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Late-night host Arsenio Beckman warms up the rowdy crowd and introduces his first guest, Linda Blair. Aired 03/17/90
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@rosalindshays5679 2 жыл бұрын

The dummies being tossed about to simulate Arsenio's overzealous audience members was the icing on the cake for this awesome skit!

@CitizenKang 2 жыл бұрын

The best part!

@MichaelHartman-qt4mp Жыл бұрын

6:24 I'll bet that when Victoria was getting on the floor, she would've gotten even more comfortable if she also took off her shoes!

@arsenalfan9892 Жыл бұрын

The audience are the stars of this skit!

@positivelastaction3957 10 ай бұрын

At first I thought the black woman dummy puppet was Ellen Gleghorne LOL - The end was awesome when they showed the audience from behind.

@cattathat 8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@lauderdale77 2 жыл бұрын

Listening to Dana Carvey and Spades podcast brought me here. Hilarious

@sarahbel 2 жыл бұрын

same!

@slipnorris5882 2 жыл бұрын

what did he say

@c8linlou 2 жыл бұрын

Same it's a great podcast!

@packman4664 2 жыл бұрын

Yup

@vcarr6433 2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@danmseattle975 3 жыл бұрын

Rob Lowe is brilliant in this sketch

@bobdavis4848 Жыл бұрын

He nailed the vocal and physical mannerisms! Relentlessly!

@mikeodonnell6799 Жыл бұрын

I was going to ask if that was him lol

@positivelastaction3957 10 ай бұрын

I just discovered this sketch and it's already one of my all-time favorites from SNL

@chirola9923 3 ай бұрын

Me too 😂 @@mikeodonnell6799

@hyperfilmz2023 2 жыл бұрын

Saw this when it first came out. Recorded with my vcr..and saw it over 100 times. Still kicks ass!!

@patrick19761976ify 2 жыл бұрын

Look at the extended fingers

@rogerbrodniak5644 3 жыл бұрын

4:27 That guy doing the fish...LOL

@BaseballMentorLopez 3 жыл бұрын

fishy!!! fishy!!!!!!....too 90´s!!!!!!!..yessssss!!

@slipnorris5882 2 жыл бұрын

this is one of my top 5 funniest snl skits, it could be number 1 lol

@ricosuave8123 Жыл бұрын

The massive over exaggeration of Arsenio’s mannerisms are not so over the top until you see this skit. Then you realize, that’s exactly how Arsenio was in his hey day.

@positivelastaction3957 9 ай бұрын

it's funny, I had to go back and watch an episode, one where Lowe was a guest, and i'll be damned if it was pretty similar to the SNL parody. Makes the sketch even funnier and more brilliant imo.

@groovy-mom 2 жыл бұрын

The fingers have me dead. Brilliant performance.

@ritebrayned5657 2 жыл бұрын

Yo, I’ve been a loyal SNL fan since a child…….WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN??!?! I’M IN TEARS

@deborahr.4202 2 жыл бұрын

March 1990 - I was in Indiana touring James Dean's hometown and watched this in a motel room. Died.

@Grim528 Жыл бұрын

1:31 the guy in the front row kills me every time the way he points and grins

@patrick19761976ify 2 жыл бұрын

Freaking phenomenal skit. I remember watching this LIVE on the Saturday it debut.

@menasor3696 5 жыл бұрын

Victoria Jackson was smoking hot in this one.

@johnberry8367 3 жыл бұрын

It's a parody of the Arsenio Hall show....

@gfu3630 3 жыл бұрын

@@johnberry8367 thanks for the tip.

@guyjohnson259 2 жыл бұрын

she was always smoking hot. Funny too. Just too bad she went batshit crazy.

@MarvinMonroe 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnberry8367 interesting! Tell us more please ☺️

@michaelloparco2173 7 ай бұрын

Yes yes yes…oh yes….yes yes yes.

@shallmars Жыл бұрын

What's amazing is Rob hasn't aged a day since this was on over 30 years ago.

@guyjohnson259 2 жыл бұрын

Was listening to Dana Carvey, David Spade and Rob Lowe on a Podcast the other day. Dana said this was the funniest sketch of that episode and that the writers wanted to push the craziness and have people so excited, they'd burst into flames. Network / Lorne said no.

