Poetry Class - Saturday Night Live

[@writerguy911]

I teach a screenwriting class and I have to admit that one of my most memorable experiences was when a student tried to submit the opening of The Silence of the Lambs as his own work.

[@fresh_vertices]

XD

[@Luke-rt9bx]

Pretty awesome lol

[@jeebs621]

Lmao😂😂😂

[@toastedjoe1013]

I took a screenwriting class, then I realized I don't have any ideas.

[@therealmayac]

I kid you not, in my grade 11 English class a Christian kid plagiarized the bible. Like straight up just wrote down scripture and tried to pass it off as a sonnet.

[@lekoman]

David Hyde Pierce memorized his lines for this sketch. You always see them sort of stiltedly reading off of cue cards, but here he actually just delivers it comfortably and naturally. That's an actor who takes his craft seriously...

[@jessenathan9346]

Well, that's because they didn't have a director who asked them to make the cue card-reading more obvious, now did they?

[@lekoman]

@horace sheffield Oh, I know all about how it works. It just turns out that DHP is a particularly quick study. He memorized his lines - he's said so.

[@Underyourbedeyes]

the hosts used to be more prepared back then in general it seems.

[@yoholup]

A true thespian.

[@edp3202]

I think SNL prefers you use cue cards.

[@krogdog]

Yep, this happened in my English class senior year. One guy submitted "Only God Knows Why" by Kid Rock. It wasn't a well-known song at the time but a couple weeks later it was released as a single and played on the radio 50x a day, LOL

[@hauntedhouseonzillow44]

HAHAHAH OH MY GOD

[@camerongage1237]

That happened in a college theatre class I took. Same song.

[@sweetcaramel4750]

I almost choked and spit out my water 😅🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@crunchylemon2849]

Plagiarism At its best

[@JonnySublime]

Life imitates art

[@Kix-86]

"One guy actually snuck in some old Van Halen." RIP Eddie.

[@secef316]

Scary thought... that song was only 10 years old at the time..

[@Nick-bo1uv]

wow 4 months already

[@karlhans6678]

smoking, drugs and alcohol sometimes kill rock stars.

[@quokka_11]

"Jump" was pretty much the moment that old Van Halen became new Van Halen to me.

[@bettyschneider5268]

@@karlhans6678 So does evil Hollywood! Lol 😂 🇺🇸🎭🎪🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🚧🎰🕺💃🏻👯🚶🏃🏻👫🙆🏻

[@RFToob]

David is perfect in a teacher role. Chris is perfect as a nervous adolescent. Cheers.

[@rockroll3065]

Songs they used You Shook Me All Night Long- AC/DC Going Down/ Love In an Elevator- Aerosmith Jump- Van Halen

[@austin8293]

Thank you

[@jadengoldenrose3784]

All great songs 🎶🤘😆

[@rockroll3065]

@@jadengoldenrose3784 yessir

[@jadengoldenrose3784]

@@rockroll3065 I'm a girl lol

[@rockroll3065]

@@jadengoldenrose3784 oh

[@jimtoms7591]

This happened to me. In sophomore English class (circa 1986), I turned in Iron Maiden's "The Trooper" as my own and another kid informed on me. The next day, the teacher read it in class as I slumped in my seat. Lesson learned.

[@DavidMay-cc1xo]

Mad props to the writers who not only had to write the skit, but also come up with those totally original poems. Writing poetry is hard.

[@TheReal7Bit]

I like how the whole set shook when farley tried to open the door haha

[@drServitis]

Mr. Tulip Chris Farley died of heart failure.

[@r1n8k]

+drServitis He died of not caring about his weight or what people had to say about it (and a large mixture of cocaine and heroin)... I don't think he'd care if we got a bit of a giggle out of him rocking the set.

[@drServitis]

r1n8k Chris Farley was in psychological pain. He tried to look happy and care-free, but it was a mask for what was going on inside him.

