Saturday Night Live - "Bill you ignorant slut" (VCR ALERT)

03-08-03

[Grig]

SNL opening skit was a spoof of clinton/dole doing point/counterpoint.

Honest to goodness you would think a freeper wrote the skit. Clinton was his oily self-agrandizing self, Doles first remark "Bill you ignorant slut".

Someone please tape this and get a digial copy of it online.

[JURB]

I had read that Norm was sacked because NBC exec Dan Ohlymeyer "didn't think he was funny." Which is a shame, because Norm was one of the funniest people they ever had. Not only was he great on Weekend Update, but he was hilarious as Bob Dole (far funnier than Dan Ackroyd) and as Burt Reynolds on Celebrity Jeopardy, among others. One wonders if he told one Bill Clinton joke too many.

[bellevuesbest]

So this was when SNL wasn't on Michaels' watch? Perhaps Lorne will think about doing something about that but then, Norm, being the principled man I suspect he is, has already told them to stick it.

[Consort]

Rush referenced the old SNL routine in his comments.

[Lancey Howard]

Yep, they got the idea from Rush

I don't think they had to get that idea from Rush.
"Bill, you ignorant slut", was the first thing that popped into my mind when I heard about this new "Point Counterpoint" thing with Dole and Clinton, and I bet anybody who regularly watched Saturday Night Live in the late '70s had exactly the same thought. Those old skits with Jane Curtain were classic.

[Slyfox]

I have a feeling someone on the writing staff must check in here. The Khalid guy
skit with the sounded like they were privy to one of our "caption this" threads.

[wolficatZ]

Norm sacked because he always mentioned OJ and Clinton's selling out to the Chinese on his Weekend Update segment.
NBC replays older SNL at 1:30AM here in Phoenix, with Norm, gonna tape it. Tonight's episode also has The Joe Pesci Show, one of my faves.
I posted this earlier on another thread, but here's a Realplayer clip of a Norm as Bob Dole skit :-)
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~anthontj/snl/realworld/96-03-16-real.ram

[I got the rope]

I was thinking the same thing. There's a freeper on that show...a writer?

[DAnconia55]

I wonder what he did to piss off Lorne.

He called Klinton a murderer in a skit :)

[DAnconia55]

The OJ story was a cover.

[lorrainer]

This would have been TOO EASY !

[Judith Anne]

Truthfully, I thought of John B too when I saw this thread. He would have done him perfectly, alas.

[bellevuesbest]

What a great show! Thanks for the post. SNL's been doing it since 1975. Sometimes not funny. Tonight, very good! Thanks.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Norm MacDonald was sacked largely because of the O.J. Simpson business, with the side issue that some of his material being a bit too "edgy" (or unfunny, as TPTB define it). It was Don Ohlmeyer, an NBC executive (and VERY good friend and golf buddy of O.J.'s going back for years to their early days at NBC sports) that ordered Lorne Michaels to tell MacDonald to knock it off "or else." Norm largely kept doing his schtick, and a furious Ohlmeyer ordered Michaels to fire him (take him off desk duty, albeit with an option to still appear in sketches, but a helluva demotion). Michaels was not powerless, though, and could've gone to the top brass and told Ohlmeyer to stuff it in regards to whom he puts on SNL (Lorne has considerable autonomy since the program IS an institution), but he truly failed to stand up for MacDonald in this matter, and so he eventually just left the show entirely. In other words, Norm got screwed for telling the truth on O.J.

[GOPJ]

bump

[GOPJ]

Was this skit on last night?

Carter: Well, a lot of people don't think war is the right answer. Reagan: Yeah, well a lot of people think you should wear a dress. Carter: But I just won the Nobel Peace Prize! Reagan: They should call it the "No-Balls" peace prize.

[EllaMinnow]

That Mad TV skit was spot on. I'm glad I'm not the only person who saw it.

[OXENinFLA]

I guess the writers of SNL listen to NEAL BOORTZ, that was Neal's exact quote to Bob Barr in a debate they had last year.

[GOPJ]

SNL? They're funny again...

[Mr.Clark]

Yes, it was one of the TV Funhouse cartoon spots.

[Grig]

Did you tape it? Does anyone have a movie file of it that can be downloaded? Please!