It's Saturday Night Live!!! On Film!?

Ricky and Brandon talk about the lore of SNL and the movies that they spawned. Were they good, will there ever be any more, will Brandon stop doing his Don Pardo impression? Listen to find out!

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:43

Hello, hello. This is a mostly film podcast. We are the surveyors of Saturday nights, the buds of bits, and we are two wild and crazy guys. I am Brandon. With me, as always, is Ricky. Ricky, how are you today?

SPEAKER_03 1:00

I'm good. I have no idea what that reference was.

SPEAKER_01 1:04

Uh, any of the references or the the ghost of Don Pardo at the top?

SPEAKER_03 1:08

Um, all of it. I usually just don't get references.

SPEAKER_01 1:10

Oh, okay, good, yeah. You're very, very tuned into everything in the entertainment sphere. You know, music, TV, m uh movies, you know it all, but you just don't get references.

SPEAKER_03 1:21

Yeah, yeah. Okay, great.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

Uh, The Godfather.

SPEAKER_03 1:28

I don't have one. Woo! Got 'em.

SPEAKER_01 1:35

And that's the kind of comedy you'll see here on this fantastic podcast, and not on TV shows like Saturday Night Live, which I believe is our topic today, Ricky.

SPEAKER_03 1:47

Agreed.

unknown 1:48

Okay, great.

SPEAKER_01 1:50

Yes, today our topic is we want to discuss all of the movies and the lore of Saturday Night Live and kind of why they don't exist anymore as far as the movies are concerned. The show's still going strong and will probably never die.

SPEAKER_03 2:04

I don't know. Do you do you think like when Lorne dies? I mean, I I I haven't really thought about that. Like, who would like take over? Do you think like someone like a former cast member or something?

SPEAKER_01 2:19

Yeah, I think that a lot of the rumors say it's either gonna be Keenan Thompson or Tina Faye would probably come back. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:27

I could definitely see Tina doing it.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

Oh yeah. I mean she's an incredible writer and she's been doing a bunch of stuff, but who knows? Maybe she'll say, I I kinda don't want to live that life anymore. I apparently the life of an SNL performer, writer, anything, it's really brutal. Like it's a lot of long hours, late nights.

SPEAKER_03 2:48

And then you have Keenan who's like almost 30 years at this point.

SPEAKER_01 2:53

Yeah, he's he's been in there forever, man. Like he has always been in um just show business. I mean, he was in all that when he was a little kid.

SPEAKER_03 3:02

Yeah, that that was like that was where I knew him from. Um which is funny. Like like, I mean, I guess he just like loves the improv, like the the the sketch stuff.

SPEAKER_01 3:15

Um he's good at it.

SPEAKER_03 3:17

Yeah. Yeah, for for sure.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

Uh Ricky, I want to talk to you a little bit about the SNL movies. First off, did you watch the Saturday night movie that came out that was about the lore of SNL?

SPEAKER_03 3:33

I did. Um, I enjoyed it. Like it's I I don't know. I guess my expectations like might have been a little higher for it, but like I I think it's good. Um you know, it just follows like the premiere episode. Yeah. But I think the uh cast is good. Um like they they do a really good job with it, and it's it was interesting because I feel like I didn't know like a ton about the premiere, so I like learned some like new new things and stuff. Um But yeah, what what did you think?

SPEAKER_01 4:17

So I uh only got to see bits and pieces of it. I actually never got to see the whole thing, which is a bummer, but I thought there were some pretty stellar impressions, like the guy who plays Chevy Chase, the person who played um uh uh George Carlin, I thought did a pretty good Carlin impression. So it seemed pretty cool, and I think what's nice about that movie even existing is that SNL is such an American landmark, like there really is no other show like it. Except actually now SNL's in the UK. I don't know if you saw that.

SPEAKER_03 4:50

Yeah, like like it's just I like um randomly like like there was like something where like Tina Fey was like hosting it and I was like, has there always been an SNL Uh? No, it's completely new no no it just came out. Um so so yeah, I've watched some of the sketches, like um I watched some of the Jamie Dornen uh stuff. Um Yeah, I mean it's I don't really know how it's doing um like what the reviews have been.

SPEAKER_01 5:25

It's doing pretty well. The people online seem to be super into it so far. I think it's it's just funny because when you read stuff about SNL, the comments are always are SNL hasn't been funny in X amount of years. Basically, whenever someone stopped watching, that's when it stopped being funny, was when they stopped paying attention. Who would have guessed? And it's I I think what makes it so cool is because it is live. I've listened to people talk in interviews, both performers and hosts of that show who've said the fact that it's live means like everything is so heightened and difficult. Because a lot of times people people will go, oh SNL's not as good as you know, Key and Peel or Chappelle Show or Mad TV, or you know, they'll they'll name all these other shows that are pre-filmed. Every single one is pre-filmed, edited, they can cut and do whatever they want, but SNL is the only one that's been on for this amount of time consistently being live. So if a skit is basically in, it's kinda has to go up a lot of times because they have the sets built, they have the costumes built. I think it's just genuinely impressive, like looking at it from like a theater standpoint of oh, they have to put on the show every week from scratch. That to me is wild.

SPEAKER_03 6:44

Yeah, I mean, it it is uh like I mean, I guess you you would hear that a South Park would like do that. I don't know like like how much they do it anymore, but like they would like write their uh stuff in like a really short time, like maybe like a week in advance or or something. But it's like when you watch Saturday night night live, it's like like especially now, like like I wonder like how did they do that? Because like they're like getting like more creative with like their um like the even their pre-tapes and stuff. Yeah, yeah, the the uh pre pre-tapes w which aren't live of course, but they're still doing it like within a week and it's like still really impressive.

SPEAKER_01 7:34

They still have to get edited you know and shot beautifully and all that stuff, so like they are making multiple short films even to mix in with their live action skids, which is most of them. It's fantastic. It's I mean I I still watch SNL like when I get the chance. If I can't watch it live, I'll at least catch up on it later or watch, you know, individual sketches on YouTube. I just think it's fun.

SPEAKER_03 7:58

That that is what I do. I um like the the next morning I'll just watch them on you YouTube. Um yeah, I mean it definitely has its ups and downs. Like there's some, you know, hosts that aren't very good, or like just the sketches, you know. It's like the writing aren't great, but like um I feel like these like the past like couple of months have been like really strong. Like I've liked a lot of the sketches.

SPEAKER_01 8:31

They've had some really good, good sketches lately. But yeah, I think you're right. I mean the whole sketch format, no matter what show you watch, uh I think the joke is that sketches are only hits and misses. And there's a uh Oh my god, I'm blanking on their names. They are uh a British uh Mitchell and Webb. Uh David Mitchell and uh Webb, they are a British sketch group back in the day. You might have known them from uh Peep show, but they also had a uh sketch show, but one of the sketches they did was them deciding the order of the sketches where they're going like, alright, I think we should do hit, hit, miss, miss, miss, hit, miss. And like, oh, what if we do it's them just talking like, well, why don't we all just write all hits? Well, no, no, you can't do hits. A sketch show has to be hit and miss. You know, I feel bad for the people who have to write the hits because it's easy to write a miss.

