It's incredible what some people weaponize nowadays.

TimSort ftw!

python software foundation, you ignorant sluts

I'm here due to the Python hoopla as well. Funny how relevant this sketch is today. It got heated fast in this sketch...caught me off guard, but that was the point. It was a rough/tough sketch, and that was the point! Did you notice the female anchor shook his hand at the end, mutual respect! It makes you think and have discussion...which was the point.

@@vaughnlegend9957 Calling this offensive is literally like calling a movie with a genocidal maniac villian a pro-genocide movie.

I can't recall precise lines at the moment, but between "The Great Outdoors" and "Tommy Boy" I know there are some doozies.

yep, always has. nobody could have pulled off thag monolog like him in that time

This is very insightful and you are right. He pulls this off in many of his movies.

His bat o matic video showcases it perfectly

Cocaine is a helluva drug

He went to my high school. Ottawa Canada

Darin Osborne Absolutely. If he decided not to continue in his career and became an infomercial pitchman.....I’ll stay up all night just to watch him.

priceless dialog here, the writers had to have quite the time penning this... sad this level of comedy is gone forever

Indeed, buddah!

Amen to that!

what does it mean?

@@adnanshahriar4435 The money meter is running. He's basically calling some women whores

@@adnanshahriar4435 i think it refers to the old-time taxis that used to have meters for calculating how much had to be paid based on how much distance you covered. He is saying that women are like taxis because when they're on their back( having sex), the meter is running, or they are calculating how much money is to be asked for.

​@@siddharthsudarshanpandey325 I think it means your time is limited, and the taxi needs to get another passenger once you get off.

@@adnanshahriar4435 : Meaning you're like a hooker, ie charging. If you're charging $$, you'll want a timer.

Could be applied to some present day politicians.

Misogyny has NEVER been funnier!

@@hp67cand misandry... :)

​@@hp67c AND How! 😂

Oh get a grip princess. Sometimes I dont know how limpos like yourself even know how to feed themselves.

Bill Hader talked about how people generally don't appreciate the fact that SNL is live until they see it in person. He had friends who would say, "Okay, it's live. So what?" But when they finally came to see the show they were blown away.

Dan is the man

So was Jane Curtain!

@ Nick Jasper And you can also ask the old cast of The Carol Burnett Show about that as well. The rest of her cast and Carol Burnett herself knew and know's how hard it is. Besides Saturday Night Live that was one of the best shows on TV and is still a great show in reruns back when good comedy on TV was good Comedy on TV.

@@thebigm4 carol burnett was a legend always hilarious.

slunk meat

and he's dead on the nail with his assessment of her 1:07

She was in this for the fall of course. But delivered every time. Too bad she didn't smoke pot.

Plus she was a babe to boot.

Dan was and still is a comic genius

You can't make comedy like this anymore!! Both brilliant. Spot on delivery - comic genius. And edgy...

Yes...I also saw it live...and probably my greatest memory of SNL (1979 was a great year in general also)

I saw this when it originally aired as well. It was shocking but hilarious at the same time. This is back when Saturday night live was cutting edge. They'll never be anything like the original cast.

@@Mike-eq4ky Yessir

Now its unfunny.

Jimmy Fallon wouldn't have made it two words in without breaking down laughing

They must've laughed in practice!

@Turd Jimmy Fallon ? Who’s that ??? Jimmy Fallon ? Never heard of him. I thought this was comment section about comedy LEGENDS ..... lol 😂

Helps that its two monologues and there is nothing visually comedic.

that's because the only funny bit is the title of the video

He had a lot of great ones in the movie “Sneakers” too “Part of the same system that NASA used to fake the Apollo moon landings. Should work for us” “Cattle mutiliations are up...”

Bass O Matic? Pure gold

As in, "It's ok, it's 999!" Looking at the 666 on John Belushi's (Damien) forehead from the top down.

Not absurd when the sexual marketplace is global now.

@@noodengr3three825 that's great bass!

Answer ---> Jill Biden.

@@LesterMoore "Jill, you ignorant slut." --Half of America

@@LesterMoore you are a dumb ass...

@@LesterMoore We all know what's behind a lying, cheating sociopath: MAGAs!

@@LesterMoore I disagree, Biden is a successful con man, imagine getting you son addicted to cocaine, using him as a proxy for insider trading and not only not getting caught but continuing doing so well into your Alheimer's ridden senescent.

Young people may not know, but this was common on news shows back then.

​@@hifijohn1:21 The template for such features, and the SNL one in particular, was the Point / Counterpoint segment on 60 Minutes with James Kilpatrick and Shana Alexander, which used to alternate as a show closer with A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney.

My first thought.

Who tf is micael scott?!