[@mikecows828]

@@drServitis he didn’t dumb fuck

[@KairuHakubi]

That leather jacket. There's more cow on him than there is on actual cows. RIP you beautiful bastard

[@hollowayndtengineeringinc.5201]

This totally happened to me in Grade 10. I didn't use AC/DC, I think it was Duran Duran Rio. Teacher read it out loud to everyone. My classmates luckily kept their mouths shut!

[@paulamiles9559]

You think your teacher wasnt on to you?

[@nanniesparrow]

Finally SNL is becoming smart. uploading their videos on youtube. :)

[@abdihafidmoh8875]

nanniesparrow you look nervous, do u need CPR??

[@sarahthomas8670]

Yayy

[@gump5ter01]

nanniesparrow Ik finally been waiting for 6 years

[@chinmay9702]

@@gump5ter01 hey fuck u

[@iwant2die946]

Ay wassup.

[@Uncle-Jay]

Part of my 8th grade English class was poetry, we had a teacher like this and they actually reviewed several songs with us, had us watch the music videos and then discussed the songs and their possible meanings, he taught us music was simply poetry presented in another way. I specifically remember discussing Heart In A Blender.

[@yogidevendrabiriyani1777]

Sounds amazing!! Some teachers really care deeply. They truly are underappreciated

[@emosongsandreadalongs]

In my sophomore English class the teacher would have us write journal entries during the first 5 minutes of every class. She said it didn't matter what we wrote, so I would always just write song lyrics

[@floragreyson6312]

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[@chrishuston1992]

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[@yogidevendrabiriyani1777]

Can I ask you, *why* do so many people do that? I never could understand wjy finding something else already done is "easier" than being random and writing stuff down..I'm just wondering I guess cuz Im a neurodivergent i guess and creativity is the only thing I can do, really. Always pondering the mysteries of neurotypicals

[@dazem8]

i love Chris Farley's giggle ☺️ miss him tons.

[@keithbehlke3588]

what scares me about this skit is how accurate it actually is. I know many teacher stories that are just like this

[@ryanlindsay4117]

the ending was perfect

[@liamtuite8838]

R.I.P - Chris Farley

[@MS-it9vv]

This sketch is a classic. It’s been many years but I still remembered the premise and the VH focus.

[@tgal164]

The way Chris Farley runs out the class at the bell....

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

An admittedly attractive blonde girl in my college creative writing class wrote a poem that was about sailing, and the words she used were technical seafaring jargon, and even though I didn't understand it at the time, I remember being in awe with the imagery. I've never forgotten my reaction and I wish I had a copy of it stashed away somewhere but I doubt I do. I eventually took sailing lessons myself and I still remember her reading it out loud at the table ☺️ Strange memory.

[@WixonPrime]

If you can remember her reading it... Then make your own copy of it! of course credit her.

[@FoolishMortal6121]

Plot twist: It was "Come Sail Away" by Styx

[@mercster]

@@FoolishMortal6121 I was thinking Sailing by Christopher Cross.

[@kungfukid4124]

That is a great memory. I’m glad you shared it.

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Physical Education

[@buttervlies]

Man I miss the 90's

[@schoaibhodjat4924]

same even though i was born in the 2000's

[@nerkdurgen5574]

@@schoaibhodjat4924 totally! y'know i miss the shitty internet, fallout of the aids epidemic, the Macarena, hugh grants sexual assault, and Lorena Bobitt. What a fantastic decade.

[@omenlobotomy3874]

@@nerkdurgen5574 dosent sexual assault still happen? It wasn’t just the 90’s lmao

[@rickyleahey9286]

@@nerkdurgen5574 , we didnt need internet pussy, the world was a better place.

[@younhboyvault4913]

Adam Sandler was about 28 or 29 when they made this wow😂😂

[@priyachoudhary9896]

Damn he doesn't look more than 25 here... Kinda like Pete lol

[@LINX29X92]

Right before Billy Madison.

[@Justin_Holland]

"Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can." -Shakespeare

[@PooDotStinkPants]

Hello future person, yes a legend was born. You're right, the channel has come a long way since posting this video. Indeed, people are still watching in *[insert date here]* Have a lovely day!

