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The sad thing is, crazy as it may sound an SNL skit with Steven Seagal in it could work. Seagal's whole thing is being dry, stern-faced, serious and joyless all the time. And you can put that into so many situations that could be genuinely funny. But of course, for that to happen Seagal would need to have a sense of humor and be able to take a joke, which clearly he doesn't and can't.
If they had given him total control, it would have been glorious watching SNL getting destroyed by one host. That first skit he described.. what the hell. There's no comedy. And I'm assuming he was seeing himself as the rapist therapist. Was that it? "The rapist"? "Therapist?" Omg. That bit was really funny from Sean Connery. Becaue he was mispronouncing a word. But Steven wanted to act it out in an extended skit, which would have just been weird and horrifying.
Yeah that's a good point. There's a universe where Seagal's overly serious tone could have been hilarious. Like maybe he's an overly intense Disney World performer or something. But in order for that to work he'd have to be willing to pay off the comedic tension in the end by either getting his comeuppance in the scene (maybe Mickey Mouse gets sick of his act and beats him up), or finally having the stoic exterior crack (like maybe after being an overly serious Jiminy Cricket, he then finally sings "When You Wish Upon a Star" or something).
Peter Jason said that Steven Seagal was the worst actor he's ever worked with. They were both in Marked for Death, with Peter playing Steven's boss in the beginning. Steven refused to do a shot/reverse shot, all because the camera wasn't on him. He considered it "wasting a really good take". So he would sit there for the script girl to read Peter Jason's lines for him to react to. Even actors who have worked with him find him difficult to work with.
Yeeeeeah. Steven Seagal probably figured that stand-ins were a thing. But had no idea WHY. Like if an actor is sick or unavailable, having a stand in is important. They used stand-ins for BTTF. For the part where Marty punches Biff in the first movie, it is likely re-used footage from the lost Eric Stoltz version of that film.
@@purpledragon1945 I'd rather time travel packages convince them not to put this fat ass in a movie. The fact that only one of his movies has ever gotten critical praise should tell you something about his acting.
Funny irony about that joke about Arnold beating Steven up, according to interviews with actual MMA fighters who have worked with Seagal on films and stunts, Steven couldn't fight his way out of a wood basket. Mainly because the martial art he practices Aikido, has no practical self defense applications in unarmed fighting. One stuntman, I forgot his name, actually once put Steven in a choke hold and caused him to pass out!
the stuntman who caused him to pass out was actually a judo master, and aikido is a solid martial art- it’s just not something that you solely rely on since it’s all about physics and timing…he is simply so high on himself that he makes a legitimate self-defense martial art into a joke
"I can get out of any hold, try any move and I will get out of it. " Gene gently puts Steven in headlock, Steven does full force chop to the testicles. Gene, I assume, out of anger and instinct, applies real pressure to Steven at that moment. I love Steven for the wrong reasons.
They seemed excited at the beginning of the opening monologue. But once he spoke, the audience knew they were in for a bad time. The only saving grace is that Michael Bolton is the guest star. He was in a “We are the World” parody that did NOT have Steven Seagal. He would later appear on SNL in 2011 when The Lonely Island did “Jack Sparrow”.
11:11 Steven has assaulted somebody. He attacked John Leguizamo during rehearsals for Executive Decision because John laughed at the way he introduced himself to the rest of the cast, he came wandering in saying “I am in charge here, my word is law” then grabbed John by the neck and slammed him against a wall. Honestly it seems to be a massive pet peeve for Steven when people laugh at him when he’s trying to be serious and assert dominance. He literally does something similar in the SNL episode, during the sketch he did with Chris Farley he tries walking in looking tough then eyes up the audience in disgust when they laugh at how he entered the room
The guy is a legitimate narcissist. It is amazing he has any fans left at all. His hyper macho persona is apparently really popular with Russian gopniks though, and they are a big part of his modern fandom.
They were referring to Seagal not assaulting anyone at SNL when he was there. Unlike Chevy Chase who got into a fight with Bill Murray Seagal is infamous for legimatrly hurting people on purpose. So it is shocking he didn’t attack a SNL cast member
(Not so) Fun Fact : Many people wonder how tf did he manage to became an actor in the first place without having any talent. He actually had contact with the mafia and was the mafia that pushed for make him an actor. People from the industry found him emotionless and lacked many things but this mafia guy (don't remember his name; maybe was his agent) pushed and pushed and he got famous. In the first movies, a lot of extras are mafias "picciotti" and that was one of his many way to "thank" those people . He's a terrible person on 360 degree. On the start of the 2000 he r@ped a 20 year old woman with the excuse of making an Audition for one of his movie, assaulted many others, same excuse. and did zero jail time Check it on reliable sources on the internet. He's more than laughable he's a sociopath Sorry fr my English I'm Italian
@@disclose_beauty I’ve heard two accounts of how he became a celeb. One was that he was made a celebrity on a dare, basically a massive Hollywood agent was boasting he could make anybody a star and one of his colleagues bet him he could do the same for Seagal, the other is the one you mentioned
He's a malignant narcissist. That's the problem right there. Not only does everything have to revolve around his ego but his related personality disorders also probably make it very difficult for him to grasp most humor, let alone the self-deprecating kind.
@@desensitizedanalyser5624 he did make a creepy comment towards a 16 year old once apparently. I think it was on Under Siege 2 where he saw a 16 year old actress and tried hitting on her with one of his pick up lines being he had girlfriends younger than her
I heard a rumour that the reason why Seagal did this was because other action movie stars had gone on SNL and he wanted to do it because he didn't want to be seen as inferior to them.
