Weekend Update: Kevin Nealon on the All-Drug Olympics - SNL

Kevin Nealon reports live from the All-Drug Olympics, where weightlifter Sergei Akmudov (Phil Hartman) attempts to break a Clean & Jerk world record and pulls his arms off. [Season 14, 1988]

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[blackbeltseo]

"All of this, of course, is perfectly legal at the all drug Olympics... In fact, it's encouraged." LOL... The crafted language and deadpan delivery throughout this sketch is perfect.

[Docjonel]

"...and some sort of fish paralyzer" really gets me laughing every time I come back to watch this.

[soakingbook]

The prop department did a great job of making his arms look just real enough to ensure that the audience was sufficiently shocked.

[dinoirish]

Thirty years later, I still laugh at this as hard as I did when I first saw it. Even now, I have to watch it five times in a row.

[rmartin]

SNL was ahead of their time.  Who knew that MLB would try this just a few years later.

[Samlol_drrich]

Whoever wrote this was pure genius. I'm sitting around trying to tell my six-year-old kids about this. It's as easy as YouTube burst out laughing like I had so many years ago. They don't make them like this anymore

[Trig]

I always loved Phil in the background trying to figure out what went wrong with it all

[imre]

Watching the weightlifting portion of the 2021 Olympics right now, this was the first thing I thought of

[robertsheffield]

I love Kevin's, pulled his arms off!!!"

[harveyd]

Im 100% for an all drug olympics. Id watch that.

[fmmajnoname]

What's really funny is that there really is an All Drugs Olympics now.

[abundantYOUniverse]

When this first aired we laughed for weeks! The best one ever.

[scottiehemsworth]

I just saw a report that there is a performance-enhancing drug Olympics in the works. As soon as I read it I had to pull up this video LMAO😂😂😂

[SNESdrunk]

One of the all time great sketches, my dad still references this all the time to this day

[a.walters]

“And he’s on some sort of fish paralyzer.” 😂😂😂😂

[ethanwestcott]

I remember seeing this at some point, but for whatever reason this time....wow. I've been laughing hard for almost 10 minutes. Literally the best thing they ever did. Love Phil Hartman!

[rydog]

SNL had a weekend update in the 80s with the all drug Olympics it’s hilarious

[tejaswoman]

Vividly remember watching this when it first showed

[Squillbur]

I remember seeing this as a kid and being absolutely disgusted because I thought it was real.

[QuantumBraced]

"He's really gonna feel that tomorrow". :D