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A Conversation with Gabourey Sidibe

Saturday Night Live2009Season 35Episode 20
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The setup

At a press event for Precious, Gabourey Sidibe's clueless ex Hamilton crashes the Q&A to prove he has changed his attitude about race and win her back.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Gabourey Sidibe sits at a hotel-conference-room press event for her film Precious, with her agent opening the floor to questions. A reporter asks whether she is dating anyone, and her answer is interrupted by Hamilton, her blond-bobbed, tinted-glasses ex-boyfriend, who has come to propose. As she resists, Hamilton scrambles to show he has evolved on race relations, offering tone-deaf proofs such as having sat through her movie and griping about the audience around him. Each clumsy boast makes her wince, yet she eventually gives in, taking him back as he serenades her.

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Highly quotable.

Oh, it was RFK? I thought it was from Birth of a Nation.

I looked for a Larry Bird theater, but it didn't exist.

Don't you call them those people.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

SNL Archives lists this sketch as Press Conference, and NBC's official YouTube upload is titled Hamilton. Hamilton Whiteman is Will Forte's recurring character, best known from the Toasts sketches.

ScriptEnglish · 33 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:01

    Herself

    And And working on Precious was one of the most exciting experiences of my life. And I'm honored to have been a part of it.

  2. 00:08

    Agent

    okay Okay, let's open it up to questions.

  3. 00:14

    Fan

    Yes, hi. A lot of the movie is centered around Precious' desire for a boyfriend. Are you currently dating anybody?

  4. 00:22

    Herself

    No, I'm not. I was in a relationship for a long time, but it didn't work out. So right now I'm just enjoying being single.

  5. 00:29

    Agent

    Yes. Anyone else?

  6. 00:31

    Hamilton Whiteman

    I have a question, my love.

  7. 00:34

    Herself

    Hamilton, what are you doing here?

  8. 00:36

    Hamilton Whiteman

    I've come to ask for your black hand in marriage.

  9. 00:41

    Herself

    Hamilton, this is not the time or the place for this.

  10. 00:43

    Hamilton Whiteman

    If not us, who? If not now, when?

  11. 00:48

    Herself

    Hamilton, I don't think that you of all people should be quoting RFK.

  12. 00:53

    Hamilton Whiteman

    Oh, it was RFK. I thought it was from Birth of a Nation. Whatever. Just take me back, my love.

  13. 01:00

    Herself

    Hamilton, you are straight-up crazy if you think I would ever get back with you.

  14. 01:06

    Hamilton Whiteman

    Well, apparently you've forgotten how I used to captivate you with my sensual dancing, how I spent long nights tracing passages from Robert Ludlum novels into your back with my penis.

  15. 01:19

    Herself

    We Hamilton Yes, we had some great times. But I've moved on. I have a career now.

  16. 01:29

    Hamilton Whiteman

    Well, I'm offering you the role of a lifetime, time the role of my wife mrs. Hamilton Whiteman

  17. 01:36

    Herself

    Hamilton don't you get it I am a proud african-american woman I cannot be with a person who thinks the way that you do

  18. 01:45

    cabaret

  19. 01:46

    Hamilton Whiteman

    I'm different now with the changing of the guard in the White House or should I say black house I've I've realized that I must change my antiquated attitude towards race relations

  20. 02:03

    Herself

    I find that hard to believe Tell me one thing that you've done.

  21. 02:08

    Hamilton Whiteman

    I saw your movie.

  22. 02:10

    Herself

    You saw Precious?

  23. 02:13

    Hamilton Whiteman

    Yes, my gab. I went to the local Magic Johnson movie theater. I looked for a Larry Bird theater, but it didn't exist.

  24. 02:22

    Herself

    Oh, Hamilton, I'm so flattered. Tell me you liked the movie.

  25. 02:28

    Hamilton Whiteman

    The black audience was talking to the screen a lot, so I couldn't understand 90% of it. But what I saw, I liked. what I saw I

  26. 02:38

    Herself

    Hamilton you don't know how much that means to me and I'm so sorry that those people talked

  27. 02:45

    Hamilton Whiteman

    don't you call them those people

  28. 02:48

    Herself

    Oh ham you really have changed

  29. 02:51

    Hamilton Whiteman

    enough for you to take me back

  30. 02:53

    Herself

    I'll take you back and I'll take you front

  31. 02:56

    Agent

    you sure you want to do that

  32. 02:58

    Herself

    I've never been more sure about anything in

  33. 03:02

    Hamilton Whiteman

    Oh, when I'm with you, life is a cabaret, my dear. Life is a cabaret. cabaret.

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