SPEAKER_04 9:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:27

So it's you know, very meta fact, but it's a very funny skit and kind of mocks a lot of the people that really review all sketch comedy as just like hits or misses, hmm, whatever. Instead of experiencing like, yeah, sometimes things just work, sometimes they don't. You just never know.

SPEAKER_03 9:44

Yeah, and it it can definitely be tough to watch at times when like there are like misses, because it's like, I mean, as the the the performer, it's like you have to like just keep going and be be feeling it, right? Yeah, it's like you just gotta push through.

SPEAKER_01 10:03

Oh, there's definitely been sketches where like I'll watch on YouTube and I go like, oh man, this is dying. Then I look at like the playtime and I go, Oh, there's six minutes left. Oh no. Yeah. Yeah, right. This is a long ass sketch. I but I think that's also the beauty of live performance in general. I know some of my favorite live performance memories when I would do things would be you know, having that expectation of this joke is gonna crush and then it doesn't, or if I go, okay, this is like a little throwaway line and then it kills. You know, like sometimes things just surprise you. I know I think I think I've told you before about the yeah, I think I've told you before about I wrote a script about like uh elementary schoolers in an election, and one of the lines was someone saying, like, Oh, I'm gonna be like FDR because I'm gonna win my fourth consecutive term. And the other person replies with, Well, your platform is already like FDR because it doesn't have a leg to stand on. And I I th see, I thought it was just a fun, cute joke. When that joke happened, the audience went, Oh, like they were horrified. I always loved that kind of stuff. It's like too soon, dude. Yeah, I was like, wow, a lot of FDR fans in the house tonight would not have guessed.

SPEAKER_03 11:16

That actually makes me think of um uh recently I was watching the Jebediah or Jedediah Atkinson. Oh the the Terran Killer and then he was like making those Lincoln jokes and then. Oh too soon.

SPEAKER_01 11:38

You just never know. Like that's that's that's why I will always give so much leniency to not just sketch comedy but comedy in general, is because sometimes you just never know. Like, I've definitely done shows that have killed in front of one audience, and the next night you would think that it was the most unfunny piece of shit you've ever seen. So sometimes it could just audience can just say, nope, not interested, or be completely into it, and that just changes everything.

SPEAKER_03 12:08

And yeah, I mean, I remember telling you that for like your one-man show that you were like working on, it's like you're always gonna offend somebody, right? It's like y you know, no matter what, but it's like you have to have the the confidence there and I mean of course sometimes you know, this doesn't really work. Well, I mean I guess it could work for SNL. But like, you know, usually they aren't like like they're like some characters, I guess. But but it's like if a character falls flat, like most of the time they won't like like do it again. Right. If a character dies on stage. Yeah, it's like you you're not like learning and then like changing things up.

SPEAKER_01 12:53

It's like Yeah, it's just like, well, this is done. Say goodbye to this character you thought you'd like to do. But uh looking at the movie list, how many of these movies have you seen? So just for the audience, it's movies like the Blues Brothers, Wayne's World 1 and 2, uh Blues Brothers 2000, Cone Heads, it's Pat, Stuart Saves His Family, uh, Superstar, Ladies' Man, McGruber, and Bob Roberts, which I have an asterisk next to that one because Right.

SPEAKER_03 13:19

Like I saw that and I was like, is that an SNL movie?

SPEAKER_01 13:22

Yeah, when when I was looking up Bob Roberts, the like Wiki says, like, oh, based on a character Tim Robbins did on SNL. Like this is based on the he was, I guess, on there for a season, maybe.

SPEAKER_03 13:35

Um, he was actually a cast member.

SPEAKER_01 13:38

I think so. Or maybe he was just hosting and then that was just the character he did. But from my understanding, it's like something that he's done before, like pre-SNL, and so it might have been something he brought to the table. And I did watch it, Bob Roberts, because I was curious, because like I watched the skit. Uh, for those who don't know, the uh the only skit I could find on YouTube was him. Uh he plays a character named Bob Roberts, who is a conservative folk singer, and the skit on YouTube was them basically singing songs about burning books and throwing books into a fire, like telling kids to burn books. And that was the whole skit, and it flatlined. Like you listen to it, and there's not a single laugh in the entire skit. And I couldn't confirm this, but one of the comments did point out saying the reason this flatlined so bad is because this was the same day that uh Senate O'Connor ripped up the Pope. It was the same episode. Oh. Uh, and for those who don't know that story, it's amazing. Look it up. It's Sanay O'Connor calling the Pope uh evil. She's singing Bob Marley's War, basically says we need to fight against evil, pulls out a picture of the Pope, and tears it up on live television. And uh she was banned and her career got absolutely destroyed, but man, she wasn't wrong. So, like, you know.

SPEAKER_03 14:59

Um yeah, like like Bob Bob Roberts and the other one, uh Stuart Saves His Family, Al Franken. Yeah. Yeah, like like that today when I was looking them them up, that was the first time that I had seen it. So what's the was that a character Franken played?

SPEAKER_01 15:21

Yeah, Stuart Saves His Family was a character that Franken played. I didn't watch the movie and I I barely got through any of the sketches. They weren't great. Uh I actually was curious and I pulled up all of the worldwide gross for all these movies and the uh like current Rotten Tomato scores. And Stuart Saves His Family finished with a 33 Rotten Tomatoes, and uh on a budget of eight million dollars, it grossed just under a million. Actually, just over 900,000. So it really tanked. Um that being said, not the worst. Do you want to take a guess? Oh, I I already know. Say it. Um It's Pat. We're talking it's Pat right now, ladies and gentlemen. I know you're excited. For those who do not know, it's Pat was Julia Sweeney, who is very, very funny. Uh, but this movie that she made, I watched it. I watched it this past week.

SPEAKER_02 16:16

Oh dear lord. Oof.

SPEAKER_01 16:18

Yeah, let's start with some big things. Just to give you an idea, Rotten Tomatoes has it at a current 0%, uh, which is unbelievably bad.

SPEAKER_03 16:28

Yeah, it's kind of weird, because like whenever I look up like worst movies of all time, like I don't really see this one. And it's like I wonder if comedies get a big thing. Maybe people just like have forgotten. Yeah, it's entirely.

