Mr. T & Hulk Hogan Monologue - Saturday Night Live

[@AWMindset]

These guys could have / should have had their own show together. They play well together.

[@DJboutit2]

This duo should have been in 6 to 8 A Team EPs they only did 2. The produces of A Team wanted them in 6 to 8 EPs but it never happened.

[@DEP717]

@@DJboutit2 Vince McMahon may have feared Hogan getting that boost. Most of the Wrestlers who really made it in 1980s Hollywood did it outside of Vince's wishes. Jesse Ventura reportedly went against Vince's wishes when he did Predator. Not to mention Piper.

[@lexkanyima2195]

​@@DEP717 VINCE is so protected

[@azurerainbow4637]

Good that Hulk Hogan & Mr. T had appeared on Saturday Night Live the night before Wrestlemania 1. Hulk Hogan was also the 1st WWE Champion to host SNL.

[@justinmccullough623]

"No, T! We don't need another lawsuit!" HAH!!

[@JohnnyTyrone77]

"We haven't EATEN ANYTHING this week.. We've been drinking grapefruit juice and EATING SKINNY LITTLE CHICKENS!" LOL!

[@TheKitchenTechnician]

My favourite!

[@christopherharper9932]

Man, I MISS the 80s! Back when "rasslin" was fun! Back when there was the wwF! Saturday Night's Main Event was always fun! Me and my brothers order some pizza and watch elbow drops all nite! HH and Mr. T made history! Still got love for the Hulkster and T, that was a hero of mine growing up. Still is!

[@davidmreyes77]

I’m going to tell my kids this is Kevin Hart and The Rock.

[@davidlalor9464]

Ha ha ha 😂😂😂!!!!

[@v-town1980]

Hart and Rock aren't worthy.

[@TheBizouxxx]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Ezer_Kenegdo_1]

Lmao

[@Primo323]

And im sure them two can actually pull it off too

[@duckhive]

the 80s were wild

[@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212]

Golden Age of the US. Been falling since then.

[@mattolive-h6e]

@@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212 been no golden age

[@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212]

@@mattolive-h6e Golden age.

[@mrchopsticks3]

@@mattolive-h6e The 80's definitely were, best time in history to be a kid.

[@gerardorodriguez7500]

They both played in Rocky 3

[@PrivateSmiles]

Grapefruit juice and skinny chickens. LOL

[@gabrielquesnot7840]

"Not another Lawsuit! Lol!!!!

[@AutisticPersona]

A reference to the Richard Belzer incident a few days earlier

[@jthomasaustin]

@@AutisticPersona RIP making the limo driver poop himself in No Holds Barred is also a dig, LOL.

[@dustybragg4011]

I loved how T refer to Bob Orton, as that broken arm man LOL

[@admiralman1472]

Dude! His arm was broken for like 5 years! LOL

[@ClayMationNation]

Definitely Hulk was 6'7 in his Prime!

[@calixa]

fucking HUGE here bro

[@ratedtriplex]

"Six foot seven, three inches from heaven And i weigh 305 and can whip any man alive" Hulk Hogan

[@christopherharper9932]

@@ratedtriplex "The ultimate male vs the ultimate meatball!"🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@tsb3208]

Nah, never quite that big. Mr.T was only about 5'11 at most

[@ClayMationNation]

@@tsb3208 And Hulkster towered over him about 7 inches!

[@MJBYouTubeNetwork]

I guess this is how the NBC/WWE partnership began.. Hulk Hogan and Mr. T hosting SNL, then came what we now know as WWE Saturday Night's Main Event.

[@anthonyhenderson4942]

A positive amazing combination

[@FiveNumberJonny]

WrestleMania 1 took place the following night ♥️

[@TL2354]

The following afternoon

[@calixa]

yeah no, shit. they said it started in 12 hours. smh

[@stevengallant6363]

A couple of days before this Hogan busted open that talk show guys head... Hogan settled out of court

[@JK-Visions]

lol that bending stick! I had one! And against my chin too lol after 5 times! Love those guys!

[@JK-Visions]

I found the bending stick at my mom's attic a few weeks ago after writing my comment. But i don't dare to use is. I will make a short video about it next week:)

[@kwa829]

Later in the show, someone asks Mr. T what that thing is, and he says, "it used to be a parking meter!".

[@leeludlowart237]

Those were the best days

[@85futureshock]

Arguably one of the least talked about important moments in wrestling history. Wrestlemania 1 had bad advances for closed circuit theaters and the original host for SNL this episode got sick. Hulk and Mr T got the hosting spot and the advance jumped the same day for Wrestlemania and the rest is history.

[@kalvingoodlaxson]

The original host that was scheduled for this episode, Steve Landesburg does appear in this episode only doing stand-up as a guest performer that night after being sick that week.

