The way Hollywood never thought to give her a sitcom about a melodramatic soap actress is criminal. She is so damn funny and her comedic timing is perfection.
Easily one of the funniest and spot on parodies of daytime serials. You either get this spoof 100% or it zooms over your head and seems stupid. This is a hilarious sketch that nails many tropes of 80s & 90s soaps.
Fan fact she auditioned for the role of Mary-Ann in Gillian’s island so she very much could have went into comedy if her career panned out differently.
Oh definitely, if I recall, previous to the week Susan Lucci had hosted, her character Erica Kane had just visited the chapel to pray for the life of her daughter Bianca who had contracted Rhys syndrome. And she gave an impassioned plea to God in that scene too. So, this farce hit very close to the funny bone. Phil Hartman was great too - he really could play anything.
This sketch is a litmus test for age. For anyone under 30, why this sketch is hilarious will sail right over their heads. The rest of us are on the floor laughing our heads off. 🤣🤣🤣
This is also when "Twin Peaks" was the rage, this skit makes it clear how much that show was inspired by soap operas (maybe it's just the synth). This is still absurdly funny 33 years later. I saw it live back then and I never forgot it, it crosses my mind a few times a year!
I wish they would upload her opening monologue where she joked about not having won an Emmy (at the time). She was so funny and such a good sport about it.
I always wanted them to pan ONE LIFE TO LIVE in the eighties, I even casted it in my head: Dana Carvey as Bo Nora Dunn as Dorian Phil Hartman as Asa Jan Hooks as Viki/Niki Victoria Jackson as Tina Jon Lovitz as Mitch Kevin Nealon as Clint
Too bad Susan didn't host a 2nd time during her pill addiction storyline. She could've reenacted her woman of the year speech. The only difference is that that the audience is baggage handlers & airport employees. When she says "everyone in this room has let me down"
There's another sketch from this episode somewhere where for some reason a cameo is made by longtime "Match Game" host Gene Rayburn. I'm not sure where that is.
This is funny on many levels but what they are saying is how soap operas make a big deal about nothing. Soaps are more about the characters than the plots. Thats what i thought was hysterical at least.
Not for anyone who had ever seen ten minutes of a soap opera in their lives. If you were home sick from school anytime up until about 2006, they were on every afternoon, show after show. This skit perfectly spoofs so many tropes, doing it with a straight face, that makes it hilarious.
The way Hollywood never thought to give her a sitcom about a melodramatic soap actress is criminal. She is so damn funny and her comedic timing is perfection.
A sitcom like that would be so funny like that movie SoapDish!
She played Genevieve Delatour for 49 episodes on _Devious Maids_ (2013-2016)
She was in Hot in Cleaveland (well as side character/rival)
I love the outbursts of laughter when the all my luggage sign comes on and when susan is in the chapel
Easily one of the funniest and spot on parodies of daytime serials. You either get this spoof 100% or it zooms over your head and seems stupid. This is a hilarious sketch that nails many tropes of 80s & 90s soaps.
If you also don't get this joke. Then try a year meeting your quota from one minute complaint calls in customer service.
Shhh. Shhh. Be strong now.
This is my first time watching this skit....HILARIOUS! I love Susan's comedic timing!
You should have seen the Emmy opening. Really funny.
@@travisjames3517 I hope it's on RUclips!
Susan has such good comic timing!
Fan fact she auditioned for the role of Mary-Ann in Gillian’s island so she very much could have went into comedy if her career panned out differently.
Phil Hartman was born for parts like this! I love his facial expressions 🤣❤
Spot on. The wig he's wearing is also pure Soap Opera Man.
Shh…shhh…
I never watched "All My Children" but obviously the audience did and really got the jokes.
Their reaction made this skit funny.
Oh definitely, if I recall, previous to the week Susan Lucci had hosted, her character Erica Kane had just visited the chapel to pray for the life of her daughter Bianca who had contracted Rhys syndrome. And she gave an impassioned plea to God in that scene too. So, this farce hit very close to the funny bone. Phil Hartman was great too - he really could play anything.
@@erikandrus4387Susan Lucci talks about it on the FoundationInterviews channel
"I know it' seems like the only time I come to you is when I lose my bags"...is my favorite part.
This sketch is a litmus test for age. For anyone under 30, why this sketch is hilarious will sail right over their heads. The rest of us are on the floor laughing our heads off. 🤣🤣🤣
Nah~Anyone over 30 watched it with their moms when they came home from school for lunch~just ask my kids~and any of their friends 😂😂😂
Susan Lucci is an absolute genius. 😂
This is also when "Twin Peaks" was the rage, this skit makes it clear how much that show was inspired by soap operas (maybe it's just the synth). This is still absurdly funny 33 years later. I saw it live back then and I never forgot it, it crosses my mind a few times a year!
