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Before vacationing, Tom Brokaw covers possible headlines regarding President Ford death possibilities. Aired 10/26/96
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When Ford passed away in '06, I messaged my brother as soon as I got home from work. His response: "He was not eaten by wolves. He was not delicious."
He's a former President, you're saying he's not delicious?
So funny!!!
Is that what u saying he not delicious?
Omg so funny.
Just a little bit of salt and Garlic and FORD would taste absolutely Devine!
I was a teenager when this sketch was done and I literally was crying laughing so hard on the floor.... "He's a former president, Tom. What are you saying, he's not delicious?"
Same. 90s Golden age of SNL….
I still cry from laughing and I have now seen it countless times.
This one brings the real laughter
I'm laughing just reading your account!!
Same, I was a teenager too when I saw this on SNL. I laughed my ass off.
“Would I still be the anchor if Zimbabwe invaded us?”
“Yeah, if you break the Gerald Ford story.”
Hum-bu-hum-bu-we Gerald Ford
(click click)
“Oh sure you’re not gay right now but then one day you wake up you like men, Gerald Ford dies, and we’re screwed.” 😂
“Everyone’s hearing about it from Dan Rather” 😂
"He was...delishus." Literally crying rn, one of their best ever skits.
"Gerald Ford is not gonna be eaten by wolves"
"Taft was."
"Really? Taft?"
For all those people that think they are going crazy from remembering this as a Dana Carvey Show sketch, you aren’t crazy (well not entirely). That episode never aired but later that year (1996) Dana hosted SNL and re-did the sketch with Robert Smigel reprising his role as the voice of the producer.
That's Jim Downey, not Robert Smigel, as the voice/producer.
@@jpiii8887 - and we learned form Strike Force Five that this was written by Steven Colbert and Louis C.K.
I had the most hilarious experience meeting Tom Brokaw in the late nineties in West Cornwall, CT, where I lived and worked at the time. He was an avid fly fisherman and had a place there and another in Montana. I was working at one of the very few businesses in the tiny town, a pottery store that had gifts and furniture, and we had an extremely rustic grandfather clock right in front, easily visible through the front door. He popped in one summer morning, surprisingly tall and fair, sans makeup, and looking around nervously as if for paparazzi, inquired, in his inimitable, singular, hilarious way, "How much for the - cl000ck?". I almost fell over, laughing. He was a real life parody of himself. It was a priceless moment...
How can there not be more to that story... c'mon, dude
@@cbrown8814 there isn't. It was just a priceless, perfect, hilarious moment.
cl000k 💀
@@fatdaddync that wouldn't have been nearly as interesting, and it would have been predictable and trite.
Pretty cool, thanks!
Robert Smeigel probably wrote this as you can hear his voice! Greatest SNL writer of all time! Genius 🕺🏻
I thought that sounded like Smeigel, saved me some googling. Also interesting tidbit about Colbert.
Colbert actually wrote it
He sounds like his George W Bush Conan impression lol.
I don't believe that. Smigel actually has genuine comedic talent. By contrast I've known about Colbert since the late 2000s and I've never laughed at anything he's done, it's just one neverending smug sneer of liberal contempt. I think Smigel's a much better candidate for the author, regardless of what anyone says.@@eyalshachar1831
Colbert and Louis C.K. wrote it. They were guest writing for Dana (they were writers on The Dana Carvey Show at the time).
I remember seeing this sketch live on TV. At the end of the episode before the end credits, Dana Carvey iterated that Gerald Ford was in fact alive and well. Ford went on to live 10 more years afterwards.
But Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead
@@FZeroDragon, not because he was attacked by a Gay lion, either.
Dude, I was a kid watching this! I remember everything, and I'm dying watching this now!
@@robertsprouse9282 but was delicious.
...until he was senselessly eaten by wolves.
To this day, one of the all time classic skits. We still quote this regularly. Priceless.
I drive through an intersection at Gerald Ford Dr. in my town at least a few times a week. I cannot help but say “Ggherald Fhord died today…” every time. I can’t stop myself! I try!
“You’re not gay now, but one day you wake up, you like men, Gerald Ford dies, and we’re screwed!”
is one of the greatest comedic lines ever written.