Wayne J is gay it rhymes also I think it was joke

Tbh the only reason I even watched the video is because of the title lol, and thought it was referring to the office. I guess it was the other way around lol

I was watching some 101 facts about the office and it told me about this sketch, that’s why I’m here anyway.

I think the only person I've seen break her was John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun scene with the leather pants.

check out the bloopers if u havent yet

I think Jane was better than Gilda. That's just my opinion though.

I'd like to see how she'd do on a Debbie Downer sketch.

But how is Jane CURTIN??

omg, yes. so good

Snl hasn't been close to this good in years, a shame really.

​​@@TOBAPNW_t takes a lot more writing skills these days to land solid jokes. Back then, first couple seasons of SNL, was decades before Me Too movement and the PC culture that now makes today's society.

@@R__K Comedy writing back then wasn't tethered by political correctness as it is today.

Thomas Boner They couldn’t get away with that, today.

Yep

...And true!

@@daviddavis7752 that's unfortunate. They both had great, give and take.

It really is

Jane was excellent. They were perfect together.

They're both great. Comedy legends, both of them.

The only people who just credit Dan and not both, don't remember the show from that time. It was a true team effort.

Those people likely never saw SNL and Jane never made her career outside of SNL while Dan did...my guess...I don't think it is an extreme conservative conspiracy and fodder for those who would screech "sexism." They were both so excellent in this skit.

@@doogleticker5183 you've apparently never seen 3rd Rock from the Sun

The American Warrior with Dominick Izzo - Not likely - that is for HBO

Nah, people have better senses of humor now. A man calling a woman a sexist slur is no longer considered funny.

Chris Stewart are you trying to disprove her point? cause you’re doing a bad job of it lol

+kellsash The sky purple in your world? It doesn't get any more now than right now and I thought it was the funniest part of the skit. You don't have your finger on the pulse of society when it comes to humor, that's your own heartbeat your feeling.

Nope.

That's just it...he never really made it, did he?

@@anitamccarty6784he dominated the 80s and early 90s. He made it.

Wish he was mine!!😂😂

👉🏾👆🏾👉🏾👆🏾👉🏾 listen here, you rapacious swamp sow. My client will not give you one red cent than what you came to the relationship with. Was the meter running while you were on your back with or without my client? I will recommend my client laugh at your offer and walk away from these proceedings until you come to your senses. You ignorant slut.

As opposed to the next 50 years of 90 % garbage.

The best of the later people was prob Phil Hartman.

​@@missano3856 the 2005 cast was pretty great imo

@@missano3856 I dunno. Mike Meyers, Dana Carvey, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Will Ferrell, Tim Meadows, Sarah Silverman, etc, etc, etc...

@Jack Benton Just change the line to "cheap iPod Shuffle" problem solved.

NOW the police and military deliberately do that.

The guy in the audience couldn't believe what he'd just heard!

The originals

Chevy Chase left after the first season overe money. His replacement was Bill Murray and I'd have to say Bill was significantly more talented.

Best, most memorable SNL cast… But they had great acting talent coupled with great writing talent. Now they have… um… let me think her….

​@@chrismadden1935 Chevy Chase has been a miserable SOB ever since too.

I'm a fan of "rapacious swamp sow" myself.

It's a complex comedy tango; both partners have to be in absolute rhythm and sync. I think all the performers in the cast that year were in absolute rhythm and sync a majority of the time. That's why its still thrilling almost a half-century later.

CURTIN, CURTIN, CURTIN!! The woman has won TWO Emmys (and been nominated three other times!) for Pete's sake. She's in the Television Academy Hall of Fame!! Can we IMDB how to spell her name???

Absolutely . It wouldn't work any other way

When this cast left the replacements were cringe, most of them.

Nerves. Do you remember he was VISIBLY shaking on the SNL 40th anniversary show. He was a trooper but some of that comedy didn't age well. For white guys though, misogyny disguised as male 'rights' are always en vogue. Just like racism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia. Cottage industry for you chaps.

@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 There's no misogyny in this bit. You must be talking about something else.

You wanna make up any other big words that mean nothing to call him?

@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 Yes white American men invented all of them.

One word, BASS-O-MATIC!

You hit the nail on the head!

Just be glad you lived during that era! The best!

Very true, and there were really only about 10 channels to watch, and half of those not worth watching.

Good old days indeed. In college we'd go to keggers/parties getting s***faced all evening, then all things STOPPED to watch SNL.

@@markgrove2030 I was in high school when this aired. We'd be at a party getting s***faced, then all things STOPPED to watch SNL.

"When your mama is on her back, the meter is running!"

The Original MGTOW

And when my slipper's are on and my leg's are up it's then that my toe's are comfy. Nothing better in life than those thing's.

Rolling stones

Hilarious!!!!!!!

I liked, "Bagged up, dried out slunk meat..."

