-You know our next guest from her work
on "Saturday Night Live"
and movies like "Sisters" and "Wine Country."
Her new movie, "A Cluesterfuenke Christmas,"
airs December 4th on Comedy Central.
Let's take a look.
-Well, where are you coming in from, hun?
-Uh, New York City.
-Oh! -Oh, New York.
Never been there myself. Mnh-mnh.
Too many lights, honking horns. -Oh, yeah.
-All that hustle and bustle. -That's a great story.
Could I just get my key?
-Yeah.
-Let me ask you something.
In New York City,
can you see the stars when you look up at the sky?
-Uh, not really. Not with all the lights.
-No stars?
How are you gonna make a wish?
[ Laughter ]
-Please welcome back to the show our friend Rachel Dratch.
♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ]
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Resplendent.
Look at you, Dratch.
-I'm wearing Christmas sparkles.
-You always sparkle. -It's not even Thanksgiving.
Yes. -You sparkle every season.
-Oh, thank you, Seth.
It's good to be here.
-It's great to have you here. -Thank you.
-So, this was the first time
I was at a movie theater in almost two years.
I went to the screening of this film on Sunday night.
It was so much fun. -Thank you.
-It was so much fun for me.
And I can't imagine how much fun it was for you
to hear it with an audience.
-Yeah, we had never seen this with an audience,
and people were laughing a lot, so it was a lot of fun. Yes.
-You had one audience member
where the stakes were a little bit higher.
Your 11-year-old son, Eli.
-Yes, I took Eli. I don't usually take him --
I haven't done anything in a long time that would be, like,
you know, kid-friendly. -Appropriate, sure.
-And I didn't know how he was going to like it.
So, this is a parody of a Hallmark Christmas movie.
-Yes. A loving parody, it should be noted.
A lot of people from the Hallmark world
actually helped make the film.
-Well, yeah, we had this one guy, who --
Michael Murray, who's written like 20 Hallmark movies.
This movie was not sanctioned by Hallmark, though.
It has nothing to do -- So don't sue us, Hallmark.
It's just the idea.
-As greeting-card companies go, the most litigious.
[ Laughter ]
-It's just the idea of a Hallmark movie.
But, anyway, yeah -- but, so, Eli -- I told him, you know,
"Here are the basics of one of these real movies."
And he really liked it. He was laughing a lot.
-That's great. -Yeah.
-'Cause we've talked before, you have showed
him "SNL" sketches from your time that maybe
haven't always gone over that well.
-Well, I tried to show him -- When he was, like, seven
I tried to show him the original "Debbie Downer,"
and he sort of, like, checked out halfway through.
And then I didn't try again since then.
I should try, though.
-Of course that even showing the "Debbie Downer" sketch is
somehow a Debbie Downer moment.
[ Laughter ] -Exactly, yeah.
-Here, look. There. We'll take that single.
Say, he didn't -- you showed it to him and then look there
and say he didn't like it.
-He checked out halfway through.
[ Laughter, cheers and applause ]
Can't even entertain my own kid. Yeah.
-It's cluster-- So, there's umlauts over both U's.
So I think it should be Cluesterfuenke.
-I heard we have a German and an Austrian here,
so there's some umlauts in the audience.
-They laughed when they heard how I pronounced it.
They're like, "That's not how --"
-And also that wasn't on the air.
That wasn't on air. That was in the preshow. Anyway. Cut that.
-Yeah, Rachel is referring the crowd work that we do.
[ Laughter ]
-I listen to every moment, including the crowd work.
No. "Cluesterfuenke" -- We threw in some umlauts for comedy.
But, yeah, the last name of the --
Ana and I play the Cluesterfuenke sisters.
-Yes. Whose idea was it to cast you as sort of aunts
who own an inn? -Okay, so, you know, we knew
we weren't going to be, like, the executive who shows up
from the city to fall in love. It wasn't going to be that.
So it was so funny 'cause we were talking about,
"What are we going to play?" And it was like,
"Oh, we're playing the spinster aunts who run the inn."
They were like, "Oh, yeah."
There was no question.
It wasn't even a discussion.
It was just like, "We good with this?" "Yeah."
And then like, "Bring on the gray buns."
It was like -- We knew we were going to have,
like, gray buns, glasses.
It was so fun, 'cause it was like "SNL" style.
Sometimes when you're in a movie, you can't be
as broad as you would like to be, like "SNL" style.
You have to play it real.
This was so fun 'cause we got to be like --
-Yes, the minute we see you, there's not a sense of like,
"I feel like this is gonna dig down to what it's like
to be an aunt who owns an inn."
-Exactly. [ Laughter ]
-I heard there was a phrase that you personally
really wanted to get in the film.
-Right, so, for these "Hallmark-esque" movies,
there's all these tropes, and, like, things to hit
to make it seem real.
So, anyway, there's one thing --
Like, in all these romantic comedies, someone always says --
Like, someone asks someone on a date,
and then the woman goes, "I'd like that."
[ Laughter ] And so, I hate that.
I hate "I like that."
So I would say that to Tina sometimes, like,
when we're just like, "Do you want to come over to --"
I'm like, "I'd like that." [ Laughter ]
But so I know we had to throw "I'd like that" in there.
So that's a little, like, find "I'd like that" in the movie.
-There are -- Were there other, like, clichés from this
sort of, you know, non-branded holiday show?
-Right, so, I mean, there's several -- there's, like, a --
[ Laughter ] There's like a few plot lines.
-The next Hallmark card you get, you're going to open it up,
and there's going to be a summons.
-"You've been sued." Exactly. [ Laughter ]
So, there's, like, five basic plots, but the number one is,
like, big-city, bitchy executive who doesn't have time for love
or Christmas gets sent to small town and meets, you know,
small-town, like, woodsman or fireman or whatever.
[ Laughter ] And then, like, falls in love.
She's there to, like, take over a business, a quaint business.
And then she falls in love and finds the spirit of Christmas.
Not to ruin the movie, but --
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-So that's what it was.
So we picked that as our main plot.
But we also had, like, a magical dog.
You know, there's, like, things we threw in.
-It's very self-aware, but I think the part that delighted me
the most the longer I watched was realizing,
"Oh, this is also a Christmas movie."
And I like Christmas movies. -Yeah.
-And everybody in it is great.
-Yeah, I think it plays on two levels,
'cause we made sure to make the love story kind of real.
So, if you like these movies or if you can't stand them,
I think there's something for everyone
in "A Cluesterfuenke Christmas."
-I think that's true, and you mentioned --
I don't know if you mentioned it here --
but you mentioned, before you introduced it,
where you shot it and what time of year you shot it.
-Oh, right. So, all of these movies
shoot in Vancouver in July.
That's real. [ Laughter ]
So, you know, there's fake snow everywhere.
I learned a lot about fake snow 'cause it's, like,
there's a blanket, like, a white blanket.
That's one part, and then there's someone --
There's, like, the "snow person" in Vancouver
who comes with a truck and puts snow all along the edge.
So that's a whole science.
Yeah, there -- So there's a few little moments
where we make sure you see that this is in Canada in our movie.
-Yeah. I really -- I like that you introduced it with that,
because you are wearing so many sweaters and so much gray bun.
And when I thought about the fact
that it was like 90 degrees.
-We were there in the heat wave.
And it was, yeah, it was a lot.
But everyone made it through. Yeah.
-Everybody made it out? -Yeah.
-Thank you so much for being here.
-My gosh, it always goes so fast.
-It goes so fast! -It goes so fast.
-It is always the best to see Rachel Dratch, everybody.
"A Cluesterfuenke Christmas"
airs December 4th on Comedy Central.