My 84 year old dad and I were saying Gherrald Fhord until the day he passed away l
"...at the senseless age of 83.". :D
Possibly the number one SNL clip of all time. Its impossible not to laugh
This is pure gold...I remember keeling over with belly laughter at this when I was a kid.
As a historian, I can confirm that William Howard Taft indeed died after being viciously attacked by a pack of wolves. Senselessly.
Was he delicious?
@@glenbard07That part was embellished somewhat. He actually tasted fine. Just fine.
Dana Carvey is brilliant! What a great Brokaw impression! Thank you CZcams for making this available so I can see it again.
My favourite was "Gerald Ford shot dead today at the senseless age of 83." 😂😜
Me too!!! I'm not joking at all 😂
One of the best sketches ever from the Dana Carvey Show. Glad they redid it on SNL since it they didnt air the last DCS episode.
I love the guy feeding him stories. “It’s a former President- what are you saying, he isn’t delicious?”
This has been showing up on my suggested list for over a week and I have avoided watching it. Today, because there was nothing interesting to look at I, decided to try this. This is literally the funniest SNL skit that I have ever seen. And I go all the way back to the 70's with this show. this was a creative comedic masterpiece.
"Today, you're not gay, you know, then one day, you wake up, you like men, Gerald Ford dies and we're screwed!".😂
Greatest line I've ever heard.
Lost it at "Taft was."
Really, Taft? 😂
Yeah, now I gotta google it...
@@joecoupon8299 Checked it and seems it's not true unless wolves somehow invaded his house.
@@svavarkjarrval8757 Wolves invaded his House, senselessly. Sans Leashes, as well.
Unknown soldiers tomb since WW2..big Winston Churchill fan
I love how Brokaw appears to find it more probable that Ford would be chopped into little bits by the propeller of a commuter plane versus being eaten by wolves.
Yup! It's a nice subtlety that most of us probably wouldn't notice without repeated listens. This entire bit is just ridiculously well written and executed!
"Gerald Ford was chopped into little bit by the propeller of a commuter plane"🤣🤣🤣
This is easily one of my favorite SNL sketches of all-time. 😂
I keep telling you people, Dana Carvey is an f'ing genius.
What do you mean, “you people”?
@@angelofverdun456 You, specifically.
@@daveguy11 oh... thank you!
He is. This sketch was hilarious! I don't know how many times I've watched it. t keeps me laughing every time
What’s with calling us “you people,” you freakin’ racist! 😉
Yes, Dana Carvey is goddamn GOLD!
"Gerald ford dead today after being senselessly mauled by a circus lion in a convenience store" is permanently etched into my brain from the first time I saw this 🤣
One of the better skits on SNL I have ever seen. Great stuff.
"Tragedy today as Gerald Ford was eaten by wolves. He was delicious." Still cracks me up after all these years XD
"Don't you think that's superfluous?"
I'm going on record in saying this is one of the top 5 sketches ever by SNL. "Really Taft?".
"It's a FORMER PRESIDENT, Tom, what are you saying? He's *not* delicious?"
Gerald Ford being mauled by a circus lion at a 7-11 is "on-brand" as we say!
LOL...and that line was delivered so well.
Okay?!
I know really?
Robert Smigel is the voice of the producer. This was also an unaired sketch from the Dana Carvey Show and re-used on SNL.
Huh, kinda weird that the show would upload it on their channel. Seems more like something an amateur fan would do.
He could have done the voice of Triumph the Insult Dog. Would have given it an edge.
@@freddyrichards878 The skit was originally filmed for the Dana Carvey Show but was never aired. They then re-did the skit on SNL so this is the SNL version of the skit.
Senselessly, did not know Dana Carvey had a Show.
Ah yes I didn't have to scroll far. I was wondering if it was smigel.
Who would have ever guessed that Ford would really die ten years later at the senseless age of 93?
Took me by surprise, I can tell you that!
Lol
Lol
This is one of the funniest sketches ever lol nice job of the writers, excellent delivery by Dana :-)
This was written for the Dana Carvey Show on ABC, which cancelled the show and wouldn’t air the episode that included this skit.
@@jeffreyturkell4959 wow! Great tidbit! Who is reading the words back to dana? It sounds like smigel? Or downy?
@@seanmurphy26 I think it’s Smigel, who likely did the same thing a few months earlier when they did this bit on the unaired episode of the The Dana Carvey Show.
