you would enjoy some *Cham-pag-nya* with your cowbell, my pallid little biche?

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

I was just walking the SNL Christopher Walken dvd last night (most SNL I've seen in years).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Did you have it on a leash? Did you remember to clean up after it?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

I like that Jenny Jones thing where he is the flannel-flying but street-talking audience member.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

is it because i dont have a sense of humour?

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

"I've got a fever!"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

GOULET

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Gareth just take that .gif and watch it while listening to the luke slater track I sent you

― TOMBOT, Friday, 7 January 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

NYT (a decade too late) on the Decline of SNL

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

That article makes the perpetually excellent point that people have always said that SNL is in decline. The complaints about the show in that article are rockist!!!

My favorite sketch recently has been 'Debbie Downer'.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

You mean the original Debbie Downer with the paradoxical cracking-up laughter? That was pretty much the best five minutes of television I've seen in ages. "It's official ... I can't have (hahahaha) children (hahahaha)."

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

it has always been in decline. circa 94-95, it hit the red zone

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

xpost
and then the wah wah horn. It was just too much.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Debbie Downer
I haven't been watching recently. Is that an Amy Poehler character?

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Rachel Dratch. They did another one recently. It was nearly as good. Nabisco OTM about being the funniest 5 minutes of TV in I can't even remember.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

There was also a great sketch during the Liam Neeson show (which was otherwise pretty bad) that had a guy playing a parrot.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

the current female contingent on snl is the strongest they've had in years and years and years.

(xpost haha that parrot thing was funny!)

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

rachel dratch frightens me. her treasure troll face makes me uncomfortable. but i love amy poehler! does anyone else remember when she used to do cameos as andy's little sister on conan?hilarious!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

yes! That frightened me and made me uncomfortable! She's great in Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo too.

it has always been in decline. circa 94-95, it hit the red zone

It's true the first season was sublime, but I've enjoyed it regularly throughout it's run. There's always something.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

The second one didn't do it for me. But umm yeah so Ken it was this simple end-of-show sketch in I think the Lindsay Lohan one where Rachel Dratch is "Debbie Downer," the woman who always has something grim and depressing to say, and she was at Disneyland with extended family, and they'd be like "this is great!" and then she'd be like "have you heard about the feline AIDS epidemic?" and then she'd make this glum face and the camera would zoom in on it and there'd be a wah-wah horn sound; except early on everyone involved started laughing, and it became this great ironic challenge for Dratch to make the glum-face properly instead of cracking up, and the supposed original humor of the thing was supplanted by this new ironic humor where everyone is losing it and then Dratch says stuff like "so it's official ... I can't have children," and everyone laughs at that, and anyway good lord it was glorious.

Parrot-guy = Fred Armisen = Chicago fact-fans may wish to note that he was a member of Trenchmouth, if I remember correctly. I liked Amy Poehler slightly better with UCB, but whatev. SNL is as Chicago-heavy as ever these days, isn't it.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

fred armisen, right. he's good. poehler's great too.

i've only seen the "debbie downer" where she visits someone for dinner, and lordy was it stale.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

"Roy? Of Siegfried and Roy? He was attacked by his own tiger and suffered devastating injuries."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

I was just walking the SNL Christopher Walken dvd last night (most SNL I've seen in years).
-- Jordan (jordan...), January 7th, 2005.

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Did you have it on a leash? Did you remember to clean up after it?
-- nickalicious (nickaliciou...), January 7th, 2005.

Oops, my Freudian slip is showing. I don't know what I was thinking about.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Fred Armisen is one of the funniest dudes, omg! He was CLISSICISSIMO in Eurotrip.

The commercial on the Liam Neeson episode for "Dr. Porkenheimer's Bonerjuice" killed me!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

I mean, would you go see "Lynyrd Skynyrd" in 2005?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea what word I was trying to type which came out as "clissicissimo".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

i don't care much for those dd skits either.the debbie downer with ben affleck's birthday party really sucked. oh, and i would like to personally stone horatio sanz, as he is unfunny and must be punished. i like the new guy who played kerry while the campaign was going on.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, the Dr. Porkenheimer thing was classic.

Will Ferrell fans should check out his Best of DVD (Vol 1). The extras contain a never aired sketch called "Old Prospector" which is great.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

don't forget ferrell as janet reno

― lemin (lemin), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Debbie Downer!
http://www.liquidgeneration.com/blog/video/snl_downer.mov

It's quicktime and I had to right click and save.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

don't forget ferrell as janet reno
Or as the full-grown man who emerges from his mother's uterus, who has a date to see a man about a horse.

Rachel Dratch
I saw her getting off the subway one time and talked to her for about five seconds. She was pretty nice maybe a little cuter in real life.

I was just walking the SNL Christopher Walken dvd last night

Oops, my Freudian slip is showing. I don't know what I was thinking about.
You can talk the talken', but can you walk the Walken?

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

i was just coming to post that! it's so much funnier than the d.d. i saw.

the will ferrell snl dvd really is classic. there's a bit from his snl audition tape where he pretends he's a kitten. it's just him batting a ball around the stage for a couple of minutes.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

"GET OFF THE SHED!"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

hahahah what was that guy's name again?

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

They show the audition tape? The dreaded "Three Doors," or whatever it is?

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

I've just watched the Debbie Downer clip 3 times in a row!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Wait, Spencer, aren't you in a Time Zone that is behind mine, IIRC?

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Huh? PST, but what?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

I dunno. I guess your off work today or got home early. Just jealous I guess.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Haha, downtime at the office.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Also, my office is arranged such that no one can see what I'm doing, and I have headphones...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure I saw Rachel Dratch perform at Second City maybe six or seven years ago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

I get sad when I realize that Tina Fey stopped working at the Evanston YMCA like a year before I came to town.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

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