SNL "Sloths" & More Phil Hartman


I have been a staunch supporter of SNL over the years, noting that the show has always been 60 percent unfunny, 20 percent mildly funny and 20 percent genius.


Saturday's show with Forest Whitaker was no different. For most folks, the fact that most of it isn't really funny just turns them off to the whole thing. For me, on the other hand, I live for the 20 percent that's really funny.


"Dick In A Box" from earlier this season is one such gem.


However, tonight, we had to wait until the very end for possibly the second funniest thing I've seen on SNL in years. It was a public service type of segment from the Staten Island Zoo, and the woman representing the zoo noted that some students had made an educational film short about sloths.


On the face of it was something akin to really cheesy viral video that makes its way across YouTube every day. However, the words to the little music video they made were crude and brilliant. My buddy T and I laughed until we hurt. Until tears were flowing, and to think, the writers left this until the very last skit.


As soon as it's on YouTube, I'll post it. It was genius. Genius. Genius.


But, in the interim, as a segue from my last post, here's the genius of Phil Hartman in a video collection from NBC's hit show of the mid-1990s, "News Radio."



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