[@Slashboss]

Best move they coulda made for everyone.. WWF saved face and was able to make that profit at the closed circuit areas and the promotion for the show was 100% what they needed. Meanwhile the show was able to replace the dud they had originally scheduled with 2 hosts way more interesting. Watched Landesburg's stand up on this show before.. so boring. Hulk and T weren't comic actors but they were culturally hot then and the show made good use of them, that Friday the 13th skit and the Fernando skit were quite fun.

[@mrchopsticks3]

@@Slashboss "the show made good use of them" - hardly, they were barely in the show.

[@noelcallahan4825]

Entertainment at its best

[@filmcrewsfx]

Can`t Belive that Mr T beat up George Lucas

[@andythefork]

Fun time to grow up with all these larger-than-life characters. Mr. T doesn't wear all the gold anymore, but his heart of gold is on full display.

[@THE_CDN]

Mr. T gr@pe choked that guy on national TV! Good times, good times.

[@Boxofcrap]

The wonderful 80’s, when stars, were stars and thats all you knew. Not todays “stars”.

[@lexkanyima2195]

What's the difference ?

[@mrchopsticks3]

@@lexkanyima2195 Any kid with a phone can be a "star" on Tik Tok or KZbin. In the 80's, you actually had to earn stardom, it wasn't easy like it is today.

[@sanpotkins2130]

Love ya T and you too Hulk

[@crawdad4823]

That was a great episode. Rowdy Roddy Piper (hero of mine, go watch They Live if you don't believe me) made a cameo on this one. Freakin' hilarious.

[@SteveShaha]

PLEASE UPLOAD THE FERNANDO'S HIDEAWAY SKETCH FROM THIS EPISODE!!! It is seriously possibly the best sketch in the history of this show.

[@drkaufman]

WOW so weird to see an old school promo on SNL!

[@cassetteclassics86]

GottA love how hulk is making jokes about having to settle outta court for 3 mil

[@markdoyle6400]

Pretty sure Vince took care of that.

[@otisroseboro5613]

Hulk Hogan & Me T ,Are The Best

[@Enigma2K99]

Boy, if Mr. T only knew...

[@medusagorgon9]

This makes me giggle so much.💛❤️

[@mr.perksy]

Surprised they did this being that mania was like a 1pm show the next day. But I guess they weren’t sleeping anyway

[@FirstLast-Area52]

Its not FILMED the same time its shown moron

[@mr.perksy]

@@FirstLast-Area52 thanks for the moron comment asshole. It is SNL which was always live.

[@set1237]

@@mr.perksy hahahaha. Bodied.

[@Hotdiggity11]

It’s the mid-80s. They survived on grade A coke to make it through.

[@PublicSecuritySectionWolf]

I pity the fool, brother!

[@UTUBE3JC]

I just realized that the Mypillow guy Talks like Hulk Hogan

[@lemmythebulldog8812]

Idc how bad the segment was I want to see them cracking up at Billy crystal during Fernando’s hideaway

[@davidfischer6923]

That was good

[@THECLARENCES]

The gggrrreatest era of the WWF!!! xoxo The Clarences

[@JK-Visions]

yep! those 2 are the only ones i watched lol

[@THECLARENCES]

@@JK-Visions You have gggrrreat taste!!! xoxo The Clarences

[@raimywinter2309]

Such a killer promo man

[@hiesenbergwalt181]

You done beat up !!!!

[@kalvingoodlaxson]

Even if this was a last minute replacement for hosts and promotion to Wrestlemania. The original host for that night Steve Landesburg got sick but did stand-up performance on that night after being sick. But it saved a lot since everyone knew who these two were then the original host that was booked for it.

[@foroneanotherwinningtogeth1142]

Well...this sure reminds me why I was a hulkamaniac back then. Dude could bring it!

[@Rhyscaboom]

The original Rock and Kevin hart

[@YD-uq5fi]

This is when all of Mr. T's (and the A-Team's) fans moved over the Hulk Hogan. The ratings of the A-Team, up to this point one of the top shows, started to nosedive, while the ratings of WWF wrestling started to surge as Hulkamania began. March 1985-March 1986 was a huge cultural shift.

[@TGGaineyProductions]

Actually that year, The A-Team was one of the NBC shows that was in the top 10 of the Nielsen ratings.

[@YD-uq5fi]

@@TGGaineyProductions Not by late 1985-early 1986. It plunged like a rock.

[@LETZSMOKEPOTmusic]

Good days

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

On the eve of the very first Wrestlemania.

[@eolsunder]

someone link me the skit with Hulk and Mr T with Billy Crystal making them laugh

[@TL2354]

I still laugh at that

[@14DaveHunter]

The night before WM1.

