America mourns for a fallen hero. Aired 03/12/11
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"Ouch, I'm shot..." Pure comedy genius.
To this day, if I injure myself and say “ouch,” I usually follow it up with “I’m shot.”
The Jack Ruby reference was so brilliant it hurt.
For freakin' sure.....I laughed my old man ass off.
Also had a "Son of Sam" reference. The reporter asked him, "Mr.Stutts, why did you kill Buckwheat?" To which he answered, "I had to. My dog told me that he was the Anti-Christ."
There was also a Lee Harvey Oswald reference. Check out his yearbook picture as president of the "Future Assassins of America".
The thing that made this even more brilliant was that it wasn't a single skit. It was intersperse in small segments throughout the whole 90 minute show.
Hell they were committed to this premise in 3 shows in a row. Brilliant.
@@imrustyokay That's right. I'd forgotten about that!
They did a lot of pre taped sketches with Murphy, because he missed some live shows while on movie shoots. this was brilliant
Just like when Ragan was shot.
Yeah , it was done brilliantly. I miss those days when SNL was actually funny
On a later episode of SNL, we found out that John David Stutts was only a patsy when Alfalfa was revealed to be the one who actually shot Buckwheat. And that Buckwheat survived the shooting, but faked his own death and was living under a new identity. Alfalfa’s attempted assassination of Buckwheat was an act of revenge stemming from elementary school involving an incident where Buckwheat stuck a frog down Alfalfa’s pants in Ms . Crabtree’s class
Such a sick, twisted plan....I'm so glad to have seen it!!!😂😂😂
Bruh, you KNOW what they do to wistle blowers. Or do I need to remind you what happened to Stimiey and Frogbreath(RIP)?
So it wasn’t Gumby or Axel Foley ??
😂😂😂😂
"Mr. Stutts, did you kill Buckwheat?" "Sure!"
That was a great joke - as was all the interviews with people who knew him. "Do you think he killed Buckwheat?" "Oh, sure! It's all he ever talked about!"
That’s the part that cracks me up😂🤣
DAMMMM !!!!!......
"President of the Future Assassins of America" and "Most likely to kill Buckwheat" in the yearbook LMAO
@@hfontanez98 Not A Good SIGN ! Somebody Should Have Connected The Dots And Seen The Writing On The Wall !!!....This Tragedy Could Have Easily Been Avoided 😔 !!!....
“I had to kill him. My dog told me he was the Antichrist” 😂
Brad Lanky HAAHAAA!!!!
Would I dare cheer like Curly Howard going "WOOB WOOB WOOB WOOB WOOB WOOB WOOB WOOB," as he always does in the '3 Stooges' when you mocked Ted Koppel?
That was a direct reference to the Son of Sam killings
Which means Eddie Murphy retired from SNL.
For Adam Sandler; he was definitely fired from SNL, since he told the audience that.
I was sleeping over my cousin's house when this first aired. It felt like a real news report because they kept interrupting the other skits to bring more news. We were in hysterics! Great childhood memory!
"Brought to you by Mutual Life, because you could die tomorrow, just like John David Stutts!" I lost my shit on that one!!
No Ferguson?
IKR.
I laughed at Buckwheat's bodyguards all wearing sunglasses at night.
They just want to weave their storied lies.
That's to fuckin funny!
The guy with the sunglasses was Arsenio Hall
“Do you believe he killed Buckwheat?” “Oh yes, definitely. That’s all he ever talked about.” Everything about this satire is chefs kiss.
The “Hey Mr. Wheat!” nearly took me completely out! 😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂⚰️
My mom and I died laughing when they kept showing the assassination footage (a parody on the constant replaying of the Reagan assassination attempt) and then how they do a whole piece on the assassin just after the psychologist said the media encourages stunts like this because they spotlight the assassin almost to the point of glorification.
It was was moreso a parody of the JFK assassination, and the little shit Oswald's murder......
