I think this was when Conan O'Brien and Bob Odenkirk were writing most of these. It's rare to see comedians crack up more than the audience.

Oh.. actually this was way after Odenkirk left SNL! Well, kudos to some guy.

It didn't kill them so much as slip them some Quaaludes and snazzle them in the kazazzle flurfenurfr.

They sorta did this sketch twice, spoofing the Cosby "You Bet Your Life" remake, with the same weird Adam Sandler impression. The audience was not really digging it that time, either.

Other topics were how Sandler was kind of blatantly trying to break character, but his laughing seemed fake, and also the use of "Boogie, Stop, Shuffle" which the jazz band had played two years ago at competition, and had then become part of the band's regular book.

Sandler was the proto-Fallon in so many ways!

That's probably why it's buried pretty deep, but I ask with all seriousness is this considered Blackface in the same way as Jolson or any of that Old Man River stuff? Sandler doesn't appear to be wearing any darkening makeup (if anything it's the same makeup as the Cajun Boy sketches); it's just an impersonation of a guy that he did pretty well, though it was about as stupid as any other Cosby Joke from the era. Also, Cosby was basically the "white black guy" at the time. I mean, I guess it's irresponsible and definitely wasn't thought out but if a white guy impersonated Jay-Z in the present would we still think it was blackface just because he wasn't black? Furthermore, can we complain about that when actors are allowed to portray the developmentally disabled?

If anything, Adam Sandler looks like Jerry Lewis in this.

Adam Sandler does an elderly Southern white man and adds random Adam Sandler gibberish. Cosby impression. And scene.

Yeah.. OCS have you seen Tropic Thunder? It's kind of a dumb movie but it got blasted before anyone had a chance to see it because of its blackface. And my comparison to the developmentally disabled? I was with my client coming down the mountain after a Special Olympics event and what does the busdriver show? That dumb movie The Ringer, the one where Johnny Knoxville pretends to be DD in order to compete in the Special Olympics.

In either case the NAACP got it and ADA got it too, with the latter actually using it as an official sponsor of the Special Olympics but I was the one left feeling like something wasn't right, while everybody else on the bus was having fun watching Knoxville fall over, so I can't completely relate but I totally understand your stance.

Did the war with the Federation make that relationship awkward?

Nah, they've got access to surgeons that can make anyone look almost like a human woman.

Hey now, Sandler was great in Punch Drunk Love, and Billy Madison's still pretty funny ok yeah you're right this is Billy Madison in 3 minutes but Punch Drunk Love's a great movie. Sad that Sandler never grew up the way Jim Carrey or even Big Willie Style did.

It's basically Sandler spoofing himself as Cosby just without all of his own "whoodle shmackey doodlepuff" speak.

I dunno, I disagree I guess. I thought he was really great in that movie. I know it was mostly PT Anderson and without him it would've just been some dumb romcom starring Adam Sandler (which is why nobody saw it in theatres) but his performance deserved an oscar that year IMGO.

(heh.. the only thing worse than using "IMHO" is misspelling it) :)

Paul Thomas Anderson had a substantial coke problem, I think. Sandler is deplorable, because there's no way he's as brain-dead as his work. It's impossible. He's a willing and paid agent of the downfall of Western cinema and culture in general. Sandler not only deserves an Oscar, he'll get one in our lifetime.

I liked "Jizum Jazzum"

Also Patrick Stewart is probably biting his tongue trying not to laugh.