Because what it parodies doesn't exist anymore. This came along at the perfect time. The '60's brought a cultural revolution and in the '70's starched collar news shows were increasingly influenced by 30-something adjusted, matured rebels of the '60's. The spoiled middle class revolutionary college brats now had buying and advertising power. There was an increasing amount of these debate segments on news shows trying ever harder to seem willing to use foul language and sexual innuendo without insulting the Leave It To Beaver crowd. There is no more Leave It to Beaver and news shows on prime time can say "ignorant slut". Along the same lines, women were entering the news reporter field and Lorraine Newman nailed that nasal droning serious tone they would take to not sound too much like a giddy girl not to be taken seriously.

Keith Purdue agreed

It is the rapacious swap sow comment that puts it over the top.

Wow, sounds like you hate women

Sure, if you find spewing sexist slurs at women to be your idea of “brilliant”

Akroyd is and also has been hilarious.

His diction is so good that he can speak prestissimo and you can understand every word!

"Danny... was the resident genius on that show." -- Chevy Chase

Michael Johnson why are people finding this to be funny?

mc changer the scathing insults and their delivery are funny, especially to people who take them for what they are; comedy. Oooh! Aaah! Haha!

"why are people finding this to be funny?" There were only a few TV channels, and on all of them point/counterpoints were almost always quite sober and dry. Someone suddenly calling someone else a "slut," etc., while they were doing a TV point/counterpoint was unprecedented absurdist satire of the pompous and angry chauvinists and feminists of the era.

@@Johnwww07 ... because it IS funny...

And what a woman! Donna Dixon. Who would leave that?

@@Mark-sj3xb He’s no dummy.

This came on when I was a freshman at UT Austin. The TV room was packed. I learned to get there early and sit up front so I could hear the jokes. Akroyd’s brilliant speed of delivery left no room for recovery.

Can u imagine those lines today….woke snowflake meltdowns

​@@louisyeostros4978 I bet your mom was a ho3

Aykroyd, not Akroyd.

@@Danimal77 Mandela effect

Stands to reason after what came out on Franken. Lol

Can't be Al Franken ...he's a leftist super hero...

@@Danimal77 better than hemroid

Perfect team work. They nailed it.

Both were needed for the sketch to work. Jane is the perfect "straight man."

0@@kimcapri9178Agreed! Few people get this. Her humor was much more subtle than most of her cast...most of SNL's CMs in history, for that matter...

Classic!

Dazlidorne Jenkins classics insult.

@ Dazlidorne Jenkins That line is right up their with the Elephant Jokes that Tim Conway use to tell during those Unis and Mama skits on The Carol Burnett Show and also that classic skit that he did with Harvey Korman called The Dentist. Tim Conway and Dan Akroyd are both credits to their craft and are both Very Very Funny comics if I do say so myself.

They edited out the word "Indiscriminately" before the word "Hops". I remember this scene well and Dan Akroyd saying that. I saw the original the first time it aired. "Indiscriminately hops from bed to bed...….."

i guess what you are saying is when youre on your back the meter is running utter savageness.

this was a recurring sketch oh, this isn't the first time he used that punchline, my favorite was this one a year prior tinyurl.com/SNLonlinefree

the joke also resurfaced in later seasons... i remember mick jagger saying it to mick jagger during their debate... youll see what i mean when you find it

Who is Michael Scott? (Honest question)

Jake Mabe the character from the office

The people who don't are missing half the joke.

There was already almost 30 years between this sketch airing and that episode of The Office airing. Now add another 10 plus years of people repeating "Dwight, you ignorant slut" so often that it became more associated with The Office, even though Michael cribbing SNL jokes is perfectly befitting his character.

The parody of Point Counterpoint in the movie "Airplane" was a funny one too.

Kentucky Fried Movie, no? Count/Pointercount?

1:07

Somehow Shana and James weren't as funny as Dan and Jane.

M Detlef no, I haven't.

she ripped him pretty good too but its not what people remember cause akroyd was so damn brutal hilarious i love this skit.

thanks for spelling it out, still no clue what it all means, but it sounds great! now i'm going to hunt for the bass-a-matic :)

calo10able Comedy is getting really difficult to do. Somebody, somewhere will get offended.

@@robertansley6331 Hogwash. People used to get offended at things just the same. They just knew what humor was, and that taking offense was something you did yourself. Not something someone did to you that entitled you to some sort of revenge.

Robert Ansley nah, the actors put too much of their own personal rancor in it and it’s just not funny anymore.

Violet Hunter gotta remember, this was the original SNL. I've heard so much of it was total improv. That's what made them all so great.

Rev Wolf True dat.

It's pretty obvious he's reading off of a card.

Violet Hunter cue cards

Violet Hunter cue cards

BrokamaGay Don't forget Kate&Allie.

Stuart Otis totally agreed

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OMG. Third rock was HILARIOUS!!

with John Lithgow, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, French Stewart, Wayne Knight, Kristen Johnson (tall), etc.