@@dme1016 Of course they incorporated aspects of the Kennedy assassination especially with the assassination of the original assassin himself, but this skit was prompted by Reagan's assassination attempt which had just recently occurred, especially the footage they played of the rapid gunfire as agents pushed Reagan back into the car. Furthermore it was a commentary on how all the recent assassinations & attempts (including the recent John Lennon assassination) focused on the assassin to the point of almost glorifying them, part of the problem as they explained in the "news" section of this comedy piece -- and then they proceeded to just that in the skit.
@@SWLinPHX No one wanted to glorify the little shit Oswald.....
I recall watching this live as a far too young kid and laughing hysterically while being completely confused
I was just thinking that
My friends and I would always yell “hey, Mr. Wheat”! Lol
Same here… especially when they do the slow mo of him being shot
Me too.that was the first time I watched snl. My dad was out of town and my mom let me watch it with her. I remember earlier in the episode when they did a slow pan up a dude wearing jeans, only to see Eddie at the end saying, 'hi I'm buckwheat '. At 6 years old, it was the funniest thing I ever saw and still may be to this day
"Mr. Wheat!" will never stop making me laugh.
Murphy's Stutts character is so comically unnerving
Yeah, like you could tell Stutts was comfortable at home during the early 80s and had enjoyed all the original Shaft trilogy and just wanted more action in his life. Stutts just wanted to get out.
At least Jack Ruby got him...
@@antonewilson4310 Who killed Jack Ruby? Tune in tomorrow on Nightline.
@@antonewilson4310 Jack Ruby or Ruby Jack
@@antonewilson4310 Easily! Arguably, this alleged guy is probably THE MOST HATED MAN IN THE WORLD (as of his arrest friday night). Fast forward to Saturday's transfer to arraignment. Now, where was that Police cordon of at least FOUR TO SIX MEN DEEP to properly insure this guy gets to the arraignment, hmm? The entire world sees an officer IN WHITE SUIT AND HAT (proper for late autumn weather) lead this guy out, handcuffed. Ask why the white attire? To make sure " YOU HIT HIM ...NOT ME, DAMMIT! SHOOT AWAY FROM MY WHITE SUIT AND HAT"! Sheesh!😖🤔
The man that played the church pastor was my maternal grandfather John Robert Evans. I miss you, Grandpa!!!!
Is that so?!?!
Nice to have someone famous in your family.
GENIUS stuff. Amazing they had the confidence to run this gag the whole show, just Murphy and Piscopo essentially. I remember watching it as a high school kid and laughing, but re-watching it now and realizing how smart this skit/episode is. “Oooooo, I’ve been shot.” LOL
In college, we were dimly aware of how brilliant Murphy is. But only dimly :)
It was the Eddie & Joe show. SNL knew where there bread was buttered and put them in every sketch as everyone else sucked.
"My dog told me he was the Antichrist" 😂 LOL 😂
The Little Rascal's Funeral March was priceless!
Quite possibly the greatest sketch ever produced by SNL.
“Ouch, i’m shot” 😂 5:30
😂🤣 I'm dying
LMAO!!!!!!!
I lost it at that part lol
He said it so nonchalantly 🤣🤣🤣
And then as they kept replaying it, it (ouch, I'm shot) would switch places. 🤣
Probably the most underrated sketch ever
One of my all time favorites!
I love it!!!
nah
Who killed John David Stutts? I would like to know.
I watched this when it was Live that night. TRUST it's not underrated. That's all we talked about in school the next day. As a matter of fact. I remember they (NBC) hyped up this skit waaay before it aired. I lived it. No disrespect but.......Your comment is false 😶
So everyone knew he wanted to kill Buckwheat but nobody warned him. Dang 😁
Tsunami Facts lol
"Ouuuuuuch, I'm shot." 😂🤣
Buckwheat was miraculously resurrected and performed on SNL last evening. 😉
He faked his own death, there was a sketch about it way back in the day.
