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The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced between September 29, 2001, and May 18, 2002, the twenty-seventh season of SNL.

Donatella Versace

Maya Rudolph parodies fashion designer Donatella Versace. Donatella, a demanding diva, speaks in broken English and is always smoking or drinking champagne. She is usually surrounded by scantily clad manservants and hangs out with her celebrity friends like Elton John, Madonna, and Bono, or other designers. She gets easily impatient with her friends and guests, yelling, "Get ouutttt!" at them when they annoy her. In some sketches she hawks her own line of products, like Versace Hot Pockets and Versace Egg Nog. Debuted September 29, 2001.

Appearances

Gay Hitler

Gay Hitler (Chris Kattan) was a character loosely based on a theory described in German historian Lothar Machtan's book The Hidden Hitler, which attempts to prove that Adolf Hitler was a homosexual. The flamboyant Hitler character was known for the catchphrase "Sprechen Sie dick?" Gay Hitler was the author of the fictional autobiography Mein Boyfriend, a satire of Hitler's actual autobiography Mein Kampf. Gay Hitler also appeared as Speed Skating Hitler, rendering the Sieg Heil salute repeatedly as he skated in place. Debuted October 13, 2001.

A scene in the film Step Brothers shows fellow SNL cast member Will Ferrell dressed as a Nazi asking the antagonist "Sprechen sie dick?".

She's The Girl With No Gaydar!!!

Rachel Dratch plays Nicole, a woman who is comically clueless about other people's orientations. The sketch begins and ends with a song-and-dance routine about Nicole's lack of gaydar. Debuted November 3, 2001.

Appearances:

• November 3, 2001: Host John Goodman plays Julius.
• April 13, 2002: Nicole tries to hit on men at a gay bar. Host The Rock plays Michael Anthony.
• November 16, 2002: Nicole goes to a loft party that is attended by mostly gay men. Host Brittany Murphy plays Wanda, a lesbian woman.

America Undercover

An HBO show, similar to Fox's COPS series, where a white trash couple (played by Amy Poehler and Chris Kattan) fist fight and police (or other authority figures) are called in to break them up. Debuted November 3, 2001.

Drunk Girl

Drunk Girl was played by Jeff Richards between 2001 and 2003. Drunk Girl would stop by Weekend Update to talk about things like Spring Break Tips, but she would be unreliable because of her slurred speech and emotional behavior. Her eyes are always squinted shut and she has shoulder-length blonde hair, and often a bared midriff. Among Drunk Girl's frequent mannerisms are telling people to "shut up!", whether they have actually said anything or not; bursting into tears for no reason; and offering to make out with a disinterested Jimmy Fallon or Tina Fey, the Update hosts at the time. Drunk Girl commonly asks people if they want to know something repeatedly, and when they say no, she increasingly slurs the words as she repeats the phrase (during the Weekend Update Halftime Special, even though Fallon said he wanted to know, she continued to repeat the phrase anyway). In later episodes, she also takes off her bra and/or lets something inappropriate, such as food, fall out of it. Debuted December 8, 2001.

Astronaut Jones

A Tracy Morgan sketch. The sketch begins with a theme song, sung by Morgan in the style of a lounge singer. All sketches involve Astronaut Jones landing on other planets and encountering alien life forms. The aliens are usually female and give a long-winded speech to Jones about life on their planet, but Jones cannot focus on anything they are saying because he is too distracted by their breasts or other body parts. At the end of the aliens' speech, he then makes crude comments, like, "Let me slap those phat asses" and "I want to see it clap". Debuted February 2, 2002.

Appearances

The Leather Man

A Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz sketch. The Leather Man (Fallon) is the owner of a store that sells only leather items. When customers browse items or try on outfits, the leather makes loud, squeaky noises. The Leather Man is aided by his assistant Choo Choo (Sanz), a bob cut-haired eccentric. Choo Choo makes frequent mistakes, which the Leather Man punishes him for by hitting him with a leather whip that makes Choo Choo cry out in exaggerated wails. Fallon and Sanz broke character in both appearances of the sketch. Debuted February 2, 2002.

Appearances:

• February 2, 2002: Host Britney Spears. Spears plays a customer and Dan Aykroyd makes a cameo appearance as Judge Lindenwell.
• November 16, 2002: Host Brittany Murphy. Murphy plays a customer.

Amber, the One-Legged Hypoglycemic

An Amy Poehler sketch. Amber was "rockin' one leg" (as she described it). Poehler held one leg up behind her body so it would appear to have been amputated at the knee. She was impatient, bitchy, vulgar, dirty (literally "dirty" in that her clothes were covered with grime and she appeared not to bathe very often), and generally obnoxious. She saw herself as extremely sexy and desirable. Her catchphrase was, "Yeah, I farted. Jealous?!" Occasionally, another similarly boorish behavior would be substituted for "I farted". Apparently due to hypoglycemia, she would continuously munch on some unhealthy snack, usually a fatty fried food like french fries or potato chips throughout each sketch. The male characters in each sketch tended to appreciate her self-confidence, but fell well short of agreeing that she was sexy or desirable. She would never win the various beauty/popularity based contests that she would enter. Debuted March 2, 2002.

Appearances:

• March 2, 2002: Host Jonny Moseley. Amber and her equally obnoxious frenemy (Maya Rudolph) vie for the affections of a goofy young man (Moseley).
• May 18, 2002: Host Winona Ryder. Amber auditions to be a Playboy centerfold.
• November 2, 2002: Host Eric McCormack. Amber is a contestant on The Bachelor.
• May 15, 2004: Host Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Amber appears on The Swan. While the other contestants on the show got radical plastic surgery makeovers (as was typical of that show), they essentially did nothing for Amber (which was OK with her, as she saw herself as perfect already). The Olsen twins appeared as contestant Vicki, as well as Vicki's reflection in a mirror.
• May 21, 2005: Host Lindsay Lohan. Amber is a contestant on America's Next Top Model.
• February 23, 2008: Host Tina Fey. Amber competes to become Bret Michaels' (played by Jason Sudeikis) wife on a reality program.
• September 25, 2010: Host Amy Poehler. Amber gets her own reality show on Showtime.

The Ferey Muhtar Talk Show

The Ferey Muthar Talk Show was a sketch on SNL, appearing only twice (season 27 on the March 16, 2002, episode hosted by Ian McKellen and again on the season 28 episode hosted by Nia Vardalos). It was a talk show from Turkey, with Horatio Sanz as the host and Darrell Hammond as his sidekick. It was a parody based on Turkish reality show Ateş Hattı by Reha Muhtar.

References

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4. Machtan, Lothar (2001). The Hidden Hitler. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-04308-9.
5. "Drunk Girl: Spring Break Tips - Saturday Night Live". YouTube. October 18, 2013. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
6. ""Astronaut Jones Theme"". YouTube. January 25, 2012. Retrieved June 11, 2012.
7. "Astronaut Jones". SNL Transcripts. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
8. "The Leather Man (with Britney Spears)". YouTube. September 6, 2013. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
9. "The Leather Man (with Brittany Murphy)". YouTube. October 11, 2013. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
10. "Britney Spears: 02/02/02: The Leatherman". SNL Transcripts. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
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