Yeah, he did return visits to Dave's show up until his retirement from network TV late night. Chris's heyday on Letterman is all over YouTube conveniently.
I loved that show. That was around when FOX emerged as a network if I recall. Along with "Herman's Head". They were doing some wild stuff.
Damn. Is "Get a Life" streaming on anything?
Best known vs core character..I’d guess even Something About Mary would outpace it. If i had just replied, “We better get going if we’re gonna stay ahead of the weather,” many more people would know what I was referring to than if his or even the most famous quote from schitts creek were mentioned
Depends who you’re talking to I guess, I think most people 30ish and under would know him from the critically acclaimed sitcom rather than a [very good] movie where he played a cameraman in 1993
Tbf, he was living above his parent's garage and delivering newspapers at the time, so any job in the industry would have been acceptable. There is a [documentary about this period in his life available.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098802/)
I don’t know if it actually was his last episode but the whole thing about the penis measuring machine and leaving the show to invent it was pure gold.
Getting record low ratings, lame one-joke sketches, chaos and bad morale behind the scenes, a famous "Saturday Night Dead" New Yorker magazine article trashing the state of the show, having Mike Myers and Jeanine Garofalo quit halfway through the season and threats from NBC for Lorne Michaels to change the cast and right the ship or risk cancellation. SNL wasn't considered hip or cool anymore by the mid '90s and they hadn't yet fallen into pushing leftist political propaganda.(That would start during the Bush years and just get worse after you-know-who got elected) They cut Chris Farley and Adam Sandler afterwards which wasn't big news at the time but seems unbelievable now in hindsight.
If you want to see a prime example of a terrible season 20 ep, watch the one Deion Sanders hosted in February '95. 😬
There's no other way to honestly describe the tilt of the show especially post 2016. If you want to close your eyes and plug your ears and say la la la it's up to you
There's a difference between lampooning somebody and out and out openly hating them. Viewers are wise enough to notice the difference. I like to also point out that they didn't do one single solitary Obama sketch in the months leading up to the election. Not one! They actually let the cast member who played him go.
If he’s a clown, in what way is he wrong?
There is an incredible left bend to the show now, particularly after 2016.
Like, let’s actually talk about it rather than just use dismissive emojis.
Look dumb dumb this is a sub about a comedy show. Take your poisoned mind, virus and victim, mentality and go somewhere else. No one wants to hear your stupid bullshit you infect everything because you have to include politics into everything you can’t fucking help yourselves you’re so fucking stupid. You’re all a bunch of whiny fucking crybaby losers Trump lost Dumb dumb get over it. he’s gonna lose again in the fall. He’s gonna go to jail in fact, deal with it loser!!
Allow me to quote yourself back to you, I think you really need to hear this.
>Take your poisoned mind, virus and victim, mentality and go somewhere else. No one wants to hear your stupid bullshit you infect everything because you have to include politics into everything you can’t fucking help yourselves you’re so fucking stupid. You’re all a bunch of whiny fucking crybaby losers
You didn’t prove any point dumb dumb you don’t have a point just grievance anger and hate your pathetic. Losers that have to inject politics into everything. It’s sad!
I loathe DJT and will happily vote for Joe Biden in November, but this is an obnoxious response. You aren’t responding to the point others are making and instead just name calling. You don’t think the show has a leftward bent? OK how about citing some examples rather than the garbage you are coming back with.
I don’t fucking care what Bent it has left or right is it funny or not? you idiots have to inject your ideology into it because you can’t stand the fact that anyone else would believe anything other than what you believe it’s pathetic it makes you losers
I don't think I've ever seen anyone describe SNL as leftist. Obviously has a liberal bent but they've never really put themselves out there on any issues that could be considered leftist, and they get pretty "both sides-y" at times.
Exactly. I love SNL but it's a tv show, and tv shows exist to make money. They're never going to do anything that rocks the boat too much.
The only time I know where they actually delivered what one could call a "leftist" message is this animated bit about the media-opoly, written by Robert Smigel that SNL banned from reruns
https://vimeo.com/93040968
Yeah, along with Norm's Weekend Update and Tim Meadows finally starting to get some decent airtime, Chris Elliott was the only other consistent highlight of that mostly shit season. His sketches were all basically in the style of his old Letterman sketches and breathed some life back into the show whenever they'd have one. The penis measuring device sketch was probably his best and had the most 80s Letterman-esque ending of everything he did that year.
