April 4, 2025
Comeonahyeehaaaa!... It's Official: Saving Silverman Just Reached Cult Status!
File this one under IYKYK but the 2001 Dennis Dugan film Saving Silverman is a overlooked comedy gem. Dugan also helmed Happy Gilmour and Grown Ups, so he certainly knows his way around laugh out loud comedy. In Saving Silverman he gives us the story of Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs), whose domineering girlfriend Judith (Amanda Peet) is controlling his life and systematically excising his two best friends, Wayne and J.D. (Steve Zahn and Jack Black). The two are thus forced to take drastic measures that include enlisting the help of their homicidal high school football coach, as well as kidnapping both Judith and Neil Diamond (yes, Neil Diamond) in order to rescue Darren.
Though hardly a critical or audience favorite when it was first released, over time Saving Silverman gained a strong following via home video, cable and streaming for its premise, raunchy humor and quirkiness. For me personally, this film partially inspired a comedy feature I wrote called Megan Means Business, which has a similar storyline. (As if that weren't enough, I later discovered that my working title for Megan Means Business, "Evil Woman", is the same title by which Saving Silverman is currently known in international markets.)
Though hardly a critical or audience favorite when it was first released, over time Saving Silverman gained a strong following via home video, cable and streaming for its premise, raunchy humor and quirkiness. For me personally, this film partially inspired a comedy feature I wrote called Megan Means Business, which has a similar storyline. (As if that weren't enough, I later discovered that my working title for Megan Means Business, "Evil Woman", is the same title by which Saving Silverman is currently known in international markets.)
In any case, among Saving Silverman's most memorable scenes is this one, where Judith hosts an engagement party for her and Darren. Wayne and J.D. crash the affair and are unceremoniously ejected, at which point the pair resolve to save Darren no matter the cost. J.D then punctuates their declarations with a loud "Comeonahyeehaaaa!"...
It's random; it's gutteral; it's nonsensical... but Black delivers the line so fluidly, it comes off as a spontaneous and hilarious battlecry -- one that lived on and has continued to be quoted (among those who've seen the movie) for over two decades now.
And now, as part of his promo for this week's episode of Saturday Night Live, host Jack Black takes us all back and (together with SNL cast member Heidi Gardner) pumps us up with a unabashed resurrection of his famous line. My reaction when I first heard this was no doubt the same as many other Saving Silverman fans:
"Hell yeah!"
"Hell yeah!"
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