SPEAKER_01 16:44

I think comedies get a really raw deal. Like, there's some movies on here that people like the Rotten Tomatoes scores are very low, but I kind of think they're good fun movies. And it's something with comedies. People hate comedies, like critics hate comedies so much. And then like a few years later, they'll be like, I actually think it's hilarious and we're ahead of its time. And you're like, mmm, fuck you, you liars. Uh it's Pat. Are you ready for this? So Zero and Rotten Tomatoes, production budget, roughly around eight million dollars, worldwide gross, sixty thousand dollars. It got eight million dollar budget, sixty thousand dollars sold. It got pulled the same weekend it was released. It did so poor that they're like, we're not we're pulling this, and they pulled the movie. So it only had one weekend in theaters.

SPEAKER_03 17:40

And it made sixty thousand.

SPEAKER_01 17:42

Yeah, you're you're you're a real uh half glass full kind of guy, aren't you? Um Do you want to explain what its pat is to the audience, Ricky?

SPEAKER_03 17:52

This was uh 94, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:57

So after Wayne's World's. Well, because like even before it's Pat, you had Blues Brothers, Wayne's World 1 and 2, and Coneheads. Coneheads did okay financially and fine critically. Uh, but Blues Brothers and the first Wayne's World crushed at the box office. Uh Wayne's World 2, I think, like just kind of broke even. Um but those movies are all relatively liked. So to go from all of these big blockbusters to go to the massive bomb of It's Pat. Ricky, tell the audience what It's Pat is about, because I know you just watched some of the skits.

SPEAKER_03 18:37

So, like, I I knew about it, but I was like never like a fan. Like, I would always like like see it, and I'm like, okay. So the the whole thing is, is like Pat played by Julia Sweeney, played by a woman, looks kind of like a man, but also kind of like a woman. Very androgynous. Yeah, so like the whole premise of Pat and like the sketches is that a man or a woman? And it's like, you know, it's not the the day w we live in now, but still, even back then in like the early nineties, I don't think it's funny at all. Like it's just like how'd they get that much mileage?

SPEAKER_01 19:32

Because this was a this was a recurring skit.

SPEAKER_03 19:35

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

To the point where they thought, no, this character needs the movie. Like Wayne and Garth, cone heads, they had a bunch of.

SPEAKER_03 19:44

It's crazy, like, and like we can talk about this more w when like we we talk about some of the ones that came after, but it's like, yeah, like looking at the way they like picked, it's like I have no idea. Did uh you find anything about why the hell they uh picked Pat?

SPEAKER_01 20:06

I could not find it. I assume that it it must have actually been a pretty big SNL skit, like to kind of give people some ideas. Like Ricky was not exaggerating where the whole skits are simply going, like, it's basically a bunch of coworkers or friends or something being like, Oh, Pat, here's a gift. It's a shirt. Would you like to wear it? Like, it's basically that. Like, one of the jokes was When I was born, the doctor says, Congratulations, it's a baby. So, like, and like there's some fun lines like that, but like that's basically as high as it goes. You know? Uh, I did watch a movie, and the the movie is exactly what you would expect. It's it's basically the same thing of Pat constantly saying, like, I need this or that. Like, for one of the early bits is uh Pat goes into a store and the storekeeper is very nervous because they don't know if Pat's a man or a woman. Get it? And Pat's saying things like, I need some toiletries, I need some lubrication for my eyes, and like putting in eye drops, and I need f uh feminine napkins. And the woman's like, oh no, no, and then Pat's like, because my mother-in-law likes the floral patterns. Like, it's very it's just that for like it's it's a short movie, too. It it's only like 70 minutes and it feels like two hours.

SPEAKER_03 21:33

Feels like four and a half hours.

SPEAKER_01 21:35

Uh Dave Foley is in there who plays a person named Chris, who's another like androgynous person. That's the joke of like, oh, which one's the man, which one's the woman. But here's the thing I'm gonna say that's gonna be a little weird and might blow your mind a bit. I can't tell if the movie's actually progressive or if it's like hacky offensiveness. And the reason I say this. Is because in my research, there is a documentary called We Are Pat. And it's talking about all the people that are androgynous, non-binary, non-gender, like conforming, that actually saw Pat as like the first representation of androgyny. I don't think they and that that they intended it for that.

SPEAKER_03 22:23

You think it was meant to be punching dead. Cool that that um it had that effect.

SPEAKER_01 22:28

But it's like, no. It's like how the Babaduok became a gay icon to a lot of people. It's like, I don't know if that was the series. Did you not know that? No. I think what happened. This is a complete side tangent, uh, but look this up, people, because it's hysterical. It's uh I think Netflix at one point, someone took a picture of like, oh, because you watched LGBTQ like movies, you might like this. And one of their suggestions was the Baba Duke.

SPEAKER_03 22:53

And so people were just random sometimes.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

And so people were like, Great, Baba Duke's a gay icon, and started like drawing like Baba Duke being like, I'm a monster that hides in the closet, like me too, girl, let's get brunch. Like I love it. So, not the intention of the Baba Duke, but that's just what happened. So maybe Pat is an icon. I I will watch We Are Pat and I will follow up because it did have a lot of like kind of modern. I think the movie We Are Pat came out just a couple years ago. So I do want to see that. Um there was one bit I actually really did love, and it's Pat. And that's when there's some Japanese people talking, their subtitles, and they're trying to say, like, is it a man or a woman? And the person says, Oh, well, I actually saw them in the the bath house recently, and I can tell you without a fact that it's that they are, but the uh subtitles get obstructed by like a person walking in front of them. It's like, okay, that's kind of a funny, clever bit. Um but the reason I think it might genuinely be like a bit more prolific than it meant to be is that there's a character who is like obsessed with what Pat's gender is to the point where like this guy is like stalking them, like has a wife and everything, but he's just like, I need to know everything about you, I need to know what's in there. And there are some weirdos out there that are like who di absolutely despise like non-binary and everything like that, but they're really obsessed with like what's in your pants, I have to know. And so in a strange way, I was thinking, like, is that actually a progressive callout? Huh? You're just like, nope, probably not. I mean, I everything's on accident on that movie.

SPEAKER_03 24:35

I feel kind of like it. It's like, you know, the uh people who like try and say, like, you know, showgirls is trying to be tongue-in-cheek. It's like, I will have none of that. Like, don't get me started. You're incorrect. Shut your mouth. Like fucking liars. You know, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:55

It's like stop digging where there's nothing to be dug for.

SPEAKER_03 24:59

Yeah. I I can't really see it.

SPEAKER_01 25:03

Well then, what would you like to talk about your favorite uh SNL movie? If do you have one? So And why is it Wayne's World?

SPEAKER_03 25:14

So I was I hadn't seen Wayne's World in a while, so I was like uh watching it yesterday. Nice. And I think why it works, this is like what I came up with is like Wayne and Garth are lovable characters. They're they're like, you know, especially Garth, like just this nerdy guy, and like, you know, they're like the lovable loser types, you know? It's like it's like the the exact opposite of like Biodome, like callback to our to our first episode. Yeah, that's actually a great callback.

