Is this the funniest SNL sketch ever?

Rofl.

Christina Applegate couldn't even show her face, once Chris Farley appeared!

I don't think I could have kept a straight face, either.

"Funny" and "SNL" are mutually exclusive.

Julia Sweeney on Breaking Character During Chris Farley's SNL Sketch: 'They Had to Cut Around Me'

Out of the countless Saturday Night Live sketches that Julia Sweeney starred in, there is still one that haunts her to this day.

Sweeney, who appeared on SNL from 1990-94, recalled breaking out into uncontrollable laughter during Chris Farley's iconic 1993 "Matt Foley: Van Down By the River" sketch, saying she still feels bad about it nearly three decades later.

"I break all the time and I hate it about myself," she said while speaking on a "Women of SNL" virtual panel, according to Entertainment Weekly. "I'm not laughing at me. I'm laughing at this person who's committing so much who's two feet away from me."

In the sketch, Sweeney and Phil Hartman play parents who enlist a struggling motivational speaker named Matt Foley to come in and set their kids (played by David Spade and Christina Applegate) straight. The skit was Farley's debut as the beloved character, who would go on to reappear several times throughout the actor's time on the show.

Sweeney, 61, said her laughter became so distracting that the cameramen had to purposely cut her out of the sketch at parts.

"They had to cut around me because I was laughing. Because it was like I had the best seat in the house for the funniest friggin' thing that was happening on the planet," said Sweeney. "[David] Spade was laughing too. But they were mad at me."

"They had to change camera angles and that's terrible," she added. "That is terrible. I just feel awful about it actually."

While the other members of the panel said that her laughter probably "added" to the comedy, Sweeney said she was still dissatisfied with her performance. "I don't want to be like that," she said.

Recalling the moment in the I Am Chris Farley documentary, Applegate said of the hilarious performance, “Out comes Chris out of that door. We all just kind of stopped: ‘What is going on?’ ”

Chris Farley could turn shit into gold, and often did.

They weren’t told that he was going to break the table.

The fact that Phil's face cracked was just foreshadowing.

And that's not funny.

I never thought that was funny. Frantic mania and screaming. :-/

I thought I might think it was funny after reading the comments here, but I still don't. I just didn't connect with Farley's brand of comedy. He seemed like a good guy, though.

Yes, it is.

Another Farley classic

I don’t think it is funny.

The Matt Foley sketches were funny to me as a teen but my parents never understood what was so funny about them.

The other one I loved from back then was "The Gap Girls" sketches, especially the one where Chris Farley's "sweet" Gap employee couldn't stop eating.

Sorry not even close. THE funniest ever...

^no.

Well then you post one R10

No, it's not. It's not even the funniest sketch that involves breaking.

This is still the funniest sketch that involves breaking.

Chris Farley has a show-stopping moment even in a small role in "Pepper Boy."

David Spade was uber-queeny in the OP's video!

He couldn't have been any gayer if he had a dick in mouth.

Um, just because they break character doesn't mean it's the funniest skit ever.

It wasn't funny. I'm surprised it was posted as the funniest sketch ever...

Annuale

I'd never say "funniest ever," but I laughed so hard at this the first time I saw it. It's even sort of derivative of the Steve Martin Christmas skit but it was still funny to me.

FUNNY?

OP- If you think this is funny you're a DRIP.

This shit right here is hilarious:

Son (appalled): "It vibrates too?!?"

Mom: "Why sure it does! What did you think? That it didn't?"

ONLY the original cast of Saturday Night Live was ever HILARIOUS.

R25 = Chevy Chase

"All the aid get intercepted by warlords (chomp chomp)"

This skit always gets to me...

R28 Awww yes I remember this one. It was the only time Madonna was ever truly free in her acting

90s humor is dated

R29 I had no idea Meghan McCain was ever on SNL!

And in related news, Adam Sandler and David Spade are both Republicans.

Lock box

Debbie Downer - one of my favorites

[quote]Um, just because they break character doesn't mean it's the funniest skit ever.

It doesn't???

R34I love watching the guy in the yellow shirt loose his shit.

Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks were two of the most talented people to tread the boards at SNL. They could blink and it would be magic. Real masters of their craft. Dana Carvey is up there too among the very greatest talents of SNL.