Cheap ham radios drifted a lot.

So, basically, Jane’s a whooah! A big one at that.

Only if he wanted to lose really badly. Sort of like the lawyers Trump has hired to defend him in the Senate.

@@OldDunc Regardless of the video's subject matter, someone manages a Trump-equivalency post without fail. Ironically, your post accentuates the value and role of social and political satire held then and its decline to vapid and anachronistic commentary on almost exclusively political news today. To an extent, the transition of news from local to national and the development of the 24-hour news cycle certainly contributed to that. Thanks for reminding us of our decline, however.

He’s a fan of the guy who played the original Joe Friday in Dragnet. He would often reel off fact after fact after fact without pausing for breath and Aykroyd loved it so much he practiced how to do it. You’ll notice that kind of delivery from him when it comes to a lot of his characters.

Its not HD thats why. They could wear a suit of of duct tape and you wouldn't notice.

@@Eugoranthedubious he did it twice in Blues Brothers 2000. Once when he’s on about the Russian gangsters in Willie’s Bar and again when he convinces the band to carry on with him after the car runs out of fuel.

IMO, the best cast was the Hader/Pohler/Forte/Wiig/Arminsen years.

SpottedJack i think you're the first person I've seen that likes any cast better than the original. You chose a truly great- maybe top 3 casts but i could never say any cast is "better."

Me too. I still am laughing. I would love to find a way to slip this into the politically correct campus computers. Or better yet, show it at the Television awards show and watch the audience grab their hearts.

Eh 90s cast is best

What people that didn’t see this live don’t and can’t understand is how cutting-edged these skits were. No one had ever seen anything like it on American television before. The first time Dan called Jane “an ignorant slut”, people talked about it for a week.

I'm getting banned too, it's great fun!

Except it wasn't....ummm....in a....movie???

Me and I laughed my head off.

D Gray weird right?

That’s what my parents tell me.

Who knew?

I used to watch it back then. It was really funny. By the time of Eddie Murphy, it had become a shadow of its former self with only a few good skits over time. I haven't watched it since then on a regular basis. Maybe once a year and find it still isn't funny and change channels.

D Gray It’s always been a comedy show it’s just that for the last 25 years they’ve had stupid ass producers making stupid ass comedy

rtyuik7 You have to work in Slunk Meat as well

Yo yo knickers isn't bad either.

That's how I describe my brother's girlfriends

I loved SNL back in its early years, but I think that the Will Ferrell years were the funniest (late 1990s/early2000s). I thought that the last season was a return to form -- very funny, smart, and pointed!

For me its the Eddie Murphy days and the Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Mike Meyer, Chris Farley etc. days and of course the original cast.

That was a classic line up too, I really hope they put some of the better Gilda Radner/Roseanne Roseannadanna bits up, few SNL bits could get me laughing like those, although this one comes close. Of course, it seems like nothing now, but I remember back then, it was a lot more difficult to get away with bits like this, to achieve the same level of "edgy" today, would require going pretty far. I don't know, although I can't really say I miss the way stuff was censored in the 70s, it's almost as if the lack of censorship takes a bit of the edginess _out_ of things, like to get to the same level, it almost has to descend into poor taste, if that makes any sense....

Jason M they still are...

Jason M You must love watching tv show that used to be fucking good.

funny, but most importantly informative.

It was Candice Bergman that was the Consumer Probe host, not Jane Curtain.

@@DeWayneHalfen the beginning that was true, but I’m pretty sure the Halloween one I saw was played by Jane Curtain. Maybe I’m wrong, I was a little kid though I saw them for years in repeats on Best if SNL that I think aired on VH1 or something back in the ‘90s.

@@dreamweaver1603 Yeah, the Irwin Mainway character was on a few different "talk show" stints. The one with Jane Curtain was called "On the Spot", and the "Consumer Probe" ones had Candace Bergman. All hilarious!

@@DeWayneHalfen One of Mainway's toys was "Bag of Broken Glass". I still laugh at that.

Wow, that's very gracious of you. It's like Christopher Walken having to put up with cowbell jokes wherever he goes. You must have great patience to be able to put up with all the Jane jokes. To view it as a badge of honor tells me you have an awesome sense of humor on top of awesome patience. Jane, you enlightened lady!

You know what? I will confess that if we knew each other in real life; especially at work, I would at some appropriate point say to you, "Me Tarzan. You Jane". At which time I would expect you to laugh as if you never heard or thought of that before then which you probably would not laugh and then I would never say that to you again. Then behind your back mention in passing that you didn't have a sense of humor.

How about how Chico Escuela would pronounce her name as Spanish with the J pronounced as H? I still to this day think of that whenever I meet someone named Jane

Been hearing that since first grade…

Yeah, I got called Hane, too.