A Queer History of SNL, Part Four: The Lost Years

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Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

People use the term "the lost years" differently when speaking of Saturday Night Live, but this podcast is using it specifically from the time Lorne Michaels left the show after season five up until season eleven. Aside from Eddie Murphy's presence on the show, these are the sketches that are less remembered today because they weren't rerun on Comedy Central in the 2000s as much and they're largely absent from the cache of episodes preserved online today. And that's too bad, because this is when the show boasted some legends in the cast — Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Billy Crystal, Joan Cusack, Robert Downey Jr., Martin Short and Damon Wayans among them, as well as queer cast members Terry Sweeney, Denny Dillon and Danitra Vance.

The sketches (and click here if you want to watch them):

"SoHo Lesbians" (S6E10: Debbie Harry)
"Little Richard Simmons" (S7E1: No host)
"James Coburn Is a Homosexual" (S7E11: James Coburn)
"Focus on Film: Making Love" (S7E12: Bruce Dern)
"Penny Lane" (S10E11: Roy Scheider)
"Pinklisting" (S11E1: Madonna)
"Mr. Monopoly" (S11E12: Griffin Dunne)
Monologue (S11E16: Catherine Oxenberg)
"Lesbian Pick-Ups" (S11E18: Anjelica Huston)

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0:00.0	Live from New York, it's Saturday Night.
0:05.0	NBCR. A.J. Shully.
0:09.0	And featuring Lori Metcalf and Emily Brayor.
0:15.0	Look, children, it's a falling star. Make a wish.
0:19.0	Yeah, yes. Charlie, how are you feeling after you? it's a falling star make a wish yeah yes
0:21.5	Charlie
0:23.3	how are you feeling after you've been shot
0:25.6	oh man it's the first time I've been shot in my life
0:28.1	I'd like to know who fuck did it
0:29.4	Hello and welcome
0:34.3	Hello and welcome to gayest episode ever, the podcast where we discuss the LGBTQ episodes of classics at cons.
0:44.8	But sometimes we also chart the evolution of queer humor on iconic long learning sketch comedy standards.
0:50.0	I'm Drew Mackie.
0:50.9	I'm Glenn Lakin.
0:51.6	Today we are giving you part four of our queer history of S&L. We're going to be looking at what I call The Lost Years, which is a name that people use for like different pine periods on this show, depending on who's doing it. But I'm calling it specifically where we left off last time with the end of the classic era, where they were trying to figure out what the show was and they were doing
1:11.2	some experimental stuff.
1:13.0	And if I'm being honest, it's probably not anyone's favorite era of the show.
1:17.3	Not fine.
1:17.7	Even the people who were on it probably were like, yeah, it wasn't the best.
1:22.5	And I'm going to be honest about that.
1:23.9	But I'm also going to point out that there are some interesting ideas and
1:27.9	also performers, some of whom went on to become extremely famous, some of whom did not.
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