ALL EYES ON 'SNL' - AGAIN: AUDITIONS NEXT WEEK

New York Post ^ | August 22, 2006 | DON KAPLAN

[lormand]

August 22, 2006 -- WHAT's going on be hind the scenes at "Saturday Night Live" this month may be more dramatic than any thing you'll see on the two prime-time shows starting this fall based on the famed late-night comedy.

[lormand]

"Wasn't that #2, with assistant crack whore #1?"

I may have missed one year's list, but I agree, assistant crack whore is worse.

[XJarhead]

Dana Carvey's impersonation of Ross Perot was side-splittingly funny.

Their political stuff has generally been pretty good. I remember one bit with Reagan playing the gentle geezer to a boy scout troop, then barking out orders and speaking in Russian to the Soviet Premier on the red phone as soon as the scouts were ushered out of the room. Hilarious.

"Strategery" was a SNL invention, and then Bush coming up with "dignitude" when he and Gore were playing Scrabble.

[Ol' Sox]

Ms. Hammer was formerly the program director for the Lifetime Channel

a/k/a "The Men Are SCum Channel"

We refer to Lifetime as VTV.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I remember one bit with Reagan playing the gentle geezer to a boy scout troop, then barking out orders and speaking in Russian to the Soviet Premier on the red phone as soon as the scouts were ushered out of the room."

I don't know if we're talking about different recollections of the same skit, or if they used the same concept twice, but I remember one where they took him [Reagan]out of a meeting for a photo op with a girl scout, where he played the amiable, doddering jokester, then the girl was shuttled off and he went back into the meeting, taking charge, barking orders, and pulls down a wall map and demonstrates a vast, detailed knowledge of the world situation. Then the phone rings and he jokes in Japanese with the Japanese premier.

[Tanniker Smith]

Listen to the words Reagan says in whatever foreign language it was supposed to be. Among the gibberish are the words: "Mekka lekka hi meeka hiney ho!"

That was Phil Hartman for you.

[Tanniker Smith]

Nothing new to add. I just wanted to bump that picture again. Wow.

[ovrtaxt]

Well, to be fair, now and then SNL does something actually humorous. My favorie SNL skit: Asswipe Johnson

"uh, that's pronounced 'Ah Swee Pay'."

[gcruse]

"Got booted for being too conservative but was by far one of the best."

Norm got booted by a west coast NBC exec for the Weekend Update skit where Norm mentioned Vinck Foster, then said of Clinton, "Hey, you know he's a murderer, right?"

THere was a stunned audience pause, then applause. Norm was fired before the next SNL.

[4yearlurker]

A very early SNL when the producer Lorne Michaels was trying to explain to George Harrison that the payment for appearing was to be split 4 ways. I remember Harrison just looking at him deadpan then saying:" thats kind of chincey." Also the same show Paul Simon and George Harrison did two songs on acoustics. Great show.