http://vid60.photobucket.com/albums/h20/BigB26/SNL--SaturdayNightLive-NicotrelTheR.mp4 Where: Saturday Night Live Date: March 2000 Saturday Night Live has a well-earned reputation for being wildly inconsistent. It's always two or three brilliant sketches mixed in with a whole lot of mediocre, drawn-out improv. But this SNL episode, hosted by The Rock and featuring AC/DC, is reliably funny. Not only do we get The Rock, but we also get cameos from Vince McMahon and three other wrestlers Triple H, Mick Foley, and The Big Show who would be squaring off against The Rock in the main event of WrestleMania. The best sketches are the ones that feature all of them, such as the Nicotrel commercial. It's still the greatest PSA against cigarettes that I've ever seen.
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