Saturday Night Live/Julia Louis-Dreyfus/Snow Patrol

Julia Louis-Dreyfus/Snow Patrol
Season 32, Episode 15
Airdate	March 17, 2007
Production Number	1486
Written by	Seth Meyers Andrew Steele Paula Pell (head writers) Doug Abeles James Anderson Alex Baze James Downey Charlie Grandy Steve Higgins Colin Jost Erik Kenward John Lutz Lorne Michaels Matt Murray Marika Sawyer Akiva Schaffer Robert Smigel John Solomon Emily Spivey Jorma Taccone Bryan Tucker Kent Sublette (additional sketch)
Directed by	Don Roy King
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Saturday Night Live — Season Thirty-Two

Julia Louis-Dreyfus/Snow Patrol is the fifteenth episode of the thirty-second season of Saturday Night Live, and the six hundred and twenty-third episode overall. It is the second appearance by former cast member Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the first appearance by the musical guest.

Guest Stars: Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Host), Snow Patrol (Musical Guest)

Special Guests Chris Rock (Himself)

Episode Breakdown

• SNL Special Report: Chris Rock gives his insight on the presidential election campaign season, essentially giving a stand-up performance about how people are comparing the suffering of white women to black men. He predicts Barack Obama will not only be the Democratic nomination for the president, but the next President of the United States.
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Monologue: Riding high on her recent success from The New Adventures of Old Christine and her Emmy win, Louis-Dreyfus says although she has had a great deal of success lately, there are people who are trying to bring her down. She implores the audience not to take everything the media says literally because they like nothing more than to twist an event out of context to make her look bad. Louis-Dreyfus shows a clip of herself at the Golden Globes, where she drunkenly insulted America Ferrera.
• Oprah - The Secret: Oprah Winfrey (Rudolph) introduces Rhonda Byrne (Poehler), writer of The Secret, a self-help book about turning your life around even though she's not a doctor or a scientist. Along with her is Pamela Headley (Louis-Dreyfus), who claims the book changed her life even though it only sent her into a deep state of denial. She tried to use the method of positive thinking to get her husband back, but he filed a restraining order against her. Naturally, she came to the conclusion that it's his negative thinking that is ruining their marriage. Oprah moves on to Olessi Oneweeja (Thompson), a refugee in Darfur, who is told that it's his outlook that's hurting him and not the genocide conflict in the region. He later admits that he didn't read the book and ate it.
• Monex: A woman (Wiig) advertises for gold investment, based mainly on how much she likes touching gold. She goes into a room where everything is covered in gold and proceeds to fondle everything and say "gold" over and over again.
• Restless Penis Syndrome: A man (Sudeikis) who is obviously cheating on his wife (Louis-Dreyfus) comes into his bedroom late at night where he's confronted with his flagrant infidelity. At the end of his rope, the man admits that he's been diagnosed with "restless penis syndrome," which he claims is preventing him from controlling what his penis does. When Karen refuses to believe this, the family doctor (Thompson) enters the room to explain the treatment for the disease, which is apparently to let the penis do whatever it wants. Another man (Hader) takes the situation further into commercial territory when he appears to deliver the voice over, which is what it takes to convince her that it is a real disease after all.
• La Rivista Della Televisione con Vinny Vedecci: Vinny Vedecci (Hader) hosts an Italian talk show where he interviews Louis-Dreyfus, but because all of his questions are in Italian, she doesn't know how to respond. Vedecci yells at his producer (Armisen) off stage, and the two share an inside joke before going back to the interview. After realizing once again that Louis-Dreyfus doesn't understand Italian, Vedecci attempts to ask her questions using broken English about whether or not Jerry Seinfeld is in her new show. When she tells him Seinfeld isn't in the show, he slips back into Italian and yells at the producer some more before trying out his Michael Richards and Seinfeld impressions. He then shows a poorly dubbed clip of The New Adventures of Old Christine with the host of the show doing the voice for Louis-Dreyfus' character. Vedecci continues to struggle for things to talk about, so he introduces Faviola, a girl who only seems to know the days of the week in English, whom he thinks should be on the show. The show takes yet another turn when music starts playing and Louis-Dreyfus is forced to sing along to an Italian song while wearing a giant red foam hat. She tries to leave but is attacked by someone in an ostrich costume.
• You're All I Have: Snow Patrol song.
• Weekend Update:
  • Judge Larry Seidlin (Armisen), the overly emotional judge from the Anna Nicole Smith trial, comments on the political firing of US attorneys by Alberto Gonzales because WU's regular legal correspondent isn't available. He tries to read a list of the people who are "on the chopping block" but can't get through one name before crying. He moves into a meandering story about being attacked by monkeys at the Bronx Zoo. He suggests they give Karl Rove a peanut cart and see how he likes it to have peanuts thrown at him.
  • Because it's St. Patrick's Day, Poehler suggests she and Meyers celebrate the holiday with a shot. Meyers warns her that last time she drank during the show, she drunk dialed everyone in her phone. She insists this won't happen again, but in Meyers' following news story, his phone rings with a drunk Amy asking him where he is right now. He hangs up on her, causing her to antagonize him from across the desk until she sobers up with some coffee.
• Deep House Dish - Legguns, Dee Dee Wells & DJ Quality: DJ Dynasty Handbag (Thompson) and T'Shane (Samberg) give a rundown on the best clubs to go to on St. Patrick's Day, but T'Shane can't remember the name of the first club, and they move on to their guests. This includes Legguns (Rudolph, Poehler and Wiig), who is thrown off the set because they've got too much drama in their group. Also appearing is Dee Dee Wells (Louis-Dreyfus) and DJ Quality (Sudeikis).
• CBS Cares: Now that she's a star for CBS, Louis-Dreyfus agrees to take part in a CBS Cares PSA segment with director Mike Underballs (Hader). She delivers the first message about mammograms, but Jeff (Sudeikis) had the boom mic in the shot for the entire shot. They take another take but stop when Louis-Dreyfus is hit in the face with the mic. She pisses him off between takes when she makes a crack about being the "boom guy," which causes him to deliberately attack her with the mic in the third take. Mike suggests Jeff hold the boom under the frame. They take a fourth shot, but it devolves into Jeff hitting Louis-Dreyfus with the boom again. After short talk, they go for one final shot which goes off without a hitch, except for Jeff positioning the mic so that it looks like Louis-Dreyfus has a penis. Since this was under the frame, they take the shot anyway.
• Lottery Winners: A couple (Hader and Wiig) has dinner with their friends who recently won the lottery (Sudeikis and Louis-Dreyfus), who insist they won't be changed by the money aside from one extravagance. With their money, they bought a robot (Forte) to clean their house. The robot comes out to clean the table but drops a plate and smashes the vase on another table before deactivating. They call out a second robot (Armisen) to repair the first. For thanks, the robots start to have sex in the dining room but are sent into the kitchen to have loud robot sex. The weirdness of the robot sex causes the first couple to leave just as the first two malfunction. A third robot (Thompson) is called in to fix the two and have a threeway with them.
• Chasing Cars: Snow Patrol song.
• The Search for the Next Doll: A commercial for Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll shows off six of the finalists for the next member of the group (including Rudolph, Poehler and Wiig). Robin Antin (Louis-Dreyfus) explains what they vaguely want in a new member before the announcer takes over to describe what they really want: someone who sort of sings, sort of dances, doesn't write songs and is only passably attractive from a distance. Antin, McKenzie Jazz (Samberg) and (another) McKenzie Jazz (Thompson) criticize the finalists, but mostly just how they're looking for the most mediocre contestant they can find.

