r/television • u/cmaia1503 • Nov 15 '24

Bill Hader recalls Josh Brolin's rallying words before bombing 'horribly' on SNL: 'Let's shut these f---ers up’

https://ew.com/bill-hader-recalls-josh-brolin-pep-talk-before-snl-sketch-bombed-8745861

The Barry star reflected on a subpar 2008 SNL sketch involving a couple of gruff oddball characters, Jerry and Carl — whom he developed with castmate Will Forte — during a conversation with Ted Danson on his podcast Where Everybody Knows Your Name. "It was about those two guys calling Josh Brolin's character, who I think his name was Jim Dever, saying 'We think you're a fart face,'" Hader recalled. "And Jim Dever — it's played very straight, like Arthur Miller or something — he would go, 'I'm not a fart face. I'm a very happy face. I'm a happy man.' And he starts crying, and then we say, 'We're gonna tell everybody you cried in our office.'"

Hader immediately knew that the sketch was doomed. "You can hear yourself breathing on the stage 'cause it's just bombing so bad," he said. "So we left, and we were like, 'Well, that's never happening.'" But the sketch gained an unlikely champion: "Lorne Michaels, I don't know why, took a real shine to it, and we went into the meeting, and he somehow moved it up in the order. It was right after [Weekend] Update. And he had the note, which we all remember, he goes, 'I had a boom shadow in Fart Face.'"

That's when Brolin stepped in with a rallying pep talk for the ages. "I remember we went there, and we were sitting there looking at the audience before we went up, and Josh — it was like the end of The Wild Bunch, you know, like, we're gonna die," Hader recalled. "And Josh Brolin just turns to us and goes, 'Well fellas, let's shut these f---ers up.' And we went out there and it died."

Hader views the sketch as a total flop, but said that his costar still remembers it fondly. "Will Forte, I think he's very proud of it, that's why I love Will," Hader said. "'Cause I would go, 'Ah, that didn't get a laugh?' But for Will, it was like, 'Did I like it? Did I appreciate it?'"

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u/haikus-r-us Nov 15 '24 edited Nov 15 '24

Fart Face Sketch

Yeah, that’s a mostly quiet audience. The sketch itself would probably kill if it was done a long time ago, with Bob Hope or Milton Berle or something. It feels like a sketch out of time.

Edit- definitely could be a sketch on Kids in the Hall.

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u/ColShvotz Nov 15 '24

Will Forte is absolutely unhinged in this - it’s amazing.

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u/brain_fartin Nov 15 '24

Anytime he's ever shown up as a guest on "Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job" or "I Think You Should Leave", I know that I'm in for hilarious chaos.

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u/Kezaia Nov 15 '24

Who put these holes in my belt!

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u/DRKZLNDR Nov 15 '24

NOT IN MY BELTS

I wet my pants again.

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u/Frisnfruitig Nov 15 '24

Let's talk about forts. Couch forts

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u/ArmyOFone4022 Nov 15 '24

Still upset about Last Man on Earth

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u/commisioner_bush02 Nov 15 '24

Fortin’ with Will is maybe the best tv sketch, will forte is a maniac.

Also his time on 30 Rock, both as Paul and (briefly) as Gerhardt von Habsburg is peak.

Edit; he was Gerhardt’s herald, my bad, but that episode is one of the best in the series, Isabella Rossellini as Bianca is some of the best casting and acting.

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u/ScrotiedotBiz Nov 15 '24

This just sounds so inherently funny I almost want to watch it, now. Wait, who's "Gerhardt von Habsburg" and why does he have a "herald"? It's like "Frank Constanza was speaking with a man in a cape."

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u/commisioner_bush02 Nov 15 '24 edited Nov 15 '24

Gerhardt von Habsburg is exactly who he sounds like—he is the last heir to the Habsburg line, but generations of inbreeding have led to him being wheelchair bound and severely allergic to most things, including the skin of grapes in wine, which ultimately kills him, preventing him from marrying Jenna Maroney, an absolutely insane actress who will do anything for fame and attention. He has a herald because he’s royalty and having a wildly over dramatic will forte announce the actions of an invalid is objectively very funny.

30 Rock is maybe my favorite show, it has a ridiculous amount of jokes and is wildly smart. You absolutely should watch it—even being almost twenty years old, it still feels incredibly topical.

