# SNL 12/09 - Annette Bening's cue cards **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-12-09-annette-benings-cue-cards/383560 "2006-12-10T12:53:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-12-09-annette-benings-cue-cards/383560/21 "2006-12-11T15:36:15Z")
[QUOTE=friedo] She’s still with No Doubt apparently. The second musical act was [Akon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akon). He wasn’t bad. [/QUOTE] I thought the jewelry he had around his neck was a joke. You know, a prop from one of the sketches they do poking fun at rappers. “Konvict”? Oh please! Yeah, that’s what you want to do. Glamorize being in jail and illiteracy all at once. Fighting ignorance is going to take a _lot_ longer than anybody thinks. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-12-09-annette-benings-cue-cards/383560/22 "2006-12-11T15:45:08Z")
[QUOTE=Seven] My wife watches a show called “Flip This House”. The main guy Armando and his bimbo girlyfriend/wife are toned down A-holes in real life. He even answers his cell phone “hey babe”. Kills me everytime. [/QUOTE] Is that the guy who drives a Hummer? Last night he got a call on his cell when he was in the Hummer and since he was in a hurry to get to the house, he drove it up the driveway and across the front yard, so he could get out and walk right into the house. Douchebag. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-12-09-annette-benings-cue-cards/383560/23 "2006-12-11T15:49:11Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Forgot to add, who the hell was that guy who had the majority of the speaking lines in the fast food restaurant meeting digital short? [/QUOTE] You mean the manager? I think it was Chris Parnell. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-12-09-annette-benings-cue-cards/383560/24 "2006-12-11T15:51:42Z")
Armando…oh gosh, I love to hate that guy. Especially when he got an intern and taught him important lessons about the real estate business by humiliating him. :rolleyes: It was great when he got his big penis truck stuck in the mud on the one jobsite. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-12-09-annette-benings-cue-cards/383560/25 "2006-12-11T15:53:00Z")
No, the manager was Fred Armisen- Parnell is no longer a cast member. There was one employee who I have never seen before, not even as an extra in a sketch before. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-12-09-annette-benings-cue-cards/383560/26 "2006-12-11T15:55:18Z")
Oh, that would be Matthew Fox. He hosted the show last week or a couple of weeks ago. I assume they made the digital short then but didn’t have time to air it until this week for whatever reason. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-12-09-annette-benings-cue-cards/383560/27 "2006-12-11T16:58:29Z")
[QUOTE=friedo] What the _hell_ happened to Gwen Stefani? As I recall, she used to have some actual talent. Now she’s trying to be some sorta bizarre rapper/yodeller? WTF? She was beyond awful. The monster and nativity sketches were amusing, though. [/QUOTE] I totally agree, she needs to back off the movie musical based numbers. I mean, If I Was a Rich Girl (taken from Fiddler on the Roof) was decent but this last one taken from The Sound of Music really sucks. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-12-09-annette-benings-cue-cards/383560/28 "2006-12-11T17:08:57Z")
George Steinbrenner was the worst cue card reader ever. I think he even referenced the cards during a sketch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-12-09-annette-benings-cue-cards/383560.md?page=1)