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@erickknight1239 2 жыл бұрын

As a kid, my dad would have us chant this. He would get a real kick out of it. I still remember 4 or 5 year old me chanting "Lothar of the Hill People" in the deepest voice I could. Good times.

@dianapevtsov 2 жыл бұрын

@catholicdad 2 жыл бұрын

I'll bet your Dad was a helluva lot of fun.

@clematistaiga 2 жыл бұрын

Oh wow that sounds so awesome. Thanks for sharing

@DerekSchletzer082600 2 жыл бұрын

I like your dad

@patrickkenney2259 Жыл бұрын

sameeeee

@vectorhold6489 Жыл бұрын

I was in a heavy stoner rock band a number of years ago and we covered the theme song to this live in the middle of our set. We changed it up a bit and fleshed it out a bit more. The crowd would always go insane and chant along with us. Was always the highlight of the gig. lol

@JAnth51 Жыл бұрын

There was a psychedelic rock band back in the late 60s/early 70s called Lothar and the Hand People. We listened to their album, Standing on the Moon (don't know if there were more), when we were really stoned. I wonder if Mike Meyers was referencing that group.

@tinytanks Жыл бұрын

@@JAnth51 nice catch-- considering mike myers and dana carvey's mutual love of todd rundgren, this must be the story!

@iamupinacloud 9 ай бұрын

That's fuggin' awesome! XD

@mikeythesquid1427 9 ай бұрын

I would gladly pay to see that : )

@elmerkilred159 9 ай бұрын

@@JAnth51 This is the band that influenced the name for the SNL skit. It's also the band that influenced Devo. (Machines is one of those songs that influenced Devo).

@SavageLizard 9 ай бұрын

The Mike Myers-Dana Carvey-Phil Hartman era has always been my favorite era of SNL.

@jedijones 3 ай бұрын

This is always the correct answer.

@kylecallis77 2 ай бұрын

Yes I haft to say Farley is a big piece of that too

@HeetXS 2 ай бұрын

Ya that's when it totally didn't suck.

@jamesweekley1087 2 жыл бұрын

I still love the tone of John Lovitz' voice as he says he has been "walking "by myself".

@tinytanks Жыл бұрын

underappreciated cast member, he really is gold in everything he's done

@aclinks1 8 ай бұрын

Many short walks!😅😢

@annoyingneighbor4928 2 жыл бұрын

Everything I needed to know about walking with women, I learned from Lothar.

@RichV20 11 ай бұрын

Don't forget Twiggly the Gnome, who guards the entrance to The Cave of Knowledge

@davidzachmeyer1957 8 ай бұрын

Every once in awhile I use the line "I can tell by the position of the sun in the sky that it is time for us to go".

@Scribblerjohnny Жыл бұрын

After all these years I finally figured out she held a tennis racket and was ruler of The Courts of Clay...I finally got it. I'm so embarrassed I had to mention it

@Godflesh88v2 11 ай бұрын

Ha Ha I just got it after reading your post just now, and I watched this skit as a teen. LMFAO

@danthemankhan 10 ай бұрын

Your brain is also having trouble walking, it seems.

@gabbleratchet1890 Ай бұрын

It’s Chris Evert!

@Crysis1334 11 ай бұрын

Phil could literally play any role and nail it. I cannot believe we didn't get to see more of his hard work.

@eduardopena5893 6 ай бұрын

Because his life was tragically ended prematurely by his own wife.

@Ontonaut Ай бұрын

Lorne Michaels said Hartman was his all time favorite cast member

@TokyoXtreme 5 күн бұрын

@@Ontonautwhen Lorne Michaels saw Hartman's audition, he knew right away he had to hire him, but let him continue just to see what else he would present. Hartman is the quintessential SNL member, the GOAT of legend, and of course the frozen caveman lawyer.

@surrealcereal603 3 жыл бұрын

My god... Mike Myers is brilliant. I always heard of this skit but never saw it until now. Thanks for this!

@clematistaiga 2 жыл бұрын

Never actually knew this existed lol until Myers’ VF interview

@k.b.tidwell 2 жыл бұрын

Ha, I'm here because of that too. Never heard of Lothar!

@atraxisdarkstar 2 жыл бұрын

Same

@k.t.1641 2 жыл бұрын

You're lucky... The theme has been stuck in my head for 20 something years lol

@AnalyticalReckoner Жыл бұрын

"Never actually knew" = "Didn't know"

@clematistaiga Жыл бұрын

@@AnalyticalReckoner thanks for that

@NickolasNameolas Жыл бұрын

Phil Hartman's delivery on the "pulling my leg" line is so good, RIP, what a shame

@Espressoqueen9894 3 жыл бұрын

"lately been taking many short walks by myself.". I feel you bro

@davidgalinat4257 3 жыл бұрын

World's first incel?

