The National Lampoon writers.

Smart funny is the best funny.

@@samanthab1923 It was written by Al Franken and Tom Davis. Al went to Harvard but was rejected by the Harvard Lampoon.

@@joeski734 Really? I still like him. Remember it’s the year of ME, Al Franken & I’m good enough, smart enough & gosh darn it people like me! 😂

@@samanthab1923 He's great. I just looked that up about the Harvard Lampoon--I can't believe he got rejected.

Who is the barber ?😂😂😂

Medieval ancestor of Carl the groundskeeper.

@John Barber 😂😂😂

Hey. A little pain Never Hurt Anyone 😂

The Beloosh for the win

Love it, but "Who's the barber here" is the line of the sketch in my humble opinion

@@tkclawson3336 Steve Martin...

@@tkclawson3336 And his delivery is perfect!

Oh my god! I am sooooo jealous of you right now! Not only this sketch but that whole entire episode is iconic! You had Steve doing this bit, and the King Tut sketch. You had The Blues Brothers as musical guest. And a whole bunch of highlights just from that one episode alone. I've got all the first five seasons, and that episode is one of my favorites!

Ugh! Were you the tall guy with the big hat?

You lucky duck, you.

I watched it live from NY on a color TV in Spenard Alaska. What a cast and writing. Those were the days. VHS. Bar-Hopping. The Camaro. Wild Oats. Chilkoot Charlies. Etc.

Who was the amazing music guest that night. Always great. Hall of fame stuff, usually.

Every Saturday night was a watch party. Everyone had to pipe down when the show started so as not to miss anything. Even stoned at the time, I remember most of this sketch vividly.

As opposed to the sad thing SNL has become today. They just don't or won't go for funny anymore....only one sided political hatred seems to be their driving force today.

@@chilecayenne One sided hatred? More like parodying the uneducated masses who think Fox is actual journalism and not the 24x7 anti-Democratic Party fire hose it truly is.

@@chilecayenneTotally agree.

Everything's perfect except Dan's wig moving while Broom-Gilda is cutting the hair !!! 😂

I thought that was a great line too. I'm going to start using it in relevant situations.

Too quick for them

"Broom"??? Brun!

I wonder if that part was ad libbed

@@jeffanddana2334 I believe it was.

@@jeffanddana2334 The bird was supposed to fly away when he shouted HEY. It missed its cue.

A good reason why his presence makes SNL

Absolutely right. Whenever Steve was on, he elevated the entire cast to the next level. The man has led such a remarkable life, excelling in juggling, dancing, stand-up comedy, a long film career, author of plays and short stories, collecting fine art, supporting young bluegrass musicians, and playing a terrific banjo. A true Renaissance Man!

Hey, give the bird some credit. It looked in all the right places and the timing of its fly-away was right on cue.

@@chasbodaniels1744one of the best in the industry

Yep and Akroyd sort of sounds like his 'bass o matic' pitchman. Great sketch!

He's doing his "Honker" voice. He created a character called The Honker when he was at Second City and would sometimes perform it on the street, sometimes while wandering into traffic.

Hello Carl Spackler??

@@waynej2608 Or Winthrop in "Trading Places"

@@waynej2608 one of my favorite sketches.

And Slimer before he died!

You'll have to look in the writ of common wisdom.

@@erlycuyler "THE WRIT OF COMMON WISDOM!"

I've looked for it everywhere! They need to get it up, equally as brilliant.

Yes it is disappointing that episode is not available. It’s just as funny and to the point.

@@ColumbiaBeet "The punishment for adultery is--oh, I can't read this publicly. (whispers in the accused's ear)

yeah, i think hes got relatives working at the VA.

@@scottulbrich5376 🤣

Were those crummhorns?

@@firstnamelastname7959 I believe that they were. And I recognized Belle Qui Tiens Ma Vie from Orchesographie by Thoinot Abeau as well!

"Hey, who's the barber here?"

@@itsme-rt7nz I understood that crack first time I saw this -- my mother and I used to watch a lot of 50s sitcoms where I heard "Who's the doctor here?"

Too bad no Chevy Chase. I wonder what he would have done in that bit?

Garrett played the bird. He was a better actor than any of them.

@@kerrydavis4290 I believe Chase had left the show by then already....and Bill Murray was his replacement.

Um...are you referring to that quaint old idea that medieval England was not shot through with black people that might have influenced their casting choices?

synchronicity.

They haven't done comedy in years. Just political BS now.

