Father Guido Sarducci – “Slide Show” – ABSOLUTELY HYSTERICAL

Father Guido Sarducci 

“Slide Show” 

Absolutely Hysterical

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Remember Father Guido? Was he hysterical or what?! I know if upset some in the Catholic Church but you have to admit the character was brilliant and very creative. Offering to perform blessings for a fee. The Five Minute University, The Pope in the Pizza skit…. All very very funny! I miss Father Guido how ’bout you?

 

Father Guido Sarducci

 

I can never get enough of Father Guido Sarducci even after all these years he really cracks me up. This is particularly funny. Take a few moments and watch.

 

Father Guido Sarducci

Father Guido Sarducci is a fictional character created by the American comedian Don Novello. Sarducci, a chain-smoking priest with tinted glasses, works in the United States as gossip columnist and rock critic for the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano (sometimes mentioned as The Vatican Enquirer, a take-off of the tabloid The National Enquirer).

Father Guido Sarducci – Vatican Columnist LOL

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Novello created the character in 1973, after he purchased the outfit (consisting of big floppy black hat, white clerical collar, and a long, red-trimmed black coat with cape) for $7.50 at a St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store. The character was featured in 1970s cartoons by the underground cartoonists Dave Sheridan and Fred Schrier, appearing in person in the early 1970s on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In and later in the 1975 Smothers Brothers TV show.

Father Guido Sarducci on Saturday Night Live

His most prominent appearances were on Saturday Night Live in the late 1970s, during which time Novello was also a writer for the show. In the late 1970s, Father Guido Sarducci was featured on radio commercials for High Times magazine where he offered to perform blessings for a fee.

 

Father Guido Sarducci

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