Seducing the Babysitter

I started work on a Chris Elliott-on-Saturday Night Live DVD set last night, and eventually got to a sketch that for years has been a shining example of the absolute worst SNL has had to offer.

The scene stars Elliott and Mark McKinney. In it, McKinney is playing a youthful female babysitter and Elliott's character is driving her home. Elliott's character then has sex with her, and is thrown in jail, screaming that given the chance he'd do it again and again.

That's it. That's all it is. It's a porno setup at best. But SNL tries to play this "getting a teenager drunk and having sex with her" scene for laughs. And amazingly, there is a smattering of laughter heard from the audience throughout the scene, despite the fact that there are NO JOKES! Then when the non-comedy is over, the lemmings in the audience cheer wildly as the applause sign is illuminated before the commerical break. I would have thrown my shoe on stage.

Now this is something that I have mocked with my friends for years and years, and it had apparently gotten so deep into my subconscious that I actually had a dream about it months ago. A dream I didn't remember until last night.

In the dream, I'd traveled back in time. Time travel seems to be a recurring theme in my dreams, by the way. Also part of that recurring theme is time travel for the most ridiculous purposes ever, and in this case, I'd found myself back in time around when that sketch was conceived. Now I'm not entirely clear on the rest of the details, but either it turned out that *I* was the writer for that sketch (cue "Twilight Zone" theme) or I was trying to persuade the writer that the sketch would be a bad idea and was somehow convinced otherwise.

Many (if not all) of my dreams are bad "B"-movie plots.

Comments

[JasonTHX]

Hi Dvdguy, Just discovered this site. Been watching SNL for 20 years and love it's history. Just read Tom Shales book, twice. Some meaty stuff. I'm looking for a sketch from the 94' season - it's called Women's Self defense and features Janeane Garofalo and Chris Elliott. I'm sure you know the sketch i mean. Is there any way possible you could make this available? I'd really appreciate it. I'm a huge Janeane Garofalo fan and I'd love to see a collection of all her SNL sketches, somewhere.

Thanks.

[BryanM]

That would be so great to see the Woman's self defense skit with Janeane Garofalo again. As well as her other stuff too.

[Candy Anderziek]

This is one of the funniest snl sketches. The entire sketch is a joke. The smattering of laughs you heard were assholes like yourself, who didn't get it, but felt obliged to pay recognition. By the way, by the way?

-Mike

p.s. by the way?