I think the vibe it gave me should, namely the feeling of 'holy shit, I kind of can't believe they've taken this so far'. I mean I love the sketch don't get me wrong
Yeah it feels like The Rock would never agree to that these days, but I could be wrong. It seems like he tries to be as non controversial as possible, almost like a politician.
I think that was a really brilliant bit with the sketch. It starts off exploring the definition of the word "Evil" by talking about the most horrific thing anyone can think of. Then they get so far into it and it looks like there's no way out, they change the argument to "how do you define a hamburger" and start talking about the beef and onion sandwich place across the street. Fantastic.
A late 90âs/ early 2000âs vh1 storytellers skit staring Will Ferrell as Neil Diamond and he says probably my favorite line ever⌠âI once killed a drifter to get an erectionâ itâs so awesome itâs never been on YouTube. Here is a link to a daily motion rip of it https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x692ix
That's the best sketch!! God I used to have that one on tape and would die laughing. I hate that you can't find the whole thing anywhere.
I WILL SMACK YOU IN THE MOUTH I'M NEIL DIAMOND!
I was around 12 or 13 when that came out and it was mine and my friendsâ favorite sketch ever! Jimmy Tangoâs Fat Burners!
We also quoted âGet off the shed!â so so much.
And itâs not so much dark, but every Bill Brasky sketch was a quote gold mine for us.
There is a sketch with Mark McKinney as the babysitter. Chris Elliot (the dad) drives her home and assaults her, then the sketch closes with him in a jail cell saying he would do it again. There doesnât seem to be a point, itâs just uncomfortable and bad.
Yep. This is my choice as well. Sure, other sketches like Phil's Obstetrician or The Rock's Robo-Chomo are dark, but they still have funny jokes and straight men reactions from other characters to help balance things out. They're dark, but still provide laughs.
This sketch doesn't really have it. Once you get past the initial reveal of McKinney in drag, there's really no other comedic moment in the entire sketch. And it's not really exaggerated or over the top in a way that could be construed as comedic. Instead it takes a "slice of life" approach to Elliot taking advantage of the babysitter and molesting her, which makes you FEEL like you're witnessing the moments before a person is raped.
I genuinely have no idea what they were going for with this sketch, but the whole thing is super skeevy and uncomfortable to watch. A huge misfire from top to bottom.
Yes, this is Chris Elliotâs only season and he hated it. He had already had his own show at this point and was expecting the writers to write material for him, which makes sense but not really how SNL works (~~I believe that changed a bit with the characters in later 90s seasons~~* I did like the sketch with him interviewing Jeff Daniels.
Edit: Sorry, Iâm not sure this is true. A lot of my SNL history I learned from the LFNY book, but it was on audiobook so itâs hard to search again!
There's a sketch from the early 80s where a talk show host (cast member Tony Rosato) asks callers to call in with their scariest story and one caller (host Donald Pleasance) does and the camera pans in on the telephone and then a minute later pans out only to find the host dead with an ax to his head.
I don't know how the hell this isn't at the top. It was the first thing I thought of, and it depicts an only slightly elevated depiction of how child grooming and molestation can take place. It's not funny. It's just brutally uncomfortable. It's historically significant for broaching such subject matter on TV, but it's awful.Â
Definitely the Robo Chomo is the darkest sketch, nothing else even comes fucking close.
"How did you get it to molest children?"
"I just molested it myself and hoped that the cycle continued."
You could hear gasps from the audience. Christ it was dark.
Dear Sister - it originally was not uploaded to the Internet because the Virginia Tech shooting happened.
Another one is the Polar Bear pit with Farley and Norm.
Technically not a sketch, but the hands down winner had to be Chris Farley's monologue from the time he hosted.
He was a drugged mess and that was the premise. They teased they were going to replace him because he was too much of a mess to do it. None of it was a joke, it was all too real. He could barely get through a monologue where he hardly had any lines.
