Former Stargate SG-1 leading man Richard Dean Anderson made a surprise cameo appearance on last night’s new episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Steve Martin! Anderson appeared as MacGyver in a series of three MacGruber sketches, actor Will Forte’s spoof of Anderson’s venerable 1980s hero.
Anderson last spoofed MacGyver in a 2006 Mastercard commercial, which premiered during the Superbowl. He also played himself in a 2006 episode of The Simpsons.
MacGruber sketches are deliberately very formulaic, and unlike MacGyver, this hero gets distracted and never quite saves the day in time.
U.S. viewers can watch all three MacGruber sketches below, courtesy of Hulu. MacGruber!
(Thanks to sg-1fanintn for the tip)
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Damn my being outside of the US! Can't see it :( ...but I'm sure if Richard Dean Anderson was in it then it had to have been fantastic and funny! :)
Wow, that was a bad sketch and a waste of RDA's talent. Will Forte is one of the least funny "comedians" on SNL.
the skit writing was uninspiring, but it was *wonderful* to see richard again!! :D
SNL has hit/miss humor. I watched MacGyver growing up, and saw the previous skits of this... yeah, I just don't get it. A longer, move involved sketch of the first of the 3 would have sufficed - that argument about 80's hair is funny, the rest of the time RDA is just "eye candy". Unless this Pepsi thing is oblique riff on how MacGyver was always pulling out his Swiss Army knife for everything, or there was some ep. with soda I don't remember.
The skits were okay, especially the 1) being-stuck-in-the-control-room aspect. How many times have we seen MacGyver get out of a locked room?? And also 2) the progression of the Pepsi sponsorship/product placement.
Too bad, though, that RDA is looking his age; you can really tell from his face that he's a few pounds heavier than in his MacGyver days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTc4ywZdWns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuW_T2vdFwc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7bQZLtgHts&feature=related
I found the shorts on Youtube and tried to post the links, but they didn't go through.
Hey, the 2nd MacGruber clip was just used as a Superbowl commercial for Pepsi! Good going RDA!
To be honest with you. I thought with RDA in it, it would be great. IT SUCKED! IT WAS A PEPSI COMMERCIAL! THEY REALLY ROBED RDA! However it was nice to see RDA mannerisms.
That was awsome! I can't believe i didn't reckonize him when i saw it live. It must've been all that extra weight he's put on, that's just one of things that happens when your that old and outta work(look at William Shatner).