I saw this skit on SNL on the first season of the show back in 1975 . We were all young then & the world held great promise for our generation .. Rest in peace John & Gilda we miss you guys.
@Big Bubba Whether they knew or didn't know, the skit still had an ending. I like the fact that the joke goes on so long as to annoy its own audience, regardless if that was their intention.
This shit ain't funny though.. Belushi wasn't funny at all.. people think just because something is old it's better.. Chris Farley, will Farrell , Richard Pryor , Tracy Morgan, horatio sanz , Kate McKinnon.. Those ppl are genuinely funny..
One of my favorite things from early SNL is how they start one of their go-to sketches with something completely unrelated, and even if you should see what's coming, it's quick enough that you it doesn't necessarily click before the big entrance. This one gets me in such a big way.
That fourth-wall break starting in the middle of this sketch is not only brilliant, but also SO convincing. I seriously thought this was a real mistake that happened, since this is a live show after all, but I relaxed when they showed the director and it got a little sillier from there. The cast of today would NEVER be able to pull off this stunt.
It's almost like a mild Anthony Jeselnik joke when Jim says "He's probably in there... Firing his own father." And why is Gilda's mother just hanging out right outside the set lolol
aif Sandy Duncan was blind one one eye, she had a glass eye. A Viewmaster was a toy you looked through like binoculars to see an image on a disc. Without both eyes the image isn’t clear.
Sandy Duncan didn't have a glass eye. She was blind in one eye after surgery to remove a brain tumor near the optic nerve, but her left eye still tracked with her right eye due to muscle memory. However, you are correct that being blind in one eye would not be great for using a view master.
I was age 13 when SNL premiered. I watched every episode up through to 1990. The cast had changed during those decades, but the skits were so hilarious. When I was 14, I had a crush on Dan Aykroyd.
The 80s were also like this. They said that for about 15-20’years at least back then, they scapegoated bees more than people. Still treated people like shit.
I have always loved the skits with the Killer Bees. At this time, the tv show, 2020, was doing really sensationalistic programs on Killer Ants and Killer Bees coming into America from South America and Mexico so these Saturday Night skits about things like that were relevant and hilarious. It's SO great to see these again after all of these years. Thank you!!!
I heard about this skit a bunch of times as a kid, never had a clue that the big joke was the 4th wall break and camera problems. It was way better than I expected.
I am of Mexican heritage and I find this hilarious and I don’t feel offended at all. I love to hear jokes and people making fun of their backgrounds. There are a thousand worst things to be offended at.
I'm Italian and I feel the same way when I see depictions of Italian Americans as stupid, badly educated and part of the mob, it's hilarious. We have become much too over sensitive to everything. Not to mention there is a great difference between humor that is mean-spirited and humor...that is not. This is clearly not mean spirited.
Neil Levy and Tom Schiller are the background bees playing guitar. You can see them behind Chevy at 5:29. Levy was a production assistant, Schiller a writer. Schiller is shorter and looks a little like Simon. He directed some short films on SNL, including the one where Belushi dances in the graveyard.
I remember watching this on "The Best of Saturday Night" on Nick at Nite back in 1989. This was the last sketch in that episode, and in the end credits, Dave Wilson's name was crossed out.
It was comedy like no other.. and as young Mexican American..living in Western Michigan.. one had to have a sense of humor.. SNL was fun and original..R.I.P. John Belushi..Gilda Radner and camera man #3 .😔
YoLo Videos , yes, that was John Belushi speaking..... about Lorne hiring an alcoholic and giving him a second chance.... who happened to be his father....... lol.... this was when comedy was truly funny.... Everyone knew how to take a joke back then!
TheTeacher1020 dude seriously that might have been the funniest part to me along with the classical song playing in the background which I can't think of the name to.
theteachers: It was a fad for a short time in the late seventies to early eighties, some people actualy wore those. I had a job once selling them on the street. I dressed like a bee. I still didn't sell many, though. I think the fad was already passed.
The rumor back in the day was that Belushi really hated the bee outfit. He knew how to work those antennae though, usually when he was saying something serious.
John Doe no. Simpson's is based on El Chapulin Colorado, a Mexican "superhero bug". Which is actually pretty good comedy (still rerun in Hispanic networks)
I was a little kid an I watched this the first time. Live. SNL was literally live from New York. Amazing. New York is completely changed since the 70s.
