# Christopher Walken to host SNL...YES!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 18, 2001, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken-to-host-snl-yes/65836 "2001-05-18T16:13:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tretiak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Tretiak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tretiak)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken-to-host-snl-yes/65836/1 "2001-05-18T16:13:40Z")
“I have a fever…and the only prescription is more cowbell!” Or the Tirival Psychic: “You will get in your car tomorrow. All of a sudden, you realize something is horribly wrong. You then realize you left your keys on the living room table.” “Tomorrow…you will eat an ice cream sandwich…you will eat it too fast…and you will get an ice cream headache” He is hosting this Saturday and I will defintitley watch even though it has not been a good season Walken always pulls it out! ---
**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2001, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken-to-host-snl-yes/65836/2 "2001-05-18T16:25:22Z")
[The Continental] “Would you care to join me for some fine champagne?” [/The Continental] I can’t listen to “Don’t Fear the Reaper” anymore because it doesn’t have enough cowbell. ---
**Author:** ![HomeSlice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9d8465/32.png) [@HomeSlice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HomeSlice)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken-to-host-snl-yes/65836/3 "2001-05-19T03:03:03Z")
There is no way i am watching that man right before i go to bed. ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken-to-host-snl-yes/65836/4 "2001-05-19T04:04:47Z")
Christoper Walken is sexy in an evil-old-guy kinda way. I’d do him. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken-to-host-snl-yes/65836/5 "2001-05-20T13:25:03Z")
She digs Evil in a guy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AETBOND417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken-to-host-snl-yes/65836/6 "2001-05-20T13:56:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tommy the Cat \* > \*\* > [The Continental] > “Would you care to join me for some fine champagne?” > [/The Continental] > \*\* [The Continental] “I backed over her with my van. Repeatedly.” [/The Continental] He goes on to mention that he lived in her [his only love] cabin for several months before her “no-good kids” kicked him out for “wasting her fortune.” ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken-to-host-snl-yes/65836/7 "2001-05-20T15:15:15Z")
What do you all think of them still using Hartman’s voiceover for “The Continental?” I find it somewhat distracting. ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken-to-host-snl-yes/65836/8 "2001-05-20T16:10:14Z")
I didn’t mind. I thought it was kind of neat. I also thought **The Coninental** was about the only funny skit out of the whole show. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken-to-host-snl-yes/65836/9 "2001-05-20T16:13:20Z")
Walken is probably one of the bests hosts that SNL has… He rocks (his scene in one of the ‘It’s Pat’ sketches was hilarious… and bizarre), especially ‘The Continental’! ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken-to-host-snl-yes/65836/10 "2001-05-20T17:38:48Z")
Speaking of Christopher Walken, has anyone seen the Fatboy Slim video with him dancing? That’s just bizarre, in that Christopher Walken sort of way, which is cool. SNL seems at least better now that Molly Shannon and Cheri Oteri are gone. Hopefully, Will Ferrel leaves soon too. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken-to-host-snl-yes/65836/11 "2001-05-20T18:32:48Z")
Amen, Wicky! He’s on my “inexplicable crush” list… ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken-to-host-snl-yes/65836/12 "2001-05-20T23:22:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Manservant Hecubus \* > \*\*She digs Evil in a guy. 🙂 \*\* Especially evil, evil white boys. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2001, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken-to-host-snl-yes/65836/13 "2001-05-21T00:44:08Z")
I watched SNL last night because of Walken (such a cool guy), hoping it would be better than usual. Must say it was one of the best episodes I’ve seen in a long time. The “Centaur Job Interview” was hilarious! It reminded me of KITH. Besides Walken being great and Wheezer being very cool, Robert Smigel’s cartoon was pretty funny as well. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken-to-host-snl-yes/65836/14 "2001-05-21T02:14:30Z")
I made it till about 12:09am last night. LOVED the new “Continental” skit. I got to shoot the Chris Walken “Viagra” spoof that was on last year. His timing and focus made that part of the spoof beyond hilarious. Also, the cast member ( can’t remember her name cause I suck ) who played his rather sore wife was just brilliant. Nice guy, pleasure to work with. I really didn’t think he had this kind of comedy in him till I saw his part in **Pulp Fiction**. That kind of iced it for me, I was weeping with laughter by the end of that monologue. Around movie sets, THAT is one of the most-quoted scenes when we’re throwing lines around… > [@](#): > > I kept that watch up…my assssss…for all those years Easily right up there with the finest of lines from **Caddyshack** , \*\* Untouchables\*\* and of course **The Godfather**. Few people can pull that shit off. So, minor hijack but- who thinks he ought to JOIN the cast for a year? Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2001, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken-to-host-snl-yes/65836/15 "2001-05-21T06:03:25Z")
…and don’t forget to pronounce it continental-style: “Shahm-pahn-ya.”