Notes

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

• Chris Rock as himself.

Music

• You're All I Have, by Snow Patrol: The first performance by Snow Patrol is of "You're All I Have," the first single off the band's fourth album, Eyes Open. It was embraced internationally as the song which opened The Sunday Game, a Gaelic Athletic Association television program broadcast on RTÉ.

• Chasing Cars, by Snow Patrol: "Chasing Cars" is the third single off Snow Patrol's Eyes Open album. It is the band's best selling single and was prominently used as a demonstration of how legal downloading can impact the British music industry. The love song's title references something singer Gary Lightbody's father told him about a girl he was infatuated with: "You're like a dog chasing a car. You'll never catch it and you wouldn't know what to do with it if you did."

Trivia

The Show

• M.I.A.: Darrell Hammond does not appear in any of the sketches or the good nights in the episode. He was meant to appear during Weekend Update as John McCain, but the commentary segment was cut during the dress rehearsal.

Allusions and References

• The Godfather: The character Faviola in the sketch "La Rivista Della Televisione con Vinny Vedecci" speaks only the days of the week in broken English. This is a reference to the character Appolonia in the classic 1972 film The Godfather. Moments before her death from a car bombing, Appolonia, who is married to the hero, Michael Corleone, while he is in exile in Sicily, shows off the English she is learning by reciting the days of the week (out of order) in English.