Silver Bells by Paul Simon & Steve Martin

From the Mark and Brian Show
This is the 1st rehearsal between Paul Simon & Steve Martin for the funny version of Silver Bells performed on Saturday Night Live in the 1970's.

If you want to go right to where the humor starts go to about 1:55 in.

This is just the audio with a quickly slapped together slideshow to give it a little life.

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• Silver
• Bells
• Paul
• Simon
• Steve
• Martin
• Saturday
• Night
• Live

[bcgrote]

Because you can never have enough eggnog!

[OzofBorg]

LOL

[mcclainx]

The Gods were with me.............

Has anyone EVER seen the video of the actual show performance?

[OzofBorg]

No !

I never saw this one I started watching SNL in the late 70's so this must have been earlier. I was glad when M & B posted it on the KLOS website and I wanted to share it.

I wish I would have spent some more time on the slide-show. It could have been alot better. I don't want to mess with it now. I'll just keep it available.

[tjustman]

Oh man you got to wait for it on this one, I almost gave up. It's gets great about 2 minutes into it.

[OzofBorg]

Thanks for telling people to stay with it.

I was torn between editing it to go right to the Steve Martin part or leaving it alone to keep the setup.

[LincolnFerland]

Paul Simon has the most beautiful voice.

[tejaswoman]

@jatwell55 Confirmed in the Nov 15 2001 issue of American Way magazine, the in-flight mag for American Airlines. (You can look it up online.) Billy Joel tells the story as the wrapup of his interview about where to go in NY. For the record, it apparently is unrelated to SNL, even though it's the kind of thing they'd've loved.

[TheRjjrjjr]

This is crap.

[VonSeward]

@jatwell55 schnockered!! what a great new yorker yiddish word. you made me laugh my friend! When i read this, i wondered if Mel Brookes was still alive! "coicumsition! the girls love it!" Ya know, if someone was savvy enough, they could create an entire false yiddish language just by sounding jewish. "ya know, the boyish child was shtuptated while being fatunked!" (this means nothing at all)

Thanks for the info on such great history.

[VonSeward]

This creativity of humor has roots and importance. It is much like the lineage of your own family, knowing that Auntie grace told a story of her grandfathers father that survived WW1. This humor is of the same deep legacy and brilliance: Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Gleason, Laurel and Hardy, W.C.Fields, Benny Hill, Carson etc.. Lorne gave the U.S. SNL, a TV format of off the street and raw talent. It is what politicians should be made of. Steve Martin is one of these greats!

[josiahgust]

@jatwell55 Where did you hear that?

[carrahful]

eggnog martini? hum

[MrAnderson1985]

Damn uncle Walt.. You were supposed to bring me back some more eggnog

[GirMcDog]

I love these two men so much.

They both bring so much joy.

[AdamsApple1963]

"Feeding the naked and clothing the hungry"...lol...

[jatwell55]

Go to website americanwaymag / christmas-paul-simon-steve-mar­tin-st-regis-new-york