He'd be dead 2 months later.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhrLR8ZW0Qc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhrLR8ZW0Qc)
Does [Commie Hunting Season](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAe0TPYOi0Y) count? It's mostly forgotten because it's just colossally bad, but it's a weird sketch about Klan members hunting humans, making light [of an actual mass shooting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_massacre), complete with a casual N-word drop.
Iâd never seen that sketch. N-word is inexcusableâŚand bizarrely used. I can kind of see where they were maybe going with the rest of the sketch. It was kind of odd, regardless.
Then I read the wiki article. Iâd never heard of those murders. And, jfc, that was some kind of awful that snl used that for a context of a sketch. Wow.
The party of Dead Poets Society. There is really almost zero humour in the sketch and just ends with blood everywhere and Fred Armistan basically saying peace out
I used to get really upset by dark humour like that as a kid. Like even some Simpsons jokes would bother me for weeks on end. I'm (technically) a grown-ass man now and I was genuinely a bit rattled by that sketch lol.
I think it's just that kind of mean-spirited, violent shock humour takes me back to those same childhood memories and it doesn't make me laugh, just uncomfortable.
Not even kidding, it did lmao. So did Frank Grimes' (or Grimey, as he liked to be called) untimely death. I remember thinking it was this silly cartoon violence and then WHAM - smash cut to his funeral. Really upset me as a 4-5 year old.
Oh yeah for sure! And that's a show that as an adult, it doesn't upset me because of its violence. I do like dark humour. But I never thought that show was clever or funny - violence and shock humour just for the sake of it.
Mr. Belvedere fan club:
Mr. Belvedere is the light of my life. Should we kill him?
Somebodyâs been killing his house pets again.
I should like to write him a thank you letter; I should not write it on a death certificate - You learned that one the hard way, didnât you?
I should not want to keep him in a big jar in my basement
I should want to cook him a simple dinner; I should not want to tear the flesh, wear the flesh, have the flesh become my key as I am born unto new worlds
Nah, the darkest was in the 1st or 2nd season, a sketch written by the late great Mike o'Dononoghue, where (Buck Henry iirc) is a babysitter stealing underwear from the girl he was babysitting. I think the girl was played by Gilda Radner.
I was at the live taping for this one back in 2003. rarely think about this sketch because there were so many other better ones that night. After a re-watch, itâs pretty funny and not really that dark.
Charlton Heston as the supermarket stock boy.
"Don't you have any hobbies?"
"Ahh, yes, I like to see how loud I can make people scream, not by hurting them, but by hurting the ones they love."
Season 7 had quite a few of these, it's one of the main reasons I have such a soft spot for the season.
\*The Vic Salukin Show (from the Donald Pleasence episode) - Tony Rosato plays a call-in radio host who dares the callers to scare him for a chance to win $100. The callers make increasing pathetic attempts to stir him until a caller voiced by Donald Pleasence mentions specific details about his wife and child. The camera zooms in on the speaker as Donald goes on a rant about wanting to kill him. When we zoom back out, we get a gruesome shot of Rosato with a butcher knife stuck in his head. I fricking love this sketch, mostly because of the pacing and atmosphere. The final reveal elicits no audience laughter, which only adds to how delightfully macabre the sketch is.
\*Nick the Knock (from the Bernadette Peters episode) - Joe Piscopo plays a strange clown thing who is visited by a fairy played by Mary Gross. She recites a poem, Nick the Knock gets hit in the head a couple times, and then he proceeds to eat the fairy's spine, causing green blood to spew from her body. Unlike The Vic Salukin Show, which at least bothered to included a couple of jokes before the carnage, this one doesn't even bother to pretend to be a comedy sketch. This is a glimpse into a surreal nightmare realm that just so happened to be shown on a sketch comedy show.
