But don’t say I didn’t warn you - you’re going to need at least one tissue to wipe away all those tears of hilarity. Explore Anna Ms board 'The Lawrence Welk Show', followed by 310 people on Pinterest. I don’t question miracles, and The Lawrence Welk Show is nothing if not a heavenly gift bestowed upon us by a higher power. I joined America last Saturday night, eager to watch one of the SNL’s most anticipated hosts, Betty White. Honestly, I can’t for the life of me explain why it’s so funny as to turn me into a teary, shaky, hysterical mess every time I watch it, but the fact that it does is good enough for me. Saturday Night Live Lawrence Welk Cold Open Video NBC.com.
This is probably why the one and only skit out of this entire season to make me literally convulse with laughter, tears streaming down my face so hard I could barely see, was The Lawrence Welk Show from episode four, with Anne Hathaway hosting.Īlmost the entire episode was good - for this I give credit to Anne Hathaway for really selling her characters - but in this particular skit featuring Amy Poehler, Anne Hathaway, Casey Wilson and Kristen Wiig as a group of singing sisters gone horribly wrong, it was Kristen Wiig in all her baby-handed, big-foreheaded glory that really did it. Maybe that’s because I’m no longer 14, but I like to think I’m as immature as I ever was, at least where comedy is concerned. Still, the show on a whole just doesn’t make me laugh like it used to. Towards the end of the 90s, I drifted away and only recently have started to watch again on any regular basis. I’m talking back in the days of Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer, Chris Kattan and Molly Shannon. Morgan in an interview with Al Sharpton, an insurance agent reluctant to sing karaoke, a dad on a soap.
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Mick Jagger hosts: he plays a movie action hero who discloses his real personality on a game show, a London economist speaking for J.P. Once upon a time, I was a hardcore SNL fan. Lawrence Welk takes us to Italy where Johnny Prosciutto sings to the Merril sisters from the Finger Lakes.