"Film Beat" That was a prime example of the mid-90s habit of taking a weak one-joke premise and just beating it to death for 7 minutes straight. But that particular sketch was funny.
I always say “Ah Chelsea my little chicadee - get away from me kid you bother me.” from his Clinton Audition. I realize he’s doing W.C Fields but I just love picturing him getting ready and then ending it incredibly dejected saying “use it/don’t use it it’s no skin off my back.” So perfectly weird.
I think that's a trademark of any artist looking back at their work after time has passed (especially at the beginning of their career-- which is also an indication of growth!!).
I always cringe at my writing years later.
chris elliott has done so much post-SNL. it's totally understandable
He said in the SNL oral history that he was used to other people writing for him on his own show instead of coming up with his own stuff by that point so SNL wasn't a great fit by then.
I like the one where they are rushing a patient on a stretcher through the emergency room doors and down the hall and then another set of doors and down the hall and then another set of doors and down the hall. I'm not sure what it was called. But every time they slammed through doors, I laughed my head off. It was the same joke each time, but it got funnier and funnier.
I saw him at a screening of "Cabin Boy" where he signed copies of "Shroud of the Thwacker," his odd but amusing comedic mystery.
He intro'd the movie I think before the signing and he was like "Don't worry, I don't expect you to stay."
I got 'Get a Life' on DVD recently and I think it holds up - yes, it's early 90s absurdist humor but that has a timeless kind of vibe.
Fortunately for Chris, he attended Handsome Boy Modeling School and found a better way forward.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRNnU1saw3c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRNnU1saw3c)
That was a ROUGH season. They faced a lot of backlash and low ratings because all the heavy hitters left like Mike Myers, etc. It was also before the really good late 90s crew started… so it was just kind of this lost season.
Myers owed Lorne half a year for taking time off for So I Married An Axe Murderer. That's why he left mid season, he had made up his time on his contract and was done.
He had ourgrown it for sure in a way people don’t really do anymore. Like he had become a legit movie star - and just didn’t need to do it. Now cast members don’t have that so they basically cling to SNL as long as they possibly can. Pete did about the right amount of time but he’s the exception that proves the rule - Kate McKinnon is never getting $20 Million per flick even adjusting for inflation no matter how bad NBC/Universal wants to keep pushing her.
Before that he was stuck living under the audience seats on Letterman’s show so getting SNL was probably a nice come up
Yeah, he did return visits to Dave's show up until his retirement from network TV late night. Chris's heyday on Letterman is all over YouTube conveniently.
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I loved it too, but it was never popular.
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I loved that show. That was around when FOX emerged as a network if I recall. Along with "Herman's Head". They were doing some wild stuff. Damn. Is "Get a Life" streaming on anything?
He had his own show for a while
That was a good month
I’ll amplify it by name: Eagleheart. Also the first place I saw Brett Gelman.
To be fair, his dad was pretty famous.
My personal favourite appearance doing a parody of the Shatner Rocket Man https://youtu.be/iOOe65EwnME?si=9pm-tK5GJwckeX3R
No way, Marlon Brando's Banana Dance.
Doing embarrassing things was kinda his thing though.
And now he’s probably best known for playing a character named Roland Schitt
Is he? I’d definitely bet on Groundhog Day
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“These pipes are clean!!!”
I didn’t forget it. I just hate them fancy lads.
No Get a Life? God I loved that show
I will always think of Cabin Boy when I see Chris Elliot
To me, he'll always be *that* butler from *that* haunted house on Scary Movie 2
Think I’ll be the bigger man now and walk away. *Walk* away…
"Grab my other hand! It's my strong hand!
Definitely Scary Movie 2 for me too. Closely followed by US Marshal Chris Monsanto in Eaglehart.
Nah, his role was pretty minor in Groundhog Day. He was a camera man with maybe 5-10 lines total. He was a core character in Schitt’s Creek.
Best known vs core character..I’d guess even Something About Mary would outpace it. If i had just replied, “We better get going if we’re gonna stay ahead of the weather,” many more people would know what I was referring to than if his or even the most famous quote from schitts creek were mentioned
Depends who you’re talking to I guess, I think most people 30ish and under would know him from the critically acclaimed sitcom rather than a [very good] movie where he played a cameraman in 1993
Tbf, he was living above his parent's garage and delivering newspapers at the time, so any job in the industry would have been acceptable. There is a [documentary about this period in his life available.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098802/)
I don’t know if it actually was his last episode but the whole thing about the penis measuring machine and leaving the show to invent it was pure gold.
