Saturday Night Live/Jaime Pressly/Corinne Bailey Rae

Jaime Pressly/Corinne Bailey Rae
Season 32, Episode 2
Airdate	October 7, 2006
Production Number	1470
Written by	Seth Meyers Andrew Steele Paula Pell (head writers)
Directed by	Don Roy King
← 32x01 Dane Cook/The Killers	32x03 → John C. Reilly/My Chemical Romance
Saturday Night Live — Season Thirty-Two

Jaime Pressly/Corinne Bailey Rae is the second episode of the thirty-second season of Saturday Night Live, and the six hundred and ninth episode overall.

Guest Stars: Jaime Pressly (Host), Corinne Bailey Rae (Musical Guest)

Episode Breakdown

• Dennis Hastert Message: The speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert (Hammond), gives a message about Mark Foley's inappropriate e-mails with teenage congressional pages. He urges America to move on after praising Foley's dedication to the page program and describing a long list of inappropriate situations, like "alcohol rubdowns." He assures America there are no more pedophile Republican representatives, although they'll have to watch out for the Democrats.
• Jaime Pressly's Monologue: Pressly attempts to disspell the preconceived notion that all Southerners are hillbillies, Southern belles and rednecks with shotguns. Off stage, the entire cast is dressed like those three types. Jason Sudeikis attempts to save face and "riff with her," even though he didn't clear the sketch with her. "Uncle Remus" (Thompson) decides this is a bad idea and walks off. Armisen, dressed as a KKK member, follows. On stage, Pressly is trying to sing a song by Peggy Lee while the cast slowly starts to appear behind her, starting with Colonel Sanders (Hader). After a Hee Haw bit, Pressly kicks everyone off stage except for a man playing a banjo (Samberg), who plays "Dueling Banjos." She calls him the most offensive Southern stereotype, but he claims to be in the band.
• Nancy Grace: Nancy Grace (Poehler) interviews Eddie Hunter (Samberg) about being in the Congressional page program with Mark Foley. He tries to get through the message that the page program is a positive experience, but Grace continues to claim that he was somehow victimized by Congress and lives in fear. She then moves on to claim that because computers are involved in all online predator crimes, they're the reason why they keep happening. She accuses a Microsoft customer service representative named Bethany (Pressly) of peddling tools to "the pedophilia industry." Finally, she interviews the night janitor, Darren (Thompson), about who keeps moving her chair.
• New York City Stories: Rosie Perez (Poehler) and Martin Scorsese (Armisen) give implausable stories about how a random part of New York was where Scorsese shot Raging Bull and Goodfellas and how they used to eat cookies that were as big as they are. Perez just dances a lot and talks about calling people from phone booths.
• Record Executive: Jackie Downs (Pressly), a record executive, holds a meeting with a band (Sudeikis and Forte) as a favor to someone who works for her. She makes the insinuation that they're "something like Bon Jovi," but they deny it up and down because they're "Jon Bovi." They sing backwards Bon Jovi songs like "Wanted" and "Bad Medicine," but she tries to kick them out, so they sing more backwards songs. They eventually win her over with a "gay hair metal" song and she signs them to a lucrative contract.
• Around the Town: During a news broadcast, the anchor (Sudeikis) throws to correspondent Michelle Dison (Wiig) who interviews Crystal (Pressly), the winner of a contest for a new truck after keeping her hand on it for three days straight. As she explains the contest, Dison interrupts her to inappropriately hit on her. The conversation turns into Dison rambling about how pretty Crystal is and trying to ask her out on a date, but she only succeeds in creeping Crystal out so much that she flees from the newscast.
• New York Stories Two: Lou Reed (Armisen) and Patti Smith (Poehler) talk about CBGB's and the bands that used to play there, like when Reed saw Iggy Pop take a swing at a police horse. They also talk about their shanty apartments and how real rock is made in the club.
• St. Ambrose School: At a Catholic high school, Nicole (Pressly) is called into the principal's (Hader) office. He tells her to stop talking in ebonics because she's from Westchester and that her nanny (Thompson) is coming to pick her up. It becomes immediately obvious that her former nanny and new mother is the reason why she's become so disruptive in class. When she finds out how much the school actually costs, she stops encouraging Nicole's "dance related disturbances" and sends her back to class.
• Put Your Records On: Corinne Bailey Rae song.
• Weekend Update:
  • Multiple Oscar winner and "legendary drunk" Peter O'Toole (Hader) speaks for alcoholics everywhere in response to Mark Foley blaming his bouts of pedophilia on being an alcoholic or Mel Gibson blaming his racism on being drunk. Instead, O'Toole says that the kind of fun they have involves passing out and stealing trains.
  • The star of the new NBC series, Fugly Betsy (Armisen), which is just a shameless ripoff of the ABC series Ugly Betty (which, in itself, was an adaptation of a Colombian telenovela), says the show is completely different because there's more sex and her cast members are much uglier. Also, Charo (Rudolph) is the executive producer of the series.
• NASCARettes: During a race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, the first NASCAR dancing team makes their debut. The leader of the team (Pressly) gives them a pep talk and explains they'll be dancing on the track itself. The team goes out to dance briefly until the cars come back around and crash into Randy (Armisen) and Amber (Wiig). Another dancer (Poehler) goes out alone but is quickly hit by a car and is flung into the leader's ankle. The remainder of the team (led by Rudolph) go onto the track and are all hit by cars except for Rudolph.
• New York Stories Three: One more time, two celebrities, Yoko Ono (Poehler) and Frank Lebowitz (Armisen), tell stories about New York. However, this time, Lebowitz talks about how much the city sucks and Ono speaks incoherently about how everyone is a beam of light. They eventually come to the conclusion that they wouldn't live anywhere else, though.
• The Bigwigs: Three executives (Sudeikis, Samberg and Hader) fret over "bigwigs from Chicago" coming to their office. They fail to come up with a plan before two women with enormous wigs, Delores Banks (Poehler) and Dee Hedge (Pressly), arrive to solve their productivity problems. But as they talk about synergy and coordination, their wigs get caught in a ceiling fan, killing them and spraying hair across the room. On the "next episode," corporate calls in a couple of ball busters, who turn out to be women (Wiig and Rudolph) with baseball bats.
• Cocktail Party: At a cocktail party, Danny (Hader) is suddenly called away for a business call, and Claire (Pressly) asks if he's single. Danny's friends (Sudeikis and Wiig) explain to her that he has a little mutant guy living in his stomach, like Total Recall. The Kuato (Samberg), the leader of the mutant resistance from the movie, bursts from his chest and spends long enough to disgust everyone before pulling himself back into Danny's body. At the end, Arnold Schwarzenegger (Hammond) appears and explains that the sketch was a metaphor for immigration.
• Like a Star: Corinne Bailey Rae song.
• Apple Cider: Two girls (Pressly and Wiig) sit on the porch drinking hot cider and talk about the local drunk, a bloody sweatshirt their friend found in her husband's car and other truths that they would otherwise keep to themselves if it weren't for the cider.
• A Moment with the Out-of-Breath Jogger from 1982: The Out-of-Breath Jogger (Samberg) makes several references to events that happened in 1982—such as the recession and the Pet Rock—between gasps of breath.

