{"id":31165,"date":"2025-01-07T21:02:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T21:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/saturday-night-live-50th-anniversary-docuseries-features-episode-about-blue-oyster-cult-more-cowbell-sketch\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T21:02:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T21:02:28","slug":"saturday-night-live-50th-anniversary-docuseries-features-episode-about-blue-oyster-cult-more-cowbell-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/saturday-night-live-50th-anniversary-docuseries-features-episode-about-blue-oyster-cult-more-cowbell-sketch\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Saturday Night Live&#8217; 50th anniversary docuseries features episode about Blue \u00d6yster Cult &#8216;More Cowbell&#8217; sketch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-07\/M_SNL50Doclogo_010725.jpg\" alt><figcaption>courtesy of Peacock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A new docuseries celebrating the 50th anniversary of <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Saturday Night<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Live<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> debuts in January and will feature an episode about the infamous \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cVsQLlk-T0s?t=34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>More Cowbell<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">\u201d sketch, which aired in 2000 and centered around the recording of <strong>Blue \u00d6yster Cult<\/strong>\u2019s classic tune \u201c(Don\u2019t Fear) The Reaper.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to\u00a0a press release, the docuseries\u2019 third episode, aptly titled <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">More Cowbell<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, will feature Blue \u00d6yster Cult\u2019s <strong>Eric Bloom<\/strong>, <strong>Buck Dharma<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Albert Bouchard<\/strong>, the latter of whom actually plays the cowbell in the song. Music producer <strong>Bruce Dickinson<\/strong>, who is portrayed by <strong>Christopher Walken<\/strong> in the sketch, is also set to appear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Also featured in the episode is <strong>Will Ferrell<\/strong>, <strong>Jimmy Fallon<\/strong>, <strong>Chris Kattan<\/strong> and <strong>Chris Parnell<\/strong>, who were all in the cowbell sketch, as well as <strong>Foo Fighters<\/strong> frontman <strong>Dave Grohl<\/strong> and <strong>Queens of the Stone Age<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Josh Homme<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If you\u2019re surprised that there\u2019s a whole episode about that one sketch, you\u2019re not the only one. In <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QNY0uzmRj94&amp;t=56s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>the trailer<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> for the documentary, Fallon is heard saying, \u201cThis is beyond my wildest dreams that you\u2019re making a documentary about the cowbell sketch.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> debuts Jan. 16 exclusively on Peacock.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QNY0uzmRj94\" title=\"SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night | Official Trailer | Peacock Original\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cVsQLlk-T0s\" title=\"More Cowbell - SNL\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>courtesy of Peacock A new docuseries celebrating the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night\u00a0Live debuts in January and will feature an episode about the infamous \u201cMore Cowbell\u201d sketch, which aired in 2000 and centered around the recording of Blue \u00d6yster Cult\u2019s classic tune \u201c(Don\u2019t Fear) The Reaper.\u201d According to\u00a0a press release,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/saturday-night-live-50th-anniversary-docuseries-features-episode-about-blue-oyster-cult-more-cowbell-sketch\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}