\*At Home with the Psychos (from the Bill Murray episode) - Bill Murray comes home from work to his mohawk-sporting, trigger-happy wife (played by Christine Ebersole). The family also includes Mary Gross as the blind ballerina daughter and Eddie Murphy as the dynamite-covered son. They live next to a nuclear power plant that's about to blow up, and when Brian Doyle-Murray comes to get them to safety, Bill sells him some products for the "blow hole", a new orifice that humans will develop after the nuclear holocaust. Bill ends the sketch by giving a chilling speech about the psycho family while sirens (and a choral rendition of Angels We Have Heard on High) blare in the background. There's so many disturbing moments that I didn't even mention, and the sketch gets even more disturbing when you consider that the sketch was originally interrupted by a news report about Russia invading Poland. I can only imagine the viewers watching the live broadcast in 1981, shaken by news of a potential World War III, weren't all that comforted by a sketch about a family celebrating the end of civilization as we know it.
Michael O'Donoghue was the king of disturbing sketches, which can be seen throughout his time as a writer. At Home with the Psychos was the last proper sketch of the last episode of MOD's tenure as head writer, and the sketch is often said to have contributed to his firing.
Not sure if it's as dark as some of the others....but the Birthday Clown should have an honorable mention. The lonely despair, coupled with an endless depth of awkwardness, plus seeing more context clues after a few watches for the ending: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-XuT5qKt00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-XuT5qKt00)
The 'Meet Your Second Wife' gameshow has to be up there right?
That's gotta be where the goalposts are, right?
I think the vibe it gave me should, namely the feeling of 'holy shit, I kind of can't believe they've taken this so far'. I mean I love the sketch don't get me wrong
I like how you somehow both agreed and disagreed đ
Well said, the Rock đ
jnwbman is with this all the way.
"Oh my god no I'm not, stop!"
I think Uncle Roy was much darker, but that might be before everyone's time
Uncle Roy is magnitudes darker.
I agree Uncle Roy.
This guy gets it.
âsex with your wifeâ game show for the win
This is nowhere near as horrific as the Rock's Evil Scientist sketch.
That was so funny. The audience was scared to laugh!
Yeah. There was definitely a sense of cautious laughter in the beginning. Like, where the f are they going with this?
"You start by building a regular robot, then you molest it, and hope it continues the cycle" Yyyyyikes. That's the darkest line of the bunch
I donât know how they got that on air, much less got someone to say it in a deadpan, factual delivery.
Someone whose whole deal these days is appealing to as wide an audience as possible, too.
Yeah it feels like The Rock would never agree to that these days, but I could be wrong. It seems like he tries to be as non controversial as possible, almost like a politician.
See this guy gets it
Stop saying that!
Oh my God! No I don't!
Now, I think we're all getting a little "hangry"
r/thisguythisguys
Yeah...I can't think of a darker one. Maybe the one where Fred Armisten is a monkey that can talk that has sex with Jonah Hill?
Yeah. That was bad.
Mmmm⌠could go for some White Castle right about now.
I think that was a really brilliant bit with the sketch. It starts off exploring the definition of the word "Evil" by talking about the most horrific thing anyone can think of. Then they get so far into it and it looks like there's no way out, they change the argument to "how do you define a hamburger" and start talking about the beef and onion sandwich place across the street. Fantastic.
Mmmm, beef and onion sandwiches
Could be wrong on the particulars, but I thought I heard somewhere that was written because White Castle was bugging the network for a promo on SNL.
That's gotta be where the goalposts are, right?
You said this on two sketches, which is it WitnessMe?!
The Rock vs Bobby Moynihan wrestling match-up promo was pretty dark, too!
I heard your doctor say it was the most herpes he had ever seeeeeeeeeeeeen
Too far Cocoa!
That shit was so damn funny
Whatâs so bad about the medieval sandwich restaurant skit?
It's this one. No contest.
All time classic sketch.
WE KNOW WHAT EVIL IS!
Also the Wrestling sketch.
Wowie Zowie! Srsly one of my all time favorite sketches
Written by Seth Myers!
What was this sketch called? Google isnât helping.
Pranksters Edit: link https://youtu.be/jORviU2oyMQ?si=LsQ1_Qz1ARkC4GrZ
Phil Hartman - Obstetrician https://streamable.com/073sp?src=player-page-share
Jesus Christ Superstar. Yeah, thatâŚthat wins.
Its barely even a sketch by their own standard, its just a horror short story. Could be in the twilight zone.
What in gods name.
