Newspaper Reporter - Saturday Night Live

[@EveCornwellChannel]

Kristen's accent is spot on, such a professional

[@iristhai5969]

Dude this is from 5 years ago...

[@Charizarzar]

Iris Irie ok?

[@expectedturbulence8475]

EVE

[@steveconn]

We give credit to them for basic acting standards and not cracking up. Sad.

[@BobPagani]

@@steveconn You should apply for a job at SNL. They obviously need the kind of tutoring only a seasoned pro like you can provide.

[@torridd]

"Is everyone on cocaine?" LOL!

[@popsiclestick8405]

well cocaine was legal back then but at that time day didn't call it cocaine day didn't even know it was a drug back then day called it medicine thats wat day thought it was to them and u see day talked different back n those days like we talk different n our days so yeah everyone was on cocaine back then literally

[@SUPERSPAZD]

@@popsiclestick8405 you seem to "speak" from experience ... 😂

[@popsiclestick8405]

@@GBPARMER_GEN-X-1977 u know cocaine wasn't the only drug that was out n those days day where also taking speed as well and Many other types of drugs as well if u didn't Know

[@popsiclestick8405]

@@GBPARMER_GEN-X-1977 well that's why n those days people had more fun n those days there wasn't as many rules and laws to follow compare to nowadays where u can't really do anything but stay home n those days u can drink and drive smoke inside a store or restaurant u had more freedom then u do now so ur Grandpa had more fun n his days then we have fun n our days

[@Impala-nh2qk]

Jason Sudeikis and Kristen Wiig are outstanding.

[@demiansims728]

Agreed. Top professional stuff here.

[@samspiano7070]

Taran Killam too

[@scottlarock7924]

Yup. They bring it big time with energy and have the chops to nail the big moments.

[@danwatkins3044]

Man I understand why you get over a thousand likes your a master of the English language you're a poet

[@ЯСмерть-ф5п]

They really know which end of a goat to look at.

[@PhillyFrank1]

totally nailed the rapid-fire dialog of the mid-century films.

[@joefernandez8008]

How did Jason and Kristen do this READING OFF OF CUECARDS?! Like their talent is phenomenal.

[@jasminehouston-burns1691]

There are some skits that I suspect require a certain amount of memorization.

[@Mowmauf]

@Aaron Digby why are you yelling

[@scrateshooter]

@@Mowmauf That's how he talks, haven't you seen his movies? A shark ate him.

[@nkt1]

@Aaron Digby Do us all a favour and type slower with the caps lock off.

[@cwg73160]

It’s almost like they wrote it and did some sort of rehearsing a couple of times before finally performing it. Weird stuff.

[@Robotato]

This is what I feel like Jess's dreams are like,

[@harryhogan7787]

lol

[@cyboman75]

Who?

[@mina_invers]

@@cyboman75 Jess the girl Zoey played in New girl

[@velonica037]

A like for Kristen Wiig's accent 👌🏼

[@tsemiu]

Shut up

[@stvp68]

Wiig is good at fast talking

[@ichuze7312]

It’s called transatlantic. All the actors had to learn how to speak like that.

[@TrevorAllen]

A like for Kristin Wiig's HAT!

[@danwatkins3044]

Man the wisdom of your words is great you deserve a thousand likes

[@EJofLA]

Finally someone admitting how hard it is to follow that fast "Screwball Comedy" talking! Kristen's old time accent was great and loved Zooey's "you guys are whacked" bit is such vindication to people like me who like it slower...Loved the way she parodied it and tried unsuccessfully to do it lol!

[@b2kzangelalwayz]

Glad you feel vindicated.

[@EJofLA]

@@b2kzangelalwayz Thanks

[@ethelredhardrede1838]

I never had any problem and they left out the overlapping dialogue. Which was done to make sound even faster than it was.

[@SheilaR.08]

@@ethelredhardrede1838 Love it. Banter is the best in those films.

[@glooperscooper]

Maybe you're just slow 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@id104335409]

Those mad typing skills got me cracking.

[@angelacooper5682]

🤣🤣

[@njuta]

I love this sketch... the quick talking, the outfits... BOBBY'S TYPING!!! Magical

[@ColonelBanana]

2:20 How I type my essay the night before it’s due knowing I had 2 months.

[@Ok-wb4du]

✋💀

[@Andy-vt7sl]

I laughed so hard I cried with the typewriter- solid writing and even better acting.

