Saturday Night Live Transcripts
Season 29: Episode 17
03q: Janet Jackson
Cork Soakers
Giuseppe…..Horatio Sanz
Marcello…..Jimmy Fallon
Female Tourist…..Janet Jackson
Male Tourist…..Chris Parnell
Luigi…..Fred Armisen
Cork Soaker #1…..Seth Meyers
Cork Soaker #2…..Darrell Hammond
Monica…..Maya Rudolph
Carmella…..Rachel Dratch
[ open on footage of wine country ]
[ dissolve to interior, corking room, as Giuseppe enters with tour group]
Giuseppe: Right this way, folks. You’re now entering.. the corking room. This is where.. the final step in the bottling process happens – where we prepare all the corks for all the bottles of Brunello that you saw earlier.
Marcello: Any questions? [ a hand is raised ] Yes?
Female Tourist: I’ve always actually wondered about that. How do you cork the bottles?
Marcello: Excellent-a question, ma bella. As you can see, we are -asoaking all of the corks in this room right now. These three guys right here are some of the most talented cork soakers! Say hello, you all cork soakers!
[ the three cork soakers turn around and wave happily to the tour group ]
Male Tourist: Now, I’m curious – how does one become a cork soaker.
Giuseppe: As we-a like-a to say, “Cork soakers are born, not made.”
Marcello: Yeah. Luigi here was simply born to soak cork! Come say hi, Luigi!
Luigi: I love-a soaking the cork! I could-a soak the cork all night long, if they let me! I want to-a soak two corks at once!
Female Tourist: So.. are all corks the same?
Marcello: No, no, no..
Cork Soaker #1: I like-a to soak the big-a, thick-a corks!
Luigi: I like-a the long-a, skinny ones.
Cork Soaker #2: I like-a the dark-a ones.
Giuseppe: The great-a thing about the cork soaking, is that while you are-a soaking the cork, you can also.. massage-a the grapes, until the cork is ready. [ holds up a bunch of grapes ]
Marcello: That’s right.
Female Tourist: [ stumbling, on the verge of cracking up ] So, how did you learn to sork.. corks — suck — soak corks?
Marcello: You know, I’ll never forget the first time I soaked-a cork. I was fifteen, in-a summer camp.
Female Tourist: You know, I’ve noticed that all the cork soakers are men. Do women make good soakers?
Giuseppe: Oh, yes! Yes! Monica, Carmella – come in here!
Marcello: Come in here.
[ Monica and Carmella enter scene ]
Giuseppe: Monica.. tell-a these-a nice-a people.. how you soak the cork.
Monica: Well, ever since I started soaking cork, I’m the most popular girl in school!
Marcello: It’s-a true – men come-a from all over just to watch her soak a cork. And Grandma Carmella still-a soaking cork at age 87! I got ot say that, too!
Carmella: [ speaking with her gums ] It’s crazy! Ever since I lost my teeth, people tell me I soak the cork better than ever!
Female Tourist: Wow, this soaking corks really seems like a family business. So.. does your wife like soaking.. [ laughing ] ..s-s-soaking cork?
Marcello: Well.. she used to, when we were dating. Now, not so much.
Male Tourist: Um.. could you teach me how to soak cork?
Giuseppe: You know.. when-a you walked in here.. I could-a sworn you already an expert cork soaker!
Male Tourist: [ flattered ] Thank you! I dabbled in college. Um.. but, let me ask you this – do you ever run out of corks to soak?
Marcello: Oh, yeah, I’ll never forget this one that was unusually large. And I thought Giuseppe would need extra cork.
Giuseppe: And I thought Marcello would need more corks.
Marcello: So we soaked-a each other’s corks at the same time! [ to Giuseppe ] Do you remember that?
Giuseppe: Can you imagine that? Me-a soaking his cork.. while-a he soaked mine?
Marcello: Oh, boy!
Giuseppe: What year was that?
Marcello: The year we soaked each other’s corks?
Giuseppe: Yes.
Marcello: That-a was, what.. that was like, sixty.. late 60’s, right?
Giuseppe: Yes.
Marcello: Sixty.. eight?
Giuseppe: I-a wanted to say.. 70.
Marcello: No.. you sure it wasn’t one earlier than that?
Giuseppe: It was sometime or other..
Marcello: Let’s just say between 68 and 70, alright?
Female Tourist: This is all really so fascinating. So, do you think that one of you could teach me how to soak.. soak.. [ laughing ] ..s-s-soak corks?
[ the cork soakers cheer excitedly, each rallying to be the one to teach the beautfiul tourist the art of their craft ]
Giuseppe: Oh, I’m sorry. Come with me, ma bella. I will let you soak-a my cork as long as you like!
[ they depart from the group ]
Marcello: Cheers! Cheers!
[ fade ]
