Figure Skating Cold Open - SNL

[@deonnadyson]

the part where he was lying on the floor and slid all the way to the other side... i could not stop laughing...

[@kcsnow9447]

the best part, by far. I just about coughed up a lung the first time I saw it...["OOOoooohhhh"].

[@MaidOfPasta]

I watched that part like 6 times in a row 🤣🤣

[@mimim8532]

Me toooooo! Hahaaaa could have peed my pants…

[@CamilleNadia]

I have been looking for this skit for YEARS! Thank you!They showed this to Scott Hamilton during Olympic Late Night and he couldn't stop laughing.

[@huehnerfuss]

I’ve looked for it too! I’ve never forgotten it. So close to Demming’s actual performance - and his mother was really there watching. Bold choice of music!

[@christiansleepvideos]

Camille McKenzie There are more from this episode on NBC.COM. New Kids sketch, Sprockets, Johnny Hildo...

[@lockandloadlikehell]

@@christiansleepvideos other snl skits that aren't on on KZbin on dailymotion, too

[@betterdaysareatoenailaway]

me too! i searched for like..15 years for this skit lol. i (OHHHH) love it so mu- (OHHHHH!) ch.

[@primitivedaisy]

Me too! I laughed so hard when I saw the original skit. Comedy gold! 😅😂🤣

[@anthonypetercoleman339]

Ok I just gained a whole new respect for Jason preistly. When you can make me laugh like that, you win.

[@smartbunny]

stack 1284 WOW I WILL TELL HIM

[@oldchick]

Agree!!!

[@robertschumann7737]

Yes, but then flashbacks of Beverly Hills 90210 commercials jump into my mind when he does that final interview. Then once again I am glad he has disappeared from acting. Has anybody from that show had a career after Shannon Doherty left and they milked the last few seasons from it? Priestly always had that one look on his face and you knew he was destined for traveling dinner theater after the show ended. Also, once all of the teenage girls found out Luke Perry was 30 you just knew he was going to be making corporate training videos the rest of his career. I still don’t know why that show was such a big hit. It was set in the same kind of reality as when Mork joined Happy Days. I was glad to see it finally leave the air (when half of the actors were about to apply for social security). Of course after it was gone they started up the O.C. shortly afterwards. That show stayed around forever and my kid sister tortured me with every episode. We had one of those massive projection tv’s that only worked with the remote. She used to crank the volume, hide the remote and then go to a friends house. She was always a cruel person to grow up with.

[@24hoursadaywithbobr]

He was great!! 😆

[@RandomPlayIist]

That was a stunt double.

[@coosoorlog]

Jason Priestley actually quite a good ice skater

[@blueshky]

Canadians fall out of the womb with skates on

[@kcsnow9447]

Yes, which is why he could pull this off. Or he and his double.

[@kcsnow9447]

@@blueshky That's gotta hurt though, and even with blade guards on. [Thanks, Moms!!!]

[@ja3482]

Canucks.

[@RS54321]

@@blueshky Not all of us! ;P

[@OctoganicAngel]

The belly slide on the ice 😂😂😂

[@vladbrad1389]

Phil Hartman R.I.P we miss you

[@youdosuck]

Always

[@MiAmor1978]

The World of VladBrad I miss his golden image and act. RIP

[@vladbrad1389]

Maria Concepcion agreed

[@kmzoilus2486]

one of my all time favorite alumni from SNL... Much love love Phil! RIP

[@darrylmaxwell-os7pu]

Was immediately reminded of the Anal Retentive Chef . Which I think is the greatest character in comedy history ❤😂🎉

[@cliffkram]

One of my all time favourite skits in SNL history. Ohhh....OOHHHHHH......ohhhhhh.....

[@R0ME13]

This entire episode with Jason Priestley is my all time favorite. There will never be anything better than that "SPROCKETS" skit! 🤣

[@lynnschubert342]

Right! The whole episode with Jason Priestley was pure gold. It's hard to find the Sprockets sketch...why??! 😭

[@R0ME13]

@@lynnschubert342 I know right? .... only snippets are available... It's a damn shame I tell ya!

[@lynnschubert342]

Why are confined to such little?! 😭 it was one of the best episodes ever!!

[@ScaricoOleoso]

"First I will throw you to the ground... pee all over you chanting, 'house on fire! House on fire! Put it out! Put it out!' Then I would force you to drink antifreeze until you pass out. Then you will wake up the next morning in excruciating pain with s size seven poopchute."

[@RS54321]

Ja!!

[@dc1397]

2:41 was the greatest part of the whole routine. My gosh was that funny.

[@CJCS1111]

Sometimes it's so difficult for me to watch Phil Hartman because I just think about the tragedy that took him from us. Wow is he's so missed!

