Last week in my Comedy class I showed His Girl Friday, the fast-talking newspaper comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. So wouldn't you know? Last weekend on Saturday Night Live, there was a sketch parodying the film! Zooey Deschanel, the guest host, played a new star reporter in a 1940s newsroom who couldn't understand a word anyone was saying because they all talked so fast. Pretty funny. A few of my students had seen the sketch and were clearly amused by it and by the coincidental timing. Wish I could have showed it to the whole class but time was really limited this week and there were technical issues. But I told them where to find it on Hulu.
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