John Belushi as Woody Hayes on SNL 1979

[@mark11967AD]

That is some funny ass shit. Classic Belushi. Something about his timing and body language on physical comedy is beyond description. Legend.

[@bh-zj4yt]

Yep. One of the funniest people that ever lived and really now hardly anyone has any idea who he is.

[@Rescue162]

Even though you knew it was coming, John Belushi (as Woody Hayes) punching and strangling Gilda Radner (as Hayes' wife) is as funny as hell.

[@stephaniegormley9982]

"Hey Woody, why'd you punch your wife?" "Because they wouldn't let me shoot her"

[@danieldecker2526]

What's really funny is Gilda Radner went to Michigan!

[@Bailark]

I hope I'm not the only one here who saw this when it originally ran. It is an all-time SNL skit. The Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time-Players have never been equaled. Also, I actually met Woody Hayes on campus, on the Oval at OSU. He continued to teach military history for several years after he was fired from coaching, and seeing him walking on campus was like meeting Zeus...only Zeus was friendly, personable, looked you in the eye and smiled when he said hello. Woody Hayes is remembered for a few incidents like this...but if more people were half as decent as Wayne Woodrow Hayes, the world would be a far better place. (Also, domestic violence became a much more serious social issue after this ran...and Woody Hayes was never accused of such. Yes, the skit was hilarious).

[@smw4628]

They would never show this today because it's too funny.

[@proudbirther1998]

Snl stopped being funny in 2008 when obama became president. Word went out NOT TO MAKE FUN OF HIM

[@smw4628]

@@proudbirther1998 Oh my god, a Trumper. Does the Greg Gutfeld show make fun of Democrats? Yes it does.

[@jimmydelaney4619]

I just about lost my dinner laughing so hard

[@MrGuitar50]

I was at the Gator Bowl that year as a Senior at Clemson. We had no idea what had happened until we got back to the hotel that night. We turned on ABC and saw to our dismay Woody giving Charlie Baumann multiple upper cuts. Two weeks later we were watching SNL, saw this skit, and laughed so hard we fell out of our chairs!!

[@tomwhite3271]

I was there too.Super foggy night, could barely see the field from my nose-bleed seats.

[@johnperrigo6474]

I'm really surprised you didn't know what happened.

[@MrGuitar50]

@@johnperrigo6474 I didn’t have a good line of sight from the end zone. I just saw a fight break out.

[@johnperrigo6474]

@@MrGuitar50 Oh, I wrongly assumed you were a Clemson Senior football player.

[@KenWesaw]

Woody was only 65 at the time ? I thought 75 would be closer

[@bipolarvortex]

I have been looking for this clip for years. I’ve described this skit to others, but haven’t seen it for almost half a century.

[@mjp96]

Try this one today!!! So classic!

[@bluetickfreddy101]

I met john b in miami beach couple months before he passed. Had nice conversation he was renting a fishing charter at castaways marina. Cheers

[@BiffJackson-o4i]

Did you score any coke?

[@senororlando2]

@@BiffJackson-o4i implying belushi would share

[@kentamitchell]

Woody had his faults, so did Belushi. Who would have thought Woody would outlive a man 33 years his junior?

[@USA24541]

Who would have thought he would sucker punch a man 43 years his junior, who happened to be much bigger, and wearing a football uniform and helmet?

[@MrKirk94]

@@USA24541 cuz Woody is a beast son

[@MrKirk94]

@@USA24541 well....WAS a beast lol

[@USA24541]

@@MrKirk94 No, he was a stupid, hateful old jerk.

[@brianwalsh1401]

@@Floridacoastwriter I guess because it didn't happen on camera and winning all those games made a lot of money for Ohio state. The highest paid public employees in most states are either football or basketball coaches. It's just the way it is, kind a sad.

[@davidheilman1928]

Ha! Intelligent humor! As a Buckeye, I approve! God Bless Wayne Woodrow Hayes and that was a great sketch.

[@BearFlagRebel]

As a kid busted a gut on this. Monday at school everyone was talking about it and laughing.

[@johnperrigo6474]

I can't believe it, I've never seen this clip before. You knew he was going to erupt, but they saved it for the end! Brilliant!

[@Luked0g440]

I remember seeing this one live! I'm laughing just as hard now!🤣

[@SteveH-ds9jg]

me to, at 16 racing around Jacksonville on my chopper.