@@sillygoose635 I get it. Humor has changed really. I mean Jerry Lewis was hillarious when I was a kid. Not so much now. I found this skit very funny in such a bizzare way when I was a teen. Why? Because it was so different. One has to realize this deconstructive humor was brand new then. And very bizzare to see on TV. It was so new in fact that the drunk engineer building up and the camera "malfunction" was thought to be really happening. I know, I know, weve seen so much now that its hard to imagine anyone would think it real and not part of the skit. Then when we realized pretty quickly that it was part of the skit the punchline was on us. The slow build laugh. Hard to describe. And one doesnt have to think its funny now. Its old school now. But at least understand that it was very creative this deconstructive type comedy and much of what one sees and relates to now has its roots in this type skit. It was completely different than anything else of its time. Very creative and interesting. If only SNL could be as creative with a new type of comedy and the chemistry of this first cast now.
SNL was meant to be seen high in those days with a group of young friends. It was something to look forward to and part of the weekend routine. I miss those days.
Back in the day, when SNL was a must see show, every week, I sewed about 8-10 Killer Bee costumes, I made the bandelar’s with empty shotgun shells, I got toy machine guns & off to the Halloween party at our local nightclub, where SNL played on a screen behind the bar, every club played SNL every Saturday night. The club was packed so we had to wait a few minutes for someone to leave, then the doorman said let the Killer Bees come forward, they have the best costumes so they’re getting in first, lol 😂 ahh to be that young again.
We got married in 1975. Even when we went out on a Saturday night we made an effort to get home in time to watch SNL from the opening to the close. Especially if we were interestd in the musical guest. I used to record all the musical guest appearances which was twice per night on my trusty, reliable VCR. I had to be there to press the record button. Or record the whole episode on a timer. I had 2 tapes that had nothing but musical guest appearances. Keith Richards X-Pensive Winos and Nirvana were amazing.
It’s been said that one of the biggest hurdles to writing an SNL sketch is figuring out how to end the sketch. This sketch pushes that concept to the ultimate extreme.
RIP IN PEACE JOHN AND GILDA SNL WAS THE BOMB FOR ALL OF US 12 TO 14 YRS OLDS BEGED MOM AND DAD TO STAY UP AND ORDER PIZZA PIT MAN TIME FLY'S ......FIRSTAND THE BEST AND NEVER AGAIN WILL EQUAL THIS TIME THANKS TO ALL THE SNL CAST CREW AND PRODUCERS PRICELESS MEMORIES FOR MILLIONS LIKE ME .....TAKE CARE AND PLEASE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE..GOD BLESS
Producers: "Okay folks, we have an idea for a sketch that goes completely off the rails, but we'll have to essentially sacrifice another sketch to make it work. Which one should we---" John Belushi: "BEES!!!! Please for the love of god let it be the bees!!!!"
"Your pollen or your wife"! Can it be any funnier. Nothing tops the original SNL cast. I remember my friends and I never wanted to hang out on Saturday nights, we'd make sure we were home to watch SNL.
Nothing (@ least since the 80's crew) has topped the simple hilarity of SNL Classic. Ain't cause I'm several years down the timeline. It's simply true! B'ware of, Los Killer B'zzzz😆😅👍!
This was *FORTY-TWO YEARS* ago? (more like a few months to me...that's what happens when you're old...'Time' ceases to have any meaning)I'm so old I remember when 'SNL' was the 'most ground-breaking show' on TV *EVER*
I'm with you and the commenter below. The first couple of years, we would stop almost everything ;) and roll through show every week. It went through A LOT of years struggling, but the couple have been superb
The antennae "bouncing" around all over the place while serious speeches are being made just killed me! This is hilarious!!
Me too! 😂
It really is amazing how this sketch just keeps GOING! It’s like it wasn’t even scripted and they just kept the cameras rolling!
Man, SNL was really something back in the 70s
It feels like a Monty Python sketch lol
It’s scripted obviously
@@serekapsikyou must be a genius to figure that out
The camera bit and everything after in the booth was absolutely hilarious. That kind of stuff is what elevates a sketch.
That was fantastic! The ridiculous costumes, breaking the barrier, the antennas, the song... this sketch had it all!!!
