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Saturday Night Live musical sketches - The Culp Family Musical Performances
The Culps were two recurring characters on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. Marty Culp (Will Ferrell), a guileless, balding, middle-aged man, and his wife Bobbi Mohan-Culp (Ana Gasteyer), who teaches alongside her husband at Altadena Middle School, make up the Culp Family. They perform at various school functions, singing medleys of recent pop songs in their own conservative style. Marty plays the keyboard and sings backup, while Bobbi leads the singing with her high-pitched, operatic vocals. In between medleys, the Culps make comments to the audience of middle school students, often implying that the children are mocking them.
It should be noted that The Culp Family Musical Performances borrowed heavily from the Nick The Lounge Singer character popularized by Bill Murray in the early days of Saturday Night Live, and The Sweeney Sisters played by Jan Hooks and Nora Dunn. The basic premise is the same, that the singer (who performs at bottom-of-the-barrel gigs) takes a popular song and sings it in a cheesy way, sometimes adding or changing lyrics to suit the occasion, completely oblivious to how square he is.
Saturday Night Live musical sketches - Episodes featuring The Culps
- November 2, 1996 host: Chris Rock
- February 15, 1997 host: Chevy Chase
- May 10, 1997 host: John Goodman
- November 15. 1997 host: Claire Danes
- December 13, 1997 host: Helen Hunt
- February 14, 1998 host: Roma Downey
- April 11, 1998 host: Greg Kinnear
- October 17, 1998 host: Lucy Lawless
- January 9, 1999 host: Bill Paxton
- May 15, 1999 host: Sarah Michelle Gellar
- September 26, 1999 (25th Anniversary Special)
- November 6, 1999 host: Dylan McDermott
- February 5, 2000 host: Alan Cumming
- May 20, 2000 host: Jackie Chan
- November 11, 2000 host: Calista Flockhart
- January 13, 2001 host: Charlie Sheen
- February 1, 2001 (Primetime Extra Special)
- April 14, 2001 host: Renee Zellweger
- September 29, 2001 host: Reese Witherspoon
- December 15, 2001 host: Ellen DeGeneres
- April 6, 2002 host: Cameron Diaz
Saturday Night Live musical sketches - References
- The Culps at the SNL archives
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