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A look at the future from the distant past of 1976. Aired 10/23/76
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This is so funny to watch because it was made 45 years ago and takes place 22 years ago. We are literally as close to the sketch as they were.
same distance now
Elon Musk's children all grown up.
YUP!!!
And the game board is so low tech.
They did get the prediction of the Jeopardy host correct. The late great Alex Trebek did end up having a white afro. RIP
I love how Don Pardo was original announcer of Jeopardy and actually plays himself in the sketch!
And he could have been the announcer in 1999 too.
@@johnpat3622 Don Pardo lived to 2014.
He was the announcer on SNL
"hrm, what kind of wardrobe should we do for the sci-fi future sketch?"
"Aw, let's just use the costumes from the Star Trek sketch..."
Weird to see an SNL Jeopardy sketch where they actually know the answers xd
And Sean Connery not berating the host, nor saying he was shagging the host's mother.
Or with a host that berates one out of the 3 contestants for not knowing their culture plus complaining about the show's lack of production values because it's named " Black Jeopardy"
Weird to see an SNL sketch that's funny
Of course, the contestants are not celebrities
@@hydehouse THAT was funny to you?
I remember the 70s well having gone from six to sixteen that decade. 1999 sounded like the distant future. Twenty years in the future is 2041. I just hope we get there. Party like it's 1999.
I've always been curious of people who grew up/lived in the past decades of this very thing. I'm an 80s baby, grew up in the 90s and an adult in mid 2000s/2010s+.
This skit is parody of the show "Space 1999".
@@mrchopsticks3 It's a parody of lots of things. I remember 1999, but in those days people wore Next Generation Star Trek uniforms not the original series uniforms. What a dumb prediction! I think the Chevy Chase joke was my favorite.
@@trevorp.c.harkenrider857 Me too. I had a great-grandmother who was born at the end of the 1800s. I met her when I was tiny because she lived to be something like 102, no kidding. My grandma, her daughter lasted a long time, too. I can't imagine lasting that long.
Remember why Y2K was such a concern?
Because everyone just put in 12/31/99 as the far in the future date in their computer code. I remember doing that in Fortran.
You couldn't put the year 2000 in that because there was only 2 digits you could use for a year to save memory.
That Chevy Chase clue was Streets Ahead.
The answer turned out to be mostly accurate. After his post-SNL success and stardom in the 1980s, his career was DOA after the 1993 megabomb The Chevy Chase Show. He's never recovered, even sabotaging himself. 1999, this was pretty accurate for the guy who had a cameo in "Snow Day".
Cool cool cool
Now I get that Family Guy joke lol hahaha!
Hey buddy, You’re streets ahead!
Feels so weird to watch a SNL Jeopardy sketch without hearing "We meet again, Trebek!"
Don Pardo does a good Don Pardo impression.
Lmao
Or so the Germans would have us believe.
I was disappointed, though, that we didn't get any Rice-a-Roni in the prizes.
In all futures and pasts, in all timelines, Steve Martin has white hair :-)
😂
It's weird to see jeopardy with the candidates giving correct answers and without Sean Connery
Sean Connery didn't like this hosts mother it appears.
@@Silvers24 Some might say this joke came 2 years to late, but for me it just came right in time to put a smile on my face before I go to bed. Thanks
@@rafaelkresmar3998 I was hesitant at first. Enjoy your sleep. :D Sean Connery now has a whole host of Hosts Mothers he can get acquainted with now. :)
It's also odd to not have Will Ferrell as the host
@@michaelreilly6874 He wasn't born yet... You do know the world existed before you were born don't you?
When 1999 was more than twenty years in the future rather than nearly twenty years in the past. Sigh.
i feel that more than i probably should. man...sigh.
@@ariax9194 ...Yeah? Were you correcting someone?
@@thorbre577 I was but I read the statement that I was correcting incorrectly so that was my mistake
Math, amirite
Yea when I saw this back in 75 I thought man 1999 that is a shitload years away now man I can't even think that far back!!!!
It's Bob Ross Star Trek
This aged well..."Mutant Viruses"...
yep, 2020 says so.
I'd say you're correct. "Young Republicans terrorist group."
What is the Delta Variant?
Yep, they couldn't "know" about COVID but wow, yeah that's pretty weird.
The audience laughed like they were living in 2022
Fun Fact: This was Steve Martin’s first sketch during his first hosted episode. It was also the only one when Chevy Chase was a cast member.
