Hard to narrow down to 5 but wanna see yours -
1)Farley - Motivational Speaker
2)Murphy - Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood
3)Peyton Manning - nailing kids with the football
4)Murphy and Stevie Wonder - "My Cherie A'mour"
5)Ferrell - Cowbell

Honorable Mention
Martin Short - synchronized swimming for men at the Olympics
Farley and Swayze - Chippendales

1) Matt Foley
2) Weekend Update (pre Tina Fey)
3) Cowbell
4) Celebrity Jeopardy
5) Shweddy Balls

All the ones mentioned are great. A few more great ones....

Eddie Murphy's Buckwheat and James Brown skits were great

Bill Brasky

The Chris Farley Show - You remember that time?

Shmitz Gay beer ad

Chevy Chase word association interview with Richard Pryor - Spear chucker....HONKY! N*****! DEAD HONKY!!!!

Canteen boy and Opera Man

Will Ferrell's 'I drive a Dodge Stratus!!!' family dinner

Celebrity Jeopardy



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I was always a fan of the Robert Goulet skits.

How can you leave out Happy Fun Ball?

Love all mentioned thus far. I will add the Debbie Downer skit with Lindsey Lohan. Timberlake and Parnell dancing in food costumes was funny.

Chris Farley and Patrick Swayze as male strippers. I can't hear "working for the weekend" without laughing

I also really loved the Japanese game self mutilation show with Chris Farley as a tourist and Mike Meyers as the host.

Acku surpee peeku?!!!

Deep thoughts with Jack Handey
Celebrity jeopardy
BRIAN FELLOWS
Christmas time for the jews
WF as Bush II

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Showing my age here.

Wild and Crazy Guys - Dan Akroyd and Steve Martin

Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute - Dan Akroyd

Julia Childs - Dan Akroyd

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Celebrity Jeopardy

Toby McGuire as a pilot with Will Farrell bringing order to the plane

1. Cliche or not...the Cowbell skit is the best skit ever on SNL. Here's a test to tell whether or not an SNL skit is legendary: If Will Ferrel can't stop laughing, you know you have something legendary.

2. Every Celebrity Jeopardy, but the best ones were with Hammond as Sean Connery and McDonald as Burt Renolds.

3. Just about anything with Chris Farley was classic; he was just made for SNL. "LAY OFF ME, I'M STARVING!", "I AM EL NINO!", or of course the legendary "...LIVE IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!"

4. Just about every presidential debate skit between George Bush and Al Gore. "Lock-box"...."Strategery...."

5. The Continental skits with Christopher Walken were also favorites of mine.

I could probably go on forever, but these are the ones that come to mind immediately and are the reasons I used to love SNL.

The stalkers roundtable skit with Christopher Walken.

Woman's POV at nightclub (Christian Slater was hosting).

Sprockets

Pierce Brosnan working for Will Ferrell (Mr. Tarkanian) and Ferrell threatening to murder at least one staff member.

Jim Carrey "Ride the Snake"

A few that popped into my head...

Jingle Heimer Junction
Phil Hartman as Clinton stopping at mcdonalds
Hyper hypo boy
Coffee talk
Chipendales

Showing my age too -

The Judy Miller Show with Gilda Radnor
Schweddy Balls
Mary Catherine Gallagher Christmas with Whitney Houston
More Cowbell
Caveman Lawyer
Dick in the Box

mike myers as that jewish lady (I'm so verklempt), when madonna was hosting, and unbeknownst to them, as they were talking about barbara streisand, she walks on set.

100% genuine responses from myers and madonna, classic.

The gay beer commercial (I believe sandler and farley), where it was a bunch of dudes in speedos instead of bikini chicks. (Gay Schlitz?)

massive head wound harry, when the dog started licking his head, (I believe they put something dogs like in his head), it starts to completely fall off.

Before my time, but I still know them:
Jane you ignorant ****
john belushi as short order cashier yelling cheeseburgers to cook every time customer said cheeseburger.

Sinatra Duets

I think the skit that has made me laugh the hardest was Will Ferrell as the doctor that lost the baby. Not the most clever or well written comedy I've ever seen, but so much WTF off the wall hilarity.

Robot Insurance commercial is a favorite of mine.



Samurai Deli was great

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Not SNL, but the most epic sketch ever is Tim Conway and Harvey Corman's dentist sketch from the Carrol Burnet Show.

Greutzmachers -- Goin' commando!

it's great to see the church lady didn't make this list. It was terrible!!

All of these are great! Schweddy balls was the first thing that popped into my head.

Edit: also wanted to mention the Colon Blow commercial, the Love Toilet commercial, and the Oops I Crapped my Pants commercial.

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All of these are great, so I'll just add the skit when James Bond (Parnell?)goes and gets tested for stds with the doctor played by Garth Brooks.

WF in the American flag thong after 9-11.

The Sinatra Group has to be in there...

"I got chunks of guys like you in my stool"

Celebrity Jeopardy

The Super Fans (Da Bears)

Anything where WF Played Harry Carey

The continental is a long time favorite.

Census taker with walken

GET OFF THE SHED!

Mom jeans

Norm M's weekend update

Clinton/lewinsky/saddam 3way call

Also, eddie murphey doing stevie wonder, singing with joe piscapo on the piano
'you're as blind as a bat'

hah,


speaking of stevie wonder, his bit for the camera, while taking pictures of someone playing tennis.

It's so easy to use, even stevie wonder can use it!

Steve Martin at the ancient Greek Vomitorium.

Bill Hader playing Al Pacino checking his bank balance on the phone.

Other good ones that may or may not have been mentioned already

The Herlihy Boy
The lost Star Wars audition tapes
Ambiguously Gay Duo
Jack Handy
Omletteville sketch with Justin Timberlake
And The Barry Gibb Talk Show

I dont think I saw a reference to Steve Martin's King Tut.

Not that it was a "best", but Bad Idea Jeans references still surface among my friends: Normally I wear protection, but then I thought, "When am I gonna make it back to Haiti?"

A few others:

-Phil Hartman as Ronald Reagan running the Iran-Contra scheme, with Dana Carvey as Jimmy Stewart plus the girl who sold the most Girl Scout cookies.
- Mr. Bill
- Land Shark
- We Are the World
- Dukakis/Bush debate (Jon Lovitz as Dukakis and the adjustable height platform)
- Jimmy Carter tours Three Mile Island

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Lot of great ones on here...

James Brown in a hot tub

Spartan Cheerleaders - Will Ferrell

Samurai Deli - John Belushi

I win. You all lose.

Bob Odenkirk (Saul from Breaking Bad) wrote the first Matt Foley sketch when he and Chris Farley were at Second City in Chicago.

The more you know...