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The Story Behind Christopher Walken's Other Great SNL Sketch
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1/28/2025
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Christopher Walken is one of the best SNL hosts of all time, but more Cowbell and
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the Continental are really just scratching the surface in terms of his
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most memorable sketches. Case in point, Centaur job interview. A bit in which he
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plays a hospital administrator interviewing candidates for a new job
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and among the applicants is Chris Parnell as a centaur.
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Only if I can write you. Fair enough. Moving on, could you enter yourself in the Kentucky Derby? I don't know.
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Chris Parnell told one of our writers, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay wrote the sketch, but rather than playing the
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centaur part himself, Will thought it should be me. Parnell says the sketch
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came to him fully formed and that he merely had to figure out the right way
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to approach the material, which was to take it seriously like a normal job
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interview. He said, I had to answer these weird questions from Walken as if they
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weren't that weird. Of course, those would be the questions a centaur would be
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asked in a job interview from a human. I don't think I ever once made eye
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contact with Walken because he was just looking at the cards. No harm there. I
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don't blame him. It was a lot of words. Regardless, the sketch was a big success.
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Whereas Parnell puts it, it's such a funny piece and so well-written. That's
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the reason why it continues to live on. That, and because it was Christopher Walken.
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