@groovy-mom 2 жыл бұрын

What podcast?

@ianwallace3082 2 жыл бұрын

@@groovy-mom Dana Carvey and David Spade have a new podcast called "Fly on the Wall," and Rob Lowe was one of their first guests.

@groovy-mom 2 жыл бұрын

@@ianwallace3082 Thank you!!

@kingsethos5108 2 жыл бұрын

The sketch was supposed to end with the entire audience on fire but they couldn't figure outhow to pull it off.

@lockandloadlikehell Жыл бұрын

Ahahaha, that's hilarious

@andrewhopko7130 Жыл бұрын

How this is not on the Mt. Rushmore of SNL skits is beyond me. Absolutely hilarious.

@JeffreyJetsKohut 9 ай бұрын

I wish Rob Lowe would have reprised the role. This was sooooooooooooo incredibly over the top and I love it!

@jarnold3415 3 жыл бұрын

I always thought this is the most underrated sketch of all time, this is up there with cowbell and chippendales

@deborahr.4202 2 жыл бұрын

Better than both of those - up there with Jeopardy - Alex, Sean, Burt and French Stewart.

@flipjupiter1 Жыл бұрын

Cowbell is overrated and weak. Chippendales was amazing for 1989. Or whenever it was.

@leonardstilwell1894 Жыл бұрын

Surpasses both. Easily.

@davidfrench5407 Жыл бұрын

I like the one connected to this, Johnny Carson as....CARSENIO

@leonardstilwell1894 Жыл бұрын

@@davidfrench5407 Hmmm ... is this the David French of 'The Dispatch?'

@FrenkMelk 9 ай бұрын

This has resided in my subconscious since first it aired.

@johnnytheg 5 ай бұрын

I've watched this three times in a row and I can't stop laughing. I keep finding new things to laugh hysterically about. The audience is a huge part of why this is so damn funny. Also, who knew Rob Lowe was so damn funny??

@DJArmando77 3 жыл бұрын

Me and my brother have laughed about this skit for years!!!!!

@handyman2183 3 жыл бұрын

I remember watching this when it aired and I could not control myself. Did not think that Rob Lowe had that level of comedy in him, but he really nails the caricature of Arsenio. His fingers, the body language the suit.....Was one of the best skits ever on SNL only perhaps bested by Rain Man/Pete Rose. The manikins flying in the air had me on the floor.

@dariawells7438 6 жыл бұрын

At 0:55 and 2:13, there is a slightly nerdy, bespectacled audience member in a blue suit jacket who is none other than Bob Odenkirk! He was a writer on SNL at the time. Who knew he'd go on to such comedic glory?

@GHC3 3 жыл бұрын

And dramatic acclaim

@lukenader 3 жыл бұрын

Omg!!!!

@lukenader 3 жыл бұрын

👁️👄👁️

@TheChupacabra 2 жыл бұрын

Beat me to it. Now known as a badass action movie star. Back then… more of a calculator operator.

@sarahmulhausen472 2 жыл бұрын

You can also see Conan at the end!

@toxievope3617 Жыл бұрын

He does this skit so well. .

@ghanasoul 9 ай бұрын

I’ve NEVER seen this b4. I’m a brotha and i think this is HILARIOUS! They could never do this now. Who knew Rob was this funny.

@artvandalay7 Жыл бұрын

Still one of my favorite sketches of all time.

@Daniel-RunToRoyal 6 ай бұрын

This sketch clearly deserves more views!!! Unbelievable!! 😂 😭 😂

@TheChupacabra 2 жыл бұрын

Rob lowe has those Pan finger extensions going!

@kenbrandt6100 8 ай бұрын

For a couple DECADES, I thought I had dreamt this sketch. It wasn't until a few years ago I learned it was real.

@autotransportbroker 5 ай бұрын

Me too!