Eddie Murphy did this because he was sick of doing the Buckwheat character... but then did another Buckwheat sketch where he reveals he faked his own death.
the magic of DNA and cloning
Praise the Lord
Dey was using banks 😁
I love how everyone that knew Stutts knew he was going to kill Buckwheat, but nobody said anything. :)
Definitely a prophetic comedy sketch.
Funny part was...nobody actually protected Buckwheat lol
@@jfilesgraphics lol! True. Gun shots started, everyone ran. "Hey Mr. Wheat!"🤣
@@zemxxi2765It was already a cliche. Oswald never shut up about Communist Russia even when he was in the Marines.
This was a genius move by Eddie Murphy, to avoid being typecast.
I think you meant, "This is when SNL was still funny."
If only he knew how big "Trading Places" was going to be. And then "Beverly Hills Cop."
@@UncleMikeNJ “looking good Louis”
@@ObamaFromKenya "Feeling good, Billy Ray!" 😁
Probably the best satire SNL has ever done. And I saw it live.
So did I. It was so funny because it was a reoccurring skit throughout the show and was totally unexpected each time.
The best satire SNL has ever done: brought to you LIVE, by Mutual Life: Because you could die tomorrow.
“Hey Mr. Wheat!” 🤣👏🏼
Probably the greatest segment SNL ever put on the air... Very prescient and edgy even now... Remember watching when it aired and thought it was absolutely brilliant!
They could never do something like this now, unfortunately. Too many overly-sensitive folks with no sense of humor now who bitch about EVERYTHING. I was a high school student in the 70's, and racism wasn't nearly as rampant as it is now (at least where I lived). I really think it has much to do with the fact that we were discussing racism more openly, and Norman Lear had a positive influence on that. The most popular sitcoms in that era were created by him, and they were very edgy. He wrote scripts that shone a spotlight on bigots, and the language they used. "Sanford and Son" was a great show, and wildly popular with people of all ethnicities. Redd Fox became a beloved star; strange considering he was formerly only known as a "filthy" underground comedian. The dialogue included most of the ugliest racial epithets (not bleeped out); not for a cheap laugh, but to expose those terms for what they are: stupid and hateful. Exposure has a way of taking power away from mere words, censorship gives those words undeserved attention by making them taboo.
So great because it parodied so many things. It was a spoof of the shooting of Reagan, which happened weeks before this. But then the expert says the news media wants to make these shooters famous, seconds after the expert they go wall to wall on the killer. Then they spoof Son of Sam and his dog. Then they spoof Oswald getting shot. You had to have lived thru Reagan getting shot and all the "lets look at the video tape" to really get the spoof. This segment was most of the show that week and IIRC might have been over 2 shows. The full sketch might have ran an hour. They even had the Pope gibing a eulogy in another language with subtitles. In the middle of it the subtitles said, "This was a tragedy. Maybe some of you have not seen the video tape, lets take a look......." Kind of so clever that it could not be topped.
@@realazduffman It was at the end of an ugly 20 years of publicized shootings, starting with JFK, then RFK, MLK, (attemped) George Wallace, (attempted) Gerald Ford, (attempted) Ronald Reagan ... it took Eddie Murphy to do this brilliant send-up, a generation that hadn't been funny and make it funny, the same way Richard Pryor did, without the profanity.
@@bostonseeker Don't forget John Lennon. The tragedy now is that just about all the shootings today are of not of famous people who are just going about their daily business; often school teachers and the kids they teach.
@@bostonseeker The Pope in 1981 as well.
At the 5:30 mark: "oouucchh. I'm shot." I hollered..😆🤣😅😃😂
northernsoutherngirl Hilarious!
@@conniehollins3185 IKR!! 😆😆
He said it so nonchalantly
😁😁😁😂
I'm in stitches now 😂😂😂
People described him as “A Loner” do you believe he killed Buckwheat?!?! Oh yea for sure!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's all he talked about.
This sketch is 20 years ahead of its time.