[@nonnyj81]

It hurts after all these years. I was only 15 and it just hit me when I heard the news. I grew up with this SNL

[@bn2593]

I feel the same way!!! 😢

[@abibb27]

I agree. It’s disturbing and he was taken wayyy too soon. RIP to a great man

[@billybrown00]

I concur

[@charliechaplin852]

My fondest memories of him was in The Simpsons as Troy McClure

[@CamilleNadia]

It's very funny how even as Brian is falling all over the place, his mother's still sitting there with that robotic smile on her face.

[@WalonMercy]

90's SNL was truly magical television

[@OptimisticCynic715]

94 got pretty rough. But then Ferrel and Hammond came in.

[@philippeh3904]

Early 90s was SNL at its best. Then they went into a rough patch and came back by the end of the decade

[@ModernDayRenaissanceMan]

And I remember everyone complaining about it at that time

[@SasfootBigsquatch]

Easily the best decade for the show. Early 90's SNL cast was the best ever.

[@raheemhamilton8624]

@VitoCanarsie what about the 93-94 season and 94-95 season of SNL was that truly magical television as well?

[@tuesday225]

I remember this 30 years ago and it sent me into a side splitting laugh and it still does that today! You have to have watched the winter olumpics that year to see how terribly the Americans skated to understand this skit thoroughly!

[@ja3482]

I always remember Melanie Hutsell in this sketch. Her little flag shaking with unchanged expression just kills me.

[@SMbigpapi]

As soon as Dana Carvey came into frame I just started laughing to the point where I had to pause the video

[@CamilleNadia]

SMbigpapi They showed this to the real Scott Hamilton during Olympic Late Night and he burst out laughing at that moment too.

[@happydayz7857]

Camille McKenzie that’s funny shit. I wish we could see that

[@jeffcorsiglia5379]

RIP Phil Hartman. Still funny after all these years.

[@peachesj4748]

This episode aired on February 15, 1992, Chris Farley's birthday. Jason Priestley kissed Farley on the cheek at the end on the show, and said "it's Chris's birthday today". It was also the week after Phil Hartman's daughter Birgen was born, host Susan Dey announced it at the end of that show. I remember both pretty well.

[@amiziko]

This is one of my favorite sketches on one of my favorite episodes of SNL.

[@candicemhodge]

OMG! I remember watching this as a child! Memories...😪

[@cj222100]

This was actually the very first SNL skit I'd ever seen-I was 10 & allowed for the first time ever to stay up & watch. I've been looking for this for many years, still funny after all this time & I remember this being a good episode

[@jmillerartist7961]

Jason Priestly is magic

[@CilasMommyo]

One of my all time favorite SNL skits. I remember when it first aired.

[@CamilleNadia]

This isn't just funny, it's eerily accurate--everybody was falling left and right at the Olympics that year.

[@OptimisticCynic715]

I was thinking that was a bad year.

[@summerlate2799]

LOLLOLOL so true also look at the ladies free skate.

[@evilcritter]

That's why it was funny.

[@skylarmccloud4080]

Super late to the Party,but what year was that?

[@darcygeorge8411]

@@skylarmccloud4080 1992 I believe.

[@millingsrgood3292]

Jason Priestly was hilarious! He can skate great 2!

[@ME-pf6md]

Wow! Jason Priestly is simply amazing in this. I just gained a new respect for him.

[@johnmackenzie9421]

Seriously....one of the funniest skits ever......thank you everyone involved.

[@Ariels888]

Those were the days my friends. Miss you Phil RIP 😍

[@allys744]

Everytime they said “oohhhhh” in between sentences 😂😂

[@Empresslockness]

Jason comes skating out looking like Prince. 😁

[@LynRuiz]

Empresslockness I thought the same thing! He sure was Pretty back then. RIP Prince

[@reginafallangie2867]

Me: ha that looks like Jason Priestley. Holy shit, that IS Jason Priestley! I was more into Luke perry, but damn he was hot and this made me 90210 nostalgic.

[@jamespettit6352]

"He should quit now". God I miss Phil Hartman

[@Avenue72nd]

Jason Priestley was hot as hell back in the days...

[@janed1451]

Jason Priestly is STILL hot as hell!

[@LukeDodge916]

The best hair on a dude I’ve ever seen...

[@michellespiegel-cason1631]

Anti-Social Nerd what about McDreamy!?

[@michellespiegel-cason1631]

Dasha Jean I met him once and he is literally the same height as me- not usually a turn on, but I was still star-struck!

[@parapsycho13]

michelle spiegel-cason A man should not be judged on the height of his body, but on the girth of his dick.

[@wavetranquility4243]

That first fall has his head bouncing off the ice! 😂😂😂😂

[@OptimisticCynic715]

Looks dangerous.

