Tied for best character on TV right now (Ron Swanson). What is a human R2D2? It's that thing of when a midget on roller skates dial on speakerphone and you put a garbage can over his head. What is a human suitcase? It's that thing of when a midget on roller-skates wears all of your clothes and then you pull them through an airport. What are your favorite Stefon quotes?
"Look over there in the corner – is that Mick Jagger? No. It’s a fat kid on a slip ‘n slide. His knees look like biscuits and he’s ready to party.” We quote this quite a bit at the MadMax homestead.
I thought it was funny at first. Now, it just feels tired. He also capitalizes on the Jimmy Fallon "laugh at yourself during the skit while covering it up to make it funnier than it is" which I'm tired of. But, the whole SNL cast is guilty of that at times.
This one is genuine though. The writer John Mulaney (who is also a hilarious stand-up) intentionally inserts jokes never seen before by Hader in the teleprompter in an attempt to "break" him. It's sort of a competition between the two of them.
I hated it when Fallon did it, and said so many times here. But I read somewhere that Hader does it during his Stefon bits because he is actually reading the lines for the first time. Seems plausible, but if that's the case, who writes the material for Stefon? EDIT: kevC answered it.
you can see his reaction to what he's reading. you can tell he's read it for the first time because he starts to smile before he can get the words out of his mouth.
New York’s hottest holiday club is Blitzen, and right now they’re having their 12 Days of Christmas dance party. It has everything: 12 jacked albinos, 11 Little Richards, 10 piercer babies, 9 Asian Balkis, 8 gay Aladdins, 7 psychos swearing, 6 Puerto Screechers, 5 homeless Elmos. 4 coked up frogs, 3 French hens, Taylor Negron, and a human parking cone…It’s that thing were two jacked midgets paint themselves orange and you have to parallel park between them.
Well, that's interesting but not sure it translates into making the skit funnier. Wouldn't it be funnier if the character Stefon could get through the whole skit by telling it like he believes it and not laughing in the process? We are the ones who are supposed to be laughing at him and I don't consider him laughing at himself telling it as part of that...even if it is a competition between writer and actor. I'm not sure I would pay to see a Stefon movie at this point. It would have to be truly hilarious and sustain itself for an hour and a half.
Being that Stefon is probably SNL's most popular character, I doubt they're going to change anything. I believe you're in the minority.