It was based off John Lennon's murder in December of 1980
And Eddie wanted to stop playing Buckweat
Actually based off of JFK. Lee Harvey Oswald. John David Stutts. 3 full names. Buckwheat gets shot and the world leaders all mourn
agreee
@@freddyrichards878 Stutts saying his dog told him to do it was a reference to Son of Sam.
Tupac didn’t come back. Elvis didn’t come back. Buckwheat actually came back. Buckwheat Illuminati confirmed
😂
Shut up
He really is the antichrist
I hate to think who else the Illuminati have in their membership.
Someone used the Dragon Balls (Yes, those Dragon Balls from Dragon Ball Z, Super, etc.) to revive Buckwheat.
Why does Joe Piscopo's Ted Koppel look like Dave Chappelle's white reporter?
Chuck Taylor LOL
Yup
Holy crap! You're right.
Because chapelles white reporter is ted.
I give up. Why?
" ow! I'm shot!" Same thing bobby Kennedy said when he got shot
They combined the Reagan shooting and the JFK shooting and made it hilarious, only Eddie Murphy could pull a stunt like this one off. Oh and they threw in the Son of Sam too, comical genius.
@Jonathan Kent I didn't see that in there, where Buckwheat got shot was the same set up that Reagan was shot, outside of his vehicle. The shooter getting arraigned and shot followed JFK and his dog telling him to kill and Buckwheat being the anti-Christ was Son of Sam. Lennon was shot at the main entrance to his apartment building in NYC. I didn't see anything like that, or any reference to his killer?
@@oveidasinclair982 the candles lit up is footage from John Lennon fans mourning the behind the music on him is here on KZhead.
@@darryljohnson4458 I guess so, some what of a stretch, my dads not home so I can't ask him, he was in his early 20's back then.
@Jonathan Kent I always thought that John David Stutts was the stereotypical 3 named assassin, like John Wilkes Booth (the actor who killed Abraham Lincoln), Lee Harvey Oswald (the alleged killer of JFK), and Mark David Chapman (the killer of John Lennon).
Don't forget the goose-stepping soldiers from Brezhnev's funeral the previous November; the former Presidents at the funeral of Anwar Sadat, October 1981; and the candlelight vigil outside the Dakota where John Lennon lived. The really hard part was convincing the Pope to participate. (Joke.)
this is an eerie precursor to the way that modern news stations will create elaborate, lurid feature presentations on those accused of heinous crimes and milk it for every possible effect.
That had been happening since Manson in 69.
This was satire at the time, but really doesn't go far enough by today's standards. Where is Mr. Stutts' manifesto? We don't even get any of his tweets which "foreshadowed the tragedy which was to come," let alone pictures and videos he had posted to his social media
Very true. At the time it was a parody of the way the news repeated the tape of the attempted Reagan assassination over and over again. Things have only gotten worse with the advent of cable news and the 24 hours new cycle which didn't exist back then.
And every news story no matter the subject or impact becomes constant BREAKING NEWS❗
yeah are you sure this isn't making fun of a contemporary phenomenon, and that maybe this is something that has been happening since before you were born?
Possibly the saddest episode of snl, the day we lost a legend 😭
March 19th, 1983, that's the real air date
Thnk u
A year and a half after Buckwheat actually died IRL. Oct of 1980
I was born 3 days later.
Yeah. No way it was 2011
What did buckwheat ever do to John David stuffs?
Wish they would have included the scenes with Mary Gross playing Alfalfa . Mary was a very underrated member of the SNL cast. Always a good supporting player
I agree! She was great. I wonder what happened to her? I expected her to make movies like so many SNL cast members. She has a very cute and likable persona, and could play a wide variety of characters.
Dang, the Alfalfa parts are what I remembered most about this back in the day.
@@LazyIRanch her brother is Michael Gross from Family Ties.
"Tom Smothers?..."
@@LazyIRanch Mary Gross, so underrated and a great cast member.