@@AdmiralBison I don't really buy that. The movie he was promoting was already successful, so, he was getting offers from talk shows and stuff. SNL seems like something fun to do to unwind after a promotional campaign, not as part of the hype cycle unless you're promoting a comedy movie, which Seagal wasn't. To me, it makes more sense that he was offered it and he would have turned it down if he didn't think "Oh, wait, Arnold did it, and I'm way better than Arnold, so I'll do it too."
The Carol Burnett Show actually had a good sketch with a therapist who had his own issues. For example, at one point the therapist took a call from his mother, and after he hung up he snarled, “Ooh, I hate her!” It ended with the therapist laying on the couch and the patient taking notes.
Or have the therapist be super squeamish and uncomfortable, constantly doing everything to distract himself, to delay the client telling the story or to avoid the subject. Build it up like she’s talking about sexual assault then reveal at the end it’s something ridiculous
I always pinpoint that sketch as the example of Seagal being a narcissist. The moment he steps out and tries to look tough you can hear the audience laugh and he just glares at them out the corner of his eye whilst looking pissed as all hell. It’s like Seagal was contemplating beating up with crowd for daring to laugh as he asserts dominance
Of the episodes I've seen, Elton John was one of the laziest SNL Episodes: Each sketch had one of the following: - Gay Joke - British Joke - Lady Part Joke - They also blatantly ripped off Men on Film from ILC but BEYOND worse.
Frank Zappa as well, he blatantly mugged for the camera as he didn't like SNL's sketches being somewhat pro-drug(he was a straight edge)and openly admitted he was reading off cue cards.
@@jadedheartszZappa was so frustrating. He was staggeringly talented, very intelligent, and very politically and socially aware and informed. But he had an ego the size of a planet and could be a total asshole a lot of the time.
I am a 90s kid steven seagull was always a goofy to me. I always thought he was a parody of the action stars at the time because in my mind even then watching his movies felt like unfunny leslie neilson type schtick. Growing up and finding out his history is hilarious to me. He was always ment for meme status
Jean-Claude Van Damme was the store brand version of people like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. Steven Segal was the dollar store version. Sly and Arnold weren’t the greatest actors (especially Arnold- although he improved over time) but they proved that they could succeed in various genres, laugh at themselves, and not just be slabs of muscle with no personality. I mean, hell, Sly came on the scene by writing and starring in a movie that won an Oscar for best picture and best director and a Golden Globe for best picture, and his screenplay was nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA as well. That’s more than ANY action star has accomplished, and that was at the start of his career! Van Damme was a great kickboxer, but he couldn’t act. And Segal was passable at martial arts and had even less acting ability than Van Damme. He should’ve just been a guitarist.
Yea watch reviews of his current stuff. He is basically a parody of action heroes and he has done tropes of old action stars such as not getting hit often, sometimes bit hard to understand what they are saying, and my favorite using a body double if you ask why? Well he used body double in scenes you expect but throughout most of his films catalogs he used the double to do things like walking, climbing stairs running and other things he wouldn’t do because his contract required him to work only a hour and that’s it for the day. If they couldn’t get him to agree to do more shoots they use the double
@@crescentfreshbret Oh yeah, like you say, Van Damme wasn't ever Arnie or Sly level, but he had his own charm and charisma and can laugh at himself. Seagal just exudes arrogance and ego. He seems to think he's untouchable. Despite being a total creep and weirdo.
I want to live in a world wear Van Damme hosted SNL instead of Segal. He always seemed like he could actually poke fun at himself… plus he was better suited to things other than menacing the cast.
I’m not sure if you know this or not but the reason Steven isn’t showing emotion is because he can’t. He’s literally been like this since the very beginning. Every single role in every movie he’s in he’s using the same monotone and emotionless voice. I’ve never seen a single Steven Seagal movie where he ever yells or gets angry or actually acts like he gives a shit about the movie he’s STARRING in. He’s the worst action “star” and action “actor” in the history of the film industry that actually made money.
(Not so) Fun Fact : Many people wonder how tf did he manage to became an actor in the first place without having any talent. He actually had contact with the mafia and was the mafia that pushed for make him an actor. People from the industry found him emotionless and lacked many things but this mafia guy (don't remember his name; maybe was his agent) pushed and pushed and he got famous. In the first movies, a lot of extras are mafias "picciotti" and that was one of his many way to "thank" those people . He's a terrible person on 360 degree. On the start of the 2000 he r@ped a 20 year old woman with the excuse of making an Audition for one of his movie, assaulted many others, same excuse. and did zero jail time Check it on reliable sources on the internet. He's more than laughable he's a sociopath Sorry fr my English I'm Italian
I’m guessing this episode of SNL would be like if Steven Seagal slapped or punched someone in one of his movies while not caring and clearly half assing it.
Not captured in the video, the action sequences were awkward since they were presented live. Especially in the part where Seagal slowly threw a guy out of a window.
2:18 Many women have told Seagal has committed SA on them. So this sadly makes sense. There is also the clip of Katherine Heigl telling he was creepy to her when making the Under Siege sequal.
Who knew that Michael Bolton of all people would be the good part of something back during the height of his schmaltz? The thing is that he’s always been able to laugh at himself, unlike Steven Segal.
@@crescentfreshbret I think the cast appreciated it too, they were clearly having a blast in that recording booth....then it was RIGHT back to banality.
Will Sasso playing Steven Segal is an example of art imitating life, then life imitating art. It was funny that a fat guy played a karate guy. Until the karate guy got fat
If there is such a title for the psychological complex that Steven Seagal has, I'd call it the Emperor Complex or the Royal Complex. He seems exactly that kind of person.
