Just the idea of sharks getting smart enough to realize that all the food is on land, and knocking on doors, announcing what they are, and people letting them in! This is of course a straight up parody of Jaws, which came out in 1975, and was one of the biggest movies of the 70s. This skit still makes me laugh uncontrollably to this day. Watch Chevy Chase’s perfectly calm reaction to being confronted with two angry, fighting, samurai.
This is probably hella racist, but in my defense I was about 14 at the time, and this is very clearly a parody of Toshiro Mifune’s character from Seven Samurai, rather than a critique of Japanese culture in general. I didn’t know who John Belushi was, and I’d never really watched the show that closely, but this one just caught me up, and I was thoroughly tickled. This is one of the first skits I remember seeing. Samurai Delicatessen and Hotel /John Belushi I tried not to pick the classics that everyone else picks, but the ones that especially resonated with my childlike silliness. There are definitely more, but I’m limiting this to ten, or we’d be reading all day, because ideally, I could do the top ten of each season, or even each decade. SNL is well over thirty years old now, and its really hard to pick the best ten skits, so I’m just going to stick with my ten favorites. I would stay up late at night, when I wasn’t supposed to be up, just to watch my favorite comedians.
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