SNL Classic! Behind The Scenes Of “The Continental” Sketches

On October 20, 2014 - TV History


SNL Classic! Behind The Scenes Of “The Continental” Sketches

This past Saturday night, the SNL classic episode that aired at 10 PM was the April 8, 2000 episode with Christopher Walken as host and the big sketch from this show was the “Cowbell” scene with Will Ferrell. But, whenever Walken hosts, he does a recurring character…”The Continental” which is always shot from the woman’s Point Of View by a hand held camera.

Here is “The Continental” sketch from February 22, 2003. This special video shows us what the studio audience is seeing as well as the home audience by way of a box insert from the hand held. I don’t know who the cameraman is, but Wally Feresten is the Q card man. As a matter of fact, Wally’s company does all the Q cards for NBC’s live shows both in New York and in LA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNCOFJnpPGs

The Making Of S*N*L’s “The Continental” – enjoy!

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6 Comments

  1. James Stanley Barr October 22, 2014

    It’s been a long time since Walken’s done a Continental sketch when he’s hosted.

  2. Leon Zetekoff October 20, 2014

    I remember seeing another one of these a long time ago. Great seeing. What’s going on

  3. Dave Dillman October 20, 2014

    For those of us with long memories, this sketch is based on an actual early TV program that was done straight. Same subjective camera.

  4. Jeff Lashway October 20, 2014

    Cool perspective!!

  5. Lou Spinnazola October 20, 2014

    Fantastic!

  6. Dan Gilloon October 20, 2014

    I seem to recall it was Michael Bennett.