Steven Seagal: I just heard about the most interesting psychological complex. Other person: Really? Who’s it named after? Seagal: Me! (I borrowed Rob Schneider’s story of Seagal “reading the the greatest script he’d ever read” for this joke)
The SNL host that made me cringe the most was Christopher Lee. I was a fan, but the audience didn't seem to have any idea who he was. He was trying, but he was stiff and his applause and laugh lines were met with pin-drop silence. I just wanted someone to put him out of his misery.
I’d like to do all the banned guest episodes at some point. I’m kind of getting into SNL a bit (the good seasons at least), so if the Masters of Fate want it, they’ll get it!
Who was it who went onstage and delivered a monologue so disgusting that it literally hasn't been seen since the first airing? It got replaced by a series of cards explaining why they can NEVER show this again while giving the gist of what was said to the viewers in reruns.
But did they leave in all the Norm Macdonald OJ jokes on Weekend Update? Because those were awesome but I know he eventually got fired because somebody who had power in NBC was friends with OJ
I’d love to hear from Kelly LeBrock about what it was like being married to Steven Segal. That must’ve been unbearable! She seems so nice and personable, and he… well, I don’t think I need to say anything.
11:30 I'll defend Tom Green as a host. I remember seeing that episode when it came out and it was pretty funny. Not one of the best hosts of that season. I think it was like his movie Freddy Got Fingered, where the critics didn't like it at the time but it's gone on to be a cult classic.
Will Sasso is a better Steven Seagal than Steven Seagal himself. I love that they portrayed him on MadTV, almost like they predicted Seagall's future lmao
Steven Seagal is the polar opposite to a legendary stuntman like Chuck Norris imo. Sure, he created a new form of jutsu, but he still felt disconnected from reality. Every ego-stroking movie Seagal releases, were treated as ways to conform his actual real-life experiences and have them be events that occurred in his life. At least egosploitation movies such as Tommy Wiseau's The Room, Neil Breen's filmography(Double Down, I Am Now Here, and Fateful Findings), and Turkish Star Wars/The Man Who Saved The World were funny-bad; Steven Seagal is rather pathetic and shouldn't be named as I associate myself in the stuntman community(especially a company heavily tied to a video game developer like Capcom, Just Cause Entertainment), considering the fact he's one of the worst hosts to ever come out of SNL next to Amy fucking Schumer aka the lady who jokes about her vagina a ton and isn't funny.
The episode of Steven Seagal hosting SNL is the kind of dreadful thing that would be in the Ark of the Covenant. Viewing it would just kill you since it sucks so bad.
From everything I have seen about Seagal, it doesn't surprise me in the least that not only does he have a complete lack of ability to do self-deprecation, but moreover he's so narcissistic and self-conscious that when he's in charge he absolutely must make everything about himself, and to try to portray himself as the "cool" "tough" "hero", and of course with absolutely no flaws, not even in a self-deprecating humorous manner. And the problem is that he completely lacks the talent to pull even that in any convincing and likeable manner.
The Behind the Bastards podcast did an episode or two on him. Dude's a straight up monster. Numerous rapes, and some of his movies were likely money laundering ops for Chinese gangsters. And that's before you get into his attempted singing career, or his line of energy drinks.
99% of hosts are on there to promote their current projects. That’s why John Mulaney got a lot of laughs when he hosted and joked he had absolutely nothing else going on. Gotta give a shout out to dad though, I get it.
Daniel Craig was similar, he was cued up to host so he could promote No Time To Die, they even had a sketch made to look like a scene from it and in his opening monologue he had to talk about it getting delayed due to covid
If you’ve ever seen The Menu, the character John Leguizamo plays - a washed up and self-obsessed actor - was based off of Steven Seagal. Leguizamo referred to Seagal as a horrible person and especially unpleasant to work with
As horrible as he was , he wasn't any worse than Nancy Kerrigan or Michael Phelps. There are not many things less entertaining than watching athletes with no acting skills and zero comedic ability awkwardly stand there and try and deliver the opening monologue on SNL.
I'm a new subscriber. Your voice sounds so similar to Joel David Moore. I think that's pretty cool. He's a good actor. As far as SNL goes, I can't believe it took them so long to get rid of Steven Segal. He was seriously hurting the rest of the cast. But he wasn't fired until he beat on professional stunt men for 8 minutes? I'm glad he crapped his pants. How can he live with himself? If he just came out and admitted to everything and apologized for it, he wouldn't be the most unfunny joke in history.
Seagal doesn't do self depreciating humor. Even today, as the fat, lazy, mumbling Z list joke that he turned into. Today, if there are stairs in a movie, he sends in his stunt double to walk them, even if it's like 4 or 5 steps. He mumbles his lines so bad and won't do retakes or do-overs, they have Segal impersonators do his lines over in the many places that he mumbled too bad for anybody to understand him. And everything has to be about how great and handsome he is. Of course, they wouldn't have known this back then, he hadn't done enough for them to understand that.
I'll be interested to see a video on Miskel Spillman who won a contest to host the show. I haven't seen the episode so I don't know If it was good or bad, but I find it interesting.
I have only one wish in life: that someone will make Steven Seagal a DLC character in a fighting game, just so I can download him, play the Practice Mode, select him as my “dummy”, and then keep beating him up to no end. I’m serious, cut off both my testicles and give me cancer if I can only get this one wish come true! I would love nothing more that the sensation of feeling his squishy, bloodied, toothless face against my clenched fist, even if it’s just virtual
More times than not the guest host is doing so to plug a project or capitalize on the release of something. It's part of the PR playbook to have a star guest host SNL. That's nothing new.
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True story; While working on a movie together, Steven Seagal pressed John Leguizomo up against a wall for laughing at him. The man takes himself that seriously… SMH
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I dunno i'd say Trump was an even worse host.
