Oh man. Only a total lack of ego could make that work.

Some artists are just like that I think. Every Queen songs seems like some sort of prescient good bye, so much so that when the people on the Wham Bam Pow podcast watched Highlander recently they got actually angry at the thought that "Who Wants To Live Forever?" was written to be taken literally.

All of her Church Lady bits were great (Marla Maples, Martina Navratalova…). Her whole body would become the character.

Mike Myers may not be critically successful but I imagine he's rolling in money and gets occasional jobs in prestigious projects. (What you might call "Adam Sandler successful".)

You're pre-Cambrian. No one says that anymore.

Never occurred to me that 30 Rock was a reunion of those two.

Stay the course!

'Tis not eefen my flag!

Didn't seem like they tried very hard. Could be her talents were mostly in sketch and you can only do SNL for so many years (even Tim Meadows left eventually). She was fine doing straight comedy acting on Designing Women but I kept wanting her to be more outrageous.

Hooks: "Governor…would you say that a…fly on the wall…would be OVER the MOON about this news?"

Certainly as a duo. Murray & Radner were a good team, but didn't actually do all that much together. Ditto Short & Guest due to their small overlap. But when I think of Hooks I think of Hartman & vice versa (well, and also Nora Dunn a little).

Ahi cahnt beleef thayres all this sufferin in the wurrrlt an' he wance to talk about me'hair.

I have done my impression of that line every time I hear or see the term bar fly. Only a very small percentage of these were near someone who got the reference.

The only parallel I can think of is the Dr. Who fan saying "You never forget your first Doctor". Not that it was the first group I watched, but I guess since I was an undergrad it was the first group that were making a superior version of the same kinds of jokes my friends & I would make.

Yeah I always call them the Silver Age. The original NRFPTP had to build from nothing, so they get a special status, but none of the troupes were better at just doing sketch comedy together (even if other groups did produce bigger movie stars).

Here's her flirting with Alec Baldwin on SNL's "The Diner". https://screen.yahoo.com/br…

Just the concept of Steve & Edie sharing a chair is more cleverness than goes into many SNL sketches of any era.

Having just watched episode 3, I fully agree and think they did the Highlander roots here one better by showing that, for all his wisdom, Abe is still a little immature due to having spent his whole life trying to help his Dad (shades perhaps of the future Jake Sisko we see on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's "The…

Yeah, that's almost as big an omission as Marty DiBirgi's movie about Spinal Tap. Or Exit Through The Gift Shop.

And a remake of a British film in which Arsenal (with similar colours) did essentially the same thing.