@RockSoup 2 жыл бұрын

There is nothing wrong with walking by yourself! It is a perfectly natural and healthy thing for a man to do! So say I! I am Oatman, the Blender of Oats!

@charliewatts6895 2 жыл бұрын

@@RockSoup Onan salutes you Oatman.

@johns9652 2 жыл бұрын

@@charliewatts6895 Lol, less than 50% of people who see this will get it, but that was funny.

@danthemankhan 10 ай бұрын

@@RockSoup If it is so "healthy and natural" why is it illegal to do in public?

@Kowasi 6 жыл бұрын

She-Beast, Ruler of Courts of Clay, is none other than Chris Evert, 18 times Grand Slam Tennis champion.

@2AForever-wi8yj 3 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU CAPTAIN OBVIOUS

@roryross3878 3 жыл бұрын

@@2AForever-wi8yj So many years hence, 'tis not obvious to the younglings.

@nottoday.9503 3 жыл бұрын

^^^^ chieftain of the obvious people.

@audreymuzingo933 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, at first I thought it was Bridgett Fonda, then I realized it didn't quite look like her. Tennis player huh? Usually you can spot an athlete trying to act from a thousand feet away....or smell them, ha. She's not bad at all! Granted, speaking in stilted English like this is probably not so hard, lol.

@simonefarber9105 3 жыл бұрын

@@audreymuzingo933 She's literally carrying a tennis racket.

@lindseylichtman 2 жыл бұрын

can't believe the audience didn't laugh at "Tyler of the T-Birds" haha!

@theBaron0530 Жыл бұрын

The episode in which he asked to be called Tyler was better than this.

@puppetgeneral39 3 жыл бұрын

I love this Mike Myers character. Wish they'd upload the one with Ed O'Neill.

@theBaron0530 3 жыл бұрын

I agree. This one is arguably the dumbest of the series. The one with Ed O'Neill, and Tyler's story about what happened after the last great feast is the best one. The next best is the episode aired when Fred Savage was the guest host, and he played Lothar's son. The men were discussing the great hunt taking place the next day, and how difficult it always was. Lothar's son made a suggestion to improve the hunt. They considered it, and then Lothar delivered this great line: "That is a good idea, but it is a new one, and we fear it, so we must reject it."

@TheSwamper 7 ай бұрын

That episode is my favourite SNL episode.

@Psychol-Snooper 11 ай бұрын

"Picture, if you will, a little man in a boat." Chris Evert was doing an accent Dr. Ruth Westheimer.

@jedijones 3 ай бұрын

What does that refer to? Where does the story go after that?

@nichan008 Ай бұрын

@@jedijonesThey were discussing how women walk so....

@PartTimeJedi 8 ай бұрын

Dang I remember in HS being stoned driving around with my friends in my 81 Camaro and one of us would always start singing "LOTHAR>>> OF THE HILL PEOPLE!!!" and we'd all bust out laughing

@dargos0312 11 ай бұрын

This aired when I was 15 and I laughed my ass off, 34 years later and it still holds up!!

@lakesidedave3535 8 ай бұрын

literally same here dude ....What a great memory huh?

@joshuagann8026 5 ай бұрын

Same fellas

@adlad75 3 ай бұрын

Pretty close here as well, guys! All these years later and the two things that stuck with me are the theme song and "Twiggly, the gnome" aka a little man in a boat! 😁

@delian1671 3 жыл бұрын

I like in the intro that they’re using travel scenes from the original Conan The Barbarian with Arnold Schwarzenegger lol

@judebarnes9209 2 жыл бұрын

SNL wouldn't be able to get away with that kind of thing today without serious royalty agreements !

@MikeImhoff Жыл бұрын

WOW I was a kid and never got this. As a chieftain I Understand!

@zechuel 6 ай бұрын

For years I have often thought of "after a hard day of being Chieftan."

@llothar68 3 жыл бұрын

Not funny the sketch if your name is Lothar and you finished highschool in 1990

@laxman90210 2 жыл бұрын

Heavy is the head that wears the crown! You must walk faster

@laurajones7316 2 жыл бұрын

omg poor teenage you 😂

@kw3310 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, man.

@tron.44 2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@DebDavis1 2 жыл бұрын

I know how you feel. The character Debbie Downer ruled many of my days.

@longish 9 ай бұрын

Loved this sketch as a kid. Watching it as an adult, I i had no idea what they're talking about when I was 10 years old.

