Snl stock broker skit

Over the course of a four-decade run, Saturday Night Live has taken aim at most of the trappings of American financial life—even the things you wouldn't think were funny, like stock market crashes and consumer debt. In honor of the show's star-studded anniversary celebration this Sunday, here are MONEY's favorite SNL sketches about money, spanning nearly all of its 40 years.

Parts One and Two. In these two Weekend Update segments, Kenan Thompson plays Oscar Rogers, a "financial expert" who describes a path out of the financial crisis.

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In that one phrase, Thompson gives voice to the powerlessness and frustration felt by laid-off workers and pummeled investors worldwide. We wonder what John Belushi's samurai stockbroker would have to say about that.

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First CitiWide Change Bank. This commercial parody—featuring Jan Hooks, Kevin Nealon, and Jim Downey—highlights just how unimpressive financial services can be, in an ad for a bank that brags about offering change to customers.

And they don't mean it in the Obama way. If you come to us with a hundred-dollar bill, we're not going to give you two thousand nickels—unless that meets your particular change needs. Joking about how weak bank services are would be funnier if it weren't so true. Steve Martin and Amy Poehler play a couple in need of a budgeting intervention in this skit, featuring Chris Parnell as the author of a, shall we say, intuitively titled book about how to control spending. If only getting out of debt were as simple as the skit suggests; in reality, paying off loans and gaining financial stability can be hard no matter how smart or hardworking you are.

But we'd still pony up for a copy of Stop Buying Stuff magazine. This classic features Candice Bergen as a reporter and Dan Aykroyd as the sunglass-sporting Irwin Mainway, purveyor of such children's toys as Johnny Switchblade, Mr. Skin Grafter, Doggie Dentist, and Bag o' Glass. I got a sliver! Roseanne Barr plays a hour hotline representative for the fictional "Metrocard" credit card in this sketch, which sends up confessional-style TV ads highlighting service.

Phil Hartman plays a seemingly satisfied customer. You know, like I'm his mom or something. So I say, 'Why don't you call home and have somebody wire you the money?

Or call your company and tell them the problem? Or, better yet, why don't you take a personal check out of your checkbook, roll it up real tight, and then cram it!

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