Bumping this cause I've been re-watching a lot of SNL sketches lately. Hader and Armisen were really a good pairing.
I enjoyed this:
A sketch that never made it to air, presumably because of how badly Bill and Fred broke during this dress rehearsal. I find it funny that Armisen who was notably the only guy who didn't lose his shit during the original Debbie Downer sketch just cannot keep it together for the life of him here. When he's telling the Rudolph story haha.
I also think of the two of them as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip in those sketches where they would go from refined standard British accents to cockney.
The Californians episode that I tend to go back to is that Mick Jagger one. He was really funny as Stuart's dad.
Armisen's "oowwwatareyoudoinghere," never gets old to me.
I think the cast from midway through the first decade of the 2000s might very well be one of the best ever- Hader, Armisen, Wiig, Sudeikis, Seth Meyers, Keenan, Samberg, Moynihan, Forte, etc.
Factor in Poehler, Dratch, and Rudolph all near the end of their run and then near the start of the next decade getting Bayer and Pharaoh, Killam, and Nasim and I really think you have some great iterations there.