Walken 101

#28 - First SNL Appearance (1990)


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After discussing a text that Brandon felt awkward about, Kenny and Brandon catch up and discuss Christopher Walken's fun first Saturday Live Appearance. Besides his opening song-and-dance monologue, his sketches included: a "Calvin Klein" parody game show, Christopher's first "The Continental" sketch, a women's talk show, a James Bond parody, and a sketch in which Walken is hired by a rich mogul to break up with his girlfriend. In between talking about the sketches, Brandon reads from various interviews in which Walken expresses both excitement for performing on SNL, and weariness with his "wacky" image that the appearances have since earned him. Brandon also finds an interview in which Walken confirms that he ignores punctuation in his scripts, and also, apparently, does not read other characters' dialogue so that his reactions seem genuine in scenes.
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Walken 101By Kenny Johnson & Brandon Hardesty

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