Why You Won't See 'SNL' 'Jackpot Wad' Sketch Anywhere

[Mark Jeffries]

"Jackie Rogers, Jr.'s $100,000 Jackpot Wad" was a smash sketch on the 1985 ep hosted by Christopher Reeve--it's not on Peacock's version of the ep or any "SNL" socials--The reason? Well, besides Billy Crystal's Sammy Davis, Jr., Christopher Guest's contestant has two, count 'em, two potentially offensive traits, not to mention how you could interpret Martin Short's Jackie, a character he first did on "SCTV":

https://latenighter.com/features/why-snl-disappeared-one-of-its-biggest-hits-of-the-1980s/

[Tom Wolper]

SNL takes down unauthorized YouTube videos all the time regardless of content. And if you go to the SNL archives on Peacock you’ll see that a lot of the old episodes run 40 minutes or so. In the early 2000s NBC ran the whole series from the beginning at 3:30 ET on Sunday mornings. I taped the episodes and watched them during the week and they had full episodes so I know the content wasn’t simply lost. From the taped episodes I remember one with Robert Wagner hosting in the late 80s that I thought was the funniest episode in the whole series. I found it on Peacock and it ran 25 minutes and nothing especially funny was in it.

If there was a sketch from the eighties that isn’t available now there could easily be explanations beside it became offensive years after it aired.

On Sun, Apr 12, 2026 at 12:01 PM Mark Jeffries <spotl...@gmail.com> wrote:

"Jackie Rogers, Jr.'s $100,000 Jackpot Wad" was a smash sketch on the 1985 ep hosted by Christopher Reeve--it's not on Peacock's version of the ep or any "SNL" socials--The reason? Well, besides Billy Crystal's Sammy Davis, Jr., Christopher Guest's contestant has two, count 'em, two potentially offensive traits, not to mention how you could interpret Martin Short's Jackie, a character he first did on "SCTV":

https://latenighter.com/features/why-snl-disappeared-one-of-its-biggest-hits-of-the-1980s/

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[M-D November]

It's not the complete sketch, but a good chunk of it was posted to Threads just last week:

https://www.threads.com/@dannyderaney/post/DWzCR-4D--Z?xmt=AQF0IldMo9hS7apJPZqUDqnN8A9jhHoj4AnApnH6Y0DoEg

[John Edwards]

Vimeo to the rescue: https://vimeo.com/165082041

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[M-D November]

It's a good thing the sketch is so good, because the audio quality on that clip is horrible. (And I always forget just how goddamn good Billy Crystal's Sammy Davis Jr. impression was...)