Mr. Belvedere Fan Club - Saturday Night Live
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The fans of Mr. Belvedere recite their exercises to help keep the line between reality and fantasy a little less blurry. Aired 05/09/92
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The delivery of "NAY! The "nays" have it, he lives, but the vote shouldn't have been that close." is genius and may be Tom Hanks' greatest performance.
I like the detail of Tim's character being alarmed enough by what's happening that he votes Nay, even though he's not even a member of the club.
Really?? Better than either of his two Oscars??
@@bradyguy7701Forrest Gump wasn't president of the Brocktoon Fan Club. Geez.
@@Josette93 Did somebody say he was?? Hard to tell if you're being sardonic...probably not??
@@bradyguy7701 I'm joking.
I love Kevin Nealons smug demeanor when he say "Brocktoon". He already knows everyone will love the nickname
Cousin to phantoon
It _is_ a very good nickname.
He knows Brocktoon is straight up cash
@@mathewalden9277 Spoken like a man that would kill Brocktoon and then masturbate after
That wasn’t a smug demeanor. Were you even watching the video? Watch his face. Tf is wrong with you?
Phil Hartman played the ultimate psychopath perfectly. So talented.
What he exhibited was not psychopathy (what psychopaths have, formally called Antisocial Personality Disorder), but schizophrenia. Schizophrenics usually have delusions and hallucinations, and psychopaths basically don't have a conscience, so they infringe on the rights of others.
He was great. I really miss Phil
He did marry a psychopath who unfortunately murdered him though.
We were robbed when he was killed.
@@mpm1125 one of the most shocking moments in showbiz history
I quickly got here after learning of Bob Uecker's passing today; didn't expect to come across Phil Hartman and Chris Farley as well. Thanks to Bob for all the years of Mr. Belvedere. These guys are all geniuses too, even the Bosom Buddies guy.
RIP to Bob Uecker. I live a mile north of the Brewers Spring Training facility, get more importantly, I grew up with this guy doing the "tastes great, less feeling commercials" for Miller Lite. (I just grew up watching that person on TV all the time by accident or on purpose and, I can't believe he's gone already.)
Fun fact: Bob Uecker actually hosted Saturday Night Live. It was in season 10 (1984-1985, the season where it had seasoned performers such as Billy Crystal, Rich Hall [the only cast member from "Fridays" to cross over to SNL], Martin Short [one of only three SCTV cast members to cross over to SNL], Christopher Guest [the only SNL cast member to be British royalty], Pamela Stephenson [first female cast member to be born in another country and, so far, the only New Zealander to be an SNL cast member. Come on, Kiwis. Step up your game] and, up until Roy Scheider hosted, Harry Shearer [who was an SNL cast member from 1979 to 1980 and is one of the main VAs on The Simpsons], alongside Mary Gross, Jim Belushi, Gary Kroeger, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
@@canaisyoung3601 Yet who could forget Mr Belvidere? Saw that show just started turning 10 years old. Seemed bordering on adult issues a bit, but Mr Eucker did it on that one too, what's a comedic style or even did a pissed off Dad bit a good amount when needed. RIP, to a person with more talents than just for a baseball career in addition to the lifetime announcing gig
“The nays have it. He lives!”
The casual delivery of that line had me rolling.
"...but the vote should not have been that close!"
The beauty is how Phil is in character and looking crazy from the first second. A lesser cast member would wait until their closeup to be “on.”
He really was the greatest.
Maybe there should be a fan club.
"He is one of a kind and I think about him all the time. Well I'm wondering, should we kill him?"
"For god sakes, no!"
"We usually vote, Mr. Chairman." 🤣😂🤣😂
5:13 High point of an already-great sketch. Brilliant writing, brilliant acting. “To tear the flesh, to _wear_ the flesh…” LOL
6:22 Also, nice touch: the stand-up comic’s breath _is_ fogging up the glass! Doug was right!
I wonder, "Should we kill him?" Fucking hilarious delivery by the late great Chris Farley
He died of liver cancer.
@@allen5455Yeah, that’s what they WANT you to believe.
Typing the dinner invitation on a death certificate never fails to crack me up.
@@allen5455Chris Farley died of an overdose actor who played Mr Belvedere died of diabetes.
This is a pretty accurate representation of a lot of fan clubs.
No, fan clubs are creepier.
