Cold Openings: Tommy Flanagan - Saturday Night Live

Tommy Flanagan give his less-than-truthful report on the progress of the new SNL. Aired 03/15/86

[benjauron]

I imagine George Santos watching this as a boy in Brazil and saying to himself, "Someday..."

[GalactusOG]

This is beyond brilliant. the acting alone was top level. The jokes where the cherry on top.

[dhartlauer]

Thank you Saturday Night Cast and John for creating this character…

[nealrose]

His name isn't even Tommy Flanagan. It's really George Santos.

[MrIrrelevant]

Lovitz was underrated at his ability to impersonate sly and sleazy characters.

[MrsTM]

Where is the clip where Tommy Flanagan says "...Morgan Fairchild, WHOM I've seen NAKID!"???

[MikeD-tfdk]

Neck and neck with “The Cosby Show”—Now that did NOT age well, did it?

[kurtstergar]

After watching Tommy I've concluded that Tommy Flanagan is Trumps image consultant and speech writer.

[Kmac]

What you are witnessing was one of the few bright spots in an otherwise disastrous ... uhh, magical season of SNL. Why, the cast was horri ... brilliant, with skits that were ... unforgettable.

Seriously, once Lovitz did Flanagan, SNL featured him almost every week.

[davesloat]

George Santos before George Santos was a thing…

[frankirons]

You know it was a bad season when they had to joke about how shitty it was.

[KensleyHomeschool]

I think he's running for Congress too.

[dundeedell]

Too bad there are no stand outs in the current casts. Why is it so bad these days?

[billholaday]

Who does this remind you of? Striking, and very sad, how similar!

[jerrylukens]

The best opening since (Moves eyes side to side) Reagan was President yeah thats the ticket.

[nealrose]

I've been watching SNL since the 1970s.
It's still hilarious even if gullible people are mad SNL makes fun of 🍊🤡
A national treasure.
(Hate to break it to cult45, but SNL has made jokes about every POTUS from day one.)

[NotSoOpposite]

This was back before Internet when you could plausibly possibly get away with lying like thisv in person with the right person. Now a days it's just liars on the Internet lol

[johngreco]

This reminds me of a joe Biden speech 🤣🤣🤦🏻‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