Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. I don't know if you ever know
Speaker 1: about this. Did you hear? Saturday Night Live is turning fifty? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so something a little different today. I was trying to
Speaker 1: figure out when would be the best time to do this,
Speaker 1: and I decided today. The choices were today, Saturday or Sunday,
Speaker 1: but I went with today because today is the kick
Speaker 1: off for the Saturday Night Live fifty weekend. Today's daily
Speaker 1: comedy News is only about SNL. I'm going to dive
Speaker 1: into best sketches ever, best characters ever, So stick around
Speaker 1: for that. If SNL doesn't interest you, you are dismissed.
Speaker 1: Tonight on Peacock, it's the SNL fifty Homecoming Concert, a
Speaker 1: three hour live concert at Radio City. Jimmy Fallon is
Speaker 1: your host. Musical performances from past SNL musical guests, including Arcade, Fire,
Speaker 1: Backstreet Boys, Bad Bunny, Bonnie Rait, Brandy Carlisle, Brittany Howard,
Speaker 1: Chris Martin, David Byrne, Devo, Eddie Vedder, Jack White, Jelly Roll,
Speaker 1: Lady Gaga, Miley, Cyrus, Mumford and Sons, Post Malone Preservation,
Speaker 1: Hal Jazz Band, Robin the b fifty two's The Roots
Speaker 1: and more. This is on Peacock starting at eight eastern today.
Speaker 1: I also saw a spoiler that Will Ferrell and and
Speaker 1: a guest I are going to do their middle school
Speaker 1: sketch thing. I have no patience for that sketch, but
Speaker 1: that's going to be part of the show as well
Speaker 1: on Saturday on NBC Now. This hasn't ready aired, but
Speaker 1: it'll be back on Ladies and Gentlemen. Fifty Years of
Speaker 1: SNL Music a feature length documentary celebrating the five decades
Speaker 1: of SNL's musical performances and musical comedy sketches. This thing
Speaker 1: includes interviews with musicians like Bad Bunny, Elvis Costello, Miley Cyrus,
Speaker 1: Billie Eilish, Dave Grohl, Debbie Harry, Mick Jagger, Duelipa, dmc
Speaker 1: Casey Musgraves, Paul Simon, Justin Timberlake, Jack White, and Moore.
Speaker 1: Also interview Geene Curt and Jimmy Fallon, Eddie Murphy, Agel,
Speaker 1: Nuotam Conon, O'Brien Meyer, Rudolph Paul Schaeffer, Sarah Sherman, and
Speaker 1: various SNL band members plus Lonely Islands, Samberg and the
Speaker 1: other two Lonely Island guys. This thing re airs Saturday
Speaker 1: night at eight pm Eastern on NBC Proper. It will
Speaker 1: also be on Peacock. If you've never seen episode one
Speaker 1: of Saturday Night Live captured in the recent film Saturday
Speaker 1: Night While an exaggerated version, that movie's fantastic. It's on Netflix.
Speaker 1: Stop listening to me right now and go watch that movie.
Speaker 1: I thought it was fantastic, absolutely loved it anyway, in
Speaker 1: the SNL slot on Saturday Night Live, the original broadcast
Speaker 1: from October eleventh, nineteen seventy five. Your host George Carlin,
Speaker 1: musical guests Billy Preston and Janis Ian. Then Sunday Night,
Speaker 1: which is weird that they did on a Sunday, Like,
Speaker 1: I get how TV works, but the show is called
Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live. You're doing the thing on Sunday eight.
Speaker 1: Sunday Night, the Big fiftieth Anniversary Special eight pm on
Speaker 1: NBC Hot Ticket and Studio eight Ah. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: the audience in this thing? Lorne Michaels declared years ago,
Speaker 1: no plus ones scheduled to appear, Keenan Thompson, Adam Sandler,
Speaker 1: Amy Poehler, Andy Samberg, Chase Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Fred Armison,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying Eddi Murphy, like that's not a big deal.
Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy, Fred Armison, Garrett Morris, Gen Curtin, Jason Sadaikas,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon, Kate McKinnon, Kristin Wig, Lreen Newman, Maya Rutolf,
Speaker 1: Molly Shannon, Pete Davidson, Seth Meyers, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan,
Speaker 1: Will Ferrell, Will Forte, Martin Short and Moore. Former host
Speaker 1: who will appear include Adam Driver, Io, Edaberry, bad Bunny,
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle, John Mulaney, who's also a former writer for
Speaker 1: the show, Kim Kardashian, Miley Cyrus, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Pedro,
Speaker 1: Pascal Peyton Manning, Quinna Brunson, Robert de Niro, Sabrina Carpenter,
Speaker 1: Scarlett Johansen, Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, and Woody Harrelson. Sunday Night,
Speaker 1: nbcn Peacock eight to eleven PM Eastern Looking Ahead. I'm
Speaker 1: going to cover this on Tuesday's podcast. I'm going to
Speaker 1: watch it, but to put together a show at midnight
Speaker 1: to get it out. I'll do a better job if
Speaker 1: we wait the extra day. So on FAQ, who was
Speaker 1: in the first SNL cast and why won't all of
Speaker 1: them appear? One of the FAQ answers why they're not appearing?
Speaker 1: Why aren't Gilda Radner and John Belushi appearing? Do you
Speaker 1: know the to do this? Yeah? They're no longer alive.
Speaker 1: Dan Ackroid has not been announced. It is unclear why
Speaker 1: he may be absent to Akroyd's publicists did not return
Speaker 1: The Associated Press's request for a comment on that. Should
Speaker 1: we do a list? I haven't looked at these, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at this cold. Indie Wire put out an article
Speaker 1: titled the fifty best Saturday Night Live Sketches of the
Speaker 1: twenty first century. I haven't looked at this at all.
Speaker 1: I like doing these cold. I will flip through it,
Speaker 1: they wrote. We know what you're thinking. Why I choose
Speaker 1: to highlight only the later seasons of SNL a's posted
Speaker 1: to the full fifty years? They wrote, being perfectly honest,
Speaker 1: most of the people involved in making this list weren't
Speaker 1: born until nineteen ninety. Okay, fair enough, let's see what
Speaker 1: these millennials think. I'm looking at you number fifty here,
Speaker 1: and I already don't even know what this sketch is,
Speaker 1: so I'm just gonna quick take. You can write me
Speaker 1: a letter and be like Johnny mag How do you
Speaker 1: not know what number fifty sketch? Mafia meeting is? No idea,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to bog down and analyze fifty sketches.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to quick take here. Number fifty is
Speaker 1: Mafia Meeting number forty nine. Mark Wahlberg talks to animals
Speaker 1: forty eight December to Remember car commercial. So far, this
Speaker 1: list sucks forty seven Colonel Angus forty six, Meatballs forty five,
Speaker 1: Welcome to Hell forty four Short shorts for the USA,
Speaker 1: Will Ferrell doing Will Ferrell things in short shorts? Forty
Speaker 1: three traffic altercation? Are these? Ringing a Bell? Forty two?
Speaker 1: Dunken Donuts? Forty one punk band reunion at the Wedding?
Speaker 1: Forty You're a rat bastard? Charlie Brown thirty nine, What's
Speaker 1: that name? Thirty eight Glengarry Glenn Christmas Elf motivation, Wow,
Speaker 1: this is bad. Thirty seven Bridesmaid's speech, thirty six dream
Speaker 1: Home Cousins. This list's gonna get a lot better Isn't
Speaker 1: it for? Thirty five Christmas Robe thirty four, Iran so Far,
Speaker 1: The Lonely Island thirty three, Mcgruber's Sensitivity Training thirty two,
Speaker 1: Do It on My Own twin bed. Jeez, this list
Speaker 1: is terrible thirty one The Shooting AKA Dear Sister thirty
Speaker 1: Lisa from Temecula twenty nine, A Thanksgiving Miracle? When does
Speaker 1: this get good? Okay, it gets good here? Twenty eight
Speaker 1: Star Wars on Undercover Boss, Star Killer Bass twenty seven,
Speaker 1: Sewn Spicer Press Conference, Now We're Cooking twenty six, Dinner
Speaker 1: Lobster twenty five, The Iceberg on the sinking of the Titanic.