5:33 "OOOUUUCH, I'm shot!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Only Eddie could've played that role! 😂😂😂
Stutts has no eyebrows hahaha!! I love this. Hilarious
It's the style of today. I was ahead of my time.
I remember when this tragedy happened, and I will never forget where I was when I heard the news😢
Yeah...but do you think he killed Buckwheat?
😢😅😅😅😅
This is one of the greatest national tragedies. When Buckwheat died, a part of me died with him.
Ouch....I've been shot.
I remember seeing this episode when it aired. That line was one of my favourites. Another favourite....."Hey Mr. Wheat.............Yes.......bang bang bang"......hilarious.
@@fosterchild4523 I dont know what thats funny but it is. "Hey Mr. Wheat". LOL
Same level as Dave Chappelle: Undercover Brother: I'm hit!!! But, my vest caught it bitch...I'm alive!!!
Lol, he said "ouch, I'm shot"*
:35 " Hey Mr. Wheat" haha
I have a feeling Mutual Life had a part in this
"Because you could die tomorrow."
@@cpowers94 very suspicious if you ask me
Cashed Buckwheat's ass in like a two-dollar bill. F#*k.
Because you could die tomorrow
Did you kill buckwheat? Sure lol 😂
I was only 12 years old when this sketch came out. And it's still just as funny today. The funniest part was when JDS said "Ouch, I'm shot!"
Ive been binging on Eddie Murphy's SNL skits since his appearance yesterday and I can't stop! lol I know Im not the only one 🤣🤗
Same
Same here
Weres alec Baldwin and the trump skits? Get eddie to do Obama
You've got company from Holland! 😂🤣🙈😂
Yes Will not stop laughing I mean do you think he killed buckwheat he was such a nice person but do you think he killed buckwheat. yes a course I do.
Who’s here after Eddie Murphy’s return to SNL?
ME!!!!! PEEPING IT NOW...HEY MR WHEAT!!!! YES!!!
Nashville Boss Yup
me
Me
Me too
I remember watching this as a little kid, and believing it. I was a fan of Little Rascals, and my five-ish year old self was so upset that Buckwheat had died.
Well, Buckwheat had died about a year and a half before this skit was aired, I believe.
@@kari7403 he died 3 years before this sketch.
He actually died October 10, 1980. RIP: Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas.
When Mr Murphy found out about the real Buckwheat actor had passed away, Murphy decided to "kill off" his version of Buckwheat out of respect. A class act. Yes, he brought him back when Mr Murphy came back to SNL, but hadn't done the character after his 'death ' before then.
@@geraldstephens6612 That's an interesting footnote. Thank you.
@@geraldstephens6612 in actuality, the real Buckwheat was gone even before Eddie Murphy started doing the character.
John David Stutts, sound like Norbert. 🤣
I take exception to that. No, not me. It's my female Avatar (DCAU Supergirl). Don't get her too upset.
Norbit wasn't out of it like JDS. He had more energy. 😀
I’ve never seen them in the same place at the same time.....
Eddie Murphy is a legend.
Kids today don't know how huge & original young Eddie Murphy was. He was untouchable.
He was on another level
He was the Michael Jackson of comedy.
This always has me in tears! It will never get old. The sponsors too!! So underrated.
HEY, TIFFANY...HEEEEEEYYYY!
"Hey! Mr. Wheat!"
gjle For whatever reason, that "Mr. Wheat!" gets me every time.
@@Lethe69 Yes it gets me too.
Notice the Lee Oswald sweater. If Oswald hadn't demanded a sweater at the last minute, he would have been on his way out of the garage before Jack Ruby got there.
Murphy really nails down that stare. Great sketch
The only reason I bought a VCR was for SNL so I could go out Saturday nights. lol If I remember The Buckwheat Was Shot skit ran for 3 consecutive SNL's adding more to the story like a running news event would have run a story for a multiple days. I think this would have been part 3 of the Skit.
@@LazyIRanch What a NIghtmare your Brothers friend endured. Good on him for being productive but really tragic.