[@grendelsloth9950]

Lol this is exactly what 50's movies are like

[@squattingheads]

and i miss it

[@urbaniteurbanizer1612]

This is a take on His Girl Friday, a movie from 1940 starting Cary Grant and Rosalind Russel.

[@reenougle]

Actually 30's and 40s not 50s.

[@Doomsterlobster]

This is a specifically trait of screwball comedy (30s-40s as mentioned), not all "old" films. I personally found His Girl Friday a bit obnoxious in its exaggerated witty (and pretty abusive! :D) banter and hectic pace, even compared to other classics in the genre. Conversely, I really like Bringing Up Baby and love Arsenic and Old Lace.

[@jamesfetherston1190]

@@urbaniteurbanizer1612 yep that and Barbara Stanwyck in Meet John Doe. Katherine Hepburn did that kind of talking in some movies too. Jennifer Jason Leigh did a great take on it in the Hudsucker Proxy.

[@mikeyd946]

That’s when they had cocaine in their Coca Cola 🥤

[@MsCatfish4]

😂

[@youtubecomment2874]

Wow the whole world makes sense after that comment

[@rumpelstillkills8036]

That was before 1903. After 1903 cocaine was eliminated from the recipe.

[@djCatScanRL]

@@rumpelstillkills8036 🥤

[@seaglass7375]

Transatlantic accents and velocity on point 😱

[@sgtsantiagousmc79]

Mid-Atlantic

[@wutta-do5zy]

there's our theater queen

[@lickos83]

My mind is baffled by Kristen‘s talent... it‘s like witnessing the highest form of art. 🤯

[@DiSaValCrescerTranscender]

I'm not a native English speaker but I'm seeing always snl cause I love this show. And when I started to watch this one I thought "this accent from the old movies..how they could speak so fast?" And to my surprise the skit address exactly this issue through Zoey. Loved it.

[@alsada307]

"Hey boss!! We just got a call, the orphanage is on fire! Gotta get somebody down there to cover it. Do you wanna a scoop, two scoops a butterscotch even" ROFL 😂

[@harryhogan7787]

lol

[@kimanderson2342]

*what a scoop ..🙄

[@cardinalsin.]

clips like these make me miss Kristen so badly… in my opinion shes one of the best SNL ever had.

[@april1969simnel]

"His Girl Friday" is one my favorite movies. This is cute.

[@reenougle]

They have the 30s and 40s madcap movie accent down to a tee. Amazing.

[@edsmith3461-z7m]

I miss the mid-Atlantic accent.

[@hd-xc2lz]

You can buy CDs today that teach it, believe it or not. You can find the same for just about any accent, they're produced for actors.

[@evanhagen6553]

*Transatlantic

[@edsmith3461-z7m]

@@evanhagen6553 Same thing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent

[@evanhagen6553]

@@edsmith3461-z7m ah, I see

[@murderc27]

@@evanhagen6553 ah, humility. You are amazing for youtube commenter standards.

[@allizappamcminn4376]

"Okay straight up. Is anyone here in cocaine?" Lol that one lost my shit

[@romanetolaneta]

👌Those lines are hard for anyone, add doin' it live.... Amazing.

[@aquablue1252]

Jason messes up twice but you can’t tell. He’s amazing. He keeps going without a hitch

[@petrusdabruzzo2789]

Twice? Thrice rater. You couldn´t tell? ;)

[@Dan-ch8kv]

I honestly couldn't tell.

[@SheriSoltes]

I am in love with this entire skit. I cd have watched hours of it, a whole movie or even series. It’s how I’d feel in that environment, but it’s an environment I admired in those movies! Executed to perfection except Zoe’s makeup was really smeared. How come she looked all blurred and shiny? Kristen and Jason were on point 100%.

[@gospelofrye6881]

Have you seen The Hudsucker Proxy? kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJi7YpainLdgbdk

[@sonyfusion1994]

She’s supposed to be different

[@steadmanuhlich6734]

Loved Kristen Wiig’s accent and acting in this. Spot on! Amazing fast delivery of lines. LIVE! And I used to watch those classic films, and wondered if they somehow sped them up in the recording playbacks. But, seeing Kristen do it live, so fast, is so amazing. Talent!

[@vivienlz4113]

Kristen Wiig aka excellence

[@chipchop3948]

yea. she pretty too

[@dianeibsen5994]

Wow! gosh this is really well done. And so cute too! I just kept watching it over and over and over again. Is it just me? 😃

[@christofferjenzen78]

LOL. Sudeikis is really amused at Zooeys attempt at talking fast at 1:58 . She actually is very cute and charming.

