In January 1991, Chicago native Joe Mantegna hosted SNL. "I'd never thought of it as something that could work on national television," he said, "because it just felt so regional."
The sketch drew considerable laughter, but when it came time to stage the show in Los Angeles, Smigel cut it, believing audiences there would not understand it. At that time, played by Smigel, Odenkirk and Dave Reynolds (with an occasional appearance by Conan O'Brien as one of the fan's sons), they were simply sitting on lawn chairs and drinking beer, but making the wild imaginative leaps by which they could assume the Bears would handily win another Super Bowl. Smigel and Odenkirk eventually joined the writing staff of Saturday Night Live (SNL) but did not write the sketch until the 1988 writers' strike, when they returned to Chicago to stage the improvisational Happy Happy Good Show, as "Chicago Superfans". He told an improv classmate, Bob Odenkirk, a native of nearby Naperville, about his idea, and Odenkirk reminded him to include the slight hiss with which the word ends when pronounced with a strong enough Chicago accent, something only natives of the area would appreciate. Smigel began conceiving of characters based on that sort of fan, and the line "Da Bears!", but could not imagine a setting that would work. The Cubs and the White Sox both made the playoffs for the first time in decades, the National Basketball Association's Bulls drafted Michael Jordan and in 1985 the Bears capped a 15-1 regular season with victory in Super Bowl XX. In the following years, that swagger was rewarded as the fortunes of the city's teams improved. "There was just a swagger among these very virile-looking men", he recalled. He noticed a prevalence of large men who wore walrus mustaches and aviator sunglasses, a look similar to Mike Ditka, who had been hired to coach the city's NFL team, the Chicago Bears, the year before. Shortly after Robert Smigel moved from New York to Chicago in 1983 to start his career in comedy, he made his first visit to Wrigley Field to see the Cubs play. The sketch is notable as a media portrayal of the Inland North dialect of American English that predominates in Chicago, most famously through the distinctive pronunciation of the phrase " Da Bears" ( IPA: ). It was a prominent feature from 1991 to 1992, and its characters have made various other appearances since its inception. " Bill Swerski's Superfans" was a recurring sketch about Chicago sports fans on the American sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live.
As of this writing, his latest book, "Zilot and Other Important Rhymes" written WITH his children Nate and Erin when they were little, then rewritten when they were adults, features funny silly smart poetry for kids, and illustrations by Erin Odenkirk, who's now an adult and quite talented.as you shall see. His book of unproduced comedy scripts "Hollywood Said No" was a best seller (tho for some reason, Amazon won't list it here), and his memoir "Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama" also hit the list. Despite his acting successes, he continues to insist on "tickling the ivories".on a computer keyboard. He has won two Emmy awards for writing, one for SNL and one for "The Ben Stiller Show", and numerous awards for acting. Show", "Get A Life", and "Tenacious D HBO shorts", among many others. He began his career as a writer, first at "Saturday Night Live" (1987-91), then on numerous television shows "Mr. Show with Bob and David", "Breaking Bad", and "Better Call Saul", and films like "Nobody", "The Post", and "Nebraska", among many others. Bob Odenkirk is best known as an actor from television shows like "Mr.
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