SPEAKER_01 25:54

They're both kind of loserish characters, but you just you're rooting for these guys as opposed to the other ones.

SPEAKER_03 26:00

And um Yeah, like like there's a charm to it. Uh there's a sweetness. Um and like I don't know. It's like it is funny still, it's silly, but it but it's not like overly stupid.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

Like Yeah, it I think it revels in its silliness without getting like too slapsticky in a lot of ways. Like they do a little bit of meddling.

SPEAKER_03 26:32

Yeah, and like like there's like the uh the the great joke where like Wayne's like uh saying like I would never like do the product placement, and then it's like Mike Myers is like going the uh pizza hut and then he like just stops and he's like panning to it.

SPEAKER_01 26:48

I love it because like I rewatched it too, and like I forgot that Roblo it looks like he's almost addressing it. Like he keeps looking at the products and looking back at why I'm like what's going on here and they never address it. Oh, I have a headache. Here, take two of these, and like gave them like little admires or whatever. Yeah, that's it's cute, it's that's very funny. There see, I was curious because there are two references in there that I'm like, I wonder if people get these, because there's a Laverne and Shirley reference where like Wayne and Garth end up just doing the whole like you know, Slamiz and Slamazel, and like they're doing like all those bits, and they're like, wait a minute, what are we doing here? And leave. But there's also the bit of uh there's a Terminator bit in there that I completely forgot about. Wayne gets pulled over by a cop and the cop's like, Have you seen this boy? And Wayne just goes, Ah, and drives away. And the cop starts like running after him, like very Terminator style. And I was like, I completely forgot about that, like just bit for bit's sake.

SPEAKER_03 27:50

Yeah, and like I think it doesn't take itself like like like too too seriously either. It's like and it like and it sticks to the sketch, um too. It's like I don't i i it's weird because like so many of them don't work. It's like why did this one work? I mean, I don't know, and like I I had fr forgotten that it was directed by by a woman. I was like, oh that that is cool. Like um, I didn't even uh realize that. Cause like especially like in the early nineties, like um Yeah. I'm trying to like it isn't like today where where they're getting the respect.

SPEAKER_01 28:37

Penelope Spherous. Oh yeah, good call. I didn't even Oh wow. Oh, it looks like she did a she did like black sheep, so she knew that crew. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 28:46

So maybe she had come from like Yeah, it's very possible.

SPEAKER_01 28:50

Yeah, it's it's funny. Rewatching Wayne's World, I was surprised with how much of it held up and what bits really cracked me up. Like uh when he's about to have uh sex with his girlfriend Cassandra and the thing pops up and it's like gratuitous sex scene, and he just goes, he looks at the subtitle and just goes, excellent. Like so dumb. That movie really did shape a generation in terms of like how people quoted things and acted. I mean, that movie created the whole headbanging to Bohemian Rhapsody. That was not like a thing people did.

SPEAKER_03 29:22

I think that was my introduction. I'm pretty positive. Oh, I'm sure. Bo Bohemian Rhapsody, so like I don't think I realized that that it was a queen song until like way later. Like, like we are the champions and uh we will rock you. Uh my introduction there was like Mighty Ducks, so like you know, these like random movies for from our childhood.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

Man, how did we never dress up as Wayne and Garth for Halloween?

SPEAKER_03 29:50

Dude, I was like thinking about that. It's like, yeah, you're you're pretty much Wayne. I'm pretty much Wayne.

SPEAKER_01 29:57

There was a moment in the movie when Garth does his drum solo and the guy just goes like oh you're amazing, and Garth just goes, Thanks. I like to play. I was like, that is 100% Ricky coded. It's just like Thanks.

SPEAKER_03 30:11

I'm pretty sure we we've like talked about it though, like trusting SM.

SPEAKER_01 30:16

Yeah, I'm sure we've maybe maybe one day. Do you think Wayne's World is the best SNL film, probably or still holds up as the most?

SPEAKER_03 30:25

So this is probably gonna be controversial, but I've never seen the original Blues Brothers.

SPEAKER_01 30:31

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 30:32

I've I've seen um I don't know if I've seen all of the 2001. I I feel like I've seen like at least clips from it, and I like wasn't a big fan. Um but yeah, like like I've never got around to the original, so like I I feel like that is like widely considered the best. That in Wayne's World, I feel like the top.

SPEAKER_01 30:55

Yeah, I I actually re-watched the Blues Brothers yesterday, um, and I've seen it multiple times. I feel like that movie was just always on in my house because my dad liked a lot of the music. It is it it more or less is a jukebox musical because they have some huge, huge names in there. They have James Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Cab Callaway. Like they have some amazing acts in there, and they all get to sing some songs, and it's pretty great. The movie itself, I would say, is flimsy premise-wise, because it really is just like these two guys, uh Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi, are kind of getting away with everything. They're, you know, causing all this destruction, but it's fine because they're on a mission from God, and they're they're basically like covered by plot armor. But it's still kind of enjoyable, and you can even argue that maybe that's the point because they they sort of atone for their sins at the end and go to prison. So maybe that is the the mission from God of why, like, no, no, we're gonna let you get through. But it does have some really funny bits in it that I will say, re-watching it, I wasn't cracking up a whole lot, but I was just enjoying myself. But there is a bit that I thought was really silly, it's at the very end where like basically they get chased by everybody, like cops, firefighters, rednecks, Nazis, like just the the army, like everyone's after them. And so they go into a door and everyone's trying to get through like one door, and they're all just kind of running a little extra exaggerated. They're always just every time the camera cuts them, you just hear like all these people going like hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut. Just it's just an extra level of stupid. I was like, this is this this I definitely like. But it's I would say it's definitely worth to at least look up the songs. I still like the movie as a whole, but um, I would more than happy I would rather watch like Wayne's World over Blues Brothers.

SPEAKER_03 32:51

Yeah, so um, yeah, it's one of those that I'm definitely gonna watch. I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Possibly my favorite when I was a kid. Like I watched Wayne's World and Wayne's World 2 a lot. Sure. Um Night at the Rock Spirit. Really? Which uh Yeah, I loved that as a kid. Now, I haven't seen it in a long time, and like for our first episode, I that was on like like my uh list. I was like, I wonder if like this would not hold up. It probably doesn't.

SPEAKER_01 33:26

Oh, I but I'm sure it doesn't. Yeah, but um So Will Farrell, Chris Catan doing their dance club guys.

SPEAKER_03 33:36

And like Yeah, the the whole premise of like the uh I couldn't really find the uh sketch, like like I just found like a short of like cherry Terry, like in the middle of them. Oh, like grinding up against her and dancing against her. And then she's like, I come here every week, and like, you know, you could just ask me to dance, and sh so she's like standing up to him. But uh have you ever seen it?

