SNL50 Documentary Reveals The Full Story of a Classic Sketch
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night highlights how the show made comedy gold with nothing but a cowbell and a dream.
Similarly, Christopher Walkenâs producer character, Bruce Dickinson is a real person, but he had nothing to do with the original production of âDonât Fear the Reaper.â Instead, he was a manager at Columbia Records whose name was listed as âreissue producerâ on Blue Ăyster Cultâs greatest hits compilation. âItâs kind of a funny-sounding name. That was the extent of my research: the back of a CD cover,â Ferrell says in the doc.
Before the final version of the show airs live on Saturday night, SNL does a dress rehearsal of its planned sketches in front of a live test audience. The dress rehearsal for âMore Cowbellâ didnât indicate in any way that the sketch would go on to become a hit. âI think it was kind ofâŚfine,â Ferrell says with a grimace in the doc. Walken opted for a more subdued Bruce Dickinson performance in the dress rehearsal, undoubtedly saving his energy for the aired show. Ferrell was also noticeably less physical.
Additionally, the sketch was slotted for âStage 1â in Studio 8H, which is known among the cast as âShit-Can Alley,â âThe Death Corner,â and âCoffin Cornerâ due to its positioning to the far left of the audienceâs eyeline. All in all, it was looking fairly bleak for âMore Cowbell.â But the end restful was an instant classic, due in no small part to Walkenâs amped up performance. âChristopher Walken, for air, upped his game. It was almost like he was doing an impersonation of Christopher Walken,â Jimmy Fallon says.
Itâs hard to even conceive of it now, but back in 2000 Saturday Night Live faced the same predicament that most television did. Outside of the lucky few who taped it live, it was impossible to rewatch an episode on-demand. Thatâs why the âMore Cowbellâ sketch didnât fully take off until the release of Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell DVD in 2002. Indeed thatâs where I first watched it.
In the doc, Ferrell and the rest of the cast discuss the explosion of popularity of the sketch following the release of the DVD. The sketch played on the video board before Mississippi State football games and Ferrell got to play cowbell live with bands like Red Hot Chili Peppers and Queens of the Stone Age. The biggest fan of âMore Cowbell,â however, may have been cowbells themselves. SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night catches up with Ranco Cowbells owner John Karpi to discuss his pride at the companyâs product being used as the featured cowboy in the sketch. âTo be a manufacturer of cowbells at that time. Wow, we were superstars.â
All four episodes of SNL: Beyond Saturday Night are available to stream on Peacock now.
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