-Happy Thanksgiving.
-Is it -- Well, not yet.
-No, no.
-Coming up.
-No, today is Thanksgiving
-It is?
-Yeah, today.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving, man.
Thanks for coming over.
Thanks for coming over, man.
-Did you make any food, or -
-I have just liquids, just -
-Yeah.
-I just pureed
some turkey and stuff --
-Happy Thanksgiving.
-Happy Thanksgiving.
What are you doing for
Thanksgiving? Anything cool?
-Yeah, super cool stuff.
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah, man.
-Hold on.
Listen to this.
I'm going to the house
where my wife grew up in Boston.
-There you go, man.
[ Howls ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
[ Imitates air horn blaring
[ Beatboxing ]
-To hang out
with my mother-in-law.
-Wow.
[ Laughter ]
-And they have a basement.
[ Laughter ]
-Wow.
Wow, that's fun.
-And they're gonna be --
Yeah.
-The kids must love that.
-The kids love it.
The kids do.
They love going to Boston.
-Yeah.
-Because there's no basement
in California.
Houses don't have basements.
-That's right.
-So a basement is like
a magical place...
for them.
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah, a little clubhouse.
-They go down there
and, you know,
have Nerf gun battles.
-And then the other big thing we
do is we go to Dunkin' Donuts.
[ Laughter ]
-When you're in Boston?
-Their uncle,
my brother-in-law...
-Yeah.
-...my wife's brother --
-Yeah.
-...takes them
to Dunkin' Donuts,
and they get to just
pick whatever they want.
[ Light laughter ]
-That's what you do
when you go to Boston?
-So that's what happens...
-Wow.
-...when we go to Boston.
-[ Howls ]
-Yeah!
Whoo!
-You're hosting "SNL"
this weekend.
-I know.
-I'm so excited.
-Thank you.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-For the fifth time.
-Back up.
It's always a fun, surreal
experience to go back.
You've done it.
-Yeah.
-Right?
-Doesn't it smell the same
like, when you --
-The aroma is still rich.
-Yeah.
-Yeah.
-It feels like going back to
your high school or something.
Either it's the paint
on the floor or something --
-Yeah, there's something -
-Yeah. But it's good.
It's good. And they got
a good cast up there.
-Great cast.
A lot to talk about in the news.
-Yeah, that's true.
-Uh-huh. Right?
-But what do you -- When peopl
talk about your best of "SNL
or things that you've done
on the show,
I know what everyone
brings up to me,
which you're involved in.
[ Both laugh ]
Anyway, let's talk about
something else.
-Cowbell. Cowbell sketch.
-Yes, the cowbell sketch.
-Right?
-That's what I was gonna say
I was gonna say that.
I was gonna talk
about the cowbell.
-You were a major part of that
-I was a really major part
of the cowbell sketch.
It was all you. It was all you
This is a picture of --
-And there's Jimmy.
-Yeah.
-That's me there.
-Right.
-That's Kattan, Parnell.
-Look at that hair.
-Horatio Sanz.
-And --
-That's you, and that is
Christopher Walken.
-Which is --
It's the strangest thing.
[ Laughter ]
-And that's Christopher Walken
-That's Christopher Walken
across from that.
[ Laughter ]
-Look at --
That shirt is insane.
-You maintain that
between dress rehearsal and ai
that I went and put
a tighter shirt on.
-I think you did. Didn't you
-I thought it just hiked -
I thought I just put
a little more mustard into it.
And then it hiked up.
-Is that right? I thought --
-But you thought I put
a tighter shirt on, you think?
-I thought you did,
because this doesn't even
feel like a shirt that should --
[ Laughter ]
It's insane. Everyone else
is wearing other shirts.
I think I would have --
But you were coming up
a little bit in dress.
-Yeah.
-But that was high up.
-Yeah.
-And that was --
That was low down.
-But you might be right.
Maybe I --
-I mean, you barely
had a shirt on.
-Maybe I switched it
to a tighter shirt.
-'Cause I remember
it was so loud on air because --
-Oh, with -- Yeah.
I banged it much louder
than the dress.
-No, but I mean
the audience response.
Oh, the response. Yeah.
-Yeah, but, I mean, like,
the sketch was on
at the end of the show,
I believe,
which is where usually
the weirder sketches are.
-Yeah, yeah.
-And it was working so wel
that the floor started shaking
-Oh, I don't remember that
-Yeah. Yeah.
-I was just in a haze.
-You were in a --
Dude, you were in a comedy haze.
-I was staring you down.
But you --
'Cause you were laughing.
But I was laughing, too,
but the beard was just
protecting --
You couldn't see it.
You couldn't see it.
-'Cause, dude, I --
-Wait, put the picture back up
Look. See,
the beard is hiding --
See, I'm smiling.
I'm smiling right there.
-I mean, that was --
That started it for me.
That was my whole thing --
-But here's the crazy thing.
So, I go to see Christophe
Walken years later...
-Yeah.
-...in a play.
I say hello to him backstage
And he's like, "You know,
you've ruined my life."
[ Laughter ]
What?
"People during the curtain cal
bring cowbells and ring them
[ Laughter ]
The other day, I went
for an Italian food lunch.
And the waiter asked
if I wanted more cowbell
with my pasta Bolognese."
[ Laughter ]
And I think he was
really mad at me.
-No way.
-He had a little smile, but --
-Well, because he had
such a great career.
But, you know --
-He is a great actor.
-From "The Deer Hunter"...
-Yeah.
-...to "Pulp Fiction"...
-"Pulp Fiction." He's amazing.
-...to "More Cowbell."
That's all he gets.
-That's all he gets now?
So it made a lot of people
happy, but...
-Christopher --
...ruined one person's life.
-Ruined one person.
But what are you going to do
-That's good odds.
-Right?
-That's decent odds.
You know what I'm saying?
