Earlier this week, news broke that Jimmy Fallon would return to “Saturday Night Live” in December to host the show that made him famous. It wouldn’t be particularly exciting TV news — except that a sketch from a 1998 episode of “SNL” predicted exactly that.
In the video below, you can see Alec Baldwin — who will host the season premiere of “SNL” in September — take the stage for 1998′s Christmas episode (where “Schweddy Balls” made its first appearance), and during his monologue he encounters the Ghost of SNL Hosts Present (John Goodman) and the Ghost of SNL Hosts Future, played by a 24-year-old Jimmy Fallon. Baldwin then sees a “clip” of a metallic-vest-clad Fallon hosting on December 12, 2011 — a Monday, but not the sort of detail that got fact-checked before people spent all day reading blogs. Such a simple time, 1998. Airport security was light, Alec Baldwin was only starting to get fat, and people were telling Monica Lewinsky jokes. We were all so innocent, and everything was lame and boring because the internet was all dial-up.
(first noticed by popculturebrain, video via Zap2it)
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Don’t forget, I was taking the train to Shellbyville with an onion tied to my belt which was a style of the time.
1998, when if you had an e-mail account it was probably AOL e-mail.
I bet they do a retarded sketch where he can’t do his lines and laughs. Then again, half of the people on the show do it anyway these days.
I can’t help it, I like Jimmy Fallon.
You are worthless Arrec Barrwin!
You spelled Alec “Alex” the second time around. I’d expect that kind of mistake in 1998 or at Denny’s, but not here.
They stole Craigy Ferg’s robot announcer! This will not stand!
@mick – you meant worfless
@DG – i do too, mostly because of the roots
@Dave: Wait, Jimmy Fallon was the in T.V. movie “Roots”?
or “in the T.V. movie” rather. I didn’t correctly write my lame joke about a movie starring the guy from “Reading Rainbow”
Wait…you mean I don’t have to use this modem anymore? SONOFABITCH…..
Well now it’s clear. Jimmy Fallon was responsible for 9/11.