SPEAKER_01 34:06

A long time ago. That was not one that I was gonna go out of my way for the rewatch. Uh I do know it is the second lowest, it beats its pet, but it is the second lowest reviewed uh SNL film. Although it did pretty well financially. So it made it some money back. Yeah, it uh according to what my research, 17 million production budget, 30 million worldwide gross, so did pretty okay.

SPEAKER_03 34:31

Yeah, so it was like Wayne's World, so Blues Brothers was like 78.

SPEAKER_01 34:38

Uh 80.

SPEAKER_03 34:40

80?

SPEAKER_01 34:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:41

Okay, and then there was like that random Al Franken one, I think, in like 95. Oh, damn. Isn't it weird?

SPEAKER_01 34:50

Yeah, Wayne's World it went Blues Brothers, then Wayne's World, so there was a 12-year gap. Yeah, and then pretty consistently like a movie per year until uh uh the ladies' man in 2000, then it took a 10-year gap from a Gruber, and then after that, that was it. We have not had an SNO movie for 16 years.

SPEAKER_03 35:08

Yeah, so it's weird that like 90s period, and I guess um because Wayne's World was a success, but I feel like if like after that they stopped like making money, it's crazy that they were like just chugging along and like putting them out like so frequently.

SPEAKER_01 35:35

Yeah, I mean when I was looking at it, my my main theory is that some of the big outliers are so after it's Pat and Stuart Saves' family both bombed horribly at the box office and critically, Night of the Roxberry kind of bounced them back. Uh Blues Brothers 2000 didn't do super well, but that's because, you know, Belushi was passed away at that point. And then Superstar did very well with Molly Shannon and Will Farrell. So I think this was just Will Farrell was such a name. I mean, this was even before Anchorman and like Talladega Knights and all those movies he did in the 2000s, and he was already being a bit of a draw for comedies.

SPEAKER_03 36:16

Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen Superstar either. Like, like I I I've seen clips, I feel like, but like that was one where like I re remember um when I was young, like that was like one that people were like quoting. People love that one. I love that one.

SPEAKER_01 36:38

I love Molly Shannon, I think she's hysterical.

SPEAKER_03 36:41

Yeah, that was definitely a a popular one. Um then there's the really like so I love Tim Meadows so much.

SPEAKER_01 36:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:58

Like it seems so strange that the ladies' man, like I I remember seeing the uh trailers like when I was little and I had no idea like like what it what it was. I wasn't really familiar with the uh sketch, but but then like as I'm older now, I'm like, they did make a movie of that.

SPEAKER_01 37:17

Yeah, I think I saw that one in like Comedy Central. I could not tell you much about it besides you know Tim Meadow kind of had this old lith on him. Like Vladavyth. Hello there, I am the Lady Man. Like it was very like cool 70s black guy, was like the vibe he was going for.

SPEAKER_03 37:34

Um I was watching like his Thanksgiving sketch, and that one was like funny, and then he had one with Monica Lewinsky, like, and I was like, oh shit. Oh man. But it's like, yeah, it's just I'm happy Tim Meadows got to be the lead in a movie. Like it's like awesome.

SPEAKER_01 37:53

Well, because everything he's in, he's always hysterical. Like I know he's been in I know they aren't technically SNL films, but they're SNL adjacent, which is like the Lonely Island movies like Popstar and Hot Rod. And Tim Meadows is in Popstar and hysterical in it. Oh yeah. He's very, very god. That two other movies, both Hot Rod and Popstar, are fantastically hilarious and did not do well uh financially. I don't think people saw either of them that much, which is insane. Because that is weird. People talk about how funny those movies are. I I think people just don't go see comedies, which sucks. Um and then in 2010 you have McGruber, which is Which might might be my favorite. I re-watched it and I I still laughed like the entire way through. And I think it's because Will Forte just fucking clicks with me. Ryan Phillippy's very funny in it. Val Kilmer, Kristen Wigg is always a powerhouse. Maya Rudolph is barely in it and has one of the hardest laughs for me in the entire movie. Uh so for those who don't know, McGruber is kind of parodying those um uh old MacGyver episodes, like TV shows where it's like a guy can he turns like a paper clip and a rubber band into like a bomb or whatever, like he can do whatever. He's MacGyver. And so that was just the parody of making fun of those old hokey action flicks and TV shows. But there's a moment where McGruver, uh, my Rudolph is his wife, or his wife who was d uh killed, and so he goes to have sex with Kristen Wiggs' character later, like they fall in love, and it does this like really sensual, touching, slow music, and then it just cuts at them having sex and Will Forte's going just like making that noise. And then it's like him going to his wife's grave to apologize, like I I promised I would never sleep with another woman. Uh, and then my Rudolph's ghost appears, and they just repeat the same thing by like slow touching, goodbyes, and then back to having sex with a ghost, going, and Maya Rudolph is going, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. I was in tears. Like, it still cracked me up. Like, and it's an immediate callback. There is like no time in between from like the first one happening to the second one. It's like, I love like they didn't even wait more than like two minutes to be like, no, we're doing this exact same bit right now.

SPEAKER_03 40:25

It's it's so damn stupid, but but so hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 40:29

Like, it's a very good parody of those type of movies. Like there there's a moment at the beginning where McGruber is like getting his team together, and at one point all professional wrestler. Exactly. And he at one point like makes a penis joke, and the guy's like, Oh yeah, there's your dick jokes that you always say. Well, I love to say them, and I love hearing them, and that's why I love to say them, because you love hearing them. Like, it's just like they're trying to do like the cool guy banter, but it's just also I don't know why my Will Forte is turning into like an elderly Bush or like an elderly Reagan. I feel like Will Forte's always talk kind of like a prospector when he puts on that voice, like, well, buddy, I'm over here and I'm gonna do some crazy things. Um I remembered a lot about that movie. Uh Will Forte weeping in the office, going like, I'll suck your dick. Uh I'll let you fuck me, I'll fuck you. Tell me what you wanna fuck. What do you want me to fuck? Just like weeping. It's there's no Will Forte might be the best actor at just being like, No, I'm not gonna have dignity. Not for a second. Right.

SPEAKER_03 41:41

It's no problem. I think that is why like m Magruber works is like he fully commits.

SPEAKER_01 41:50

Like, oh, it's just so good. It's it's very, very good. There's there's so many just dumb moments, and that's a a great example of a movie that didn't really break even. I think it maybe just lost a little bit of money, it got a 47 on Rotten Tomatoes, but the TV show that came out has an 85. So all of a sudden people are like, no, McGruber's really good. Like, there is a turn where people love the TV show so much and they think it's brilliant.

SPEAKER_03 42:17

That's so weird.

