-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 basements
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 people 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 air
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 well
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 Christopher 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 call 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?