'he's probably back there right now - firing his own father" that line killed for me. love it
I saw this skit on SNL on the first season of the show back in 1975 . We were all young then & the world held great promise for our generation .. Rest in peace John & Gilda we miss you guys.
Saw this with Mom she loved it it's actually funny
@@phatman8986 it's not funny
This skit aired in 1976, not 1975.
@@damachine3 still season 1
@@dildonius I know, but that wasn't my point. My point was that he saw it in 1976, not 1975.
I like how this skit was going one way and then VOOM! Off in a completely different direction.
Bees are a buzz
Doesn't this just encapsulate the seventies.
@Big Bubba Whether they knew or didn't know, the skit still had an ending. I like the fact that the joke goes on so long as to annoy its own audience, regardless if that was their intention.
Big Bubba it was the 70s. Writing was different then jesus your brain
This shit ain't funny though.. Belushi wasn't funny at all.. people think just because something is old it's better.. Chris Farley, will Farrell , Richard Pryor , Tracy Morgan, horatio sanz , Kate McKinnon.. Those ppl are genuinely funny..
One of my favorite things from early SNL is how they start one of their go-to sketches with something completely unrelated, and even if you should see what's coming, it's quick enough that you it doesn't necessarily click before the big entrance. This one gets me in such a big way.
This is why I watch the old stuff..sooo funny miss Gilda
So much.
(They say they're overweight...) "TURN THE RADIO OFF!!!"
😂 🤣😂 🤣
😂
I've never seen this skit before. To me was an epic one, so hilarious! !
That fourth-wall break starting in the middle of this sketch is not only brilliant, but also SO convincing. I seriously thought this was a real mistake that happened, since this is a live show after all, but I relaxed when they showed the director and it got a little sillier from there. The cast of today would NEVER be able to pull off this stunt.
It's almost like a mild Anthony Jeselnik joke when Jim says "He's probably in there... Firing his own father."
And why is Gilda's mother just hanging out right outside the set lolol
Love how they started with a Viewmaster commercial starring Sandy Duncan. Don’t know how many people these days would get that.
aif Sandy Duncan was blind one one eye, she had a glass eye. A Viewmaster was a toy you looked through like binoculars to see an image on a disc. Without both eyes the image isn’t clear.
I did, " is this some kind of joke"?? The eyes have it
Sandy Duncan didn't have a glass eye. She was blind in one eye after surgery to remove a brain tumor near the optic nerve, but her left eye still tracked with her right eye due to muscle memory.
However, you are correct that being blind in one eye would not be great for using a view master.
I liked the reference to Eli Wallach's awful Spanish accent in Magnifecent Seven
I was age 13 when SNL premiered. I watched every episode up through to 1990. The cast had changed during those decades, but the skits were so hilarious. When I was 14, I had a crush on Dan Aykroyd.
So you stopped right when chris farley started? Fckn lame
you & me both
Back in the 70's the news media was saying that the Killer Bees were coming from Mexico. It never happened! 🤣
The 80s were also like this. They said that for about 15-20’years at least back then, they scapegoated bees more than people. Still treated people like shit.
😂😂😂
Hilarious Sandy Duncan Viewmaster commercial on the radio at the very beginning overshadowed by everything else in this skit.
Right? The audience missed it.
How many kids get it today? Nobody under 55 probably.
I have always loved the skits with the Killer Bees. At this time, the tv show, 2020, was doing really sensationalistic programs on Killer Ants and Killer Bees coming into America from South America and Mexico so these Saturday Night skits about things like that were relevant and hilarious. It's SO great to see these again after all of these years. Thank you!!!
I heard about this skit a bunch of times as a kid, never had a clue that the big joke was the 4th wall break and camera problems. It was way better than I expected.
Those were the days my friend we thought would never end, Gilda we still miss you and Luv you very much🥺
Who is Here after watching the movie?
I am that movie was good
I am of Mexican heritage and I find this hilarious and I don’t feel offended at all. I love to hear jokes and people making fun of their backgrounds. There are a thousand worst things to be offended at.
I mean its better to laugh at things than complain at things! So many people have such thin skin
Nobody asked if you were offended.
@@Dan-nt2yb nobody asked if you were a douche?!