Piscopo did such an awesome impression of Ted Kopel, spot on.
"And this ... is Ted Koppel."
My favorite buckwheat song is wookin pa nub.
Bhahahaha mine too 🎵🎵🎵😂🤣😂🤣
In all da wong pwayces
I love babah ov di bill
Fee Tines A Mady is my jam, yo.
I tant help pawnin in nub with you
Hilarious how this predicted 24 hour news coverage. lol
CNN was launched on June 1, 1980, so no, they didn't "predict" it.
ssjup81 Exactly!!
Except it's exactly how they covered things like Reagan's attempted assassination and attempted assassin, and the assassins of people like John Lennon and the Kennedy Brothers. And gave so much coverage to Manson. And so much more. People think shit's new when it's old.
It didn’t predict it. You must be super young. It was making fun of the coverage that had already begun with Reagan’s being shot & the hostages crisis in 79, both covered 24/7 by Ted Koppel that was how ABC Nightline started; this was just spoofing that. It didn’t predict anything it was spoofing something that was already going on then. Just like SNL does today- it didn’t predict anything.
@@ns2110theonly Nope. I wasn’t born. I started elementary school during Reagan’s second term. lol. My 2nd grade class wrote letters to him.
"Ouch. I'm shot." 😂 I'm dead.
Overlooked joke: When the criminal psychiatrist mentions that irresponsible journalists turn criminals into instant celebrities, Ted Koppel (Piscopo) begins his monologue regarding John D. Stutts....making him an instant celebrity.
Joke divided by you =
"That's all he ever talked about."
This aired when I was 11 years old. At that point, it may have been the greatest thing I had ever seen on television. Friends talked about it for weeks afterward.
Prefect spoof of Lee Harvey Oswald
Oswald/JFK/Jack Ruby, Son of Sam and Reagan , watch it again, you'll see it.
And Mark David Chapman
@countrygirl countrymusiclover They blended all 4 shootings into the one that killed Buckwheat
The spoofing of the reporting is so real it's sad!
And John Hinckley Jr.
This was when people, including kids, stayed up to watch SNL
So true! Great memory. I was in 9th grade when this first aired.
well yeah. we have DVRs and internet video on demand now. why stay up late and be exhausted tomorrow when you can watch the full show anytime you want?
Some of us had recorders and wanted to stay up late to watch what Eddie did regardless. That's the difference.
@@tobro3000 to be fair those VCR recorders were a pain to program on a timer.
@@lulzalfest lol
This comment was brought to you by Mutual Life: Because YOU can die tomorrow.
yes!
Just like John David Stutts.
I will never forget being a little girl watching this with my sister. My mother heard the tv came in the room and she asked us who is Buckwheat we burst out laughing 😂😂😂
Watching right after eddie hosted in 2019 .. still funny
HEY MR WHEAT!!!!
Ikr
agree
He sure was a loner, going to church, being in organisations etc... 😂
One of my favorite classic SNL Buckwheat skits. I fondly remember as a kid of the skit the 1st time in the 1980s when Eddie Murphy (alongside Joe Piscipo) was the dynamic duo of skits and we're amazing together. Watching Eddie coming back to SNL doing Buckwheat once again (O tay👌🏿!) 30 years later is still funny to me.
Truly a sad day for the world. RIP Buckweat!
The Our Gang curse.
This sketch predicted the news cycle future 😳😳😳😳
It sadly did.
Not at all. You missed the point completely.
They were making fun of when Reagan was shot. The media kept showing it over and over. I guess that applies to everything now.
This is actually what happened when Reagan got shot
“Did you kill Buckwheat?” “Sure!” Hahahah
The news reporter looks like Elton John
Ahmaud Hines literally what I was thinking. It’s definitely the haircut
"LET'S TAKE A LOOK."
“Ouch!! I’m shot!” Lmfao. 😂 I fucking can’t !!!