[@mistermister2085]

I watched this when it originally aired and was dying...

[@bearpayton34]

Zaizo Productions #metoo

[@Danimal77]

Same here! I was 14 at the time.

[@chickenringNYC]

I still remember watching this episode live when it came out. Priestly was one of the rare actors who really did well! This sketch, Johnny Hildo, etc.. all great.

[@RedHeadKevin]

Seriously. This is one of the great episodes of SNL. You also had the Sprokets Dating Game and the NKOTB on Arsenio.

[@ModernDayRenaissanceMan]

I was huge into figure skating at this time for obvious reasons as a 12-year-old boy and the scandals that were going on. however I'd never seen this skit even as a huge SNL fan. This is actually one of the funniest I've ever seen congrats

[@monkeymonkey8526]

Omg I have been looking for this forever!! Lmao at Jason Priestley's stomach slide and then not being able to get up like a beetle on it's back!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@robertpolityka8464]

Phil Hartman did an excellent job!

[@kcsnow9447]

LOLOLOL! I swear. I've seen this well over a hundred times, and the bit @2:41-2:44 still makes me spit up all over the keyboard...and even when I know it's coming.

[@pam255]

Shout out to JP on a great job. Had me cracking up. Great job for writers too; using JP's ability to skate in a sketch.

[@genehakman9422]

Classic!!! Please upload the Chris Farley figure skating sketch - you know the one I'm thinking of !!!

[@nachos4children]

Awwww, pump up the jam!

[@johnnyballenatl]

I’d rather see the one with Sarah Michelle Gellar as Tara Lipinski (which I do have on VHS somewhere).

[@steveconn]

Priestley had a comic gift. Also good on the Canadian detective show Private Eyes.

[@lisalynnn]

I miss Phil Hartman so much. It was heartbreaking when he was murdered. He was a comical genius.

[@hattiem.7966]

Murdered by the witch wife.I wonder how his kids are doing?They have to be in their 20's now.I just Googled them.The daughter is 23 now.Not sure of the son but they were raised by their Mom's sister and hubby.

[@lisalynnn]

Hattie M. I hope hos kids are doing well. It's just awful. It has to be very difficult to mourn their father's death especially since he was murdered. They don't even get the satisfaction of her being arrested and sentence to prison.

[@hattiem.7966]

I'm sure she didn't get escorted thru the pearly gates!! I am not that religious either.I did read that they were raised in the midwest with different last names,probably the Aunt's married name.

[@hattiem.7966]

Thanks so much for the info!!!

[@lisalynnn]

Janetta Martin thanks for letting me know that information. I'm glad they are living good lives.

[@skittlecar1]

What a bold choice of music!

[@lorrainesekera4100]

This is one of my all-time favs!😂

[@SarahB1863]

Classic!! I have this on VHS and have it memorized. :-) "Ooooo..."

[@Werdnasemajjamesandrew]

Saw this live in 1990 at the age of 4. Sensational

[@pickeljarsforhillary102]

Finnish ice skater brought me here.

[@Jaymindrew1990]

Ohhhh! Ohhhh! Ohhhh! Ohhhh! 😂

[@houcineabdelhak3177]

Lmao that fall😂😂

[@LynRuiz]

Oh my goodness I was a little girl when I watched this but now as an adult it’s the first time I’ve seen it again and I’ve laughed so hard I can’t breathe. Who was the skating double? It looks like someone who can actually skate. Hilarious 😂

[@Auriam]

Brilliant. Come on, SNL, make more goofy silly stuff like this!

[@CodyWhitlock]

I was not sure what to expect but I was not disappointed 😂😂🙌🙌

[@viciousnutella]

Cody Whitlock hehe

[@muppetallica]

Unlike Brian, who could only answer that question with breathless panting.

[@gotalifeanditsmine]

Watching before it gets blocked in my country v:

[@mariamabdalla7827]

I know right!!!! I'm in dubai. They just block videos

[@Richardatf]

this is not new....will they block it anyway?

[@IamLegendaryguy1998]

Saturday night live greatness

[@okrajoe]

I never knew Jason Priestley could ice skate.

[@OctoganicAngel]

okrajoe Edit: It’s a double who can skate

[@pigskin1000]

I think he used to play alot of hockey. And still does for those celebrity tournaments.

[@OctoganicAngel]

pigskin1000 Maybe they used some shots of Priestly skating backwards and doing crossovers, but the jumps, even the falling ones had to have been done by a figure skater imho

[@lisahardy9707]

Not likely Jason grew up in CANADA he CAN skate

[@OctoganicAngel]

It's possible

[@scarab944]

A bold choice of music.

[@SceneComparisons]

More convincing that Jason Priestley was skating than the horrible CGI on I Tonya.