And Internet fandoms
really? I wouldn't know.
And cults
So that's why Mr.Belvedere is no longer with us.
The cast at that time was spectacular
This is my era of SNL. Everyone says that.... but seriously this was the best era. This and In Living Color, was a good night for TV.
@@gibbontakeit9098This, and the original era were the best and maybe Eddie Murphy's era after that.
Best cast ever, imo. These were the days of my youth.
@JosetteA This cast and the original cast were the best ever.
Such a nice little touch that Tim Meadows's breath fogs up the glass jar at the end, as foreshadowed by Chris Farley.
Probably my favorite SNL bit. It's so weird and twisted!
I mean normal! It's totally normal! It's a totally normal and perfectly appropriate tribute to Mr. Belvedere. ❤️
Yeah, who wrote this!
I *should* want to like Mr. Spreitzer's comment. I *shouldn't* want to... cut into him...
@@jsf209 Good question? Its creepy enough to be Micheal O Donohue, but wrong era.
You mean Brocktoon.
@@douglaslowe5 Jack Handey? Most of the time I find out my favorite sketches from this era were Jack Handey.
This has to be one of the most underrated SNL sketches ever. So funny on so many levels. I remember watching the VHS recording of this skit over and over as a teen because it was so intellectually funny. Actually, I think this entire episode of SNL with Tom Hank is probably their funniest show ever.
Sketch....skit....make up your mind. Actually, SNL made it up for you. It's always been "sketch". 😁😁
This sketch is included as a bonus feature on one of the Mr. Belvedere DVD box sets.
Fan club member here^
Haha! No way! That is hilarious!
Brocktoon
@@perryleaks4859Ditto
If this is the Mr Belvedere fan club, I don't want to see the Bob Uecker fan club.
GOD, I miss Phil Hartman! What a Talent!
He always brought something extra special to his roles.
It's so sad/scary/funny/lonely that so many fandoms are like this exactly, and they usually experience it alone. At least these guys have each other. 😆
And for things this mediocre.
100 percent Funniest SNL skit ever. Haven't seen this since I and a few close friends taped it and watched it over and over for a year when it originally aired. We all miss Phil Hartman desperately
I forgot how insane this sketch is. Good stuff.
This should have millions of views. Always fun to find a hidden SNL gem.
I like how being a member of the Mr. Belvedere Fan Club qualifies you for a handicap spot.
Is that legal?
There shouldn't be handicapped spaces
@@MissWinters1980 OK Karen.
@@jedijones Apparently it's a clear sign of mental illness, so maybe...
Phil Hartman was just the best
This sketch is so full of legends.
well his wife knew him best and she disagreed so i'm gonna default to her on this one
@@lunchbag_larry well his wife murdered him so..... She may not be credible
Agreed
I miss him so much man. Everytime I watch a Simpsons episode he was in , these SNL clips, or small soldiers , it's all the more devastating what he was taken so cruelly by his own wife no less
The monologue Chris Farley starts at 1:59 shows his talent as an actor.
I appreciate that this skit had a real funny premise, had a strange twist on reality, some really funny lines, but most of all... had an actual ending instead of just running out of gas.
Does it, though?? The ending seems like a last-minute add-on to get out. WHY would they put Meadows' character in a jar; he is NOT Brocktoon. And does somebody REALLY have a human-sized jar in their basement??? (Although I suppose Farley's character MIGHT just have had one made...hoping he WOULD run into Christopher Hewett on the street...😮)
OF course, they finally admit that they often don't have an ending for the sketch in two (Well...ONE joke...repeated!) of my favorites - The "You Likea de Juice?" sketched. They break the fourth wall twice - in the first sketch when Spade finally comes in and says "Could you guys just go to the blonde guy with the guitar???" And in the second, Lorne shows up himself to end the sketch. Meta at its finest....
@@bradyguy7701 they put him in the jar because he pointed out how crazy they were.
@@bradyguy7701 He was gonna tell the world they were crazy, and then Brocktoon might find out they were unworthy. Something had to be done.
5:11 "I, I should just want to cook him a simple meal. But I shouldnt want to........ cut into him; to tear the flesh, to wear the flesh; to be born unto new worlds where his flesh becomes the key."
There's NOBODY better than Phil Hartman.