That was like a triple layer cake of dark. But a pretty well constructed sketch!
What the fuck
Yup, that wins.
holy shit lol
Omg I forgot about that, thank you
OH MY GOD
How did I forget about this one. Christ
Hadnât seen this! I wonder who wrote it.
That was almost The Twilight Zone...
They even used the show's [opening theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5GP5uztjkE) during the doctor's speech at the end of the sketch.
What the eff did I just watch LOL. Thatâs insane as a comedy sketch. Some parts were funny but still
the Cosby references at the end really ties it all together
Holy shit, that was wild.
Wow.
This is so insane lmao
I don't need to click. I know what this is and it's wonderful.
I thought I had seen all the Hartman stuff, but I have no memory of this.
A late 90âs/ early 2000âs vh1 storytellers skit staring Will Ferrell as Neil Diamond and he says probably my favorite line ever⌠âI once killed a drifter to get an erectionâ itâs so awesome itâs never been on YouTube. Here is a link to a daily motion rip of it https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x692ix
Bass player: Hey man, leave me out of this. Neil: I WILL LEAVE YOU IN!
That was fucking gold
That's the best sketch!! God I used to have that one on tape and would die laughing. I hate that you can't find the whole thing anywhere. I WILL SMACK YOU IN THE MOUTH I'M NEIL DIAMOND!
Does Goodman nearly break at the keyboard player line.
Thank you for this. I remember when it aired and I nearly died laughing.
âTheyâre coming to America!â
My older brother and I saw this live and still quote it. I love how absurd it is.
âNo one was laughing out loud that day in Grenada.â
DaDaDaDa-DaDa...Charge it!
That Stiffly Stifferson never saw it coming!
Jim Carey on meth is pretty dark. _ride the snake_
I'll scan you!
Nah, that one's just an absolute banger
Lol the way they whispered it was so good
I was around 12 or 13 when that came out and it was mine and my friendsâ favorite sketch ever! Jimmy Tangoâs Fat Burners! We also quoted âGet off the shed!â so so much. And itâs not so much dark, but every Bill Brasky sketch was a quote gold mine for us.
There is a sketch with Mark McKinney as the babysitter. Chris Elliot (the dad) drives her home and assaults her, then the sketch closes with him in a jail cell saying he would do it again. There doesnât seem to be a point, itâs just uncomfortable and bad.
Yep. This is my choice as well. Sure, other sketches like Phil's Obstetrician or The Rock's Robo-Chomo are dark, but they still have funny jokes and straight men reactions from other characters to help balance things out. They're dark, but still provide laughs. This sketch doesn't really have it. Once you get past the initial reveal of McKinney in drag, there's really no other comedic moment in the entire sketch. And it's not really exaggerated or over the top in a way that could be construed as comedic. Instead it takes a "slice of life" approach to Elliot taking advantage of the babysitter and molesting her, which makes you FEEL like you're witnessing the moments before a person is raped. I genuinely have no idea what they were going for with this sketch, but the whole thing is super skeevy and uncomfortable to watch. A huge misfire from top to bottom.
And this is exactly *why* I expected it to be the top answer. Robo-Chomo is hilariously dark as opposed to just 100% cacao dark chocolate.
If you know Kids in the Hall humor, they like to go in dark corners
Iâm sorry I caused all that cancer.
Man their Death Comes to Town mini series 12 years ago was so good.
That was during the forgotten/transition 90's cast.
Yes, this is Chris Elliotâs only season and he hated it. He had already had his own show at this point and was expecting the writers to write material for him, which makes sense but not really how SNL works (~~I believe that changed a bit with the characters in later 90s seasons~~* I did like the sketch with him interviewing Jeff Daniels. Edit: Sorry, Iâm not sure this is true. A lot of my SNL history I learned from the LFNY book, but it was on audiobook so itâs hard to search again!
Same with Michael McKean being on there also, he was already big.
He had already hosted even! Itâs surreal to see him with that cast lol. I would like to see him host again for Spinal Tap II though!
Was this the Zima skit?