@@jadedheartszAside from political reasons, why was he the worst?
Steven seagal is basically if a movie star believed all of his films he started were actually true events of his life
I just realized that Bolt is a lot like Steven Seagal.
@@KawikaProductionsExcept Bolt eventually realized that his TV show was just a TV show, not real life.
@@mitchfletcher2386I'm sorry what's Bolt
@@jadenbryant9283 It's a 2008 Disney movie.
@@Channeleven2345789 That doesn't invalidate the character development in the movie.
The sad thing is, crazy as it may sound an SNL skit with Steven Seagal in it could work. Seagal's whole thing is being dry, stern-faced, serious and joyless all the time. And you can put that into so many situations that could be genuinely funny. But of course, for that to happen Seagal would need to have a sense of humor and be able to take a joke, which clearly he doesn't and can't.
If they had given him total control, it would have been glorious watching SNL getting destroyed by one host.
That first skit he described.. what the hell. There's no comedy. And I'm assuming he was seeing himself as the rapist therapist.
Was that it? "The rapist"? "Therapist?"
Omg. That bit was really funny from Sean Connery. Becaue he was mispronouncing a word. But Steven wanted to act it out in an extended skit, which would have just been weird and horrifying.
Agreed... Kinda disappointing because it does seem like it could work.
Yeah that's a good point. There's a universe where Seagal's overly serious tone could have been hilarious. Like maybe he's an overly intense Disney World performer or something. But in order for that to work he'd have to be willing to pay off the comedic tension in the end by either getting his comeuppance in the scene (maybe Mickey Mouse gets sick of his act and beats him up), or finally having the stoic exterior crack (like maybe after being an overly serious Jiminy Cricket, he then finally sings "When You Wish Upon a Star" or something).
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Peter Jason said that Steven Seagal was the worst actor he's ever worked with.
They were both in Marked for Death, with Peter playing Steven's boss in the beginning. Steven refused to do a shot/reverse shot, all because the camera wasn't on him. He considered it "wasting a really good take". So he would sit there for the script girl to read Peter Jason's lines for him to react to.
Even actors who have worked with him find him difficult to work with.
Yeeeeeah. Steven Seagal probably figured that stand-ins were a thing. But had no idea WHY. Like if an actor is sick or unavailable, having a stand in is important.
They used stand-ins for BTTF. For the part where Marty punches Biff in the first movie, it is likely re-used footage from the lost Eric Stoltz version of that film.
Seagal is such a blackhole of entertainment that I think the Trainer and Agent who made him an action star was a demon in disguise.
You're not too far off. The people who got him into the movie business where in the mafia.
I think so too 😂
IT was the Mob WHO helped hin getbinto the industry so yeah youre right
id love to time travel to the date where they made the bet and convince them to not do that
@@purpledragon1945 I'd rather time travel packages convince them not to put this fat ass in a movie. The fact that only one of his movies has ever gotten critical praise should tell you something about his acting.
Funny irony about that joke about Arnold beating Steven up, according to interviews with actual MMA fighters who have worked with Seagal on films and stunts, Steven couldn't fight his way out of a wood basket. Mainly because the martial art he practices Aikido, has no practical self defense applications in unarmed fighting. One stuntman, I forgot his name, actually once put Steven in a choke hold and caused him to pass out!
Gene LeBell is who you're referring to. And Steven Seagal didn't just pass out allegedly, he released his bowels.
the stuntman who caused him to pass out was actually a judo master, and aikido is a solid martial art- it’s just not something that you solely rely on since it’s all about physics and timing…he is simply so high on himself that he makes a legitimate self-defense martial art into a joke
@@TMC1982Part2and Labell was a highly skilled master of judo, he was being insulted and goaded by Segal leading to the fight
"I can get out of any hold, try any move and I will get out of it. "
Gene gently puts Steven in headlock, Steven does full force chop to the testicles. Gene, I assume, out of anger and instinct, applies real pressure to Steven at that moment.
I love Steven for the wrong reasons.
@@TMC1982Part2 correct, while simultaneously proving that Seagal is full of shit.😂
Segal did the comedic equivalent of "my power is to have every power I want and I'm immune to everything"
In other words, an actual Mary Sue.
So he's IRL Cartman
Captain marvel?
Damn, I feel really bad for the live audiences that were excited to see this one live.
They seemed excited at the beginning of the opening monologue. But once he spoke, the audience knew they were in for a bad time.
The only saving grace is that Michael Bolton is the guest star. He was in a “We are the World” parody that did NOT have Steven Seagal. He would later appear on SNL in 2011 when The Lonely Island did “Jack Sparrow”.
@@KawikaProductionsAh, “Musicians to Save Free-Range Chickens”! A classic! I have no idea how Bolton kept a straight face.
Because they're told to be
I don’t feel bad for them. You get what you pay for. Much like the US government.
11:11 Steven has assaulted somebody. He attacked John Leguizamo during rehearsals for Executive Decision because John laughed at the way he introduced himself to the rest of the cast, he came wandering in saying “I am in charge here, my word is law” then grabbed John by the neck and slammed him against a wall.
Honestly it seems to be a massive pet peeve for Steven when people laugh at him when he’s trying to be serious and assert dominance. He literally does something similar in the SNL episode, during the sketch he did with Chris Farley he tries walking in looking tough then eyes up the audience in disgust when they laugh at how he entered the room
The guy is a legitimate narcissist. It is amazing he has any fans left at all.
His hyper macho persona is apparently really popular with Russian gopniks though, and they are a big part of his modern fandom.
