Dion and Blair: The Amorous Client - SNL

[@NewhamMatt]

The moment when Eddie realises he's confused "prescription" with "subscription" and struggles to hold it together was classic.

[@kimberlycooper4170]

And that accidental word made the skit even funnier!

[@VictoriaLove]

@@kimberlycooper4170😂😂😂😂 i was crying

[@JustBree716]

wow Eddies lacefront is on point. lol

[@captainsalty4118]

Wig and wardrobe was on point that day.

[@christopherramon-reid2000]

just bree 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@martinlee2739]

Lmao

[@rachellejoachim2652]

Lol

[@mobill93]

"God intended me to cutt peoples hair not sex ladies down" lmfao awesome come back

[@Booth1667]

Damon Wayans' influence as Blaine on In Living Color?

[@krlm2280]

Remember damon wayans played a similar role in Beverly Hills cop 1 with the bananas

[@kingsports1113]

Damon wayans n Keenan ivory Wayans wrote jokes with Eddie Murphy so this was Damon skit

[@Booth1667]

@@kingsports1113they certainly did. Thanks for clarifying 👍

[@brocktoon8]

Was thinking the same thing!

[@brocktoon8]

@@kingsports1113 Wow, I never knew that!

[@pamelawright5043]

Robin Duke's portrayal made me think of Miss Hathaway swooning over Jethro on The Beverly Hillbillies.

[@Hannah-kt1bu]

Anyone notice that Eddie is holding his comb the wrong way around

[@pika23]

Was just gonna post that!

[@tiny.t00t]

And he filed his nails with the comb 😂

[@onesexyvirgo1576]

that's how you tease hair you fool

[@tiny.t00t]

Alexis K not with the smooth side of the comb lol

[@princessaria]

Hannah it’s so he didn’t mess up her hair I think. :)

[@stevenferruzza7928]

Eddie Murphy and joe piscopo always hilarious together, joe piscopo should return and host the Saturday night live and eddie Murphy make a few special appearances for sketches they used to perform together. Now that I think about it Robin Duke resembles dr. Joyce brothers.

[@roseadamant]

Gotta wonder how Eddie came to know what it means to “read” @3:13

[@haroldsmither491]

BEAT!!! Eddie makes me want to wear a lacefront, lmfao!!!

[@SirDiamondRod]

It’s not Eddie

[@Chriswaynecarpenter]

@@SirDiamondRod lol

[@invision96]

Boy the gay community today would be in an uproar at her statement. "I was only trying to get him to do what God intended a man to do!" Mic Drop 🎤

[@karma2428]

Facts

[@alizaloring3437]

True. But I loved his response instead of saying not to be homophobic, there are some people that there is just no point being in to that discussion with them, he did good intended for him to cut people's hair😂

[@t.brooks7602]

Nah, some of us can discern comedy from homophobia and past from present. This is comedy

[@mchevre]

That's because we've progressed enough as a society that the line wouldn't read the same way now. If you notice, he quickly shuts down her homophobia with a comeback. Within the context of the early 80s, this exchange would've been read by gay people as the sketch writing actually sticking up for them by indirectly calling out someone saying something homophobic. The humor was in her being shut down, not in the homophobic thing she said in and of itself. But in our era, the exact same exchange would be cringe because we'd expect a much harder shut down of such a statement, or a much clearer indication that the homophobe is the butt of the joke rather than the gay person. In the early 80s though, any line on TV openly defending gay people was a very bold act of progressive defiance against the cultural zeitgeist of Reagan's America.

[@brocktoon8]

That was pre-professional-victimhood era.

[@Bailemos888]

She looks like Queen Sofia of Spain. Back then they called the gay partner "housemate"

[@neglakay4373]

"I was trying to get him to do what God intended a man to do" you would never hear that today.

[@mseshakandala2652]

NÈG LAKAY girl

[@Diggy22]

Unless it's on Fox News 🍸

[@acesoul1689]

Forever a legend

[@jameshughes6049]

Ya know Joe Piscopo didn't get enough credit, he was great paired with Eddie.

[@cassandm]

The Greatest of All Times....Funny before there was an "In Living Color"😂😂😂

[@royaljatti]

cassandm I was thinking about that! Wondering if this came before or after... t

[@cassandm]

@@royaljatti SNL was first... In Living Color didn't show until the early 90s. Remember Eddie started back in the early to mid-80s.

