Lord and Lady Douchebag - SNL

ROFL!! 😂😂😂 💥 👍

Wow. This goes way back. Lorraine Newman. Gilda Radner. Buck Henry. Loved the earlier SNL episodes. So great. With John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. Eddie Murphy too.

Back in 1980, no one saw this coming. "Hell, damn, & ass" were the primetime, shock-value terms.
I'm pretty sure this was the final show with the original cast. A fitting end.

I love how Bill Murray almost made Buck Henry crack up laughing when asking him about the invention he was sitting on. Don't think that line was in the script.

From what I once read, the writers SNL would sit down and watch Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and then try to figure out how they could rip off those skits. This one is obviously a rip off of the Monty Python skit where they have Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler, and George Bernard Shaw at a party trying to top each other with witty remarks. Except the Monty Python skit is funny. This is not. The Monty Python skit seems written for college graduates, who would know who all those people were, and that the line, “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about” is from the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. The SNL skit seems written for pot smokers who live in their parents basement.

If only they could have finished that skit but they were running out of time and soliloquies I'm sorry I just had to use that word it doesn't really fit unless you twist the sit Earl of Sandwich says damn this is good we should name this after me sir Wilkinson says to himself double edged sword makes for a close shave mrs. Douchebag thinks to herself fillerup mr. Douchebag and I've just always been fascinated with the word soliloquy and I assumed it was derived from a man walking through town talking to himself as I do quite often and it turned out to be his name was Chief talks to himself and somebody said well that's silly yeah we'll just call it soliloquy and the legend of chief Soliloquy lives on

Every now and then "Give me a Sandwich and a Douchebag and there is nothing I cannot do" pops into my head. So many great jokes in this sketch!

I had to look it up, but Wilkinson Sword is actually a brand of razor! I had assumed that they had made up a name to avoid angering the Remington corporation

"Did your wife help you?"
"She was my inspiration".

Game Grumps sent me. XD

All of you people saying "back when SNL was funny" but also saying you haven't watched it in years are talking out of your arses! There was a time when the show suffered in quality many many yrs ago, but that time has passed. I suggest that you folks give the show another fair chance. DVR it and watch it with an open mind instead of a deciding you know it's no good, so why watch.
Jeez

from the final season, the final episode with what was left of the ''original cast'' from may 24 1980.why was it okay to say douchebag during this time on SNL,but after the 70's of SNL it wasnt okay

What a very intelligent skit.

Terrible

*only one person laughs at the Cardigan sweater gag*

INSULTING!

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich was 12 years old in 1730.
James H. Salisbury wasn't royalty, was American and wasn't born for another 100 years.

But.... they're all douchebags. Giant douchebags.

On incredibly creative stuff. Brilliant.

I remember seeing the original airing of this, loved it then and love it now.

43 years ago, I feel very old now

They memorized their lines rather than reading from cue cards or a prompter. What a concept.

Might be the funniest SNL skit ever

Somebody had fun in the NBC prop room.

pumpernickel? is that bread?

The all-time greatest SNL sketch. I saw it when it was first broadcast and roared when Lord and Lady Douchebag were announced. Who wrote it?

Garrett Morris is so damn funny in this

douchebags decendents came to america and now serve in congress (both houses)

Lol

Let's not forget the pure gold of Garrett Morris.

I had to look this sketch up to prove to my husband it wasn’t just some crazy fever dream I hallucinated

One of my top 5 skits of all time…along with Colonel Angus, More Cowbell, The Sinatra group and Theodoric of York.

This ranks up there with Schweaty Balls and Colonel Angus as the best of SNL skits. All three have brillant set ups and flawless executions. Also, in all three ,the jokes do not grow tired and end just when they should.

This is, hands-down, one of the most hilarious sketches of all time, EVER, and I love sharing it with people . . . but I wish they'd retitle it "Lord Salisbury's Party," or something else -- the title totally spoils the joke reveal of the Douchebags.

Omg I Remember watching this when it came on .. Hilarious

I guess douchebags in government is nothing new.

A great skit when SNL was funny and worth watching,,,By the way...Lord Salisbury did not invent the Salisbury steak....

PS
Bill Murray ad-libbed the phrase "sitting on" in his scripted line.
You clearly see Buck Henry nearly lose it.

. "L O R D and L A D Y D O U C H E bag!!!"
Forty-five years later and I STILL remember nearly choking I laughed so hard.

So many poor slobs really don't know how funny life was back when every
slash and prick wasn't a snowflake sucking on a safe space pacifier.

I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS!

a classic indeed! i'm still looking for the Dana/David "dude ranch ~good penis weather~" ha ha

Hysterical

the funniest sketch in snl history..and also the last of the original crew.

One of the last skits of the last episode of Saturday Night Live featuring the remainder of the original cast members (also known as the not ready for prime time players).

buck henry = genius

I love this type of yokes about royal people at this specific era, Victorian I understand.

Hahaha the classic slow burn

Both Murray and Henry almost break; Murray is forced to take a bite of his sandwich!