Speaker 1: That's Bowen Yang in character twenty four, Farewell Mister Bunting
Speaker 1: twenty three, Super Showcase Spokesmodels, This is getting bad Again
Speaker 1: twenty two, Natalie Raps Danelly Portman twenty one, Chad Horror
Speaker 1: Movie twenty Washington's Dream, Nate Brigetzi nineteen, The Day Beyonce
Speaker 1: Turned Black eighteen, Haunted Elevator featuring David S. Pumpkins. That's
Speaker 1: only eighteen, That's all right? Seventeen, Protective Mom sixteen, Wells
Speaker 1: for Boys fifteen, Totinos fourteen Katie Kuric interviews Sarah Palin thirteen,
Speaker 1: Debbie Downer, Disney World, twelve, The Actress, eleven, Meet Your
Speaker 1: Second Wife. You know that's way up there. I actually
Speaker 1: for real watched that again last night. Somebody had tweeted it.
Speaker 1: Ten Close Encounter. You remember Kate McKinnon in that one.
Speaker 1: Pretty good? Nine step on Halloween's Hottest Tips. Eight Lazy Sunday.
Speaker 1: That's an old timer. Seven Mom Jean's Okay. Six of
Speaker 1: the Lawrence Welk Show. Five I'm on a Boat. By
Speaker 1: the way, if two of the top ten are Lonely
Speaker 1: Island sketches, think about that for a second. Four Papyrus, three,
Speaker 1: Blank in a Box. You remember that one with Justin
Speaker 1: Timberlake and again Lonely Island. So they're three of the
Speaker 1: top ten. Maybe we should give Lowly Island a show.
Speaker 1: Two Black Jeopardy with Tom Hanks. That was fantastic, And
Speaker 1: according to Andy Wire, the number one SNL sketch of
Speaker 1: the twenty first century is Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton
Speaker 1: Addressed the Nation, Amy Polar and Tina Fey in character.
Speaker 1: There not the worst list I've ever seen. Again, I'd
Speaker 1: have to do homework and come up with my own list,
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to do that. So it's fine,
Speaker 1: but I feel like there should be better things, or
Speaker 1: maybe the things in my mind happened in the nineties
Speaker 1: and I've lost track of time. Anyway, let's take the
Speaker 1: break here, we'll come back and we'll look at the
Speaker 1: top fifty cast member is according to USA Today. Okay,
Speaker 1: another list I haven't looked at yet. I like to react.
Speaker 1: This is from USA Today. SNL turns fifty. We ranked
Speaker 1: the best cast members over fifty seasons. One hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty seven cast members have appeared on the show. Here's
Speaker 1: their list at number fifty. Bowen Yang, he's been on
Speaker 1: the show since twenty nineteen. Just gut react here. Now
Speaker 1: we've had one hundred and sixty seven. Do you think
Speaker 1: there are forty nine people better than Bowen Yang? He's
Speaker 1: pretty strong. I don't know who else is on the list,
Speaker 1: so I can kind of have see who forty nine
Speaker 1: is because I half scrolled down. If Bowen Yang is fiftieth,
Speaker 1: this is a strong list. Forty nine Love It's forty eight,
Speaker 1: Sherry O Terry forty seven. Nora done. There's no way.