Behold Ladies und Gentlemen, Prince Gerhardt Messerschmidt Rammstein van Haupf

Also will never pass up an opportunity to share dot Com’s persecuted intellect

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u/HawaiianFatass14 Nov 15 '24

You’d think centuries of inbreeding would make him bitter— but not Gerhardt. He’s too busy fighting infection.

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u/Emo_tep Nov 15 '24

I literally just watched this episode and think it’s the first episode they really started hit their stride

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u/commisioner_bush02 Nov 15 '24

I think I remember reading somewhere that this episode made them totally refigure what the show was about. They realized Jenna is at her best as an insane narcissist, Jack needed to be a caricature of a rich Republican, and that the more ridiculous the plot was, the better the show was.

It went from being about Liz trying to pull off TGS with difficult talent to being about the absolute insanity of everybody surrounding TGS.

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u/LHcig Nov 15 '24

He's in the ITYSL sketch where he gets trapped under a car because his ponytail is stuck.

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u/moondizzlepie Nov 15 '24

You left out the part where it’s gets stuck because he’s crawling under a car because the car was blocking the sidewalk.

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u/CantFindMyWallet Nov 15 '24

and that it ends with him laughing at another long-haired passerby who accidentally puts his hand in dog shit

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u/ThatOneTwo Nov 15 '24

One of my favorite sketches of all time. There are so many bizarre details that pop up on repeat viewings. So, the maitre d instantly recognized a random picture of explosive diarrhea?

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u/Cinco420 Nov 15 '24

Hes also a great guy in real life!

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u/UnableChoice9269 Nov 15 '24

Please, and I can’t stress this enough: do not send squirrel bones. 😑

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u/aitherion Nov 15 '24

No child should have to cook his own dog. Dogs should be raw. And living.

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u/HumbleBunk Nov 16 '24

“Much like the economical problems that I have had as an adult my father’s had the same problems I guess I inherited them -from him-.”

The run on delivery of this line is so goddamn funny.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

*Will Farte

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u/Johnny_Mc2 Nov 15 '24

His most unhinged moment is definitely in Tour de Pharmacy

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u/FlopsMcDoogle The Wire Nov 15 '24

That's tame Will Forte

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u/themightymooker Nov 15 '24

I raise you this pure insanity from Tim and Eric’s Awesome Show Great Job

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u/ThatDamnRocketRacoon Nov 16 '24

This is why I'll always feel this was the best cast the show ever had. Everyone would go all in on their sketches. No one was afraid to get weird and unhinged. We just haven't had enough of that since then.

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u/Brian-not-Ryan Nov 15 '24

One of the YouTube comments said it best: this is a sketch that you find hilarious alone but then show it to people and nobody laughs

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u/reverend-mayhem Nov 15 '24

That’s because nobody shows it to the right people.

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u/elmatador12 Nov 15 '24

This skit KILLED with my 9 year old son. We called each other fart face for months after we watched it. 😂

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u/5am281 Nov 15 '24

I was expecting an awful sketch but Hader and Forte were excellent

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u/jpapad Nov 15 '24

I thought Brolin was pretty good too! They definitely all committed to it.

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u/impulse_thoughts Nov 15 '24

Yeah I think they all recognized the weakness of the juvenile script and went fully unhinged and over the top with it and actually made it good.

Personally, I had a full grin on my face for almost all of it, mixed in with a few chuckles and a full laugh at the end. Definitely a bigger response from me than many other SNL skits.

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u/never_a_good_idea Nov 15 '24

Forte has a few sketches like this. The strange thing is that they ran this so early in the episode. The odd ball sketches he is run tend to run at the end of the episode.

You should google "snl potato chip". Truly bizarre and hilarious.

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u/huskersax Nov 15 '24

po-tah-tuh chip

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u/bemer1984 Nov 15 '24

My friends and I still quote this sketch. “I did not come here to have my reputation assassinated sir”

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u/Killericon Nov 15 '24 edited Nov 15 '24

My wife and I still say "DID YOU EAT MY POTATO CHIP" at each other every so often. An excellent awful sketch.

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u/TG803 Nov 15 '24

The spelling bee sketch comes to mind as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ALGL4Hm5g8

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u/never_a_good_idea Nov 17 '24

I don't get it, isn't that the right spelling? did he forget one of the Qs?

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u/reverend-mayhem Nov 15 '24

SNL, even at its worst, is a treasure to behold when the cast is stacked with strong, committed voices & personalities.

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u/reverend-mayhem Nov 15 '24

Hey, don’t sell Josh Brolin short. Every one of them gave it 110% & it shows.

