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Sound of Music: Rolf and Liesl
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Introduced as a Turner Classic Movies broadcast, the sketch reworks the gazebo duet from The Sound of Music. Liesl (Cecily Strong) slips out to meet her telegram-boy suitor Rolf (John Mulaney), and as they sing he keeps revising his age upward, from 33 to 38 to 41 and finally 46, while brushing off rumors that he is a Nazi and hinting that Austria's troubles are only beginning. Liesl wavers between suspicion and flattery until her father, Captain Gaylord von Trapp (Beck Bennett), bursts in with Maria (Kate McKinnon) and two police officers to break up the romance.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 4
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
I am 33. Next month I'll be 39. Baby, I'm 41.
You're a geriatric telegram boy, and I'm rich and good with puppets. You do the math.
Oh, Liesl, age is just a number that the government keeps track of.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Don Roy King
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Steve Higgins voices the Turner Classic Movies announcer, who introduces the film as "Fiddler on the Roof for WASPs." TVLine picked the sketch as the best of the episode.
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