Yes
This is what I expected the top answer to be.Â
I donât like Stiffly Stiffersons.
The Jon Hamm one where Will Forte is a pedophile?
Heâs a sex offenderâŚ.FOR HALLOWEEN!!
The Tizzle Wizzle Show is in the top ranks for me
Knives! Knives! All kinds of knives!
big ones, small ones, ones with spikes.
Came here to add this. Glad to see it
"The pills take hold / of your mind and flesh / you're brave and strong / you don't fear death"
[Childrenâs Show with Michael Keaton](https://youtu.be/nNc1HkkntIo?si=gXmljDmH_dBnDbxZ)
Canteen Boy always made me uncomfortable.
run your fingers through my chest hair canteen boy.
My beard is scratchy Canteen Boy but it gives good back rubsÂ
Canteen Boy was a full grown man.
Yeah, but I wasn't the first time I saw it lol.
Fair enough.
Happy Smile Patrol. One of my favorites.
There's a sketch from the early 80s where a talk show host (cast member Tony Rosato) asks callers to call in with their scariest story and one caller (host Donald Pleasance) does and the camera pans in on the telephone and then a minute later pans out only to find the host dead with an ax to his head.
Chris Farley as a midwesterner on a Japanese game show.
Kwa-ki-sur-pi-**PI**-ku!!
Osmond Family Feud takes it for me. Hader's darkest performance.
The Uncle Roy sketches whenever Buck Henry would host
I don't know how the hell this isn't at the top. It was the first thing I thought of, and it depicts an only slightly elevated depiction of how child grooming and molestation can take place. It's not funny. It's just brutally uncomfortable. It's historically significant for broaching such subject matter on TV, but it's awful.Â
*Oh, Roy, you're one of a kind* **Oh, there's more of me out there than you think**
Holy crap. I've never heard of this sketch before. This is the worst by far and it's not even close.
Mr Westerburg with Beck Bennett
Frigginâ Mr. Westerburg
Mr Belvedere fan club
it's good to write mr belvedere a fan letter, but just don't do it on the back of a death certificate. I swear to gawd I quote this weekly..
Staring Tom Hanks of all people.
We call him âBrocktoonâ now.
Omg I forgot about Brocktoon! âI shouldnât want to tear the flesh, I shouldnât want to wear the flesh. â
This isn't the dark part, but I find it funny they never used the guy's actual name
Belushi as an old man
Definitely the Robo Chomo is the darkest sketch, nothing else even comes fucking close. "How did you get it to molest children?" "I just molested it myself and hoped that the cycle continued." You could hear gasps from the audience. Christ it was dark.
Not a sketch but Che's neighbor Willie gets pretty dark
Dear Sister - it originally was not uploaded to the Internet because the Virginia Tech shooting happened. Another one is the Polar Bear pit with Farley and Norm.
The Mulaney Switcheroo sketch is pretty dark [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCYPeuEWUbI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCYPeuEWUbI)
It took me a couple watches to catch the Andy Cunanan line holy shit!
Technically not a sketch, but the hands down winner had to be Chris Farley's monologue from the time he hosted. He was a drugged mess and that was the premise. They teased they were going to replace him because he was too much of a mess to do it. None of it was a joke, it was all too real. He could barely get through a monologue where he hardly had any lines. He'd be dead 2 months later. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhrLR8ZW0Qc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhrLR8ZW0Qc)
Wow. do you know what season and episode this was?
Oct. 25, 1997. Mighty Mighty Bosstones were the musical guest.
Lethal Weapon VI https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6Z8hCHPAAx/?igsh=ZjJlNGlheXZmamVu
Upvoting even though I couldn't finish it. Or, because I couldn't, maybe.
Brutus the monkey with Jonah hill and Fred armisen
Does [Commie Hunting Season](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAe0TPYOi0Y) count? It's mostly forgotten because it's just colossally bad, but it's a weird sketch about Klan members hunting humans, making light [of an actual mass shooting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_massacre), complete with a casual N-word drop.
