Saturday Night Live: Difference between revisions

* [[Sketch Comedy]]: Not the first of its kind, but definitely one of the most popular.

* [[The Teaser]]: The cold opening. Usually, it's a political sketch (like a fictitious message from the President of the United States [or any government official] or a clip from a Congressional meeting or press conference as seen on such cable news channels as C-SPAN, CNN, MSNBC, or Fox News), but there have been cold openings where it shows the cast backstage before the show (often with Lorne Michaels appearing as himself), cold openings featuring recurring characters, recurring sketches as cold openings, or one-off sketches about a current event.

* [[Turn Your Head and Cough]]: One skit involved a doctor performing this test on a male patient, asking him to cough over and over again. Another doctor soon enters the picture and both continue to perform this one part of the exam over and over. Then, a third doctor enters not recognizing the other two doctors already in the room, revealing the first two doctors to be impostors who just like to sneak into examination rooms and feel people's balls.

* [[You Might Remember Me From]]: Almost all hosts who are actors will take a moment to name-drop their latest film or television show, just to give context to the folks at home struggling to recall whether they should recognize the person. A few hosts have cleverly subverted this, like James Franco completely making up the name of a movie just to see if people would applaud, or Scarlett Johannson plugging ''Due Date'' not because she was in it, but just because she was excited about it.

* [[The Ahnold]]: Hanz and Franz, Arnold Schwarzenegger's less-famous cousins. The real deal appeared in one of their sketches.

* [[Alien Among Us]]: "The [[Coneheads]]". Also, Bill Hader's Greg in "Game Time with Randy and Greg".

* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: "It's Pat".

* [[Amusing Alien|Amusing Aliens]]: "The [[Coneheads]]", again.

** Now [[Defictionalization|Defictionalized]], pop [https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/09/07/140266537/yes-its-true-ben-jerrys-introduces-schweddy-balls-ice-cream-flavor?sc=emaf Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls] in your mouth any time you like!

* [[Drop the Cow]]: Zigzagged. Some seasons (and episodes within seasons) will have overly long sketches; others will have sketches that know when to stop.

* [[The Eeyore]]: Rachel Dratch's "Debbie Downer".

* [[Emergency Presidential Address]]: ''Saturday Night Live'' routinely parodies [[Real Life]] Emergency Presidential Addresses of this type. Often the skit will be at the beginning of the episode, and end with the leader in question declaring "Live from New York, it's Saturday night!"

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: [[Sean Connery]] in the ''[[Jeopardy!|Celebrity Jeopardy!]]'' sketches at first appears to be just as mind-numbingly idiotic as all the other contestants, but over time it becomes clear that he's actually quite smart - he just ''pretends'' to be stupid in order to annoy Trebek.

* [[Oh Crap]]: While Alex Trebek feels this way every time Sean Connery buzzes in, he gets a big one when the producers decide to play along with Sean's shtick for one Final Jeopardy round...

'''Sean Connery''': Hahahaha! My day has come! Ahahahahahaha!}}

* [[Overly Long Gag]]: "It's Pat", the whole point of which was [[The Un-Reveal]] as to which gender Pat was. Turned [[Up to Eleven]] when the sketch got a ''film adaptation'' that did pretty much the same thing. {{spoiler|(Can we just say Pat's a very confused bisexual?)}}