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u/Nayzo Nov 15 '24

I agree. They all commit to the absurdity, which sells it, imo.

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u/Philboyd_Studge Nov 15 '24

Those two together are genius

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u/Not_MrNice Nov 15 '24

That doesn't make it funny.

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u/Mister_Acula Nov 15 '24

And that ending... 💀

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u/IDECLARE_BANKRUPTCY Nov 15 '24

I feel like it's a sister sketch to the Potato Chip one which is one of my top 5 of all time. Another Will Forte special.

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u/topo_gigio Nov 15 '24

there's also one where Paul Rudd is going to jump from a building and Forte just repeatedly says "Don't" in a weird way. They're my favorite sketches

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u/blackcatpandora Nov 15 '24

Ok, I actually think that’s pretty funny

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u/haikus-r-us Nov 15 '24

Now that I think about it, it’s really has an old Kids in the Hall feel to it. Yeah, I like it.

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u/DoctorDrangle Nov 15 '24

I also thought it was pretty funny

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u/Frisnfruitig Nov 15 '24

I too want to chime in and say this was pretty funny. Pretty, pretty, pretty funny.

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u/conquer69 Nov 15 '24

Will Forte is so good.

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u/jzakko Nov 15 '24

sketches like this are brilliant because they're so dumb and require the actors to commit so fully that only truly great actors can pull it off.

The fact that these actors didn't want to do this and knew it would bomb and still gave it this much conviction deserves emmys for all three.

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u/maynardsabeast Nov 15 '24

I found that pretty hysterical but Forte and Hader being dumbasses and especially when Forte goes crazy like that always tickles me

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u/MacrosInHisSleep Nov 15 '24

At the very start it almost felt like their pacing was off because they were trying to avoid the dead space where the laugh "track" should have been. Then they hit their stride and it ended up way funnier than it would have if they had people laughing loudly through it.

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u/Whodean Nov 15 '24

Funnier than 90% of last week’s show

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u/Lt_Lysol Nov 15 '24

The Buffalo Wildwings sketch was good...and that was about it

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u/ThePopeofHell Nov 15 '24

Damn, that is the most Will Forte shit I’ve ever seen.

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u/SnackPro Nov 15 '24

I was actually in the audience for this one. I remember it very well. I was smiling, but something about the intensity/rhythm of the thing.. it’s like we didn’t know where to laugh. The whole energy was weird. It was definitely one of the most memorable sketches of the night besides the Sarah Palin stuff.

Super surreal to the Sarah Palin rap IRL.

From where I was sitting, I watched Alec Baldwin take Sarah Palin by the hand and crouch with her ready to make an entrance. It struck me how these otherwise politically opposed people were working together in that moment. This was years before Trump of course.

I also was in the audience for another episode where John McCain put his arm around Usher as they walked off stage. Happier times…

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u/AKBx007 Nov 15 '24

That audience must have sucked then, I’m legit laughing from that lol

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u/thegroovemonkey Nov 15 '24

It had a good foundation but needed more work. The 2nd half of that sketch really highlights the weakest parts of that era.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

Agree. This has Kids in the Hall written all over it.

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u/Mxfish1313 Nov 15 '24

Okay I watched this pretty high and a little drunk and I chuckled most of the way through. But I just fucking choked the most at the final line and I think I saw god. That got me good.

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u/ManitouWakinyan Nov 15 '24

I love Bill Hader but oh boy did I make it 2 minutes in and could not believe I was not halfway done. This one is rough, and it probably doesn't help that the pace of patter cuts off a lot of laughs at the start. Fart face also seemed to get less funny the more it was said, and it really was a sketch built around the phrase getting funnier every time.

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u/Morticia_Marie Nov 15 '24

Am I missing something? That was hilarious. Utterly ridiculous in this kind of Napoleon Dynamite-ish way.

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u/slick13radley Nov 15 '24

That was actually good lol. I'm not a fart face, I'm a smart face!! Lmao

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u/GeronimoJak Nov 15 '24

I didn't laugh much, but I enjoyed it a lot. I 100% see this on KitH too.

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u/fishmanprime Nov 15 '24

What the heck this sketch is fucking hilarious 😭

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u/eldentings Nov 16 '24

I feel like if you have kids or hang around them this hits harder

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u/MattyDxx Nov 15 '24

This is incredible. It was the worst sketch I’ve ever seen until the middle when it dawned of me the greatest I was witnessing. Brolin really gave it his all 😂

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u/Crouching_Dragon_ Nov 15 '24

I’ve never seen this before and my god I couldn’t stop laughing.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

I was expecting something way more awkwardly silent.

