Most influential SNL sketch of all time (1 Viewer)

[Thorin]

Nope, Laugh-In had it back in the 60's, complete with George Carlin, "The Hippy-Dippy Weatherman, with the hippy-dippy weather, man."

Wow, you're really old.

 

[DadsDream]

Wow, you're really old.

Yes, and SNL was indeed accused of stealing the news parody segment from Laugh-In at the time. Rowan & Martin were a bit outspoken about it too.

 

[Chairman_LMAO]

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[CT Saints Fan]

That song sticks in the head though.

No pun intended, I'm sure.

 

[Jonesy77]

Actually they have had quite a few successful movies, whether or not you or I like them they have had some success. Unless you were speaking about movies that had a sequel to them...but you still have to count Blues Brothers.

Blues Brothers, The Coneheads and even a Night at the Roxbury. I personally hate a few of their movies and Wayne's World and Blues Brothers probably are the top two but debatable.

Blues Brothers :17:
Coneheads, Roxbury

 

[Saintlady]

No pun intended, I'm sure.

That thought never crossed my mind......promise!

But, good one.

 

[hammernnails]

Cant forget the Church Lady... I love the one with Willie Nelson... very funny stuff..

 

[Saintlady]

Cant forget the Church Lady... I love the one with Willie Nelson... very funny stuff..

Church Lady was the best!!

 

[superchuck500]

I think **** in a Box won an emmy!

Yes, its recent, but that's a hall of famer for sure. Church Lady was pretty infused into the popular culture. Everyone was saying "Isn't that special?"

But influential is perhaps a different question. I can't really think of a skit that launched a whole new genre of comedy or way of approaching comedy. Though somebody pointed out Wayne's World- that's a pretty good answer. It made its way into the popular syntax and the sort of "cable access" stoners having a show - sort of the comedy equivalent of a garage band sound - did become more popular after that.

 

[bclemms]

I wouldn't say this was the most influential but I can't believe it hasn't been mentioned.

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[SoonerJim]

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Greatest commercial parody ever

 

[saintfan-n-alex]

Cant forget the Church Lady... I love the one with Willie Nelson... very funny stuff..

i am a willie fan, id like to see that one

 

[soupcan dan]

painful rectal itch. with a name like painful rectal itch it HAS to be good.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Church Lady was pretty infused into the popular culture. Everyone was saying "Isn't that special?"

As were a couple others that haven't been mentioned: Billy Crystal (Fernando)'s "You look mah-velous!" Everyone was waking around saying that- my excuse is that I was only 6 when it came out. ... And the other is Jon Lovitz: "That's the ticket!" That phrase was so ubiquitous that you had no chance of escaping it; people pretty much used it in any context you could imagine for about two years in the mid-80s...

 

[Taurus]

Landshark.