Saturday Night Live/Drew Barrymore/Lily Allen

Drew Barrymore/Lily Allen
Season 32, Episode 12
Airdate	February 3, 2007
Production Number	1483
Written by	Seth Meyers Andrew Steele Paula Pell (head writers) Doug Abeles James Anderson Alex Baze James Downey Charlie Grandy Steve Higgins Colin Jost Erik Kenward John Lutz Lorne Michaels Matt Murray Marika Sawyer Akiva Schaffer Robert Smigel John Solomon Emily Spivey Jorma Taccone Bryan Tucker
Directed by	Don Roy King
← 32x11 Jeremy Piven/AFI	32x13 → Forest Whitaker/Keith Urban
Saturday Night Live — Season Thirty-Two

Drew Barrymore/Lily Allen is the twelfth episode of the thirty-second season of Saturday Night Live, and the six hundred and twentieth episode overall. It is Drew Barrymore's fifth time hosting the show and Lily Allen's first appearance as a musical guest.

Guest Stars: Drew Barrymore (Host), Lily Allen (Musical Guest)

Special Guests: Horatio Sanz (Elton John)

Episode Breakdown

• American Idol - Puppy Idol: Ryan Seacrest (Meyers) recaps the contestants who have tried out for American Idol in New York, Memphis and other locations. In each place, he shows a woman named Vanessa Goodwin (Rudolph) and other presumably talented singers singing briefly before cutting to a much longer scene of judges Simon Cowell (Sudeikis), Paula Abdul (Poehler) and Randy Jackson (Thompson) harshly criticizing and berating animals. This includes a golden retriever, a chicken, a donkey, fish in a barrel, a couple of kittens and a turtle who won't leave.
• Drew Barrymore's Monologue: Barrymore expresses her excitement about being able to perform real comedy instead of romantic comedies, as well as her induction into the 5-Timers Club. She heads backstage to get into the club, but accidentally bumps into Samberg on the way and knocks a pile of papers out of his hands. The two catch each others' eyes and he asks her out on a date. Barrymore confides in Poehler that Samberg seems like someone she can really trust, but she catches him making out with Wiig backstage. Dejected, Barrymore winds up resorting to scheduling a love-making session with Forte, the clear villain of this romantic comedy monologue. Forte relays this information back to Samberg, who reminisces in the form of a montage about his relationship with Barrymore. By this time, Barrymore is back on stage and is answering questions from the audience. One member (Armisen) starts to ask her about errors in Boys on the Side but is interrupted by a drenched Samberg with a boombox over his head. He explains his folly and the two make up. Meanwhile, Forte rejects Wiig's advances and realizes that Thompson was the one for him all along.
• The Dakota Fanning Show: Dakota Fanning (Poehler) hosts a talk show for child actors to discuss serious issues like politics and books with smooth jazz from her band leader Reggie (Thompson). She introduces Daniel Radcliffe (Hader) and tries to talk about his new play, but spends her time talking over her band leader's head and insulting him for reading the Harry Potter books. She throws Radcliffe off the set when he says he's been reading X-Men comics, not books, lately and introduces Abigale Breslin (Barrymore), a Oscar nominee for her role in Little Miss Sunshine. Fanning bitterly attempts to rationalize why she hasn't been given an Oscar nomination for her more serious roles but is calmed down with juice from her mother (Wiig).
• Marriage Counseling: A couple named Dean (Forte) and Robin (Barrymore) attend a marriage counseling session with their councilor (Wiig). Robin says she thinks things are getting better because they aren't confronting each other in a physical way, but Dean says he agrees although she's still poisoning him with dioxin. Although Robin says she isn't poisoning him every day, Dean's face has been horribly scarred by the encounters. She explains if her husband would just acknowledge her influence on the house, she might stop poisoning him. Eventually they conclude that because they keep coming to the sessions, they must still love each other, but Robin makes no promises that Dean will survive the poisoning until next session.
• SNL Digital Short - Body Fuzion: A cheesy 1980s workout video featuring Desiree (Barrymore) and her back-up trainers Donna (Rudolph), Michelle (Wiig) and Donna (Poehler) is shown with the four performing a low level body workout that looks more like cheap softcore porn.
• Target - Monette: Monette (Barrymore) is being trained by a Target employee (Wiig) on how to be a cashier. The woman becomes distracted by the kitschy Valentine's Day items bought by a customer (Armisen) and is replaced by Monette in her absence. She vastly overcharges the man and causes him to storm off in search of her manager. They help the next customer (Sudeikis) and the trainee does all of the work. The Target lady tries to convince him not to buy the child's bracelet so she can buy it instead, but he tries to get through the process as quickly as possible. Exhausted by this process, the trainee leaves to take a break and the woman tells her to "try their flavored coffees."
• Spunky Interviewee: A woman named Shaundra (Barrymore) finishes being interviewed by several executives (Poehler, Thompson and Rudolph), but she's extremely hyper and keeps wasting their time despite their attempts to get rid of her. She keeps putting her foot in her mouth and leaving before coming back to say and do more things that would jeopardize her interview, such as calling the women "bitches" and referring to the black executive as "grown-up Webster." She also apologizes for drawing a penis on their dry erase board and using a "that's what she said" joke, but it isn't until she leaves that one of the executives realizes she stole her wallet.
• Smile: Lily Allen song.
• Weekend Update:
  • Barbara Birmingham (Thompson), the Weekend Update nanny, comments on a California law that was brought up in the state senate that would ban spanking children under 3, even between parents and children. When Birmingham plugs her autobiography and Meyers questions why she would have a book, she tries to leap across the desk and slap him. She then says that if someone doesn't want to discipline their child with spanking she will "beat your ass."
• Donatella's Superbowl Party: Donatella Versace (Rudolph) hosts a Super Bowl party and says she hasn't been around for a while because she's been in rehab for cigarettes, alcohol and telling people to get out. None of these are cured, but she insists they have been. Also in attendance are Prince (Armisen), who calls the game in favor of the Indianapolis Colts. He suddenly disappears when Versace asks if he should be performing in the halftime show. Afterwards, Victoria Adams (Barrymore) and David Beckham (Meyers) appear and ask if they can bring the paparazzi in, but Versace demands they shut the door to avoid the light. She kicks them both out when they turn out to be boring. Elton John (Sanz) suddenly appears from the balcony and offers her some beans because "they're a musical fruit" and so is he. The sketch devolves into a string of gay jokes and John picking the Chicago Bears to win over the Colts.
• Valet Affair: Ashley Sanderson (Barrymore) and her friend (Wiig), two rich white women, finish their game of tennis, and her friend says that although she came to cheer Ashley up after her divorce, she's positively vibrant. The friend leaves and Jorge (Poehler), the valet at the country club, asks her out on a date because he "wants to lay on her." After a list of why he isn't good enough for her, he's interrupted by Randolph (Forte) asking for his keys, but JoJo throws them in the street for Randolph to get them himself. He's interrupted again by the boss (Hader), who ask him to get back to work, and is forced to leave Ashley. Another valet named Jorge (Armisen) appears after JoJo leaves, and the two run off together to continue their affair.
• Firestarter Sausages: Charlie McGee (Barrymore), a woman once known as "Firestarter" because she could start fires with her mind, shills for her brand of smoked sausages which were roasted using fires started with her mind. As she explains her life and what the government did to her brain and how they killed her parents, her husband, Lonnie San Francisco (Sudeikis), sings accompaniment until she accidentally burns him.
• LDN: Lily Allen song.
• 1st Class Drunks: Barrymore meets Peter O'Toole (Hader) drinking at a bar and telling absurd stories about what happened when he got drunk one night and wound up in someone's closet to two people (Sudeikis and Rudolph). Barrymore and O'Toole reminisce about the good old days of Hollywood when drunks were respected and when people flashed their genitals with a bit of class and "panache."
• Baby Toupees: A man (Hader) promotes his pediatrics company's baby toupees to give them confidence in the face of male infantile baldness. He claims baby toupees counteract the possibility of babies feeling developmentally outcast and shows he's also the father of a client.

