Bob Odenkirk's Favorite Unaired SNL Sketch

Bob Odenkirk tells Tom about his favorite SNL sketch that never aired - now available to watch!! - featuring Dana Carvey as Charlie Chaplin, Jon Lovitz, Phil Hartman, written by Robert Smigel

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[furripupau]

Honestly, feels way more like a Mr. Show sketch than an SNL one, no wonder Bob liked it.

[MarvinMonroe]

Lol the Robin Williams burn at the end

[kingorbit]

it was over the audience's head, the jab at Robin Williams at the end is funny too.

[HAM-sbns]

The end line is funny. Its funny because Chaplin was probably glad the guy died because he took his character from him, but he even took from him in death, the " modern machine " that killed him influenced Chaplin to make "Modern times" genius sketch.

[jevinday]

I could listen to Bob Odenkirk talk about sketch comedy all day

[occasionalfeelgood]

“Next week, Robin Williams”, haha. That was a great sketch. Scary to think how many sketches got the axe because of a lame crowd.

[Exocartonic]

Reminds me of how mike Myers appropriated Dana's impression of Dr evil based on Dana's impression of Lorne Michaels.

[mikepop]

no one mentions Dana carvey's acting in this. very underrated. this was like time travel back before the horrible things that happened to Phil Hartman and back when that Cast was Young.

[sacvideo]

I admire the specificity of the sketch, and the details it gets right, down to the "Chas. Chaplin" written on the slate. Clearly the people who made this had watched the Unknown Chaplin documentary and seen the behind-the-scenes footage of his work, and the unused outtakes.

[mjc]

As Bob was describing the sketch I was laughing, so glad I got to see it.

[kevinw]

there's another Dana Carvey-related sketch I've heard about that sounds legendary yet never made it to air. I saw Bill Hader talking about it on Kevin Pollak's chat show years ago, it was when Dana returned to host. Hader & John Mulaney wrote it, it was Hader as Casey Kasem's estranged, strung out son coming to see his father (obviously Dana) in the middle of the night begging him for help because there's a drug dealer after him and his boyfriend. basically competing Casey Kasem impressions. Hader said it absolutely killed in the writers room and for the crew when they were establishing camera blocking during the week. But at saturday's dress rehearsal, it inexplicably bombed so hard you could hear a pin drop. Every single one of them (including Lorne Michaels) were just stunned at the response, and it got cut. like Hader even said it took them longer to write it than usual because he and Mulaney were cracking themselves up so hard in the office with it. Even just hearing him recite the premise and doing the impression from his side was amazing, but I've never heard of a bootleg version of it being out there at least.

[deadpan]

The silent film recreation is pretty spot on. And seeing Chaplin deleted behind the scene footage, this feels very authentic.

[andymassingham]

Also a dead-on lift from Unknown Chaplin (BBC doc from mid-80’s) which featured the only known outtakes from Chaplin’s early shorts. In a lengthy bit it shows Charlie doing just this in creating The Cure. I’m a Chaplin geek and I was howling…but I’m not sure anyone beyond geeks would get it. God bless YouTube for showing this.

[DerekWrites]

That Williams dig at the end is the perfect inside-baseball capper

[pyrotechnick]

Wow this sketch was actually too smart for the audience

[cliffchristie]

And no discernable response from the audience that O'Reilly's tragic death in a giant machine would be Chaplin's "inspiration" for the opening scenes in "Modern Times".

[melvinhoward]

It's actually brilliant and probably a bit too subtle for a typical SNL audience. I'm so glad it still exists and we can watch it now.

[aaperry]

Phil's hushed play-by-play like a sportscaster would speak on a golf match broadcast is brilliant.

[juanaltredo]

I gotta say, this level of comedy is usually british, Im very impressed, its monty python-esque

[edwardebel]

Good sketch, but what made it. For me was seeing and hearing Phil Hartman....greatly missed!