"Ask Elvis" -- does anyone else remember??

[Toranut97]

I have been enjoying the DVDs and lurking around here for a while. I recall
this skit --- "Ask Elvis" -- with Andrea Martin as a cheesy "psychic" -- and
it left me on the floor laughing. (Okay, I don't know why exactly
either....) Anyone else recall this one?

Donna

[Justin Pate]

"Toranut97" <smith...@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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Never heard of it. Did you somehow manage to get your hands on some SCTV
rarities?

[Lulu]

Don't remember it...but wish I did! Sounds great. :)

-Lulu

[Toranut97]

I just remember watching it back when SCTV was on after SNL in Chicago.
After Andrea read the question, they would show a slowly revolving really
goofy bust of Elvis -- a cheapy looking plastic thing -- in a spotlight. The
voice of "Elvis" would come over and answer the person's question (like Dear
Abby... only stupid) using cliché phrases from Elvis songs. I loved it. Wish
I could find that one!

Thanks all

Donna

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[Mark The Shark]

I remember it. But I am 99.95 sure that "Ask Elvis" was not an SCTV skit, but a
SNL skit, possibly from the "Jean Doumanian Season" (1980-1981) but I think
more likely the Dick Ebersol period(1981-1985). At least I'm pretty sure of it.

"I used to be into bestiality, S&M and necrophilia, but then I realized I was
just beating a dead horse."

[Lola]

marka...@aol.comedy (Mark The Shark) wrote in message news:<20040803010657...@mb-m07.aol.com>...

> I remember it. But I am 99.95 sure that "Ask Elvis" was not an SCTV skit, but a
> SNL skit, possibly from the "Jean Doumanian Season" (1980-1981) but I think
> more likely the Dick Ebersol period(1981-1985). At least I'm pretty sure of it.

I think Mark is right, it was SNL rather than SCTV, but I'm
50-something and could be mistaken.

[quincywagstaff]

"Toranut97" <smith...@insightbb.com> wrote in message news:<H_APc.203246$IQ4.198325@attbi_s02>...

It was a 1979 SNL epsiode, hosted by Eric Idle. Laraine Newman was
the psychic and Andy Kaufman played the King.

[RJValinoti]

marka...@aol.comedy (Mark The Shark) wrote in message news:<20040803010657...@mb-m07.aol.com>...

> I remember it. But I am 99.95 sure that "Ask Elvis" was not an SCTV skit, but a
> SNL skit, possibly from the "Jean Doumanian Season" (1980-1981) but I think
> more likely the Dick Ebersol period(1981-1985). At least I'm pretty sure of it.

It was an SNL skit. It aired on October 20-21, 1979 during the last
season of the first Lorne Michaels period (1975-1980). I saw the skit
at the Museum of Television and Radio. For the record, Laraine Newman
played the psychic and Andy Kaufman was the voice of Elvis Presley.

[Mark The Shark]

>It was an SNL skit. It aired on October 20-21, 1979 during the last
>season of the first Lorne Michaels period (1975-1980). I saw the skit
>at the Museum of Television and Radio. For the record, Laraine Newman
>played the psychic and Andy Kaufman was the voice of Elvis Presley.
>

You are corect! Isn't that the episode where Eric Idle (at the beginning of the
show) is too sick to perform, his doctor is saying the odds are 50-50 that
he'll die if he performs, and Buck Henry is standing around volunteering to
take his place, and Lorne Michaels is ignoring Buck, saying he'll accept those
odds and have Idle perform...and I don't remember who, but this is supposedly
based on a real-life backstage incident involving someone *other* than Eric
Idle.

[Toranut97]

Thanks, everyone! Since it was so funny, I automatically assumed it had to
have been SCTV...lol. Thanks for straightening me out on this.

Donna

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