[@pika23]

I was "too young" for SNL at this time...I'd have been 5.. in living color I was 11-13 and they were ground breaking...til now

[@Davepool-hs7vr]

Eddie Murphy was a household name by 1990

[@nadiamiller9018]

devil hormone lol

[@seeehorn]

I thought I had seen ALL of Eddie Murphy's skits/characters on Saturday Night Live, but NEVER knew of/saw this one. I'm glad that some of you on here have pointed out that In Living Color STOLE this idea for the 'Men On Film' sketches that they would do 7 or 8 years later. I don't really mind that In Living Color "borrowed" this concept, but a lot of people associated with In Living Color acted as if everything they did was groundbreaking and never been done before on TV(they'd point to the Men On Film sketch as an example), when the truth is, Saturday Night Live did it years before them.

[@kingsports1113]

Nah Keenan ivory Wayans n Damon Wayans wrote jokes with Eddie Murphy since 1977 so this their jokes but Eddie Murphy became a star first

[@seeehorn]

@@kingsports1113 I see people in the comments saying that the Wayans Brothers wrote for Eddie Murphy, and that may be true in his later works(like Eddie Murphy Raw), but I believe it was 2 or more WHITE GUYS writing with/for Eddie Murphy while he was on Saturday Night Live. The main point is, the Wayans Brothers and In Living Color cast/writers(Paul Mooney, Tommy Davidson, etc.) made it seem as if they were the ones who originated sketches like this

[@kingsports1113]

@@seeehorn they made up that shit together Eddie Murphy and wayans family together Eddie Murphy brought the ideas to snl producers

[@martinlee2739]

@@seeehorn uh...why make it a white black thing....

[@seeehorn]

@@martinlee2739 EVERYTHING is a white-black/brown thing!! LOL But seriously, I was just emphasizing the process of how Eddie Murphy's Saturday Night Live skits came to light. You have to admit that it is funny/interesting that Eddie Murphy and 2 white guys came up with a lot of his skits. @King Sports I think its the Wayans Brothers and their fans saying that the Wayans came up with Eddie Murphy's Saturday Night Live stuff. I saw an EXTENSIVE article written about Eddie Murphy's 4 seasons on SNL, and a lot of the stuff he did came from Barry Blaustein, David Sheffield and Eddie working together. In my opinion, the Wayans Brothers and In Living Color fans are just making excuses for the fact that the Men On Films idea was "borrowed" from this Dion and Blair sketch, the Wayans weren't the originators like they always claimed to be.

[@nariellewithers]

Eddie using the wrong side of that comb is sending me!!!😂😂😂😂😂

[@VictoriaLove]

Bette Miller 😂😂😂

[@NewhamMatt]

I don't see Piscopo down to appear in the 40th anniversary show. A pity - no one worked as well opposite Eddie Murphy. Dion and Blair - that could have been the foundation for a really decent SNL film!

[@douglaslowe5]

Lorne Michaels had no involvement with the show during Murphy Piscopo era. When he returned in 85 he gave short shrift to Ebersol cast members.

[@ashleywills8761]

I would’ve loved seeing them together again

[@cabronicusmaximuschingonic1062]

"Prescription"... 😂😂😂😂

[@jolyettefrye6365]

Eddie is Hilarious❗What a wonderfully talented man. 🚹

[@thamilton1340]

That Wig is mean.....Give it to them Eddie

[@airplantkilleryo1361]

The devil hormone? Hahahahahahaha

[@lollic307]

Oxytocin

[@hubbali666]

Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo a great team.

[@Galactus1971]

Greatest era of SNL

[@sportsmusiclover]

Eddie is a legend.

[@kemanm8519]

You cant do that these days every one get out your feelings

[@alainaheacock8731]

Lol....look at me..... hahahahha... oh I know that feeling girl

[@p0rnany0ne]

Using the wrong side of the comb🤣😂😅😅😂🤣

[@bsquared4604]

Actually, I’m impressed.

[@MartinSmith-jx3zt]

Genius!

[@Shineynsparkles]

I needed this !

[@djpro1782]

Wow, "In Living Color" stole this too???