SPEAKER_01 42:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 42:19

Yeah, like like I had started the the TV show. I I don't think I really like got far into it. Um, I just didn't commit to it, but it's one of those that I need to go back to. Yeah. Um I mean why'd they stop, I guess.

SPEAKER_01 42:40

Yeah, that's the real question, is what is there a reason why they stopped making these movies? And I I tried to think I started writing down characters of who I thought were pretty big that maybe you can squeeze a movie out of.

SPEAKER_03 43:03

I'm curious.

SPEAKER_01 43:04

It's like yeah, good. Who do you have? Um so Do you need me to vamp? I can juggle, I can sing, I can bring Don Pardo back.

SPEAKER_03 43:13

So uh one of them was Brian Fellows. Um Brian Fellows. That was like the gay zoo zookeeper that uh Tracy Morgan.

SPEAKER_01 43:25

You're oh you're right. No, I have a I see why they didn't do that one.

SPEAKER_03 43:29

Well, I like I mean, I think these are all like good things they didn't gotcha, but it's like I'm kind of shocked. Gotcha, gotcha. Like uh I thought that uh if they're gonna make a movie of Pat, why not make one of Debbie Downer?

SPEAKER_01 43:46

I wrote that too.

SPEAKER_03 43:47

It's like I wrote that as a possible that probably wouldn't have been a good movie, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:52

I mean it's it's given the one 90 minutes of Debbie bumming everybody out, but like she was that's a popular character, Rachel Dretch has. Hysterical.

SPEAKER_03 44:00

Yeah. Uh Farley, the van down by the river.

SPEAKER_01 44:05

Yeah.

unknown 44:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 44:07

I mean because all like Farley's were original, like um black sheep, Tommy Boy.

SPEAKER_01 44:13

Fun fact about that one that you may not know that was a character he did uh with Bob Odenkirk back in uh I can't remember if it was Second City. I believe it was Second City. Oh wow Yeah, you can find clips of Chris Farley, Bob Odenkirk, and Tim Meadows doing that skit pre-SNL. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 44:31

I'll definitely have to look down of um Sherry O'Terry and Will Will Farrell, the cheerleaders.

SPEAKER_01 44:41

Interesting. I I wrote that one too, where I thought, like, they they have good chemistry. Sherry O'Terry, I'm surprised, didn't become a bigger start. It felt like she was kind of a killer on SNL, but sometimes that happens.

SPEAKER_03 44:54

Um, and then I had two more. One is Stefan.

SPEAKER_01 45:01

I did write Stefan as well. That seemed like a pretty big one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:05

That was like the big, like, recent one I'd say.

SPEAKER_01 45:09

Yeah, that's probably the most recent one I have.

SPEAKER_03 45:10

Because I thought of like drunk uncle or like the the the girl you wish you hadn't started a conversation with. Yeah. But it's like I feel like those like wouldn't couldn't have worked as well as Stefan, probably. Um, and then one that I actually think could have been interesting. Um I feel like if it had gotten like the right writer and director, could be fun. Weekend up uh update. As a movie? Like Dylan. Yeah, Dylan like like but I feel like it's like Anchor Man, like like there there's that, so it's like could they do it in a way? Like I feel like it could have been. To be like a real newscaster or something, or like or I don't know. Like like just like a comedy about like a news team that isn't like as silly, I guess as Sinkerman. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 46:09

No, that I I would not have guessed that.

SPEAKER_03 46:11

Um Yeah, so that that was one that I was thinking of. But yeah, that that was what I have.

SPEAKER_01 46:16

Yeah, no, I we had a lot of crossover there. I because I I was trying to think of so Cecily Strong is probably my favorite performer on SNL ever. Like, it's just someone I kind of I watched. I always loved this. Yeah, I probably watched a consecutively before Cecily Strong. So like I still remember watching kind of that Bill Hader, Sadakis, Amy Polar, Tina Faye era. Um but Cecily Strong was definitely when I hit that stride of like I really like this show, and then I just kind of gravitated to a lot of her characters, and she did a bunch of them, but like I couldn't think of any that would be good because she did have, as you mentioned before, the girl you wish you hadn't started a conversation with at the party. Um she had uh this uh I can't remember what if she's technically British, Gemma, Gemma, uh maybe Gemma, who was just like a club girl basically, like always hanging out with like Oh yes, yep. I think she wants to be a singer. Oh god. So like it's characters like that that are really funny, but I was like, and she also did impressions, but you can't really do like an impression of you know Janine Piero for a whole movie.

SPEAKER_03 47:23

Right, yeah, some of her impressions were really good.

SPEAKER_01 47:26

But the only other ones was I was like, maybe some Kristen Wig characters, like the Do Nice character, the one that has like the tiny little hands and the big forehead, like that probably Yeah, and I was thinking Target Lady that was really popular. Yeah, she had a she had a lot of hits. I mean, I was trying to think of Kate McKinnon characters too, but kind of the same thing where it's like amazing actress, amazing characters, but are any of them good to stretch up for a movie? I just don't know if that if there's an audience for that. Even like SNL diehards, I'm not sure if are really that interested in seeing like Domingo the movie or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 48:00

Dude, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 48:02

Like I'm not a big fan of Domingo in general, but I think people have already burnt out on him because they I don't know, like they did three or four sketches with Domingo in like one season. Like they really were like, this is our guy right now.

SPEAKER_02 48:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:20

Yeah, I I don't know. I don't think it'll ever happen again. That there'll be another SNL like character movie. I mean, the closest thing we got recently was the um Please Don't Destroy movie. The Oh god, what was it called? Smoky Mountain. That's not a good sign. Smoky Mountain. Yeah, it's not a good sign, I can't remember. I like that movie though. It's very funny.

SPEAKER_03 48:43

Yeah, I I enjoyed that one and I was thinking about Popstar, and it was like I think because that one's one where it was like they could have done the um two like dick in a box guys. Um, but I think it's it works better that they did an original thing. Um that they didn't like just take from one of the shorts and go that that route. Um and I think it's because like the Lonely Island's like such a success outside of SNL. Right. Um like like with all their albums and everything.

SPEAKER_01 49:22

And Lonely Island, they those three guys always did a good job kind of swapping up what they were doing kind of at any given moment, like within Hot Rod and Popstar and um Well and it's crazy too, because like Yorma and Akiva now like they they direct pretty fast. Yeah, I mean Yorma directed Maggruber and nailed it, I thought.

SPEAKER_03 49:45

Um and Akiva directed uh the naked gun movies. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 49:50

Oh man.

SPEAKER_03 49:51

Um and yeah, they're they're like they're doing fine. They're uh constantly directing like comedies now. Yeah, which is cool, and then Samberg just does whatever he does, like shows or movies or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 50:05

Yeah, he's fine. He still has that Brooklyn 99 money. That show ran for a long time.

unknown 50:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:13

Uh if I recall, Tim Meadows plays a character who like constantly eats people.