@@planescaped you know you have issues when a comedy sketch where two parodies of Arnold saying they wanna kick your ass causes you to break down
They were referring to Seagal not assaulting anyone at SNL when he was there. Unlike Chevy Chase who got into a fight with Bill Murray
Seagal is infamous for legimatrly hurting people on purpose. So it is shocking he didn’t attack a SNL cast member
(Not so) Fun Fact : Many people wonder how tf did he manage to became an actor in the first place without having any talent.
He actually had contact with the mafia and was the mafia that pushed for make him an actor. People from the industry found him emotionless and lacked many things but this mafia guy (don't remember his name; maybe was his agent) pushed and pushed and he got famous. In the first movies, a lot of extras are mafias "picciotti" and that was one of his many way to "thank" those people .
He's a terrible person on 360 degree. On the start of the 2000 he r@ped a 20 year old woman with the excuse of making an Audition for one of his movie, assaulted many others, same excuse. and did zero jail time
Check it on reliable sources on the internet. He's more than laughable he's a sociopath
Sorry fr my English I'm Italian
@@disclose_beauty I’ve heard two accounts of how he became a celeb. One was that he was made a celebrity on a dare, basically a massive Hollywood agent was boasting he could make anybody a star and one of his colleagues bet him he could do the same for Seagal, the other is the one you mentioned
He's a malignant narcissist. That's the problem right there. Not only does everything have to revolve around his ego but his related personality disorders also probably make it very difficult for him to grasp most humor, let alone the self-deprecating kind.
He seems to outright hate being laughed at
I'm surprised that he haven't killed anyone or even molested a child.
@@desensitizedanalyser5624 he did make a creepy comment towards a 16 year old once apparently. I think it was on Under Siege 2 where he saw a 16 year old actress and tried hitting on her with one of his pick up lines being he had girlfriends younger than her
But did he know that she was 16?@@mrcritical6751
@@mrcritical6751yikes
I heard a rumour that the reason why Seagal did this was because other action movie stars had gone on SNL and he wanted to do it because he didn't want to be seen as inferior to them.
Makes sense and to promote his movies.
@@AdmiralBison I don't really buy that. The movie he was promoting was already successful, so, he was getting offers from talk shows and stuff. SNL seems like something fun to do to unwind after a promotional campaign, not as part of the hype cycle unless you're promoting a comedy movie, which Seagal wasn't.
To me, it makes more sense that he was offered it and he would have turned it down if he didn't think "Oh, wait, Arnold did it, and I'm way better than Arnold, so I'll do it too."
Well he sure showed them
The more I think about it that actually makes a whole lot of sense
Steven seagal is like Nicolas cage, but cage knows hes weird and plays into it, steven doesn't
2:20 A funnier idea would be the therapist being depressed and the patient having to console them.
Great idea. Or even 2:25 where Sean Connery (Darrell Hammond) misreads Therapists on Celebrity Jeopardy.
@@KawikaProductions When the session runs out the therapist can say. That'll be 200 dollars Then the patient can look pissed.
The Carol Burnett Show actually had a good sketch with a therapist who had his own issues. For example, at one point the therapist took a call from his mother, and after he hung up he snarled, “Ooh, I hate her!” It ended with the therapist laying on the couch and the patient taking notes.
@@icecreamhero2375 No, it would be funnier if the patient asked for the money. I think. I don't know. lol
Or have the therapist be super squeamish and uncomfortable, constantly doing everything to distract himself, to delay the client telling the story or to avoid the subject. Build it up like she’s talking about sexual assault then reveal at the end it’s something ridiculous
The best thing about Steven Seagal is the fodder he provides for Space Ice.
Hahahaha 😂true
Yes!!!!
nothing's more surreal that Chris Farley *really* trying to work off Seagal's energy in the one " protective dad" skit
That skit was gross. The way he acted towards Victoria Jackson was creepy
I always pinpoint that sketch as the example of Seagal being a narcissist. The moment he steps out and tries to look tough you can hear the audience laugh and he just glares at them out the corner of his eye whilst looking pissed as all hell. It’s like Seagal was contemplating beating up with crowd for daring to laugh as he asserts dominance
You can tell Farley was *freaking out* during the skit
Of the episodes I've seen, Elton John was one of the laziest SNL Episodes:
Each sketch had one of the following:
- Gay Joke
- British Joke
- Lady Part Joke
- They also blatantly ripped off Men on Film from ILC but BEYOND worse.
Frank Zappa as well, he blatantly mugged for the camera as he didn't like SNL's sketches being somewhat pro-drug(he was a straight edge)and openly admitted he was reading off cue cards.
@@jadedheartszZappa was so frustrating. He was staggeringly talented, very intelligent, and very politically and socially aware and informed. But he had an ego the size of a planet and could be a total asshole a lot of the time.
That is not an uncommon trait among creative types.
I am a 90s kid steven seagull was always a goofy to me. I always thought he was a parody of the action stars at the time because in my mind even then watching his movies felt like unfunny leslie neilson type schtick. Growing up and finding out his history is hilarious to me. He was always ment for meme status
Jean-Claude Van Damme was the store brand version of people like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. Steven Segal was the dollar store version. Sly and Arnold weren’t the greatest actors (especially Arnold- although he improved over time) but they proved that they could succeed in various genres, laugh at themselves, and not just be slabs of muscle with no personality. I mean, hell, Sly came on the scene by writing and starring in a movie that won an Oscar for best picture and best director and a Golden Globe for best picture, and his screenplay was nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA as well. That’s more than ANY action star has accomplished, and that was at the start of his career!
Van Damme was a great kickboxer, but he couldn’t act. And Segal was passable at martial arts and had even less acting ability than Van Damme. He should’ve just been a guitarist.
