Comments on: Monday Morning Quarterback: SNL Season 34, Episode 14 http://www.tifaux.com/2009/02/02/monday-morning-quarterback-snl-season-34-episode-14/ A television blog Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:39:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: sara http://www.tifaux.com/2009/02/02/monday-morning-quarterback-snl-season-34-episode-14/comment-page-1/#comment-133554 sara Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:28:00 +0000 http://www.tifaux.com/?p=4910#comment-133554 I can probably still recite all of King Tut from memory. Goddamn, that is funny. I can probably still recite all of King Tut from memory. Goddamn, that is funny.

]]> By: jesse http://www.tifaux.com/2009/02/02/monday-morning-quarterback-snl-season-34-episode-14/comment-page-1/#comment-133482 jesse Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:25:33 +0000 http://www.tifaux.com/?p=4910#comment-133482 As far as I know, "King Tut" wasn't in Martin's stand-up -- or if it was, it wasn't until after he did it on SNL. He did use the show to do a lot of stand-up stuff, though -- sometimes he would have two stand-up segments, sometimes with banjo numbers (instrumental, though, from what I've seen). I read more about his album in Time Out New York, and apparently it's self-released, only available through Amazon, and that song he played on SNL is the only one where he actually sings -- others are instrumental or have other people singing. The SNL episode with King Tut is regarded by some as the single best episode in the show's history (in fact, it's the only episode I've ever heard referred to as such). They actually reran it full in the SNL timeslot at some point when I was in junior high, and I taped it and watched it a bunch (since at that pre-DVD point, reruns of the oldest episodes were typically scrunched into the half-hour "Best of Saturday Night Live" format). It is definitely a series highlight, though even the weakest Martin appearances tend to have at least one amazing highlight (he hosted in '94 during one of the show's nadirs, but the ad for "Steve Martin's Penis Beauty Cream" is still a classic). As far as I know, “King Tut” wasn’t in Martin’s stand-up — or if it was, it wasn’t until after he did it on SNL. He did use the show to do a lot of stand-up stuff, though — sometimes he would have two stand-up segments, sometimes with banjo numbers (instrumental, though, from what I’ve seen). I read more about his album in Time Out New York, and apparently it’s self-released, only available through Amazon, and that song he played on SNL is the only one where he actually sings — others are instrumental or have other people singing.

The SNL episode with King Tut is regarded by some as the single best episode in the show’s history (in fact, it’s the only episode I’ve ever heard referred to as such). They actually reran it full in the SNL timeslot at some point when I was in junior high, and I taped it and watched it a bunch (since at that pre-DVD point, reruns of the oldest episodes were typically scrunched into the half-hour “Best of Saturday Night Live” format). It is definitely a series highlight, though even the weakest Martin appearances tend to have at least one amazing highlight (he hosted in ’94 during one of the show’s nadirs, but the ad for “Steve Martin’s Penis Beauty Cream” is still a classic).

]]> By: sara http://www.tifaux.com/2009/02/02/monday-morning-quarterback-snl-season-34-episode-14/comment-page-1/#comment-133473 sara Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:02:11 +0000 http://www.tifaux.com/?p=4910#comment-133473 I didn't know the MacGruber ads were actual ads until one of them showed up in the Super Bowl the next day. Did Steve Martin use SNL as a platform for the musical numbers that were in his standup back in the '70s? Because as a small child I was hysterically obsessed with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP7AJiQM2RI" rel="nofollow">King Tut</a> and I always associated it with early SNL once I got old enough to know what SNL was. I didn’t know the MacGruber ads were actual ads until one of them showed up in the Super Bowl the next day.

Did Steve Martin use SNL as a platform for the musical numbers that were in his standup back in the ’70s? Because as a small child I was hysterically obsessed with King Tut and I always associated it with early SNL once I got old enough to know what SNL was.

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