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CHRIS KATTAN SNIPPETS 1997
"Baseball player winds up doing `SNL? skit during charity-event trip to NYC"
Minneapolis Star Tribune 12/18/97
Twins left fielder Marty Cordova got a better look at "SNL" than his agent was angling for. He was onstage. "I didn't go there to do that `Saturday Night Live? thing," Cordova said Tuesday..."I guess what happened is Todd Zeile had wanted to go watch the show . Then when the agency called to get some tickets the producers, writers said, Why don?t we think about doing a skit?"
Three rehearsals later, Cordova was live in a parody of baseball players that probably didn?t make the bigwigs of Major League Baseball laugh aloud. Actor Chris Kattan played the kid who didn?t want any Christmas gifts as long as he could grow up and be a baseball player. As his mom, "Mad About You" star Helen Hunt, wished him sweet dreams, the kid?s room became a parade of obnoxious baseball players having a kegger and acting up. Cordova smoked up the kid?s room with a cigar.
It was explained that Ken Griffey Jr. couldn?t be there because he was at a strip club. "It? s just a joke. I?m sure he wouldn?t care," Cordova said, laughing. At skit?s end, the disillusioned kid changed his career choice to an NBAer.
"'Live' Advice"
Entertainment Weekly 9/26/97
EW thought Clooney, Noah Wyle, Eriq La Salle, and the rest of the TV docs (ER) could use a few pointers from people in the know, like the cast of Saturday Night Live...Here, some advice on what to do should the ER set turn into a real emergency room:
"Two words: cue cards." --Jim Breuer
"Get down on your knees and pray, Doctor!" --Molly Shannon
"Do something outrageous. Say, 'This is the real enemy!' and tear up a picture of the cast of Chicago Hope."--Colin Quinn
"If anyone forgets their lines--even in surgery--just pick up a newspaper and start reading to cover it up." --Tim Meadows
"Keep the Pepto-Bismol on hand and bone up on the aerobics before the show. And don't worry about a thing--you'll be in a fear blackout, so you won't remember it afterwards anyway." --Ana Gasteyer
"I thought ER was always live." --Chris Kattan
"`SNL? comes back to life"
The Dallas Morning News 5/17/97
You may not have noticed, depending on how you spend your Saturday nights, but Saturday Night Live is good again...these days, everyone's a player, and everyone's got at least one character that people are talking and laughing about in the days after a show.
Ferrell- "I think that?s one of the strengths of this cast - everyone has things, characters they like to write for themselves."...there is Darrell Hammond, who is a sure thing with his arsenal of dead-on impressions (Jesse Jackson, Phil Donahue, Ted Koppel . . .). And Chris Kattan, who can go from a head-shaking nightclub lizard to a wicked turn as Ellen DeGeneres? yep-I?m-gay-too girlfriend, Anne Heche...
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