SPEAKER_03 50:18

He's uh right right now he's on this show on uh I believe it's CBS called DMV. Um that is like a workplace comedy just set in DMV, and I I like it. It's it's it's fun.

SPEAKER_01 50:32

Um one thing I do want to talk about, because we we brought it up slightly at the beginning, is that Bob Roberts uh movie, because I didn't really talk about the movie itself. Okay. It's kind of amazing.

SPEAKER_03 50:46

I think it's like, yeah, like Willie really well re regarded. It is the highest rate. I always think of um the Simpson episode Sideshow Bob Roberts.

SPEAKER_01 50:57

I mean, that's honestly what I was thinking of too, because the whole thing is him being a conservative grifter. Um and it was way ahead of its time, I think, because watching it now, it it made me feel a little nauseated. Um because it relates. Oh my god, yeah. So the whole thing is that he's just this uh as I wrote up in my notes, I said this movie's unrealistic. I mean, who would believe that a charismatic con man entertainer would be able to fall upwards into the political landscape? Completely unrealistic. Unironically, the most unrealistic thing that happened in the movie was um a sex scandal ruins someone's campaign. That was the most unrealistic thing in the movie. Which is very upsetting. Um another Republican in the movie gets accused of essentially being a pedophile and it ruins his campaign. And I was like, that wouldn't happen now. Come on.

SPEAKER_03 51:55

Alright, like that'll be covered up.

SPEAKER_01 51:58

Yeah. Um Yeah, the the movie is kind of fantastic. Like it I was watching it for about 15 minutes and my brain went, This is this an SNL movie? Because like, it doesn't it's really well shot, and it's not really like the jokes are very, very subtle. Like it's not trying to be like, we're a comedy, like it's it's really, really tight knit writing, and not like laugh out loud like McGruber, which I fucking adore. But there there were just moments like that that would kept happening, and then that's why it made me stop it and go, like, let me look this up, because some people don't consider it an SNL movie, other people do. Um but fun things about it is Jack Black's first movie. Uh yeah, he he plays one of the fanatics who loves the conservative singer, and he's kind of creepy, and like he's just got this like really intense glare the entire time. Um what makes it kind of a a movie that holds up real well is that the someone basically gets accused of trying to shoot uh Tim Robbins' character and try to assassinate him. And because the attempted assassination happened, he wins his political race, and people like kind of dress up like him as like a show of support, which uh for those who've paid attention to maybe any recent politics, it might sound a bit familiar. Um, and at the very end, there's uh a really cool reveal where Tim Robbins is he's in a wheelchair because he's paralyzed, and so he's going on stage, so he's still doing his touring and doing his shows to be like, I'm a strong American, look how great I am. And there's just a quick glimpse of him tapping his foot to the music that he's playing. And it's just like, oh my god. Um a very young Giancarlo Esposito who plays Gus Frank in Breaking Bad is in it. He plays this reporter who constantly is trying to get the truth on Robbins, and he's the one who gets framed or accused of shooting Tim Robbins' character, but he doesn't do it. But there's a quick throwaway thing there too, where he gets killed by a right-wing fanatic just because they think he did it, even though he didn't. Like, it's it's pretty good. And uh there's a young John Cusack in there too, which is really nice. Um where they they kind of do like an SNL-esque nod where they're doing like a live TV comedy show where Tim Robbins is the musical guest and John Kuzack is this like you know artisty actor who's like, I'm not doing this show with him, uh-uh, and like walks off the set. So it's it's really good, man. Like I was genuinely shocked how great it was. But again, I'm not sure if it's technically an SNL film, even though it was done on an SNL. I I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 54:52

Yeah, I think it's probably good, like you you put an asterisk there. It's like Yeah, like I mean, you could make the argument like that it's like the the no no pun intended black sheep of the thing.

SPEAKER_01 55:10

Um let's see, what are there uh there's cone heads, I I remember seeing that a long time ago, relatively enjoying it. Yeah, we know we we've we've basically covered all of them.

SPEAKER_03 55:20

Um I enjoyed cone heads as a kid. Um I had never seen the uh sketch. I don't think I really like understood like but I like the movie as a kid.

SPEAKER_01 55:31

I think the whole premise of that one is they're aliens and they're just trying not to be like conspicuous, even though they're like, we all talk like this, and our heads are literal cones. Like, so that's very silly. I I think Dan Ackward's very funny.

SPEAKER_03 55:44

Oh, another one um that I was actually like shocked that they didn't make a movie of what you mentioned it earlier, like two wild and crazy guys.

SPEAKER_01 55:54

Yeah, that means that was a huge, huge skip, but I'm curious if maybe Steve Martin was just too big of a name or cost too much, because he wa Steve Martin wasn't an SNL cast member. It just feels like he was because he's hysterical and is hosted, you know, 14 times.

SPEAKER_03 56:13

Yeah, and like that was relatively close to when like like the the show hadn't been around very long. No. But it's like they they did Yeah, maybe. Like doing Blues Brothers was like cheaper, maybe.

SPEAKER_01 56:34

Yeah, I mean it was cheaper, and I think it was also still pretty recent to those characters. From my understanding, Coneheads was like like Dan Ackword and Jane Curtin were off the show at that point. So the fact that they said I think that was in 90s. That was after Wayne's World, it was ninety three.

SPEAKER_03 56:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 56:52

Weird, right?

SPEAKER_03 56:53

And like that was like, yeah, like 70s when they did that.

SPEAKER_01 56:58

Yeah, I think it was like 75, 76, and they're like, alright, 93, now's the time to go. You demanded it. Oh, you cone head fans. Yeah, it's it's definitely fascinating that this is just kind of a weird microcosm of SNL's height and popularity, and I just don't think we'll ever see it. I'm sure just the fact that SNL was, you know, must-see TV, especially back in the 70s, eighties, and 90s. That that's why these movies did so well then. But even though like in the 2000s, you still had some amazing cast members who all did, you know, thing after thing after thing. I mean, Jason Sadakis going on to do Ted Lasso, Bill Hader went on to do Barry, you have Kristen Wick, who's been in a thousand comedy movies alongside, you know, Maya Rudolph. Like they all were huge names and polls, but maybe SNL just wasn't the cultural beast as much in the 2000s. And now with like YouTube, it's maybe coming back, YouTube, TikTok kind of hitting those markets a bit more. But I don't know. I don't think we'll see another one.

SPEAKER_03 58:11

I guess I I I guess it wouldn't shock me if they did another one. Um, like if something like blows up here. Um because like I feel like m Maggruber like wasn't like crazy popular.