Love that they factored in inflation 😂😂
Inflation was high during this time and it wouldve been at those Jeopardy prize prices if they didnt fall dramatically in the early 80s.
Gawd, they hated Chevy Chase...this is a hilarious and telling clip
What?!? No “Potent Potables”?
and sean!!!
I’ll take “I have a cHARDONnay” for 600, Alex
P.S.: R.I.P. to the real Alex, Sean, and Turd Ferguson
This is years before the Alex Trebek version of Jeopardy....the 70s version was a total different show. The Trebek version was a reboot half a decade after the last one (parodied here) was cancelled.
Pfft, what do you mean? This is Jeopardy 1999. The celebrity Jeopardy was at its peek then!
In the distant future of 1999 mankind no longer partakes of such crude fermented grain-based drinks, instead their nutritional supplements are adjusted to their individual brain chemistry to provide optimal productivity and social integration.
Yep, I remember growing up in the 90's and everyone DEFINITELY had those awesome fros
You have the dates all wrong. You must mean the 60s and 70s.
@@whipsmartchris Was being a little sarcastic, to be honest, but looking at the post, I can see where tone was lost hahaha XD But stil, it would've been so cool to see those fros in the 90's XD
@@chrismaddock5790 Nope, I can be sarcastic but I wasn’t be sarcastic with my comment. I was correcting your timeline. Afros were not a “cultural thing” in the 90s. If it was known for anything hair wise, it would be the grunge look (which involved more than just flannel).
@@whipsmartchris woosh!
@@whipsmartchris Wow you're really out of time if you don't think afro's made a come back in the 90's. Dude use the internet to educate yourself instead of watching SNL clips. Please.
Love when Steve says Donnnnnnn Parrrrrrrrdo!
I absolutely love the implication that even in some weird Orwellian future with test tube babies where people are given codes rather than names... Don Pardois still there chugging away as the same announcer.
And if a Fleming version still existed in 1999 for real, he'd have still been there I suspect, which makes the whole thing funnier.
This skit is over 45 years old. Crazy to think about.
Mutant Virus as a category! Yea, we in 2020 get the joke.
It's funnier now in 2020 and 2021 but I wonder how it as funny back in the 1970
@@primrosejones8406 we were laughing our asses off.
Notice how the Jeopardy 1999 logo resembles the "Space 1999" TV show logo?
4:42 smooth recovery stevo
I guess I must have missed out on the wearing Star Trek uniforms fad in 1999
That last question was such a missed opportunity. They should have had the last person guess Lee Harvey Oswald and then the host says "no, that's who was originally arrested for it, but it turns out it was ____ on the grassy knoll the whole time"
I looked it up, and the Three-Mile Island was in March 28, 1979, and this skit is from 1976 so people were worried about nuclear accidents even before the accident.
There had been a few before Three-Mile. Most notably one in Czechoslovakia earlier in 1976. Plus whenever you put nuclear in front of anything, it tends to get attention.
Just finished worrying about, mutually assured self destruction.
Now we have, an aggressive China, promising to build, 3000 nukes.
This was NBC in 1976. Star Trek was originally NBC. Those are probably the original shirts Kirk, Spock, and crew wore on the original series taken from the prop closet.
I bet those are quite valuable now.
They're the Star Trek uniforms used on a previous sketch with John Belushi playing Captain Kirk, with the star fleet insignias removed, which were bought at a Star trek-themed New York City store called The Federation Trading Post. fanlore.org/wiki/Federation_Trading_Post#From_a_Fan.27s_Recollection
I was going to say probably not, because of the rank stripes being all over the place, but then I remembered that they took the stripes off for cleaning, so maybe.
Of course, Star Trek was produced in Hollywood by Paramount (originally Desilu), who sold the show to NBC, and SNL was filmed in New York City by NBC itself, so they would have to have purchased or rented the costumes from across the country.
Most likely, with Star Trek surging in popularity in syndication during the mid 70s, someone just bought some well-made costumes at a costume store, or just bought the fabric, as they're a very simple design.
@@vormax2007 Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. Yeah, these are very obviously not actual original Star Trek costumes. LOL.
They’re more like a cheaper, baggy version of the uniforms. Definitely not.
Who would have thought that Jeopardy! would very much be on television in 1999 and that Don Part I, who by the way, was the original Jeopardy! announcer, would still be hosting SNL, and who would have thought that this skit would far from being the only Jeopardy! skit.
what is "baby killing?" 😂😂😂 3:29
Willy Limy Abortion.