[@Luked0g440]

Also, this reminds me of the SNL skit (I can’t remember who played in it), where Sean Penn comes home to Madonna. She greets him with open arms, and he just walks up to her and slugs her in the stomach!🤣

[@mightyjimbo7681]

Reminder of when SNL was actually funny.

[@CCJJ160Channels]

I feel like people have been saying that for decades.

[@catadkins7338]

Because it’s true!

[@mtadams2009]

@@CCJJ160ChannelsYou are correct. People always remember the past differently than it actually was. The show has been up and down from the very beginning.

[@TheYamahog12]

@@mtadams2009I disagree. They did comedy that hadn’t been done on tv. So for the first few years it always seemed funny. But when I watch skits like “Samurai (whatever)” now, they don’t seem funny at all whereas back then I thought it was hilarious.

[@Passenger_2mars]

Shut it Trumper

[@ErikMalkavian]

1:24 Omy godssssss...That Outrageous...hahaha!!!

[@genzlegacy7988]

At first it seemed like they were gonna make him out to be respectable but then they did him so dirty😂😭

[@lbowsk]

I'm old enough to remember Woody and all the crap he used to pull. RIP old man.

[@chuckharkes6569]

Classic Belushi. I just about wet my pants. 🤣

[@mrlafayette1964]

I'd like to have seen Hayes and Bobby Knight duking it out... Hayes with the left hook and Knight gets Hayes in a choke hold.

[@TheCream14]

Back when SNL was really funny.

[@facedownchuck]

Great stuff!

[@BiffJackson-o4i]

That kids is how good SNL used to be.

[@darthmassimo]

Go Bucks... Love Wayne Woodrow Hayes....

[@lukeclover3420]

Doubt you could do a sketch like this today

[@olben1095]

You got that right.

[@lukeclover3420]

Especially now that everyone knows Urban Meyer enables that kind of thing

[@MrRyan-wu4jx]

@@lukeclover3420 literally no one is stopping you from doing one.

[@JohnDoe-nd9mv]

@@lukeclover3420 you mean les wexner

[@brianarbenz1329]

What on Earth are you talking about @lukeclover?

[@harveydilworth7140]

I am a big Woody Hayes fan and Buckeye fan that was hilarious oh that was so good

[@daveorme1683]

Where did they get Charlene? Her name was Ann.

[@LardGreystoke]

To avoid liability. She was not a public figure.

[@bodombeastmode]

Wow, you would never, ever see that on TV nowadays.

[@brianwalsh1401]

Never say never. A hot head coach is going to try and not do that on tv because they want to keep their job.

[@bobdelaney3126]

GREAT

[@user-cs9mb2df4x]

i was expecting it but i wasn't also lmfao

[@PhilMoskowitz]

For a moment I tought my computer screen had a crack in it.

[@umbrella0326]

I'm an Ohio State fan but this was funny as f*ck.

[@lloydkline1518]

Super funny; ❤ woody Hayes

[@tomryan914]

"Kung Fu lessons from Woody Hayes...", Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show.

[@tarantinoish]

I thought there was a hair on my screen

[@Robsay01]

Dad would send me down to the corner store to get a Sunday paper. Saw it all then - the next day.

[@christhornton1785]

The old SNL. Nothing like it.

[@devadipcesarsantana7899]

Politically incorrect... I love it!!!

[@garthornspike3648]

Woody Hayes playing checkers with his wife. Everyone knew how that skit was going to end.

[@tammyyplatt5995]

Woody's wifes name was Anne.

[@jacobjones4628]

They didn't have Google to fact check it lol

[@KenWesaw-up5wf]

Ann arbor

[@danielscott1749]

john died in the same motel form the same OD of Speed Balls as Lowell after finding how he was going to Play Lowell in a Movie about the Mothers. Life is Strange.

[@AztecHusBone]

I love finding politically incorrect gems from SNL past. Remember Uncle Roy. Yikes!

[@roythompson7776]

Pure Classic ... GOD BLESS and GO BLUE!

[@finnmacdiarmid3250]

God bless the Michigan Wolverines that one day they may actually beat Ohio State in football

[@jasonmeyer7749]

@@finnmacdiarmid3250 Michigan leads ohio in wins.

