The Story Behind Christopher Walken's Other Great SNL Sketch

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00:00Christopher Walken is one of the best SNL hosts of all time, but more Cowbell and

00:04the Continental are really just scratching the surface in terms of his

00:07most memorable sketches. Case in point, Centaur job interview. A bit in which he

00:11plays a hospital administrator interviewing candidates for a new job

00:15and among the applicants is Chris Parnell as a centaur.

00:20Only if I can write you. Fair enough. Moving on, could you enter yourself in the Kentucky Derby? I don't know.

00:33Chris Parnell told one of our writers, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay wrote the sketch, but rather than playing the

00:38centaur part himself, Will thought it should be me. Parnell says the sketch

00:41came to him fully formed and that he merely had to figure out the right way

00:45to approach the material, which was to take it seriously like a normal job

00:48interview. He said, I had to answer these weird questions from Walken as if they

00:52weren't that weird. Of course, those would be the questions a centaur would be

00:55asked in a job interview from a human. I don't think I ever once made eye

00:58contact with Walken because he was just looking at the cards. No harm there. I

01:01don't blame him. It was a lot of words. Regardless, the sketch was a big success.

01:05Whereas Parnell puts it, it's such a funny piece and so well-written. That's

01:09the reason why it continues to live on. That, and because it was Christopher Walken.