Laraine Newman almost drowned during the Judge sketch; she was playing a woman accused of being a witch and they dunked her in a tub of water.

Where he finally decided that people should judge the defendant, settling on, oh, 8 to 15 jurors.

@@marccolten9801”But …. Naahhh!”

Yeah, no shit. You had to understand the references for the next week's water-cooler talk. It was socially crucial to know it. It didn't make it "more sophisticated", it's just that there was no KZfaq, no cable, and three channels to choose from. This is a great sketch, but many from this era were nowhere near this caliber.

I miss smart humor

@Wolfman Jack Spot on, my friend. Those first few years were must-see TV. SNL broke new ground and showcased great young comedic talent ... and musical artists.

True story.

If you didn't laugh you would cry, it's a great metaphor for modern medicine.

First thing I noticed when it came on 😀

He also announced intros/outros on WNBC NY local news broadcasts.

@@75aces97 Makes sense. The original "Jeopardy" was broadcast from NY, and "SNL". . .nuff said.

@@WSenator1 Didn't know that about first iteration of Jeopardy. All I knew about it was that Art Fleming hosted. Then some infomercials in the 1980s. Pardo must have taken gigs where he never had to leave the city.

Announced that Kennedy had been shot as well...

Is that you, Tyrannosaurus Rex?

Damn, dude! I wasn't even born yet and I love this sketch! XD

Same here!

That's the best part, remembering watching it live. I remember when the show came out of a commercial break and Steve Martin performed "King Tut" after a very brief introduction.

I'm really not sure how you managed to escape the wrath of the internet for over a year for calling him "that dude".

@@MandleRoss ikr? He’s clearly Jerry Seinfeld

@@weathermanh Newman! Oops, I mean... Weatherman!

They weren’t really broken

We also had Monty Pythons Flying Circus, on pbs, during this time, in New York. And no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!!

@@waynej2608 Indeed we did. That's how I learned that at the tiiime...OF THE NORMAN CONQUESSST!!!! the rural framework was complete.

@@anne-droid7739 Yes. Also, from the agrarian, open field system, a guy, during the medieval system, a guy who was a freeman, was obliged to do, 'boon work.'

Yes, no depiction of life in the middle ages, more accurate than those from Theodoric of York, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Good overview of swallows & coconuts, too.

And don’t forget, we also had Monty pythons the holy Grail.

"Ser Ilyn!! Bring me his head!!"

Newenlightenmentnow - Well, oil was discovered in the Middle East in 1901, and about 700 years before that, the Middle East was the center of scientific discovery. The Islamic scientific world was destroyed by Mongol invasions (Mongols weren’t big into science). Since 1901, the Middle East was almost entirely controlled by Europe, which led to almost constant war in the Middle East. There were some brief periods of peace, but never freedom. Iran had reasonable stability and produced a huge number of scientists and engineers (and still does). However, since 1979, Iran has been prohibited from acquiring most modern scientific instruments, which makes publishing new research EXTREMELY difficult. Germany publishes more mathematical papers per capita than the United States. So does France. So does the U.K.. Those are just the countries I checked and that’s only math. How about biochemistry? Same thing. There’s always a reason for everything. So, why are Americans producing less original research per capita than at least three European countries? Are French people smarter than Americans?

@@thetooginator153 Simple. We just haven't learned to go easy on the mead.

@@thetooginator153 Actually these days Israel is outrunning everyone in technological advancement.

Ray Chandler - Israel seems to be doing extremely well in technology for a small country, but I don’t think it is outpacing the U.S. or the E.U. From what I’ve read, it seems like Israel is focusing on both high-precision manufacturing and high-tech.

@@thetooginator153 That plus biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and agriculture/agronomy.

It really is amazing how well they make a sketch while being filmed live, especially with the Olympia cafe cheeseburger sketch!

Written by Al Franken and Tom Davis

It also had less politics

SNL was great back in the day. I'm surprised it's still running with all the crap it produces these days.

@@azraelsgrave 90s SNL was really legit, especially the will ferrell era

+ZdenekLU ditto!

Every one of them are simply comedy legends!

@@Elzilcho87 Agreed! It's tragic that we lost Gilda and John. God, they were good.

Later placed in the throat of a tortoise, so it would live on for another hundred years

As I've heard talked about even with places like New York City as recently as the early 20th century: the smells!

The average lifespan was 35 for a peasant and 45 for the nobility. Average, a couple of princes didn't make to 30. Besides all the children that didn't make to 5.

Do you mean the Medieval Era or the late 1970s? ;-)