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* [[Comically Small Bribe]]: In one early episode, Lorne Michaels came on to offer [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] a check for $3,000 to reunite on the show. Lennon and McCartney, who both happened to be in New York that night and saw the bit on TV, nearly went down to the studio for a surprise visit.
** Later sketches featured both McCartney and Harrison, when appearing as solo acts, trying to claim part of the money.
* [[Con Crew]]: ''SNL'' did a series of sketches (later repackaged as a [[Super Bowl Special|Superbowl ad]]) starring "[[MacGruber]]," a crappy ''[[MacGyver]]'' knockoff who was too busy singing the praises of his corporate sponsor Pepsi to defuse the assorted time bombs he was presented with.
* [[Cuckoolander Commentator]]: Harry Carey
* [[Cue Card Pause]]: Prevalent in the "[[Jimmy Fallon]] cracking up" era. Not so much now, unless you count the many times that a newbie host has trouble with his or her lines.
* [[Cut Himself Shaving]]: The "Tiger Woods Press Conference" sketch on the Blake Lively/Rihanna episode where every time Woods (Kenan Thompson) apologized for his affairs, something he said or something that happened (like his cell phone ringing or saying that [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|he can "get rid of this old thing and get a new model"]] ([[Don't Explain the Joke|referring to his damaged car, not his wife]]) would get him beaten by his wife, Elin (Blake Lively) and he would explain away the injuries as an accident (Woods even uses the old excuse that he "fell down the stairs").
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* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: Mr. Sluggo.
* [[Wild Card Excuse]]: The Coneheads handwave their weirdness by claiming to be from France.
* [[Word Association Test]]: The seventh episode of Season 1, hosted by [[Richard Pryor]], had a sketch in which a prospective black employee (Pryor) is interviewed by a white boss (Chevy Chase). Everything goes normally until partway through the test, when Chase breaks out the black racial epithets. Pryor counters with white racial epithets until Chase uses the N-word and Pryor calls him a "'''dead honky'''". {{spoiler|(In the end, Pryor's character gets the job.)}} It should be noted that this sketch was cited (by Tina Fey, on a Season 31 episode that aired on the same day Richard Pryor died) as the sketch that solidified ''SNL''{{'}}s reputation as the "edgy, outrageous late-night sketch show".
* [[The Worst Seat in the House]]: There was a sketch on an episode hosted by Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees where Jeter in drag and the women of ''SNL'' played the wives and girlfriends of the players...and sat in the nosebleed seats.
** Another sketch from the early 1990s had four friends attending a Van Morrison concert, with one of the characters being stuck behind the one person in the crowd who would rather stand out of her seat and dance, thus blocking the character's view of the stage. After several failed attempts at trying to look around the woman and asking her politely to sit, the character admits defeat and decides to be content with having to miss seeing most of the concert. The segment ends with another song beginning and ''everyone'' in the audience getting up from their seat to enjoy the music.
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