Mick Jagger’s Dressing Room


01h: Hugh Jackman / Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger’s Dressing Room

…..Mick Jagger
Reflection…..Jimmy Fallon


[ Mick Jagger enters his dressing room and sits in front of the mirror ]Mick Jagger: Here we are at “Saturday Night Live” again, I mean what more can I do? I did it in the 70’s, I did it in the 80’s, I did it in the 90’s, and now I’m doing it in.. whatever you call this decade. I mean, think! Think!

[ stares at his reflection, which mirrors back at him in response ]

Reflection: Come on, Mick, we can do this! Right? Yeah!

Mick Jagger: That’s not the point, I mean.. I’ve done this! That’s the point. I’ve done this.

Reflection: What were you planning on doing?

Mick Jagger: Well.. I was gonna come out, and I was gonna, like.. [ motions back and forth with his reflection ] And, then.. I was gonna do, maybe, like.. [ shakes his hands back and forth ]

Reflection: Alright, pretty good, yeah, right.

Mick Jagger: And, then, a thing that the Stones like, punching the air, like.. [ demonstrates punching the air ]

Reflection: Yeah, well, what else you got?

Mick Jagger: Uh, well.. pointing fingers! We do Pointing fingers.

Reflection: Yeah, what is pointing fingers?

Mick Jagger: You know, like.. [ points his fingers at reflection ] ..”I’m pointing my fingers! I’m point my fingers at you!”

Reflection: That’s good, right! A little sta-ile.

Mick Jagger: Sta-ile? [ laughs ] Pointing fingers is what I’ve got going on now! Pointing fingers is today!

Reflection: Oh no, sta-ile! I meant, sta-ile, not great. Sta-ile. [ drinks tea ]

Mick Jagger: What’s you got there?

Reflection: It’s tea. You want some?

Mick Jagger: Yeah! [ grabs cup through mirror, and drinks ]

Reflection: You know, I’ve got a great idea!

Mick Jagger: Get going!

Reflection: Yeah, why don’t you go out and do the Rooster? [ motions like the Rooster ]

Mick Jagger: That’s a great idea, you know, that Rooster. Yeah, why don’t you just put me in a bloody time capsule to 1969! I mean, you said the pointing fingers was sta-ile! I mean, that’s completely sta-ile!

Reflection: Alright, don’t yell at me!

Mick Jagger: I’m not yelling at you!

Reflection: You’re yelling at me!

Mick Jagger: I’m not yelling at you!

Reflection: You’re yelling at yourself! Now, look – just don’t do what you’ve done.

Mick Jagger: What? I’m not dumb! I’m not gonna do what I’ve done! I just do what I do!

Reflection: Well, do what you do. Just don’t do what you’ve done, that’s dull.

Mick Jagger: Well, I’m not gonna do that, am I? I’m just gonna do what I do, that’s what I do!

Reflection: Yeah, alright, well just do it!

Mick Jagger: Alright, then! Well, that’s done and done, then, ain’t it? By the way – you look great!

Reflection: No, no.. we look great!

Mick Jagger: Hey, let’s go over pointing fingers again.

Reflection: Okay.

Together: And I’m poi-oi-ointing my finger! I’m pointing, I’m pointing, I’m pointing at you-ou-ou-ou-ou!!

[ they shake hands as the scene fades ]

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Author: Don Roy King

Don Roy King has directed fourteen seasons of Saturday Night Live. That work has earned him ten Emmys and fourteen nominations. Additionally, he has been nominated for fifteen DGA Awards and won in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.

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