Yea watch reviews of his current stuff. He is basically a parody of action heroes and he has done tropes of old action stars such as not getting hit often, sometimes bit hard to understand what they are saying, and my favorite using a body double if you ask why? Well he used body double in scenes you expect but throughout most of his films catalogs he used the double to do things like walking, climbing stairs running and other things he wouldn’t do because his contract required him to work only a hour and that’s it for the day. If they couldn’t get him to agree to do more shoots they use the double
@@crescentfreshbret Oh yeah, like you say, Van Damme wasn't ever Arnie or Sly level, but he had his own charm and charisma and can laugh at himself. Seagal just exudes arrogance and ego. He seems to think he's untouchable. Despite being a total creep and weirdo.
Steven Seagull would be his Bojack Horseman counterpart, I'm sure.
@@crescentfreshbret He doesn't even know how to play the fucking guitar!
Maybe Steven has been trolling us his whole career and the joke is on us. He's a comedic genius.
I want to live in a world wear Van Damme hosted SNL instead of Segal. He always seemed like he could actually poke fun at himself… plus he was better suited to things other than menacing the cast.
Judging from those old green screen videos of him, he seems fun.
The guy was in Minions 2 as a French stereotype supervillain parody of himself, he definitely has a sense of humour
anything steven seagal does is a tragedy
Now it's a comedy
@@ninjanibba4259 a divine one
That would imply he puts any emotion into it.
I’m not sure if you know this or not but the reason Steven isn’t showing emotion is because he can’t. He’s literally been like this since the very beginning. Every single role in every movie he’s in he’s using the same monotone and emotionless voice. I’ve never seen a single Steven Seagal movie where he ever yells or gets angry or actually acts like he gives a shit about the movie he’s STARRING in. He’s the worst action “star” and action “actor” in the history of the film industry that actually made money.
Honestly, he does show a bit of that in his first four movies, to say the least.
(Not so) Fun Fact : Many people wonder how tf did he manage to became an actor in the first place without having any talent.
He actually had contact with the mafia and was the mafia that pushed for make him an actor. People from the industry found him emotionless and lacked many things but this mafia guy (don't remember his name; maybe was his agent) pushed and pushed and he got famous. In the first movies, a lot of extras are mafias "picciotti" and that was one of his many way to "thank" those people .
He's a terrible person on 360 degree. On the start of the 2000 he r@ped a 20 year old woman with the excuse of making an Audition for one of his movie, assaulted many others, same excuse. and did zero jail time
Check it on reliable sources on the internet. He's more than laughable he's a sociopath
Sorry fr my English I'm Italian
Steven Segal is just the worst at everything.
careful, he will wave his hand at you and be sure your head exploded.
@@tyrant-den884No, Segal can’t wave his hand anymore. He has to have a stuntman in a wig who looks nothing like him do it for him.
Except for screwing it up, which he's the absolute best at.
Except eating
What are you talking about? There is no better actor at standing and sitting than Steven Seagal
I’m guessing this episode of SNL would be like if Steven Seagal slapped or punched someone in one of his movies while not caring and clearly half assing it.
Not captured in the video, the action sequences were awkward since they were presented live. Especially in the part where Seagal slowly threw a guy out of a window.
@@KawikaProductions Oh dear. That does sound cringey.
2:18 Many women have told Seagal has committed SA on them. So this sadly makes sense.
There is also the clip of Katherine Heigl telling he was creepy to her when making the Under Siege sequal.
Holy shit.
Michael Bolton saved the show that night. "Let the Chickens Be" is more memorable than ANYTHING in Steven Seagal's discography.
Who knew that Michael Bolton of all people would be the good part of something back during the height of his schmaltz? The thing is that he’s always been able to laugh at himself, unlike Steven Segal.
@@crescentfreshbretMicheal Bolton is actually funny.
Remember when Seagal butchered his name. “MICAL BOLTAN!”
@@crescentfreshbret I think the cast appreciated it too, they were clearly having a blast in that recording booth....then it was RIGHT back to banality.
Will Sasso playing Steven Segal is an example of art imitating life, then life imitating art. It was funny that a fat guy played a karate guy. Until the karate guy got fat
How dare you say such a thing... In Steven Segal's America!
Crouching Cops, Hidden Badges FTW
If there is such a title for the psychological complex that Steven Seagal has, I'd call it the Emperor Complex or the Royal Complex.
He seems exactly that kind of person.
I would just call it the Seagal complex
Steven Seagal: I just heard about the most interesting psychological complex.
Other person: Really? Who’s it named after?
Seagal: Me!
(I borrowed Rob Schneider’s story of Seagal “reading the the greatest script he’d ever read” for this joke)
@@JakNasty69 He'd probably like that.
Thanks for including my comment in the episode! That was so cool to see… Told you Segal was worse than Berle
Drumpf were worse hosts though
this is so tragic i cant believe steven seagal from steven seagel is the final option on the super nintendo would do such a thing
One of 2 episodes of SNL that they don't ever show
whats the other?
What was the other one?
Which one?
The aforementioned Milton Berle episode.
@lumpisan when Chris Farley hosted. It was uncomfortable .and you cab tell he was constantly hyperventilating
The SNL host that made me cringe the most was Christopher Lee. I was a fan, but the audience didn't seem to have any idea who he was. He was trying, but he was stiff and his applause and laugh lines were met with pin-drop silence. I just wanted someone to put him out of his misery.
All we need now is a video on the time Elvis Costello was on SNL
I’d like to do all the banned guest episodes at some point. I’m kind of getting into SNL a bit (the good seasons at least), so if the Masters of Fate want it, they’ll get it!
