SNL Character Wrapup

I hope you all enjoyed following along this week as much as we enjoyed bringing these characters to life. In some ways, this was a really tough prompt, but I think everyone managed to bring their A game this week.
Nine sketches (thanks to a double bonus from Ken whose initial trepidation hid a torrent of creativity) and not a single Hans und Franz amongst them. Thank god.

• DNW led off with a bit of surreal time travel. Belushi and Radner commenting on the abomination that is MacGruber…
• Ken completely blew me away with his very funny “Samurai IT Guy”…
• Ken’s bonus #1 gives us Emily Litella on Bernie Madoff…
• Continuing his economics lessons, Ken followed up with Roseanne Roseannadanna on the economy…
• RA invited a very special guest onto Stuart Smalley’s show…
• Dave gave us five characters from two different decades in a speed dating bonanza (but I pity Kevin Nealon his super rapid costume change)…
• EL nailed Walken’s Continental (although I suspect he’d rather nail her)…
• Michael brought back Frankie and Willie! Times are tough all over, though. Ooh, I hate that…
• Finally, Peter brought back my FAVORITE inanimate object of all time, the Happy Fun Ball!

We hit most of the eras of SNL: the classic ’70s, the Billy Crystal years, the Phil Hartman years, and even today. I’m very impressed by the breadth brought to bear this week.

And please be sure to vote for your favorite sketches here.