Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

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I Am Battle

Matt comes upon Harriet standing outside of what I guess is supposed to be her dressing room, holding a box of her things. She apologizes if she got him in trouble earlier, and Matt just sort of smiles and shrugs and adjusts his ballcap so that his age stops showing. He suggests that maybe he could write a sketch for her, and Harriet's kind of puzzled as to why he would want to write a sketch for her instead of one of the veteran cast members who will actually get their sketches on the air. Matt gets defensive about the whole "hasn't gotten a sketch on the air" thing, and there's some light bickering back and forth. "I don't want to fight," says Harriet. Instead of taking this cue to step back and maybe reconsider the approach, Matt says, "Do you want me to write something for you or do you want to stand here with your carton and wait for someone with a better résumé to come along?" He's shooting for playful, but he lands squarely in Bittersville. Harriet pauses for a second, and then says, "It really feels like we're fighting." Matt goes on, asking if she does any voices. She says that she does Julia Roberts and Neve Campbell, and that she's working on Juliette Lewis. Matt asks to hear Julia Roberts, and so Sarah Paulson hauls out some dialogue from Pretty Woman. It's a remarkably accurate representation of Julia Roberts's voice, but I'm not entirely sure how you make it funny. I mean, sure, if you wanted to fake out your friends and pretend Julia Roberts is calling them, I'm sure it's invaluable, but the voice isn't really funny in and of itself. But Matt loses himself in Harriet's voice just the same, which is our cue to go rocketing...

...back to 2007, where Danny and Cal want to cut -- coincidence! -- a Julia Roberts sketch. "I got Julia Roberts right," says Matt. Cal suggests that he got it right a long time ago, so maybe they should move on to something fresh. Danny observes that all of Harriet's sketches tonight are characters she debuted seven years ago.

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

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