When last we heard about the potential Zoolander sequel, Ben Stiller was working on a script with Justin Theroux, the writer of Tropic Thunder whom I will always remember as the tatted up Irishman in the second Charlie’s Angels film. It appears Stiller might be trying to gauge audience interest in a Zoolander sequel, as he reprised the role in a Weekend Update sketch on Saturday Night Live this weekend. He appeared there as Stefon’s guest, speaking about the Halloween party they’re throwing for charity in New York’s hottest neighborhood (in the middle of the Hudson River, it’s so obscure).
The good news is we have the clip, and it’s even funnier than a regular Stefon bit. The bad news is we’ve only got a Hulu video at the moment, and they don’t let people outside the U.S. watch it. Won’t somebody think of the children who are fat but not in a cute way? Some of them aren’t American, probably.
[Hat tip and one human fire extinguisher to Buzzfeed.]
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So I realize that to make an SNL episode it takes a lot of time, but is it really too much to ask that the actors not make it so obvious that they are reading straight from cue cards? It really hurts what could otherwise be a humorous sketch and comes off as incredibly lazy. Also, Seth Meyers sucks.
Joe, with the Stefon bits the SNL writers change a lot of the script without the performers’ knowledge to make them crack up as a part of the bit. So, at least in that bit, they have to read from the cue cards because they’re seeing some of it for the first time. The only exception was a Christmas episode where the dialogue wasn’t going to change and Hader was going to mention Taylor Negron during the bit. Right before Hader went on, one of the writers handed him an “autographed” photo of Taylor Negron that said something like, “Thank you for never making fun of me.” That was the writers’ way of trying to make him crack up even when they couldn’t change the script.
WHY DO I KNOW THIS?
YOU KNOW THIS BECAUSE of the same way I know it probably. I think I saw Bill Hader interviewed somewhere. It sort of became part of the bit that he cracks up during his segment but never breaks character. Also they will purposely change just parts of the lines so Hader thinks he’s just delivering the lines that he has prepared only to start reading the lines the writers slipped in specifically to crack him up.