While demonstrating how to bone a chicken on “The French Chef,” Julia Child (Dan Aykroyd) has an accident with a very sharp knife, so she tries to improvise a tourniquet out of a chicken bone and kitchen items. [Season 4, 1978]
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[upbeat music] – Welcome. I’m Julia Child. Today, we’re going to make a holiday feast, or le fete d’holiday, and we’re going to start with half-boned chicken, or poulard demi de sauce. You need a fine, fat roasting chicken like this one. And first remove the giblets, and you really should save the giblets.
They make a fine stock for soup, or you can save the liver and fry it up with some onions for a little snack, or if you have a number of livers, you can make a lovely liver pate or perhaps a delicious liverwurst which you can spread on a cracker,
A Ritz cracker, or Sa-hal-tine cracker or on bread, a rye bread, or pumper–pumpernickel bread, or if you’re celebrating the Jewish holidays, you can make a chopped liver and shape it into the bust of a friend, someone who’s getting married or bar mitzvahed. Is that it? Am I pronouncing it right? Bar mitzvah?
I hope so. Or if you have a pet cat or a dog, they love liver. Save the liver. Don’t throw it away. I hope I’ve made my point. Don’t throw the liver away. Now where was I? Oh, yes. Poulard demi de sauce. Now, after we remove the giblets and save the you-know-what–
Did I mention liverwurst? You can spread it on crackers. Oh, well, anyway, it’s time to bone the chicken now. For this, you need a very sharp knife. Can’t do nothing without a sharp knife. And you place the chicken on its stomach and cut along the backbone to the poult’s nose like so–crap. Oh.
Now I’ve done it. I’ve cut the dickens out of my finger. Well, I’m glad in a way this happened. You know, accidents do occur from time to time in the kitchen. We’ve never really discussed what to do. First you must stop the bleeding.
The best way is with direct pressure on the apron like so. Oh! You ought to raise your hand over your head so the blood has to be pumped all the way up. Oh, the apron doesn’t seem to be working, so I’d recommend, uh, natural coagulants such as chicken liver.
Another reason not to throw away the liver. Oh, oh, God, it’s throbbing. A tourniquet– that’s it, yes, a tourniquet can be made of cheesecloth and a chicken bone. Find a pressure point between the heart and the wound– in this case the wrist– and cut off the blood.
Oh, this is a last resort, however, ’cause you could lose your hand if you tighten it too much. Oh! You’re too woozy to tie the tourniquet, try to call for emergency help. There’s not much time left. Now, every kitchen should have the emergency number written on it somewhere. Oh, this one doesn’t. 911.
Uh… Oh, this phone is a prop. It doesn’t work. Oh, that’s a shame, because I’m remembering a time when I was a little girl and I had a dog named Admiral. I used to give him liver, and my mother gave me a doll. Why are you all spinning?
Oh, I think I’m going to go to sleep now. Bon appetit. Save the liver. [upbeat music]
40 Comments
Just call me missy butterfingers.
When SNL was actually funny!
Sa-a-a-altine 😂
Lmfao
What the fuck
Dan Ackroyd’s Julia Child impression gave me Mickey Mouse vibes.
They wouldn't dare do this sketch today.
This was back when the idea of a man dressed as a woman was comical instead of accepted. This is how it should be.
I met Julia Child in Culinary school and spent an hour and half with her. I asked her about this skit and she said it was great fun and she couldn't stopped laughing.
I like Julia child
But that's too funny
Back when SNL was funny!
The accent is ON POINT
SNL before they went woke
NOSTROVIA SLAVA UKRAINIANS AND EVERYONE EVERYTHING.
He dsnt talk low enough. Her voice has a lower inflection…sing song…
Meat fingers
You almost don't notice that he's dressed as a woman
This was SO good, Dan Ackroyd playing Julia Child as a Monty Python pepperpot, until "she" cut too far with that knife! Then it became just unbearable to watch. 😣
I remember this one and her breasts lighting on fire
Close your eyes before you hit play and you’d swear that was Julia Child’s voice. An SNL masterpiece. ❤️
I saw this skit when I was fifteen and was stunned by all the blood. Then after Julia passed out and the closing theme started running I almost died laughing. The next morning over breakfast, I tried reenacting it for my whole family.
hate the blood in the end worst SNL parody of Julia child ever.
They played this entire skit in the movie Julie & Julia, with Julie Powell and her husband watching it on TV.
Save the liver!
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This skit works so well, because it's a loving spoof of Julia Child's "plow through and don't let anything stop you" attitude as a beloved icon of the USA. I can understand why Julia Child got a kick out of it.
Back when SNL was actually fun to watch.
SNL used to be brilliant,,, sadly ALL the sketch’s on SNL for the last 10 or 20 years have just been horrendously boring and horrible for the most part.
Weekend Update is pretty much always funny though, it’s definitely odd that Weekend Update is very funny but the rest of SNL is a complete bore fest of non-funny skits that are at the very least painful to watch.
There are three things I require to be watched in my house on Thanksgiving: the Macy's parade, the NFL games, and this skit.
I decided to have a snack while watching this. That was a mistake.
This was when I would watch SNL every Saturday. All of the characters on this show were exactly that…CHARACTERS.
Save the liver…..love ypu julia r.i.p…..
The UK Folks are just as hilarious. Matt Lucas and David Walliams the stars of Little Britian did a skit where Matt's Character is a Novelist in the tradition of Barbara Cartlandt. Then he finds out that a distant relative was a Boarder of The Frank Family who went into hiding from 1942-1944. When the Gestapo came to the house to inquire about Margot not arriving at The Train Station, he showed them a piece of paper that stated that they went to Switzerland. It was a farce but they all believed it, hook line and sinker.
Finally found this again! 😅😅😅😅
I am fine.
Dan Ackroyd one of the best comedians ever😂
I've seen this sketch countless times over the years. Still makes me laugh hard.
😱😱😱
Lol😂 dan aykroyd u the man