Hey, it's Waters from the Waters Week of Call.
Throwback Thursday, we were celebrating the 49th anniversary of SNL talking about our favorite cast member, sketch, or guest host.
John Belushi.
What did you like so much about John Belushi?
Everything, but cheeseburger.
Oh, yeah.
And the fact that the cooks in the back did not understand English, it always ended up with some kind of stupid
I always remember when John Belushi is pointing to everybody because somebody doesn't want a cheeseburger.
And he says, come on, everybody's got a cheeseburger.
And he's pointing to people at tables.
Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger.
And Books and Back are thinking he's ordering cheeseburgers.
And they slap all of the meat on the grill.
Finally, the guy says, OK, I'll have a cheeseburger.
Cheeseburger!
No more cheeseburgers.
Oh, no more cheeseburgers.
Can I get an egg?
Sure.
You
did a tremendous reenactment there.
Oh,
thank you.
Hey, is this Mike?
Yes.
This is Kevin.
I'm calling Mike, co-worker Ben has an issue with your top choice for the Saturday Live host.
Yeah, what kind of problem does co-worker Ben have with Steve Martin?
Well, he thinks former cast members shouldn't be in the running for Best Host because they already have like, it's kind of like cheating.
I agree with you, but Steve Martin, that's Mike.
top pick, he was never in the cast.
No, he hosted a ton, but he was never part of the cast.
A lot of people think of him as an honorary cast member, but he never was officially.
Every
time he was on, they would do that.
But you tell your friend Ben that I got a problem with him.
I will.
He's probably listening.
If this gets out of the air, he'll hear that.
He's not big, is he?
He's tall.
Oh, he's tall.
Okay.
Well, that's all right.
As long as he's not big.
All right.
Yes.
Land shark.
That's a great one right there.
Yeah, I still hear references to Land Shark.
Yeah, everywhere.
It's great.
It is great.
You remember why they did Land Shark?
No, it came on shortly after JAWS premiered.
Oh, that's right.
So that was their parody of JAWS.
Yeah.
All right.
Hey there, Mike.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
Good.
Excellent.
Excellent.
What's happening?
Hey, I turned in kind of late today, so I don't know if this was brought up, but I got a fever.
And the only prescription
is more Vicodin.
More cowbell.
Oh, that's right.
That's it.
Yeah, that is a classic, classic, classic sketch.
That coming from Bruce Dickinson himself.
Right.
Christopher Walken was a great guest host.
Yeah.
Yeah.
it
is for most people but you know what I also liked do you remember when he was that that creepy guy and the camera would just follow him around the room and and he would be trying to keep his date to stay but she wanted to leave because he was too creepy kept offering her glasses of champagne jumping in front of the door
I've been on one of those
dates.
Yes, I've been that creepy guy more than once.
I believe it.
Thanks a lot.
But I don't serve champanya, I serve vino, something like that.
I was never that creepy.
I was just kind of creepy.
Okay, just kind of creepy, that's all
right.
Just kind of creepy.
But Christopher Walken was a great guest host.
For me, it would go Steve Martin, then Tom Hanks, then Christopher Walken.
That's a good order.
Good
morning.
Good morning.
How are you?
Good.
This is the floor and my favorite person on Saturday Night Live is Robin Williams and Steve
Martin.
You know, I can't think of Robin Williams on SNL.
I'm sure he was, but I can't remember an episode.
Oh yeah, I've watched it.
like last
week.
Yeah.
And yeah, he was on there.
I'll have to go
regular.
But
right.
But that that still works.
And Steve Martin was practically a regular.
Yeah, he
was.
Yeah.
That's really what made him a huge star was the very first time he was on SNL.
He was on the Smother Brothers, but he wasn't that big until he got on SNL.
Right.
And he was also on the dating game.
You know, there are a lot of people who were on the dating game back in the day.
Peewee Herman was on... I can't think of another one offhand, but there were so many on the dating game that it later went on to huge fame.
Yeah.
I'll definitely play some clips from Steve Miller and Steve Miller.
Steve Martin, Steve Martin, Steve, both Steve
M's.
Yeah,
thank you.
I've been, what's happening?
Well, you know me, I'm a little bit younger, so Saturday Night Live, I've watched probably every single Saturday during the 90s.
I was in front of that TV watching Saturday Night Live.
Who was your favorite in the 90s?
I just got to go with Chris Farley.
Yeah?
And I got to
go with Matt Foley, the motivational speaker.
Oh, that is a classic.
You know who wrote that bit was Bob Odenkirk, who starred as Saul, Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad, because he was writing at the time and he'd worked with Chris Farley before that.
But man, what a classic bit.
When David Spade, he's like, he's like,
He's like, I kind of want to be a rider.
And he's like, oh, hey, pops.
Is that Bill Shakespeare
over there?
This is what I'd like to say to you most days.
I wish you could just shut your big japper.
Hey,
Woody Woodrow Woodson, Woody Woodhouse.
It sounds like you're like a mile away from your phone.
Like, hey, how are you?
I'm good.
I didn't know if you're gonna pick up or not,
you know, I pick up any time I can pick up I pick up if I can't pick up though.
I probably don't ah Yes, that's my rule.
You see I always pick up unless I can't
I I always assumed it was caller ID and it's like do I really want to talk to this person or not this morning
No radio station has caller ID.
You know why?
And like me
well if we do any kind of phone Contesting we could be accused of cheating and fixing it for somebody because oh I see their caller ID.
I know that's blah blah blah I want him to win So yeah, I've never worked at a radio station that has caller ID a lot of people think well You have caller ID and you're just sick of hearing from me.
I'm never sick of hearing from anybody
Oh,
okay.
Well, maybe a couple of people but you're not one of them as far as you know
So anyway, on your random Wednesday, you know, you're very fond of Steve Martin.
Very much so, yes.
You know he was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, correct?
Of course.
I just never figured out why Lauren Michaels never had the Smothers Host Saturday Night Live because it would have put it into the, you know, atmosphere.
It would have been incredible.
You know, I would think so because they were very anti-establishment and SNL were very anti-establishment.
Maybe not to the extreme the Smothers Brothers were, but maybe they did consider the Smothers Brothers the old school.
Yeah, it's a curious thing for me
because,
you
know, they would have definitely drawn in the audience.
Do you know who Steve Martin's writing partner on the Smothers Brothers was?
Oh God, um...
Super Dave Einstein.
Yeah!
Yeah, Super Dave, Bob Einstein.
Was his... Yeah.
Albert Brooks' brother.
What?
That was his brother.
In fact, Albert Brooks' real name is Albert Einstein.
Their family name is Einstein, his name is Albert, and his brother's name, Bob.
Okay.
They're brothers.
Ah!
It's been a while since I've seen the
show, so... Oh, there's a really good documentary on Netflix on Bob Einstein that you should watch.
I'll have to check that out now that you mentioned it.
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