SNL was so prophetic. 1999 was so like that.
totally, spot on
I still have my wig. It hasn't even aged.
Oh yeah, I remember that year when everyone thought Frank Sinatra, Jr. shot JFK.
People call me old fashioned but I still use lasers to cut vegetables.
I haven't seen this sketch since it first aired where has the time gone.
It's right behind you.
Great use old Star Trek costumes. And they were sorta spot-on about Chevy Chase.
This was the actual game board used on the original Art Fleming Jeopardy. It was struck after this sketch
Did they get rid of it because of this skit, or was it a different reason?
@@samwisegamgee1243 from what I've heard they did and then 2 years later they built an entirely new game board for a new version of Jeopardy
Don Pardo does a great impression of Don Pardo
So THIS is where Elon Musk got the idea to name his kid Æ 12, or something
The funniest thing is that the Chevy Chase joke was almost spot-on.
Not for a decade though. Few cast members were as successful as he was.
@@ErikPortland By 1999, Chevy's career had pretty much fizzled out. In 2023, he's been unsuccessful and unpopular longer than he's been a movie star since leaving SNL in 76.
They didn’t think there would be machines that shred paper in 1999
They also didn’t think Jeopardy would be hosted by Alex Trebek and by much more technologically advanced in 1999
They were referring to the occupation of shredding paper. Which is still an occupation to this day. The first paper shredding machine was invented in 1909, so they would have been around in the 1970s.
Also, Trebek didn't start hosting Jeopardy til 1984.
And, it's a reference to a job in George Orwell's book, 1984.
Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd, Laraine Newman, and Chevy Chase according to google
You needed google to know who they were? You must be young.
I didn't know Laraine Newman, and surprisingly I didn't recognize Dan Aykroyd.
You think?
Steve Martin has a successful music career, Dan Aykroyd believes aliens will not contact with humans since 9/11, Chevy Chase was in Community and both were in many classic movies. I am a zoomer in asia and even I know them.
Being young is not an excuse. It's being ignorant.
I have no idea who Laraine Newman is tho.
But I just learned that she was a SNL cast member and some cliche and/or absurd 90's comedies.
I REALLY wanted to see the "mutant viruses" category.
So much topical humor, but "killing babies" is immortal.
RIP Alex,..
I remember watching this on Nick @ Nite during the Best of Saturday Night
Don Pardo announcing J! in the same studio with SNL
Where's the real Art Fleming when you need him?
and BTW, 1999 was the year that J! not only celebrated its 35th Anniversary, but also, the late Alex Trebek celebrated his 15th Anniversary as host of J!
Since when did SNL air on Nick@Nite?
@@ramirezproductions0826 Late 80's/Early 90's
Dug out some old Star Trek uniforms. Too funny.
Don pardo was the original announcer for jeopardy
Love the retro Star Trek uniforms!
20th Century Fox really did try changing their name to 21st Century Fox before Disney bought them out. Amazingly accurate.
“So effective you won’t remember you own one..!” Lol
I've never owned one though so I...... oh.
Only vaguely Orwellian, but still pretty funny. I do like how they were doing this stuff even during the Art Fleming era.
Funny thing is, the Fleming era, the original anyway, had died a year before this at the start of 75, so this was somewhat outdated in that sense when aired.
The joke about The Longest Running Show on TV being Baa Baa Black Sheep was that it had just aired its very first episode only a month before this skit was shown.
I liked that show; so of course it was cancelled after one season. Oh wait didn't they do Black Sheep Squadron for a year too?
I'm old/senile as ya can see:/
@@brianstratton8767 Yes, there was a second season when it was renamed Black Sheep Squadron. A total of 36 episodes were made.
That's what happens when you prank call a sheep. You say "Baba Black Sheep." (props to Chip Chipperson on that)
How did I never see this?
I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve seen this!!!!
How far away did they think 99 was?
About as far away as we think 2043 is now.
For years people associated 1999/2000 with what would be like The Jetsons
Sometimes, I still think about those "Where will you be in the Year 2000?" jokes from the 80's and 90's.
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Only 90's kids will remember this.
The brilliance of this sketch is just epic. They predicted stupid people 23 years into the future, which in now 24 years in the past.
It makes me curious about 23 years from now which would be 2046. I want to see what else they end up predicting correctly. 👀
Steve is recycling Belishi's "Captain Kirk" shirt from the previous season, and the contestants are wearing uniforms from the same sketch.
