“We come from France” The SNL Coneheads Premiered on Saturday Night Live, January 21, 1978, this sketch became one of the defining moments of the Coneheads saga. Written by Dan Aykroyd and Tom Davis, the bit featured Jane Curtin and Aykroyd as Beldar and Prymaat Conehead — polite suburban “aliens from France” — meeting their unsuspecting neighbors, the Farbers, played by John Belushi and Gilda Radner. The brilliance of the sketch came from its deadpan absurdity: the Coneheads speaking in rapid m