@@rogerbrodniak5644 r.i.p. to the legend
Only Phil Hartman could have pulled off that line so perfectly.
Disturbing line
LMAO 🤣 🤣 🤣
The vote shouldn't have to be that close 😂
Like the 2020 election.
Biden baby✊
@@meflove YEAH DEMENTIA!!! Right?!?
@@meflove If Biden wasn't also a horrible candidate it wouldn't have been that close.
Almost spat my dinner out at that part 🤣
About what is the best SNL sketch? Agreed
Legendary cast members in one sketch right there....oh and Tom Hanks.
Now crazy fans interact with each other on the internet.
Hopefully that results in fewer people in jars.
"Now"? More like steadily for at least the past 26 years.
@@krewgarr Fans interacting on the internet dates back to Usenet newsgroups, which were established in 1980.
6:00 I love how Chris grimaces anticipating disapproval at the end of his statement. He was such a great natural actor.
I was thinking about the funniest thing I've ever seen, and forgot about this. I don't know how it's not recognised as one of the best SNL sketches ever. My old best friend and I had never laughed so hard, and it still holds up all these decades later.
Agreed and the Forte Sudeikis NASA sketch would be a close second.
Ummm...because there are MANY other sketches that are better than this?? Of course, "best" is awfully subjective. This is weird....but probably not "best".
I like that it’s “The Man Who Plays Mr. Belvedere Fam Club” but that no one says his actual name. I also remember this was when SNL had good skits after the news.
Because no one in the audience would know him by his real name. Mr. Belvedere hadn't even been airing new episodes for 2 years by this time.
That's what makes it even MORE absurd. Are they fans of Mr. Belvedere, the CHARACTER??? Or Christopher Hewett. Granted...the people in this fan club are not likely very acquainted wtih the difference between actors and their characters....
@@bradyguy7701I came here to ask the actor's name. Thanks.
One of my all time favorite skits from SNL.
This sketch is gold and I had not even seen it before now.
I love that this sketch ends like a David Lynch short film
Because of the greatness of this sketch, I’ll name my firstborn Brocktoon.
Thank you, Soren and Daniel for reminding me of this comedic gold.
That is why i am here!
“to tear the flesh, to wear the flesh, to be born into new worlds where his flesh becomes my key” i used to die laughing quoting this when I was younger, and this skit still kills me to this day 😂
Just looking at this cast is a delight ❤👏👏👏
If they had met Bob Uecker, they would know they could have lured Belvedere to their house by making fried mozzarella
Maybe my favorite sketch of all time ♥️
One of the best sketches ever in anything
Nice of Chris to let the new guy in on the mood, what a welcoming group
This is such an insane sketch that's right in my humor wheelhouse, terrible crowd but maybe they weren't down for the absurd at that time
I know this sketch was an instant classic to me and my circle of friends at the time. Plus, I actually LIKED the show Mr. Belvedere, so that made it extra funny.
I think it’s a bad crowd night. You’d figure they’d be in a good mood based off Tom Hanks alone. Every line of this is hilarious.
@@NoellaScott This is super dark humor. Really was not the style at the time of 1992. I don't exactly find this gut-busting now either. But I do admire how well-written it is.
I remember loving this sketch the night it aired, and I would have been around 10 or so.
I just found out yesterday that full episodes of Mr. Belvedere are on UA-cam. I'm 80s kid, I almost lost my mind. I'll just binge a bunch of episodes. Nothing crazy😂
I love the fact that when Meadows walks in, they ask if he’s a fan of “Brocktoon” even though they just make it up and he’d have no way of knowing what they were talking about
I love that there's no climax it just gets more and more extreme and funny
The lack of cue card reading takes this perfect 100 to somehow another incredible level. Even Tom kept it subtle.
Phil Hartman's face from 1:59 until the end of Farley's speech, when he gives that psycho "Mayyyybe?!" quick take turn is the quintessence of character commitment.
I already took that nickname, Chris.
And .... that one too, Melanie.
4:29 Myers and Sandler had me dying 😂😂😂😂😂
adam sandler all quiet and random "the man who rides alone." haha
They all reflect some broken part of themselves. I'm unsure what Brocktooon stems from.
EL STINKMEISTER being some kind of deranged cat lady "cutesy" clever thing for a cat... like "Mr peppers"
@@tonyteiger3514 It just sounds like a name a child would make up if he was told to make up a name for a character on the spot. Like when Homer Simpson came up with the fake name Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo.