@jedijones 3 ай бұрын

Not sure if I did either. I was sold just from the theme song though.

@SpecialFXLady 2 ай бұрын

@@jedijones I was also a kid definitely remembered the song, enjoyed the sketches, and (thankfully) missed a lot of the subtext!

@pepperpeterpiperpickled9805 6 ай бұрын

*FUN FACT* This was one of the voices Mike Myers tried when trying to find Shrek's voice

@genequist3859 Жыл бұрын

Such a random ass sketch concept but it's gold

@davidgalinat4257 3 жыл бұрын

I swear by Xena's teats I forgot all about this sketch.

@jamesweekley1087 2 жыл бұрын

Why not take my leg and pull it from my pelvis? This sketch is unforgettable.

@dancingwiththedogsdj 2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesweekley1087 but, I did forget it! Unfortunately. Now, in my early 40s I found it somewhat difficult to refrain from peeing my pants while watching this. I am pretty sure when I saw this as a 5 or 6 yr old, whatever I was then, I would not have been nearly as amused. :)

@morpheus6749 2 жыл бұрын

Watching She-Beast I suddenly feel like taking a short walk by myself.

@captain_misaki 2 жыл бұрын

I too have dwelt in that cave.

@HookMann88 Жыл бұрын

My walk was brief.

@ZEPnALE Жыл бұрын

This was when Chris Evert was still...um, walkable.

@dianapevtsov 2 жыл бұрын

Ah, the Coneheads formula of relatable discourse in an esoteric parlance.

@stilichobias 2 жыл бұрын

I've often said that myself...

@jedijones 3 ай бұрын

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

@jelaninoel Жыл бұрын

I saw this on tv and it always stuck with me for some reason

@RichardX1 3 жыл бұрын

THIS is a Mike Myers sketch that could have been adapted into a decent movie...

@joshuagann8026 5 ай бұрын

Makes you wonder if jack black an em used it for inspiration in the movie " Year One"

@jamesjoy7547 Жыл бұрын

For the longest time I thought I was the only one who liked (or even saw!) this skit!

@Reliquancy 3 жыл бұрын

I got this theme song in my head randomly and had to google what it was. I remember now lol

@MrAugustBlack 3 жыл бұрын

That is what I remember from this skit the most..

@highway61grant 3 жыл бұрын

Same here! I was at work and the song randomly popped in my head! Love this!

@damonstracener 3 жыл бұрын

There's more of us?!

@Big_Island_Boi 2 жыл бұрын

Fucking classic. Back in college in my German classes my nickname was Lothar von der Huegel Leute because of this skit. Haven't thought of that in decades until I ran across this.

@moonbongyang6460 Жыл бұрын

My favorite obscure recurring skit from "my era" of SNL

@LoudBreather 7 ай бұрын

After the 1960’s Psych band “Lothar and the Hand People” bet Mike wrote this sketch

@jedijones 3 ай бұрын

Wow, the amazing true origin of Lothar!

@jaredf6205 2 жыл бұрын

Jon lovitz looks like a Ringo from the side with that mustache.

@eyeseer1 3 ай бұрын

Jon Lovitz looks like Ron Jeremy.

@msh6865 7 ай бұрын

I still occasionally break into the Lothar song while working around the house.

@ganktuh 3 жыл бұрын

I loved this skit, haven't seen it since it aired

@Darkside8062 11 ай бұрын

Same

@booksteer7057 2 жыл бұрын

The audience either didn't get or were afraid to laugh at the "little man in a boat" reference. lol

@TheMister123 2 жыл бұрын

Too young to get it, I was... I mean, OK, I was 16, but I was a naive 16yo.

@alternity28 Жыл бұрын

Surely they see not the wisdom of Twigley the Gnome, who guards the entrance to the cave of knowledge.

@jedijones 3 ай бұрын

I don't get it and I'm a middle-aged man. What does it mean?

@booksteer7057 3 ай бұрын

@@jedijones It's a metaphor for the clitoris. When you get right up next to it, that's what it looks like to some people.

@professordogwood8985 2 жыл бұрын

These people communicate far better than we do.

@zechuel 6 ай бұрын

Tell me something that I do not know!!

@professordogwood8985 6 ай бұрын

@@zechuel I certainly will try, but it is difficult for I know not what you already know.

@XBKLYN 10 ай бұрын

Love the amateur high school play delivery.

@jedijones 3 ай бұрын

I think that's why they decided it would be a perfect skit for the Chris Evert episode.