Speaker 1: Nora Dun's better than bo Yang. There's no way Cherry
Speaker 1: O Terry's better than Bowyang. But I'm not going to
Speaker 1: sit here and just nitpick the list. Just accept my
Speaker 1: premise that Bowen Yang should be higher up this list.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to keep going. There's no way he
Speaker 1: shows but at bow Yang forty six, Chris Parnell forty five,
Speaker 1: Julia Luis Dreyfus forty four, Arren Killem forty three, Sadekas
Speaker 1: forty two, mikey Day forty one, Seth Myers forty, Gene
Speaker 1: Curtain thirty nine, Beck Bennett he was on from twenty
Speaker 1: thirteen to twenty twenty one. Thirty eight, Tracy Morgan thirty seven,
Speaker 1: Lorraine Newman thirty six, Vanessa Bear thirty five, Leslie Jones
Speaker 1: thirty four, To Meadows thirty three, Heidi Gardner thirty two,
Speaker 1: Eighty Bryant thirty one, Chris Rock, Yeah, I think in
Speaker 1: terms of SNL, Chris Rock's not the most memorable cast
Speaker 1: member thirty, Jimmy Fallon twenty nine, Will Forte twenty eight,
Speaker 1: Mike Myers. Mike was a pretty strong ensemble player. Let's
Speaker 1: se who's ahead of him. Molly Shannon at twenty seven,
Speaker 1: Chevy at twenty six, Norm at twenty five, and at
Speaker 1: Gasteyer at twenty four. I'm not sure I agree with
Speaker 1: that ranking. Twenty three Andy Samberg. You know the guy
Speaker 1: who came up with three of the top ten sketches.
Speaker 1: Maybe we ought to have him a little higher Guys
Speaker 1: twenty two, Fred Ormiston twenty one, Sandler twenty Cecily Strong.
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of hers nineteen, Bill Hayter eighteen,
Speaker 1: Tina seventeen, Darryl Hammond sixteen, Jana Hooks, who has been
Speaker 1: forgotten USA today, writes, Hooks was the every woman SNL
Speaker 1: desperately needed in the late eighties, grounding every sketch with
Speaker 1: her bright smile. Fifteen, Rachel Dratch Yeah, fourteen, Bill Murray thirteen,
Speaker 1: Kristin Wig twelve, Keenan eleven, Dana Carvey ten, Maya Rudolph nine,
Speaker 1: Akrooyd eight, Kate McKinnon seven, Chris Forley six, Amy Poehler five,
Speaker 1: Will Ferrell, Okay, top five here Will Ferrell. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not the biggest Will fan, but clearly one of
Speaker 1: the all times on that show. Four Belushi, John Belushi
Speaker 1: Jim Belushi did not make the top fifty, but John Belushi.
Speaker 1: Three Gilda Radner, and poor Gilda has just been forgotten.
Speaker 1: I'm glad she's high up on this list. Two Phil
Speaker 1: Hartman and number one, the best cast member of all
Speaker 1: time on Saturday Night Live, Eddie Murphy. And they write
Speaker 1: no cast member has made a bigger impact on the
Speaker 1: show or created a better launching pad for the crew
Speaker 1: than Eddie Murphy. For five years, the man was sa
Speaker 1: l the lynchpin on which every sketch was built and
Speaker 1: every joke was centered. From mister Robinson's neighborhood, which parodied
Speaker 1: Fred Rodgers with a biting satire of what white people
Speaker 1: think of the ghetto, to mannic mumbling little Rascal Buckwheat
Speaker 1: to a two four impression of James Brown singing and
Speaker 1: dancing in a hot tub. It was impossible to take
Speaker 1: your eyes off Murphy on Saturday Nights. Yep, he was incredible.
Speaker 1: I'm going to call up the Wikipedia of who has
Speaker 1: been on the show and just see who they might
Speaker 1: have left out comes to mind. So what about somebody
Speaker 1: like Colin Jost who's been a writer on the show
Speaker 1: and anchoring the show for was it a decade already?
Speaker 1: Victoria Jackson. She was pretty good. That's my era Dennis Miller, So,
Speaker 1: I guess we're underrating the news desk. I mean Dennis
Speaker 1: Miller was a key part of that show. So same
Speaker 1: comment on Kevin Neil, and I guess we're not really
Speaker 1: paying attention to the news desk. I mean, Joe Piscopo
Speaker 1: should have made that list. I'll go back and look
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the list. You know that was
Speaker 1: my SNL. I was a little young for the initial cast,
Speaker 1: but was definitely watching the Piscopale Murphy years. So just
Speaker 1: to scrape the bottom here, Bowen love at Scherio Terry, Like,
Speaker 1: you can't tell me Joe Biscopo shouldn't be head of
Speaker 1: Scherio Terry, Nora Dunn, Joe Piscopo, Come on, Joe bisco
Speaker 1: should be on this list. He was Drysdale to Eddie
Speaker 1: Murphy's Cofax. He was the Keith Richards to Eddie Murphy's
Speaker 1: Mick Jagger. You know what I'm saying. Like pisk Po
Speaker 1: is a huge part of those shows. I know he's
Speaker 1: been forgot, but pisk Po was great. He should be
Speaker 1: on the list. Colin Quinn again, no love for the
Speaker 1: News desk Ratio Sans didn't make it, Rob Schneider didn't
Speaker 1: make it, Spade didn't make it. Anyway, it's just a list.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get too upset about it. Be curious
Speaker 1: to know who's on your list. That's a good conversation
Speaker 1: for the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. I
Speaker 1: will start that discussion. You can show him in. Esquire
Speaker 1: asked does it Saturday Night Live still matter to young comedians?