@avayu2289 5 ай бұрын

Thank you KZfaq….this was a riot!!!!!!!!😂😂😂

@mikecantreed 2 жыл бұрын

Holy shit just heard about this from Dana carvey on his podcast. Incredible sketch. Back when SNL wasn’t watered down

@sgshumblecrumb6046 2 жыл бұрын

"Carsenio" is another great sketch in a similar mold.

@rexmage 2 жыл бұрын

Same. What a great podcast.

@opaljk4835 11 күн бұрын

People always say that, but the show was really hated back then.

@mikecantreed 11 күн бұрын

@@opaljk4835 It might have been hated but it wasn’t the Uber safe watered down bullshit it is now. They had a reoccurring sketch about a Boy Scout getting molested by Alec Baldwin for christs sake.

@mileswinslow7553 3 жыл бұрын

I remember that on the following Monday I watched the Arsenio Hall Show and Asenio said, "Hello, I'm Arsenio Hall, not to be confused with Arsenio Beckman...!" or something like that! Arsenio seemed to think that it was funny, or at least that is how I remember it.

@blueblur2329 3 жыл бұрын

Ofc Arsenio wasn't gonna get mad at this it wasn't even that bad. Now the one Keenan Ivory Wayans did on In Living Color was harsh and much funnier.

@loklo101 3 жыл бұрын

Arsenio Hall didn't think the Keenan Ivory Wayans parody was funny. I was wondering what his reaction to this one was. And this was before In Living Color.

@osaji922 9 күн бұрын

@@blueblur2329 I don't even know the difference. They both were good as they grossly exaggerated Arsenio's mannerisms and theatrics.

@LynRuiz 2 жыл бұрын

Rob Lowe is Hilarious!! He actually looks like a light skinned black guy. This sketch is genius. 😂😂😂😂😂

@AaronDunlapActor 2 жыл бұрын

I can remember watching this live at 9 yrs old! Amazing

@MarvinMonroe 9 ай бұрын

This is seriously the single greatest performance by a host in SNL history. Better than anything Steve Martin or Baldwin ever did

@TayR0C 2 жыл бұрын

Linda Blair and Victoria Jackson are both so hot

@positivelastaction3957 10 ай бұрын

Never seen this one before today. Man this is funny...the audience reactions were brilliant, loved the puppets too.

@frozennostril 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant, total gem

@zerofucks3392 Жыл бұрын

I was about 14 yo when this aired, and it's still hilarious lol

@pantarei8382 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty accurate depiction of arsinio hall

@physicspholder 8 ай бұрын

Absolutely brilliant!

@jeebuschabatty4455 8 ай бұрын

Absolute gold, that would never be allowed today.

@scott5.011 Жыл бұрын

This needs to be a weekly show

@stevenhaas9622 2 жыл бұрын

If you look carefully you can see Bob Odenkirk in the audience

@terrycraig6386 8 ай бұрын

Such an awesome impersonation of Arsenio, even down to the extra long fingers Arsenio has.This has to be Rob Lowes finest moment in SNL history.😅😅😅😂😂

@thebandseabright 7 жыл бұрын

underrated sketch

@jasonodonnell7636 2 жыл бұрын

Dana and David's podcast brought me here thx guys

@clarklarewjones 2 жыл бұрын

This is up there with Carsenio

@johnmanbodh8211 2 жыл бұрын

This must the only sketch that SNL did where the audience featured more than the cast :)

@JohnnyTyrone77 Жыл бұрын

Definitely the best Arsenio Hall impression!

@jasonhearn5818 10 ай бұрын

Yeah best impersonation if Rob Lowe was trying to look like Chris Broussards brother

@sonykent4940 10 ай бұрын

Lol not even close Keenan Ivory Wayans was light-years better than this

@JohnnyTyrone77 10 ай бұрын

@@jasonhearn5818 Doesn't look like him in the face but everything else is spot on! Mannerisms,etc

@sonykent4940 10 ай бұрын

@JohnnyTyrone77 The In living color version is the best one, Rob gets an A for effort... that is all 😆

@tllhy1591 6 ай бұрын

No WAY!!!! KEENON IVORY WAYANS ON IN LIVING COLOR WAS EASILY THE BEST OF ALL TIME!!!