@@mediamementosofficialI love David Spade
Who was it who went onstage and delivered a monologue so disgusting that it literally hasn't been seen since the first airing? It got replaced by a series of cards explaining why they can NEVER show this again while giving the gist of what was said to the viewers in reruns.
Martin Lawrence
@@Anas-pg7koYeeeeeeah. He was explicit. Trevor mentioned him briefly in the Milton Berle video.
@@Anas-pg7ko Thanks! IIRC, Lawrence nearly got Lorne Micheals fired. NBC was THAT pissed.
@@Anas-pg7kohe was talking about eating 😺
But did they leave in all the Norm Macdonald OJ jokes on Weekend Update? Because those were awesome but I know he eventually got fired because somebody who had power in NBC was friends with OJ
Never knew I would see Steven Seagal and SNL in the same phrase.
This visual of Chris Farley in a leather jacket hits hard though, at least to me.
I’d love to hear from Kelly LeBrock about what it was like being married to Steven Segal. That must’ve been unbearable! She seems so nice and personable, and he… well, I don’t think I need to say anything.
He abused her from what I’ve heard
Seagal is example of the dunning Kruger effect
I've heard this story a million times, a million different ways and it's always funny
A therapist assaulting a victim probably could've been made on In Living Color, but it probably still wouldn't have been funny
A few months ago, I went on a binge looking up stuff about this episode. There's something just so legendary about something this bad.
11:30 I'll defend Tom Green as a host. I remember seeing that episode when it came out and it was pretty funny. Not one of the best hosts of that season. I think it was like his movie Freddy Got Fingered, where the critics didn't like it at the time but it's gone on to be a cult classic.
Will Sasso is a better Steven Seagal than Steven Seagal himself. I love that they portrayed him on MadTV, almost like they predicted Seagall's future lmao
Steven Seagal is the polar opposite to a legendary stuntman like Chuck Norris imo. Sure, he created a new form of jutsu, but he still felt disconnected from reality. Every ego-stroking movie Seagal releases, were treated as ways to conform his actual real-life experiences and have them be events that occurred in his life. At least egosploitation movies such as Tommy Wiseau's The Room, Neil Breen's filmography(Double Down, I Am Now Here, and Fateful Findings), and Turkish Star Wars/The Man Who Saved The World were funny-bad; Steven Seagal is rather pathetic and shouldn't be named as I associate myself in the stuntman community(especially a company heavily tied to a video game developer like Capcom, Just Cause Entertainment), considering the fact he's one of the worst hosts to ever come out of SNL next to Amy fucking Schumer aka the lady who jokes about her vagina a ton and isn't funny.
Vagina jokes can be funny when given the right place and time, Seagal just doesn't have any idea of what comedy even is.
at least he's not defending Drumpf like Norris is.
Schumer is plenty funny alt-right troll.
Your post was hard to read… Re: Schumer, she was very funny in her early bits. It got repetitive pretty fast though.
Knowing now how funny Michael Bolton is, they should've just fired him and have a singer and and a host. I dont think They KNEW back then .
His monologue at 9:20 was like from troy McClure
If you wanna talk about SNL episodes that were hell behind the scenes, look no further than the Diceman...
The episode of Steven Seagal hosting SNL is the kind of dreadful thing that would be in the Ark of the Covenant. Viewing it would just kill you since it sucks so bad.
Even speeding up the video, Steven Seagal's lifeless skits made editing that video pretty difficult.
If Chuck Norris or Bruce Lee was host on SNL we would have laughed our asses off but Flabby Steven Seagal
Chuck Norris has zero charisma.
Steven Seagal can’t even spell charisma.
From everything I have seen about Seagal, it doesn't surprise me in the least that not only does he have a complete lack of ability to do self-deprecation, but moreover he's so narcissistic and self-conscious that when he's in charge he absolutely must make everything about himself, and to try to portray himself as the "cool" "tough" "hero", and of course with absolutely no flaws, not even in a self-deprecating humorous manner. And the problem is that he completely lacks the talent to pull even that in any convincing and likeable manner.
Sounds like my boss at my old job.
Interesting, so that's why Will Sasso from Mad Tv would always do the Steven Segal bit.
That was funnier.
@@Attmay Yeah, those were some of my favorite skits of early season Madtv.
The bizzare stories about Segal in the Entertainment Induis probably way more than any of the movies he's done.
This is extremely unfair! How could ANY host do a good job when Michael Bolton is the musical guest??
Strife… finds a way.
The Behind the Bastards podcast did an episode or two on him. Dude's a straight up monster. Numerous rapes, and some of his movies were likely money laundering ops for Chinese gangsters. And that's before you get into his attempted singing career, or his line of energy drinks.
The Dollop also did three hour long podcasts about his entire life, it gets dark
99% of hosts are on there to promote their current projects. That’s why John Mulaney got a lot of laughs when he hosted and joked he had absolutely nothing else going on.
Gotta give a shout out to dad though, I get it.
Daniel Craig was similar, he was cued up to host so he could promote No Time To Die, they even had a sketch made to look like a scene from it and in his opening monologue he had to talk about it getting delayed due to covid
If you’ve ever seen The Menu, the character John Leguizamo plays - a washed up and self-obsessed actor - was based off of Steven Seagal. Leguizamo referred to Seagal as a horrible person and especially unpleasant to work with
Seagal assaulted him on set of Executive Decision so can you really blame him?
Seagall so good at killin, he killed the whole episode. SOOOO good at being bad ass, hes just ass bad.
@4:07, I died at the caring Itchy and Scratchy. "They care, and share... They care, and love, and share..." xD
We need to talk about the MIDI-Mac playing in the background....
omg....midi steely dan....ok, this is completely distracting. in the case of this subject, that might be ok.
subbed to 8-bit jazz, thanks, media mementos
As the editor of the video, you’re welcome. I wanted to add some 8-bit music to spice up Trevor’s roasts.