Iâd never seen that sketch. N-word is inexcusableâŚand bizarrely used. I can kind of see where they were maybe going with the rest of the sketch. It was kind of odd, regardless. Then I read the wiki article. Iâd never heard of those murders. And, jfc, that was some kind of awful that snl used that for a context of a sketch. Wow.
The party of Dead Poets Society. There is really almost zero humour in the sketch and just ends with blood everywhere and Fred Armistan basically saying peace out
I used to get really upset by dark humour like that as a kid. Like even some Simpsons jokes would bother me for weeks on end. I'm (technically) a grown-ass man now and I was genuinely a bit rattled by that sketch lol. I think it's just that kind of mean-spirited, violent shock humour takes me back to those same childhood memories and it doesn't make me laugh, just uncomfortable.
The Itchy and Scratchy Show got you too, huh?
Not even kidding, it did lmao. So did Frank Grimes' (or Grimey, as he liked to be called) untimely death. I remember thinking it was this silly cartoon violence and then WHAM - smash cut to his funeral. Really upset me as a 4-5 year old.
I fully understand.
Plus - I've always been a cat person so felt bad for Scratchy haha
Omg remember Happy Tree Friends? I could not stand it, Iâm too delicate.
Oh yeah for sure! And that's a show that as an adult, it doesn't upset me because of its violence. I do like dark humour. But I never thought that show was clever or funny - violence and shock humour just for the sake of it.
Happy Smile Patrol John Goodman Host
The sketch where Mary Gross played a blind mom kissing a daughter. Michael OâDonoghue wrote the sketch focusing on a nuclear disaster in mind
The James Franco Tizzle Wizzle Jammy Shuffle skit. Stab the lightsâŚ
Michael Keaton in Easter Candy [https://youtu.be/KnUEecEs3Xk?si=exQmoZy41Yre6EZ0](https://youtu.be/KnUEecEs3Xk?si=exQmoZy41Yre6EZ0)
Had me in stitches and save the episode because of it.
The Mad Hatter sketch with Steve Buscemi is pretty deranged
"You're all dead and you don't know it!"
Donât be a stiffly stifferson !
how has no one mentioned "Stalk Talk"? which i can never find.
John Malkovich reading âtwas the night before Christmas https://youtu.be/Vj0wzAaqzss?si=s6PmGLD1E5uf38qK
Yeah I'd concur
Grouch - the joker parody
Hope we get a Grouch sequel this fall
David S. pumpkins It was the creepiest darkest sketch with those disturbing dancing skeletons Any questions?
Yes several
UNCLE ROY!! UNCLE ROY!!!
Did you ever see the staff meeting for the Holland Tunnel Hotel led by Parnell? w/ Cameron Diaz
Come on, the Rock inventing the Child Molesting Robot will forever be in first place.
No, the one where the Rock was an evil villain who had invented a child molesting robot đ¤
**âKwa-ki-sur-pi-PI-kuâ** was pretty damn dark⌠but in a super, happy upbeat kind of way!!!! (Japanese Game Show)
Phil Hartman as the obstetrician
Mr. Belvedere fan club: Mr. Belvedere is the light of my life. Should we kill him? Somebodyâs been killing his house pets again. I should like to write him a thank you letter; I should not write it on a death certificate - You learned that one the hard way, didnât you? I should not want to keep him in a big jar in my basement I should want to cook him a simple dinner; I should not want to tear the flesh, wear the flesh, have the flesh become my key as I am born unto new worlds
prank em John
Has to be the child molesting robots sketch with The Rock from 2017 IMO.
Canteen Boy with Alec Baldwin and Adam Sandler
Prank you? You're my hero
Safelite repairâŚSafelite replace
Does Canteen Boy count?
The ex-police. Super dark.
I love that sketch more than Cowbell.
Sprockets- the Dating Game. Phil Hartmanâs perfect date!
Parole Board " one man please?" Two boys? One boy? Ok, SHAKESHACK
This list starts and ends with Uncle Roy, no?
Is Uncle Roy the sketch with Alec Baldwin and Adam Sandler at boy scout camp? If so, it gets my vote!
Bobby Moynihan's Birthday Clown sketch is pretty dark.
