Anyone remember an old SNL skit -- probably from the '90s -- that portrayed a Washington, D.C., hearing with a Southern congressman who kept saying "different time and era" in a drawl? So it came out like "different tahm and errah."

It might have been a hearing on pornography or maybe even a Bill Clinton impeachment hearing, because the congressman was talking somewhat inappropriately about what women liked???

I've used that phrase ever since whenever the conversation turned to something in the past. "Well, that was a different tahm and errah." Someone asked me where it came from and all I could remember is SNL.

I tried using Google and Copilot but didn't land on anything.

All time great skit!

Another Doug said:

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I got you, it was the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. The always brilliant Dana Carvey as Strom Thurmond said the line.

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Awesome ... thank you!

Interesting that Carvey never actual uses the phrase "time and era," even though that's how I remembered it.

Classic skit. I'll still use Kennedy's "Were you, uh...drunk at the time?" when somebody is telling a story where they do something stupid.

EclipseAg said:

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Interesting that Carvey never actual uses the phrase "time and era," even though that's how I remembered it.

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Mandela Effect.

EclipseAg said:

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Interesting that Carvey never actual uses the phrase "time and era," even though that's how I remembered it.

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He didn't use that exact phrase, but your memory is pretty decent for something from more than 30 years ago.