Bob Odenkirk on the funniest sketch SNL never aired

[misterno-ice-guy]

Oh My God
I just had THE BEST idea for a comedy sketch!

[thebenforever]

I love the arc of Odenkirk's professional life . Writer to supporting actor to movie star. It makes his interviews more interesting because his point of view has industry street cred.

[howardsung]

To this day I dont understand why SNL doesnt have its own channel. There is 50 years of material there! Unaired sketches, behind the scenes, home videos, virtual tours, Interviews, im sure table reads not to mention all the documentaries they could do.

[Heraclitean]

That sounds like a Mr. Show type of sketch. No surprise Odenkirk liked it.

[bite-marx]

this is why the "cut for time" sketches are my favorite

[UploaderNine]

Mr. Show was the greatest stream of consciousness sketch show ever made ever ever.

[guyvizard]

Dude... There is a sketch with Liam Neeson hosting, where Fred Armisen plays a Macaw parrot. It's one of the funniest sketches I've ever seen, and they NEVER show it.
Just like the cut Chris Farley "Bill Brasky" sketch, which might be the best one out of them all.

[Elric]

A good example of comedy for comedians. It's next level.

[gmh]

A similar thing happened with the sketch where Carvey was host and Bill Hader and John Mullaney wrote a sketch about Casey Kasem and his estranged son. Hader goes through all the dialogue with the voices on his appearance on Kevin Pollak's podcast and it is outrageously funny to anyone who grew up listening to Americas Top 40. The rehearsal audience sat there silently, so the sketch was cut. Plainly, most of the audience members were too young to remember Casey Kasem, the long-distance dedication, etc.

[robertfeldman]

It's a brilliant idea and a thinker. I see why it didn't get laughs in front of an audience of tourists in New York attending an SNL taping

[joejohnson]

Dana Carvey posted the whole sketch on Twitter today.

[schplengie]

Damn that audience! Also the audience that didnt laugh at John Mulaney's Casey Kasem sketch.

[comicus]

Somewhere here on youtube is video from an interview with Bill Hader where he describes a hilarious skit he wrote with John Mulaney about Casey Kasem. Everyone fell over laughing in the table read. But they get to their dress rehearsal and it just died with the audience. So it never made it to air. He had another skit I saw him talk about once where he played Bob Simon from 60 Minutes. Sounded hilarious to me, but was too obscure for the dress rehearsal audience and nobody got it (Hader said as much).

Sometimes an audience just isn't feeling a skit or a joke for some random reason and on another night it might work. But with both of these skits, I suspect if the audience was younger, having a skit about Chaplin or Kasem they just might not get it if they don't know who they are.

[JakeWitmer]

Glad Bob is awesome enough to say: *Fuck that audience*

[BlueCollarBeerSnob]

"it was brilliant" .. that's exactly why it got no laughs. it was too witty and original.

[johnjordan]

I always find it so silly how SNL cuts skits based on the reaction of a small studio audience.

[stevetseitz]

Bob should redo that sketch with David Cross.

[fangeo]

ATTN Seth Meyers
Second Chance Theatre candidate right here!

[hplovecraft]

Dam it, i never read the title funny and it wasn't until Bob said at the end about 'fk that audience they deprived the world....' that i realised i will never ever get to see this clip as it has not been aired :(
It does sound funny though, my kind of style of humour just like 'I'm just a birdy too' Or 'Master Tang, i have travelled many miles to meet you' 'How many miles? .Would you say 10 million' 'Ah no not that many' :)

[jasonl]

If you close your eyes and picture jordan peterson, your brain will see him telling this story