Tim's Web Log #3

Tim's Web Log #3
Thoughts and opinions of an opinionated person

Mon, 28 Mar 2005

Saturday Night Live this week was a rerun of the show earlier in the year hosted by Paris Hilton. Even though we might give her a bit of extra time since she is hot, I think her 15 minutes are nearly up.

However, this show does have one of my favorite SNL sketches in a long time: the Phone Sex sketch. Hilton is the infomercial spokesperson for a phone sex business called Exclusive Connections: "We know what kind of guy is calling a sex line at three in the morning." Turns out each of their phone sex operators pretends to be a character from the science fiction genres that, in reality, WOULD be of interest to people who call a phone sex line at 3 AM. Tina Fey does a great job as Princess Leia, with the cinnamon bun hair-do:

Caller: Call me a nerf-herder.
Fey: Know what you are? You're just a stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf-herder!

Amy Poehler is a Level 8 Dungeon Master:

Poehler: What's that, baby? You're a Level 5 Chaotic Evil Half-Orc? Oh, that makes me so hot. I'm a Lawful Neutral Druidic Monk with +5 melee range, Boots of Levitation, and big, sharp Vorpal Sword. I want you to cast a saving throw, baby! Cast it!

Rachel Dratch is dressed up like a Lord Of The Rings elf:

Dratch: You've been a bad Hobbit, haven't you? Bad Hobbits go straight to Mordor.

This whole sketch was dead-on. I laughed until my sides hurt. I know it was just a sketch, but I can't help but think this concept would make a fortune in the real world.

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# From Katie at Fri Aug 12 23:26:28 2005:

I saw that sketch too- busted my ass laughing. But the sad part is, as a phone sex operator I can say with some authority I have never been asked to portray an elf on the phone. Well, not at work anyway... It's mostly "regular guys" although one time I did have a guy call and tease me about having hairy feet, because when he asked "What are you wearing?" I said truthfully, "A LOTR t-shirt and a thong."

It would be fun as hell to do an SF/F RP call though. I wish more callers were like that.