I'm pretty sure the guys making a punk documentary at the onset of the '90s were indeed familiar with the '70s and '80s.

I'll thank you not to refer to Princeton that way.

She hasn't been dead that long—she was in Mars Attacks!

Beyond the Fringe was huge in Britain in the '60s and I believe made it to Broadway as well. It was a major influence on Python. It's worth checking out—Peter Cook in particular was some kind of (drunken) mad genius. Also part of the team was Alan Bennett, who later wrote The Madness of King George and History Boys,…

I'd prefer just to remember the Idle- and Palin-hosted episodes in the '70s, which were awesome.

Other than the now-obligatory cheap shot at Belushi out of nowhere, this was a reasonably well-written review. I thought this was one of the best episodes ever when I first saw it, but I had no idea at the time that bits like Tarzan had already been around for years.

Then I'll get a white woman who's wearing a navy-blue sweaterrrr….

I missed the Lakers game for THIS?

I don't think Flav was supposed to be the "threatening" one.

Isn't that the one where he actually remakes the Isaac Hayes song sampled on Black Steel, with Isaac doing guest vocals? I thought that was pretty good.

They wanted me for their army or whatever.

Also, remember, Belushi wasn't good at ensemble work and Radner was too "needy."

Get your picture taken with a standing cardboard cutout of Reggie Watts!

Nope, that would have been just another Romney flip-flop after calling Obama and Democrats weak on terrorism for years. And while there are a lot of people uncomfortable with the drone strikes, there are very few who would change their vote based on the issue—certainly not to vote for the guy who had been…

Another connection between early SNL and early Letterman is that Jim Downey was Dave's original head writer.

Some of that epic Laraine Newman valley girl monologue:

It's been a long time since I saw that and I need to see it again, but I remember liking the comedy part better—Alan Alda was so great in that. When Woody ventures into straight drama as he did in the serious part of that movie, it often comes across as relatively rigid and lifeless.

Perhaps you're no longer able to enjoy comedy because Obamacare?

"This never happened to the other fellow."

Belushi's Brando is brilliant and yet Laraine Newman's valley girl just about steals the scene out from under him.