Abbey Road

As a Chicagoan, I grew up on the likes of John Belushi, Dan Akroyd and Gilda Radner who all spent time at Second City here before hitting the stage at Saturday Night Live in the 70s. Way too often I laughed till I cried.

The last ten years or so I must simply be getting old because most of the bits just haven’t seemed that funny.

But last weekend’s Saturday Night Live hosted by Christopher Walken included a skit called, “Googly Eyes, A Man Who is Very Afraid of Plants,” that is destined to become a classic. If any other actor had tried this it would have bombed.