@@seanmurphy26 It's Smigel. The sketch idea came from Colbert, who was watching a CBS news feed in the building of Dan Rather reading off a bunch in advance of Reagan's death. Colbert and Smigel started riffing on the ideas, then Louis CK added a few touches to it.
When you start a propeller airplane engine, you always have to yell out "clear," like with a defibrillator. Just in case Gerald Ford is standing there.
The narrator is Robert Smigel yes? One of the all time classics of sketch comedy whether SNL Or Dana Carvey show.
The off-screen director is hysterical.
That's Robert Smigel.
Well Tom Brokaw is now retiring, so I'm just here remembering this classic sketch.
Same!
Me 3
Meyers did a joke about the teleprompter being how he found out and it immediately made me look up this sketch lol!
Dittoooooo
So funny. In his interview on the Late Show, Carvey credits Colbert with writing this sketch.
This is comedy gold
"Stunning news...as Richard Nixon's corpse climbed out of it's grave and strangled Gerald Ford to death" and "Gerald Ford was mauled senselessly by a circus lion in a convenience store" 🤣🤣 Thanks for the belly laughs Dana!
I love the photo of Richard Nixon as he crawled out of his grave and strangled Gerald R. Ford. That one had me on my ear!
Tha
You could totally see Nixon revived by his burning rage at all of humanity and doing this.
I remember watching this bit live when I was a kid, and I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe.
"Gerald Ford shot dead today, at the age of 83."
"Add the word 'senseless' in there."
"Gerald Ford shot dead today, at the senseless age of 83."
My favorite part in the whole skit. I couldn't stop laughing.
same. always been my favorite joke from the bit.
When Ford died, the announcement came at 1130pm on a Saturday. I was watching NBC. It took me a minute to realize it was real and not Dana Carvey!
I wonder if Gerald Ford ever saw this.
Not before the wolves got to him.
2:36. “Tragedy today as former President Gharall Foard was eaten by wolves . . . he was delicious”. LOL
2:26 - great. Now I have to look up if Taft was eaten by wolves (for the record - he died in his bed...eaten by podiatrists).
This was one of those sketchs I had to pause because I was laughing so hard.
Those “alright, alright” transitions are perfection! 😂
Comedy for me growing up wouldn’t have been the same without Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman. (Throw in John Ritter and Eddie Murphy). My skits, sitcom, and movies. My favorite Standup came later in life. Chapelle.
Pure genius from Robert Smigel, Stephen Colbert, and Louis C. K.
They wrote this?
@@squamish4244 Yup. This sketch actually came from the old Dana Carvey Show. The episode it was supposed to be on never aired so they put it on when Carvey hosted SNL. Colbert saw Dan Rather doing a lot of pre-tapes for potential news stories and mentioned it to Smigel, who then took that idea and began expanding on it. Colbert and Smigel wrote the first draft and Louis added the more oddly specific things like "chopped into bits by a plane," etc.
@@Toast960 I didn't know Colbert wrote for SNL, but it doesn't surprise me. He is IMO the funniest Late Night comedian. I know he has writers, but some of the humour sounds like it came right from him. I also like that he does his own sketches, which Jon Stewart didn't do, he never came out from behind that desk for some reason (he does now).
@@squamish4244 in a round about way, this sketch is repurposed from an entirely different show. Colbert had a failed audition for SNL shortly after that and Tracy Morgan was chosen over him
That line about "one day you wake up, you like men, gerald ford dies, and we're screwed" I could hear it in CK's voice, had to be him
I always end up in tears laughing watching these old SNL classics . Carvey, Hartman, Mc Donald, Nealon, Kittan, and all the women,,Otteri etc...funny as hell
JAN HOOKS, too, R.I.P.
One of my favorite skits from SNL, great stuff!
Did you know this sketch was actually from the Dana Carvey show? This sketch was part of the last episode, that was never aired. You should look up old sketches from that show they're hilarious.
@@mauktenbrink9211 ha ok thank god I was like this isn’t from snl, thought I was getting Alzheimer’s in my early 30s
@@dansoderburg1854 I saw the skit on SNL when it was first shown. Interesting to learn that it was brought over from another show.
@@mauktenbrink9211, he first, or secondly, did it on SNL.
This is such a classic. To this day I always think of this skit when I see old Tom Brokaw clips
It's more like him than the real him.