[@mazzak]

look at Adam Sandlers hands from 4:00 his hands are shaking, it's so weird seeing these guys being nervous.

[@bandedski2550]

Vladimir Ivanov He got fired from SNL though.

[@agnel47]

+Vladimir Ivanov he's a genius, type Adam Sandler conspiracy in the search bar. Believe me you won't regret it.

[@AshishSharma-nm5eo]

Vladimir Ivanov which Tarantino movie??

[@Canizarezqw]

He was asked to play Sgt. Donny Donowitz (a.k.a The Bear Jew) in Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards but was busy filming Funny People

[@C.U.N.Tahiti]

I noticed his shaky hands too but I think he was purposely gesturing his hands that way

[@unclerhyss5506]

sexy mama

[@kwaliw.9353]

I did the exact same thing

[@BabesPCML]

Same haha

[@fluffy_1542]

Me too

[@content6032]

I did the same but this is like 20 videos in...

[@langdonalger9219]

Sandler had a hard time getting out of his chair. Farley was laughing at him.

[@okpluto]

3:54 Saves the book from falling, what a clutch.

[@CeeesS]

Feeling so emotional after listening to Jump 😟😟😟... RIP, Eddie Van Halen🎸🎸🎸

[@juliabenkovic9726]

The ending of the skit was priceless :)

[@swolby9230]

I am so happy to see David.

[@BrookeIsAnEditor]

I've never heard any of these songs before but I still understood the joke. That's how you know the premise was well-executed.

[@paulamiles9559]

Dr S, you need to buy some AC/DC records. You will benefit.

[@toriwisdom8385]

What?! That's crazy!

[@chloetymen2866]

I like how Farley runs out the door fast when the bell ringed lol I’ll never get bored of Adam and Chris is movies and videos 👍

[@hoibsh21]

LOL, I write poetry myself tho it's a lot mellower than what those students wrote. This is a piece called Reflections I. Ahem. Our House Is a very, very, very fine house. With two cats in the yard. Life used to be so hard. Now everything is easy coz of you. Thank you. I'll show myself out.

[@jaolin6042]

Sandler wrecked time - he said the second "jump" before the first.

[@flozajc]

damn they have some really short periods

[@deblinaghosal1163]

ur right......in my school...periods were 40 mins long.......i slept so much at school that i got insomnia at night.....

[@babydoll3906]

Mine are 70 minutes

[@anannonymouscoverartist]

Short...... BUT REALLY REALLY ENTERTAINING, AND INTERRSTING

[@jland12]

My girlfriend's periods usually last 4 days

[@That1GuyMattShortz]

Damn! This is hilarious because the song jump is actually about jumping off a house.

[@drServitis]

RANDY LEFT HIS BOOKS AT HIS DESK WHEN HE LEFT THE CLASS ROOM.

[@luciawalters7339]

Feeling so emotional after listening to Jump 😟😟😟... RIP, Eddie Van Halen🎸🎸🎸

[@BackwoodsFilms]

The first thing that pops into my head when I see that thumbnail is Sandler saying "jump -JUMP!"

[@patatofred9079]

That ending sold this sketch. 😂

[@LadyValdezRNCCRN-df5hj]

I WOULD HAVE TO BEG MY FATHER TO STAY AWAKE AFTER THE NEWS TO WATCH SNL❤😂

[@AlexanderWeurding]

Pure gold humor, thanks!

[@meryemmeryouma]

Hhhhh 5:16 the second teacher who remembers him from scary movie 😂 the one who served the diner and mixt-up the mush-potato with his little hand 😂😂😂😂😂

[@camillesaunders4548]

Naww I love David Hyde Pierce sooooo much!!!

