Saturday Night Live Sketches We'd Actually Kinda Like to See as Movies

The recent announcement that SNL's parody sketch "MacGruber" would be following MacGyver into movie theaters got us thinking about the state of the SNL movie machine. We haven't seen a new SNL sketch-based movie in a while, probably because the last dozen or so have been terrible, but not all of them have been. Some of the earliest ones, like The Blues Brothers and Wayne's World are classics, and even Superstar and The Waterboy are pretty damn funny. So we shouldn't let travesties like The Ladies' Man and It's Pat keep us from getting funny movies based on funny, funny sketches. The formula can still work, dammit! Here's a bunch of sketches we'd like to see feature-length.

Delicious Dish
Isn't it about time there was a movie centered around NPR? Ana Gasteyer and Molly Shannon played cooking show co-hosts Margaret-Jo McCullen and Teri Rialto as magically monotonous, but luckily guests like Doug Schweddy and his tasty, tasty balls would be there to liven up the proceedings. Make this one before Alec Baldwin retires from acting forever.

The Barry Gibb Talk Show
Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake are pitch-perfect as Barry and Robin Gibb, but since their political discussions usually descend into threats of violence anyway, we'd get these boys from the streets of Sydney out of the studio and onto a cross-country mission to stop a threat to their adopted country.

Ambiguously Gay Duo
Beginning as an animated short, this 'toon about a well-endowed crime-fighting team might benefit from a transition to live-action, as long as you can find a couple of actors who are willing to stuff their tights and get into highly suggestive positions with each other.

The Same-Sex Couple From New Jersey
We see this playing out as kind of a gay Goodfellas: "Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be a homosexual... Aaayyooooow!"

Brian Fellow's Safari Planet
It's about time Tracy Morgan's clueless animal show host actually went on a safari in Africa and learned something about animals. Plus, he'll get to meet a lot of new people, offering him ample opportunities to spout his catchphrase: "I'm Brian Fellow!"

Astronaut Jones
In the grand tradition of Barbarella, Tracy Morgan's space explorer would be sent into space on a routine rock-collecting mission, but get drawn into interplanetary intrigue which would require him to have sex with many, many hot and/or transsexual aliens.

The Falconer
This would need to be an origin tale, explaining why businessman Ken Mortimer (Will Forte) left his high-paying job to live in the woods, grow a beard, and enter into a 13-year relationship with a falcon named Donald.

Deep House Dish
We don't know what kind of adventure house music aficionado and MTV4 talk-show-host DJ Dynasty Handbag (Kenan Thompson) would go on in a movie, but hopefully it would involve Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig performing musical numbers as various house artists, plus his co-host, T'Shayne (Andy Samberg) saying dumb stuff. As an antagonist, why not bring back his original co-host Tiara Z (Rachel Dratch)? Or maybe...

Two A-Holes
Kristen Wiig and Jason Sudeikis make really great a-holes, but who would want to see a movie about them? Maybe they can be the bad guys in Deep House Dish?

Kaitlin and Rick
The amount of energy given off by Amy Poehler's tween character Kaitlin was inversely proportional to the amount of energy demonstrated by her step-dad Rick, as played by Horatio Sanz. If she can keep that up for 90 minutes, we're in business.

Laser Cats
C'mon, just let Andy Samberg and Bill Hader make this movie, already. They clearly have a strong attachment to the material.

The Lawrence Welk Show
We don't care about Lawrence Welk so much as his musical guests, those four sisters from the Finger Lakes, including Wiig as the baby-handed, large-foreheaded sister who seems to have the mind of a six-year-old. Seeing them form their singing group as children, and then go through the trials and tribulations that all groups go through would make for great comedy. It's like Dreamgirls, if Nell was a member.

Lothar of the Hill People
Year One may have bombed, but if there's one thing we'd actually like to see Mike Meyers do, it's reprise the role of the chief of a tribe of primitives struggling with modernity. Also, we have the theme song stuck in our heads, and we think this might help.

Goth Talk
Chris Kattan and Molly Shannon are Azrael Abyss and Circe Nightshade, goth high school students with their own cable access show like Wayne and Garth before them. Given the success of Wayne's World, and the inexplicable, almost vampire-like longevity of the goth movement, why has this not already been made?

What SNL sketch would you like to see as a movie? Note: Simply writing "none of them, SNL sucks" isn't really contributing to the discussion.

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