@wesleydraves1281 Жыл бұрын

The origin of shrek. Lothar was turned into an over by gnome

@robingamel9788 8 ай бұрын

Good luck Lothar.😂

@Jaymindrew1990 2 ай бұрын

The Lothar skits were some of my favorite of the classic SNL ONES.

@johnmcguire4635 Жыл бұрын

I want to see Mike Myers do more stuff like this..

@vijaynair2403 2 жыл бұрын

They should’ve turned this into a movie. Like many of those SNL sketches that became films.

@tankeasy8180 2 жыл бұрын

wait there are sketches that became films? what are some funny ones? i wanna look them up

@paolovallejo5500 2 жыл бұрын

@@tankeasy8180 snl was amazing in the tv format, but the movies.... eeeh

@anthonyz7000 2 жыл бұрын

@@tankeasy8180 The movies are hit or miss, with misses predominating, but Wayne's World was based on a recurring SNL skit

@jedijones 3 ай бұрын

@@tankeasy8180 Blues Brothers.

@henkka6456 3 жыл бұрын

This is just filled to the brim with sexual metaphors, I'm loving it. Reminds me of how less than one hundred years ago a Finnish farmhand would go about asking a young maiden riddles in the still of the night to get her mind towards sex. E.g. what has an oval shape, is moist and has hair on the outside only. If hair is touching the inside, it is not a pleasant feeling. Answer is eye. They had plenty of those lewd sounding riddles.

@GameyRaccoon 3 жыл бұрын

What? Link to what you're talking about?

@DavidValdezBigWaveDave 2 жыл бұрын

Rumple Stiltskin??

@laurencesiegel9362 2 жыл бұрын

@@GameyRaccoon Methinks he joketh.

@GameyRaccoon 2 жыл бұрын

@@laurencesiegel9362 really? I fuckin believed it too.

@GGoAwayy 2 жыл бұрын

Eyegina

@chrisf8855 Жыл бұрын

The metaphor is moot😄

@christinetury1414 Жыл бұрын

we need a Lothar of the Hill People movie!

@presence5426 9 ай бұрын

Actually... that may not be a bad idea. Monte Python meets Waiting For Guffman?

@raulpetrascu2696 7 ай бұрын

Reminds me of that movie with Jack Black where he's a caveman

@joshuagann8026 5 ай бұрын

@@raulpetrascu2696Year One. I agree.

@kellycochran6487 3 жыл бұрын

I just noticed they used footage from Conan at the beginning...

@FAYMprod 10 ай бұрын

this was a sketch that always stuck with me, and this was the cast during my formative SNL watching days. I quoted this sketch the next Monday at school and then for years afterwards, oddly kind of seems like it died in 8H that night

@jedijones 3 ай бұрын

The audience back then usually didn't respond to intelligent humor. They seem to be the audience SNL decided to cater to starting a few years later, when they shifted the program to doing nothing but slapstick, dirty words and bathroom humor. That's the same stuff that got them roaring when it occasionally came up in the earlier years.

@iksarguards 4 жыл бұрын

Tyler of the T-Birds

@willdelcast 10 жыл бұрын

LOL.. this is a CLASSIC

@mariashelly6392 2 жыл бұрын

OMG I have never seen this skit and it is HILARIOUS!

@matthewmohri9990 5 ай бұрын

Please put more of these out plus "The Bastard Battalion" Myer's Lothar always cracked me up.

@junglebells3716 6 жыл бұрын

The metaphor is moot 😂

@SweatyMan80085 2 жыл бұрын

No wonder why I didn't understand this sketch when I first saw it, at 7 years old.

@crixxxxxxxxx Жыл бұрын

Great acting by Chris Evert.

@beaubiden9293 9 ай бұрын

Does it vex you?

@crixxxxxxxxx 9 ай бұрын

@@beaubiden9293I admit, I am vexed.

@jameslachance8159 2 жыл бұрын

I have too dwelt in that cave.and let me tell you it is not no feast. Hahaha! Jon . The best!

@danthemankhan 10 ай бұрын

I dwelt in this cave rather than heed my wife's pleas that I take her on a walk. She now walks with another.

@AFMountaineer2000 3 жыл бұрын

I take many walks by myself

@bschuler6216 3 жыл бұрын

I remember some nerdbullies calling me SchulAR of the Hill People in high school.

@SeventyOneGo 5 жыл бұрын

King of Dragon Pass scetch.

@vincentrimmer5844 9 ай бұрын

God DAMN! This skit is bad enough to be a hit movie. How did Michaels miss this opportunity?!

@Jim-ic2of 9 ай бұрын

Ahhh , the question before us .

