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The result of the move request was: page moved. This encyclopedia could use some more cowbell. ( non-admin closure) TonyBallioni ( talk) 02:12, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
Recording Session (More Cowbell) → More Cowbell – WP:COMMON NAME. Nobody calls it "Recording Session", not even NBC, as the article notes. Most of the sources here call it the more cowbell sketch. JFH ( talk) 22:04, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
In The Jungle Book (2016 film) a cowbell rouses Christopher Walken. Should this be in the pop culture section? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 10:56, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
According to this oral history of the sketch, with all of the major participants discussing its creation, the Saturday Night Live cast and director all appear to agree that the sketch was written by Chris Parnell, who revised it over the course of several years. The Wikipedia entry inaccurately attributes its writing to Will Farrell. Instead, his major contribution conceptually, aside from his performance, was deciding to wear a shirt that was too small, exposing his belly as he played the cowbell. As one of the most famous comedy sketches of all time, it seems like credit should be accurately given to the actual writer, Chris Parnell, who worked on it for several years' time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.130.226.113 ( talk) 06:01, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
If you read that article a little more carefully, you'll see it was written by "Asher and John Try Comedy". It was written by a pair of comediennes. The whole article is written rather tongue-in-cheek, contains some rather outlandish "facts", and is, in my opinion, a work of fiction. Unless you have some other source that says that Parnell wrote the script, rather than Farrell, I think you should just ignore the above "source". Gcronau ( talk) 23:20, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
Currently, the photo at the top of the article is of Christopher Walken (as Bruce Dickinson). While he is a prominent character featured in the sketch, it seems prudent that the article for More Cowbell have the titular cowbell prominently on display. Additionally, a photo of the band playing is more representative of the sketch as a whole than one zoomed in on Walken alone.
Ideally, a shot featuring all characters would be used, although the low resolution of the video in most of its available locations, combined with the artifacts associated with the video, mean that most wide shots ultimately do a poor job at recognizably portraying the characters.
Using the official YouTube upload of the sketch ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVsQLlk-T0s) a good candidate for a title image can be found at 1:09, immediately when the camera changes shot (use comma and period keys to shift frame-by-frame). The first frame after the cut nicely represents Will Ferrell preparing to strike the cowbell and prominently features his character, the cowbell, and the lead singer, who is irked by the cowbell-playing. This therefore serves as a better representation of the sketch than Walken.
The photo of Walken would, however, work well if moved down to live alongside the Synopsis section.
I have removed this: "The sketch was put near the end of the episode, where more offbeat/odd sketches often air."
This is not true. I have a recording of the original broadcast and it's the very first sketch after Walken's monologue. You can see a timestamp here. Soulnus ( talk) 08:07, 3 January 2022 (UTC)