[@alyssajean2327]

Lmao I about died when the teacher said he wanted to refer him to a psychiatrist...😂😂😂

[@roonil3931]

Niles as a poetry teacher

[@Jcentral-gp2hc]

As an AC/DC fan I really like this sketch

[@ezrawilliams21]

Same

[@johnny.V03]

Same I got all of the references

[@sarcasmo57]

Ending was the best part

[@bettyschneider5268]

Ac/Dc and Van Halen! Good old days! Lol 😂 🕺🏃🏻🚶💃🏻🕺👯🗿🗿🗿🗿🤹📝🎸🎷🎺🎻🎹🥁🎶🎵🎼🎶🎵🎼🎶🎵🎼🎧🎤🎬

[@Wwefan33]

Billy passed the third grade, oh what a glorious dayyyyy

[@jeebs621]

David Hyde Pierce is like a mix of Peter Sarsgard and Jude Law hahahaha

[@jeremywrentzel]

Hahaha love this! Every generation of Kids think they are so original and sneaky, like we didn't all try the same shit when we were that age

[@diehardrvdfan22]

If somebody doesn't try to stick in some AC/DC in every generation, then we have truly failed.

[@KairuHakubi]

what isn't the same in every generation is how 90s teens appreciated classic rock from decades back.

[@christoffervogt4622]

Old snl sketches feel like a bunch of kids performing infront of the rest of the school

[@GameyRaccoon]

that's what this sketch is about though

[@memoryhero]

Farley when the bell rings.

[@NickGarcia117]

I submitted “dream girl” by the lonely island when I was a freshman, got an A.

[@luminus3d]

And here i was, writing my own poems and getting C ... *puts clown makeup*

[@matthewwelch4305]

Didn't the Chex Mix parts, "you got 50% less fat than potato chips" give it away???

[@Jet-ok7qm]

Hahahahahhaa. Legend.

[@antisomething4248]

Imagine Chris Farley in frasier

[@rubert134]

Why would anyone imagine that? As far as I know Frasier is straight so would this be some forced inward bound?

[@Thelegend-sh5ci]

@@rubert134 what?

[@pineappleparty1624]

@@Thelegend-sh5ci He said it literally.

[@js2010ish]

Would be amazing

[@christophercowan1645]

I remember we had to write a summary on Rime of the Ancient Mariner in my 11 grade English class. Naturally, I wrote down every memorized word from Iron Maiden and got an A++++ from the 80 year old teacher. He thought I was brilliant! lolol

[@jacktorrance2633]

Nice!

[@wanderingskeleton52]

Up the Irons that is legendary

[@anthonyyjpv5844]

Chris would be one of the legends today if he were still alive 😔 he still is but it’s not the same

[@danbartfield8252]

I love the way Farley bounds out of class when the bell rings

[@blainstutts473]

My buddy and I played Free Bird for an English class assignment our senior year. Everyone had to sing something. He played guitar and we both sang. We were so high from smoking weed and taking Valium that we forgot the lyrics and made them up as we went. The teacher not being familiar with the song, wasn’t the wiser. God I miss being a teenager sometimes. We are 44 years old now and still play music and our kids play as well. Mine is grown and in the army. Man how the years fly by.

[@floragreyson6312]

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[@BenjaminGessel]

😁😁😁😁😁👍👍👍👍👍

[@toolguyslayer1]

See kids the teachers know when you are naughty and when you are doing something stupid 😂

[@sonnycuaresma9765]

Jump jump. Lol

[@DavianSinner]

I wonder what Sandler said at about 2:54 that made Garofalo almost crack up.

[@RedPhoneVideo]

Young David Hyde Pierce and Janeane Garofalo before they became lovers in "Wet Hot American Summer."

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

She is so cute here. Flashforward to I think 2013 and she was a guest on Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk podcast and she was this insane politically driven maniac who wouldn't shut up.

[@Ryan-tn8ph]

@@EmpyreanLightASMR 💀

[@christopherhelton6999]

Jesus, somewhere I have this on an old VHS. I used to tape SNL every week, around '94 to '96.

[@TheSuperman559]

Adam used that character for Billy Madison you can easily see it lol

[@bargaintuesday812]

This was only a couple weeks before Billy Madison came out.

[@elonmusk6654]

Chris Farley and Adam Sandler in Saturday Night Live. Those people had no clue how lucky they were back then. Golden times of SNL.

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

Those were the days.

