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3/26/2011 10:47 pm
artie_fufkin wrote:
"that parody by John Belushi in the 70's?"
Not one of my favorite sketches. I had the same problem with early SNL Belushi as I have with some Python sketches - the joke gets belabored sometimes. The Spanish Inquisition is a funny sketch, but it takes them a little too long to get through the "amongst our weapons ..." part at the beginning. Now if Belushi had just shown up dressed as Liz, said "I'm going on a strict diet; nothing but fried chicken ..." and choked on the chicken bone within the first 10 seconds, that would have been funnier.
I haven't seen the skit in a long time, but i think that the the mere sight of belushi in drag playing liz taylor was enough for a good solid minute of laughter at the sheer irreverence of it. in the mid-tolate 70's liz taylor was pretty much at the peak of her tabloid socialite marketability. choking on the chicken bone and giving himself the heimlich maneuver (and spitting the chicken out at the camera) were the equivalent of the punch line to end the skit.
3/26/2011 10:43 pm
"btw, when did she become a Jew?"
I presume when she wed Eddie Fisher. It's apparently OK to steal your dead husband's married best friend as long as you convert.
I don't get it. When you convert to marry, and then outlive your spouse, isn't reconversion to the original religion just assumed???
3/25/2011 6:58 pm
I've been advised Mike Todd was also Jewish.
3/25/2011 3:17 pm
"btw, when did she become a Jew?"
I presume when she wed Eddie Fisher. It's apparently OK to steal your dead husband's married best friend as long as you convert.
3/25/2011 3:15 pm
"that parody by John Belushi in the 70's?"
Not one of my favorite sketches. I had the same problem with early SNL Belushi as I have with some Python sketches - the joke gets belabored sometimes. The Spanish Inquisition is a funny sketch, but it takes them a little too long to get through the "amongst our weapons ..." part at the beginning. Now if Belushi had just shown up dressed as Liz, said "I'm going on a strict diet; nothing but fried chicken ..." and choked on the chicken bone within the first 10 seconds, that would have been funnier.
3/24/2011 9:42 pm
"Who would have thought in the '80s that she was going to out-live Michael Jackson?"
or even survive that parody by John Belushi in the 70's?
btw, when did she become a Jew?
3/23/2011 11:10 am
Who would have thought in the '80s that she was going to out-live Michael Jackson?