@@tonyteiger3514brocktoon= brockton ma. That part of mass is ephraim. Aka salem. Its where BEL derives
@@jedijonesa child huh? Almost like when christ asked children to gather by him. Christ is ba’al if you havent figured this out yet. Kill him and wear his skin” alot of these jokes in this skit went over your head if you missed why they called him brock toon
This sketch stayed with me for decades until UA-cam came into existence. Brocktoon!
The greatest sketch of all time
This is one of the few SNL skits that I still think about. So odd and hilarious. One of the best.
I feel like a dope for apparently missing this episode back then even though I was in high school then and a huge fan of this cast. 😭 Unless I forgot this, I never saw it until today.
One of the best SNL skits of all time.
To tear the flesh... to wear the flesh.
A little Ed Gein for you.
And to be born into new worlds where his flesh becomes my key.LMFAO!!!
@@michaelparylak5649 The nays have it and it shouldn't have been that close!
Buffalo Bobs cousin Belvederes butcher...
@@michaelparylak5649 Mr. Belvedere's flesh is the key to all of this.
3:18 a "dig" at Jodie Foster (the object of obsession of super-fan and attempted assassin John Hinckley Jr.) who at the time was rumored to be gay but had not confirmed it.
TY! I can't believe I didn't put that together! This sketch just keeps on giving!
This is genius! I never put that together!
This is in my top-3 SNL sketches of all time. It's so brilliant. (Did Smigel write this one? Probably Tom Hanks, Conan O'Brien, and others in the crew had a hand, too.) I start laughing before it even begins, when you see the concept and name of the club. Then, when it does start, it's very 'WTF??" for the first two minutes or so. But once Farley finishes his aimless comment, the laughs start coming fast and furious. I lose my sh** with Tom's, "He lives! But the vote shouldn't have been that close!" every time. And possibly the funniest moment in SNL history is Phil Hartman's psychotic ramble about "to wear the flesh.... so that his flesh becomes my key", complete with that moment when he finishes speaking and suddenly shifts his eyes to the side. Tim Meadows' sober outrage at the end is the capper.
Pure genius start to finish, and the best satire of cult-like, obsessive fan-worship in the structure of rationality that I have ever seen.
According to Fred Wolf, this was the first sketch he got on the air as a writer for SNL.
@@ianwallace3082 Oh, thanks! I didn't know Fred Wolf wrote it.
@@ianwallace3082 I am now a member of the Fred Wolf Fan Club.
By 1992 O'Brien had left SNL for The Simpsons.
Chris Farley's character is making fun of Jody Foster's stalker.
@@pashadyne Yes but it's still a reference to John Hinckley Jr.
And I like to think Phil Hartmans character is a homage to Buffalo Bill from silence of the lambs.
I forgot all about this sketch. Laughed way more than the audience did.
The messed up part of this whole thing is that I took the theme song at face value. One evening out with my now ex-girlfriend, I was feeling like I had finally arrived at peace’s front door. Big statement, I know, but it’s the only series of words that makes sense to clarify this… evening. Anyways, we arrived home at my apt, and as usual I came through the door and I drop kicked my jacket. I don’t know if I was chalk fucking full of young hubris, or if the theme song was somewhere deep inside back there, but I made a split second decision and drop kicked that stupid jacket… Well, she definitely glared, and that glare will now sit arrogantly in my frontal field and I don’t know what to do. Thank you Brocktoon, for everything else….
HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN THIS. IM IN LOVE WITH MR.BELEVEDERE
Cool. Now you can park in the handicap space.
I was actually in the Mr Belvedere Fan Club.
I wasn't even a big fan of the show, and I played outside most days. We didn't have cable so we had like 4 channels.
Anyway, must have been a rainy day and I was watching it and seen the info for the fan club, got an envelope and ask for a few $ to join.
Thaddeus and Big Bob were surprisingly good suggestions
Chris: I’m wondering, should we kill him?
Hank: For God sakes no!!!!
😂😂😂 I died
“Uh, we usually vote, Mr. Chairman.” 😂😂
Still miss Phil Hartman. His characters are sorely missed on The Simpsons and he was an underrated actor. He really was great at playing demented characters (Sprockets).