[@2020-g8s]

Classic

[@Justin-AL]

This is even funnier when you realise hogan choked detective munch a few days earlier

[@blocc316]

These 2 where the 80s

[@kanvankosthuvaran416]

The Barbarian and Hog Rider

[@robertpolityka8464]

Mr. T looks tiny compared to the Hulkster

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

Thunder Lips and Clubber Lang hosting SNL...

[@DelightLovesMovies]

haha

[@stevep4574]

They should have had a Pipers Pit on SNL with these 2😉

[@vanityonthego3310]

interesting duo! lol

[@yjhova]

Hulk in gimmick at all times 😂

[@kwa829]

Where the part where someone asks Mr. T what that thing is he keeps bending and he says, "it used to be a parking meter!"?

[@TheTrut416]

Wonder why you tube won't show them on the Fernando Hideaway skit?

[@dnoodle8142]

I have not seen this b4

[@BusStopProductions.]

Mr. T looks short here

[@joscar062]

Hulk Hogan towers over him by 6 inches to say the least

[@stefanolipari7710]

great video

[@elgamerico]

Hulk Hogan - The cocaine years, brother ! :)

[@starxdpimp1]

"vitamins"

[@v-town1980]

Cocaine, vitamins...he'd still mop the floor with anyone.

[@kingjoeyofoc]

Was this after belzer?

[@bdot187um]

I believe so😂

[@josephlawson9950]

Mr t saved snl from being cancelled

[@v-town1980]

Not really. The writers did.

[@markmccain48]

Hogan refused to call him Mr. Kept saying T wow

[@niewojt]

I can't believe this was all the way back in 2013. Man how time flies.

[@jonrife8348]

2013 ?

[@toobadsapphire7]

1985.

[@robfiedler2139]

The lost days of SNL

[@Karemaker]

good lord Hogan is massive

[@aswinastro]

Yup, this was Hogan at his absolute peak. I think he was taking too "much Vitamins" and as a result, he lived up to the label of "Hulk" Hogan. Perhaps, they should have called him "Bulk" Hogan based on the amount of muscle he had put on.

[@CARTOONIVERSE1]

They took a shot at Richard Belzer's injury lawsuit here. The reason Belzer *dropped so quickly* was because of his daily cocain-use.

[@chiimumango3979]

Barbarian and Hog Rider from Clash of Clans?

[@v-town1980]

Should be "Hulk Hogan and Mr. T." Hogan was famous before T.

[@zt1053]

Mr t was a huge tv star at the time

[@kalvingoodlaxson]

@@zt1053 either two works, but Mr. T was on the A-Team and did a kids cartoon on NBC during this time.

[@dbndbaconnnnnn]

is LD the audience member that got choked out by T? pretty sure this would be the season or two he was writing for them

[@defiantsisko]

Come on get up! I beat you like I did the last time!

[@SidJustice1]

That jabroni in the crowd deserved it.

[@dgb7984]

If memory serves me right, Piper & Orton were given a chance to respond, but it was a pretaped thing so they were never there with Hogan & T live.

[@ultramaximusreviews]

When you need someone to make Mr T. look small...

[@ericwright2594]

80s nyc coke

[@JamesClifford-x7f]

And they call Hulk Hogan a racist? I don't think so ✌

[@spockb1186]

Mr. T and Hulk Hogan would have been Tag Team Champions, better than Demolition, Harlem Heat, Steiner Brothers or The Road Warriors.

[@tomjoad929]

Maybe Demolition but not the other teams lol

[@user-jt5vm3mi1w]

rip

[@jacobbaranowski]

Hahaha lol

[@jaysunbrady]

I can smell the coke from decades away on Hogan.

[@gamechannel2157]

wow

[@user123url6]

🤣🤣🤣👌👍🥰

[@rsb512]

Man I've never seen that before it was absolutely horrible. 😅 How coked out were they?

[@geoffchurchill5492]

so Hogan can be friends with a black man if it helps his career but they can't date his daughter

[@d00med74]

🏁

[@knightveg]

when i see stars from 1940 to early 90's i think of song kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2angJ2VqNOFrcU

[@ianwhitfield1696]

That was terrible

[@mattes7844]

It was fun as hell for every kid in the country. What an amazing time to be a kid. Everything was fun, not a worry in the world.

[@FiveNumberJonny]

This was last minute promotion for the first WrestleMania ♥️ which was the next night

[@mattes7844]

@Billy BNot for one second. It’s this current younger generation that had their youth taken away by politics and fear. Like I said...not a worry in the world...care free times my friend.

[@drkaufman]

What are you talking about? This was great!

[@mattes7844]

@@FiveNumberJonny Not to doubt your knowledge, but they produced a scheduled episode of SNL last minute? Vince was friendly with Dick Ebersol, he was the guy that got WWF on NBC Saturday nights. Mr. T was a pop icon at the time, and Hulk was, and may still be the most recognizable person on the planet. Ebersol was a WWF fan.