@@Dan-nt2yb I asked him. He was able to answer the question.
I'm Italian and I feel the same way when I see depictions of Italian Americans as stupid, badly educated and part of the mob, it's hilarious. We have become much too over sensitive to everything.
Not to mention there is a great difference between humor that is mean-spirited and humor...that is not. This is clearly not mean spirited.
That was Paul Simon on the guitar. Man, I loved being a kid in the 70s! SNL was soooo good!
Looks more like Jim Croce than anyone.
That was not Paul Simon. Paul Simon is like 5'4" and that dude was taller than Morris and Belushi.
Neil Levy and Tom Schiller are the background bees playing guitar. You can see them behind Chevy at 5:29. Levy was a production assistant, Schiller a writer. Schiller is shorter and looks a little like Simon. He directed some short films on SNL, including the one where Belushi dances in the graveyard.
it stil is.
SNL when it was creative, funny and relevant......well maybe not this skit unless you are an insect of some kind.
I love 4th wall breaking.
Hello Anna.
They broke the 4th wall so hard...
Ikr😂😂😂😂😂😂
This was not unusual for SNL with this talented cast, but Belushi stole whatever scene he was in. Chevy was an actor playing a bee, John WAS a bee.
Killer bees would be a great group Halloween costume.
I remember watching this on "The Best of Saturday Night" on Nick at Nite back in 1989. This was the last sketch in that episode, and in the end credits, Dave Wilson's name was crossed out.
How come?
@@katieviolin3621 he was the drunk director that got “fired”. It was just a little Easter egg
the 4th wall "breaking" was amazing 🤣🤣
RIP, John. You were the master.
LOL the guy in the yellow shirt sitting down could not stop laughing
"No, no Taco head. " It finally makes sense.
Oh God if they pulled this skit off today 😂😭 this skit is hilarious
nah, they definitely couldn't do this now(2018'). people would complain that they're portraying bee's in an negative way!!!
+The Legendary Lurch Logan Bee ' is as stu ' pid doe ' s!
+DrFruedienslipJr the human colony is Gaia collapsing, butthead at a slightly slower rate than the dominion over animal tragic kingdumb
They’re sketches not skits*
Yes they can do this today. Especially with the present cast. Go for it SNL!!!
Shout out to the musical director for playing "Mother's Son" in the opening. Curtis Mayfield is a legend.
It was comedy like no other.. and as young Mexican American..living in Western Michigan.. one had to have a sense of humor.. SNL was fun and original..R.I.P. John Belushi..Gilda Radner and camera man #3 .😔
This is one of the best skits they ever did haha
It's so unpredictable.
I just saw these bees in the SNL movie 😂😂
The level of concept that must have went into this sketch is unimaginable.
It was marijuana that went into making this sketch. Lots of marijuana.
6:18: John Belushi giving a speech about substance abuse... ouch.
thats not john
Yea and The narration twist he explains almost make this skit worth it
@@yolovideos8084 yeah it is
that was the point.
YoLo Videos , yes, that was John Belushi speaking..... about Lorne hiring an alcoholic and giving him a second chance.... who happened to be his father....... lol.... this was when comedy was truly funny.... Everyone knew how to take a joke back then!
I saw this the first time when I was in high school . It never gets old . lmmfao
Those bobbing antennae always drove me crazy.
TheTeacher1020 dude seriously that might have been the funniest part to me along with the classical song playing in the background which I can't think of the name to.
theteachers: It was a fad for a short time in the late seventies to early eighties, some people actualy wore those. I had a job once selling them on the street. I dressed like a bee. I still didn't sell many, though. I think the fad was already passed.
The rumor back in the day was that Belushi really hated the bee outfit. He knew how to work those antennae though, usually when he was saying something serious.
They were called deely boppers
I love them
I still feel the anticipation for a Killer Bees sketch even now when the show is in-season.
Is this where the Simpson's creators got the inspiration for bumblebee man?
John Doe no. Simpson's is based on El Chapulin Colorado, a Mexican "superhero bug". Which is actually pretty good comedy (still rerun in Hispanic networks)
Dios Mio!
@@ernestogasulla7763 In the 80s you'd see the bug guy practically every time you flipped to the Spanish station. Maybe it's still that way.
@@e11aguru nowadays, not every time... but I've seen it in one of the hispanic channels.
