Him playing scared would have been funny.Ī lot of your greatest SNL sketches, such as "Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer" and "Happy Fun Ball," featured the late, great Phil Hartman. Mitchum, by the way, was the coolest host I ever met on the show-that sort of languid, 1940s cool. But maybe you not so lucky."īut there was another sketch that week that was similar, so I didn't submit it.Īnother sketch I actually wrote up but never submitted was Robert Mitchum as a very frightened submarine commander-sort of a parody of the Mitchum film The Enemy Below. Then we cut to modern day, where they say, "Tonto, Tarzan, Frankenstein take many drug in 60s. We flash back in time to Tonto, Tarzan, and Frankenstein singing "California Dreamin'" in their stilted, monosyllabic style, as hippies. One I wished I'd written was an episode of "Tonto, Tarzan and Frankenstein," a sketch I created with writer Jim Downey. That I did write, probably a toss-up between "Anne Boleyn" and "Toonces, the Cat Who Could Drive a Car." What is your favorite SNL sketch that you wrote? What is your favorite SNL sketch that you didn't write?
It adds to the possibility of jokes you can use. I like a jungle setting, because just about anything can happen there, real or supernatural. I think the novel did have a lot of its origins in My Big Thick Novel. Yes, I stole that joke from My Big Thick Novel. For example, the one with a woman named Lanani (in the novel it's Leilani) who gets annoyed about being a "personal blowdart counter." Did the idea for writing an actual novel originate in the My Big Thick Novel spots? If I'm not mistaken, one or two of those bits ended up in The Stench of Honolulu. In the early 2000s, SNL ran excerpts from a fake novel of yours called My Big Thick Novel. Jack Handey: Some jokes were preexisting, but most were written as the story developed. Did you write most of the jokes separately, like for Deep Thoughts, and then add them to a narrative? Or did you write the jokes as you wrote the story? VICE: I'm curious about the writing process for your novel, The Stench of Honolulu. Lincoln Michel talked to him for VICE about writing, funny grammar, and proper cowboy dance moves.
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