A collection of bizarre or hilarious moments from late night... the most interesting part of television...
-A well-known blooper of Chris Farley's intentional "accidental" mooning of the audience (1995)...
-Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and Jack McBrayer visit The Weiner's Circle in Chicago. Notice how the crowd is mostly over-privileged young punks? I wonder if the staff didn't quietly relish yelling at the customers a bit more on nights like this (Saturdays). I would always go HOPING for a tongue lashing, but they were always so nice to me.
-Gerry Todd on SCTV: This is mislabeled on YouTube, but it's a long sketch featuring Todd going "vudeo" (becoming a VJ) at the dawn of MTV. Much of this is altered/excised on the SCTV DVDs due to music rights issues. It turns out that no one bothered to ask for clearances back when the show was on (1976-84), and so renewing those (nonexistent) clearances has proven impossible for Shout! Factory. Much of this material survives, though, thanks to Nick-at-Nite reruns from the late 80s/early 90s, as well as NBC's own reruns of SCTV from 2001-02 (the period after "Later with Cynthia Garrett" ended, and before "Last Call with Carson Daly" began).
-"Zany DJ's" on The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder (1978?): Includes the ultra-hip Frazer Smith (KLOS Los Angeles), Johnny Walker (WFBR Baltimore) and John Lanigan (WGAR Cleveland). This is from an era when DJ's were getting more and more obnoxious in the name of comedy, and would lead to "shock jocks" going mainstream in the 1980s. Ironically, Smith would eventually concentrate more on music, and Lanigan would be more even-keeled in the '80s. I don't know enough about Walker, except that he helped Ira Glass get his start, and then passed away in 2004. I have to say that Langian's outfit does NOT help Cleveland's image... then or now.
-Evolution Of Mom Dancing: this is the original with Jimmy Fallon & Michelle Obama (there have been other iterations of this, both with and without Mrs. Obama)...
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