Saturday Night Live has a protracted historical past of poking enjoyable on the Olympics.

In the present’s earliest years, authentic solid members corresponding to Gilda Radner and John Belushi appeared as surprisingly vengeful gymnasts, and decathlon champions with extremely uncommon weight-reduction plan regimens.

The custom they started has continued for almost fifty years now, with every new solid addressing or parodying the breakout stars and largest controversies from the world’s largest sporting occasion. Here, in no specific order, are the Top 10 Saturday Night Live Olympic Sketches:

‘Olga Korbut’ (1976)

Gilda Radner makes a quick however memorable look on Weekend Update, portraying real-life Russian Olympic gymnast Olga Korbut, who was unexpectedly upstaged by Nadia Comaneci of Romania on the 1976 Olympics. After listening to Chevy Chase describe her as “a crushed, forgotten, saddened figure” and “a has-been at the age of 21,” Korbut lashes out towards her opponent in a really blunt method.

‘Little Chocolate Donuts’ (1977)

John Belushi’s uncommon coaching weight-reduction plan was the topic of a well-known 1977 Saturday Night Live sketch. Modeled after the Wheaties breakfast cereal advert campaigns that includes 1976 Olympic decathalon-winning athlete Caitlyn Jenner (then generally known as Bruce Jenner), the sketch as an alternative discovered Belushi beginning every day with little chocolate donuts…and a cigarette, after all.

‘All-Drug Olympics’ (1988)

Phil Hartman and Kevin Nealon star in one of many funniest Olympic sketches in Saturday Night Live historical past, one which may even outdo Dan Aykroyd’s 1978 Julia Child sketch when it comes to pretend blood spilled. Hartman stars as a Russian weightlifter juiced to the gills on performance-enhancing medication, whose try to triple the present world report goes terribly, terribly unsuitable: “Oh, that’s gotta be a disappointment for the big Russian….”

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‘Telemundo Winter Olympics’ (2010)

Jennifer Lopez and Fred Armison seem because the befuddled hosts of Spanish-language tv community Telemundo’s first try to cowl the Winter Olympics. “We keep asking ourselves the same question: Why does anybody like the Winter Olympics? It is cold and the sports are silly,” asks Armison. “All the sports are either very strange or something you would do if you wanted to kill yourself,” provides Lopez.

‘Figure Skating Cold Open’ (1992)

Phil Hartman (as announcer Verne Lundquist) and Dana Carvey (as Scott Hamilton) attempt to hold issues skilled as they cowl Beverly Hills, 90210 star Jason Priestley’s completely disastrous, fall-filled try to seize determine skating gold. “Could this cause permanent damage?” Hartman asks at one level. “Yes, someone should really stop this,” agrees Carvey.

‘Synchronized Swimming’ (1984)

Harry Shearer and Martin Short play brothers who dream of successful gold in males’s synchronized swimming, and are not discouraged by the truth that no such Olympic occasion exists. “That’s OK, because we could use the time,” Short notes, “because I’m not that strong a swimmer.”

‘Ryan Lochte on the Fall TV Schedule’ (2012)

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane pokes enjoyable at gold medal-winning swimmer Ryan Lochte’s perceived lack of intelligence by having him speak about probably the most promising reveals from the upcoming TV season. “I think they got me all wrong there,” Locthe declared quickly after the sketch aired. “Hopefully, I’ll get the chance to go on ‘SNL’ and redeem myself.” That has but to occur.

‘Mormons on the Slopes’ (2002)

Saturday Night Live legend Aykroyd returns to the present, teaming up with Will Ferrell as a pair of over-eager recruiters for the Mormon faith, trying to win over Amy Poehler proper in the midst of an Olympic snowboarding competitors.

‘1994 Olympics’ (1994)

Commentators Phil Hartman and David Spade do their finest to keep up correct decorum whereas discussing the dramatic weight achieve that has negatively affected Chris Farley’s Olympic determine skating efficiency.

‘Swimming Instructor’ (2013)

A novice swimmer with most unlikely Olympic goals (Will Forte) recruits world-famous teacher Doug Frangello (John C. Reilly) for an introductory lesson. The extremely uncommon course of quickly finds the 2 strapped very tightly collectively via a collection of suggestive and uncomfortable gyrations, pausing solely to offer Frangello a second to regulate his penis.

Bonus: Steve Martin, ‘Olympic Diving Event’

In his 1980 TV particular Comedy is Not Pretty, frequent Saturday Night Live contributor Steve Martin performs a extremely unconventional diving champion whose on a regular basis strikes in some way hold dazzling the judges.