[@lewidyl]

@@jasonmeyer7749 not this decade

[@MuttTheHoople]

Appalachian State is HOT! HOT! HOT!

[@CoondawgPD]

I spent most of my time trying to get the hair off my screen

[@TheKrazykittengal]

@@CoondawgPD i realize i messed up with that many years ago

[@jamesdriskill5784]

Well, I guess that doesn’t age well but it was funny then

[@BillyGreen66]

Dude just couldn't take losing at anything!

[@fairfaxcat1312]

This is a parody of Woody Hayes striking an opposing player and eventually getting himself fired as coach of the Ohio State football team. At first the Hayes character appears calmly and happily resigned as the former coach who is now enjoying time at home with his wife with whom he is playing an innocent game of checkers. Then he suffers a major setback in the game and punches out his wife. At that point many viewers and I probably laugh.

[@jacklowe3429]

Thank you, Captain Obvious. This is me, unnecessarily thanking you for your unnecessary explanation of the video we all just watched.

[@bakhembrutalknowledge]

Duh.

[@Benjimac379]

Ohio State fan here that was typical Woody. Always fighting tooth and nail to win and being a sore loser when something stupid happened.

[@eaha658]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@vinotintopanysalchichon9554]

This isn't yourDad's SNL.

[@rjhyden]

No , everything today has to be political and not funny. This was comedy....

[@brianarbenz1329]

Great skit, but you realize that Bill Murray punched people at SNL, including in a fist fight with Chevy Chase. And John Belushi treated women performers shabbily, declaring that they should not write comedy for him.

[@southfloridaarcheryguy114]

Oh, boo hoo.

[@brianarbenz1329]

@@southfloridaarcheryguy114 I was trying to point out the irony of it. Perhaps concepts like that are too complicated for you to grasp.

[@ARIZJOE]

Belushi was my favorite - but this was not a good Woody impression. Coach Hayes had a unique, sibilant elocutionary style and facial mannerisms, while being very direct. Also, Woody wore a black cap, before black was popular.

[@slipnorris5882]

lmao

[@kevindouglas5333]

Her hair looks like a football helmet

[@mickey34jb]

Not Belushis' best stuff

[@davanmani556]

Mick B. Coke took over.

[@benpezzot8805]

Yeah his earlier stuff is a lot better

[@IanK369]

Guess he had to keep all his sports gear on to really sell the part.

[@woodyhayes7402]

I’m not laughing

[@michaelwainscott2633]

LOL. Lighten up, Francis. It was actually worse. Woody got fired not only because he punched Charlie Baumann; he got fired because he absolutely refused to apologize for it. The next day, away from the heat of the moment, and he showed no remorse. The OSU AD was Hugh Hindman, a former assistant football coach under Hayes. But Ohio State University President Harold Enarson saved Hindman from firing Hayes by personally firing Woody. He died 8 yrs later at 74. He really wasn't that old, but he had already suffered a heart attack as a coach and considering how tightly wound he was, not surprising his heart didn't have a lot of longevity.

[@davanmani556]

Michael Wainscott he kept forgetting to treat his diabetes.

[@FUYT888]

@@michaelwainscott2633 he was a mean and spiteful man.

[@RM-ed1if]

@@michaelwainscott2633 The KZbin user name is Woody Hayes. That's why he's not laughing at this skit. This isn't funny to Woody. As Woody used to say "Not one bit. No sir, not one bit."

[@bazlebreeze9938]

People forget Baumann brought the intercepted football over and waved it in Woody's face. I'd have punched the punk too.

[@kentamitchell]

Woody's wife was named *Ann*. SNL could not get *anything* right.

[@davanmani556]

KentA Mitchell That was the point of the skit.

[@1968klatt]

It was a comedy skit, not a documentary.

[@pronkb000]

You couldn't just Google that shit back then. Looking up the name of Woody Hayes' wife probably wasn't something they had time to do.

[@marcoesquandolas1]

@@pronkb000 That was like a replay of thought I had when reading that comment.....also, the time and money they would have used to figure that out, was time and money from the booger sugar fund.

[@atlasrunner8206]

The Names have been Changed to protect the Innocent.....

[@TheChallenger1000]

Can't do that on television today. I mean, yeah, they'd allow a woman to hit a man, but the other way around? No f'n way, that's _MISOGYNY._

[@desklamp1175]

Lousy audio and video