She didn't have to read cue cards for this.
She cranked out All My Children episodes five days a week for most of the calendar year for decades. She rapid-fire memorized lines for a living. 🤓
I wish they would upload her opening monologue where she joked about not having won an Emmy (at the time). She was so funny and such a good sport about it.
I always wanted them to pan ONE LIFE TO LIVE in the eighties, I even casted it in my head:
Dana Carvey as Bo
Nora Dunn as Dorian
Phil Hartman as Asa
Jan Hooks as Viki/Niki
Victoria Jackson as Tina
Jon Lovitz as Mitch
Kevin Nealon as Clint
That would have been epic! Especially Phil and Jan, I pictured them in those roles and makeup & thought how perfectly they would have done it. 🥲 😊
@@CuriousGoodsJessica Are you by chance a Friday the 13th the Series fan?
Perfection
The best soap parody SNL ever did.
Susan is so gorgeous 😍
Too bad Susan didn't host a 2nd time during her pill addiction storyline. She could've reenacted her woman of the year speech. The only difference is that that the audience is baggage handlers & airport employees. When she says "everyone in this room has let me down"
RIP PHIL HARTMAN
I miss him!
Losing him hurt.
Indeed..
“So what are you telling us?” Lol
Best line
Even Walt Willey recognized himself in this sketch.
Phil Hartman barely opens his mouth and I start laughing he is sorely missed
This could double as a reality show these days.
Jackson Montgomery next to her is strangely silent. Maybe he really knew where the luggage was.
What a scandal! Looks like a job for a Friday episode.
My brother was into the Soaps, he loved this stuff.
What a great sport she was to do this!
I thought of that too
Pure gold!
Top of the top 😂😂😂😂 they can’t make them like this anymore ….
Oh my goodness! This is hilarious! Susan Lucci should have her own sitcom!
Poor Erica Kane. Only she would have a meltdown for losing luggage
Not lost. Stolen! (Commercial break)
This was HILARIOUS 😂 😂😂😂😂
Immortal. ❤😂❤😂❤
I 💕 Susan!!
This is so well performed!
Overacted. That’s why.
@jennifergersch9126 Yeah, but in a dedicated and purposeful way, which makes it great. They're not just clowning it.
What a great laugh 😂
This must've been before Vegas was the fabulous shopping destination it is today.
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True. High end stores were not in Las Vegas around 1990. Now she’d be fine.
I was thinking that too
This is actually how Susan Lucci acted on AMC! Seriously.
Nah, this is an exaggerated version and hilarious for it.
It's a little exaggerated but you're right lol Erica was a bitch tho in the 70s! My mom used to cry and carry on about how she was mean to Tom!😊
@@nicoletrudell2065LOL. Exactly.
Her scene at Mona's funeral had the same intensity.
Exactly
CLASSIC SNL...😅
There's another sketch from this episode somewhere where for some reason a cameo is made by longtime "Match Game" host Gene Rayburn. I'm not sure where that is.
I hate to see what happens when she misplaces her car keys, sunglasses or purse.
Then she’ll really need to call in the big guns
It would have been hilarious if they had done a three part mini episode. Luggage, car keys, etc.
Susan is good at comedy
AMC IS comedy
Perfect!!!
The slightly sinister floaty minor-key aspect of the background music gives it a bit of a _Twin Peaks_ feel
She was such a professional
This is funny on many levels but what they are saying is how soap operas make a big deal about nothing. Soaps are more about the characters than the plots. Thats what i thought was hysterical at least.
The OLTL rape storyline is perhaps a major exception then. And they swept the Emmys that year, so clearly they were onto something.
Lmao wow!!! This is gooden
Golden
This feels like Kevin Nealon’s humor
Great !!!
she kills it
This is the funniest thing ever
Sam Brinton has her luggage.
Kendall.
LAWL!!
Daddy likey just about everything with Phil Hartman is going to be good
Lol
This was a very "inside joke" skit.
Not for anyone who had ever seen ten minutes of a soap opera in their lives. If you were home sick from school anytime up until about 2006, they were on every afternoon, show after show. This skit perfectly spoofs so many tropes, doing it with a straight face, that makes it hilarious.
LOL. THEY NEED TO QUIT.
This is one of the worst sketches I’ve ever seen. Evidently the audience thought it was hilarious. They were wrong.
Humor is subjective, and this clearly was for a 1990 audience that was more familiar with how soaps are.
Speak for yourself, Vickie.
Loved it, thought it was very amusing
Just say it's over your head, it's ok not to understand the joke.
Oh, okay.