I never knew they were an SNL skit. I don't remember the movie being a comedy. It was quite serious. So they made a fictional comedy band into a real legit band you can see in concert? Then they win. lol.
So... was reading this thread and it jogged an old memory from my childhood of a song called Lesbian Seagull from the Beavis and Butthead movie which I was going to link as being a humorous and "obviously" fictional song but it turns out that it was a completely real and serious song originally released in 1979. Even more bizarre is that it was written in response to the fact that the U.S. government was studying long term monogamous lesbian behavior in seagulls sooooooooo here have that in your brain now =)
Lol it is 100% without doubt a comedy did you see when you were young maybe? Adults are definitely the target audience of the original so younger viewers might not notice the humor as much.
Holy shit I have to watch it again. I did watch it as a kid. It was basically awesome ass car chases and action and music. it was awesome. It was basically smokey and the bandit but about a band.