Friday, December 20, 2013

Live From New York- It’s Christmas

Live From New York- It’s Christmas

So This is going to be fun. And No I won’t change the title to It’s Holiday.  Fuck You.  It is Christmas time.  

So I wanted to get in all of the holiday moments of SNL . At least all of the musical moments.  So here are some of SNL’s best Holiday hits.

There are not too many but I got what I could up there




Dysfunctional Family Christmas

This is the classic early90’s late 80’s era Saturday Night Live. This is when I really started to get into the show. 

And this is a Christmas album that everyone can understand. It makes sense and it makes you realize that you are not alone. 

God I have had some awful Christmases, but I have also had some great ones.  So I know how this feels, but I know it is not like this. 

By the way I love this whole scene but when Carvey starts singing.  That shit is hilarious.




Winter Wonderland

This is classic and from season 1  and is a beautiful moment for what it is and for what it isn’t.

It is serious for the first half but isn’t for the second. It is Hilarious for the final part but not initially. It is the beginning of the end for Chevy for me.  (I have watched all of the episodes from the first 2 seasons, and you can clearly look at this episode as one where Chevy seemed distant from the cast. This scene as well. He seems less affectionate and into it than everyone else.  Fuck Him!)

I love the Bass sax even though you can’t really hear it.  I love the girls, who included Candace Bergen, as one of their own.  (She hosted so much I actually thought she was a member. ) 

Most importantly I think that Garret Morris is an incredible singer (and the original token Black guy)  and  all of their outfits are crazy hilarious. 






A Holiday Treat For All

This is not the version that you usually see, and I don’t know why, because to me this is the best version of all.  If you have seen this before, watch it again. It is so worth it.

Horatio Sanz to me is one of the most underrated  SNL cast members of all time. I always thought he was hilarious, and anytime I saw him and Fallon together I knew it was gonna be good. 

Now Oddly enough though this clip to me is extra hilarious because of Tracy Morgan and Chris Kattan.  All of Kattan’s characters were vaguely childlike and gay, and how he is able to portray that just by moving his head, is beyond me, but he does. 

And Morgan is just there to dance, and  be Token Black. But his dancing is so infectious.  Sometimes I do it on accident and just laugh my ass off.

My understanding is that this song was written because Sanz  got that weird instrument, (oddly I don’t remember the name, and when someone tells me, I am going to shoot myself in the foot)  So him and Fallon wrote this song, and just kept doing the sketch over and over, but this version is my favorite.



Little Drummer Boy / Sleigh Ride

This is one that we get to see so often but we somehow also forget about.

Rosie O Donnell and Penny Marshall are hilarious and the whole episode that this is from is great.  But on top of that we have the great and incredible Whitney Houston, a voice and a style that can not be matched. Yes she died a tragic death, but She was awesome.

And then in the thick of things is Mary Catherine Gallagher.  My favorite Molly Shannon character that there is worth enjoying. (I don’t remember how many she had) But this whole scene is hilarious, and makes laugh my ass off .

It helps that these are two of my favorite Christmas songs and I love a good pratfall


Seriously, this needs no long introduction other than to say “ Your drumming for Jesus Christ not Judas Priest”



Last Call

I can not find a clip of this anywhere, but it is one the greatest things in the world.

Tracy Morgan and Maya Rudoloph are 2 drunks and sitting at a bar on Christmas Eve, and the bartender calls last call, and asks them to get going, and then tells them they can have one more drink on him, and they go into one of the cutest most adorable songs I have ever  heard.  They both play good drunks, Rudolph reminds me of so many drunk ladies.

In the end they just have their usual.

Seriously find this clip. I have it on DVD, but I do not know how to show it to you. 
I tried to reach NBC today, I put a call in, to them, but no one that I asked to talk to was available. So as for now the clip goes on unseen.  But stop by and I will show it to you.



Dick In A Box

Enough said, and yes I consider this a holiday song, but it is also good for all year.







How about I get another one out of the way that needs no  introduction


The Hanukkah Song









Well, really that is all I have for today, but , I don’t need much more.  Merry Christmas everyone.  I might take a few days off for the holidays.  But Monday I plan on highlighting the top ten Christmas songs of all time. So get ready for it 



Oh and because I can, here is a Christmas present for you.





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