I remember seeing this when it aired in 1976! I had a crush on Elliott Gould. It is still so funny. Belushi kills it climbing through the window!
the skit is Perfect.. the Bee antennas are the best
Great skit.
R.I.P. John, Gilda and Garret.
Garret Morris isn’t dead
@@somebodyiguess5969 don't know why he'd think garret dead
@@somebodyiguess5969 RIP Jon Lovitz, too.
What a legendary sketch. Perfectly reflected in the movie.
That was amazing thank you Mr. Michael's.
This is the kind of skit they dont do anywhere, this is what made SNL so great
*anymore
I was a little kid an I watched this the first time. Live. SNL was literally live from New York. Amazing. New York is completely changed since the 70s.
And not for the better!
Classically silly, how can you not laugh, even all these years later!?
maybe because it's not funny?
@@sillygoose635:I feel sad for you.
@@johnperrigo6474 i don't need that
They look ridiculous...that's hilarious...Elliott Gould in those stupid boots in a bee suit...fucking royal walking joke.
@@sillygoose635 I get it. Humor has changed really. I mean Jerry Lewis was hillarious when I was a kid. Not so much now. I found this skit very funny in such a bizzare way when I was a teen. Why? Because it was so different. One has to realize this deconstructive humor was brand new then. And very bizzare to see on TV. It was so new in fact that the drunk engineer building up and the camera "malfunction" was thought to be really happening. I know, I know, weve seen so much now that its hard to imagine anyone would think it real and not part of the skit. Then when we realized pretty quickly that it was part of the skit the punchline was on us. The slow build laugh.
Hard to describe. And one doesnt have to think its funny now. Its old school now. But at least understand that it was very creative this deconstructive type comedy and much of what one sees and relates to now has its roots in this type skit.
It was completely different than anything else of its time. Very creative and interesting. If only SNL could be as creative with a new type of comedy and the chemistry of this first cast now.
I read that Belushi hated this bit, especially the antennae gag … but it left the rest of us in hysterics 😂
One of the top skits that breaks the 4th wall.
SNL was meant to be seen high in those days with a group of young friends. It was something to look forward to and part of the weekend routine. I miss those days.
Back in the day, when SNL was a must see show, every week, I sewed about 8-10 Killer Bee costumes, I made the bandelar’s with empty shotgun shells, I got toy machine guns & off to the Halloween party at our local nightclub, where SNL played on a screen behind the bar, every club played SNL every Saturday night. The club was packed so we had to wait a few minutes for someone to leave, then the doorman said let the Killer Bees come forward, they have the best costumes so they’re getting in first, lol 😂 ahh to be that young again.
We got married in 1975. Even when we went out on a Saturday night we made an effort to get home in time to watch SNL from the opening to the close. Especially if we were interestd in the musical guest. I used to record all the musical guest appearances which was twice per night on my trusty, reliable VCR. I had to be there to press the record button. Or record the whole episode on a timer. I had 2 tapes that had nothing but musical guest appearances. Keith Richards X-Pensive Winos and Nirvana were amazing.
Everybody so young. Can move easily to the floor. What the hell happened?!? Getting older stinks. But comedy is ever lasting😁
Yes, this was what comedy used to be! I miss this SNL!
How to end a sketch when you don’t have an ending
Awesome 4th wall break😄😂😂😂
I love the new skits, I really do. but damn, this acting is amazing!
It’s been said that one of the biggest hurdles to writing an SNL sketch is figuring out how to end the sketch. This sketch pushes that concept to the ultimate extreme.
"what gilda tells me, we should be seeing alot of each other" lol,
HA! The Sandy Duncan joke is funny, you gotta know she has a glass eye so looking at the View Master would prove a problem.
She's blind in one eye but doesn't have a glass eye. But you're right, that is the point of the joke!
+dakgeo1 a couple of surreal geniuses turd from
@@BrianSmith-ix3ns hey, look everybody a troll.
@@danielstewart7163 hey look, a moron
You have Sandy Duncan hair
Rare footage of pancho villa leading a raid on an American home near the border (1916)
No, I doubt it,thats when Pancho Villa shoved it right in to the Americans lol he was a genius theyre still studying his brain...
Jees. I owned that exact sweater Lornes wearing but in browns.
