Tom Brokaw Pre-Tapes - Saturday Night Live

For context this was based on an actual wild satellite feed where Brokaw was pre-recording obituaries.

I enjoyed this today, at the senseless age of 52.

One of my favorites

This is comedy gold

Taft was - look it up.

Love dark humor.

I think some current news anchors would be smart to pretape breaking announcements that during the Zimbabwean invasion, Tom Brokaw was eaten by wolves at the senseless age of 83 and with his dying breath, declared in Shona, "I'm gay". You know, just in case.

I was actually on doing the front page Gerald Ford actually died, and it took every ounce of resistance to not make the headline "Gerald Ford died today, and I'm gay."

Wasn’t this part of Carvey’s ABC show that while wasn’t successful featured Stephen Colbert & Steve Carell and introduced the TV Funhouse cartoons?

“hAt age hEighty fHour”

Dan Rather outs Tom Brokaw. I want to see that take.

This skit is one of the funniest skits ever produced! It never ceases to make me laugh hysterically, even though I've seen it dozens of times! Dana Carvey is brilliant and whoever wrote the script is outstanding! 😂

To this day, I LITERALLY cannot think of Gerald R. friggin Ford without thinking of this sketch.

I am not sure any SNL sketch has ever made me laugh this much.
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"Gerald Ford" is the key to doing the Tom Brokaw voice

Robert Smigel lol, you can hear his George W Bush impression from Conan in his normal voice.

Gotta be Smigel on the voice narrating, right?

Those “alright, alright” transitions are perfection! 😂

One of the best sketches ever from the Dana Carvey Show. Glad they redid it on SNL since it they didnt air the last DCS episode.

How the hell have I never seen this? DC just slaying it……

"Taft was"

"In case he's shot." "What are the chances of that!?" I can't believe they didn't go for the obvious joke that there were TWO assassination attempts on him in 17 days back in the '70s. All In all, it would suggest at least for comedy purposes that his odds weren't quite as much on his side as the average former president 20 years after leaving office.

just came here from family guy

Chopped into bits by a propeller is the best one

Strike force 5 brought me here

aparently this was co-written by Stephen Colbert as discussed on the strike force five podcast.

Strike Force Five! ⚡️⚡️

Possibly the number one SNL clip of all time. Its impossible not to laugh

Strike force five sent me here

And now according to the Strike Force Five podcast episode 4, we learned that this sketch was written by Stephen Colbert and Louis CK.

Fun Fact: Stephen Colbert wrote this sketch when he was a guest writer on SNL in the 90"s.

Just found out that Stephen Colbert wrote this sketch 😄

In the top 5 funniest SNL skits of all time

Watching a Ben Shapiro podcast and he briefly mentioned Gerald Ford apparently falling and being made fun if while making fun of old man Biden falling and this sketch immediately pops into my head. Fucking funny as hell

Here's something weird. Someone gave me this DVD as a gift. I didn't open it for a while. The day I did, I watched this, then turned off the DVD, went to live TV and the announcement that Gerald Ford died was on. I was so confused, as I was living in Kalamazoo, Michigan at the time and he references Michigan because that's where Ford was from and was residing.

“Gerald Ford isn’t gonna be EATEN by WOLVES!”
“Taft was.”
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I still die at "Taft was."

spot on brilliant impersonation.

I love how the pictures change, i.e., wolves, lion, Nixon.

Smigel off camera is genius

Mauled by a circus lion in a convenient store 🦁

Huminaaa huminaaa Gerald Fhoorrrdd

Underrated line, which might be even funnier out of context: “today you’re not gay, but one day you wake up, you like men, Gerald Ford dies and we’re screwed” 😂

I think that voice is Robert Smigel 😂

This is comedic genius

To this day, one of the all time classic skits. We still quote this regularly. Priceless.

I didn't want this to end.

As a historian, I can confirm that William Howard Taft indeed died after being viciously attacked by a pack of wolves. Senselessly.

Those days where imitations were accurate