Thats just to be expected from a show that churns out around 200 sketches a season for 50 seasons.
Still, when a goodSNLsketch hits, it really hits.
And among those good sketches deemed classics, one has to stand out as the best of the best.
Folks, I have a fever.
And the only prescription is you watching the More Cowbell sketch right now.
In the process we learn quite a bit about what goes into the making of a classic.
Here are the most important things to know about More Cowbell.
The writer and star of the sketch, however, picked it up early on.
Its the perfect calibration of loud enough but not too loud.
Its really kind of impotent in the background.
It got a second chance during the April 8, 2000 episode that featured Christopher Walkens fourth time hosting.
Spoiling the joke in the title is antithetical to that mission.
Thats why the sketch we now know as More Cowbell is technically officially titled Recording Session.
And funnily enough, he may have had it right the first time.
Chris Kattan is playing lead guitar like Buck Dharma but is dressed like drummer Albert Bouchard.
Jimmy Fallon is playing drums like Bouchard but is dressed like guitarist/keyboardist Allen Lanier.
Its kind of a funny-sounding name.
I think it was kind of…fine, Ferrell says with a grimace in the doc.
Ferrell was also noticeably less physical.
All in all, it was looking fairly bleak for More Cowbell.
But the end restful was an instant classic, due in no small part to Walkens amped up performance.
Christopher Walken, for air, upped his game.
It was almost like he was doing an impersonation of Christopher Walken, Jimmy Fallon says.
Outside of the lucky few who taped it live, it was impossible to rewatch an episode on-demand.
Indeed thats where I first watched it.
To be a manufacturer of cowbells at that time.
Wow, we were superstars.
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