You know? Between Steven Seagal and Elon Musk, I’m starting to think unfunny people really shouldn’t host this show.
Funny people don’t want to do it anymore.
Steven Seagal didn't dial the wrong number, you picked up the wrong phone.
Saw it live, hurt my soul.
0:55 I don't know what that face is supposed to be, but I love it
Steven Segal is what happens if a neckbeard actually got famous
He's the results of a persons OC coming to life
I'm very confident in saying the average man could probably beat up Steven Segal
actually segal has been accused by multiple people of sexual assault
As horrible as he was , he wasn't any worse than Nancy Kerrigan or Michael Phelps. There are not many things less entertaining than watching athletes with no acting skills and zero comedic ability awkwardly stand there and try and deliver the opening monologue on SNL.
I met Steven Seagal once and he told me it was the greatest experience of my life.
I can't look at the word therapist anymore ☠️
I'm a new subscriber. Your voice sounds so similar to Joel David Moore. I think that's pretty cool. He's a good actor. As far as SNL goes, I can't believe it took them so long to get rid of Steven Segal. He was seriously hurting the rest of the cast. But he wasn't fired until he beat on professional stunt men for 8 minutes? I'm glad he crapped his pants. How can he live with himself? If he just came out and admitted to everything and apologized for it, he wouldn't be the most unfunny joke in history.
Seagal had never heard of SNL before stepping on the set, or that is what he told various cast and crew members.
Didn’t he introduce himself by saying “I’ve never seen your show, I don’t know what you do here”
@@mrcritical6751 Thank you. I completely forgot about the best part of the story; and an S-Tier Seagal quote, at that.
Malcolm McDowell from Season 6. But not because Malcolm wasn't trying, it was because the writing was so BAD that season!
Steven Seagal beating up Exxon Execs might have been funny if he was dressed like Captain Planet or something.
Knowing his ego, he would demand that Captain Planet dress like Steven Seagal.
He’s like the movie version of Hulk Hogan.
Al Franken said the ExxonMobil corporate room sketch was Seagals idea and Al said it was even worse in dress rehearsal
Seagal was already a joke before Mike Ovitz made him a movie star on a dare with another agent.
"Out the widow! It's a topsy-turvy world for the Billster!"
Well. Segal is horrible at being a person, so it follows he'd make others miserable.
Seagal doesn't do self depreciating humor. Even today, as the fat, lazy, mumbling Z list joke that he turned into. Today, if there are stairs in a movie, he sends in his stunt double to walk them, even if it's like 4 or 5 steps. He mumbles his lines so bad and won't do retakes or do-overs, they have Segal impersonators do his lines over in the many places that he mumbled too bad for anybody to understand him. And everything has to be about how great and handsome he is. Of course, they wouldn't have known this back then, he hadn't done enough for them to understand that.
I think the Exxon sketch was based on On Deadly Ground
I'll be interested to see a video on Miskel Spillman who won a contest to host the show. I haven't seen the episode so I don't know If it was good or bad, but I find it interesting.
Will Sasso should portray him in a biopic 😂😂😂😂😂
You’ve got to do the time Charles Grodin hosted
I've seen some of that, and there's no way he wasn't doing that on purpose.
Well now I want to watch it and it's not online anywhere
I haven't watched SNL since Dubya was in office.
The thing about Steven Seagal is that he only happens when it rains.
I mean, he's only human. Flesh and blood.
Maybe SNL needs something original and daring, like a Skit where the Mario Characters talk about Sex starring Elon Musk
Funny how you mentioned that. I included THAT segment in the beginning of the video. Alongside the Baby Yoda and Charmin Bear skits.
@@KawikaProductions Yeah, I saw it after writing my Comment. I have never heard about that Baby Yoda Skit before and that´s probably for the better
you could also say that Michael Bolton as the music guest makes it the worst SNL combo ever
I have only one wish in life: that someone will make Steven Seagal a DLC character in a fighting game, just so I can download him, play the Practice Mode, select him as my “dummy”, and then keep beating him up to no end. I’m serious, cut off both my testicles and give me cancer if I can only get this one wish come true! I would love nothing more that the sensation of feeling his squishy, bloodied, toothless face against my clenched fist, even if it’s just virtual
He also ate all the food from the caterer. The staff went hungry...
What about the time he was crying/scared of the Cosa Nostra members who told him he had to do movies again, or else? Sammy the Bull talked about that
Yeah I believe he also had a loaded gun during that event and was so scared he didn’t use it on the unarmed mobsters
yeah he also didn't use his Karate Training with control on set he use to really hurt his Stunt Men
The guy hurt Sean Connery for crying out loud
More times than not the guest host is doing so to plug a project or capitalize on the release of something. It's part of the PR playbook to have a star guest host SNL. That's nothing new.
How i wish we lived in a world where Steven Seagal was like some guy's Sacha Baron Cohen style persona where he's a funny real life action star.
They should have just stuck custard pies in his face.
The guy should have movie star tattooed on his head I didn't realise his films were comedies😮!!!
Pro tip: Don't knock surströmming until you've tried it! Pro tip: Be in a different postcode when the can is opened!
Seagal behaved like f***ing stalin would lmao
I DIDNT KNOW THERE WAS AN 8-BIT OF THE SONG HUMAN!!!!!!!! 😢😢😢 I LOVE THAT SONG!
I remember watching this live and the whole show just felt weird and off.
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True story;
While working on a movie together, Steven Seagal pressed John Leguizomo up against a wall for laughing at him. The man takes himself that seriously… SMH