Speaker 1: Abigail Covington tells us about Jess Engel. Jess was auditioning
Speaker 1: for SNL, a thirty year old comedian from Midland, Texas.
Speaker 1: She auditioned in front of Louren and Colin Jost. Esquire writes,
Speaker 1: with a deep breath, she stepped into the light and
Speaker 1: delivered her set, a mix of stand up and character
Speaker 1: to work, focusing her gaze on Joe's to friendlier face
Speaker 1: than the famously inscrutable Michaels spoil alert. She didn't get
Speaker 1: on the show and doesn't know why. She says, they
Speaker 1: don't give you any feedback. Her team tried to console
Speaker 1: her with reminders of SNL's low pay and brutal schedule,
Speaker 1: not to mention the fact that the show hardly mid's
Speaker 1: movie stores like it used to, but it didn't comfort
Speaker 1: her much. Esquire writes that her agent had a point.
Speaker 1: First year cast members on SNL make around seven thousand
Speaker 1: dollars per episode, compare with the twenty thousand and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars per episode that first time series regulars earn
Speaker 1: on network TV shows. Previous cast members have described it
Speaker 1: as a place where you're always at risk, meaning that
Speaker 1: you're only a few lousy sketches and unremarkable performances from
Speaker 1: getting canned. Now, interesting paragraph here, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: spotlight it when you hear my conversation tomorrow with Mike
Speaker 1: Chisholm from The Letterman podcast. We talked about a little
Speaker 1: of this, and I hadn't read this article yet, so
Speaker 1: it's interesting that this article says something I will say
Speaker 1: to you on tomorrow's podcast. Esquire writes, things are different today.
Speaker 1: Even with all his power, Lorne Michaels hasn't been able
Speaker 1: to escape the realities of a contracting industry. Considered the
Speaker 1: reaching track records of productions from SNL alumni. Shrill starring
Speaker 1: Ady Bryant, was canceled after three seasons. There was something
Speaker 1: called Shrill, starring eighty Bryant that ran three seasons on
Speaker 1: What Where. I have no idea what that is. The
Speaker 1: other two, created by two SNL head writers, ended abruptly
Speaker 1: amid allegations of workplace abuses. That was a good show too.
Speaker 1: Keenan Thompson's Keenan lasted two shows before being canceled. Apple
Speaker 1: TV Plus dropped Cecily Strong's Schmigadoon after two seasons. HBO
Speaker 1: has yet to renew Michael Chase That Damn Michael Chay
Speaker 1: for a third season. Mcgruber got one season. Pete Davidson's
Speaker 1: book GISs lasted eight episodes before Pete himself pulled the
Speaker 1: plug on it. I think that's more about Pete than
Speaker 1: Lorn's power. In twenty twenty two, Brian Austin Johnson told
Speaker 1: Mark Maron he doesn't plan on ever leaving the show.
Speaker 1: He says, when I look at at the media landscape,
Speaker 1: what am I going to be doing in two years?
Speaker 1: Where am I going to go next? I read that
Speaker 1: as the article has it? Did you catch there is
Speaker 1: no Brian Austin Johnson, It's James Austin Johnson. I'll leave
Speaker 1: it in Esquire has it as Brian and I just
Speaker 1: read it because I'm a talking horse. They then spoke
Speaker 1: to comedian Ashley Everhart, who says SNL's not where people
Speaker 1: go to be discovered anymore. It's where discovered people go.
