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Weekend Update: The Original Nosferatu

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The setup

The bald, long-fingered vampire from the 1922 silent classic drops by the Weekend Update desk to review the new Nosferatu remake and needle Colin Jost.

Community rating

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Colin Jost welcomes the original Nosferatu, played by Sarah Sherman in full Count Orlok makeup, to weigh in on the holiday box-office success of the Nosferatu remake. The ancient vampire claims to have travelled across oceans and a jammed bridge to reach the studio, then spends the interview steering every exchange into insults about Jost's body, his assistants, his facial hair and his supposed cocaine habit. Beneath the jabs is professional jealousy: Nosferatu insists the muscular new star looks nothing like him, demonstrates the single sit-up vampires manage each day, and complains he never got an audition. After lusting after Jost's neck, a bloody punchline about Sherman herself and a parting baseball motto, the creature signs off by admitting he actually liked the film.

The funny people

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Highly quotable.

I've crossed oceans of time to find you. And also the George Washington Bridge.

He looks like shirtless Ned Flanders.

Vampires only do one sit-up a day.

The rabbit hole continues

One more couldn’t hurt.

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