Don Novello as Fr. Sarducci

Father Guido Sarducci is a fictional character made famous by American comedian Don Novello. Sarducci, a chain-smoking priest with tinted eyeglasses, works in the United States as gossip columnist and rock critic for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Image File history File links Don Novello as Father Guido Sarducci This is a copyrighted promotional photo with a known source. ... Image File history File links Don Novello as Father Guido Sarducci This is a copyrighted promotional photo with a known source. ... A comedian (also comedienne, female) is a person who attempts to make people laugh through a variety of methods, normally through joke telling, or a stream of funny banter. ... Don Novello as Father Guido Sarducci Don Novello (born January 1, 1943, Lorain, Ohio) is an American, writer, film director, producer, actor and comedian. ... Masthead LOsservatore Romano is the Vaticans newspaper. ...

Novello created the character in 1973, after he purchased the outfit (consisting of big floppy black hat, white clerical collar, and a long, red-trimmed black coat with cape) for $7.50 at a St. Vincent de Paul thrift shop. The character was featured in 1970s cartoons by underground cartoonist Dave Sheridan, appearing in person in the 1975 Smothers Brothers' TV show. His most prominent appearance was on Saturday Night Live in the late 1970s, during which time Novello was also a writer for the show. During the 1980s and 1990s Sarducci appeared on other television shows, including Fridays, Married... With Children, Blossom, It's Garry Shandling's Show, and Square Pegs. 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Saint Vincent de Paul (April 24, 1580 – September 27, 1660) was born at Pouy, Landes, Gascony, France to a peasant family. ... The 1970s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1970 and 1979. ... The term underground comics or comix describes the self-published or small press comic books that sprang up in the US in the late 1960s. ... Dave Sheridan was the underground cartoonist who is perhaps best-known for his character Dealer McDope. ... The Smothers Brothers are an American musical-comedy team, formed by real-life brothers Tom and Dick Smothers. ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute comedy-variety show from NBC which has been broadcast virtually every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ... The 1970s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1970 and 1979. ... The 1980s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1980 and 1989, however in a pop cultural sense The Eighties sometimes includes at least some aspects of 1979 and 1990, or more or less the era between the end of the Disco era of the 1970s and... The 1990s refers to the years 1990 to 1999; the last decade of the 20th Century, but in an economical sense The Nineties is often considered to span from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 to the 9/11 attacks in 2001. ... This article is about the television program Fridays. ... Married. ... Blossom was a half-hour comedy television series broadcast from 1991 to 1995 on NBC. The series starred Mayim Bialik as Blossom Russo, a teenage girl living with her father and two brothers. ... Its Garry Shandlings Show is one of the first original programs created by the fledgling Showtime network in the mid-80s to compete with original HBO comedies like Not Necessarily the News. ... Parker (in eyeglasses), Linker (under Parker), and Nelson (in blue dress). ...

In 1981 Novello made newspaper headlines when he visited Vatican City wearing the full "Father Guido Sarducci" costume. After taking snapshots in an area where photography was prohibited, he was arrested by the Swiss Guards and charged with "impersonating a priest". These charges were later dropped. 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Swiss Guards have been Swiss who fought for various European powers from the 15th century until the 19th century, called up from the separate Swiss cantons and placed at the disposal of various foreign powers by treaties (the capitulations), in return for money payments. ...

The character also appeared on the Handsome Boy Modeling School albums So... How's Your Girl? and White People, telling biographical stories of the life of a professional male model in the latter. So. ...

See also

• Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches
• Saturday Night Live characters appearing on Weekend Update