@coyotestarship7412 Жыл бұрын

Peacock needs to jump on this and make it a thing , it’s still slaps 30 years later

@user-hz2xl4co9u 6 ай бұрын

Mike's style of humor is like that of a big kid that likes being silly. He was a great addition to SNL back then.

@NevTheDeranged 24 күн бұрын

I heard the phrase "I am Lothar, of the Hill People" all the time as a kid, but never knew it was an SNL skit until today.

@johnflynn7084 2 жыл бұрын

Can’t live with them and you can’t club them! How many laughs with that good today

@sayusaymee7722 3 жыл бұрын

Who came here after Jimmy Fallon and Dave Grohl interview 😆🤣

@lunchbox6576 3 жыл бұрын

@eduardopena5893 6 ай бұрын

I used to chant this as a young middle school student. None of the other kids knew what the Hell I was going on about. None of them laughed, but I laughed loudly that I knew something they didn't.

@HookMann88 3 жыл бұрын

I am not vexed by the little man in the boat.

@coosoorlog 5 жыл бұрын

is the soundtrack by hans zimmer available?

@CaveManOogaBooga Жыл бұрын

My favorite show

@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394 7 ай бұрын

He got a point. That metaphor never worked quite right. About time someone called it out.

@bhunt799 Жыл бұрын

This is where Shrek got inspiration.

@NoellaScott 8 ай бұрын

How did I forget about this?! I only got to enjoy it from reruns, but it's magnificent, still...

@BillyReplies 9 ай бұрын

This truly was a golden age for SNL 🤣🤣🤣

@CapAnson12345 7 ай бұрын

This was one of my favorite sketches. I dunno why.

@AL-Stephaaansss Жыл бұрын

Brilliant!!!

@barbararodgers518 Жыл бұрын

Lothar is Andre the giant from the princess bride

@mdub2000 7 ай бұрын

hahahah this might not have been everyones favorite skit but i used to have that intro tune in my head all the time when I wanted to make myself laugh....when i'd tell people about it they'd never get it lol

@SWells679 8 ай бұрын

I heard the term "little man in the boat" yeeaarrrs later and immediately thought back to this. I was like "😮 oohhh, ok."

@HubbaBuddah 2 жыл бұрын

Really good dialogue

@MrNachtwulf 7 ай бұрын

My beat fri3nd Neil used to hate when we sang the theme song to this. I miss him.

@macaulaycarlson887 3 жыл бұрын

Heavy is the hand that wears deh crown 👋🏻

@lexiconlover 2 жыл бұрын

I think the background picture is just a mural of Utah.

@MarvinMonroe 2 жыл бұрын

This was 10 year old mes favorite sketch in 1989

@Terrakinetic Жыл бұрын

1989, when SNL was still its own thing for the most part.

@BiancaTallarico 7 ай бұрын

Twiggly the nome that guards the entrance to the cave. I have yet to meet Twiggly or this majestic cave you speak of.

@hip-hoplegend9882 15 күн бұрын

I've not seen this before but I just saw an interview with Mike Myers and he was talking about it so I had to check it out. 😎

@mhildack 8 ай бұрын

Tyler of the T-Birds. Ha

@zeppelinfan82 9 ай бұрын

Wow! I haven’t seen this in 20years. This is hilarious.😂

@billclemons5593 3 жыл бұрын

LMFAOOOOOO “MANY SHORT WALKS BY MYSELF”

@birdie3rdie Жыл бұрын

Fun Fact: the opening scene had stock footages of Conan The Barbarian. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

@BleedingHeartBellydance 2 жыл бұрын

Great one!

@izacnewton5761 2 жыл бұрын

very smart skit

@ericfair-layman2429 7 ай бұрын

I never actually saw this skit, one of the few snl’s i missed in the early 90s, but we all sang it.

@jedijones 3 ай бұрын

This was on four episodes, so you missed more than you seem to think.

@pedxing 2 жыл бұрын

I'll be honest... I missed that Twigli word picture for about 3 seconds before it smacked me on the chin. ;)

@stoictraveler1 3 ай бұрын

Is this a reccuring skit? Are there more? I love this.

@jedijones 3 ай бұрын

This was the second one out of four. Also on Dolly Parton, Ed O'Neill and Fred Savage episodes.

@CaptainsChannel58 8 ай бұрын

I wonder if this was in any way inspired by The Jimmy Castor Bunch song "Luther The Anthropoid (Ape Man)"

@jedijones 3 ай бұрын

This is exactly what Jerry Seinfeld meant when he said Mike Myers is able to parody things that people have never heard of. I have no idea what this title, these characters or the way they speak is based on, but it's very funny! I'm not sure what Chris Evert's story about the man in the boat was alluding to though. Little help?