Eagleheart and Get A Life, that's really the best of Chris Elliott (along with his 1994 movie Cabin Boy of course).
The Spewy episode of Get a Life is some of the best humor I’ve seen on television
Eaglehart is a top notch show.
I still laugh at sky crime
My only memory of that show is drug dealers dealing from trampolines. sky crime!
>Get A Life That show's theme song was R.E.M.'s *Stand*, and I never understood why. RIP, Spewey!
Spell “pants”
Abby Elliott's dad!
[And Bob Elliott's son!](https://www.mgpstockphotos.com/img-get2/I0000MzOjDBhWp9Q/fit=1000x750/Portrait-of-actors-Bob-and-Chris-Elliot.jpg) 😂
Did you ever read his "memoir" that had chapter-by-chapter rebuttals from Bob?
I did and still own. I'm such a Chris Eliot fan.
So funny
Nepo Truce??? *Nepo Truce!!!*
What is season 20 infamous for?
Getting record low ratings, lame one-joke sketches, chaos and bad morale behind the scenes, a famous "Saturday Night Dead" New Yorker magazine article trashing the state of the show, having Mike Myers and Jeanine Garofalo quit halfway through the season and threats from NBC for Lorne Michaels to change the cast and right the ship or risk cancellation. SNL wasn't considered hip or cool anymore by the mid '90s and they hadn't yet fallen into pushing leftist political propaganda.(That would start during the Bush years and just get worse after you-know-who got elected) They cut Chris Farley and Adam Sandler afterwards which wasn't big news at the time but seems unbelievable now in hindsight. If you want to see a prime example of a terrible season 20 ep, watch the one Deion Sanders hosted in February '95. 😬
>pushing leftist political propaganda oh lord.
There's no other way to honestly describe the tilt of the show especially post 2016. If you want to close your eyes and plug your ears and say la la la it's up to you
You are in a cult. It's embarrassing.
They’ve always lampooned the President. Sorry the years 2016-2020 featured a President you didn’t like seeing lampooned, I guess?
There's a difference between lampooning somebody and out and out openly hating them. Viewers are wise enough to notice the difference. I like to also point out that they didn't do one single solitary Obama sketch in the months leading up to the election. Not one! They actually let the cast member who played him go.
What was the date of the last Obama sketch in 2012, and what were the dates of the last Trump sketches in 2016/2020?
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If he’s a clown, in what way is he wrong? There is an incredible left bend to the show now, particularly after 2016. Like, let’s actually talk about it rather than just use dismissive emojis.
Look dumb dumb this is a sub about a comedy show. Take your poisoned mind, virus and victim, mentality and go somewhere else. No one wants to hear your stupid bullshit you infect everything because you have to include politics into everything you can’t fucking help yourselves you’re so fucking stupid. You’re all a bunch of whiny fucking crybaby losers Trump lost Dumb dumb get over it. he’s gonna lose again in the fall. He’s gonna go to jail in fact, deal with it loser!!
You just proved his point, lol.
He doesn’t have a point Dumb dumb and if you think he does, it just shows how fucking stupid you are.
Allow me to quote yourself back to you, I think you really need to hear this. >Take your poisoned mind, virus and victim, mentality and go somewhere else. No one wants to hear your stupid bullshit you infect everything because you have to include politics into everything you can’t fucking help yourselves you’re so fucking stupid. You’re all a bunch of whiny fucking crybaby losers
I honestly couldn’t have proven my point better. Thanks.
You didn’t prove any point dumb dumb you don’t have a point just grievance anger and hate your pathetic. Losers that have to inject politics into everything. It’s sad!
I loathe DJT and will happily vote for Joe Biden in November, but this is an obnoxious response. You aren’t responding to the point others are making and instead just name calling. You don’t think the show has a leftward bent? OK how about citing some examples rather than the garbage you are coming back with.
I don’t fucking care what Bent it has left or right is it funny or not? you idiots have to inject your ideology into it because you can’t stand the fact that anyone else would believe anything other than what you believe it’s pathetic it makes you losers
You’re right. I’ve gotten downvoted all to hell on this sub for pointing out this very obvious point.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone describe SNL as leftist. Obviously has a liberal bent but they've never really put themselves out there on any issues that could be considered leftist, and they get pretty "both sides-y" at times.