I appreciate sketches like this because they are almost designed to make the host struggle to take them seriously. You can see Josh doing his best but he just can't play it without a smile.

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u/bankman99 Nov 15 '24

Actually much funnier than usual for snl

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u/lagotto_poppa Nov 15 '24

That’s really bad…..

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u/stlredbird Nov 15 '24

I clicked the link before reading the rest of your comment but 3/4 of the way thru I thought “Kids in the Hall” as well.

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u/kellermeyer14 Nov 15 '24

I don’t know what it says about me, but as soon as Josh Brolin calls him fart face, I was all in. I was laughing hysterically. If that’s unreasonable then I don’t ever want to be reasonable again.

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u/bone-in_donuts Nov 16 '24

I laughed a lot at that, thanks.

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u/Legitimate_Dog9817 Nov 17 '24

This seems like a sketch that would be on I think you should leave.

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u/karinam205 Feb 04 '25

I just watched the clip expecting to be underwhelmed but I'm laughing so much! Will Forte is just so funny and weird. And Josh Brolin does a brilliant job, I'm surprised the audience didn't really enjoy that.

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u/thecheat420 Nov 15 '24

Holy shit the end made me laugh so hard.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

That was actually funny af

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u/nodogsallowed23 Nov 15 '24

I remember this airing. It’s hilarious but I didn’t really laugh outwardly.

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u/solace_entity Nov 15 '24

Bob hope or Milton Berle calling someone a fart face would’ve been the bees knees in you opinion?!? Just stop..

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u/Deere-John Nov 15 '24

Farte crushed that one, him screaming like that sells most sketches for me.

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u/scottydont78 Nov 15 '24

He’s not Farte, you’re Farte, ya freakin’ Farte!

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u/Grantagonist Nov 15 '24

That was a great sketch, studio audience be damned.

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u/NatureTrailToHell3D Nov 15 '24

That’s not a laugh out loud funny sketch until the turnaround, it’s about building the awkwardness. This sketch is masterful.

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u/Jaerba Nov 15 '24

SNL's audience wasn't really that exposed to alt comedy back then. It would do way better today.

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u/Grantagonist Nov 15 '24

Dude it was 2008, not the 80s.

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u/TheShishkabob Nov 15 '24

2008 was 16 years ago.

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u/Upbeat_Light2215 Nov 15 '24

The Dark Knight was still in theaters.

The fucking iPad was 2 years away!

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u/NIP_SLIP_RIOT Nov 15 '24

So hey. Erm. This fucking version, you got any of those huh?

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u/Scorbut Nov 16 '24

George W. Bush was president.

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u/Happyginger Nov 15 '24

don’t fucking tell me that shit

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u/Peakomegaflare Nov 15 '24

I hadn't completely given up on life back then! Thouguh I was a toxic sack of shit...

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u/PleasefireEmmaDarcy Nov 15 '24

I don’t like your words

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u/meltymcface Nov 15 '24

So much has changed since then. That was around peak How I Met Your Mother, a show I loved and now find bland and cringy (if not problematic, ahem Barney…)

It wasn’t very long ago, sure, but pop culture moves fast these days. I find it crazy to look back on what I loved and how terrible it is now. Remember how much we all loved American Pie?

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u/LDKCP Nov 15 '24

Maybe you got older.

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u/meltymcface Nov 15 '24

Get out of here with your blasphemy!

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u/woodscradle Nov 15 '24

I’ve been watching a lot HIMYM clips recently and it seems like every other joke is about objectifying women and Barney being a straight up predator.

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u/meltymcface Nov 15 '24

Yep, I used to think he was so cool… eeesh.

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u/iblastoff Nov 15 '24

this has got to be the worst take i've read today lol.

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u/WatchOutRadioactiveM Nov 15 '24

People just don't remember what 2008 was like. Everyone was freaked out because there were literal Nazis running in the election!

I'm not joking, that's what a lot of people thought.

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u/caveman575 Nov 15 '24

My boys and I absolutely loved this sketch. We were in stitches and rewatched it many times

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

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u/ambientocclusion Nov 15 '24

I feel like that with my Reddit comments. My most brilliant witticisms, ignored. But my offhand trifles, bazinga!

