Former Wolverines Lampooned on SNL
Jay Feely was just on the Jim Rome Show talking about the time he was the subject of a "Saturday Night Live" skit in 2005. I had never seen this before.
https://screen.yahoo.com/jay-feely-story-000000460.html
Tom Brady, of course, has hosted SNL, and he was parodied this past Saturday for his press conference:
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/patriots-press-conference…
Which leads me to ask: Have any other former Wolverines made it into an SNL skit? Harbaugh HAD to have been on there, right?
January 28th, 2015 at 1:17 PM ^
Is an alum and writer (was a cast member last year) and wrote this sketch last year. link The "Best of the White Guys" of the NCAA tourament features several U of M players from last season.
January 28th, 2015 at 1:19 PM ^
Mike O"Brien, who is a writer on SNL, and was on some skits as well one year went to UofM. Also both Lucy Liu and Madonna have hosted SNL.
January 28th, 2015 at 1:56 PM ^
O'Brien rowed crew while at U of M. He wrote for (created?) the anti-daily, which was the every-three-weekly before there was an every-three-weekly (might be before some your times).
Also, when he and his roommates knew that a real estate agent was coming to show their house to possible renters for the next year, they would pretend to be sleep, lying naked on top of ther beds then BAM, the agent plus prospective tenants would walk in, "wake up" O'Brien and crew. Their landlords loved them.
January 28th, 2015 at 1:22 PM ^
hmmmmmmmmmm....ummmmmmmmmm.... Jerry Ford?
January 28th, 2015 at 1:23 PM ^
Yup... Gerald Ford had a cameo on SNL in 1976, and was lampooned by Chevy Chase back then too.
January 28th, 2015 at 1:32 PM ^
I don't think that's what he is referring to... Maybe some one can link the more recent (mid90s?) because I'm on moblie
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January 28th, 2015 at 1:31 PM ^
But I believe that "Chevy Chase falling down as President Ford" was the first really big hit sketch that SNL had.
January 28th, 2015 at 4:59 PM ^
My and I saw that sketch on TV once and he said that was sort of Chevy's break into the spotlight.
January 28th, 2015 at 1:35 PM ^
How could I have forgotten Jerry Ford! I'm downvoting myself.
January 28th, 2015 at 1:21 PM ^
Truth sometimes hurts -- but the point is still fun (funny).
January 28th, 2015 at 1:25 PM ^
Unless we are limiting this to athletes...
Madonna hits a trifecta with hosting, performing, and being lampooned.
January 28th, 2015 at 1:56 PM ^
or at least that character with the long cape. And Derek Jeter has been on (and was quite good), and has probably been lampooned in skits. (He didn't graduate, but he considers himself a Wolverine.)
And UofM grad Andy Kurtzman was another UofM SNL writer (from the semi-old days).
[And I have to stop starting sentences with "and" (and using so many parenthetical phrases).]
January 28th, 2015 at 3:33 PM ^
of parenthesis use. But I tend to improperly begin sentences with "but" (rather than "and").
January 28th, 2015 at 7:13 PM ^
Okay, I'm hopeless.
January 28th, 2015 at 2:00 PM ^
Michael Phelps hosted in 2008.
January 28th, 2015 at 2:19 PM ^
good god Phelps was awful on SNL -- one of the worst hosting jobs by an athlete
Brady was much better, although Peyton was the best athlete host IMO
January 28th, 2015 at 2:24 PM ^
"I'm sorry... Do you wanna lose?"
January 28th, 2015 at 3:40 PM ^
I loved the Michael Phelps Diet ad:
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/michael-phelps-diet/n12278
January 28th, 2015 at 5:31 PM ^
He was a funny host for an athlete too. His sketch where he was beating up Barney while playing hoops was a classic.
January 28th, 2015 at 8:35 PM ^
I don't know, the Eli Manning "Little Brothers" skit was pretty good.
January 28th, 2015 at 10:01 PM ^
Joe Montana was awesome in the one skit he did about the dork/simpleton roommate. That he would even DO that skit is amazing.
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January 28th, 2015 at 2:03 PM ^
Wasn't David Alan Grier a semi-regular at least on SNL in the late 1990s, a couple years after "In Living Color" went by the wayside? I don't think it was for more than a couple seasons, but he hosted and was also in several sketches in that time period, I believe. I think he might have done the one episode where they lampooned Bryant Gumbel - for some reason, that stands out to me.
January 28th, 2015 at 2:05 PM ^
but he was Screech's cousin on Saved by the Bell.
January 28th, 2015 at 2:11 PM ^
I recall that game as a Giants fan and thought Jay Feely was the worst field goal kicker ever. Never seen this SNL skit before but its funny to reminisce about it now.
January 28th, 2015 at 8:47 PM ^
Worse than Gibbons at PSU in 2013?
January 28th, 2015 at 2:19 PM ^
Can this please count as the Deflategate thread for the day?
Yes? Sounds good.
Carry on.
January 28th, 2015 at 2:26 PM ^
Shut up.
January 28th, 2015 at 2:20 PM ^
There is a truly hilarious SNL sketch starring Ray Romano about Sportscenter. While it never mentions Michigan, when they discuss the Bruins recent game the actual clip being shown appears to be the UM hockey team.
https://screen.yahoo.com/sports-center-ray-romano-000000679.html?query=…
January 28th, 2015 at 2:20 PM ^
I'm not positive, but I assume Ann Coulter has been mocked. Michael Phelps has hosted and been mocked, and other Wolverine swimmers in the Olympics may have been as well.
January 28th, 2015 at 2:28 PM ^
Gotta take the good with the bad! Great sketch with Will Ferrell though.
January 28th, 2015 at 4:56 PM ^
The Unabomber. Let's see somebody top that.
January 28th, 2015 at 9:41 PM ^
Ann Coulter...
Regardless of political affiliation, I'm not very proud of that alum.
January 28th, 2015 at 2:43 PM ^
I don't remember Harbaugh being parodied or hosting SNL.
He was on a celebrity version of Family Feud though, with other NFL players in the 80's (maybe early 90's?) when it was hosted by Ray Combs.
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January 28th, 2015 at 3:00 PM ^
John Belushi did a spot on Al Borges.
January 28th, 2015 at 3:18 PM ^
I'd like to think there are no former Wolverines. I'm a Wolverine for life.
January 29th, 2015 at 9:40 PM ^
Well played, sir.