Tuesday, July 22, 2008

No pounds on The Deer Hunter!

On Saturday night at Rob and Brendan's house I am up late. I am flipping between Poehler & Meyers and Graham Norton. It's going really well!

But the next time the station interrupts Norton with a commercial and I switch back to Saturday Night Live, the news is over and we're on to a sketch that is ALL CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, ALL THE TIME. It's the Walken Family Reunion! Besides featuring episode host Walken (obviously), each cast member is given the opportunity to show off his or her best Walken impression. Who doesn't have a Christopher Walken impression? That's right: no one!

Wiig is wearing a spiky wig, of course, and possibly playing Walken's mother. Maybe his aunt. She tells him that she just saw The Deer Hunter and that she thought it was "HILARIOUS."

When the sketch is over I am back with Graham Norton. He's sent cameras to a dog track and is asking Orlando Bloom, Samantha Morton and the audience to bet £1 on their favourites. The audience decides on Sloppy Duchess, the sixth dog in the race and certainly the one with the most hilarious name. But holy shit! THE NAME OF THE FIFTH DOG IN THE RACE IS THE DEER HUNTER!

What's more, the race is taking place on my birthday (which wasn’t this past Saturday, by the way, but almost five months ago)!

Also, five is my favourite number, but The Deer Hunter didn’t win.

2 comments:

pf said...

Q: who did win that doggie race?

Nirmala Basnayake said...

A: The Sloppy Duchess! Much to the delight of the audience.

(So nice of you to ask!)