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Monologue: Christian Slater Goes Trick-or-Treating Backstage
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
After greeting the audience, Christian Slater admits he is a little old for Halloween, then puts on a pirate hat, eye patch and hook anyway and heads backstage with a pumpkin pail. Stage manager Joe Dicso can only spare breath mints, Ellen Cleghorne, mid-makeup in her Queen Shenequa outfit, tosses in a rubber nose, and David Spade and Tim Meadows unload a pile of Coneheads merchandise on him. Slater then barges in on Lorne Michaels flirting with Mike Myers in his Linda Richman getup, and Lorne scolds him for treating the show so childishly, until Chris Farley storms in wearing a giant pumpkin costume and loaded down with candy collected from the audience. The two run back onstage together to introduce the night's show.
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Highly quotable.
Give me something, or I'll make you walk the plank!
This is childish and unprofessional, okay?
The audience, Christian! They're loaded with candy!
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The Coneheads merchandise David Spade and Tim Meadows hand over promoted the Coneheads feature film, produced by Lorne Michaels and released that July; Spade, Meadows and Chris Farley all appear in it.
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