What’s This Tiny Elvis Thing All About?

June 14th, 2009

Well, I’m glad you asked.  Tiny Elvis was a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live in the early 90′s.  At one of our first ultrasound appointments, I voiced the tiny fetus…”Hey man, get a load of that uterus…that suckers HUGE” and the rest is Tiny E history.

From the Wikipedias:

Tiny Elvis, also called “Tiny E” by his companions, was a miniature (about 2 inches tall) Elvis Presley, as portrayed by Nicolas Cage (and in later appearances, by Rob Schneider) in a series of sketches. He would frequently remark jokingly upon how “huge” certain objects were (“Look at that salt shaker! That thing’s huge!”), to which everyone around him would laugh and fawn over him (“Good call, Tiny Elvis!”). However, he was easily roused to anger when his compatriots, Sonny and Red (a reference to Presley’s real life bodyguards, Sonny and Red West), would comment on how cute he was. The character was apparently a parody of the ludicrously self-assured persona assumed by Presley in his many movies, and the equally ludicrously sycophantic followers that attended upon him in those films.

I’ve searched high and low on the intertubes for a video, to no avail.  But today I realized that before YouTube, we used to look at pictures.  And then I found some.  Enjoy both Nick and Rob as Tiny E:

As I said, no video (yet!) but here’s a transcript from snltranscripts.jt.org.

Tiny Elvis: Hey, man.. look at that salt shaker, man. That is huge! Man, I’ll never be able to use all that salt, man. That is way too much!

Red: Yeah, that’s a big salt shaker, Elvis!

Tiny Elvis: Sure is huge, man.

Sonny: That’s hilarious, Elvis!

Red: Score another one for the Tiny E!

Sonny: Man, we can’t keep up with you!

Tiny Elvis: Well, I’m just saying it’s a big salt shaker, that’s all.

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