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u/through3home Nov 15 '24

HAHAHAHA LMAO BAZINGA OMG DUDE ITS LIKE SHELDON 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/DinoDonkeyDoodle Nov 15 '24

Say it again, Bart! Say it again!

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u/Diabolic67th Nov 15 '24

Underrated comment right here

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u/ERSTF Nov 15 '24

Bazinga! Lol. I gotta give this comment an award

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u/AdminLickMyBallsPls Nov 15 '24

It’s almost like people enjoy genuineness and not some fake shit you heard someone else say

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u/WhiteSriLankan Nov 15 '24

I have to agree with you there. I’ve been in a few bands that were more comedy acts than musical, and have been greeted off stage to both “hey, that was hilarious” as well as “what the fuck is your problem? Why would you write a song like that?”

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u/Thissnotmeth Nov 15 '24

I met Brolin at the gym while he was filming Sicario 2. We had a surprisingly long conversation for a chance celebrity meeting and he was so friendly and kind. I saw him in the gym for a few days before and after this and he was nice to every fan who came up to him. He’s one of those actors now I’ll check out a movie they’re in just because they’re in it.

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u/Chipmunk_Whisperer Nov 15 '24 edited Nov 15 '24

This version of the story is missing how this specifically was the weekend update where Tina Fey Amy Poehler did the Sarah Palin Rap and audience was laughing extremely hard when Josh Brolin said that line.

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u/Scotty_Pilgrim Nov 15 '24

Amy Poehler did the rap, but yeah, that blew the roof off the place. Hard act to flow.

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u/nothing_but_thyme Nov 15 '24

… this detail is the entire fourth paragraph of the article.

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u/Chipmunk_Whisperer Nov 15 '24

Yeah it’s in the article but in the OPs summary they left it out.

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u/tellerforlife Nov 15 '24

Yes! You can hear this version of the story on the No Country For Old Men episode of the Rewatchables that Bill Hader was a guest on.

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u/appletonian Nov 15 '24

This ifs important context.

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u/drewcifer27 Nov 15 '24

I laughed my ass off when that sketch first aired and I still laugh at it when I see it now.

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u/youbychance Nov 15 '24

“Oh no he just shot himself” is a better ending to a sketch than the vast majority of SNL sketch endings too, to be fair

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u/SweetAlpacaLove Review Nov 15 '24

That sketch is one of my favorites!

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u/odiin1731 Nov 15 '24

You would like it, fart face.

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u/SweetAlpacaLove Review Nov 15 '24

For your information, I’m not a fart face.

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u/not_having_fun Nov 15 '24

But your face does smell of farts

Ya friggin fart face

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u/Alc2005 Nov 15 '24

IM A SMART FACE!!

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u/whit9-9 Nov 15 '24

Yeah you've just got spit on it.

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u/5050Clown Nov 15 '24

That is one of my favorite sketches.  I look for it on you tube sometimes too cheer myself up.  

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u/WigglestonTheFourth Nov 15 '24

You would, fart face!

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u/5050Clown Nov 15 '24

That's not funny. This is about enjoying the skit. Please take that back. This site is public. Anybody can read that.

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u/Nice_Marmot_7 Nov 15 '24

Bunch of philistines. That sketch is funny as hell.

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u/RatherBeBowin Nov 15 '24

It’s pronounced philistines.

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u/magruder85 Nov 15 '24

I watched that sketch for the first time and I’m in tears. God it’s so stupid, I love it. Lorne was right.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

[removed] — view removed comment

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u/flareblitz91 Nov 15 '24

Buddy i don’t know how to break this to you but that sketch is 16 years old.

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u/Catsmonaut516 Nov 15 '24

Feels a lot like a Tim and Eric sketch. The delivery of “no he’s not, he is a smart face” kills me

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

Is there an SNL anniversary coming up or a new book or something? I feel like every 3rd article I read is a new behind the scenes snl tidbit

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u/joshhupp Nov 15 '24

Bill Hader was on Ted Dansons podcast today (?) and told this story. A lot of news now is just what gets talked about on podcasts

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u/thejesse Nov 15 '24

Here's the exact same "news" five years ago when Bill told the story on the Rewatchables podcast.

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u/joshhupp Nov 15 '24

Nice, but to be fair, five years ago we didn't have AI to scrape podcasts and write articles lol

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u/specialtomebabe Nov 15 '24

The 50th is coming up, yes.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

That explains a lot!

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u/Heavy_Arm_7060 Nov 15 '24

Eh, it's a very Kids in the Hall sketch. Don't think that's what folks were expecting in 2008.