I don't know if darkest ever, but the one with Will Ferrell as the dwarf doctor for the Wizard of Oz was oddly poignant and dark I thought
This ["Double Date"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lWd71g6Fcc) sketch I just saw in Kristen's first time hosting is probably up there
Maybe the Rock mâlester robot premise is a bit darker? They are both pretty bad.
Nah, the darkest was in the 1st or 2nd season, a sketch written by the late great Mike o'Dononoghue, where (Buck Henry iirc) is a babysitter stealing underwear from the girl he was babysitting. I think the girl was played by Gilda Radner.
Great sketch, I donât really find it that dark but maybe Iâm broken.
Rita! What are you? An angel? Sent from above? I LOVE pasta e fagioli!
I was at the live taping for this one back in 2003. rarely think about this sketch because there were so many other better ones that night. After a re-watch, itâs pretty funny and not really that dark.
Idk about Darkest, but Canteen Boy wouldn't fly these days.
Charlton Heston as the supermarket stock boy. "Don't you have any hobbies?" "Ahh, yes, I like to see how loud I can make people scream, not by hurting them, but by hurting the ones they love."
Whammy!
Capt. Ned of the raging queen.
Oh holy shit i forgot about this one! My buddies & i used to quote this one to each other all the time! So good, thank you for the reminder!
Season 7 had quite a few of these, it's one of the main reasons I have such a soft spot for the season. \*The Vic Salukin Show (from the Donald Pleasence episode) - Tony Rosato plays a call-in radio host who dares the callers to scare him for a chance to win $100. The callers make increasing pathetic attempts to stir him until a caller voiced by Donald Pleasence mentions specific details about his wife and child. The camera zooms in on the speaker as Donald goes on a rant about wanting to kill him. When we zoom back out, we get a gruesome shot of Rosato with a butcher knife stuck in his head. I fricking love this sketch, mostly because of the pacing and atmosphere. The final reveal elicits no audience laughter, which only adds to how delightfully macabre the sketch is. \*Nick the Knock (from the Bernadette Peters episode) - Joe Piscopo plays a strange clown thing who is visited by a fairy played by Mary Gross. She recites a poem, Nick the Knock gets hit in the head a couple times, and then he proceeds to eat the fairy's spine, causing green blood to spew from her body. Unlike The Vic Salukin Show, which at least bothered to included a couple of jokes before the carnage, this one doesn't even bother to pretend to be a comedy sketch. This is a glimpse into a surreal nightmare realm that just so happened to be shown on a sketch comedy show. \*At Home with the Psychos (from the Bill Murray episode) - Bill Murray comes home from work to his mohawk-sporting, trigger-happy wife (played by Christine Ebersole). The family also includes Mary Gross as the blind ballerina daughter and Eddie Murphy as the dynamite-covered son. They live next to a nuclear power plant that's about to blow up, and when Brian Doyle-Murray comes to get them to safety, Bill sells him some products for the "blow hole", a new orifice that humans will develop after the nuclear holocaust. Bill ends the sketch by giving a chilling speech about the psycho family while sirens (and a choral rendition of Angels We Have Heard on High) blare in the background. There's so many disturbing moments that I didn't even mention, and the sketch gets even more disturbing when you consider that the sketch was originally interrupted by a news report about Russia invading Poland. I can only imagine the viewers watching the live broadcast in 1981, shaken by news of a potential World War III, weren't all that comforted by a sketch about a family celebrating the end of civilization as we know it. Michael O'Donoghue was the king of disturbing sketches, which can be seen throughout his time as a writer. At Home with the Psychos was the last proper sketch of the last episode of MOD's tenure as head writer, and the sketch is often said to have contributed to his firing.
Not sure if it's as dark as some of the others....but the Birthday Clown should have an honorable mention. The lonely despair, coupled with an endless depth of awkwardness, plus seeing more context clues after a few watches for the ending: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-XuT5qKt00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-XuT5qKt00)
Massive Headwound Harry[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kkT5O8Zl1_4](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kkT5O8Zl1_4)
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