[@englishonthetipofyourtongu5482]

I love how hard they all had to work, especially Kristen, just to perfectly execute this ONE sketch. THAT'S professionalism!

[@freshlysqueezed6850]

Zooey Deschanel playing Zooey Deschanel? Groundbreaking

[@AttilatheThrilla]

@Jess D What? She was great in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy... An amazing movie all around

[@daflotsam]

She’s fantastic .

[@SIOPOWWW]

Jason looks so freaking handsome... i can't evennnnnnnnnnnn!

[@DA-bm2mj]

AMBVRT5 can you odd?

[@ongeify1791]

That was adorable ;)

[@simmiedavissimmiesings8185]

The guy in the suit?

[@asozubby2671]

😂🤣🤣🤣 the guy typing absolutely murdered me

[@Georgia-ht2bs]

Kristen wig really nailed that fast talking screwball chaos from His Girl Friday

[@kelleeg353]

Searching the comments for this reference...!

[@michelerich1590]

Kristen is so perfect here LOL "Well??"

[@HazminFirdaus]

Who's that girl? It's Jess!

[@theethos5181]

"Did you just make a theme song for yourself?" - Nick

[@GeRiGiXXeR600]

this should have over a million views, jason and kristen are brilliant!

[@isabellegiorgis2975]

The new audience only appreciates stupid plot, poor writing, and so called uncontrolled/ out of character laughters of one of the comedians. The comedians of course only laugh when the audience is not laughing yet because the skit is so bad.

[@vortexpilot5096]

Stellar sketch. All of them really nail it. Kudos to the writers too.

[@isabellegiorgis2975]

I love how she switched from sassy to begging: I want my job back, what do you say.." Perfect timing.

[@uba2]

Tremendously well written and performed for a live SNL sketch!

[@antondillet466]

Bobby Moynihan, Taran Killam, Jason Sudeikis, Kristen Wiig, Zoe Deshanel: I love to watch each of them acting every time. The most cast members of SNL are extraordinary, hardly possible not to love them.

[@madabouthollyoaks411]

One of my fave snl skits, doesn’t get enough love

[@daisybuchanan8205]

Kristen is a genius, I just love her.

[@johngablesmith4671]

Reminds me of that reporter in a wedding dress from Bojack Horseman.

[@preraku]

I'm fairly certain the Bojack Horseman reporter lady was meant to evoke Katharine Hepburn and especially her character from The Philadelphia Story and His Girl Friday.

[@merylbonderow5993]

This is 1940’s “hard-boiled” perfection!

[@rumudinc3057]

Jason and Kristen. It was perfect.

[@lucaslayton3974]

This place is like really toxic.

[@Chentzilla]

You're in KZbin comments, after all.

[@ethicalphytophage]

Oh, why I oughtta!

[@nearestyoutube]

Well you oughta but you aren't

[@dinn96]

kristen wiig is gold..

[@pop5678eye]

I lived in NYC for a couple of years and this is still how fast some people talk. They are always just rushing.

[@BobPagani]

Why you, I oughta...

[@dollsattheirbest]

Zooey is representing everyone with ADHD, and I respect that

[@themarquis336]

I’m going to go ahead and say Zooey Deschanel is by very far one of the best SNL guests. She understood every assignment and took it seriously in true comedy. SNL get’s Hollywoods biggest A-List actors, and their skits are always pathetic all-cringe-no-laughs flops. And then you get Deschanel and her scenes are hilarious and professionally performed. Bravo!

[@The-Man-On-The-Mountain]

Zoey is sooooo charming, adorable, and funny! Jason and Christen always are the best!

[@floating_rock172]

Kristen!

[@kartik8419]

This place is like really talk-sick.

[@vandalam1519]

thank you, i think i heard, this place is like really toxic

[@factsoverfiction7826]

Beautiful

[@krashd]

@@vandalam1519 You did.

[@Widdekuu91]

I have ADHD and I would be their number one reporter.

[@zglrd8938]

Widdekuu91 no you don't

[@kimanderson2342]

Im quite sure you wouldn't be....i swear, some people JUST HAVE TO include themselves in EVERY DAMN THING they hear and see! Gtfoh!!!!

[@Widdekuu91]

@@kimanderson2342 It's been 5 years. Do you want me to get the fuck out nów or time-travel back 5 years and get out there?