Phil and Jan as The Donald and Ivana!

R33 wins! Probably one of the most culturally influential sketches they ever did, "strategery" has its own Wikipedia entry:

I used to love Mr Robinson's neighborhood, those "I hate when that happens" guys. The male synchronized swimmers, massive headwound Harry, Lyle the Effeminate Homosexual, The Stuart Smalley, sketches.

R39 Bush’s podcast is called The Strategerist.

Jan Hooks as the now dead Bette Davis delivering her Last Will and Testament on videotape is pretty freaking hilarious a hundred year later, I say.

It's not funny at all.

Sheer genius.

I love Jan Hooks, but that was a terrible Bette Davis impersonation.

I apologize for introducing the Aspie Copycat Thread Thief to the Chris Farley sketch.

OP is a biter and an attention whore. He'll do anything to drag people into his soul-sucking attention vacuum, especially if he can name-drop irrelevant pop culture from eons expired or a subject he knows somebody else recently took an interest in, whom he then tries to re-trap into a new conversation and for never-ending social validation.

Reply 62 in the link below is where the OP stole this idea for a completely unnecessary, irrelevant thread and another social trap.

Notice how the OP already did this exact, same thread subject just a year ago.. He could have bumped his original thread, or any of our multiple "Best of SNL threads," but he just wants to rake in more attention, even if it means the same, old people saying the EXACT, same things.

Please F&F this tedious fucking maniac OP and stop feeding him.

R46 I mean... does it matter?

R46 Honestly? You are the one that sounds unhinged and hungry for a little attention. So you think it's a redundant thread? No harm, no foul. Click a different thread and live your life.

Celebrity Jeopardy before they ran it into the ground:

I never found breaking to be funny. It shows a lack of professionalism and lack of respect for the audience.

R16--thanks for the reminder of what an artist Gilda was

[quote]I never found breaking to be funny. It shows a lack of professionalism and lack of respect for the audience.

Carol Burnett claimed they weren't doing it on purpose on her show. She lied. They obviously were, because stupid audiences seem to find it delightful rather than annoying and self-indulgent.

*walks onto stage*

"Is the play over?"

Whoever said David Spade was great at playing gay little pissers...YES. This is one of my favorites from the early 90s heyday.

Also...sports hosts usually suck, but the Michael Jordan episode is great and this is still one of my favorite monologues.

I fondly remember Laraine Newman's child psychologist sketch, but I haven't seen it in decades so I don't know if it holds up.

"Focus on Beauty II"

"Super Showcase Spokesmodels"

We've already done this thread a dozen times.

I mean, just 6 months ago, assholes!

And again ...

And AGAIN ...

What didn't you get from this thread?

What couldn't be added to the original?

And again ...

That was back in the day when actors were mortified that they were breaking character and messing up. That made it funny.

Today's SNL incorporates it into every sketch now. No longer fun or funny.

90s humor was great the first time around and I grew up in the 90s. I loved Eddie Murphy's Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood and White Like Me.

Tina's Palin was perfect and Poehler's desperation as Clinton was great.

Neurotology. A brilliant, almost shot for shot remake of the scientology video. No really, look it up.

Neurotology for the win!

as I said earlier in this thread- The ORGINAL cast was THE BEST sans Chevy Chase.

Spicy.

The dedication of the fun-haters here is relentless.

That was hilarious at R54!!!

[quote] FUNNY? OP- If you think this is funny you're a DRIP.

I knew someone was going to say this, so I have to post one of the comments from the video.

I completely agree with this person:

[quote] aryan galang The 90s were the peak of funny for SNL. I know everyone references the 70s as the golden age, but come on. Nothing beats Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, etc. The writing crew was top notch as well bc Phil Hartman and Conan contributed.

I don't think the original SNL was funny at all. None of it holds up today.

90's SNL still holds up, and it's actually much funnier than the crap they're churning out right now.

Millennials and GenZ just aren't funny.

Chris Farley and David Spade were an awesome comedy duo.

Besides their hilarious movie "Tommy Boy," they just had a chemistry that no one would ever have thought.

My favorite sketch was David and Chris as the "Gap Girls." Cracks me the fuck up every single time.

R42 never saw that before. Hilarious. Thanks for sharing. Love Jan almost as much as Gilda.