Kenneth: That reminds me of a story that's in no way related.Other characters included Steve Martin as an elderly British actor nicknamed "Nobby", because his real name was incredibly long. Mike Myers played the host, Kenneth Rhys-Evans (aka "Cucumber Jones"), an English actor who discovered one day that he could not control the volume of his voice (a joke Myers later used in the first Austin Powers movie). However, one of the most memorable performances was Dana Carvey as embittered former American child star Mickey Rooney, complaining about how the film industry largely turned their back on him, and reminiscing on better times. It is described by the announcer as produced by the "British-American Theatre Alliance", and centered around several English Shakespearean actors recounting acting experiences and anecdotes. Theatre Stories was an SNL skit parodying English actors. Debuted November 23, 1991.Ī David Spade sketch in which various celebrities show up for a meeting with Dick Clark, and his receptionist doesn't recognize them ("And you are. Phil Hartman plays a caveman who was frozen in a glacier, was revived in modern times, and went on to become a corrupt lawyer. Debuted October 26, 1991.Ī Chris Farley sketch. She had a somewhat disdainful persona, such as when she observed about Michael Jackson: "' Black or White'? If it doesn't matter, then why are you so white?", or when she commented that Kwanzaa "is a Swahili word which means 'Santa don't come to my house'". Queen Shenequa, played by Ellen Cleghorne, was an Afrocentric social critic who dressed in African garb, observed Kwanzaa, and made commentaries on race. It turns out Ricardo Baroni is an excellent singer, just unknown by the public.A Chris Farley sketch. He learns later that he was hiring Ricardo Baroni instead. He is clueless and assumes Fiorelos is Lasparri's manager, so he is willing to pay 10 dollars per night. You Get What You Pay For: Drifwood overhears that Lasparri is going to be paid one thousand dollars per night and decides to skim the deal somehow.Tough Room: Driftwood gives an opening speech at the opera that in real life would have brought the house down, but the only response he gets is stony silence.This Means War: Used by Driftwood after the three fake airmen are confronted and leave.Tap on the Head: Gottlieb, many many times, and once to the cop.Claypool, as always the prim foil to Groucho's antics. Straight Woman: Margaret Dumont as Mrs.Spiritual Successor: the following Marx Brothers film A Day at the Races, shares a similar plot but with different characters and scenery (a rest home in need of rescue and a horse race to be won).The Show Must Go On: The confused and increasingly frustrated Lassparri keeps singing, even when the scenes behind and in front of him change rapidly.
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