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Java Junkie
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
After losing his job and girlfriend, Joe sits down for coffee and finds he cannot stop drinking it. His search for another cup spirals into a jittery, black-and-white addiction melodrama.
The funny people
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Highly quotable.
Just coffee. I'm not hungry.
I had become a Java Junkie.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Tom Schiller
Writer
Tom Schiller
Director
Neal Marshad
Producer
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The official SNL upload was shared in November 2021 as a tribute to Peter Aykroyd. The sketch originally aired in 1979. SNL Archives lists Elmer Bernstein’s “The Fix” as the music cue.
The rabbit hole continues
One more couldn’t hurt.
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