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

RIP ANGEL 😇

[@mal9310]

Love it. I absolutely love that he knew all about it :D

[@markowalski1]

3:55 Nice catch

[@bernellmartin7218]

I did that my freshman year 93. That's when Danzig re-released Mother. I found the song lyrics in Hit Parader.

[@angelicagonzales2230]

love the end hahaha

[@chahalele]

i like how adam sandlers characters were based of these snl characters of his lol

[@tysonvassar7609]

Omg David Hyde Pierce on SNL is the best

[@GenerativePicture]

Thank you for recommending.

[@reilneid6436]

RIP Chris. Your missed.

[@rosalinaverde2318]

So no one is gunna talk about how that guy just lit a lighter in class and the teacher didn’t even care lol

[@anniebananie7887]

😆😆😆

[@YouOpaOpa]

Well, those were the 90s. I remember a friend of mine doing the exact same thing.

[@rosalinaverde2318]

@J Quan apparently important enough for you to reply. Try being positive for once maybe you’ll be happier lol

[@denverrandy7143]

Genene Garafalo,always had a crush on her back in the grunge days.

[@adiyapremjit3210]

this could be an actual thing when we submit folkore and evermore as poetry in our english classes

[@GRIPPYE7]

"Fire up a DOOBIE" LOL

[@joeyvaillancourt4930]

Rest In Peace Eddie Van Halen💔😪

[@CanadianDestroyerZM]

Anyone here in 2024?

[@GeorgeFleming-p2d]

Yep

[@3shootas-topic]

Me

[@Person.1844]

Me!

[@jaywhitelywastaken]

Me going to oldest 😂

[@torquess454]

Yup a Gen xer watching the good stuff

[@joejamros]

RIP Eddie Van Halen

[@Boss3Nate]

I had a creative writing class my sophomore year of college... we had to do something similar and I didn't really have the time or care to do it so I used some Alice In Chains lyrics from Down in a hole and got a B on the assignment. I knew she would have no clue... hahahaha

[@cgh7337]

Seeing Chris Farley telling Janeane Garofalo to shut up made the skit worth it.

[@johnathancross7465]

So great!!!! Love this dearly.

[@csmith3243]

I did the same thing in 9th grade. Quoting Deftones 😁

[@visisydandthevoid]

No way your teacher was gonna recognize that hu 🤣

[@csmith3243]

@@visisydandthevoid No way in hell she knew who Deftones were 😁

[@turntablesrockmyworld9315]

I found a high school poetry project of mine from the 1980s and for one of the poems I had written lyrics from the punk band, The Exploited I got an A!!

[@FMITB]

I actually did this in high school with a little known Pearl Jam song called Soon Forget

[@gtxhunter1720]

The Whole Set shook when they ran to the door lmao

[@whitetornado603]

Sandler was frikken adorable in those days::)

[@thenightbladefeeds]

Had no clue David Hyde Pierce and Janeane Garofalo worked together before Wet Hot American Summer

[@loveyourself1039]

Me liking 1-6 year old comments 😭

[@BoqPrecision]

Lol

[@bigbhasad9974]

Me responding to your 2 year old comment

[@antlerlens]

@@bigbhasad9974me responding to your 28 minute old comment.

[@Sapphire_Skies281]

Me replying to your 4yro comment.. and liking 10yro+ comments👀

[@Moog-n4h]

I love this skit

[@Nathan_Morelli]

Was he singing "AC/DC Back In Black, You Shook Me All Night Long"?

[@paulamiles9559]

I love the video- Brian Johnson dressed like Andy Capp going to the chip shop.

[@ezrakingsman992]

Reminds me of the movie "Handsome Devil". 👌

[@tavishsikri9747]

For drama class I had to write a poem and I literally translated a hindi song into english and I got a 90

[@kevinwright5106]

We grew up with the most talented snl casts!!

[@atmospheer3812]

1:21 i swear he looks like Charlie damelio here lol

[@matthewnovakoski6203]

Never let anyone break you and your inspiration 💯🏆

[@asteverino8569]

Well done with a twist.. 👍🏻