Talk:Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches (listed alphabetically)

Robert Goulet
Will Ferrel does this skit, it is hilarious, I wish someone would add it.

Question
Does "Fericito" in 2003 refer to Show Biz Grande Explosion!? --Jacquelyn Marie 13:19, 21 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Never mind -- found the answer to my own question. . Thanks to whoever has been reorganizing this page. It's far more useful now.

You're welcome. I've been working on it for some time now, and it's pretty much finished. All I have to do now is create pages for all these characters. If you have a particular sketch you're partial to, and it has a red link, by all means, write something about it.

How to present information?
You know... this page is already rediculously well-done... but what if we had a section where we organize by cast member? Or is that overkill? -- Jacqui ★ 22:44, 26 October 2005 (UTC)


 * It could work only if we divide all three sections up into separate articles. I'm not sure exactly how to do that. - Leadpipevigilante


 * Nevermind. I decided it was a good idea.  Do you think it works the way I divided them?

AfD on an article linked to on this page
For anyone who is interested, there is currently an AfD going on over Gay Hitler. Jacqui ★ 15:39, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Categories for Characters
I brought this up on the Gay Hitler page, but if anybody has any suggestions for categories that can include a number of these characters or sketches, please suggest them. I was originally planning on writing a stub for each of them in due time, but I think it would be smarter to categorize, and have larger articles. Possible categories:


 * Characters Appearing on Weekend Update
 * Emily Litella
 * Roseanne Roseannadanna
 * Point/Counterpoint
 * Father Guido Sarducci
 * Chico Esquela
 * Big Vic Ricker
 * Dr. Jack Badofsky
 * Siobhan Cahill
 * Patti Lynn Hunnsacker
 * Dwight MacNamara
 * Worthington Clotman
 * Wayne Huevos
 * Lew Goldman
 * Buddy Young, Jr.
 * Nathan Thurm
 * Babette
 * Mr. Subliminal
 * A Grumpy Old Man
 * Annoying Man
 * Hollywood Minute
 * Queen Shenequa
 * Jan Brady
 * Cajun Man
 * Buster Jenkins
 * Opera Man
 * Hank Fielding
 * Bennett Brauer
 * The British Fops
 * Joe Blow
 * Gary MacDonald
 * Lenny The Lion
 * Cinder Calhoun
 * Dominican Lou
 * Gunner Olsen
 * Jacob Silj
 * Jasper Hahn
 * Comedienne Jeannie Darcy
 * Gay Hitler
 * Drunk Girl
 * Fericito
 * Tim Calhoun
 * Billy Smith
 * Jorge Rodriguez

Tommy Flanagan, The Pathological Liar appeared on Update, but I wouldn't call him an Update character. He made 18 appearances, so maybe he just warrants his own page.

Other suggestions?


 * The Lawrence Welk sketches with Armisen, and Wiig playing "Doonees." Recurring, and very popular. o0drogue0o 00:54, 15 October 2011 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by O0drogue0o (talk • contribs)

Recurring?
Either the name of this page should be changed or some of these should be dropped. Some are single appearance sketches and (while often pretty good ones) don't realy deserve mention any more than any otehr joke/routine on a comedy show, and are not "recurring". I mean, that Barry Gibb talk show was pretty funny, but I believe it was only done once. -R. fiend 03:47, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Quite right. Dan Ackroyd's Super Bass-o-Matic was a single sketch, not a recurring one, and John Belushi's H & L Brock recurred within a single episode but never made another appearance.  There are several others.  This page needs weeding out. 12.22.250.4 18:48, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Defining "recurring" as 3-time minimum
I was wondering if anyone would object if I added a statement to limit the scope of this list (and related lists) to sketches that have appeared a minimum of three times. It's a little hard for me to explain my reasoning, and obviously a sketch that appears twice meets the dictionary definition of "recurring", but I think a sketch that appears a second time isn't quite yet in the spirit of what people think of as "recurring sketches". By the third time, there's an established pattern, it's part of the repertory, people are able to anticipate it ("I wonder if they'll do a Goth Talk tonight") and think of it as a running thing instead of just something that was brought back once.

(This suggestion should not be construed in any way as a response to the recent addition of the J-pop sketch or the creation of the 2011-2012 list page; I was thinking about this as I was working on the recent overhaul of the sketch pages. But if this change were made, the J-pop sketch wouldn't currently be eligible here. I'd probably redirect the 2011-2012 list to Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches (listed chronologically)‎ until J-pop or another sketch debuting this season did get a third appearance; I certainly expect that the 2011-2012 list would still be needed later.) Theoldsparkle (talk) 19:30, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I think the dictionary definition of "recurring" (which would make a sketch that has appeared twice eligible) is the most appropriate definition to apply. My reasoning:  What's magical about 3?  Why not 4?  I think if we simply go by the meaning of the word, there's no ambiguity, and therefore, no-one can argue what constitutes eligibility. If we somewhat arbiitrarily assign a number other than what the english word implies, we're simply going to have endless arguments as to what the appropriate number should be. Fish Man (talk) 22:56, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Given what a really, really terrible state these pages have all been in for years, the extremely low lack of Talk page participation on any of these articles, and the overall impression that I'm the first person in years to give a fig about any of this (and you would seem to be the second), I really can't foresee any huge Talk page debates breaking out in the imminent future, so if you did see my point and were objecting not because you disagree but because you feared it would lead to arguments, I would honestly consider that a pretty poor rationale. I'm offering reasons for why 3 would be preferable to 2--at 3 appearances, the sketch has established a pattern; the show has established that this is a sketch that may be pulled out regularly instead of just as a single callback; I doubt, although I can't verify, that other sources tend to use the phrase "recurring sketch" to refer to a sketch that has only appeared twice--while I can't see a reason for why 4 or some other number would be preferable to 3, and nobody has offered any such argument. That being said, it's not something I'm interested in engaging in prolonged debate about. Theoldsparkle (talk) 23:02, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

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