[@cristinasolano6487]

dimitreze 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@two-face1041]

dimitreze there had been multiple interviews with Margot where she confirms that everyone was in fact skating in the film

[@ArteoftheMist]

@Two-Face the triple axel was confirmed CGI

[@dgooz]

He probably was skating. He's played hockey his whole life.

[@422katieleigh]

1) Jason Priestly was actually skating, which is why you were convinced..., 2) The I, Tonya CGI was great for the one jump. It was slowed down and looked surreal on purpose. That was the style of the whole film and it fit perfectly. The only reason it had to be CGI’d is because hardly anyone on the planet can do that jump. Most of the rest of the skating was real, so if you weren’t convinced, it’s not the movie’s problem.

[@Cheetahprint85]

HUGE FAN of SNL

[@jefferyvnelson7144]

I've watched this since 1975, and these were the best years for me.

[@crankypantsmcduff]

Jason priestly, ice skating??? Hilarious lol

[@jeanetteschock4744]

I love this makes me belly ached laugh

[@donthespotter6550]

Surprised they used Rockford for the skit , makes sense tho quite a long drive every week to go to Chicago

[@glennreimer8262]

the greatest SNL skit ever

[@Slice2099]

Rip Phil Hartman

[@rosemaramgio7284]

We miss you, Phil. You were amazing.

[@windsorkid7069]

Anytime I ever heard Jason Priestly's name mentioned, I'd laugh, but this brought it to a whole new level.

[@leilithomas1820]

as a figure skater, I understand what Brian is going through but that belly flop really hit me in a soft spot

[@fordprefect4728]

the entire show had alot of memorable skits,during his monologue fans were asking if luke perry was there, johnny hildo skit,90210 skit, and also the sprockets skit was really funny b/c of phil hartman.

[@railynnelson]

My favorite was the Tom Hanks skating skits from 1988, but no one has it available. :(

[@karaloop9544]

He's actually quite good a skating it seems.

[@tiffanywaldon4875]

Y’all play too much! I loved Jason’s SNL episode! 😂😂😂😂

[@pueraeternus111]

Jason Priestly wearing that skating costume with his big bulge showing is truly amazing.

[@Jimmersaunt]

0.0-“That’s the Russian judge”😂😂😂-classic!

[@izzywejrowski6641]

Scott Sterling of figure skating

[@rachelkornak5324]

Haha yessss!!! Studio C is the best 🙌

[@traceybrown2399]

Watching this in 2021. I missed seeing half the video because I was laughing so hard & couldn't see thru the tears.

[@EddieMillerStudios]

I have this episode recorded on an old VHS that I acquired.

[@adarsh8831]

"Quite a human drama there "😂😂

[@MiGuy96]

Decades ago and I still laugh about this bit and search for it

[@Mr_brut3]

3 of my boys names had to do with 90210 Jason is my oldest then its Brandon and Dylan 🤣 ...

[@Danny4SoccerOhio]

He had way too much hair to be Scott Hamilton even back in The Winter of '92 *LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL*

[@amsedelm]

Back when SNL was actually very funny. Awesome job by JP.

[@Dexter101x]

4:01 hilarious since the Russians really did compete under the Olympic flag in the 2018 Winter Olympics, hahaha

[@happydayz7857]

My dad loves this skit. The repeated ‘ohhhh’s

[@SunnyGirlFlorida]

Jason said that most of the skating was him.

[@uba2]

This was so well done

[@blue-phoenix115]

Turtle turtle turtle is all I hear from Dana Carvey

[@skinkscat]

P L am I not turtley enough for the turtle club?

[@blue-phoenix115]

lol

[@samleistiko2783]

Master of disguise! I love that movie.

[@dina113east]

I still remember this skit. Everyone thought it was hilarious and it is great to find it on YT.

[@leebeer]

I remember crying in tears when when I saw this when I was young

[@bondgirl41373]

Man I miss Phil Hartman

[@ritzypoo7770]

Is it bad that I felt bad for him?

[@freddiemercury4evr]

"OH!!" 😂

[@robinrichards72]

Every time a skater falls I channel my inner Phil and Dana from this sketch. Ohhhhhhhh....

[@melissastull5525]

🤣 This was an awesome skit!

[@Rightsideup]

This entire episode is a classic!!! Hildo dammit Hildooooo

[@Joesfosterdogs]

EPIC by all...Hatman is a great actor! Jason looked great and nailed it...Carvey was so perfect...Julia never gets her due

[@deepfielder]

This is SNL's funniest sketch ever. And Phil Hartman!

[@kjamison5951]

Phil - you are missed.

[@ThatOnePieceKid]

Verne Lundquist!!😂

[@BeautifulEarthStudio]

I give him a 10.0 for hilarity! 🤣😂🤣😂🏆🎖