Mike Myers played Sprockets. Otherwise, I agree with everything you wrote.
@@FatalChaz33 Hartman played crazy characters on Sprockets. The one I remember the most was him playing a woman saying "house on fire house on fire"
@@FatalChaz33 Hartman played a very unattractive German transvestite on Sprockets.
to be born into new worlds where his flesh becomes my key
This sketch suddenly resurfaced from the back of my mind. I don’t know if it’s one of my favorite sketches, but dang it, it’s so bizarre that I can’t stop thinking about it. And because of that, it’s low-key one of the best.
Now I recall , thru the medicinal haze .... where I got my Nephew Brock’s nick name
It’s been nagging at me over three decades. 🤘
"We usually vote, Mr. Chairman." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Loved this sketch Phil Hartman, Norm Macdonald and Chris Farley miss those guys.
This and Sabra Price is Right. Tom Hanks always knocks the sketches out of the park.
IS Sony guts!
disco disco, good good. wish i could watch that one.
Is Zohan guts.
This is one of my alltime favorite snl skits. Gosh I miss Phil.
Wow I had not seen this sketch until now. It's brilliant.
Mr. Belvedere: We made My Two Dads look like Empty Nest
I don't get it.
@@jedijones Late 80s/early 90s mediocre television.
@@jedijones I think he's saying Belvedere was bad....but My Two Dads sucked even harder. And Empty Nest was slightly better than either. I would disagree. At least Reiser and Evigan on MTDs were decent.... Uecker was just horrible....and the rest of the cast not much better!!
Wow playing that TODAY may have been too real 😅😂...🤣😭😭
Capture moment of SO many new Stars on SNL.
Nailed it.
Damn this like a Mr Show sketch! Love it
Was Bob Odenkirk writing in this era? I'm too lazy to google.
@@mrconancat i think this was written by Adam McKay
@@samchampionlives I like the cut of his jib.
@@mrconancat Fred Wolfe wrote it.
This is one of the funniest and most random SNL skits ever!
One of the BEST skits ever.
I miss 90's SNL so much.
NO ONE LAUGHED AT THE WINE AND CAT FOOD JOKE?!?!?! Man how times have changed.
Terrible crowd
Fred Wolf’s SnL writing debut!
Awesome to hear the story behind it on Carvey and Spade’s podcast!
I love that Tom started the fan club and the crazies just instinctively latched onto it. Any fan community starts with noble, normal intentions (usually). But always get taken over by absolute psychopaths just because of their sheer force of will. Don't wanna make brocktoons skin into a key to new worlds? Sounds like a you problem pal.
JRE and the Black Keys brought me here. This is amazing.
This is so dark....but still so funny. And so much talent in one skit. I miss Farley and Phil.😢
Sketch. Please...for the love of SNL...they do "sketches":🙄😁🙄
The immediate subtle Brocktoon callback is so funny to me
😂It's crazy I actually remember this one when
it came out, the part at the end when he says,
"should we kill em?" 😂 That brought it all back😂
Who wrote this I wonder? Have to say Hartman may be the most brilliant live comic sketch actor ever.
Fred Wolf
...Ever think about the fact that this sketch inadvertently predicted the Rainbow Dash Jar?
Rip Bob Uecker.
Brocktoon! One of my favorite skits
3:38 "the votes shouldn't have been that close"
well we all learn a little something about our fellow "classmates" at some time or other
SNL was among Tom Hank's best work, he had a true comedic flair
The first Mr. Short Term memory was best and hard to find.
Had?
@@DCfromBC RIP
This is the greatest snl sketch of all time.
Hyperbole, anyone?
💯
Greatest snl sketch of ALL TIME hands down.
LOL...not even close.
I never thought about the connection with Jodie Foster. Amazing comment... Hinckley's attempted assassination of Reagan was in 81 and The Silence of the Lambs premiered in 91. This was performed in 1992.
Misery came out in 1990 and the sitcom star Rebecca Schaeffer was killed by a deranged fan in 1989.
Awww Chris Farley and Phil Hartman. 🤧
ikr
Sandler had me laughing.
I like how Sandler also wanted kill mr. Belvedere and Hartman's face when Chris suggested it is priceless
I _should_ appreciate the comic genius of Tim Meadows; I _shouldn't_ run around naked in front of his house screaming, "Can I buy you a fish sandwich?"