[@Axel-ll2jp]

kristen wiig is the queen of snl

[@ichuze7312]

When I first saw classic movies back in the 80’s when I was a kid, I was so impressed by how fast they spoke. I also really liked the accent. It’s transatlantic. They had to learn how to talk like that.

[@TheOrisya]

This sketch is really really good...

[@LaDaviDaDuda]

1:01 literally me everytime watching snl cause English is my second language

[@tyjohnston8573]

As a lover of earlier cinema and a former newspaper editor ... this had me laughing my a** off.

[@rahbeat9785]

'yeah you could, but you won't and never will ' bruh im deadd xD

[@kostaminin9957]

Kristen could really star in those movies

[@aquablue1252]

Jason messed up twice ...yet you can barely tell because he is that good and...that fine! I would have messed the entire thing up and sounded like Zoey

[@E-A.]

Why is Kristen Wigg the best person ever?! I LOVE her ♡

[@TheRedMessick]

“You oughta put the cart before the horse cause your apples are..Hubba Hubba!”

[@arylldychua1317]

Kristen gives me life.

[@fanadiana]

I just watched "His Girl Friday" for the first time. Racism and gratuitous sacrifice of a secondary female character aside - - ha! - - a great film. This skit is methadone to the heroin of that film. Thanks, SNL!

[@pulloverq3103]

I believe they spoke normal back days, its the cameras and recording that makes them sound fast

[@LXSeaV]

There are totally reporters that talk like that though. I sat next to a cop reporter when I worked at a newspaper and I really just didn't get what she was saying half the time.

[@francinejones2524]

Also the rate of Kristin’s voice is spot on! The speed and the tone! Outstanding🤩🤩🤩

[@OriginalBigThing]

So much fun to watch, over and over again...

[@Naz-M]

Hilarious, Kristin wiig is so good, they all were

[@jillthomas7646]

His Girl Friday- spot on.

[@alexmagney5326]

As someone with English as a second language, having a hearing problem and being eye-oriented I'm so proud of myself for understanding 80% of those quick exchanges 😂💕

[@邪悪アヤマ]

"Why, I oughta!"

[@cameronrobinson3933]

I love the simple concept of the sketch. Nothing complicated they didn't wear out it's welcome

[@augustgirl]

Easily one of my favorite SNL skits.

[@Vision_Voyagers]

I like how old people use to use idiom and phrases.

[@dwightschrute4560]

Been looking for this sketch

[@aislings8280]

They do the old accents so well 😂

[@princeshakaZ]

One of the best skits I've...fuckin sick!!!

[@NoahLudwin]

One of the best skits I’ve seen

[@kraigjumao-as2708]

wiig, what a pro!

[@John-b8n4z]

I was waiting for her to say "why are you guys talking like its the 50s?"

[@debbabe2254]

The 1930's thru 1940's screwball comedies.

[@carolynrussell7855]

BOTH are Very Talented !!

[@AshishSharma-nm5eo]

I am zooey deschanel in this lol, All the old movies are like this...

[@Dellaluna13]

I thought “hey, victory rolls wig Katy Perry is doing this skit well” then I realized it was Zooey Dijónaiïsé.

[@heartlights]

They should've ended this with a text card that said something like, "in fact, the building was toxic. 14 years later, it was torn down for asbestos poisoning. Some people got a small insurance payout." #snl

[@kyweb-x2c]

This makes me very happy. Perfectly casted. Everyone.

[@black76561]

This is perfect

[@rorysmith9382]

This was funny. Well done.

[@Barbarian857]

That was really funny!

[@mcsuibhne005]

Excellent Chandleresque repartee.

[@akatheprince1922]

Oh God .. i like the way the talk , it is so funny 😆

[@upncmnh11]

The transatlantic accent in Old movies sketch love it!

[@jeromylyon5301]

Wig..."You're a long leap into a hard building"...Deschanel " that is not necessary"...😂😂 I'm dying 🤣😂......#Quirky

[@LohengrinTheo]

Kristen Wiig is a Miracle

[@AnilKumar-vd2xd]

thats me ....when I try to watch old movies 😂😂😂😂

[@sgtsantiagousmc79]

Laughed a little bit too hard to this. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@SpinningbacKFisT]

I fkng love the way they put emphasis on the way folks talked in 1930s/1940s film...😁 and OF COURSE *Kristen* *Wiig* 💚