I remember watching this live. It’s still a riot.
Oh come on, Gerald Ford isn’t going to be eaten by wolves.
Taft was.
Really? Taft?
Every time I hear Taft in any context whatsoever I say "Really Taft"?
@@clebo99 SAME!
I dunno, that's quite a task for the wolves!
@@clebo99 me too. Too bad it don't happen that often
I am not sure any SNL sketch has ever made me laugh this much.
✌️
One of my favorites
This skit is one of the funniest skits ever produced! It never ceases to make me laugh hysterically, even though I've seen it dozens of times! Dana Carvey is brilliant and whoever wrote the script is outstanding! 😂
@1:59 master class in keeping it together
Is that Robert Smigel voicing the off-screen prompts? This sounds like a bit he would have written.
Really, Taft?
That "he was delicious", nixon and gay part though
I can't stop watching this! One of the funniest sketches ever!
When gerald ford died, this is all I could hear. He was delicious.
Gerald Ford really died on December 26, 2006, ten years after this SNL sketch and a day after Christmas 2006 making Christmas 2006 his last Christmas ever.
I frequently say “Gerald Ford” out loud in the voice and no one ever knows what I’m referencing
aparently this was co-written by Stephen Colbert as discussed on the strike force five podcast.
The Dana Carvey Show, anyone?
Me....
Watch the show, already is one
I prefer this version, which was the original one.
Yeah I remember his show back in the 90’s. It not only had lots of crazy, over the top, skits but crazy titles as well. Like the “Taco 🌮 Bell 🛎 Dana Carvey Show”. It was utterly ridiculous but always made me laugh. It also featured future comedy stars like Colbert and Louis CK. Incredibly, that show only lasted 1 month before it was cancelled.
This was one of the best ones ever. Totally cracks me up. Under appreciated in my book.
'Gerald Ford dead today from an overdose of crack cocaine.'
Dead. 💀🤣
On another note, this video has been on CZcams for almost five years as of 2018, and it only has about 7K views? That's a damn shame.
Edit: Near the end of 2022 this video now had over 210K views. Good to see it's getting recognized for the brilliant bit of comedy that it is!
Carvey's delivery of the line "crack cocaine" is so on-point Brokaw.
How does this not have more views??????
I love how the pictures change, i.e., wolves, lion, Nixon.
I can't believe the view count.
People still can' t appreciate Dana Carvey Show Humor.
My favorite bit was Carvey playing Strom Thurmond and Bob Smigel playing Bob Dole. Carvey also plays Ted Koppel. czcams.com/video/XAkBQ3Z-SVY/video.html
Today's SNL is a humorless shit-show. Stop Now Lorne, Still Not Laughing.
Zherald Ford, dead da'day lol
I was a kid when this first aired. I didn't even know who Tom Brokaw was but thought this was funny as hell. Later, when I became aware if him I always thought about this sketch and realized he really did talk like that.
This is one of those skits that always stuck with me.
That sketch written by Stephen Colbert, no less.
This shows that Colbert used to be funny in the past ...
I can’t stand Colbert
*I believe this was written by Robert Smigel.*
I was telling someone about this sketch just yesterday. And then it randomly pops up today. Nice.
I remember crying laughing when this aired.
For context this was based on an actual wild satellite feed where Brokaw was pre-recording obituaries.
This is my pick for best SNL sketch of all time.
I remember first seeing this on the Dana Carvey SNL dvd set. Laughed til I cried
I love this sketch
My goodness, this is hilarious! This should have more views... 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for this Colbert.
I didn't want this to end.
Just found out that Stephen Colbert wrote this sketch 😄
"Today you're not dead, you know? Then one day you wake up, you like men, Gerald Ford dies and we're screwed!"
And everyone's hearing about it from Dan Rather.
69th like
95 people upvote this, and he got the quote completely wrong.
“... Heighty-three.”
I remember this like it was yesterday! So funny!
Nick Mason of The Weekly Planet loves this sketch 😂😂
In the top 5 funniest SNL skits of all time
Pod Save America has me watching this for the first time. Amazing.
I think that voice is Robert Smigel 😂
I still die at "Taft was."
One of the funniest pieces out there
What a great sketch lol
Classic was watching this live as a teenager
Strike Force Five! ⚡️⚡️
spot on brilliant impersonation.