“Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals” is a sketch from the television show Saturday Night Live. Saturday Night Live is a sketch comedy and variety show that airs, live, every Saturday night at 11:30 pm ET. It is currently in its thirty-sixth season and has consistently been shown on NBC. SNL parodies political and popular culture themes and is extremely hilarious. It has won 21 Primetime Emmy Awards, inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame, and listed as one of Time magazine’s “100 Best TV Shows of All-Time.”
Andy Samberg is the actor that portrays Mark Wahlberg in this sketch. Samberg has been performing on Saturday Night Live since 2005. He is a part of the comedy troupe The Lonely Island, along with Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, which created and starred in the popular SNL Digital Shorts “I’m on a Boat” (featuring rapper T. Pain) and “Lazy Sunday.”
One of my most favorite parodies is “Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals.” In this sketch, Andy Samberg impersonates the famous actor Mark Wahlberg. “Mark” goes around to different animals, including a dog, donkey, chicken, and a goat, and talks to them. He asks them questions or comments on things like, [to the dog] “So you’re a dog, right? What’s that all about?” [To the donkey] “You’re a donkey, I like that. You eat apples, I produce Entourage.” [To the chicken] “Hey chicken, how’s it hangin’? A lot of people want to eat you, but I just want to talk to you, okay?!” [To the goat] “I like your beard. I had a beard like that in The Perfect Storm, did you see that movie?” Samberg satirizes Wahlberg’s Boston accent in this sketch as well, and always tells the animals to “say hi to your mother for me, alright.”
The writers’ of SNL chose to have Samberg’s character, Mark Wahlberg, talk to animals in this manner to create a parody of Wahlberg’s movie The Happening. In that movie, Wahlberg’s character starts talking to a plastic plant because the plants in were giving off toxins that were killing people. He was telling it that he and his friends were just going to use the bathroom and leave, but then he realizes that he’s talking to a plastic plant. The parody works out very well because it’s incorporating Wahlberg’s traits with funny lines and animals.
I think that this sketch is fantastic. It has my favorite Saturday Night Live actor, Andy Samberg, parodying one of my favorite actors, Mark Wahlberg, with his full Boston accent, and it even has animals. This scene is one of the best SNL sketches that I have seen. It’s funny even if you haven’t seen The Happening. I love quoting it too. If you haven’t seen it, you should look it up on youtube or hulu because it is hilarious. Actually, here's a link if you have some time to watch http://www.hulu.com/watch/37753/saturday-night-live-mark-wahlberg-talks-to-animals
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