# Sean Connery--\>Darrel Hammond? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 1, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-darrel-hammond/185679 "2003-07-01T23:38:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SuperNova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-darrel-hammond/185679/1 "2003-07-01T23:38:14Z")
After seeing the trailer for LXG, I can’t help but marvel at how much Sean Connery seems to be turning into Darrel Hammond. Connery has been an outstanding action hero since his Bond days. When SNL started doing the “Celebrity Jeopardy” skit, Hammond always did this outrageous over-the-top (and hilarious) impression of Connery that I’m sure many of you are familiar with. This impression was never meant to be realistic. But it’s scaring me a little bit that Connery seems to be turning into his SNL impression. I think “The Rock” and “Entrapment” was where he first started acting this way. Now comes LXG, which isn’t out yet, but two lines from the trailer are Connery saying _“That was naughty”_ and _“The game is on.”_ These sound EXACTLY like the kind of thing Hammond would have said in the skits. Am I the only one who thinks this? If you all think I’m crazy, then I’ll keep quiet about it… ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-darrel-hammond/185679/2 "2003-07-02T00:29:17Z")
_I’m waiting to be impressed_ Actually, I thought this too. When I first saw the trailers for LXG I kept thinking of quotes from SNL like “Anal bum cover” or “Buck Futter” and thinking that Connery did sound a lot like Hammond. And you’re right about the _“That was naughty”_ quote sounding like something from the SNL skits. And didn’t Hammond say _“The game is on”_ in one of those skits? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-darrel-hammond/185679/3 "2003-07-02T05:46:59Z")
I’ll play your game, you rogue… ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-darrel-hammond/185679/4 "2003-07-02T06:26:30Z")
Only on account of villainy! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-darrel-hammond/185679/5 "2003-07-02T07:51:06Z")
Then I’m cock of the walk! ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-darrel-hammond/185679/6 "2003-07-02T11:08:46Z")
I just hope the movie has Quartermain wearing _a leather glove_! (speaking of which, that’s the only genuinely cool thing I think I’ve ever seen on VH-1. It was on an episode of “Rock & Roll Jeopardy.” The contestant buzzed in on an answer but didn’t know the question. The camera zoomed in on him, he flustered for a little bit, then said in a perfect Connery impression “a leather glove!”) ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-darrel-hammond/185679/7 "2003-07-02T13:00:21Z")
That’s not what your mother said last night, Trebek! ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-darrel-hammond/185679/8 "2003-07-02T13:39:15Z")
I’ll take “The Penis Mightier” for $200, trebek! ---
**Author:** ![chukhung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@chukhung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chukhung)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-darrel-hammond/185679/9 "2003-07-03T19:24:07Z")
Sir Sean doesn’t seem to think much of the director of his new film, _The League of Extraodinary Gentleman_. From this article on the IMDB’s Celebrity News page, [http://us.imdb.com/PeopleNews/2003/20030703.html#4](http://us.imdb.com/PeopleNews/2003/20030703.html#4) > [@](#): > > And when asked where [Stephen Norrington] - who had boycotted the event - was, Connery replied, “Have you checked the local asylum?” He then added, “Ask me about someone I like, will you? Everyone else in the film was a pleasure to work with. Not him.” Yeah, I think you’re right, he’s sounding more and more like Hammond every day ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-darrel-hammond/185679/10 "2003-07-03T19:46:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rabid Child \* > \*\*And didn’t Hammond say _“The game is on”_ in one of those skits? \*\* I believe, and don’t quote me on this, that he said “the game is afoot”. But I too immediately associate those commecials with the SNL skits. Keep the quotes coming! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-darrel-hammond/185679/11 "2003-07-03T19:53:38Z")
You’ll rue the day you crossed me, Trebek! ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-darrel-hammond/185679/12 "2003-07-03T20:54:10Z")
“What’s the difference between you and a mallard with a cold?” “I don’t know.” “One’s a sick duck and I don’t know the rest but your mother’s a whore!” “Buck futter!” “And lastly on Rock and Roll Celebrity Jeopardy, Sean Connery.” “I wrote a book of dirty limericks just so I’d be eligible. For instance, 'There once was a man named Tribick, who had the world’s tiniest…” “OK, that’s enough!” “A sound a doggy makes. I would have accepted ‘ruff-ruff’ or ‘bow-wow’” “Ruff. Just the way your mother likes it, eh Trebeck?” “Where’d you get that pen? We frisked you on the way in.” “I bet if you frisked me you’d find it. 'Cause I was hiding it in my butt!” “I saw that you had trouble sitting down during the break, Trebeck. What’s the matter? Have a hot date last night?” ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-darrel-hammond/185679/13 "2003-07-03T21:28:39Z")
Trebeck: “What is the Sound a Doggie makes?” Connery: “MOOOOOOO!” Trebeck: “NO!” Connery: “Well, that’s the sound your mother mad last night!” And of course Connery: “THE DAY IS MINE!” ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-darrel-hammond/185679/14 "2003-07-03T21:44:34Z")
Connery: “I’ll take **The Rapists** for $100” Trebek: “That’s _Therapists_.” ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-darrel-hammond/185679/15 "2003-07-04T01:32:13Z")
I’ll take “SWORDS” for $800. That’s ‘S’ WORDS Mr Connery - ‘S’ WORDS !!! ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connery-darrel-hammond/185679/16 "2003-07-04T04:19:38Z")
“I can read Trebek, that says anal bum cover! I spent 10 years of my life trying to invent an anal bum cover, failing to do so is my greatest regret.” “You have led a horrifying life.”