Notes

"Live from New York, It's Saturday Night!"

• Darrell Hammond as US House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert.

Music

• Fever, performed by Jaime Pressly: The song that Jaime Pressly sings in her monologue was popularized by southern jazz and traditional pop singer Peggy Lee. "Fever" was first recorded, however, by Little Willie John shortly after it was written by Otis Blackwell in 1956. Lee recorded her own version two years later which was also released on the album Things Are Swingin'.

• Put Your Records On, performed by Corinne Bailey Rae: "Put Your Records On" is the second single off Corinne Bailey Rae's debut self-titled album. The song peaked at #2 on the Billboard Singles Charts and was nominated for two 2007 Grammy awards, "Record of the Year" and "Song of the Year."

• Like a Star, performed by Corinne Bailey Rae: The first single of Corinne Bailey Rae's debut, "Like a Star" was first released in November 2005 in a limited edition EP in Britain. The EP was limited to 3000 copies and managed to build enough buzz for the album that it charted high on the UK R&B album charts when it was released. The song was also performed when she appeared on an episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

Trivia

The Show

This was the first and only episode to feature the season's second logo in the opening title sequence and bumper art. The logo, which is the same exact one used during the 1981-85 seasons, was modified with a different font for the next week's repeat of the Dane Cook/Killers show, and every show since then. This "retro" logo, though only used for this one episode's titles and bumpers, has been sporadically used during the mid-break teases of some episodes.