@michaelloparco2173 2 жыл бұрын

Those dummys….lol

@dennisramos9665 Жыл бұрын

The audience is more out of control than the Carsenio skit which was also hilarious 😂😆

@lockandloadlikehell Жыл бұрын

They were really hyped up lmao

@Grim528 Жыл бұрын

I remember recording this on VHS on Comedy Central in high school. I took it to my friends’ house and we were dying laughing. Good times

@sandywinfield9406 Жыл бұрын

I think this was Rob Lowe getting back at Arsenio Hall because Arsenio made fun of him so much on the show because of a sex scandal that Rob was involved in

@lockandloadlikehell Жыл бұрын

Lol you know that asshole Arsenio flipped his fade when he saw this

@mew10521 Жыл бұрын

Really?

@user-et1hp8vs1v 11 ай бұрын

He did mention it a lot but wasn't this before that episode of the show?

@nealcampbell7113 5 жыл бұрын

Funniest SNL ever!

@leonardstilwell1894 2 жыл бұрын

SNL at its surreal, anarchic best 👌

@lockandloadlikehell Жыл бұрын

^^ best description

@positivelastaction3957 10 ай бұрын

Well put. Not enough of these gems.

@MustangRed1967 2 жыл бұрын

Damn Victoria Jackson's legs. Whoa.

@crazykong5246 3 жыл бұрын

The guy in the glasses is killing me.

@dominiquetatum7034 Жыл бұрын

Rob should've brought a show out like this

@atrain84 3 жыл бұрын

I miss non-cue card SNL days. I miss funny SNL days.

@TRJ2241987 9 ай бұрын

You used to have to actually be talented to be in movies and tv. There used to be a standard to being a celebrity

@assirac669 3 жыл бұрын

About one out of a thousand snl sketches are funny. This is one of them.

@BMG19FUNNYDIE 2 жыл бұрын

In 1990 it was 1 of 5. F NBC

@seemedoit 8 ай бұрын

That Erkle looking guy in the front row was stealing the show. Everyone in the crowd was awesome in this sketch.

@stevedrake604 2 жыл бұрын

Conan sighting at 06:35

@Kevins773 2 жыл бұрын

And Bob Odenkirk on the far left -hand side.

@omarguzman1632 3 жыл бұрын

He looks like Stephen Curry

@petersachs764 9 ай бұрын

Though funny, you need to see Carsenio. 😂

@AmerIndianWarrior Жыл бұрын

LOL

@tetsujin_144 3 жыл бұрын

6:08 - Reminds me of "Smells like Nirvana"

@cameronpickard7456 3 жыл бұрын

the audience is breaking it down

@NEONOIRERA 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂 I’m crying

@phynx2006 2 жыл бұрын

Here from "Fly on the Wall" needed to check this out, so dam funny 😝

@StaceKarussos 2 жыл бұрын

Fly on the Wall podcast brought me here. Hilarious.

@TheMrbob2011 9 ай бұрын

This feels more like a SCTV sketch in the best way

@bertmustin 2 жыл бұрын

Rob Lowe does Arsenio Hall better than Arsenio Hall.

@JohnnyTyrone77 2 жыл бұрын

Lol!

@sonykent4940 10 ай бұрын

Yeah Rob does a great beige watered down Arsenio....In living color skit was far better

@ryangettig274 Жыл бұрын

🌲☄🌲Bucking Frilliant& certainly rite there with Keenan Ivory Wayan's take on In Living Color!:)🌲☄🌲

@ryangettig274 Жыл бұрын

"Backstage!"&Finger Extensions make it classic.

@joshuaprime2042 Жыл бұрын

Should we cancel Rob Lowe for doing blackface?

@NiGiff Жыл бұрын

Could you imagine a sketch like this airing today? Let alone getting 8 1/2 MINUTES???

@branchclan6112 5 ай бұрын

Can’t believe I missed this growing up. Absolutely brilliant.

@fightclub6291 Жыл бұрын

Where did they put the actual studio audience while they did this?

@dkrom 3 жыл бұрын

I think Robert Smigel wrote this. He also wrote the Johnny Carson sketches, including the Carsenio sketch a year after this one.

