Saturday Night Live/The Best of TV Funhouse

The Best of TV Funhouse
Special 22
Airdate	April 29, 2006
Written by	Robert Smigel
Directed by	Stacey Foster (wraparound) Beth McCarthy Miller (monologue) JJ Sedelmaier (animation)
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Saturday Night Live — Season Thirty-One

The Best of TV Funhouse is the twenty-second Saturday Night Live special.

Cast: Bill Hader, Chris Parnell, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Darrell Hammond, Seth Meyers, Amy Poehler, Fred Armisen, Tina Fey, Jason Sudeikis, Andy Samberg, Kristin Wiig, Keenan Thompson, Horatio Sanz, Will Forte, Finesse Mitchell, Bill Hader

Guest Stars: Stephen Colbert (Ace), Steve Carell (Gary), Lorne Michaels (Himself), Don Pardo (Himself), Jimmy Fallon (Himself)

Cartoon Voices: Bill Chott, Robert Smigel, Wael Haggiagi, Nasry Malak, Dino Stamatopoulos, Doug Dale, Amy Poehler, Rob Riggle, Saudaa Robinson, Michael Ziegfield, Jeff Bottoms, Thomas Sharkey, Megan Gallagher, Chris Parnell, Erik Bergman, Maya Rudolph, Paul Christie, Fred Newman, Jim Conroy, Stephan Newman, Darrell Hammond, Keenan Thompson, Sara Krieger, Lisa Lewis, Kerin McCue, Rob Webb, Gary Yudman, Darlene Love, Tracy Morgan, Ana Gasteyer, Andrew Daly, Jim Morris, Chris Phillips, Bryan Kennedy, Michelle Blakely, Carol Lee Shahid

Episode Breakdown

Wraparound Segments

• The Ambiguously Gay Duo's Monologue: The Ambiguously Gay Duo (Colbert and Carell) profess their ambiguously gay love for Jimmy Fallon, they also show off photographs of them with half-naked male statues and eating a foot long hotdog.
• Craft Services: Ace and Gary take a break from showing cartoons to talk to Maya Rudolph and Chris Parnell about what Jimmy Fallon is like.
• Hair and Make-Up: Ace and Gary stop into the hair and make-up room where Rachel Dratch is preparing for a sketch. They ask her what kind of hair product Jimmy Fallon uses and declare that they wish they could get his head.
• Wardrobe Department: In the wardrobe department, Ace and Gary ask Darrell Hammond, Seth Meyers, Amy Poehler and Fred Armisen what Jimmy Fallon's measurements are. When Meyers asks who their second favorite cast member is, they list a bunch of action heroes and others who aren't in the cast, but flee when they realize they don't like anyone else on the show.
• Jimmy Replacements: Ace and Gary meet up with Tina Fey, who tells them that Jimmy Fallon hasn't been on the show for a while and he was "sorta replaced" by Andy Samberg and Jason Sudeikis. The two come around the corner and are attacked by Ace and Gary.
• Wrestling: Kristen Wiig and Keenan Thompson go looking for Ace and Gary, and find them wrestling with Samberg and Sudeikis now that they're friends. Gary explains that they recognize Samberg from a video they saw on the internet where he had to huddle together with a park ranger for warmth in a sleeping bag.
• Lorne's Office: Horatio Sanz and Will Forte come in to Lorne's office to tell him that Sudeikis and Samberg are missing. At the top of the building, Ace and Gary are offering the two to come with them to their "fortress of privacy." When they're told to strip and wear blindfolds, Sudeikis is uneasy but Samberg jumps into it quickly. Back in Lorne's office, Finesse Mitchell and Bill Hader have come in and have decided to split Sudeikis' parts between them (Mitchell takes "the black ones") since Samberg only appeared in pre-taped video. As the Ambiguously Gay Duo flies off, Jimmy Fallon can be seen, crying from his apartment.

Cartoons

• Are You Hot?: Originally from 28x15 - Salma Hayek/Christina Aguilera.
• The Ambiguously Gay Duo - Blow Hot, Blow Cold: Originally from 23x06 - Claire Danes/Mariah Carey.
• Fun with Real Audio: Originally from 29x08 - Elijah Wood/Jet.
• Bambi 2002: Originally from 27x19 - Saturday Night Live/Kirsten Dunst/Eminem.
• Saddam and Osama: Originally from 28x19 - Adrien Brody/Adrian Brody/Sean Paul and Wayne Wonder.
• Sexual Harassment and You: Originally from 30x17 - Tom Brady/Beck.
• Fun with Real Audio - Presidential Address Outtakes: Originally from 30x17 - Cameron Diaz/Smashing Pumpkins.
• Michael Jackson: Originally from 30x16 - Cameron Diaz/Green Day.
• Journey to the Disney Vault: Originally from 31x16 - Lindsay Lohan/Pearl Jam.
• The Smurfette Show: Originally from 28x01 - Matt Damon/Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
• The Narrator That Ruined Christmas: Originally from 27x09 - Ellen DeGeneres/No Doubt.
• Fun with Real Audio: Originally from 23x09 - Helen Hunt/Hanson.
• A Peanuts Christmas: Originally from 23x09 - Al Gore/Phish.
• Divertor: Originally from 30x20 - Lindsay Lohan/Coldplay.
• Find the Black People at the Knick Game: Originally from 26x14 - Conan O'Brien/Don Henley.
• Belated Black History Moment: Originally from 31x13 - Natalie Portman/Fall Out Boy.
• Christmas Time for the Jews: Originally from 31x09 - Jack Black/Neil Young.
• The All New Adventures of Mr. T: Originally from 25x13 - Ben Affleck/Fiona Apple. Also includes the short Peanuts musical interlude to tribute Charles Schulz.
• The X-Presidents: Originally from 24x12 - Gwyneth Paltrow/Barenaked Ladies.
• The Ambiguously Gay Duo - Safety Tips: Originally from 22x18 - Pamela Lee/Rollins Band.
• Fun with Real Audio: Originally from 26x17 - Renee Zellweger/Eve.
• Fun with Real Audio: Originally from 26x17 - Kate Winslet/Eminem.
• Shazang: Originally from 26x17 - Will Ferrell/Queens of the Stone Age.
• The Anatominals Show: Originally from 26x20 - Christopher Walken/Weezer.

Notes

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

• Barney Rubble at the end of the Are You Hot? sketch.

Trivia

The Show

• Starring: Instead of normal cast members, the opening sequence replaces them in the standard opening with Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, Stana Claus, Mr. T, Saddam Hussein, Smurfette, Bryant Gumbel, Jesus Christ, Darlene Love and Bambi. The only real cast member who appears in the credits is Bill Hader.

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