[@elizabetho6506]

DJ Pro the snaps too...wow

[@thelawofdivineoneness458]

Comics steal from other comics all the time. It's pretty much all been done before. And by the way, I recently heard Eddie talking about how he and Keenan Ivory Wayans came up together on the comedy circuit. They are good friends.

[@tammywilliams1847]

That is the first thing that came to mind when i just saw this!

[@ErikaMcQueen89]

Damon and Keenan were writers on SNL before Living Color .

[@univgurl]

Because flamboyant gays were an SNL creation.

[@mztweety1374]

One word. Mango

[@sammavacaist]

A shih tzu named Corky.

[@Cunninghamily]

1:47

[@mrchopsticks3]

I was so hoping Joe would make a cameo and they would do this sketch. The snowflakes on social media would have had a meltdown.

[@thelawofdivineoneness458]

Yeah I know what you mean. Kinda like how all the snowflakes have been in a meltdown since their Emperor got impeached.

[@Powerduo88]

@@thelawofdivineoneness458??? Yet he's still in office...🤔

[@Powerduo88]

True! One commented here...

[@thelawofdivineoneness458]

@@Powerduo88 You and most people may want him to be removed from office but that's not how things work via the Constitution.

[@tannerps2004]

Trump" Ass!

[@preedestined1]

Eddie Murphy "playing" gay...how hilarious!

[@pika23]

I have a shih tzu named Dottie Jean

[@Seekthetruth3000]

Cancel culture does not allow you to do this anymore.

[@kenyattaassaddeea7598]

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@fatima1009]

Robin Duke, she was funny.

[@bel8774]

Boi Boi Boi Eddie and Joe a.mess

[@stevengrvp]

Men on

[@jacquelinelarsen1721]

When she said "have you ever considered dating a white woman" he should have said "only Michael Jackson"

[@Chance007]

MJ was still black at the time.

[@MamiRicaaaa]

🙄girl...🤐

[@انكبلوتدروب]

Stfu

[@jennifersun5228]

Funny to poke fun at autoinmune disorders huh? You're so lame.

[@vadl9947]

ah ac/dc jokes, remember theyr says that when they arrived in us at the begining of theyr carrier the people get them wrong hah)

[@Hellwyck]

What the fuck are you on about!?

[@williamvieira6125]

@@Hellwyck Because of the name the band gave themselves, it was presumed here in the USA that they were all bisexual. (AC/DC was a term that denoted a person could swing both ways sexually.)

[@kuyamozhask]

...

[@Spidaface666]

😲😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@bOmBAsTiK]

So this is where they got the idea for Men on Film

[@osaji922]

Same thing I was thinking.

[@kingsports1113]

Keenan Ivory Wayans n Damon Wayans knew Eddie Murphy since 1976 so they work together

[@malcolmbennett5958]

Really Eddie I never thought Kevin hart, Martin Lawrence, Wayne brother's. But not Eddie damm... 🤔🤦‍♂️... 💯

[@heidifedor]

This would not be done today.

[@heidifedor]

@@OllieJones38624 now I can die happy

[@thunderbirdmcfly8657]

Too bad that today this really funny impersonation couldn't be possible to be made.Today he still being criticized for those imitations.what is funny is funny that's all

[@SonnySkye]

Never liked this character,

[@rinse-esnir4010]

Boohoo

[@thelawofdivineoneness458]

You must have been the only one who didn't like it. It was hilarious.

[@joeymorvant161]

@@thelawofdivineoneness458 It was!

[@martinpalmer9810]

The only one??? Hell, no! The skit was boring. Just another pathetic excuse to push the gay agenda.

[@jonwhitehead5426]

Yeah, there really was no joke except that two straight men were playing a version of queerness. Today, Bowen Yang does a much better job of satirizing queerness.

[@yhideit4427]

WTF.?

[@sk8rdman]

It took me a long time to realize that they were playing effeminate gay men, and not just women in deliberately poor costumes.

[@renroxhrd]

You can't get more 80s than politically incorrect stereotypical gay men that wouldn't fly today 🙄

[@osaji922]

Only for the powers that be. Ask the gays what they thought of the Men on Film sketches on In Living Color. They loved it. It makes you wonder what exactly happened from then to now.