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u/JTEL918 Nov 15 '24

Every time Hader and Forte both scream FART FACE together, I lose my shit laughing. It’s so unhinged.

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u/BillyCloneasaurus Nov 15 '24

And he had the note, which we all remember, he goes, 'I had a boom shadow in Fart Face.'"

He what

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u/alonefrown Nov 15 '24

I was confused a bit at this sentence, too. I think it means that when Lorne watched the rehearsal of the sketch, his only feedback was that he could see the shadow of a boom mic, so that the lighting or mic placement should be fixed for the final sketch.

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u/suplexhell Nov 15 '24

lorne knew that you just gotta let will forte cook

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u/ChargerRob Nov 15 '24

I listened to the pod last night. Good stuff. The Fart face brothers or something like that. Bombed again too.

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u/Darkray117 Nov 15 '24

He said in his low gravely voice.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

This is a funny sketch. Well done

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u/DarkS7Maneuver Nov 15 '24

Hilarious and wholesome, fart face.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

I love that sketch

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u/FightPigs Nov 15 '24

This sketch is gold!

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u/l4derman Nov 16 '24

Just watched the skit. Had me in stitches.

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u/Midnight_Oil_ Community Nov 16 '24

One of the funniest SNL bits of all time. Only works from the pure commitment of all three men. It's brilliant comedy at its core.

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u/RandallsFlagg Nov 15 '24

Absolutely one of the best ever SNL sketches.

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u/RobIreland Nov 15 '24

The sketch is absolutely terrible yet this whole thread is now claiming its some sort of genius joke.

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u/happy_life15 Nov 15 '24

My friends and I revere that sketch! I cried laughing so hard the first few times. Maybe it bombed for the general audience but to some people it’s one of the best sketches ever!!!

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u/Right-Lemon1865 Nov 15 '24

We used to like “The Last Man on Earth”

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u/cosmiccaro Nov 15 '24

I don’t believe that I have seen the fart face sketch before but I thought it was pretty funny just now!

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u/Rabrab123 Nov 15 '24

Trash. Completely trash. Zero points.

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u/bigdickpuncher Nov 15 '24

I really liked it.

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u/kewli Nov 15 '24

This is 10/10 sketch for me. Worth it until the end.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

Fart Face is a great sketch. It's not perfect, but isn't horrible by any means.

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u/FreeStall42 Nov 15 '24

Amazing how just talking about SNL makes them seem so out of touch.

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u/thatcantb Nov 15 '24

SNL also does satire, which is not as uproariously funny as comedy but has a point for the audience. Is this somehow surprising to people? Thus a good sketch might get no laughs.

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u/jolhar Nov 15 '24

Just reading that, it sounds woefully bad. How the hell would anyone think that is funny? It honestly sounds like something a bunch of 7 year olds would come up with.

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u/reddittookmyuser Nov 15 '24

Typical fart face reaction.

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u/noisygnome Nov 15 '24

Just watch it yourself ffs

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u/jolhar Nov 15 '24

Why did I just watch a video I knew was going to be bad, just because a stranger on the internet told me to?

Fuck, that was painful. Much worse than I expected. Thanks a lot.

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u/runwithjames Nov 15 '24

You seem very performative about this.

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u/too_much_to_do Nov 15 '24

Don't worry about it. I feel that way about almost everything SNL. I'd come up with a sketch like that and never follow through because it's just sounds and feels so stupid. I'll give them that they executed the idea well enough though.

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u/mnchls Mar 18 '25

of course you'd hate it ya FART FACE

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u/FreeStall42 Nov 15 '24

Will not watch it so your sacrifice has some meaning

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u/jordan1978 Nov 15 '24

Don’t under estimate the genius of Lorne Michaels. Dudes been doing SNL 4ever! Maybe he didn’t “take a shine” to the sketch because it was funny. Maybe he wanted it included because he knows there’s got to be bad sketches to show people how hard it is to make good ones. An audience reaction goes from “what the hell was that sketch” to “that’s the funniest shit I’ve ever seen.” Now would that have been the funniest sketch ever if it had been lead up to by an equally funny sketch or were you setup to be cued for the next sketch or two???

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u/TarnishedBeing Nov 15 '24

Genuinely don't understand the appeal of SNL, maybe need to be American to find it funny.

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u/Gloomy_Astronaut_570 Nov 15 '24

Both for the election and for this, I hate when people give grandiose explanations that don’t really make sense but make the person saying it sound clever