Dan Aykroyd screen test for Saturday Night Live from 1975

[Video Link] A 22-year-old Dan Aykroyd screen tests for Saturday Night Live in 1975. He delivers news and commercials in a number of different voices, ad-libbing hilarious nonsense the whole time.

Dangerous Minds: Dan Aykroyd’s Screen Test for ‘Saturday Night Live’ from 1975

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Kaffenated

That is hilarious! They sure don’t make cocaine like they used to.
- wrybread
  
  Nah the coke comes later. I’m betting that’s just a funny and super talented 22 year old.
  - Kaffenated
    
    He was a very talented young man (with or without cocaine).
Fart History Major

Ah the good old days, when awesome mustaches weren’t ironic.
http://www.kmoser.com kmoser

Check the first sentence: It should be “Aykroyd”, not “Akyrod”.
petsounds

The off-camera voice at the end sounds like Lorne Michaels.
Stephen M

from 4:30 that character reminded me of ‘i am boxxy’ meme character, anyone else get that?
http://twitter.com/pentomino Nick Bensema

When I saw those SNL reruns on VH-1, I couldn’t help but think that Dan Aykroyd looked a lot older when he was younger. But that was in 1990.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QN6WUG7WMBDAGUPFVSJ6HJAS2A Darth

He’s channeling Johanthan Winters there. Robin Williams could only do so well!
Stas’ Wiatrowski

I wonder what he was thinking while he was firing off the brilliance. Was the screen test the last part of a set of auditions? Did he know he had the gig at this point? Thanks, this was a definite morning brightener!
- Chrs
  
  Sure sounds like he didn’t know it, that last thirty seconds or so, heck of stressful.
http://profiles.google.com/davidabarak David Barak

I can imagine what he was thinking, when he heard “Thanks for coming to New York” at the end – “Shit, I didn’t get the gig.” Surprise surprise.
http://borborygmist.influxofdust.com/ Wayne Dyer

At around 3:50 — that’s definitely Tom Snyder.
millie fink

Really, only 22?

He looks 35!
AndrewdeSouza_paNOW

Is it just me or do people you knew as adults when you were a child always have a certain minimum age look? I’m 25 and there’s no way if 22-year-old Dan came up to me I would think he was younger than me
hughstimson

Are the voices off calling him “Dave” and “David” at the end? Adorable.
hughstimson

“We have so much to thank the glaciers for, but where do we write?” is one of my favourite lines of the last couple years, since I first saw a shorter clip of this.

I suppose I don’t know why, but llol.
Brood-X

The chainsaw impression was the impersonation i liked the most.
pjperez

And … blocked.
CrackWilding

Thank God NBC blocked this. Someone might have, um, enjoyed it.