Late Night 80s Cringe-Comedy with Some Muscle

From: stephano

Categories: Muscle-Videos

Tags: 80s, barbarian, beach, bodybuilder, bug, comedy, Gym, muscle, parody, posing, retro, sweaty, thick, training, tv

Added: 3 weeks ago

In the early 80s, ABC aired their own version of ‘Saturday Night Live’, calling it ‘Fridays’, and running it on that night. Michael Richards, of later ‘Seinfeld’ fame, was a featured player with a Krameresque recurring character called ‘Dick’ (Larry David was also onboard, seen here as the guy with the football). The show wasn’t very good, though my friends and I would occasionally watch it for the week’s musical guest. Luckily, I did happen to catch the first sketch here ‘live’ and the muscle walk-on we get halfway through made it worthwhile and memorable.

Just a month or so earlier, ‘Sports Illustrated’ had made me VERY happy by discovering/featuring the Barbarian Brothers essentially out of the blue, running a generous story on them with tasty pics, especially a two-page spread that nicely showcased their beefy upper bodies in fantasy-arousing Conan gear. (Away at college then, and sharing a house with other guys, I didn’t have access to muscle mags per se and had to ‘make do’ with what ‘inspiration’ I could find mainstream media). When one of those juicy meatheads suddenly showed up in the beach sketch (@ 4:00), I don’t know how I stopped myself from gasping in delight. I kept my cool in front of my flatmates, but I took the vision of those huge, mighty lats to bed with me that night and for as long as I could sustain the memory.

The second sketch, set in a gym, is even more satisfying, as we get muscle eye-candy throughout, including seemingly a return visit by the Barbarian Brother. Sadly, I couldn’t find a version with better image quality than this, but there’s enough clarity to appreciate the generous amount of muscle on display. The hot guy posing in the mirror (while somehow keeping a straight face) is the highlight for me. I missed seeing this back in the day, only happening upon it online when searching for the earlier beach sketch, so I don’t know how I would have coped if I’d seen all that tasty beef amid a crowd.