@guyjohnson259 2 жыл бұрын

Smigel wanted to keep amping the craziness up. He actually wanted to do something where audience members started to burst into flames. Network and Lorne said NO. Too bad. Would've made a great sketch just unreal.

@nealcampbell8772 2 жыл бұрын

Just like Arsinio! CARSINIO is awesome too!

@Pewpewpew182 5 ай бұрын

This crowd was amazing (even if they were extras) they killed it!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

@AbaMiguel 3 жыл бұрын

Lol this is reminds me of the Eric Andre somehow.

@funkyfresh142 10 жыл бұрын

wow this was amazing lol

@cattathat 8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 Hilarious! I remember this.

@autotransportbroker 5 ай бұрын

A damn classic. Unique. Rob Lowe showing a side never seen before. And the crowd was part of the cast that day.

@shaolin1derpalm 4 ай бұрын

One of my all time faves.

@FAYMprod 2 жыл бұрын

holy shit how is Rob Lowe doing light skin black face still on SNL YT channel in 2022

@seanmills8910 Жыл бұрын

Rob Lowe is very talented.

@live2groove 3 жыл бұрын

Rob Lowe really nailed this - the whole sketch nailed that show, but the Arsenio Hall show was such a big deal for black Americans and black culture.. 30 years later and he was still the only late night talk show host.

@blueblur2329 3 жыл бұрын

The show was not just a big deal for black Americans/culture but was a big deal in pop culture at the time PERIOD! That was the show everyone wanted to be on.

@A_M_P_ 2 жыл бұрын

Everything you said was 100 except for the last part. Johnny Carson was the standard. The GOAT.

@MalEvansUSA 2 жыл бұрын

Byron Allen was a late night talk show host as was George Lopez.

@americangiant1003 2 жыл бұрын

@@MalEvansUSA I think what Groove was saying that Arsenio was (and still as of March 2022)the Only Black or Latino Talk Show that was seen 'coast-coast' on live free over the air national TV. Mr. Hall's show during it's ground breaking first run was on many CBS (Pre Letterman)and Fox affiliates. While Bryon Allen (much smaller audience in syndication)and George Lopez was on Turner on Basic Cable TV.

@americangiant1003 2 жыл бұрын

@@A_M_P_ I think 99% of the public agrees that Carson is the GOAT. However at least some Gen X and Earlier Millennials that watched this show, rank Mr. Hall as high as #2 or #3 all time Late Night Hosts. Arsenio brought the late night "entertainment" talk show into the late 20th/early 21st Century. Even now the current ones such as Kimmel, Fallon, Colbert and others was no doubt influenced by him.

@Isabella1075 2 жыл бұрын

Rob always said,and he was right,if you're too good looking Hollywood will give u a wide berth.

@mew10521 Жыл бұрын

What does that mean?

@rumble2468 3 жыл бұрын

He looks like Shaun King 😆.

@Mindfultranslations 8 ай бұрын

All those ppl for this skit ? He had enough black ppl there to make a Tarzan movie 😂😂😂 …. When Red Fox said that on tv back in the 70s ?? I almost passed out from 😹 laughing soo so hard ? The set up was beautiful too ! This skit does border on being racist… I d k I could be wrong but I could be right too 😂❤ Love you my black beautiful brothers and sisters ❤

@mattbpatterson 10 ай бұрын

Victoria Jackson was stacked !!!!!

@chrismclaughlin5184 7 ай бұрын

Rob can happily allow others and himself to make fun of him. I love and respect that.

@eagerinterest4525 2 жыл бұрын

LMAO

@JonasPolsky 3 жыл бұрын

Bob Odenkirk at 0:54

@arjunsubedi1126 3 жыл бұрын

If there’s a movie on Ted Bundy and Rob Lowe isn’t playing Ted I’m gonna loose it

@yvonnelayden7932 2 жыл бұрын

Ur right!!! Rob played Drew Peterson in a movie about him. Not Scott Peterson (although he would be perfect) but the flashy Chicago cop who murdered 2 of his wives.

@MarvinMonroe 2 жыл бұрын

Huh? There have been several TB movies in the past few years. Your comment is only a year old.