Thursday, November 01, 2007

"I Got A Fevah...And the Only Prescription....Is More Cowbell"

This has got to be one of the funniest bits ever from Saturday Night Live. From any comedy show. Period. Combine Christopher Walken with Will Farrell and the rest of the crew from SNL and you got magic.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=71770844627024590


The sketch is presented as though it is an episode of VH1's Behind the Music. It begins with what is said to be film from the 1976 recording session that produced the band's biggest hit, "(Don't Fear) The Reaper." The producer (Christopher Walken) introduces himself as "the Bruce Dickinson" and tells the band they have "what appears to be a dynamite sound." The band members are impressed at this compliment because of Bruce Dickinson's supposed high standing in the music industry (note that "the" Bruce Dickinson is not Bruce Dickinson, lead singer of Iron Maiden - see below).

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