Name: Tom Green Might Have Written the Weirdest SNL Sketch of All Time
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Tom Green Might Have Written the Weirdest SNL Sketch of All Time' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-24. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Tom Green Might Have Written the Weirdest SNL Sketch of All Time' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-24. Transcript available.

Did you, when you hosted SNL, what was that like for? Do you recall kind of
some of the energy of that night?
It was, it was a wild, somewhat terrifying experience. You know, I, I had just
gone through some pretty, I'd gone through, just gone through surgery like a
few months ago.
From testicular cancer?
Yeah. Yeah. And I'd had this lymph node dissection and I was kind of like, it
had affected my sort of energy levels a lot. So it was kind of, there was a lot
going on in my life when I actually got the call to do that show and to do
Saturday Night Live. And, you know, it was really cool though.
The thing that was cool about it was, um, you know, Lorne Michaels, who's
Canadian and I was just so kind of, sort of, kind of sort of, uh, overwhelmed
that I was, it was asked to do it.
Right. Yeah. And, uh, I had a couple of friends who I grew up with who worked
on my show with me and I said, you know, can they come in and like kind of work
with me and do some, help write some skits and stuff.
So they gave us a little office and that stuff. We went in there, we were sort
of writing skits up and everything. And, uh, you know, they actually kind of
ended up giving me a lot of kind of creative freedom on the show to kind of
write sketches and stuff. And, um, you know, in hindsight, I kind of wish they
hadn't. No, like they had just written them themselves.
Yeah. Well, cause, cause we really kind of made some really weird fucking
sketches, you know, and I think maybe it would have been cool if I, maybe I'd
just gone in and done the stuff that they had written.
But like, I was, I was sort of definitely, you know, Freddie got fingered, hadn't
come out yet.
So like I, I was still kind of riding high on this hit show and we come in and
we said, okay, now let's write some crazy sketches. Right.
And, uh, I mean, the stuff we wrote was really, really weird, you know? And, um,
and, uh,
Were you intent on making it weird? Do you feel like, like, how weird can we
make this?
It's SNL, let's make it ours.
I think so. I think so. And, uh, you know, sometimes I think there was a miscon,
misperception maybe among some of the cast that I brought my own writers in,
which wasn't really the case.
It was more like, um, it was my buddies and I was, they'd come up with me with
the show. You know, it was kind of like we were, you know, when we made the
show in Canada, they, some of my friends came down with me to the States to,
Like this is part of the team. I want them to be included in the, in the, in
the, in the show. So we kind of went in and did that. But I mean, it's a, it
was an amazingly exciting experience. I mean, my parents were there on stage
with me, you know, um, you know, those, it was one of those things where you
kind of can't believe that you actually, that it actually happened while it was
happening.
You know, and, uh, I did a lot of sketches with Will Ferrell. One, one of the,
like, here's an example of something that I, I wouldn't say I regret this, but
like, uh, but, um, I kind of regret this. Um, so, so there was a, there was a
sketch where I'm a wizard and I'm holding a pig and like an actual pig.
And, uh, and it was Molly Shannon and, and Will and I'm a wizard and I didn't
really have any lines in the sketch or many lines in the sketch. It was mostly
Will and Molly were doing this, uh, sketching, but I noticed during rehearsal
that if I like, if I just kind of lightly sort of tickled the pig's belly with
my finger,
that it would start to squeal extremely loud. Right. And so I did that once
during rehearsal and then somebody said, Oh, you better not, um, you know, she'll
squeal if you touch her belly. And so I said, okay.
Oh yeah.
And there's a rehearsal show and then there's the actual show. Right. And, you
know, I kind of maybe regret this, but I did note that, okay, let's get through
the rehearsal show, but then live, I'm going to make that pig squeal.
Yeah. Oh yeah. So it did kind of, uh, no, but it was, it was kind of, uh, it
kind of threw the sketch off a little bit.
You just fucking kept squealing that.
I realized that it did kind of throw the rhythm of the, of the comedy off a
little bit, but, uh,
How many times did you squeal it?
It was just sort of became sort of a bit of a, a bit of a mess, but, uh,
And were you getting a squeal every time he touched his belly or did you have
to really?
No, I just had to kind of just lightly sort of pet her there and she would just
try, you know, so it was, but it was amusing to me, but I'm not sure if anybody
else enjoyed it that much.
Oh yeah.
But, uh, so.
My sister's like that. If you touch her lunch, you know, she fucking gets a
little animated.
If you grab any of her takis out of her little dish.
Right. It was like that. Yeah. So, so, but, uh, um, you know, it was, no, it
was an amazing experience.
I was total honor to be able to do it. And, you know, I mean, I, I, I, you know,
it was cool. I mean, the, the cast was Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, uh,
Chris Kattan, Molly Shannon, Anna Gasteyer, um, uh, Tracy Morgan.
