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The fiftieth day of remembrance ofSaturday Night Liveis still over a year away , but there ’s never a bad time to revisit the chronicle ofSNL . We ’ve already gone overthe funniestSaturday Night Liveskitsandthe worstSNLskitsof all prison term . Now it ’s metre to look back at the seven most underratedSaturday Night Liveskits .
We ’ve lose caterpillar track of how many skitsSNLhas had throughout its 49 season to escort . And of course , all of the picks below are subjective . But when we think back on the survey that made us laugh , these are the skits that deserve more recognition .
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7. President Reagan, Mastermind
If you think that the two extend Presidential candidates are too old to contain the authority , then you may have drop President Reagan ’s forgetful grandfather image in the eighties . In time of year 12 , with the Reagan administration facing scandals , the late great Phil Hartman portrayed Reagan as a folksy President in public , and an malefic genius behind shut door .
Hartman ’s Reagan can turn on the charm on a dime bag , right before he slips back into his true self and berate his subsidiary in the governing body . This rendering of Reagan is so sharp that he speaks multiple speech and even does complex numerical calculations off the top of his fountainhead . Hartman is so over - the - top with Reagan ’s evil that it ’s almost impossible not to express mirth .
6. You’re a Rat Bastard, Charlie Brown
A Charlie Brown Christmasmay be a beloved holiday special , but it was n’t immune from getting mock bySNLdecades after the fact . In this skit from season 38 , Bill Hader portray Al Pacino starring as Charlie Brown in The New York Actor ’s Studio ’s production ofYou’re a Rat Bastard , Charlie Brown .
It ’s as if the Peanuts gang were reenvisioned as hilariously profaneSouth Parkcharacters with Larry David as Linus ( Martin Short ) , Philip Seymour Hoffman as Pig Pen ( Jason Sudeikis ) , Edie Falco as Lucy ( Kate McKinnon ) , Michael Keaton as Schroeder ( Taran Killam ) , Forest Whitaker as Franklin ( Kenan Thompson ) , and Fred Armisen as Snoopy . Short was the node host of the calendar week , but Hader absolutely rules in this sketch .
5. Cobras & Panthers
Robert Downey Jr. may have host this episode in time of year 22 , but Norm Macdonald steal the show inCobras & Panthers . In a riff onWest Side Story , Macdonald plays the leader of a street gang called the Cobras , who were portrayed by Downey , Jim Breuer , Will Ferrell , Darrell Hammond , Chris Kattan , Mark McKinney , Tim Meadows , and Colin Quinn .
Despite the fact that their rivals , the Panthers , are amount for a showdown , Macdonald ’s grapheme ca n’t get his guys to halt breaking into song and choreographed terpsichore bit . When the Panthers finally arrive , they ’re just as into the music as the Cobras are .
4. Game Night
Game Nightstarts innocently enough with a couple played by Amy Poehler and Will Forte host a night in with two other couples who are portray by Maya Rudolph and Will Forte and Rachel Dratch and Eric McCormack .
It ’s all iciness and laid - back until Dratch and McCormack ’s character fail to match the winner of their friend , and she goes utterly barmy . Her husband stimulate like he ’s terrified and even her friends do n’t know how to respond when her anger get out of control . It ’s a hilariously dark-skinned skit , which has the perfect conclusion when Dratch ’s fiber wants to continue the game as if she did n’t just scrap the situation .
3. Who’s More Grizzled?
Garth Brooks was an underrated musical guest and host during his 2d coming into court onSaturday Night Livein season 23 . But as entertaining as Brooks was on the show , he was upstaged by special Edgar Albert Guest Robert Duvall in the sketchWho ’s More Grizzled ? , a game show host by Norm Macdonald ’s Champ Greer .
In this two - man showdown , Tate ( Garth Brooks ) pass away up against returning champion Wayne ( Duvall ) to set which of them rightfully deserved to be cry grizzled . And in this competition , there ’s almost no wrong reply , unless one of these hombre shows too much emotion .
2. White Like Me
It ca n’t be understated how much Eddie Murphy carried SNL when he was a cast member in the early 1980s . After go forth the show in former 1984 , he returned as a guest boniface in December of the same yr . Before taking a decades - farseeing hiatus from the serial , one of Murphy ’s highlights wasWhite Like Me , a mockumentary in which his character uses composition to go clandestine as a whitened adult male in New York .
What Murphy ’s fictional character discovers is that life ’s a political party for white-hot citizenry when they ’re alone , and he can get almost anything he wants with his new appearance . Playing under heavy makeup became one of Murphy ’s signature tune moves , but the understated war paint and Murphy ’s reactions make this skit an underrated classic .
1. Meet Your Second Wife!
Meet Your 2d Wife!is a pop skit from time of year 41 that still does n’t get the full taste it deserve . This sketch reunify theWeekend Updateteam of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as the hosts of a game show that introduces Brian ( Bobby Moynihan ) , Steve ( Taran Killam ) , and Toby ( Kenan Thompson ) to their future wife , while their current wife – Samantha ( Vanessa Bayer ) , Elaine ( Aidy Bryant ) , and Deanna ( Leslie Jones ) – watch from the audience .
The hosts , Fey ( wreak herself ) and Helen Walsh ( Poehler ) have an uncanny knowledge about what ’s blend to happen in the life of these men and their spouses . And the sketch takes the obvious gag about men hook up with younger wives to the extreme point , which only makes it even funnier when Toby realizes just how unseasoned his next married woman is going to be .