Notes

"Live from New York, It's Saturday Night!"

• Seth Meyers as Ryan Seacrest.

Music

• Like A Star, by Corinne Bailey Rae: The song that plays during Samberg's montage recollection of the past events of the monologue, particularly his encounter with Barrymore in the hallway, is "Like A Star" by Corinne Bailey Rae. Rae previously performed the song on Saturday Night Live earlier in the season on the episode hosted by Jaime Pressly.

• Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now, by Starship: At the end of the monologue, when Samberg shows up with the boombox over his head, the song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" plays in the background. It was originally performed by Starship and was prominently featured in the 1987 romantic comedy Mannequin, starring Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall.

• Smile, performed by Lily Allen: The first song performed by Lily Allen is "Smile," the first single off her debut album, Alright, Still and her first mainstream single release. The keyboard riff that plays throughout the song is a sample from "Free Soul" by The Soul Brothers as well as a lyric from a Beatles song. The song is a first person account of a girl who gets pleasure out of making men get upset over her.

• LDN, performed by Lily Allen: "LDN" is the second song performed by Lily Allen in the episode, also off Alright, Still. The song is about Allen walking through London, where she lives, and describing scenes of life in the city. She often uses the technique of juxtaposing classy scenes against less glamorous ones about pimps and crackwhores.

Trivia

The Show

• 5 Timers Club: This is the fifth time which Barrymore has hosted the show. As she mentioned in the monologue, her first time hosting was when she was 7 years old shortly after the release of E.T. She is the second woman to make it into the club, with the first being Candice Bergen. Her previous shows are as follows in chronological order:
  • 8x07 - Drew Barrymore/Squeeze
  • 24x16 - Drew Barrymore/Garbage
  • 27x03 - Drew Barrymore/Macy Gray
  • 29x12 - Drew Barrymore/Kelis
• M.I.A.: Darrell Hammond did not appear in any sketches nor was he in the "good nights" at the end of the episode. This may be because he was doing press for Epic Movie.

• Repeat Sketch: The filmed sketch "Baby Toupees" originally appeared in episode 31x13 - Natalie Portman/Fall Out Boy.

Behind the Scenes

• Cut from Dress: During the dress rehearsal for this episode, one sketch was cut before the show went live. This sketch parodied VH1 programs like Best Week Ever by showing several C-list actors commenting in a program entitled "VH1 Super Duper Bowl."

• Archived Sketch: The Firestarter Smoked Sausages commercial was first conceived during Barrymore's last appearance on the show. It went as far as making it to dress with Horatio Sanz playing Sudeikis' character. One bit that was left out of this version of the sketch was the husband's fake arm catching on fire.

Allusions and References

• Firestarter: The sketch about "Firestarter Smoked Sausages" was pulled directly from a film that Barrymore starred in when she was a child called Firestarter. The film was adapted from a Stephen King story about a girl whose parents took part in scientific experiments as guinea pigs for quick money which gave their daughter the ability of pyrokinesis. The film was released in 1984, two years after Barrymore's breakthrough child performance in E.T.