They saved the best joke for last. "Lee Harvey Oswald" LMAO!!! :DDDDDDDD
Chevy Chase was right on the money
Except for Fletch, Vacation, 3 Amigos, Christmas Vacation, and Community.
S T R E E T S A H E A D
Why wasn’t Steve Martin in the mix to replace Alex Trebek?
This aged perfectly!!!
Oh man! I remember when this first aired! Now that's about 45 years ago! And 1999 is 23 years ago!
Feels like the writers of this sketch were Lorne, Chevy, Michael O’Donoghue and Franken and Davis.
Comedian “who’s!” 🤣🤣🤣
Love the 1984 references
This is one of the few SNL sketches I've seen with Chevy Chase
Go back to SNL'S first season (1975).
This would be like making a sketch in 1999 and placing it today.
When he said the young republicans, man, spot on.
1999 is now as far in the past as it was in the future when this sketch was made.
Oct 24, 1976
Their names are basically internet user names
Awesome skit with awesome actors/comedians. Not many young people today would get any of the jokes, though.
I nerd out on stuff like this. Laraine Newman answered “young Republicans” to the question about holding a city hostage for plutonium, and that’s more or less the trajectory the US stayed on; the Republican ascendancy of the late 70s is why we didn’t have an Orwellian 1990s and why Walter Mondale could never be president. Also, since the Cold War started, Americans always seem to overestimate how much technology will reach into their lives when they predict the future.
There wasn't that many jokes...
Fran Tarkington is still relevant!
Not sure what you mean by Orwellian 90s
Amazing how accurate they got 1999 predicted! O_O
I can't wait 'til 1999.
Well elon musks kid its named closer to these people so I’d say we’re 40 years behind
Aldous Huxley would be amused by this in so many ways.
Yep.. at age 60 I finally read Brave New World just a few months ago; seemed even scarier than 1984.
Should read some more AH if I can find any but kinda prefer Hard Case Crime & other escapist pulp.
Loved the NBC Late Nite joke.
“Accidently” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I knew it 😁😂🤣4:27
They nailed it.
Watching this in 2020, and wow, even though they are a few decades off, they were just about right.
20th century fox....ummmm I think you mean Disney?
Not in 1999 though.
I think it lost the FOX name recently
3:27
I think they've overestimated the use of paper in 1999.
why do they have Star Trek shirts?
Because it's fUtuRiStiC
Because it was such a popular TV programme back then.
it's 1977.
Because Space 1999 wouldn't let them wear theirs!
Because NBC wanted to save some money by recycling some old costumes they had laying around.
This is a parody of the show "Space 1999".
they did remake the board im pretty sure. even though this was filmed in the former home of jeopardy & the former home of gameshows (NBC Studios NYC)
Nuclear accidents and between 1976 and 1999 happened both Chernobyl and Three mile island
Weird ending. What was the joke? I guess that everybody still had different ideas about who killed JFK after 36 years?
The joke is it was decades ago in 99 that Kennedy was assassinated so they wouldn’t know or remember, unlike the folks in 76 who remember it just happening.
or......they didnt want conspiracy theories running wild, so they made sure to reinforce the narrative. "It was Lee Harvey Oswald, no one else - he did it, completely alone"
I believe the joke is that the government narrative would still be accepted as the government wouldn’t ever let the truth out.
1999 to people in 1976 is like 2043 to people now...
Wow, that’s pretty far out, man.
@@chasbodaniels1744 Whoa, radical my dude
You must own a calculator.
1999 what a great time that was
What is baby killing? Ah, and here we are.
Pushing the lie of over population.
@@davidsandall Poor people should still stop reproducing though right?
It was chilling to see how well they predicted the future.
@@GeoffBosco
Not at all, having children is enriching. The purpose of life is to get married be fruitful and multiply, have as big as family as possible. What all people need to do is quit having sex out of wedlock.
Chilling to hear all of the laughter about baby murder..
Love there logo-less Star Trek outfits
Not really swell ...no sparkly like ...got to vibe the sparkles ✨ ♥
why do i have the feeling that Dan wrote this one?
Not only the "mutant viruses", but the "first terrorist group to hold a city hostage..." The Young Republicans!
I remember when my hair looked like that... I was the king of the sheeps...
Where are the days :/
Just put 2099 on it and will be validated to there! 😆
Of course we all know the answer to the final Jeopardy question is Lyndon Johnson
A nightmarish vision!
Beauteeful Clark !