Way back in '89 I called upon a bunch of my college friends to get together and make the most awesome public access show San Antonio has ever seen. 2 dudes showed up. But we did it. And this Blog looks back at the skits we loved to make so much.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006






Wrestling pt. 1 and 2.

Wrestling pt.1 comes from episode 5- meaning it was one of the skits we did as part of "The Saturday Night Shocker."

We start with this and its' partner, Wrestling pt. 2 because we all have roles in it and it's a favorite of mine.

Rob really gets to shine in these because he has a total of 5 characters between the two bits and he is on point with all of them.

Origin:
This skit came about because back in the day of the Fabulous Freebirds and Andre the Giant, a great part of wrestling was trash talk. Trash talk was some of the funniest stuff ever. I'm pretty sure it was Dave's idea to have us take a stab at it.

Doppelfacts:
The Dopplewig makes ANOTHER apearance. This time on my head. You never know when the Dopplewig is going to show up next and who's head it's gonna be on.

The Doppelwig was originally purchased by Rob in order to apply for jobs without cutting his hair. He didn't actually land a job using it, but, he did run into someone he went to school with while applying at one place...they stared at him for quite a while.

Here is a direct translation of what the Nasty Flash is saying for all ya'll non-spanish speaking individuals:



"I am the king of the little people! Kneel! Listen to me. Uh, give me money, give me your daughters. Or die! Ha, ha ha! Or die!"

"Yes, yes. Yes! Shoe! Shoe! Ha, ha, ha!"



The Nasty Flash's mask was bought alongside the Batman mask at a costume shop that had an after Halloween sale. A lot of times we would build a skit around a prop but in this case we created a character around one.

Regis Q's character was based on a very annoying kid show host in San Antonio back in the day. I'll tell you more about him in other skits. He uses the term "2 Times, Baby!" which was a phrase we wanted to use on our show (The Saturday Night Shocker) when we wanted to repeat a cool scene from the movie. You know, "That was so cool I had to see it TWO TIMES BABY!".

Ironically we only repeated a scene once on the show but we said the phrase a lot amongst each other.

Larry Holmes calls out to his production assistant "Richard" and you actually hear his voice (played by David). In the "Breakfast with Larry" skits he speaks to Richard as well but you never hear Richard's response. I cannot remember why we never got a chance to dub it in. I will tell you more about Richard when we put up the "Breakfast with Larry" skits.

My Favorites:
Rob makes me laugh with the "Any one with $22.50 is gonna see me kick the shit outta someone..." line because it's so specific for an ad-lib. Rob was really into the character and as always he is on point with the commentary as we do the back and forth.

Dave and Rob play the Rowdy brothers a little TOO well. I think they would have made a kick ass wrestling team.

I also like the line "You might not be Coasta Rican, but you sure as hell look like one!".

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