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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. |
* [[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. |
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** Later sketches featured both McCartney and Harrison, when appearing as solo acts, trying to claim part of the money. |
** Later sketches featured both McCartney and Harrison, when appearing as solo acts, trying to claim part of the money. |
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* [[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. |
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* [[Cuckoolander Commentator]]: Harry Carey |
* [[Cuckoolander Commentator]]: Harry Carey and Greg Stink. |
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* [[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. |
* [[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. |
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* [[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"). |
* [[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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