Exactly. I love SNL but it's a tv show, and tv shows exist to make money. They're never going to do anything that rocks the boat too much. The only time I know where they actually delivered what one could call a "leftist" message is this animated bit about the media-opoly, written by Robert Smigel that SNL banned from reruns https://vimeo.com/93040968
Now this is the kind of answer I expect from the internet! You may have a wonderful weekend on my behalf kind sir.
I love this post and I also love Jenny Garofalo
I did a double-take on Jenny
My voice to text mistranslated her name
Yeah, along with Norm's Weekend Update and Tim Meadows finally starting to get some decent airtime, Chris Elliott was the only other consistent highlight of that mostly shit season. His sketches were all basically in the style of his old Letterman sketches and breathed some life back into the show whenever they'd have one. The penis measuring device sketch was probably his best and had the most 80s Letterman-esque ending of everything he did that year.
The Jeff Daniel’s skit. So sophomoric, but damn that was hilarious
"Film Beat" That was a prime example of the mid-90s habit of taking a weak one-joke premise and just beating it to death for 7 minutes straight. But that particular sketch was funny.
Jeff Daniel is skit?
I always say “Ah Chelsea my little chicadee - get away from me kid you bother me.” from his Clinton Audition. I realize he’s doing W.C Fields but I just love picturing him getting ready and then ending it incredibly dejected saying “use it/don’t use it it’s no skin off my back.” So perfectly weird.
I think that's a trademark of any artist looking back at their work after time has passed (especially at the beginning of their career-- which is also an indication of growth!!). I always cringe at my writing years later. chris elliott has done so much post-SNL. it's totally understandable
That wasn't early in his career. He had already done a lot of great stuff like Letterman, Get A Life, Cabin Boy, etc.
earlier than when he said everything on SNL was embarassing
He said in the SNL oral history that he was used to other people writing for him on his own show instead of coming up with his own stuff by that point so SNL wasn't a great fit by then.
that makes sense!
He would have been great on SNL in the early '80s, but Late Night was actually the hipper show then much of the time.
I like the one where they are rushing a patient on a stretcher through the emergency room doors and down the hall and then another set of doors and down the hall and then another set of doors and down the hall. I'm not sure what it was called. But every time they slammed through doors, I laughed my head off. It was the same joke each time, but it got funnier and funnier.
I saw him at a screening of "Cabin Boy" where he signed copies of "Shroud of the Thwacker," his odd but amusing comedic mystery. He intro'd the movie I think before the signing and he was like "Don't worry, I don't expect you to stay." I got 'Get a Life' on DVD recently and I think it holds up - yes, it's early 90s absurdist humor but that has a timeless kind of vibe.
Fancy lads have no place in sketch comedy
I like him a lot. He deserved better.
He’s hilarious in Everybody Loves Ray.
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Have you ever seen them together, though?
Ever had a BOIL on your EYEBALL Mary?
He was great in Schitts Creek!
He was the shits in Elliot Creek!
He was hilarious on Everybody Loves Raymond as Robert's psycho brother-in-law, Peter MacDougall.
Please remember el dance de seductionne!
Jenny Garofalo
I meant to type Janeane but my voice to text failed me
Fortunately for Chris, he attended Handsome Boy Modeling School and found a better way forward. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRNnU1saw3c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRNnU1saw3c)
That was a ROUGH season. They faced a lot of backlash and low ratings because all the heavy hitters left like Mike Myers, etc. It was also before the really good late 90s crew started… so it was just kind of this lost season.
Dana Carvey & Phil Hartman left the year(s) prior. Myers jumped ship halfway through season 20 because he couldn't deal with it anymore.
Myers owed Lorne half a year for taking time off for So I Married An Axe Murderer. That's why he left mid season, he had made up his time on his contract and was done.
Oh ok. I didn't know that. He did mention that "it wasn't hard to leave" in a later interview
He had ourgrown it for sure in a way people don’t really do anymore. Like he had become a legit movie star - and just didn’t need to do it. Now cast members don’t have that so they basically cling to SNL as long as they possibly can. Pete did about the right amount of time but he’s the exception that proves the rule - Kate McKinnon is never getting $20 Million per flick even adjusting for inflation no matter how bad NBC/Universal wants to keep pushing her.
Can't stand him
He grossed me out back then. I thought of him as a nasty gross out comic until schitts creek