And, you know, um, you know, there was, it's a weird environment like Saturday
Night Live, especially when you're young and you don't really know, like, you
know, we were talking earlier about like going to, you're talking about going
to Chris Rock's party.
And like, you didn't know how to act or whatever, cause there's all these
people here and it's just kind of complicated.
Yeah.
So you're getting thrust into an environment like that. And then it's, even as
the host, it sort of felt like kind of a competitive environment because, you
know, all the cast members are trying to write sketches and get them on the air.
Everyone, every week. And, and I didn't really know how it worked really at the
time. And in hindsight, I now realize how it works and I, you might've done
things differently.
But, you know, when we were trying to put these sketches on the air that we
were writing, maybe that was kind of pushing another sketch off and we didn't
really, I wasn't really thinking of it like that.
So it kind of created, it kind of, it's kind of a weird environment. And, you
know, the more I kind of, you know, sort of hear people on podcasts who've been
on the show, talk about the show, it seems like everybody's gone through that
experience who's been on that show where it's very competitive and, and
stressful for people.
And that made, that makes me feel a little bit better about my experience there
because, you know, it was, it was kind of, uh, uh, you know, a stressful
experience, you know, cause you know, everybody's going to be watching the show.
It's live. And, uh, you know, I'm, uh, you know, you're doing all this weird
stuff. That's not necessarily, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm a little bit out of
my element.
I didn't do sketch comedy. Yeah. That's scary. So it was, it was, it was, but
it was cool.
It sounds like it's par for the course a little. Cause yeah, I mean, even Adam
Sandler the other night was singing.
He had a musical tribute that he did to the 50 years. And, um, he referenced a
couple of times about people having sketches that they wrote that didn't get on
the show.
So I think that seems like it was just a weekly occurrence. And of course you
want to go in there with a little bit more comfort zone for yourself.
You know, it's like, yeah, if we can write a couple of them or we can have some
manipulation over them, it's probably going to make you feel more comfortable.
You know, another thing that was weird that happened on the show. So like, so
there was a sketch that I did.
Oh, it's called a sketch. Like I did with Will Ferrell, where we're both
dressed as eagles.
And, uh, this was one of the ones that my friends and I wrote. Okay.
It's sort of hard to sort of say that we wrote it, but the sketch was, uh, you
know, uh, Jimmy Fallon and, and Molly Shannon are looking at Will and I, who
are eagles, right?
We wrote this out by the way, on paper and handed it in. And then they said to
do it.
And then, uh, Will and I, uh, decide to fly up into the audience. Okay.
And, uh, I thought it would be fun to go in the audience. So we fly into the
audience, uh, and then we chew up carrots and then, uh, I believe Will chews up
a carrot and I believe he sort of spits the carrot into my mouth.
Um, and then kind of, we end up sort of, uh, cause you know how baby birds will
chew up the food and feed it, uh, mother birds will chew up the food and make
it easier for the baby to eat.
So this was the sketch we did. Um, but so, oh God, so somehow I kind of maybe
probably would have been better if we just kind of did the sketches that, uh,
that their writers had written.
Oh God.
Yeah.
And these are both males, huh?
Yeah. So, so we're doing this. Yeah, exactly. So we're doing this.
What zoo is that at? That's what I'm talking about. That's the West Hollywood
Aquarium right there, brother.
Yeah. So we're doing this sketch, this, this skit. And, uh, so, you know, when
you host the show, you got to run to get ready for the next sketch.
Cause you got to shake off your Eagle costume and put on another costume, right?
Another. And so, so I'm running down the stairs and I'm running through the
backstage area and just sitting in the darkness, you know, just backstage, Tom
Hanks is just sitting there in front of a monitor watching the show.
And I'm in the Eagle costume. I just done that. I make eye contact with Tom Hanks.
So now I'm like, I was already kind of nervous. Now, like I got Tom Hanks in
the, in the dark watching.
And I'm going like, Oh, how did that Eagle sketch go? You know, and I'm sort of
getting ready for the next sketch. Not sure how the Eagle sketch went and Tom Hanks
is watching.
So it kind of throws you a little bit, but then there's a big after party after
the show. And Tom Hanks was real nice. And he, you know, was hanging out,
talking to my parents and stuff.
And so it was pretty cool, but no, it was an amazing thing. It's a, it's a kind
of thing though. Like, it's kind of like you go, geez, it would be nice to be
able to do it again someday.
Because I think like doing it the first time is, is sort of so, uh, I don't
know that that would ever happen, but, uh, you know, probably in an alternate
universe, I might be able to do it again someday, but, but, uh, you know, like
you go, okay, I sort of understand how the system of it works now.
And, um, and, uh, it, it would be, uh, you know, probably, you know, I probably
would not have done that.
Yeah. But also it's great that you did though. It's so epic.
Yeah.