Dan Aykroyd's Saturday Night Live Screen Test

[FAYMprod]

That is a terrible Louisiana accent.

[jazztap64]

Can you imagine any of the current SNL cast members being able to do this?

[FAYMprod]

@jazztap64 Sudeikis, Wiig, Armisen, and could go on. I would bet more of the current cast can do six minutes of improv/characters than can't.

[jazztap64]

@FAYMprod You could be right. It may just be the writing (I think writing has a LOT to do with it). Either way, SNL is just not as smart and funny as it used to be.

[ravenkiller1]

Damn I always loved his Tom Snyder!

[ShmoeTheHo]

@thecitizenbill I think that's why it's called a screen test

[Jase534]

The reporter from Family Guy?

[mythstoorfoot]

how cute is he?! oh my gosh!

[califinn]

Louisiana Gator/Crabber, awesome.

[BootCampFX]

@califinn LMAO

[TheHockeyCentral]

The influence of shale on the ......topography of the Earth.

[BieberCrissWalker97]

I want his accent....haha!!

[twilightfirefly]

I loved the UFO story. He started out sounding like an impression of Jimmy Stewart and ended up sounding like Elvis.

[mkzen777]

He was a genious before he became one...........

[jwb4291]

haha sweet 'stache and damn hes gained a bit of weight

[themattressdr]

Imagine knowing him at 22 years old!



[libville]

Funny!

[TheCitizenbill]

he was 22 years old.This is not really an audition tape. The original 7 Not Ready for Prime Timers had already been hired and this was simply an exercise to see how they looked on camera. There was no script and the performers were told to just speak for 2 or 3 minutes. It wasn't an actual performance and certainly wasn't meant to be seen by anyone other than the Loren Michaels and Dave Wilson, the shows director.

[hoffmiester1029]

@TheCitizenbill Hence "SCREEN TEST" in the title of the video.

[jakeychin]

Love the French canadian