I like that all of these sketches used to have really good social critiques and a reflection on society
That's what great comedy does.
RIP John David Stutts.
Who said I was dead?!?!
@@danielwong5378 the liberal media lol
@@joemixon834 Sure...because fox news always tells the truth, right???
@@danielwong5378 fox news is the liberal media too they are just a saltier flavor. Infowars man is where to go because if you're going there then go balls deep lol and they never lied about John David Stutts.
Buckwheat is ETERNAL! You cannot kill a LEGEND!!!
This is sick and freaking hilarious and too true
It's a parody of the Reagan assignation coverage in 1981.
and John Lennon..even more so
This is fn brilliant. So subtle, true, and hilarious at the same time.
John David Stutts was wookin pa nub in all da wong pwaces.
The gas prices really stood out.
I was just thinking that. I remember when gas was less than $2.
That $1.29 in 1983(Time of this SNL) is $3.38 in todays dollar.
Me too
That was a few years after the gas crisis. You could fill a tank with 10 dollars.
I'm so dang old, I remember when a gallon of gas and a pack of cigarettes cost about the same; @ 30 cents! A brand new Ford Mustang with a V-8 cost less than $3000 in 1965. Of course, the average wage then was only @ $3.00 and minimum wage was $1.25.
Lol @ "Hey, Mr. Wheat!" 0:35
Yes!!!!
"Did you kill Buckwheat?" Sure. "You realize you're going to face the death penalty?" I don't care sir.
Eddie was one of the greatest on SNL.
Yes he was. In 1985 that's when I stopped watching SNL it was no good without the not ready for prime time players, and Eddie Murphy.
1. Eddie Murphy 2. John Belushi 3. Dan Aykroyd
@@thecawdsquad875 4. Hartman 5. Myers
@@thecawdsquad875 Gilda Radner
I'd put him slightly second behind Dana Carvey as my favorite
Classic! "Hey Mr. Wheat!"
I remember screaming hysterical watching this very unexpected skit… pure comedy and humor never will there be such fun as the early SNL show … a must watch every week in homes and neighborhood bars you could hear the laughter roar soo very genius it was .
I think Mutual Life’s Marketing Director was a genius! “Because you could die tomorrow!” 😂
"Just like John David Stutts!"
He never had a chance to wear the suit he ordered from the tailor?! Oh well. Next up...the killer of Stutts... And the killer of that guy...
One of the very few times that SNL actually approached anywhere near the level of SCTV.
I think it's because this wasn't a live sketch. It was a pre-produced and edited segment, like SCTV's whole show was. Even today the SNL "digital shorts" seem to be a cut above the live sketches.
I just realized that all the peolpe that knew that Stutts killed Buckwheat could be persecuted.
Yes, indeed.
You mean prosecuted..lol
It was 1983. I was 7. And I'll never forget that night. 'Cause I really thought he died.
Facts! My sister was crying and everything!
Buckwheat really did die 3 years before this sketch but i get it as kids no one was really told right away I’d assume- made more ironic since all the same kids got to stay up and watch SNL ( not that I’m making fun of this fact- i think SNL is the honestly only helpful to kids between making the news relevant to them, funny even or at least ironic, and the proof in what hard work and a great sense of humor can do its my favorite show no matter what age and i show my kiddo skits now too on KZhead )
"Ouch! I'm shot."
I think you got the air date on this one wrong buddy.
Yeah SNL official KZhead page
More like 1983 lol I was 10yrs watching this skit now 46 lol
@@thinblacknoodles by '11 the comedians had long been fired and the makeover into political propaganda was finished. it aired in 1980 and i was in college. i was either watching snl or tom snyder or studying with my primitive calculator
@@jgunther3398 tour probably right, says alot about my parents but guess I got away watching because he was the funniest comedian and my mom would have murdered my dad if I was listening to Richard Pryor (which I sneaked to listen to him and Red Foxx,) back when my bestie dad kept the records in the house, never the less I miss those days 😳🤣