SPEAKER_01 58:28

Um Yeah, that was that was a surprising one. I listened to an interview with Will Forte and even he was saying like yeah, I I don't I don't know why we turned that into a movie. I I think Lorne just thought it would do well.

SPEAKER_03 58:41

And like they uh they recently did a m Magruber umstein list. Yeah, they brought McGruber back.

SPEAKER_01 58:51

He's like they brought him back a couple times, like for guest appearances that, and there was one where he was like a QAnon anti-vaxxer. Yeah. Like, that's pretty good. It's like I've done my own research, buddy. So good.

SPEAKER_03 59:06

So, um the before we we go here, I did wanna throw out because you're such a big SNL fan, okay, I wanted to give you a blind power ranking.

SPEAKER_01 59:24

Oh, Lord. Alright.

SPEAKER_03 59:26

So there's seven names I'm gonna give you. And what this is, is this is SNL cast member post-show careers.

SPEAKER_01 59:37

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 59:39

Yeah. And it's like I'll say you you gotta go with like your you can go with your your favorite, like not necessarily. The most lucrative, but the first one here is Will Farrell.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:00

Oh my god. I I have to put him at two. Even though, like, I Yeah, it's it's one of those things where even though I'm not the biggest Will Farrell fan, I know you literally just said put him your favorites. It's he's so prolific that it would be so disrespectful. It'd be like seven, you know. Uh and by the way, I've now seen Elf enough times, my wife has made me watch it that I've I've stockholmed into liking it. So maybe that's part of it.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:28

Alright, very interesting. Um Kristen Wig.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:35

Oh, you Oh, I'll put her at three. Ash, all right. My my wife and I just finished watching Palm Royale a couple weeks ago, which was the TV show she did on Apple with Carol Burnett in it. There that that cast is stacked, by the way. But I'm so sad it's not coming for back for season three, but it was very, very funny and silly and wonderful. So I'll put her.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:00

Why isn't it cut just didn't get renewed. Coming back. Oh, okay. So they can include it. Um Okay. Adam Sandler.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:11

Oh my god. I'm so scared that maybe I should put Will Farrell down. Like, God. You can't move him. Oh, you're a jerk. I'll I'll have to put him at four. It's it's Adam Sandler. I I'm saving one because I uh I'm there's someone I think you're gonna throw out there. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:32

Eddie Murphy's one.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:34

There it is. Yeah, Eddie Murphy's one. Yeah. It's it just flat out you can't argue me on that. Like, I get that Adam Sandler was more our generation, but Eddie Murphy has been in everything, like, before SNL, after SNL. I know you again you said it's post-snel. Let's start with after SNL. His stand-up has been prolific. He's been in movie after movie. He's donkey and shrek. Come on now. Get out of my face.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:02

So the the uh stand-up did come after SNL, huh?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:06

I believe Raw was after SNL.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:08

That is what I was thinking, but I was like, it's kind of weird that he like did that. Because it's like usually that would come before a few.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:18

Well, I'm sure he was such I mean he definitely did it before too. Um so I'm sure he was like, I'm just gonna go back and with my SNL fame. Yeah, that that's that is the clear number one for me. Alright. Chris Katan. That's a seven. Sorry, Chris. I I can't name anything he's done besides Night at the Roxbury after like SNL.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:44

Corky Romano, come on! Oh, of course.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:47

I forgot I even have that tattoo of Corky Romano.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:51

Oh man. Number one fan. Uh Amy Polar.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:58

Oh, you jerk. Oh my god. Why did I put Will Ferrell at two? Uh alright. Amy Polar has to be five then.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:12

You you didn't do too bad, because your your six here is Rob Schneider. Okay, that that'll stay at six. And here's the thing. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:21

I would keep Rob over Chris just because I I unfortunately have seen more Rob Schneider films, so I at least have something to judge off of. And I'm not gonna pretend that European gigolo, Deuce Bigolo European gigolo wasn't something I watched in high school.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:34

Oh man, I I watched the hell out of that movie, and like, so the other day at uh work, one of my coworkers was like, that's a huge bitch, and I was like, I'm so happy that you know that. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:53

Ricky, can you read out the power rankings again? Uh so this was the blind power ranking.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:58

Yes. So I'll start at the bottom. Your number seven was Chris Catan. Your number six was Rob Schneider. Number five was Amy Polar, because you hate her.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:14

Oh, you monster. How dare you!

SPEAKER_03 1:04:16

Number four is Adam Sandler, number three, Kristen Wig. Two, Will Farrell, and one Eddie Murphy. So honestly, you you didn't do no like too too bad. I I was trying to get you to have to put like Schneider or Katy.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:34

I I started getting too worried. Like in my head, I was like, Eddie Murphy, if he's on this list, he's the guaranteed one. If you said Amy Polar before Eddie Murphy, I would have probably just thrown her in one just out of safety. Yeah. Um because I was like, it it that would have been that's a disrespectful spot for Amy Polar at five. Ugh. Like Parks and Rick alone is incredible. Look at uh Baby Mama is hysterical. Mean girls. Uh she's in Hamlet 2, and she's very good in that. Like, and not even and also her podcast. Her podcast is very, very good and probably the best like celebrity interviewing another celebrity podcast.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:12

I uh didn't remember her in Hamlet.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:16

I could be wrong, but I think I'm right. And thinking's half the battle. But that was fun, Ricky. Maybe I'll sneak you a power rankings on you next week. That could be really cool.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:28

Like it's uh if we can like fit in the uh time and my wife is gonna be so upset that Amy Polar's at five. Dude, it was so hard, but like, cause like I was throwing out all these names, and that was why I had like texted you like I don't know if this'll work because like there are just so many like great cast members, and like yeah, there aren't a ton. Well, I mean, great great ones that have had like good careers after you know, maybe maybe uh off Michael.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:00

Do an SNL draft and we'll each pick like ten people plus an update host and make the dreamcast.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:08

Ooh, that would that that would be fun.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:10

Maybe we'll maybe we'll record it and make it a bonus episode as like an addendum to this.

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SPEAKER_03 1:06:37

I don't think so. Um this was a fun, like uh retrospective, and yeah, I didn't really for some reason, I guess because like like I said, like so many cast members have had like successful careers, like I had forgotten how few SNL movies they're actually worth.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:57

Yeah, you would think there'd be more, and I think that's again another part of the mystique of SNL is how many people have had amazing SNL tenures but then didn't really do much after, or people that didn't do anything on SNL but became huge or didn't get accepted. Stephen Colbert, Donald Glover, they never made SNL, they auditioned. Um Tim Robinson and Jenny Slate Slate barely on there. Yeah, both of them both never really were on SNL and then had amazing careers after. It's just kind of cool when that happens.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:31

But this has been another episode of a mostly film podcast. I have been branding. With me as always, is Ricky. Now please go watch some movies.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:42

Bye bye.