A classicSaturday Night Livesketch from the 1990s gets resurrected for a new commercial, with two original stars returning alongsideSamuel L. Jackson. Over the course of the show’s 50-year run, a number of iconic sketches have come and gone, including 1998’s “The Delicious Dish,” which sees Ana Gasteyer and Molly Shannon serving as NPR hosts while Alec Baldwin’s character, a baker, joins the show to discuss his famous holiday treat, “Schweddy Balls.” The conversation that follows is full of sexual innuendo, with Baldwin memorably saying, “No one can resist my Schweddy balls.”
In partnership with Capital One,SNLnow shares a new commercial that resurrects “The Delicious Dish,” with Gasteyer and Shannon both reprising their roles as NPR hosts. Baldwin doesn’t return, with Jackson instead taking his place, but the ad features the same style of innuendo as the original. Gasteyer, for example, at one point asks Jackson to take out his “sweet, buttery buns.” Check out the video below:
Shannon joinedSNLin 1995 and left in 2001, while Gasteyer joined in 1996 and left in 2002.
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The latest collaboration with Capital One speaks toSNL’s impressive reach as a TV show. It’s not unusual for current or formerSNLcast membersto appear in commercials, and figures like Kenan Thompson, Kate McKinnon, Chloe Fineman, and Pete Davidson have all appeared in commercials for everything from Autotrader to Verizon. “The Delicious Dish” commercial with Capital One, however, is something of an outlier because it’s playing off of a specific sketch from the show, instead of just banking on the stars' recognizability.
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Why Alec Baldwin Didn’t Return
Baldwin was crucial to the original “Delicious Dish” sketch, with his monotone delivery making all the innuendo even funnier. It’s not surprising that he didn’t return for the Capital One ad, however, given the recentRustshooting incident. Plus,Jackson has done previous Capital One ads in the past, so he’s more associated with that brand.
It is fun to see Shannon and Gasteyer back as NPR hosts, and it’s clear that they haven’t lost their spark even 26 years after the original sketch aired.It probably would have been funnier to see the “Delicious Dish” sketch resurrected on the actual show, as the commercial is clearly playing down the innuendo, which is why theSaturday Night Livesketch was funny in the first place.
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Saturday Night Live is a live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels, premiering in 1975. It features comedy sketches parodying contemporary culture and politics, performed by a rotating cast. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest and includes musical performances.