Speaker 1: I have people on my TikTok on my Instagram all
Speaker 1: the time saying why aren't you on SNL. You should
Speaker 1: be on SNL, as if that's the singular highest achievement. Hey, Lorne,
Speaker 1: call her bluff, offer her a spot. I want to
Speaker 1: hear her say no. It's like, congrats, you did it.
Speaker 1: You got the one salary job on the planet that
Speaker 1: aligns with this thing you've been training in. And our
Speaker 1: final SNL story of the Day. The National Comedy Center
Speaker 1: in Jamestown, New York will preserve a collection of the
Speaker 1: show's creative papers from the first five years of the show.
Speaker 1: Loraine Newman and original writer Alan's Wybell will guest curate
Speaker 1: the collection, which includes the script from the first SNL
Speaker 1: episode hosted by George Carlin, which airs win this is
Speaker 1: a quiz We're paying attention on the first half the podcast.
Speaker 1: When is it airing? That's right Saturday night at eleven
Speaker 1: thirty Eastern Well. That script will go into the collection
Speaker 1: along with drafts for weekend Update segments. Early versions of
Speaker 1: the Blueshey Samurai sketches and the Gilded Radneck character known
Speaker 1: as Rosanna Rosanna are also included. It's why Bell said,
Speaker 1: these papers are a rare encapsulation of the creative, chaos
Speaker 1: and revolutionary spirit of SNL's formative years, when so many
Speaker 1: classic sketches and memorable characters were first brought to life.
Speaker 1: It was a watershed moment in comedy history that I
Speaker 1: was fortunate to be part of, and I'm grateful to
Speaker 1: know that our contributions are being preserved by the National
Speaker 1: Comedy Center's Carl Reiner Department of Archives and Preservations. That
Speaker 1: is your comedy news for today. Here's the plan tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Mike Chisholm from the Letterman Pod and I talk for
Speaker 1: almost an hour. When Letterman went on Found the other day,
Speaker 1: I reached out to Mike and I was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: can we talk about Letteran for ten minutes and you
Speaker 1: lock us to in a zoom and we wind up
Speaker 1: going for an hour. If you can't wait for tomorrow,
Speaker 1: Mike releases the Letterman Pod on Friday. That is a
Speaker 1: video podcast. So if you're curious what the heck I
Speaker 1: look like and you want to look at two middle
Speaker 1: aged guys in zoom boxes for an hour, that's the
Speaker 1: thing you could do. The Letterman Pod also comes out
Speaker 1: in audio forms. You could just download that, or you know,
Speaker 1: wait till tomorrow. Here's what you do. Download Mike's and
Speaker 1: then delete it. That way he gets credit for the download,
Speaker 1: and then listen to me tomorrow to support my advertisers.
Speaker 1: That's a good plan, right, Yeah, No, Letterman POD's really good.
Speaker 1: You used to check that out. Sunday will be a
Speaker 1: normal episode, and if anything else with SNL develops between
Speaker 1: now and then, I'll talk about it on Sunday. If
Speaker 1: you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They
Speaker 1: might like it too. If you're a new listener who's
Speaker 1: discovering this via the Letterman Pod or perhaps my new
Speaker 1: YouTube loop. In case you missed that, I just started
Speaker 1: a live stream. It's twenty four to seven the audio
Speaker 1: from the last two weeks of the podcast. The occasional
Speaker 1: guest in the mix. Kind of like a radio station
Speaker 1: that just plays daily comedy news. That's how I'm programming it.
Speaker 1: I'm not overthinking it. There's no video. It just runs.
Speaker 1: You dive in, you go, oh that was good, or
Speaker 1: I'm sick of this guy on borared and you'd bail.
Speaker 1: It just runs twenty four to seven daily comed news podcast.
Speaker 1: But you obviously know how to download the thing. I
Speaker 1: guess you do unless you're listening on the stream. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm here seven days a week. I'mly gonna stop babbling.
Speaker 1: See you tomorrow.