Because you’re nonactors, you’re not used to it.” So his instinct was to play it very real, like a real conversation. I’m not sure what he was thinking in that moment, but I remember that he had never seen the show. He was sitting normally and they flipped it. We did that part on green screen, obviously. He thinks about all the sketches a lot, from an acting perspective. What was Liev Schreiber’s process like, as an actor, to prepare to take an upside down shit? We shot it in Brooklyn, in one house that had a bunch of different rooms and types of spaces. Hannah and Adriana, our new directors this year, I hadn’t really worked with them, but they did a really good job of making those visuals funny and adding to them. So I said, “Let’s do it.” We did a rewrite on Thursday and then shot it Friday. At least you could get all those visuals. It seems like such a small idea to spend a ton of money doing a pretape of. Lorne suggested, “Why don’t you tape that?” And I was like, “Oh … okay.” I just couldn’t. And during the meeting, when we were picking out all the sketches for the show, there was room for one more tape. We read it out loud, and it got laughs at the table. How did it go from being live, as it was in your head when you wrote it, to being taped? And then I showed it to Erik Kenward, one of the producers, and asked if it’s too nuts: “Is this anything?” And he liked it, so I turned it in. And then I got halfway through it, to the Ranch dressing, and I thought, This is insane. I thought we’d see Photoshopped pictures of the crazy things. And I started writing it for Liev and Leslie as a live scene. And I thought, Oh, I kind of like that as a setup. So I was trying to figure out if I should do another one of those, or could I think of something new? And for some reason I just thought of that end moment on House Hunters, where they list all the features of the houses. I did those with Rob Klein and John Solomon. They’re just weird, and get crazier as they go. Or like the “Easter Candy” one with Michael Keaton. I’d done a couple sketches like “Thanksgiving Food,” one that was a surreal list. I had written a bunch of stuff Tuesday night, and I was trying to get one more thing. I wrote it really early on Wednesday, just a couple hours before read-through. Tell me about how this sketch came about. Kent Sublette, SNL co-head writer and author of this sketch, spoke to Vulture about what exactly goes into making the star of Screams 2 and 3 poop upside down. One house has a completely vertical floor. Each house has its pros and cons, but the cons are truly insane. Liev Schreiber and Leslie Jones play a couple in their last scenes on House Hunters. Chevy Chase’s Gerald Ford impression fell into obscurity when Carter was inaugurated, but people still remember “ Land Shark.” Comedy nerds love these truly bizarre sketches, like “Happy Fun Ball,” “Potato Chip,” or “Ornaments.” They’re all a cascade of surreal images, and many appear at the fabled ten-to-one spot, but sometimes you’ll get a gnarly curveball smack-dab in the middle of an episode, like with “House Hunters.” Saturday Night Live is at its most timeless when it gets really, really weird.
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