Such a great cast, so funny. 💕😁👍💯
The SNL movie brought me here
4:20 Garrett Morris trying to tell the cameraman to move to Gould, ha ha ha!
this is a little piece if history. Gilda and John, and a young kid named Lorne!!
The sandy duncan viewmaster joke is that Sandy Duncan only had one eye, so the effect of the viewmaster wouldn't work for her.
Poor kid had a tumor, but she survived and married her surgeon
This might be the best SNL sketch I've ever seen, and I've seen a shitload of them.
One of funniest sketch I've watched 😅
A brilliant sketch
I wonder who wrote it. It's very creative and it worked out great.
RIP IN PEACE JOHN AND GILDA SNL WAS THE BOMB FOR ALL OF US 12 TO 14 YRS OLDS BEGED MOM AND DAD TO STAY UP AND ORDER PIZZA PIT MAN TIME FLY'S ......FIRSTAND THE BEST AND NEVER AGAIN WILL EQUAL THIS TIME THANKS TO ALL THE SNL CAST CREW AND PRODUCERS PRICELESS MEMORIES FOR MILLIONS LIKE ME .....TAKE CARE AND PLEASE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE..GOD BLESS
Seeing Lorne Michaels in white converse is utterly surreal.
Seeing him young and before he left is pretty cool
Producers: "Okay folks, we have an idea for a sketch that goes completely off the rails, but we'll have to essentially sacrifice another sketch to make it work. Which one should we---"
John Belushi: "BEES!!!! Please for the love of god let it be the bees!!!!"
pretty sure this is what happens when there's too much "pollen" going around the SNL Stage this skit was all over the place but still funny.
"Your pollen or your wife"! Can it be any funnier. Nothing tops the original SNL cast. I remember my friends and I never wanted to hang out on Saturday nights, we'd make sure we were home to watch SNL.
Nothing (@ least since the 80's crew) has topped the simple hilarity of SNL Classic. Ain't cause I'm several years down the timeline. It's simply true! B'ware of, Los Killer B'zzzz😆😅👍!
err, the new era says otherwise.
The date tag says 6years ago, more like 45 years ago. These where fantastic! To see original cast, outrageous!!
Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!
Bro this sketch just keep going and going 🤣😭
I've never seen this before, it's so good lol
This was *FORTY-TWO YEARS* ago? (more like a few months to me...that's what happens when you're old...'Time' ceases to have any meaning)I'm so old I remember when 'SNL' was the 'most ground-breaking show' on TV *EVER*
it still is.
I'm with you and the commenter below. The first couple of years, we would stop almost everything ;) and roll through show every week. It went through A LOT of years struggling, but the couple have been superb
@@sillygoose635 😬😬😬
I remember this was on TV when I was stopping at a friend's house. It was unforgettable.
Top of the day CHAMP. For me , VINTAGE SNL IS THE BEST !!!!! THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
Absolutely brilliant- seen for the first time - this is Monty python class - respect
"Taco Head" would make heads explode today. LOL
No Only the Flakes ,Us Mexicans we dont Get Easily Offended we Understand Comedy...we strive on it.
I've had mood swings more stable than those antennas.
My parents had that same model of Realistic tabletop radio from Radio Shack!
Radio crap, a tandy(candy) company 😁
Classic , absolute genius , never to come again
Just brilliant, love this skit
Now this is some funny stuff! The Killer Mexican Bees all knew about the drunken ways of Mr. Michael's... dad? 🤣
The old cast didn't read off of que cards, and I appreciated that. Miss these days.
This is absolutely genius!
Can you imagine them pulling this off today? I think not.
Forty years later waiting for those swarms of bees
I love how they keep buzzing around 🐝 🐝 🐝 😅
I wish we could have comedy, like this, again.
Lorne & Dave Wilson's first on-camera appearance on the show
and nobody cares
@@BrianSmith-ix3ns well, not you.
Yes! Television history!
I fell in love with Gilda through the TV screen.
Neat fact. The killer bee incident lead to hybridization and made a big portion of south America (mostly Brazil) into honey producing giants.
Aunt Betty! Lol 😂 iam an aunt Betty too! 🎭💃🏻🕺🏼👵👴🏻🤶🏻🎅🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 SNL 🌈🐝🐝